Finnish Apolytoner meeting - official thread

[Rasbelin]

Sagacious,

we have finally decided to be international.

Andemagne, Pekka, Ignorance,

the strippers are fine for me; and the drinks. The point is that you'll have to come up with something about the location. At least Kaivopuisto is not in my favour, so any decent places can be considered by me.

[Stefu]

Pekka: You willing to provide the strippers?

Female strippers.

No, your army pals in wigs won't pass for female strippers. Unless they're female.

And anyway, I believe it is more important to hear from old, established Suomithreadiers than this current bunch of n00bs. Aivo? Are you alive? What about Jeje? Ande? Might we even get Jaakko in, if he's alive here somewhere? He lurks, he lurks...

[Rasbelin]

Okay, Stefu, let's wait for the Suomithreadi veterans. BTW you didn't mark me as noob in your post, right?

[Stefu]

I'm not sure, actually. You're not exactly a heavy Finnthread participant.

Kristalli: Aww, come on - you can squeeze in some time to meet our merry bunch! I mean, I can even change my schelude oh, that's just sad.

[Pekka]

Ok i guess we'll have to arrange a shadow meet then at the same time! We'll have better time than you though.

No stefu, they wouldn't be my armybuddies, and even the female ones.. i don't think you know what you are asking to see

[Rasbelin]

If Pekka has a sect meeting, then I'll stick to the people at the embassy; but, hey, that would mean only me.

So I'm still probably in, but if nothing has been decided prior to next Monday, I'm not sure if there's going to any meeting at all.

At least Patriviqeum was recently on Poly, but looks like he ignored this thread. So should we PM the "veterans" of those Suomithreadis?

[monolith94]

It;s so nice reading about all these places that I've been to: it makes me feel like a special Finnish expert! If I remember correctly Suomenlaina wasn't that expensive… at most 100 Markka?? Cheap cheap CHEAP! And lovely too. I went there twice and had a blast both times. I flirted a bit with the tour guide!

[Rasbelin]

monolith94,

what did you pay 100 FIM for? The ferry ticket Suomenlinna (Sveaborg)?!? Oh, dear, oh, dear, in that case some Finn must have lured you by charging the price of single ticket for 10 persons, not 1. (I guess it was a typo or bad memory?). BTW how many times have you been here? How long? Where have you actually been and, if not too personal, then why? If I got it right you have apparently at least been to Helsinki and visited Suomenlinna (Sveaborg) and Kaivopuisto (Brunsparken)?

Interesting to know, IMO.

[Kassiopeia]

What did you do to the Suomithreadi? Where's number XIII?

Since I am in the lead re: posts, and have been there since the beginning (in less then 20 hours, it's been a year, btw), one could consider me a veteran at that subject. But, I am not coming.

[Pekka]

well.. if i'm not having my party, then nobody is going to have it! I'll lurk on you, and if i see even a one bottle of alcohol in the hands of underaged.. i'll call the cops on you!

[Rasbelin]

So the whole idea of a meeting is now in real danger. I'll evacuate myself to the embassy, if things get worse, as I don't want to be in the middle of rioting Apolytoners.

[monolith94]

I didn't pay 100 FIM for it. It was less, but I was just gessing. I remember that when I went $10 American was 70FIM, and I figured entrance to suomenlainen could be around $20, so I guessed. No I never got scammed. Last Summer I was in Finland for two whole months as part of a prestigious U.S. - Finnish Senate scholarship program. I've been to Turkuu, the archipelago (and my host family's cottage on an island there), Suomenlainen, the department of state, education, muminland, and all around Helsinki and various suburbs. Plus I did a bunch of bike riding around Espoo. Great Summer!

[Rasbelin]

Nice to see that you enjoyed your visit. Hopefully that at least showed you that most stereotypes were rumours of some jealous foreigners (like the one about polar bears walking in the streets).

[Pekka]

Dude.. if you paid over 2 dollars for entrance to suomenlinna, you got screwed .

[aaglo]

Pekka: The 2$ ticket does not include anything else but the trip.