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28 September 2008
Finnishmen arrested for attempt to smuggle 22 320 eggs to Norway
(NUORGAM) Two Finnish men were caught by the Norwegian customs officials when they were trying to smuggle 22 320 eggs into Norway.
The customs found the hidden eggs on a routine checkup. The Finns told they were heading to Oslo where they were supposed to sell the eggs with a profit.
The customs officials confiscated the cargo […]
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25 September 2007
Where’s mandela?
“I heard somebody saying ‘Where’s Mandela’. Well, mandela’s dead. Because — Saddam Hussein killed all the mandelas.”
R-rrright
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6 September 2007
The ship that’s front fell off
Australian Senator discussing of an oil disaster. Even the great Monty Python couldn’t have written this dialog. It would be hilarious if it wouldn’t be so scary.
Host: So what do you do to protect the environment?
Senator: The Ship was towed out of the environment
H: Into another environment?
S: No, no. Been towed beyond the environment. […]
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19 February 2007
Fox brings out stupidity and populism to a new level
The Fox News Milwaukee has made a new benchmark for stupidity and populism their article of the threats of Nintendo DS/DS Lite has reached a level no one thought would be possible to reach. “Yes, a wireless signal when connected tries to maintain the connection, depending on the `wireless noise´ level. Specially with 802.11b (which […]
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14 February 2007
H&M bikini ad = pedophilia? Not
Pedophilia. Hah, got your attention now not to mention loads of google hits. Pedophilia has lately been widely broadcasted in Finnish media. Specially the pedophilistic material one can so easily find in the wild wild internet. I think it has something to do with the fact that the elections are coming to town. According to […]
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18 August 2006
OECD would cut the Finnish wages
As reported by YLE[FIN], the Finnish Public Broadcast Channel, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, would cut down the wages of Finnish youth workers. According to their resent survey of Finland, the minimum wages in shops (~€7.5/h) and on hotel and restaurant businesses (~€8/h) is preventing the youth from employment and the fact […]
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10 August 2006
UK airports’ new “security” measures
I don’t know how many of you reads all of your mails, but I received and read an email today of the new “immediately effective” measures on UK airports.
“Further to today’s national security alert at UK airports, the Department for Transport (DoT) has issued additional security measures. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to […]
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21 June 2006
Catpoopcoffee
“How can you tell people have start to have too much money on their hands? They buy all kind of shit.”
Now literally. Some one made up a website where you can order the ‘finest coffee digested by Paradoxurus Civet cats’, who actually are not cats at all, but resemble more a ferret or otter - […]
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21 June 2006
All hail national stereotyping
During the World Cup (yes, I know I tend to go on about that for a bit, just sit back and endure, ok?) everything gets whipped up to this bizarre nationalist frenzy, and of course our beloved media is right at the forefront of this. I don’t mind, not at all. But some aspects of […]