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[Jayy]

A couple of fun facts about Finland:

1. The land of a thousand lakes
There are almost 190 000 lakes within the territory of Finland. This is where the country has gotten its nickname, the land of a thousand lakes.

2. Saunas
Saunas play a huge part in the Finnish culture. There are approximately 3 million saunas in Finland (for about 5 million inhabitants), so almost every household has one. It's typical in Finland to have a refreshing sauna 2-4 times a week. Oh, and we do it completely naked.

Is that you?

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[Kevin]

A couple of fun facts about Finland:

1. The land of a thousand lakes
There are almost 190 000 lakes within the territory of Finland. This is where the country has gotten its nickname, the land of a thousand lakes.

2. Saunas
Saunas play a huge part in the Finnish culture. There are approximately 3 million saunas in Finland (for about 5 million inhabitants), so almost every household has one. It's typical in Finland to have a refreshing sauna 2-4 times a week. Oh, and we do it completely naked.

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naked huehuehue

 

[Joe]

A couple of fun facts about Finland:

1. The land of a thousand lakes
There are almost 190 000 lakes within the territory of Finland. This is where the country has gotten its nickname, the land of a thousand lakes.

2. Saunas
Saunas play a huge part in the Finnish culture. There are approximately 3 million saunas in Finland (for about 5 million inhabitants), so almost every household has one. It's typical in Finland to have a refreshing sauna 2-4 times a week. Oh, and we do it completely naked.

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America = McDonald's
Finland = saunas

 

[mermite]

America = McDonald's
Finland = saunas

Get rekt mlg m8

 

[Vecomti]

America = McDonald's
Finland = saunas

It is typical Norwegian to be good.
http://www.reddit.com/r/NORDVEI

 

[Kah]

http://www.eupedia.com/sweden/trivia.shtml

 

[xXArIsKoStAsXx]

WHO SAID BIGMAC

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How can you eat this?!?!?!?!!

 

[Madact]

This is the sort of stuff that is spread across English peoples' facebook.
Please save a brit today, avoid them completely

 

[Joe]

How can you eat this?!?!?!?!!

Well you see if you live in America...

 

[DarkAce]

Hi everyone, I'm from England. The sun is just a myth here. It's always raining. A cat getting stuck in a tree made the headlines. I wanna move to Australia.

 

[Hisu]

Is that you?

No, I'm not that cute. ^_^
It's Natalia Poklonskaya (btw, she's not just a pretty face; she's got balls of steel most men never have, but that's another story), appointed Head Prosecutor of Crimea.

Hi everyone, I'm from England. The sun is just a myth here. It's always raining. A cat getting stuck in a tree made the headlines. I wanna move to Australia.

"Hey, do you siberians even have the summer?" — "We sure do! I couldn't enjoy the last one, though, as I was at work that day"

 

[Supreme]

England sucks ass.
That's my country right there.

 

[Redspike]

I live in sweden

1. We celebrate something we call midsummer, where we pretend that we are frogs and dances around a pole with flowers.

2. I guess the period we call the "great power era" was pretty important for sweden, during the period sweden conquered alot of territories from norway and denmark that still today are a part of sweden. The great era of power started ~1600 and ended 1721.

3. We don't really have an national hero really but I guess Gustav I would be the most suitible man for the role since he declared independence from the kalmar union, a union that at the time unified scandinavia into one nation.

4. We have pretty good relations with all the nations around the globe.


Sweden is a constitutional Monarchy and a Democracy, americans usually mix us up with the swiss and they also thinks that we are evil socialists.

Also we have alot of radical femenists here.

 

[mosteraz]

I am from austria.
There are not many interesting things here except for:
*Incredibly dumb and/or corrupt politicians
*A army which is poorer than the chinese one back in the 50/60 -ies (same goes for school-system)
*People who either shoot at random policemen or do it with family members
*Jails with a 100% chance of getting raped inside

 

[Joe]

I am from austria.
There are not many interesting things here except for:
*Incredibly dumb and/or corrupt politicians
*A army which is poorer than the chinese one back in the 50/60 -ies (same goes for school-system)
*People who either shoot at random policemen or do it with family members
*Jails with a 100% chance of getting raped inside

Sounds like America believe it or not

 

[Lukas]

I am from austria.
There are not many interesting things here except for:
*Incredibly dumb and/or corrupt politicians
*A army which is poorer than the chinese one back in the 50/60 -ies (same goes for school-system)
*People who either shoot at random policemen or do it with family members
*Jails with a 100% chance of getting raped inside

DID YOU FORGET ABOUT ME

 

[Kittylicious]

We award corruption over here.

 

[OxyGenE]

i actually love history and know alot about france's history (noraml it is my country) but let's do a short summary (france has a verry long history)

-390: french warriors after 7 months of siege, get into Rome andgo away for a lot of money (ye french defeated romans first !)
-52: vercingetorix is defeated at Alesia by julius ceasar: failure of the french insurrection.(beginning of the roman domination)
21 to 68: lot's of revolutions (all failed)
177 to 313: persecution of christians by romans.
313: edit of Nantes, end of the christian persecution
481: birth of clovis(first french king)
511: death of clovis.
1099: first crusade (victory, all the other will fail)
(i will only talk about the most important wars and battles against england cause there is waaaaay too much).
1307: arrestation and execution of the templars (theye were richer than the king and that made him mad)(the lengend said that the remaining templars hided and founded the oreder of the franc-maçonnerie [they are a bit like the illuminatis, it is a secret and powerfull order])
1337: begining of the 100 years war (vs england again)
1348: great plague.
25 of october 1415: battle of agincourt (french defeat vs england)
1453: end of the 100 years war.
1789: french revolution, france creates the chart of human rights
1792: I republic.
21 of january 1793: execution of king Louis XVI.
1804: first empire, Napoleon Bonaparte becomes empror.
1814: exile of Napoleon Bonapart
1815: Napoleon bonaparte comes back (suprise!) and is defeated at Waterloo.
1870: third republic.
1914: begining of WWI.
1916: battle of verdun (french victory)
1918: end of WWI.
1939: beginnng of WWII
22 of june 1940: german bet the crap out of the french army. french capitulation.
25 of august 1944: liberation of Paris.
5 of october 1944: women can vote.
1945: end of WWII and begining of the 4th republic.
1962: end of the war of Algeria


after this there is no big historical event ^^.

thx evo for creating this thread cause i love to talk about history and my country ^^

 

[EvoWarrior5]

Oxy, I have yet to read your post in full, but saying you will only cover the most important battles with England and leaving out Hastings seems off.

Thanks for the info, though.

 

[OxyGenE]

if you want it is still a pleasure to me to talk about the several wars between france and england. i was afraid it would be borring to you guys but i can do it if you want ^^