Hi!

Sorry, don’t mean to be gross, but my pet peeves:

1. Body hair (there’s no easy and permanent remedy though). :-/

2. People who don’t realise that they spit while they talk and especially when I am eating and their spit follows my plate. :-///

3. Don’t have a third one.

Cheers,

1. Reading people’s comments here and realizing that they have one big pet peeve: Finland.

2. People refusing to adjust to a different culture and insisting their own is so much better.

3. Lists of pet peeves.

Just the big one on the Porta-Potty. Look if you miss the pee bucket, at least hit the floor, and not the seat.

Only 2 more months and that thing can be retired.

1. Cigarette butts tossed everywhere.

2. Panhandlers – If your family is not interested in helping you, why should I. Even moreso in Finland that is suppossed to support people like this.

3. People that tell me that I am “going to hell if I don’t take the Lord Jesus Crist into my heart.” (And I am a Christian)

4. Irresponsible drivers – There is no shortage of them around here.

5. Stupid people – I have no problem with people being ignorant, just don’t both me to help you because you have not bothered to pay attention yourself. Take all of these Housing bubble ‘victims’. It was all great when they were ‘earning’ hundreds of dollars a day in appreciation and shoving it in my face. Now that the market is hollow they have somehow been tricked into the situation they are in now. (Lets forget that I consistently told people to sell when they told me how much their house was worth.)

6. Litterbugs – What Phil said about the gum as well as for everything people toss away everywhere. Hello! We are all looking for this damn ‘Modern Society’ yet nobody is interested in doing anything to get there.

7. People who reek of B.O.

There is more.

OK, here they are.

1. People travelling to Thailand and telling they are going “Thaimaaseen”. It’s not Espoo or Porvoo goddammit, are you planting your potatos into “pottumaaseen”?

2. Queuing up in the traffic lights: When the green light turns on, everyone should start moving simultaneously instead of beginning to figure out, where that first gear was and leaving the last ones in the line to wait for the “wave”

3. Customers…

- People either using absurd amounts of perfume or having no personal hygiene at all. Everyone using Helsinki public transit knows the no hygiene types, but recently I’ve been most annoyed by the perfume types. It is so painful to sit in a cinema trying to ignore that huge cloud of some cheap fragrance floating in the air. I really feel sorry for asthmatic people.

1.) Open-minded Bigots: People who consider themselves open-minded and will accept you if you are gay, lesbian, trans gendered, alcoholic, drug- addicted, criminal etc…… But if you have religious values they despise you.

2.) Non-Conforming conformists: Those who strive to be different for the sake of “coolness”. They usually tend to scorn us “regular” folk. The alternative area of any large city consist 80% of these fools, and 20 % of the real deal. They eventually outgrow this stage and move back to the safety of the suburbs toward the end of their 20′s. The real non-conformists are usually pretty gnarly.

3.) Stinky people next to me on the bus. Come one, take a shower, it wont kill ya.

1. People farting in public places. Like on an airplane. I especially hate it if it is the kind of fart that comes from not taking a dump when you need to. I have a pretty acute sense of smell. Makes me want to puke.

2. Slippery frozen urine puddles in the streets of a Finnish city on Saturday morning.

3. Someone coughing behind me repeatedly, especially if it that rattling kind of cough.

I plead guilty to holding doors for too long and tossing cigarette butts. I’m trying to change… ;D

1. The people on the second floor of my office building who take the elevator “down” and seemingly cannot walk down one flight of steps.

2. Fox News.

3. Being forced into secondary inspection at airport security, or watching the little old lady in a wheelchair being taken into secondary inspection at airport security.

4. Going to Europe when the dollar is worth 60 cents to the Euro.

Workers in an ‘eat all you can’ place giving you dirty looks when you’re loading up for only the third time.

1. Smoking.

2. People that get off an escalator or enter a store and just stop and stand there.

3. People that litter.

1. People who push the button on elevators or pedestrian crossings when the light is already lit.

2. People who pat others on their cheek. One of these days I’m gonna deck some patronizing asshole.

3. People with cognitive dissonance e.g. zealots. The should all be put against the wall when the revolution starts.

1. People like #2, who think that critisizing Finland implies that we do not like this country.

2. People who blame everything bad on alcoholism.

3. State run monolopies

1. Car drivers who won’t stop for pedestrians waiting to cross the street (at “suojatie”, don’t know what it is in English. Of course where there are no street lights).

2. People who interrupt me when I talk.

3. Kids nowadays. Or maybe it’s their parents, who give them a “free education”, and eventually end up with kids without manners who never stop trying to push the limit further. I sometimes wish it was allowed to slap other people’s kids. And their parents. And no, I’m not a teacher.

1. Plastic flowers or other plastic plants

2. pop music

3. Sick people coming to work and sharing the love

1) Old people on the road. Often they’re a bigger danger than the young yobs who’ve just gotten their license.

2) Old people, or old women to be exact, on slot machines in markets etc. I’ve seen them playing on two, sometimes even three machines at the same time.

3) Raisins in any food. I like “pulla” and “maksalaatikko” as they are, no need to add those goddamn raisins in them, makes it look like a rat took a dump in my food. Raisins as such are okay with me, sometimes I snack on them.

1. Justifying the use of marihuana by comparing it to alcohol. As “safer than alcohol”. Or saying it has medical benefits. So what, it’s still a drug and you don’t care about the benefits, you just want to get high. I’m not against it but don’t try to make it look any better. That’s crap. (btw, i smoke occasionally)

2. People who drive in your rear bumper.

3. Just like #7 said: Open-minded Bigots: People who consider themselves open-minded and will accept you if you are gay, lesbian, trans gendered, alcoholic, drug- addicted, criminal etc…… But if you have religious values they despise you.

People travelling to Thailand and telling they are going “Thaimaaseen”.

Näin untha thaimaasta, se lähentelee jo thaivastha

Hello everyone, long time no see. Good to see that FFT hasn’t really changed while I was away (still full of bitching and moaning about Finland). Alright then, pet peeves:

1. Finns who say “osaaks sä korjaa”. Argh! Learn some Finnish! It’s “korjata”, for gawds sake. My ears bleed everytime I hear someone butcher Finnish this way. Usually they’re from Helsinki-region.

2. Hypocritical bigots: People who illogically think it’s their “right” to discriminate against others on the basis of their personal beliefs and who try to play the Victim whenever other decent people remind them of their prejudiced and bigoted ways (Example: “Boohoo, those so called tolerant people are really not tolerant because they won’t allow me to burn witches on stake. Discrimination! You open-minded bigots, boohoo!”).

3. Stupid, moronic ads on the TV that make your blood boil.

1. Obligatory lessons of christian brainwashing in elementary schools, even in high schools (e.g. in Finland).
2. People who believe in any god or think it’s OK to believe in god, especially in the field of science. (Because science is all about understanding, while religion, in the end, is all about not understanding.) These people usually try to claim science is also all about faith and thus similar to religion.
3. People who think it’s not okay for otherwise open-minded people to not like religious people.

welcome back Aboy

You mean we can’t burn witches at the stake anymore? Why not?

Religion == values

Yep that must be the problem, those sticky values again.

So cute how some people seem to think that religion goes hand in hand with values, and that without a religious frame of reference a person can’t have any values.

Aboy

Did I say that?

No

I said Religion == Values

Thats the main point of a religion, it gives one a core value set.

Or did you miss that in your religious smackdown class.

Back to my pet peeves

1. Defenseless enemies are fun.

Right now Syria is shamed and silent after Israels attack, and their Billion Dollar Russian missile system was turned off remotly by the USA. Iran is freaking out in panic as France comes on board for a strike.

It is going to be fun.

By the way Israel got a hit on the stockpile of Saddam’s chemical/bio weapons snuck out of Iraq and into Syria for safekeeping before the US invasion of April 2003.

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winter wrote:
“Did I say that?”

Well, you definitely implied it. Pesky things those innuendos, people tend to see right through them.

winter wrote:
“Thats the main point of a religion, it gives one a core value set.”

No it isn’t. That’s just how it seems to simple, uneducated people. In reality, the main point of a religion is that it’s a mass mind control device.

Organized religions are a devious way of playing on peoples needs and insecurities, coaxing them to accept some dogma given by the religious elite with the promise of a reward and with the threat of a punishment: “Be good, do as you’re told (by us). We are doing Gods will, do not question Us, trust in Us as the intermediaries between you and God and you’ll be rewarded in the afterlife. Always remember, if you don’t do what We (=God) say, you’ll be damned! You wouldn’t want that, would you?”.

It’s so ridiculous.. Seriously, people need to wake up.

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#18.1 Yes, the alcohol argument in cannabis legalisation debates must be an absolute killer for the other side, because it’s such an obvious indication of how hypocritical drug legislation is! Not every supporter of decriminalisation “just wants to get high” (avoiding intelligent debate by using throw-away lines like that is one of my pet peeves). In fact, many legalisers don’t smoke it themselves, but they do recognise the harm caused by the prohibitionist approach.

Åboy is a great case-study of an open-minded bigot.

How about this: drivers who don’t signal when they leave a roundabout – especially ones in which the people in the roundabout have the right of way. This is extremely confusing for pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.

(@ Unit)

So does that mean that you’re one of those hypocritical bigots who play dress-up as The Victim?

Nope.

Surprisingly (to my self in any case..), I actually find it quite hard to find 3 pet peeves. But in the spirit of FfF, I have given it my best shot to conjure some up.

1) Stockmann on one of its “crazy days”.

2) Taking the bus to Helsinki-Vantaa airport, and being made to change buses in the random spot of Östersundom.

3) Suomalaisuuden liitto

Oh I think it does.

“religion is that it’s a mass mind control device”

guess you never seen a group of like minded folks form a church? Just what form is the mind control device Aboy? The Government sure could use one.

“It’s so ridiculous.. Seriously, people need to wake up.”

OK, big pet peeve here. Comments like the one above suggesting that the rest of us would agree with them if only we ‘woke up’ or that we clearly don’t care because we are not angry like them. I hear that and automatically label the person a moonbat.

Fred Fry wrote:
“I hear that and automatically label the person a moonbat.”

That’s certainly your prerogative. And on the same spirit I hereby congratulate you on receiving a title of your own: from now on you shall be known as a wingnut.

#37 and#38..Thems is fightin’ woids….I am sensitive and feel like a victim…Living in MOONBAT massachusetts…infinndel the neocon is drowning in multi-culti politically correct insanity in the bay state….the only remedy is blue crabs and beer!…right wing-nuts unite!…kippis!

Yea, I want the inbrednut one. Kissing cusins, party with 30 sailors, free rum for all one.

If taken, then glownut, for those 44 trips into the microwave oven.

#1 bummer…Finns who do not defend their culture
#2 bummer…Finns who insult America,including proud Finnish Americans such as infinndel,who truly respects Finnish culture and history…
#3 bummer Finland getting sucked into PUTINISM DARK SIDE…

“from now on you shall be known as a wingnut.”

Yes, but without nuts the world would fall apart;)

Oh, I’m awake and things still look pretty good from where I’m standing….

Finns seem to mock and complain about HOMOS in Sweden and Swedish army
.maybe achmadinajadnutjob,could visit sweden and clean house….get the picture….

Y..M..C..A..ach-ma-di-na-jad..

achmadinajadnutjob has some rope, and knows how to use it.

Darn, and you guys will give him a nuke.

Great policy.

“Open-minded Bigots: People who consider themselves open-minded and will accept you if you are gay, lesbian, trans gendered, alcoholic, drug- addicted, criminal etc…… But if you have religious values they despise you.”

I don’t think the “open-minded” bigots despise Christians for having values or despise Christians in general. What they don’t like is the fact that some Christians use their “values” to discriminate against other people in an illogical way especially in contradiction with Jesus (and his message).

In fact, many “open-minded” bigots have values that are very similar if not the same to the teachings of Jesus. They just don’t use all the bible stories.

Ole George W has done a great deal to ruin the image of the Christian in America as well. He is a leader and role model for the country and also one who touts his “Christianity” and “values”. At the same time he is the epitome of “preaching values but do whatever you want to get what you want” and using the premise of “values” to further his own agenda.

1.) The cure for cancer. If there was none, we wouldn’t have to read winter’s shit anymore.

2.) Posts like these. Like, who cares what I, or you, think anyways?

3.) People who use the term “politically correct” with a sneer. It’s so old.

“1.) The cure for cancer.”

actually there were 3 choices (4 if you do nothing) for my Cancer. My system in the USA allowed me, not the state to say which of the 3 choices I took.

Your state run system, well lets just say, gives you one path. Their option, not yours.

End result: You will live with the side effects of the state decision, the rest of your life. My side effects, so far, are small, some internal bleeding that fixed itself, and I can’t even tell I went through it.

Hey! Here’s one:

People who think that they are putting special emphasis on something, and being witty at the same time, by saying that there are “three important things”, and then repeating the same word three times. It was an old rhetorical device long before Defence Minister Häkämies used it a few weeks ago.

“Your state run system, well lets just say, gives you one path. Their option, not yours.” – winter

See what I mean?

“See what I mean?”

only if you get Cancer, then you will get to experience the reality you all think is great.

Bottom Line: Don’t get sick in a selfare state medical system of limited choices, like one.

49->

1) Location
2) Location
3) Location

“only if you get Cancer, then you will get to experience the reality you all think is great.” -winter

You have never, to my knowledge, told us why you care so much about Finland. I find it difficult to believe that you are a troll with this much commitment.

I like it when someone holds the door open for me. I just slow down… I walk through so many doors every day, so it makes me laugh to see some stupid polite person to be too polite… I am able to open my doors if I need to. Mayme when I’m 100 something I’ll respect those who are polite. Let me open my own doors, please.

I like it when someone holds the door open for me. I just slow down… I walk through so many doors every day, so it makes me laugh to see some stupid polite person to be too polite… I am able to open my doors if I need to. Maybe when I’m 100 something I’ll respect those who are polite. Let me open my own doors, please.

Oops, I forgot to add one:

People who don’t mind their own business.

“why you care so much about Finland.”

Ok 3 reasons that build on the bottom line

1. Your noses held high on a superior medical system. Well that one is full of crap, and now we all know it.

2. Your inability to do any good in the world. Just supporting thugs and killers with a human shild deployment. You really do suck at running the world.

3. Your most distressing notion, that when things get rough, you can always call in the USA. Well, folks, that one is over after your last stab in the back of the USA. Think Darfur, and your role in letting 1 Million die on your watch, for whats comming in the future.

Bottom line: I am that bad apple, who tells you what the BBC will not, that you all are complete failures, who just need to figure out who your friends really are, and then support them.

1. People who don’t get that being a stay-at-home mom is work. Unpaid work. Goddamned hard work.

2. People who throw garbage from their cars onto the road. This includes cigarette butts, beer cans, plastic bags. The world is not your trash bucket!

3. High health premiums. I’m grateful for the good health care I get here in the US, but the costs are frigging outrageous.

#57 2. What “thugs and killers” are you talking about? Anastasio Somoza? Augusto Pinochet? The Shah? Dubya himself? They are all skeletons in your closet.

3. So when did Finland ever run to the United States to bail us out?

And what’s this obsession with the BBC? It’s the broadcaster of one European country, and most Finns don’t even watch/listen to it.

winter, you still didn’t give a reason why you’re so obsessed with Finland of all places. Do you frequent right wing blogs of expats living in say, Lichtenstein or Luxembourg and spew your inaccuracies there, or is it just Finland you have a problem with?

Besides, why do you think that a blog written by a right-leaning Libertarian living in Finland is a good place to get this BBC obsession off of your chest?

Whose opinion do you really think you’re changing?

Latest Finland deployment to Lebanon, supporting thugs and killers, as Human Shields.

And you even issued sun screen, as we have seen they do not even patrol.

Just ban him, Phil. Please.

Sadly Winter shows time and time again that he simply is neither intelligent enough nor mature enough to actually address the points put to him. Instead, he prefers to divert from other peoples’ points by coughing up his same old obsessions on Lebanon and the UK’s national broadcaster.

#57 “You really do suck at running the world.”

To say that Finland sucks at running the world is a bit like saying that I suck at brain surgery.

On the other hand, why do I bother? I’ll probably just end up having to explain the analogy a few posts later!

Heh, most of the winter’s complaints seem to be about EU in general and I guess you can leave the complaints at any EU “branch office”. However, the French, Italians, Spaniards, Germans (including deputy germans, such as Austrians) etc. require complaints in their native languages, so practically only the Dutch and the nordics are left. Excluding BBC, the Brits are OK, as they are ready to put their foot in the same shoe with poop in it. Now if you have seen a reindeer and have a Sauna, guess who gets the complaints. It’s perfectly logical.

So, if we split from the EU, it means that winter will stfu? Where can I cast my vote?

Not really. winnie is the salt of this blog.

1. Yeah, that “holding open the door”. I try not to, sometimes even succeed.
2. People (tourists) stopping dead on their tracks after stepping off the train, looking left, right, and up, being obviously confused what to do, and oblivious that people behind them in the queue just nearly crashed into them because of this.
3. Not understading what is noise pollution. Setting decibel limits for municipal buses (their airbrake pressure release and initial acceleration being worst noise sources) would be a logical step, now that air pollution is regulated. And commercial radio should be banned, because people think everyone in the workplace wants to listen commercials from Radio Nova or a local radio station with tracks straight outta Paskalista.
4. Commercials where people are literally ripping the product out of another’s hands. It’d be nice for the seller if the product was that great, but chances are it isn’t.
5. Americans who think there is an “European” policy, and it’s what they assume the American liberals think. Just look at jumps of logic: first, a complete integration of Europe (something even the craziest EU-federalist wouldn’t imagine), then making up the opinions of “Europe” based on their prejudices on American liberals. Case study: winter. You have to regularly put on the Captain Obvious suit as people have done in #59, #60 and #64.
6. Having to give a soundbite of what you study or work with, and then having to answer to stupid people’s questions about single words you used in the soundbite. (I’m actually entitled to say “cure for cancer”, even though one project I did was only tangentially related, but I think I’ll have to stick to that. Everyone understands cancer.)

Look, on Lebanon I have offered, and yet no one has provided any evidence.

Ok, so here it is again, I will shut up on lebanon, if you show me just one captured rocket?

Is that so hard? There have to me thousands just ready to fly. Come on guys shut me up.

Otherwise you all are just Human Shields, Points for me.

“Not really. winnie is the salt of this blog.” – Freeridin’ Franklin

Then this blog is an open, infected wound.

Yea, you liberals don’t like the truth.

So shut me up, provide proof.

Guess my shinning of a light on you, is hard to take.

Take a note: Must go easy on liberals, they are just like the old commies.

70., obviously nobody can shut you up. Especially yourself.

#68: “Ok, so here it is again, I will shut up on lebanon, if you show me just one captured rocket?”

How about you showing one captured “Weapon of Mass Destruction” – you know, the invisible implements that led to your Iraq quagmire.

“Otherwise you all are just Human Shields…”

Not much worse than being the sitting ducks that you guys are!

“Points for me”

Sure it’s easy to claim “points” in a debate if all you have to go with are sweeping generalisations, made-up facts and strawman arguments. But what the hell, the eventual US claim of “victory” in Iraq will probably follow similar logic.

One WMD?

Sorry, but a little air strike by Israel just reduced that stockpile some.

#73 So you’re saying that the US invasion of Syria was not for nothing?!

Hey winnie, was that Israeli airstirke on one of those “mobile chemical weapons labs” that former Gen Colin Powell outlined to The UN? Must have been as I’ve not seen nor heard of them for quite a while. Makes me wonder why we ever went there? (again) The first time I understand all too well but this time?????
C’mon winnie, just accept it as a mistake and STFU

Naw, the Israeli airstrike was on a garbage dump. Don’t you believe the BBC?

Check the smell test, would the Israelie really just bomb??? insert answer

Yea, insert Guargabe dump, so they gave away some new capabilities (Like shutting down the entire defensive system remotly) for what?

Insert short answer….

If its not WMDs then they sure suck as thugs and thieves of the middle east.

#70: winter, who are you talking to?

Himself, sepisp.

Preparing his speech for the security council