Bombs to Ã…land!

[Pekka]

Oh yeah, I forgot, if they wanted to have a country of their own, they'd actually have to stop being such racists people, and that's impossible. These folks even don't have army, and they are relieved from serving ours. So they'd have to get one, but because there are like 10 people living in that island, it's not happening. Oh yeah and own economy. I guess too much asked for stupid people like they are. Who they always turn to when they need more money to waste on their parties? THat's right.. they are good at demanding more money. But they don't let us feel welcome there at all but treat us the worst of everyone. Ungrateful people, who are unable to make it their own. Bunch of losers and I hate them. They hate us so we hate them back. But they keep it quiet, because they don't have army and couldn't defend themselves, so they need us to defend them too. What a bunch of losers.
Only good Ã…lander is a dead Ã…lander. Their private parties are soon to be over when we realize what's going on. I just talked to my dad about this, and he said his old working buddy was there, working for a while but he couldn't make it because a.) he didn't speak Swedish and b.) people were so prejudiced that they didn't want to make friends with him and were outright racist.

And it takes a lot for a finn to say someone is being racist towards him. So it must be a super racists place and I hate it because of that. They can hate us but don't take our money then. As long as they take my money too and never contribute anything to our country ever except giving bad treatment and taking our money, I have every right to hate them. And I will keep doing it.
Down with Ã…land! We need to kill it. Twice.

[MRT144]

pekka, cant you just go there and take a dump in the central square be done with it.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by MRT144
pekka, cant you just go there and take a dump in the central square be done with it.

Spoken by one wise in diplomacy

Anyway Pekka, I thought you were from the US? Picking up other peole's ethnic conflicts is just asking for trouble.

Like I said, give them a vote on it. It should bring them to their senses.

You start bombing them, pretty soon it's going to be very hard to export all those Nokia's. Where will Finland be then?

[MRT144]

cruddy, i come from the anticarter diplomacy school

[Giancarlo]

This is almost as crazy as that time when Morocco almost came on the brink of war with Spain for invading those islands. We invaded them back.. and sent several Frigates in.. That scared them.

[Pekka]

This is not the same situation as it was with us and Russia when we had autonomy. Czars (?) were good to us but we weren't Rooskies. So we _wanted_ to be independent, and we got it and didn't sweat about it.

These guys might think they're not Finns, not Swedes but Ã…landers. Fine. BE Ã…landers then for C sake and be independent. The problem is that these guys don't want independence. They couldn't support themselves.

So, because they don't do that, they should be more fair to us, since we give them all the independence possible and special freedoms. They need to be nice to us, even if they hate us. What ever they do, they can't be openly racists and have openly racists policies. They can't have it all. When they support themselves and are independent, then hate us when we don't pay for your hating parties. I just hate them DAMN I hate these greedy sneaky Ã…landers!

[Meticulous Man]

Pekka: but why would anyone want to work in Ã…land if they don't even speak the language? What did your father's buddy do?

As to the Ã…landers being racist, I don't think we're so clean either - I don't think many Finns crave to have much to do with, for example, immigrated Russians or Estonians, especially if they don't even speak but a few words of Finnish!

And is the money flow to Ã…land really that big or is it just the same kind of popular myth as the "every refugee is driving around in a BMW" stuff?

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Pekka
These people are plain rotten and they smell bad. They can't even speak proper Swedish!

Sounds like any Finn to me
But seriously, Pekka. Ã…landers speak very nice "Moomintroll"

[Meticulous Man]

Actually I think Ã…landers practically speak "rikssvenska". The "Moomin" variant is spoken on the mainland.

[Kropotkin]

Ã…lands only function in the world is to be a harbour for ferry-lines between Sweden and Finland so that people can buy tax-free stuff. Feel free to kill or deport of them to Karelia. No one cares about the people.

[Combat Ingrid]

I guess you are right. I have only met one Ã…lander in person, when he spoke it always sounded like he was talking about "den stoora hemoolen"

[Pekka]

Aivo, no.. Swedes are good people and we are good people but those evil Ã…landers is what I'm talking about. Also, are we immigrants in Ã…land? I don't think we are. It is still part of Finland. It's another thing to have immigrants and refugees and what not, and whole different conversation.

But if you're willing to take crap in your own country because you happen to be citizen of it, then fine. I'm not.

[Pekka]

And I am wiling to recognize Ã…land as independent country. Heck, they even have their own flag. Clearly they are their own place. But they should go for it then, or then forget the whole thing and just be nice.

[Winston]

Ã…land is a brilliant place, in as much as Americans and other extremely foreign people will never figure out the weird, yet ingenious Scandinavian spelling.

We need more of that, so I support full independence for

Ã…land
Öland
Færøerne / Føroyar
Grønland, even though it'd probably be Kalaatlit Nunaat

Just to make the outside world tremble and fall of their chairs in frustration.

Oh, and Rømø can have home rule for a start.

[Rasbelin]

What a thread...

Winston,

when things come around, you don't want those Danish territories indepedent. Also, Ã…land is firmly annexed to Finland, so I doubt any change. At least I don't support the idea of an independent Ã…land. It's not really something anyone seriously conciders up here.