#november is called “death month” in finnish for a reason

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guys. you're never gonna guess what's coming soon.

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november is literally the worst month it's so bad always like there's a reason it's literally called the death month in finnish

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Pekka-Eric Auvinen

ℑ𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔡𝔲𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 The Jokela school shooting occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or sprained ankles. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital. This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland. The previous incident occurred in 1989 at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students. Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, the Kauhajoki school shooting occurred, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen.

𝔅𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔤𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 Auvinen reportedly came from a stable family that included his parents and a younger brother. There were no major conflicts reported in the family, no violence, and no substance abuse. The parents did have concern about the violent content in some of the video games he played, and intervened by confiscating and selling those games with excessive violence. The family had lived in their home for over ten years. Auvinen progressed normally in school, had friends, and had no criminal record. As he moved through adolescence, however, his friends became fewer and his school performance declined. The official report stated that in the upper grades he had no friends,4 though elsewhere in the same report it is noted that Auvinen talked to his friends about shooting and buying a gun. There are reports that he had been bullied at school, as well as reports that he had not been bullied. Nonetheless, the official report indicates that at least verbal harassment did occur: This was probably because he dressed more neatly than others, he expressed his extreme opinions vociferously, and his interests were generally different from those of other youngsters. He was also bullied for his insecurity and involuntary blushing. What interests and opinions might have resulted in harassment? Auvinen was fascinated by school shootings in the U.S. and discussed Columbine and other rampage attacks at home, school, and online. He admired the Unabomber and believed that violence was an acceptable method of solving problems.  Auvinen’s comments indicated his admiration for school shooters and the possibility that he would carry out a rampage attack. Auvinen apparently was influenced by a Finnish ecologist, Pentti Linkola, whose writings address the issue of overpopulation. Linkola is well-known in Finland for his extreme views, and Auvinen made a video tribute to him in which he included the following quotes from Linkola: “A minority can never have any other effective means to influence the course of matters but through the use of violence,” and “I wish that death to mankind comes soon.”  By the age of 16, Auvinen had significant social difficulties. In April 2006, he began taking medication for panic disorder and social anxiety. By the fall of 2007, he had discontinued the medication. He was not under the influence of the medication (or any other substances) at the time of the attack. In 2007 Auvinen had his military call-up examination: “His fitness classification was E for mental health reasons, which would have meant deferment for three years.”He reportedly did not mention his depression or suicidal thoughts. It is not known why he was deferred.

𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔏𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔘𝔭 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔄𝔱𝔱𝔞𝔠𝔨 According to his diary, Auvinen had been planning his attack since March 2007. Also, “he wrote an entry in his diary in which he said he was going to initiate an operation against humanity with the purpose of killing as many people as possible.” His parents reported that in the months preceding the attack, Auvinen’s grades declined, he increasingly isolated himself in his room, and he spent much of his time on the computer. His mother noted that Auvinen seemed to become even more fearful of social situations in the summer of 2007, even something routine like applying for a job. A peer noticed that he was acting strangely and that “he withdrew into his shell.” In August 2007, other youngsters noticed that his behaviour had become unusual and told a youth worker about their concern. This youth worker received similar reports from several young people up to the end of October 2007. The perpetrator behaved threateningly toward other youngsters, saying that they would die as a result of a white revolution. In the summer of 2007, he became involved with an online girlfriend. When she found a new boyfriend in the fall, Auvinen became verbally aggressive and insulting comments were exchanged among Auvinen, the young woman, and her new boyfriend. Interestingly, the night before his attack, Auvinen apologized for his behavior.Auvinen was very active with online activities, including posting videos. His videos often celebrated school shootings. In addition, some of them included “sadomasochistic sexual fantasies. This material included: violent pornographic video clips and fantasies of near-rape ... The videos portray innocent-looking nude or semi-nude women helplessly bound, gagged, and struggling to get away. These pictures are coupled with his fantasies of abducting women and forcing them to submit to his will. Auvinen commented in one of his videos that women “are cheating whores, lying sluts and manipulative bitches. They are best when they are dominated, bound & gagged.” Auvinen did not apply for a firearm permit until October 2007. He was initially denied because the caliber of the weapon he wanted was considered too powerful for target practice (the reason he gave for wanting a gun). His second application was for a smaller caliber weapon, and this was approved on 19 October. He did not purchase the weapon until 2 November, just five days before his rampage. He appears to have only practiced with it once, making a video of himself shooting. He uploaded this video to the Internet. He had talked to peers about shooting and buying a gun, but his family was not aware that he had purchased a firearm. In the months leading up to the attack, Auvinen posted multiple videos online, including ones about Hitler / Nazis and the Columbine killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.  His peers reported that he spoke obsessively about his gun. They also observed that he had been acting strangely and seemed more withdrawn and perhaps depressed. Though Auvinen committed his rampage at his school, he had considered other sites for his attack. According to one source, Auvinen posted online “that he might commit a spree killing in the Finnish parliament because of the corrupt nature of politicians.” It was also reported that he “even considered going on a shooting rampage in a shopping centre but thought  that school would be better because shooting in a school would give him more public attention.” These comments show that he had no particular rage directed at the people in his school. Though he had been bulliedduring his school years, he did not frame his attack as revenge for bullying. The fact that he considered attacking politicians in parliament or random people at a shopping center shows that he had no particular focus for his attack. Read more here: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/two_finnish_school_shooters_1.1.pdf

𝔒𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔡𝔬𝔠𝔲𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 Pekka-Eric Auvinen Online: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Pekka_Eric_Auvinen_online.pdf This file contains three documents that Auvinen posted online regarding his likes and dislikes, his philosophy, and the justification for his school shooting. Though he never mentions Eric Harris, his writing quotes, echoes, and refers to Harris. In fact, his focus on “natural selection” is an imitation of Harris’s own writings. Pekka-Eric Auvinen’s YouTube Profile: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/auvinen_youtube_profile.pdf

𝔒𝔣𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔞𝔩 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔰 Jokela School Shooting Official Report: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/Jokela%20School%20Shooting%20Official%20Report.pdf

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FINLAND 1 - 0 - 0 🇫🇮

A QUICK COMPILATION OF ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW - AND WISH YOU NEVER DID.

1. You may call us Finland and Finns, but we call ourselves Suomi and suomalaiset.

2. Altho if you don´t mind, we would rather you did not call us anything ever. Actually if we could both pretend each other doesn´t even exist, that would be just great!

3. Yes we are a notoriously shy and reserved nation with a gigantic inferiority complex - especially when compared to our neighbor Sweden.

4. Who incidentally we loooooove beating in hockey.

5. Saimaannorppa aka Saimaa ringed seal can only be found in Finland and is highly endangered.

According to a count done in 2015, there are only about 320 individuals left, and therefore quite understandably whenever one is found dead in a fisherman´s net or by the hands of a poacher etc., it causes headlines and outrages.

6. 70% of Finland is made up of forests - that´s roughly the size of the entire area of the United Kingdom.

7. Finland was awarded the Summer Olympics for 1940, but then things got all sorts of fucked up thanks to Adolf & co., so those plans were scrapped even tho we had a brand-spanking new Olympic stadium and everything! Dammit!

Oh well, we were compensated in 1952 when we finally got the honor of hosting our only (so far) Olympic games.

8. Those 1952 Olympics were the first time Coca Cola was introduced to Finns.

9. No, we do not have polar bears.

10. We also don´t have KFC, Wendy´s or Dunkin´ Donuts.

11. Yes I am very upset about all those things mentioned above but especially about KFC.

12. Finland was the first country in Europe which gave women the right to vote (1906).

13. The Finnish language does not separate words such as “she” or “he”. We just use a gender-neutral “hän”, which means “that person”.

14. The national bird of Finland is the whooper swan.

15. Helsinki has the world´s most Northern metro system.

16. Savonlinna hosts their annual Opera Festival in a Medieval castle.

17. We are vindictive and petty as HELL. Just ask Silvio Berlusconi.

http://kmp78.tumblr.com/post/155861218049/finland-chronicles-part-14

18. A Finnish person will drink approximately 129 litres of milk a year.

19. Some years ago, the word for mother (”äiti”) was voted the most beautiful word in the Finnish language.

20. Moomins are, as some of you MAY REMEMBER FROM A SPECIFIC DEBACLE FROM EARLIER THIS YEAR, from Finland and were created by OUR Miss Tove Jansson.

21. Unlike many other countries which after gaining independence tore down all statues and other remnants of their history under foreign rule, in Finland we chose to keep ours up as reminders of our past.

For example, on our main square aka the Senate Square you will find Czar Alexander II standing proudly.

22. And speaking of statues, one of the landmarks of Helsinki is Havis Amanda.

It depicts a mermaid who decides to leave the sea and walk on... well, not water.

Each year on April 30th, she is “crowned” with a cap, to represent all those who have graduated from secondary school and earned their caps.

23. As of 2010, internet access has been a legal right in Finland.

24. Do you have one of those cupboard things over your kitchen sink, the kind where you place your dishes to dry?

That was invented by a Finnish woman called Maiju Gebhard in 1945.

25. The longest word in the Finnish language is “epäjärjestelmällistyttämä­ttömyydelläänsäkäänköhän”, which loosely translates to “not even by her lack of organization, do you suppose”.

26. Angry Birds are from here.

27. Finland is also the birth place of the most successful ski jump champions of all time, Matti Nykänen.

28. After his sports career came to an end, Matti has been a permanent fixture in the tabloids with his... issues... involving alcohol abuse, domestic abuse (he even served time in prison for attempting to kill one of his many ex-wives) and an assortment of careers including stripping and now singing. 

He is also responsible for one of our most beloved and useful quotes of all time: back in the 80s when he was still jumping from towers and competing in Canada, he got into some “situations” and was sent back home as punishment. When he arrived at the airport, a journo asked him “Matti, did you drink alcohol?”, to which Matti replied “Maybe I did drink, maybe I didn´t drink”.

All bases covered then!

The man is a fucking genius.

29. There are absolutely ZERO public payphones anywhere in Finland.

30. For a very short period of time back in, Finland had a female president AND a  female Prime Minister. 

Sadly that arrangement came to an abrupt end when the Prime Minister was forced to resign over a scandal involving some sort of Iraq documents which I´m still, a decade later, completely baffled by.

31. As those who come on this blog surely know by now, Yours Truly is a passionate berry picker - and being a berry nut in Finland is easy indeed since a) we have one of the cleanest natures in the world and b) all living things you find in nature, you can keep - within reason, of course.

Usually a good principle is to keep about 100 meters distance from the nearest house. Other than that, you´re good to go!

32. People in in Northern Finland aka Lapland area have a very specific unit of measurement called the “poronkusema” which could be loosely translated to “Reindeer´s piss”. Roughly it means the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate. It´s quite a long distance...

33. Our current President Sauli Niinistö is a survivor of the tragic tsunami which took place in South-East Asia on Dec 26, 2004. Over 200 000 people (including almost 200 Finnish tourists) died in one of the worst natural disasters of our time - Mr. Niinistö and his sons saved their own lives by climbing up a telephone pole and staying there for several hours.

34. In Finland October 13th is National Failure Day which aims to encourage people to share their failures and learn from them rather than hide their heads in shame and pretend all is well.

35. The REAL Santa Claus lives up in Rovaniemi and you can visit his village all year long.

36. Sheldon gave us a good laugh and an ego boost.

37. We like eating Rudolf with lingonberries and mash.

38. On some years we get A LOT of snow, but on others we get practically none. Back in 1997, in Lapland the snow reached up to 190 cm.

Incidentally I am 155 cm.

39. In the Finnish language there is an alphabet called Å which isn´t actually a part of a single Finnish word in the entire Finnish language - it is simply a remnant from our many centuries spent under Swedish rule.

40. Unesco has reported that Finland´s tap water is the cleanest in the world.

41. A handy Finnish saying: “Early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese”.

42. For some God forsaken reason, Finland and Estonia have the same national anthem.

43. Sadly accurate these days.

44. Sadly accurate these days.

45. Rosina Heikel (1842 - 1929) was Finland´s and in fact the Nordic countries 1st female doctor.

46. When something is a failure/a dud, the common term in the English language is “a lemon”. Over here, it´s “susi”. Susi also means wolf.

47. And susi should not be confused with sisu! 

48. In Lapland you can spend your vacation in an igloo.

49. Fines for speeding are determined by the offender´s income. Basically if you earn more, you have to pay more. The highest fines have been over 100 000 €. Stay poor, kids!

50. Pamela Anderson´s grandparents were from Finland.

51. Yes we like getting our drinks on, and most of us go abroad to Tallinn to get our drinks on for a lot less €s.

52. In Lapland, the Sun never rises from November to January.

53. In reverse, the Sun never sets from June to July. We call it “The Nightless night”.

54. Finland has exactly 1 Eurovision victory under its belt.

55. In 2018 Saara Aalto will be repping us.

Please vote for us. Please?

56. Nokia became famous for their mobile phones, but originally they manufactured rubber boots.

57. We don´t dub movies or TV shows.

58. We do however sometimes give them ridiculous and extremely SPOILER ALERT-y names. For example, “The Shawshank Redemption” was translated to “Rita Hayworth - Key to escape”.

I mean... C´MOOOOON!

59. Sometimes that´s all you can do.

60. Simo Häyhä aka “White Death” was one of the deadliest snipers of all time. During a 3 month stretch of the Winter War, he shot roughly 200 Russian soldiers before getting shot in the face himself. He survived and lived to be 96.

61. We don´t use the 1 and 2 cent coins. You CAN try paying with them as they of course are legal currency, but there are no guarantees you´ll get very far.

62. Feb 14th may be a day for lovers for the rest of the world, but we know it as “Friend´s Day”.

63. Tipping is not (thankfully) a part of the Finnish culture.

64. The guy longing for Sven in Titanic (the coat dude) was portrayed as a Swede, but was actually a Finn called Jari Kinnunen.

65. Karelian pies with egg butter are the best thing ever.

66. Märket island which is situated between Finland and Sweden had to have the border lines twisted a bit because the Finns who built that lighthouse, accidentally built it on the wrong side...

67. While often named as one of the 5 Scandinavian countries, Finland isn´t technically even a part of Scandinavia: we ARE however a part of the Nordic countries.

68. If you are invited to a Finnish sauna, you are expected to go nude.

69. Finnish armed forces are mandatory for men but voluntary for women.

70. Moomin mugs are peculiarly popular especially among Asian tourists. They can sometimes pay even thousands for rare ones.

71. We never had vikings, but there is one viking tale about a princess called Skjalv, daughter of the Finnish King Froste (those aren´t even Finnish names...), who was stolen as war loot to Sweden but ended up strangling her captor with a gold chain. 

72. Our 4th president was Kyösti Kallio, who was forced to resign from office after the Winter War on December 19th 1940. On that same day he was about to step onto a train to take him back home for retirement, when during his final official ceremony at Helsinki Railway Station, in front of his soldiers and while the orchestra played, he suffered a fatal heart attack and died right there in front of everyone. Legend says he collapsed into the arms of our greatest war hero and later president himself, Marshall C.G.E. Mannerheim (seen in the white hat next to President Kallio).

73. Marshall Mannerheim is the only person in Finnish history who has been rewarded that particular military honor. In fact, he is and forever will remain the only person who has the title “Finland´s Marshall”, an honor bestowed upon him for his services to his home country during Finland´s tumultuous early years of independence.

A few years ago he was voted by the Finns themselves as the most important Finnish person of all time.

74. In June 1942, Adolf Hitler came to Finland to pay his respects to Marshall Mannerheim on his 75th birthday. As a little “souvenir” for future generations, the sneaky Finns recorded a snippet of his and Mannerheim´s private conversation.

It is the only known recording of Hitler speaking with a calm, normal voice, as he was very particular about only being filmed while screaming and ranting his ideologies.

75. Roughly 3 million tourists visit Finland each year and I think at least 2 500 000 of them are always going exactly where I´m going too.

76. We like to make things hard for foreigners.

77. We don´t have any mountains.

78. But we have lakes. We have a shit ton of lakes. 187 888 lakes to be precise.

79. FYI

80. All our days end with -tai (Monday = maanantai, Tuesday = tiistai etc.), except for Wednesday. Wednesday is called keskiviikko.

81. We have a lot of free time.

82. J. R. R. Tolkien used the Finnish national epoch the Kalevala as inspiration for the languages in the Lord of the Rings saga.

83. The St. Louis Arch was designed by a Finn called Eero Saarinen.

84. Every summer we arrange what is called Kaljakellunta aka “Beer float” which pretty much just consists of taking a floatie and a case of beer and... well, that´s about it.

85. If you want to enhance your sauna experience, you can use a birch whisk.

86. The bubble chair was designed by a Finnish man called Eero Aarnio.

87. Thursdays are the “official” pea soup and pancakes day all over Finland.

88. Finns love queuing.

89. Life expectancy for men is 78 years and for women 84 years.

90. In Tornio you can play golf in two countries:

http://kmp78.tumblr.com/post/155901150914/finland-chronicles-part-15

91. Finns invented the so-called Molotov´s cocktail.

92. All people in Finland must pay a TV tax even if they do not they own a TV.

93.  We celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December.

94. Finns love salmiakki aka salty licorice.

I don´t, btw.

95. Finland is one of the few countries in Europe which has not banned sex with animals - and some actually take advantage of that loophole...

http://kmp78.tumblr.com/post/156161829244/finland-chronicles-part-21

http://kmp78.tumblr.com/post/156257574544/finland-chronicles-part-23

96. Armi Kuusela won the 1st ever Miss Universe pageant in 1952.

97. In 2006, Conan O´Brian did a sketch about looking like our then-president Tarja Halonen and it ballooned into a huge movement.

98. Weeeeell...

99. On every Independence day, the current president hosts a party at his residence for about 2 000 dignitaries, celebs, politicians etc. We riff raffers sit at home in our sweatpants and watch it on TV with some nachos and snarky comments.

100. MONTY PYTHON KNOWS. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUOMI, AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. 

Despite you reeeeally getting on my nerves SO MUCH and SO OFTEN, I still love you. 💙 💙 💙

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March 2020 Printable Calendar In Excel

March - Third month of the year

March is the third month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian schedules which comprises of 31 days. It was the primary month of the year in the 10-month Roman schedule. It is viewed as what could be compared to September on the contrary half of the globe.

March starts on a similar day of the week as February and November and finishes around the same time of the seven day stretch of June in like manner years.

March is the main month of spring. Despite the fact that air temperatures have risen, the initial two weeks of March resemble winter and the most recent 2 weeks as spring. Truth be told, the official start of spring is March 21 equinox.

herefore, March is an unstable month as far as atmosphere. In this month, you can wear the two shoes and shoes, and T-shirts and covers, wear gloves, you can become accustomed to umbrellas, sunbathing and snow playing. While the climate is uneven, it is frequently reflected in our mind-set. The hot and bright months are going to come, yet then again, the year passes quick. We didn't comprehend that January and February were at that point short, however, following 31 days in March, the new year is never again "new" to us. Therefore, it is normal to be a little on edge and less roused. However, we should change our arrangements promptly without being influenced by it, and we ought to assemble ourselves with comparable vitality toward the start of the year.

Truly, we have no compelling reason to misrepresent, we have an additional nine months, alright? A very splendid thought has not been actualized or your choice can't be executed at this point, however, recollect, you can receive and execute them starting now and into the foreseeable future, it doesn't defer for anything!

History of March

More established renditions of the Roman schedule were the principal month of March because of the main day of the spring of March. January and February were the winter months and around then winter was acknowledged as a time of one month.

The March equinox happens on the 21st day in this month. The principal month of the schedule year after January became around 700 BCE, January 1 is acknowledged as New Year's Day rather than March. In any case, numerous societies religions still commend the start of the new year in March.

March was additionally when the war would continue after the winter months.

"Walk" originates from the English name "Mars" for the third month of the year, the name of the Roman lord of war (the Latin name of the month was Martius, signifying "Mars"). In different dialects, the walk presents various implications. For instance, in Finnish, the month is called Malisku, which is accepted to have begun from Marin Qiu, during March, the Earth at last shows up under the ice.

Or then again in the Ukrainian language, the month is called березень/brazen significance, which means birch tree, and b inezen in Czech. In Slovenia, the conventional name is sušec, which means the month when the earth becomes dry enough to permit its development. Belarusian sauce is taken from sax, "squeeze" or "sap", as trees start to give sap. The Lithuanian Kova can be gotten from the thing Kova, types of the flying creature called "shake" in English, or the thing Kova, signifying "battle, battle". Sami names signify "month of the swan". The We Thero rendition signifies "Catkin Month". The Karelian rendition signifies "Spring Month". The articulation Komi signifies "crow month". Inference for other Uralic dialects, for example, the Nenet, is hard to discover because of extremely restricted assets. Merz in German, Mars in French, Mart in Turkey, Italian in Spanish and Italian have a similar starting point as the Roman divine force of war "Mars".

Outside exercises start in March, particularly in the most recent seven day stretch of March, which can begin welcoming you to end of the week or long end of the week exercises and occasions. In the event that you need to deal with your timetable, you can download a PDF, JPEG printable schedule or March 2020 schedule with occasions, you can sort out your participation and go to a greater number of occasions than before Can be set up for

1. It is the season when creatures start awakening from hibernation.

2. The walk was known as Hlyda, or Lyd in Old English, which means noisy. This was alluding to the March winds, which were exceptionally loud.

3. Julius Caesar was killed in the Senate Chamber of Rome on 15 March 44BC. The death was driven by Marcus Junius Brutus. "you too Brutus?"

6. The March bloom is daffodil, and the origination is sea green/blue

7. There is a familiar adage, "Walk comes like a lion, and turns out like a sheep," which alludes as far as possible of winter and the start of spring. Another well-known saying is "Walk as Harry," a reference to creatures battling one another.

8. March is the main month where English has three sequential consonants.

9. Alexander Graham Bell made the principal approach 10 March 1876. He called his right hand and said "Mr. Watson, come here. I need to see you."

10. An enormous ball competition is held, called "College basketball", with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I b-ball title and runs from mid-March to early April.