Feel like if it was another country they’d be sanctions or something already.

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    14 hours ago

    For instance think of how much we Finns fought Russians, when we started with practically nothing to defend ourselves with.

    I’m sorry, but now I need to tell you my favorite joke about Finns! I promise this one isn’t racist! (Of course as an Estonian I know a few semi-friendly semi-racist Finnish jokes too, but I’m going to keep those to myself)

    In the Winter war, a large Russian platoon makes camp near a forest in Finland. As the long northern night starts taking hold, they hear a voice from the forest: “Come and get meeee, I’m all aloneeee!”

    The Russian commanders discuss this and decide that they can’t take a risk, so they send ten men out to counter the one. None return and an hour later they hear again: “I’m still alone! Come and get meeeee!”

    They decide that the Russian army must not be mocked this way and send a hundred men. None return again. Once they hear the voice a third time another hour later, they get pissed and send a thousand men.

    One man returns, scared for his life, all bloody. He yells out: “Don’t listen to him! There’s two of them in there!”

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        11 hours ago

        Lemmy being as small as it is and me liking this joke as much as I do, I may literally have replied it to one of your comments before. If not on this account, then on my old lemm.ee account perhaps

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          May be, may be. But also the whole “one Finn equals ten Russians” meme has been around longer than living memory.