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2024 Tournament Winner Wars: Round 2, Bracket 2

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2024 Tournament Winner Wars: Round 2, Bracket 3

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US government study on Finns 1918

Nothing has changed

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one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it's a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real

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Finnish cursive writing

OK, so that post got me curious and first I tried to remember how I learned cursive/what type and I remembered it pretty well and I wanted to check what it’s like today and I was horrified you didn’t have to learn that weird small ‘r’and ‘s’  anymore. [first picture is ‘old’ somewhat what I learned except not quite that ‘open’ or curly, damn] (to be fair, I can’t do the ‘s’ anymore apparently). 

That text is an example of what Finnish cursive looks like and funny thing they stop teaching cursive writing starting next autumn, somewhat a shame. 

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Does Santa come at midnight?

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Kattojen päällä on lunta

Paattinen ei oo kunta

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"Ei neiti minun näköinen osaa orjana eleä, muista ei mukihin mennä, olla aina alla kynsin. "Toinen kun sanan sanoisi, minä kaksin vastoaisin; "kun tulisi tukkahani, hairahtaisi hapsihini, tukastani tuivertaisin, hapsistani haivertaisin."

Kalevala - Kahdeskolmatta runo

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Christmas Horror Kids Tournament

Because this isn't the Hunger Games, the kids are in competition but not in direct opposition to each other. Basically: there's some big monster/villain threatening their holiday, which of these main characters is not just surviving but is coming out on top the fastest?

Propaganda for each contender (and spoilers for all movies mentioned) under the cut:

Pietari: fears neither God nor death nor army of feral elves. good at keeping calm under pressure and making plans on the fly. carries a gun around the whole movie but never actually uses it, so not sure how well he could shoot. his actor was 11 when the movie came out but I think he's supposed to be a few years younger?

Luke: horrific demon child, zero moral limits so long as he gets what he wants, -5000/10 would not recommend babysitting. extremely good planner, but vulnerable to overlooking small details that ruin him. about 12: very smart but fairly immature for his age. has to be reminded not to kill his competition this time.

Thomas: literally just wanted to stay home and play trains with his grandpa, but now he's got to defend them both from a killer Santa. models himself after action movie heroes and is so good at Home Alone-ing his house that his director tried to sue for plagiarism. about 10-11 years old?

Anna: would be better with her friends to help her, but is pretty damn capable of making it in the zombie apocalypse on her own. not sure exactly how old she's supposed to be, since I'm not clear on how the New Zealand school system works, but she's an older teenager.

Billy: definitely has his wits closer about him than his dad does, that's for fucking sure. does get tricked into creating gremlins, but you know what, who would have expected them to have fucked with his clock? successfully takes on and kills an army of gremlins, albeit with help. probably the oldest competitor here since he's out of high school (?)

Max: definitely willing to go to bat for the Christmas spirit, and to put his own life on the line to protect his family, but is pretty severely lacking in strength or savvy. is good at dodging an army of killer toys, but might not do so well without a bunch of relatives around to also be targets. like Pietari, his actor was 12 but I think he's supposed to be a bit younger.

Trudy: ngl, might be a little weak in solo competition, since she's maybe 7-8 years old and so relies a lot on Santa the one-man army. but she's clever, has exactly zero fear of hardened criminals with machine guns, and is very good at turning Home Alone traps exactly as deadly as they should be.

Winnie: the most Final Girl (TM) out of all the competitors imho. learns very quickly how to improvise and use whatever's handy as a weapon, and while she's also best with a partner to distract an opponent, can handle herself very competently in a physical fight. about 17?

Samantha and Clara: actually, fuck Billy, does Clara even count as a kid at all, being an ancient demon in the form of a child? has telekinetic powers and is good at Breaking Speeches, but is bound by being sealed in the school and unable to kill her enemies herself. Samantha is a pretty normal middle schooler (?), but also has the guts to go face a cult of killers with an axe when she could have run away and saved herself, so don't count her out.

Kevin: is Home Alone a horror movie? no. could I possibly exclude the king, the champion, the future Jigsaw apprentice? also no. smart and absolutely cold-blooded when he needs to be, he's excellent at fending enemies off from a distance, but it's game over for him if he's actually caught.

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A Finnish housewife buys a new broom every morning - a necessary extravagance, since she sweeps her whole house every day, and the broom she uses is just a bundle of fresh, green birch leaves, whose natural dampness licks up the dust.

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Fun fact: egg is a term of endearment in Estonian. Egg is "muna" (plural munad) but if you want to call your partner something cute (loosely translates to little egg, sort of like 'baby' in English), call them munn :)

this is true and will not backfire i promise

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... sauna 🩵

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Do you know anybody (or do you yourself) who uses it/its pronouns or something similar in other languages? Doesn't have to be exclusive, could be any pronouns including actively using this one.

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Do you know anybody (or do you yourself) who uses it/its pronouns or something similar in other languages? Doesn't have to be exclusive, could be any pronouns including actively using this one.

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kun palkkakuitissa on yllättävän isoja summia etkä ihan tiedä mistä ne on peräisin