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Not too expensive either. Of course, the locals see the lights all the time, but as the short BBC documentary from Sodankylä shows you, it never gets old. Phenomena on that scale puts you and your life into some perspective. You see your place in the bigger picture and it really ain't all that much. My man Kalle is from Sodankylä, as is his wife Jenni. The kids are very much Helsinki, but they visit their real home in Sodankylä several times a year.

You can fly up to Rovaniemi in around two hours, but the train takes eleven to twelve hours depending.

Coach liners you book online take around fourteen hours, and they have a WC aboard - but the tickets are dirt cheap from Helsinki.

One odd thing about the end of Finnish winter: the snow we bulldoze and pack onto trucks is taken to the area around the main prison about fifteen kilometers out of town. The trucks pull up every few minutes and pile the collected snow which is then bulldozed into place afterwards. But that snow is still there at the height of summer, months later when we're all complaining about the heat. You can whizz out on the bus and have a snowball fight, or rather, ice-ball fights. It turns black as the dust piles over it from the summer breeze. The prisoners bet on whether it'll still be there piled up when the next year's season begins.

Anything to fill in the time, I guess.

But during the Celtic Tiger years, Helsinki/Vantaa was packed with Irish families bringing the kids up to Santa's village outside Rovaniemi.

Money to burn, so it was - the stupid fuckers.

Look at them now?
 
A nation in shock up here.

What a terrible day.

Hard to believe it looking outside at the streets just now - all dry and cleared of the last of winter's ice and snow, but we're going to get around 20/25cm of snowfall overnight. Weather warnings all across southern Finland tonight and for the coming AM.

The first of the spring flowers are starting to bud. Some trees too. The change of seasons is quite abrupt up here, we have very distinctive seasonal weather patterns unlike Ireland, where it's pretty much grey and damp most of the time.

The coming snowfall will be silent but intense.

It'll suit the current national mood.
 


In which case you presumed entirely wrong, as per fucking usual, you dumb Paddy cunt.

Both the child with the gun and his classmates who were injured or killed are all (white/pink) Finnish-born children.

So you can take your racist bullshit and shove it where many men have been but never returned: up your Ma's gash.
 
The Finnish government should understand that Mowl is a subversive and deport him.. Sadly they won't do that because of his "human rights"
 
Electricity said:
The Finnish government should understand that Mowl is a subversive and deport him..
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They know exactly what I'm up to.

But I'm also spotless clean and my tax affairs are in order.

To them, I'm an asset.

To the ladies, a gift.

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Sadly they won't do that because of his "human rights"
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My human rights include pitying you for the fool you are.

Ask yourself: what will you have show for all your efforts blogging someone else's point of view in say around two years from now?

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

Whereas I'll have even more people/fans than the 9,400+ I already have lining up to buy my book when it comes out. There'll be RTE appearances, radio interviews, looks back at my earlier RTE appearances, they'll have my school teachers on like it's an episode of 'This Is Your Life' with Eamonn Andrews (who's adopted son and ex-Cactus World News bassist Fergal I played with - he was playing bass through his new rig: previous owner: John Entwhistle of The Who) and everyone who knows me will be there to cheer me on.

Then the money will have to be dealt with.

The weird twist of fate that made a book about Ballyer famous down under will see me on a stand-up tour of Australia talking about Irish people and Irish life. The money will keep rolling in as I make every appearance 'as unforgettable as fuck' as your buddy Saul might say.

Meanwhile, you'll still be shouting at the walls and 'winning' on chat sites.

Cactus World News (ft Fergal MacAindris) 'Years Later' (1986)

 
No one reads your Facebook page Mowl, nobody.

It's incredible how seriously you take all of this stuff and to top it all off, you have absolutely nothing of any value (or contemporaneous) to say. At least I have that.
 
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No one reads your Facebook page Mowl, nobody.
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No one that you know, anyway.

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It's incredible how seriously you take all of this stuff
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Not even nearly as much as YOU do, you dumb mutt - it really bugs you, doesn't it?

Y'know, for all your big-man bluster, you're more like a precocious little girl who's just pee-ed her little panties.

Always crying about something or other, always on the defensive, always full noise and rage - signifying pretty much fuck all at all.

You could stand on the same spot you're standing on now and keep repeating yourself for eternity, but it'll still just be what it is.

Very, very sad.

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and to top it all off, you have absolutely nothing of any value (or contemporaneous) to say. At least I have that.
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The last and likely most important you've ever said to me is that your Ma is dead - a long time dead, Jambo.

After that?

I suddenly understood everything you'd previously said, are saying now, and will say in the future.

Does THAT make it any easier/better for you, kid?
 
And we're under it again. The snow is battering down outside, can't see further than two meters ahead of me. It's hard to believe that I wore just a t-shirt to the store a few days ago. The streets cleared of the last of winter's melt, all of the coats of grit swept up and replaced into the big buckets outside each block for next year's winter.

Now we're right back to where we started and the grit has to be scattered all over again.

It's only one below zero, but the breeze makes it feel much, much colder.

 
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-russia-miscalculated-on-finland-border/

All along the watchtower - there's pretty much fuck all to see bar the wilderness along the eastern front. Finland hasn't manned that border in as long as I can remember, and most of it isn't even fenced, never mind manned on the turrets. It's over 13,000 miles long, so protecting it's a bit of a stretch given Putin's army is already strained and under severe pressure further south.

What is worrying though is where Putin's getting his latest recruits from: by all accounts he's emptying the Russian prisons and offering the prisoners their freedom in return for their services on the front lines in Ukraine. These men aren't militarily trained though, so most come home in body bags. They're all entirely disposable as far as Putin's concerned. Me too. The more of them that get it in the neck, the better I'll sleep.

Finland's ascension to NATO seems to be giving cause for concern though, so we're all watching and waiting to see what he has in mind. Mostly bluster, really. He's not going to send anyone of any value because he knows his history and last time Russian tried it on with Finland was during the Winter War of 1938, when we resolutely trounced them back over the lines even though we were outnumbered ten to one. Finnish soldiers are trained in winter warfare first, and they ski across snow-bound country faster than any tanks or ill-equipped Russian kids out of jail for The Big Party.

Exciting times indeed.
 
Mowl said:
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-russia-miscalculated-on-finland-border/

All along the watchtower - there's pretty much fuck all to see bar the wilderness along the eastern front. Finland hasn't manned that border in as long as I can remember, and most of it isn't even fenced, never mind manned on the turrets. It's over 13,000 miles long, so protecting it's a bit of a stretch given Putin's army is already strained and under severe pressure further south.

What is worrying though is where Putin's getting his latest recruits from: by all accounts he's emptying the Russian prisons and offering the prisoners their freedom in return for their services on the front lines in Ukraine. These men aren't militarily trained though, so most come home in body bags. They're all entirely disposable as far as Putin's concerned. Me too. The more of them that get it in the neck, the better I'll sleep.

Finland's ascension to NATO seems to be giving cause for concern though, so we're all watching and waiting to see what he has in mind. Mostly bluster, really. He's not going to send anyone of any value because he knows his history and last time Russian tried it on with Finland was during the Winter War of 1938,
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Mowl said:
when we resolutely trounced them
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It's cute that you think you're a Finn 😆

Mowl said:
back over the lines even though we were outnumbered ten to one. Finnish soldiers are trained in winter warfare first, and they ski across snow-bound country faster than any tanks or ill-equipped Russian kids out of jail for The Big Party.

Exciting times indeed.
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Electricity said:
It's cute that you think you're a Finn 😆
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Even sweeter how you think you're Muhammud Ali by day and Justin Barrett by night.

Must be exhausting - especially now that Saul Coal Bucket's reforming the 'A Team' with drunken Myles and that other baldy freak from Galway?

Jambo - and 'The A Team'?

Now that's fucking funnnny.
 
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