The End of the European Dream | 276 comments (274 topical, 2 editorial, 0 hidden)

Timo Soini (4.00 / 5)

Call me what you want, but I have some difficulty in disagreeing with this piece.

by cagatacos on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 09:39:42 AM EST

Re: Timo Soini (none / 0)

This 7 minute U-tube video, called Portugalnomics Ep 1, has now received a typically innovative Finnish reply.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 10:10:14 AM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (none / 0)

It is innovative.

If it was a little less innovative I might understand what they are saying.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 01:58:26 PM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (none / 1)

You have much to learn about Finnish humour ;-)

It is far from mine, but I have learned to appreciate it. Think "in your face"

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 02:23:33 PM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (none / 0)

I understand this:

had them rolling in the aisles.

[The young boy, Onni Tommila, has continued his career by playing Pietari Kontio in Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.]

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 05:49:51 PM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (4.00 / 2)

Another example of Finnish Humor© is giving unsuspecting foreigners salmiakki:

For those fortunate never to have tasted it, salmiakki is:

Salmiakki is a salty treat (like candy but salty) that many people in Finland love.

A more accurate description:

Salty form of licorice from Finland that is flavored with the taste of burning tires and distilled death.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 05:59:49 PM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (none / 1)

Yes, the Finns and the Danes are the only ones in the EU who make real licorice.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 10th, 2011 at 09:32:26 AM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (4.00 / 2)

I'm tempted to troll-rate that.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 10th, 2011 at 09:48:47 AM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (none / 0)

Norwegian or Swedish-Finnish trolls?

Economics is politics by other means

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 10th, 2011 at 09:50:50 AM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (4.00 / 2)

Constantin Gurdgiev, one of the few economists in Ireland who has consistently advocated default, is also one of the most rightwing economists around. A strange feature of the debate on default is that the ultra right economists and ex-bankers/stockbrokers/financiers have generally been more progressive on the issue than establishment, social democrat, Green, and Labour economists.

Index of Frank's Diaries

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 04:53:04 PM EST
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Re: Timo Soini (4.00 / 2)

I read Zero Hedge and Karl Denninger (Market ticker), and the same can be read over there.

As I see it is a mix of: 1) Irresponsible lending should be punished (as much as borrowing) 2) The debt burden is so high that it is a mathematical certainty.

It seems that there is a substantial difference between being right-winger because one ruthlessly believes in merit/market (Karl Denninger) against being right-winger because you are in the pocket of the economic powers (or generally like to lick the a$$ of the powerful)

by cagatacos on Mon May 9th, 2011 at 05:04:43 PM EST
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