The great Finnish election thread

[laurentius]

Ihan kohtuu hyvin noi vaalit meni

+ kokoomus hävisi
+ liberaaleille ei yhtään paikkaa
+ Valpio tai "molli-olli" ei läpi
+ Vihreille lisäpaikkoja

- Tony Halmeen sekä muiden urheilija/julkkisehdokkaiden läpimeno
- Vasemmistoliitolta 1 paikka pois
- Paavo Arhinmäki ei päässyt läpi
- Asun Apollonkadulla, juuri sillä...

[Ari Rahikkala]

WTF is this Drake thing you people are talking about and why don't I know anything about it?

[Ted Striker]

You have to use the Webmin console and load the DBI:MySQL module. Come on Ari.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I've never used webmin and never will. Real Users read documentation and experiment until they can do everything they need on the command line and with $EDITOR .

[Hurricane]

Wow, I didn't know you guys were all socialist and Green party activists. I'm worried.

BTW, Tinyp3nis is right about the women. NZ was first with voting, and at least Iceland had a female president ages before us.

[Pekka]

Hurricane, yeah I know! We have bunch of commies and hippies in our hands, God save us!

[Gangerolf]

iirc mongolia had the first female president

[Pekka]

Mongolia is not a real country.

[Gangerolf]

ok

[Pekka]

Have you ever been to Mongolia? Do you know anyone from Mongolia, or someone who knows someone from Mongolia? It's just a myth. Besides what they claim is that she really wasn't a real president.

[Kassiopeia]

Markus Drake. The guy who sneaked in to become a candidate for the Green party. The guy who smoked cannabis in public at an election booth in Helsinki. The guy who promotes travelling on public transportation - without paying, that is.

And I think it's possible that Alatalo and Elton John are alike in terms of sexual preference...

Ah but yes. The parliament is now more to the left side than before. Not that common in Europe today. The extreme right did get a few seats more, but the "regular" right lost seats.

[Pekka]

Just kidding . I don't know.. might be true. Good for them.

[Stefu]

4 years of (gag, retch) red earth government might do some good if they help the Conservatives to refind their backbone. Step one is giving Itälä the boot.

At least there's one bright spot - SDP is giving up their Foreign Minister spot, which means no more Örkki Tuomio running his mouth off at every opportunity. OTOH, that can only mean that Finland will hereforth be associated with urbane, tech-savvy image of Seppo Kääriäinen...

[RGBVideo]

Step one is giving Itälä the boot.

Itälä has been trying to pass many laws which would turn this nation closer into a fascist state, to attract 'christian' voters (ie, ultra-conservative over 50-year olds). I'm pretty glad if he's sacked.

National Coalition needs to turn a bit more liberal in social issues (Guys like Häkämies are killing me, "if we allow homosexual marriages, the glorious Finnish race will suffer an extinction"...) and to regain it's hard-line economic policies (which were mainly ignored in the Ãt's campaign in Helsinki and Uusimaa, the biggest voting districts, it was hard to make a difference between them and Social Democrats), if it want's to get some younger brood on their party. Getting the jewish guy which name I cannot spell (Ben... was it Zyschklowitzh?) as a head of the party would be a step into this direction, he was the guy which attracted well-educated, young people with good economical status to vote NC in 1999.

4 years of (gag, retch) red earth government might do some good if they help the Conservatives to refind their backbone. Step one is giving Itälä the boot.

I hope that the Agrarian Center Party doesn't get into power, they'll kill the economy by idiotic deficits if they get their hands on it.

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by Pekka
Have you ever been to Mongolia? Do you know anyone from Mongolia, or someone who knows someone from Mongolia? It's just a myth. Besides what they claim is that she really wasn't a real president.