SampanVikings and Gollevainens all new Allthing

Welcome Comrade Capitalist to the Horror Show, Megabucks, Get Rich Quick, Frontier. We had this back in the eighties (when i was your age ) and it has'nt been to bad over all.

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Well But i just heard that artist can get some sort of artisticpensionare anyway, it sounded just like what i am always wanted, publick regocnition and government paying all the bills...Do they jsut luxury in UK, or Do they assume that if artist wants to make its living in art field, it have to entartein the people ennough to live comfortably when old??
Guess i have to speed up my book project...

....Omg Did I say something about book? ? Well I didnt, I didnt....

Our clocks go back for Winter daylight saving, this Saturday - do you have such a thing in Finland.

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yeas we have it. thougth I usually get know about it when beeing hour late or too early in the school in folowing morning...

That Aryan thread is interesting. Mrs Sampan refuses to believe in any form of Darwinesim and gets a real wobble if you tell her shes descended from a monkey!!. Personally I think Chinese people are descended from Cats - after all they are quite feline looking - the eyes - the Whiskers - even Mandarine can sound like Miaows sometimes. The only problem with this theory is that Mrs S seems to be turning into a Duck????? you are what you eat I suppose.

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well i just wonder what animal would be so stubid that when migrating from east towards that famous 'western shore' suddenly comes to conclusion that "gee, there seems to be nice little frozen land full of never ending swamps and incrossable forrest and little lakes...it must be total hell to harvest crop there, nevertheles speaking of such nice things as wine, fruits, heat, sun, temperatures that allows you to wear little of clothes...well anyway, I think it will be marvelous idea to move there, dont you think the same?"

That man should have been shot!!

Hello Gollie old boy - looks like they let us back in - jolly good show!

Now grab a chair and pull it over, I,ve got my Gin & Tonic and I got a large Vodka and Lime for you. I also grabbed a couple of papers, South China Morning Post for me and Pravda for you.

Good to be back eh, a bit like being rescued from a Desert Island (one of the really drab ones without any willing dusky maidens to help combat the ennui!)

So you see, things have a tendancy to bounce back just as you think the only way is down.

Well today has been quite busy, Mrs S took my wallet and Credit Cards for a nice trip Christmas Shopping and I am feeling much lighter as a consequence.

What do you guys normally do for Christmas? yeah its only a couple of weeks away now and so much reamins undone.

Do you Finns have a traditional Christmas Dinner? In Britain it was always a Roast Goose Dinner, but over the last hundred years its become a Turkey one. For Desert we are usually presented with an Impossibly Rich Hot Fruit and Nut Pudding, (Christmas Pudding - a throwback to the age of much colder winters and no central heating?) usually served with Cream or Thick Brandy Butter, all of course liberally washed down but whatever Grain or Grape Beverages come immediatly to hand.

Anyhow do hurry and join me - its nearly time for Port and Cigars

Yeah hope this goes well...

well rather busy weekend it has been for the forum's sake. We had our last quirell with Chinawhite and now his permanetly gone...

thougth this moving have somehow made reveal my more itense hobby, twice.. and both times it lost in transistion...are the gods or fate giving me a change to not to make fool of myself?

Anyway, yes christmass...I recieved 230 euros of tax refunding and im going to spend it completely to nonsense like presents and so...my father is currently declared to personal bancracy by the tax officals and my mother is going truogh tigth payment program for the bailift so its rather lame chirstmass this year...and first since all of us kids are living in by their own and to return home...so quess i have to start focus on giving, than recieving...

Well but to cristhmass traditions - huh? Dont you remember that Father Christmas LIVES in Finland...in Korvatunturi (Ear mountain in its lapland form ) Almoust in Russian side of the border...a sligth missthinking for those who waged our wars...
Anyway i have heard this heretic rumours that He migth live in north pole...:nono: so remeber well what to tell to your kids...

But the important factor of cristhmass -food! Yes we have traditions about that. Ham...complete rear end of a Pig, 10 kg of meat stucked in every finnish owen in chirstmas eves eve nigth...talking about BIGGEST electry peak of the whole year...
We also have this good potato, carrot and Lanttu (weird root-vegetable, blummer carrot??, dont know the london languages name for it) boxes and fish contaminated whit the stuff thats opposite to acid in chemistry (forgive but foodside isent my strong points in english), In our family its also meatballs and plume pudding...

But offcourse its last rush in school, all those exams and raports to finish...
...and getting my driver licence is starting to become more and more bitchy as i failed the final driving test simply becouse some monkeys conscripts of our army had parked their truk too near to the crossroad and i forget to stop....:nono:
Who the hell teach them to drive??

Yes you seem to have had quite a circus with that young man Chinawhite, a real shame as he seemed to have his head screwed on ok. Just goes to show how one serious character flaw can totaly throw away a lot of hard work and effort.

thougth this moving have somehow made reveal my more itense hobby, twice.. and both times it lost in transistion...are the gods or fate giving me a change to not to make fool of myself?

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The mind boggles - I hope it does not involve cross dressing, but otherwise I wish more people would get involve in untrendy hobbies. I think too much of whats considered cool is dictated by large corporations and revolves around the purchase of their latest products. When I see people who do things such as Folk Dancing or Steam Engine restoration, I always say good luck to them.

Sorry to hear about your Dad, I know you had mentioned this in the past, but I had not realised it was a current event. It must be very hard and dispiriting for him, I still believe it is better to try something then never to give it a go. I would guess that your Dad is not much older then me so he still has time to recover from this and; wiser from the experience, try again, no matter how bleak and unpromising things probably seem right now.

But the important factor of cristhmass -food! Yes we have traditions about that. Ham...complete rear end of a Pig, 10 kg of meat stucked in every finnish owen in chirstmas eves eve nigth...talking about BIGGEST electry peak of the whole year...
We also have this good potato, carrot and Lanttu (weird root-vegetable, blummer carrot??, dont know the london languages name for it) boxes and fish contaminated whit the stuff thats opposite to acid in chemistry (forgive but foodside isent my strong points in english), In our family its also meatballs and plume pudding

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Thats a lot of meat - I love a bacon joint (I wonder what kind of joint you enjoy ) It all sounds very rich and filling - just as a Christmas Dinner should.
Your Lanttu - a big white Carrot? we call a Parsnip. If it is a big orange root we call it a Swede.

As for the fish, the opposite of Acid is Alkaline - but I do not think you mean Ammonia - do you mean Salt or Quick Lime perhapse?

All the best with your repsorts and your driving. Remember do not drink and drive - bumps in the road or violent steering movements can cause spillage:roll: .

Otherwise, our weather has warmed a little in the last few days to about 4C - I guess you are much colder - how much snow on the ground? You may have heard about the big Oil Depot fire just outside London - caused us some concern as our best friends live in that town. Thankfully they lived far enough away to avoid all of the blast damage.

Well thats me - hows it with you?

Yes you seem to have had quite a circus with that young man Chinawhite, a real shame as he seemed to have his head screwed on ok. Just goes to show how one serious character flaw can totaly throw away a lot of hard work and effort.

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yeah and that battle still rages on in keypublishing forum...and more vigorous shades its starts to get, more its starts to seem familiar whit my brevious hulabaloo of this certain british member of the old forum...

The mind boggles - I hope it does not involve cross dressing, but otherwise I wish more people would get involve in untrendy hobbies. I think too much of whats considered cool is dictated by large corporations and revolves around the purchase of their latest products. When I see people who do things such as Folk Dancing or Steam Engine restoration, I always say good luck to them.

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no, no cross dressing of any sort... I mean that Im determined to become a real author and publish a novel of my own...I have made up a grandiose plan to produce full length novel before end of this decade.
It has always seemd bit silly dream but last spring i managed to write several hundred pages of it before i decided to change the storyline (and therefore managed to f**k up my school motivation along it). I have always feel bit ashamed of it and what others migth think of it, so i have kept it to myself, but now i just couldnt keep it in anymore, sorry to bother you about it, but now it looks more potential than ever and my fingers iches to start working on it again, now as i have understanded the valuable nesseserity of scripwork to conduct the actual writing. Maybe i will evolp into at least table box author of some sort. In some aspects its far better way to escape the reality than watching or reading somebodys others works. And with my ambitious charracter... I pointed it out in the globaltalk forum just before This section ressuerected in here. I also hinted it in here...

Sorry to hear about your Dad, I know you had mentioned this in the past, but I had not realised it was a current event. It must be very hard and dispiriting for him, I still believe it is better to try something then never to give it a go. I would guess that your Dad is not much older then me so he still has time to recover from this and; wiser from the experience, try again, no matter how bleak and unpromising things probably seem right now.

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well he recovered...perhaps, thougth it have made him a drunk in the typical manner that 3/4 of finnish men are...But the bailift has been our familys beloved enemy as long as i can remember and we have always been few step ahea of him, and now our family busines is ressuerected in the famous 'grey area' of the busines life...thats what you get when you try to be an accounter for other small entarprizers in edge of bancrupt...
...remainds me to NEVER set up a busines of my own,, but focus on working whit someone else...

Thats a lot of meat - I love a bacon joint (I wonder what kind of joint you enjoy ) It all sounds very rich and filling - just as a Christmas Dinner should.
Your Lanttu - a big white Carrot? we call a Parsnip. If it is a big orange root we call it a Swede.

As for the fish, the opposite of Acid is Alkaline - but I do not think you mean Ammonia - do you mean Salt or Quick Lime perhapse?

All the best with your repsorts and your driving. Remember do not drink and drive - bumps in the road or violent steering movements can cause spillage .

Otherwise, our weather has warmed a little in the last few days to about 4C - I guess you are much colder - how much snow on the ground? You may have heard about the big Oil Depot fire just outside London - caused us some concern as our best friends live in that town. Thankfully they lived far enough away to avoid all of the blast damage.

Well thats me - hows it with you?

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well i have never smoked anything illegal ...

But i think thurnapsy was the case, it is white...and lime was the word i searched whit the fish...so you can just imagine how 'delicate' the taste is...


But i heard from that burn also, quite big it was...nobody was hurt to my knowlidge so guess it was close call...
But its been rather warm here in the both side of zero, but theres still snow in the ground where i live and it seems that its planning to stay there until springtime...

I mean that Im determined to become a real author and publish a novel of my own...I have made up a grandiose plan to produce full length novel before end of this decade

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GREAT AMBITION!!!! - You just need to follow through. Myself I have done a little writing over the years, a couple of short stories and (Since 1997 1998
about half a dozen chapters on a major project, somehow though I doubt if it will be ever finished, as all my late nineties foresights and revalations are now becoming common knowledge.

So is your project a one off or do you have a few finished shorter works already? Do you have a specific genre or a general area of interest? How far have you got? Can you give a general ouline of the story?

I read elsewhere you had passed your driving test:nana: Congratualtions.

Anyhow Mrs S :nono: :nutkick: is approaching so I must run (literally!!!!)

well I jumped first straigth ahead to write directly my novel...I wrote some 135 pages and then i started to feel that the storyline was crappy and I have now made up a new one. In this summer i wrote a short story to this competition, but lets not talk of that no longer... A good idea isent enough, you need a narrative script and stick to that, not to change it several times during story whitout starting the actual writing all over again.

Do you have a specific genre or a general area of interest? How far have you got? Can you give a general ouline of the story?

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well...That would require a PM, cos Im not sure how it would affect my image in this forum...but lets say that (to those others who secretly read this thread) It has nothing, absolutely nothing to do whit dragons, sword and magic...absolutely nothing...

I read elsewhere you had passed your driving test Congratualtions

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Yeah, and guess whos beeing the family bartaxi for nowonwards

Good God its Christmas already!!!! Am I ready and prepared? Well er…..

Tomorrow we jump into the Car and endure hours of traffic jams and generally going nowhere as we run down the Motorway to the South West for our family Moot. This is my family of course Mrs S’s family are in HK and we won’t be travelling over there until well after the new year.

Still despite the Christmas traffic hassle, its always good to see the relatives again, albeit for a little while.

Speaking of HK, Mrs S was highly entertained by the HK police dealing with the Anti-Globalisation protesters last week. She gets really p****d off by the sight of “foreigners†misbehaving in “her†city.

Not much chance of a White Christmas this year, as the temperature has risen to its highest for nearly two months. Are you still having a weird winter? Or have things settled down to the normal pattern.

Well life recently has simply been a hectic round of work, traffic jams and Christmas Shopping, so I have nothing really interesting to say, except to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas, and if I do not get to post again in time, A Happy New Year.

PS How is the new Taxi Job going?

So, I am raising a small glass of Vodka and saying; as I believe you are fond of saying privately in Finland, “Suuri Suomi – Uraliin asti!€

Not much chance of a White Christmas this year, as the temperature has risen to its highest for nearly two months. Are you still having a weird winter? Or have things settled down to the normal pattern.

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Well thank god my mother is the sole one to surrender to christmass hustle in our family...She managed to rule her side of the family to supper us in christmas day, so lots of extra fuzzing as our cousin and his one year old daughter comes also. This cousin is more of big brother to me, as his mother (my aunt who died fifteen years ago) got on the wrong side of the tracks and he had spend almoust half of his childhood among my family...so its bit a tense in here also...But winter is white, offcourse, thougth temperature migth rise up to zero on tomorrow, but snow isent going anywhere, in fact they have promised even more of it (and no hard to guess who does the snowworks )

“Suuri Suomi – Uraliin asti!â€

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neih, never again, shall not our rules to strike their heads against Karelian pinetree never again!!
Presidental elections are coming so political field starts to awaken too, this time, main issue is going to be presidental power and status of the whole institution. Im going for the sitting one, as no better solutions are awailable

but anyway, merry holiday seasons as well to there... Im wery well sure that my brother has brougth me drum stick to present so i shal start working on my version of Moby Dick for the next year...

Hello Gollevainen

Just breaking cover for a few moments. Against all the odds - on the 27th, the weather took a real tumble to sub zero. Heavy snow in the East of England last two days (have not reached Bristol) More snow moving in from the West (still not yet reached Bristol) Most of country under snow (but not Bristol - may get some later!!!). Do you see a pattern emerging??

Christmas was good. Motorways horrendous!!!!!! At times we took turns to drive, whilst the other walked a bit to stretch our legs. Trouble was by the time the walker had waited for the car to catch up, they were freezing!!

Anyhow must get back into the Scrub, if I do not post again - Happy New Year....