Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> Is there a typical sort of punchline to jokes about Finns?

  Not that I know of.

>  The main negative stereotypes I've heard is that 
> they're untalkative surely drunks (who you additionally don't want to 
> get into a war with), but this is based on about four web comics I read 
> a year ago, so I have no idea if that's actually what the stereotype is.

  Well, the stereotypical Finn doesn't show emotions and always looks like
he/she is mourning, and doesn't communicate.

  While that's an exaggeration, it's actually not *completely* fictitious.
For example get a bus ride eg. in Spain and in Finland, and you'll notice
the significant difference (in the amount of loud chatter and the average
expression on people's faces).

  As for being drunks, is there any western culture which isn't
stereotypically so?

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                                                          - Warp

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nemesis wrote:

> dnew is on business trip and invisible is invisible at the moment, thus, 
> no need for Warp to reply to any non-sense.

Invisible is invisibly building a complicated graphics library...

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On 19/08/2010 4:24 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:49:13 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>>> "The End."  (Sorry, I really couldn't resist that one, I tried....)
>>>
>>>
>> Groan!
>
> <bows>    I aim to please. ;-)
>

Dead eye Dick. :-)


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Best Regards,
	Stephen

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nemesis wrote:
> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>> Quiet in here lately ... I think I heard a cricket or two.
> 
> dnew is on business trip and invisible is invisible at the moment, thus, 
> no need for Warp to reply to any non-sense.

Bazing!

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!

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Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Clearly what we need then is some way to get Warp riled up.  Anybody 
> know any good Finnish jokes?


Why do Fins think Java is much better than C++?
-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> > Clearly what we need then is some way to get Warp riled up.  Anybody
> > know any good Finnish jokes?
>
>   Why would I get "riled up" by a Finnish joke?
>
>   I once heard a claim (which I don't know if it's true) that Norwegians,
> of all people, seem to have quite many Finnish jokes, especially related
> to the Winter War. For example one goes something like this:
>
>   Two Finns who survived the Winter War were conversating afterwards:
>
>   "So, what did you do when the war was finally over and you got home?"
>   "I had sex with my wife."
>   "Ok, but after that."
>   "I had more sex with my wife."
>   "Ok, ok, but after all that."
>   "I got my skis off, and had more sex with my wife."

bwahahaha

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Kevin Wampler wrote:
> > Clearly what we need then is some way to get Warp riled up.  Anybody
> > know any good Finnish jokes?
>
>
> Why do Fins think Java is much better than C++?

the only 2 Finns I know have much higher steem for C and C++... (I'm talking of
Torvalds and Warp, sure)

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On 8/19/2010 3:47 AM, Warp wrote:
> Kevin Wampler<wam### [at] uwashingtonedu>  wrote:
>> Is there a typical sort of punchline to jokes about Finns?
>
>    Not that I know of.
>
>>   The main negative stereotypes I've heard is that
>> they're untalkative surely drunks (who you additionally don't want to
>> get into a war with), but this is based on about four web comics I read
>> a year ago, so I have no idea if that's actually what the stereotype is.
>
>    Well, the stereotypical Finn doesn't show emotions and always looks like
> he/she is mourning, and doesn't communicate.
>
>    While that's an exaggeration, it's actually not *completely* fictitious.
> For example get a bus ride eg. in Spain and in Finland, and you'll notice
> the significant difference (in the amount of loud chatter and the average
> expression on people's faces).
>

It might have something to do with the amount of sunlight.

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Darren New wrote:

> Why do Fins think Java is much better than C++?

A better question might be "why do Finland, Poland, Italy, France, 
Spain, Denmark and just about every other nation in Europe have superior 
programmers to England?"

Seriously, back in the days of Amiga share-ware software, *all* the 
best, most innovative stuff came from foreign countries, never from England.

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> A better question might be "why do Finland, Poland, Italy, France, Spain, 
> Denmark and just about every other nation in Europe have superior 
> programmers to England?"

Because in England everyone is too busy getting drunk and stabbing each 
other :-)

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