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Do you know the meaning of "perkele"?
08/12/2010 | WesternCulture

Posted on 08/11/2010 5:16:34 PM PDT by WesternCulture

Hello,

This utterly small compilation of clips (see links below) highlights the subject of exploring other cultures through the Internet, something we all should be engaged in.

If you are lucky, you could eventually find some other kind of meaning resting in them, but if you manage to do so, you are probably insane and shall never again have pizza.

Therefore, proceed with caution.

(No, these letters here are not an actual link to the videos formerly referred to in this piece of European English, do not click here. Yes, using the Internet is hard.)


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: europe

1 posted on 08/11/2010 5:16:38 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Finnish Eyewitness news:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op68Gh3BVEc

Some people just possess what others lack:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWL9KSgu1M

Happy Scandinavia, where Socialism is king:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2qgIrZ0YM


2 posted on 08/11/2010 5:17:04 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

The incompetence or malfeasance of the Obama administration has put our country into a real perkele.


3 posted on 08/11/2010 5:19:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: All
Here's a translation guide. [humor]
4 posted on 08/11/2010 5:20:12 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: WesternCulture
OK, so it has nothing to do with this has-been:


5 posted on 08/11/2010 5:23:49 PM PDT by mikrofon (Duly Couric-ted)
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To: ClearCase_guy
The incompetence or malfeasance of the Obama administration has put our country into a real perkele.

This administration has shown us REAL change.

It's exactly what a majority wanted 11/08.

Turmoil through weakness via orders of the king.

6 posted on 08/11/2010 5:37:26 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“The incompetence or malfeasance of the Obama administration has put our country into a real perkele”

I’m no expert when it comes to the the Finnish tongue (Finnish is not related to the Germanic languages at all - and to other people who live here in the Northernmost part of Europe, most languages are easier to comprehend than Finnish) and neither am I an expert on American domestic issues, but I’m pretty convinced “perkele” is the proper Finnish - and universal? - expression for what Obama has done to America.

Anyhow, regardless of the stupid things I have posted to this forum in the past (and will continue to produce if not prevented by the UN in which we all believe), I would never try and tell another democratically governed country what to do or judge it.

Except Germany, Poland and Italy.


7 posted on 08/11/2010 5:50:40 PM PDT by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

LOL!


8 posted on 08/11/2010 6:13:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: WesternCulture

Finn television drama. There’s nothing quite like it! Now, where’s my bottle? Perkele...


9 posted on 08/11/2010 6:35:42 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: WesternCulture
Finnish is not related to the Germanic languages at all

Language group is known as Finno-Ugric. The perhaps other most wellknown language in there is Hungarian.

10 posted on 08/11/2010 6:48:38 PM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: WesternCulture

11 posted on 08/11/2010 6:49:13 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: WesternCulture
This utterly small compilation of clips (see links below) highlights the subject of exploring other cultures through the Internet, something we all should be engaged in.

Says who?
12 posted on 08/11/2010 7:30:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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If I recall correctly, Finnish is much closer to Hungarian, then any of the Scandinavian languages...

Except Germany, Poland and Italy.
Why?
13 posted on 08/11/2010 11:31:23 PM PDT by Verdelet (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori!)
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