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   Once at a shopping mall in Helsinki, I noticed writing that continued on all 3 sides of the building.  I asked my Finnish friend what does that say... she said one word to me in Finnish... I said "That writing on all 3 sides of that building is one word"????   I thought it was a quote of some type....

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threefates Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4215	Posted: January 02 2005 at 11:49
	Once at a shopping mall in Helsinki, I noticed writing that continued on all 3 sides of the building. I asked my Finnish friend what does that say... she said one word to me in Finnish... I said "That writing on all 3 sides of that building is one word"???? I thought it was a quote of some type....
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Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: January 02 2005 at 11:51
	Well we don´t really like Finns

Pixel Pirate Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 11 2004 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 793	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:00
	Finns have the highest suicide rate in the world apparantly and I'm not surprised.
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Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:03
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threefates Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4215	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:04
	Actually that was one of the trivia quotes I remember from my trip there... highest rate of deaths from stabbing.. than any other country....hmmmm
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Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:07
	And It´s true

Velvetclown Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 13 2004 Status: Offline Points: 8548	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:07
	Go to Sweden, We´ll just bore ya to death

arcer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 01 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1239	Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:24
	Three Fates.... When i spoke about the good things about the US, I didn't mean the trumpeting of America's wonderful record of pitching in when things go wrong or the country's superiority at, apparently, everything. I have many, many friends who work both for the IRC and IFRC as well as several other NGOs working in humanitarian not just in tsunami struck areas but all over the globe. These people come from all over the globe - the US, UK, Ireland, Afghanistan, Iceland, Japan wherever. None of them counts the amount of aid flowing their way in terms of nationality of personnel or nationality of cash. They - Americans, South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians - just get on with the job of helping people. I may be wrong, but the inference from your post, seems yet again to be - America is the best at.... It's just this kind of thing that makes me so tired about the US. I absolutely love a whole helluva lot about the US and I was merely trying to point out some amusing things the US had given us - in response to the endless yank-bashing that had been going on. For a reply I get a sermonising article from an obviously right-wing US publication which just tells me about the triumph of US capitalism and undisguised cheerleading exercise for Doctors without Border (which I believe is also known as Medecins sans Frontiers to those who invented it). All I wanted was Tom and Jerry.