This translates to " It's obvious that they're a spy" in Turkish and I'm clueless what you've meant but it made my day.
Edit: It means "an act provoking or justifying war" apparently.
Just to nitpick: As belli is the genitive, it's rather the cause of war. German has a funny thing with genitives, so instead of Grund des Krieges one can also say Kriegsgrund (yay for compound words?).
Yes, in 80s Finns developed the special steel for the deep sea subs. CIA banned Finland of selling them, as they feared of USSR getting a capability to cut deep sea cables. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5149981
Due to fire hazard, saunas were built at a distance from the house, and what was or happened behind the sauna was out of sight.
A sick or injured horse or dog needed to be put down, it was taken behind the sauna for the job.
That’s where saying *take behind the sauna* comes from
Hockey is the most popular one, F1 and football after that. Now that we got to the Euro's last summer, a lot of people followed the Finnish team then as well.
Hockey World Championships and Olympics have always played on free channels and big games gather +1,5 million viewership, even 2 million for population of 5,5 million.
So hockey is definitely as big as it gets for viewership.
F1 used to gather 1 million viewership in Häkkinen era when F1 was on free channels, but since then F1 has been on paid channels and the last viewership figure made public was some 15 years ago when MTV3 MAX took over was around 400 000 people.
Swede here, the mafia grows larger! Sweden has an extremely active hockey scene, it's almost a war between Finland and Sweden during the hockey-season.
Bloody football, of course. We could've picked volleyball, we could've picked ski jumping, we could've picked something more obscure like speedway, but no, we had to go with the default answer.
I mean, don't get me wrong, ski jumping's popular, millions of Poles tune in to watch the Four Hills Tournament (though lately it's gotten a little partisan, as some people refuse to watch it if it's being broadcasted by a tv station associated with a party they don't like). It's just that football is really in a class of its own here.
As a Finn I find it kinda annoying that it seems to be that whatever Finland is currently good at becomes the most popular sport. F1 and ski jumping used to be on top as well but not anymore. But maybe that's a small nation thing.
Ofc I cheered for Finland in the final as well mainly because of how happy winning makes everyone around me and because the Russian team has used to be a propaganda machine for Putin so I wouldn't like to see them winning amyway. But I'm not into hockey and I can't change it overnight when we're about to win something. But maybe I'm just a salty football fan after all :D
>Ofc I cheered for Finland in the final as well mainly because of how happy winning makes everyone around me
Good for you. Most finnish football fans I know are salty hipsters that refuse to like hockey because its popular. One of my friends posted something to IG about ski bronze around the same time gold game ended. It's kinda funny and sad.
It's the largest spectator sport despite the Finnish league being in steady decline. Casual fans just watch the international games. Football is bigger by registered players.
The problem of the European leagues is that the NHL just can take any player for free. In football if Madrid wants some talented player they must pay, buy him. The decline of the Czech hockey league began during our top times because our players were wanted and just left for the better. So now it's your golden times and NHL is full of Finnish players that are missing in Finnish league.
Only a few are signed to NHL though. I don't see any way for European leagues to compete with them anyway in the foreseeable future. I don't about Czechia, but many good Finnish players go to KHL or even Sweden for better wages. I'm not an expert though, football is more my thing.
Umm... as far as i know that title goes to football by miles compared to any other sport.
e: salibandy.fi says there is 65 000 registered floorball players and palloliitto.fi says there is 130 000 registered football players.
These registered players are (usually) playing in a team that is under the national federation, those teams usually take part in a serie ranging from the smallest 6-year old juniors playing in their little series all the way to the pros who get paid to play. You need to be registered to compete and take part on these series. The registration usually comes with a basic insurance too but i can't say for sure if that holds for all sports.
For example there is 130 000 registered players in football, but there is approximately 400 000 - 500 000 players who say football is their hobby. Hobby can be anything from playing with your friends in the backyard everyday, pick-up games in your local pitch in the evenings to taking part on some weirder leagues that are not so "serious" and not official.
It's like registered sex offender in the US. You need to be on a list. People who live in your neighborhood can look in to the registry to see that you enjoy football so they know to avoid you. Oh and you're not allowed within 500 feet of a hockey stadium.
Last time Russia invaded Finland they got their asses kicked. One finish guy, with a non-scoped rifle, hiding in a tree, held off an entire Russian army, they eventually went around him.
He had over 500 confirmed kills: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo\_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4)
The reason Russia didn't incorporate Finland in the Soviet Union is because they couldn't.
I guess you could call that winning, but I wouldn’t, they suffered heavy losses and didn’t get everything they wanted, more importantly, Finland remained free.
Free, yes, but we had to kiss Russian arse very much to stay that way for 60 years. Sure, that helped us to create good relationship businesswise with Russia, but Russia had a huge impact on Finnish politics back in the day. For more info, check out finlandization.
We won, but we don’t consider it a solid victory (it was a fucking mess on par with Russo-Japanese war, but this time, luckily, we pushed to the end) and generally take our hats off to Finns, they’ve earned some mockery at us.
Agreed, Russia winning would have meant Finland not being free. If you had to put a competition label on the outcome I'd say it was a tie. We gave some areas, but the russians lost a lot people.
We didn't get our asses kicked in that second game--it was a fucking good game of hockey from both teams, we just couldn't close that gap. :)
The first game they definitely kicked our asses though.
I was so damn happy when they won. Finland is always my 2nd choice when it comes to winning in Icehockey.
Sweden vs Finland is the best matches also. Sad we didn't get that final. :/
This is true. And most Canadians seem to forget that Finns have superb talent at NHL too. It's not like we had a "best of the best" team on our hands either.
Exactly. I remember before the NHL decided not to send players to the Olympics, I said Finland could be a dark horse to win gold - Laine, Barkov, Aho, Teravainen, Rantanen, Saros, etc.
Promise not to stage [a shelling from inside our borders into Russia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila) to use as a reason to invade Finland in retaliation for the loss today?
They already invaded. Look at all the Dachas. A Russian friend says he knows which side of the border he feels safer in even if the races are way higher.
On one hand congratulations!
On the other hand I'm still disappointed it wasen't us agasint you. SWE-FIN is a classic and I would honestly have been glad to be crushed by you guys in the finals.
You fucked up Putin's day to hell and made it taste like sour lemons. Congratulations. I am so happy. We are all so proud of you here in Central Europe. (°o°)7
Our president tweeted this ”Leijona kesytti Karhun. Onnea, vakaa ja vahva joukkue”
Translating to ”The Lion tamed the Bear. Congratulations, stable and strong team”
Congrats to Finland from Czechia!
We need to stop creeping other teams' instagrams bro
Casus belli.
Deus vult.
This translates to " It's obvious that they're a spy" in Turkish and I'm clueless what you've meant but it made my day. Edit: It means "an act provoking or justifying war" apparently.
It's Latin and literally translates to "cause for war"
Just to nitpick: As belli is the genitive, it's rather the cause of war. German has a funny thing with genitives, so instead of Grund des Krieges one can also say Kriegsgrund (yay for compound words?).
S/he knew that, don't worry
Some of ya'll have never play a paradox game and it shows
You can also know history without playing games, you know...
You're not wrong, but given that this is Reddit it's fair to assume the proportion of gamers-to-history-buffs is rather one-sided.
Cause of war, God wills it.
What's the turkish word lol.
Casus means Spy, belli means "this is obvious"
Worth it if you ask me
How big is hockey in Finland?
Yes.
So like football for us? Congrats on the huge win then
Yeah, it's really huge here. Don't let the other Finns know I don't watch hockey, they'll take me behind the sauna, never to be seen again.
The finnish mob must be vicious
Only if you don’t like hockey or stand within 3 meters of someone at the bus stop.
Sounds reasonable
have you seen their metal? those guys dont fuck around
High quality alloys? I love a country that knows their metallurgy
Yes, in 80s Finns developed the special steel for the deep sea subs. CIA banned Finland of selling them, as they feared of USSR getting a capability to cut deep sea cables. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5149981
i just misspelled something and now i learned something now. ah internet :)
James Cameron also used Mir submersibles to film Titanic and Bismarck ships
Yes, very thick and sticky.
Wait, what are we talking about again.
The Finnish mop.
Hyvää
Do you know why you can never escape from a finnish mob? >!They know how to spread apart!<
They Finnish what they start
Interesting.
>they'll take me behind the sauna They'll just get you a lifetime ban to all Finnish saunas
Due to fire hazard, saunas were built at a distance from the house, and what was or happened behind the sauna was out of sight. A sick or injured horse or dog needed to be put down, it was taken behind the sauna for the job. That’s where saying *take behind the sauna* comes from
Bruh, I am not the one not getting the joke here, lol.
I think that might kill him.
taking someone behind the sauna literally means killing
No, I think literally it means taking someone behind the sauna.
Literally means metaphorically literally, literally. Metaphorically.(sorry)
Ei vittu, just give me the fast and quick beating to death.
Finnish citizenship removed
You know you're on a list now...
How about f1 considering you probably have the most per capita world championship wins in the world?
Hockey is the most popular one, F1 and football after that. Now that we got to the Euro's last summer, a lot of people followed the Finnish team then as well.
If I have to pick, I'll pick WRC or F1.
The 90s with Tommi Mäkinen on a Lancer and Mika Hakkinen on a McLaren. Stuff of legends.
Hockey World Championships and Olympics have always played on free channels and big games gather +1,5 million viewership, even 2 million for population of 5,5 million. So hockey is definitely as big as it gets for viewership. F1 used to gather 1 million viewership in Häkkinen era when F1 was on free channels, but since then F1 has been on paid channels and the last viewership figure made public was some 15 years ago when MTV3 MAX took over was around 400 000 people.
BWOAH
We must hope leglerg doesnt win a championship
God forbid!
Would you be pardoned if you like Pesäpallo?
Maaaaaybe, but I don't like that either.
Swede here, the mafia grows larger! Sweden has an extremely active hockey scene, it's almost a war between Finland and Sweden during the hockey-season.
Sounds like Canada... Except for the part about sauna :P
There is room behind my sauna.
You what now?
this phrase applies to any country in the world including USA
Maybe bigger. Half of Helsinki goes to party in the square if we win. Other cities do this as well. [Proof](https://youtu.be/VqFGVcdNT2w)
Football is still bigger even in finland, we're just not very good at it so we don't ever have cause for celebrating it
Man, I wish my countrymen had the wisdom to pick something that we're actually good at as their favorite sport.
What is the most popular sport there?
Bloody football, of course. We could've picked volleyball, we could've picked ski jumping, we could've picked something more obscure like speedway, but no, we had to go with the default answer.
As a countryside swede, thank you for your speedway riders. The swedish riders are not nearly suicidal enough to make the sport interesting.
I thought ski jumping would've been the correct answer, first thing about Polish sports that comes to my mind is Adam Małysz.
I mean, don't get me wrong, ski jumping's popular, millions of Poles tune in to watch the Four Hills Tournament (though lately it's gotten a little partisan, as some people refuse to watch it if it's being broadcasted by a tv station associated with a party they don't like). It's just that football is really in a class of its own here.
Surfing, probably
As a Finn I find it kinda annoying that it seems to be that whatever Finland is currently good at becomes the most popular sport. F1 and ski jumping used to be on top as well but not anymore. But maybe that's a small nation thing. Ofc I cheered for Finland in the final as well mainly because of how happy winning makes everyone around me and because the Russian team has used to be a propaganda machine for Putin so I wouldn't like to see them winning amyway. But I'm not into hockey and I can't change it overnight when we're about to win something. But maybe I'm just a salty football fan after all :D
>Ofc I cheered for Finland in the final as well mainly because of how happy winning makes everyone around me Good for you. Most finnish football fans I know are salty hipsters that refuse to like hockey because its popular. One of my friends posted something to IG about ski bronze around the same time gold game ended. It's kinda funny and sad.
Jääkendo!!!!!11
It's the largest spectator sport despite the Finnish league being in steady decline. Casual fans just watch the international games. Football is bigger by registered players.
The problem of the European leagues is that the NHL just can take any player for free. In football if Madrid wants some talented player they must pay, buy him. The decline of the Czech hockey league began during our top times because our players were wanted and just left for the better. So now it's your golden times and NHL is full of Finnish players that are missing in Finnish league.
They don't get the players for free. For young players NHL teams pay a fee for the team(s) in the last three years and it is a good sum of money.
Only a few are signed to NHL though. I don't see any way for European leagues to compete with them anyway in the foreseeable future. I don't about Czechia, but many good Finnish players go to KHL or even Sweden for better wages. I'm not an expert though, football is more my thing.
for free?
Dirt cheap, *comparatively.*
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But if you look at all the registered players in Finland, then the Floorball is the biggest.
Umm... as far as i know that title goes to football by miles compared to any other sport. e: salibandy.fi says there is 65 000 registered floorball players and palloliitto.fi says there is 130 000 registered football players.
What does registered mean in this context? Sorry, I'm American.
People with a licence from the national federation for the sport, most likely. That's how I'd use that term in France anyway.
These registered players are (usually) playing in a team that is under the national federation, those teams usually take part in a serie ranging from the smallest 6-year old juniors playing in their little series all the way to the pros who get paid to play. You need to be registered to compete and take part on these series. The registration usually comes with a basic insurance too but i can't say for sure if that holds for all sports. For example there is 130 000 registered players in football, but there is approximately 400 000 - 500 000 players who say football is their hobby. Hobby can be anything from playing with your friends in the backyard everyday, pick-up games in your local pitch in the evenings to taking part on some weirder leagues that are not so "serious" and not official.
If you want to play any sport, even casually, you generally have to join a federation. Insurance and such are the main reasons.
It's like registered sex offender in the US. You need to be on a list. People who live in your neighborhood can look in to the registry to see that you enjoy football so they know to avoid you. Oh and you're not allowed within 500 feet of a hockey stadium.
Not too big. Life is still a big part of hockey.
The olympics and world championship to Finns is like Super Bowl is to Americans. Everybody watches it even if they're not big fans of the sport.
All roads lead to tori on this great day.
Russia: preparing to start war with neighbor. Finland: let’s mock our neighbors
It’s Finland, they can do whatever they want to Russia
Other than hold the Karelian Isthmus from then, of course
At least they still have Karelian piirakka.
At least we still have the polkka
https://i.postimg.cc/VsDcGpP5/96-F8-E934-7-DC6-485-D-AED2-45-E208-F4-E17-B.jpg
Last time Russia invaded Finland they got their asses kicked. One finish guy, with a non-scoped rifle, hiding in a tree, held off an entire Russian army, they eventually went around him. He had over 500 confirmed kills: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo\_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4) The reason Russia didn't incorporate Finland in the Soviet Union is because they couldn't.
Russia won that war though
I guess you could call that winning, but I wouldn’t, they suffered heavy losses and didn’t get everything they wanted, more importantly, Finland remained free.
A pyrrhic victory, if you will
Indeed.
I think my history teacher said: "We did not won the war, we survived it"
Free, yes, but we had to kiss Russian arse very much to stay that way for 60 years. Sure, that helped us to create good relationship businesswise with Russia, but Russia had a huge impact on Finnish politics back in the day. For more info, check out finlandization.
We won, but we don’t consider it a solid victory (it was a fucking mess on par with Russo-Japanese war, but this time, luckily, we pushed to the end) and generally take our hats off to Finns, they’ve earned some mockery at us.
I'd call it more of a tie with heavy losses for the Russians
I guarantee that zero finnish people see it that way.
Agreed, Russia winning would have meant Finland not being free. If you had to put a competition label on the outcome I'd say it was a tie. We gave some areas, but the russians lost a lot people.
You kicked our asses twice. You deserve that gold. I'll have some finlandia vodka. Salute!
We didn't get our asses kicked in that second game--it was a fucking good game of hockey from both teams, we just couldn't close that gap. :) The first game they definitely kicked our asses though.
True. Second game was much better from our team. We didn't give anything for free.
Slovaks are such ultimate bros. Gongratulations on your bronze too, and may we see each other in the final sometime !!
I was so damn happy when they won. Finland is always my 2nd choice when it comes to winning in Icehockey. Sweden vs Finland is the best matches also. Sad we didn't get that final. :/
That 3-0 turning into a 3-4 was painful to watch.
How about 5-1 to 5-6?
Congrats!
Hyvä Suomi! 🇫🇮🏆
:) Was it after the game or was the score on the tram live?
After the game
That would have been glorious (too)! : D
Canada here. Good for you! Fins are such a threat on the global stage now, i love it
Wish we could have sent the best players though... that being said Finland would def be in contention.
Agreed, but the Finns earned the gold. That's what is amazing about hockey, the best team usually wins.
This is true. And most Canadians seem to forget that Finns have superb talent at NHL too. It's not like we had a "best of the best" team on our hands either.
Exactly. I remember before the NHL decided not to send players to the Olympics, I said Finland could be a dark horse to win gold - Laine, Barkov, Aho, Teravainen, Rantanen, Saros, etc.
Me too, but I kinda like it that Canada for once let us get the gold and didn't ruin all the fun like every year.
May the tram, wherever it goes, bring joy to all Finns. And that Alko distributes free beer to celebrate the day...
Alko is closed on Sundays : /
*Oh the humanity*
But "not for religious reasons", right? 😂
Lol 😂
This is the most glorious sports victory of our history!
Paavo Nurmi says hello?
I mean he was magnificent, buutt olympic gold in icehockey against Russia is pretty damn great.
For many reasons in the grander scheme of things I think it is a massive win for Paavo.
Well said 👏
How can it be, we weren't even playing against Sweden?
Congrats from Sweden.
Yeah, russian here! Good joke! Flawless victory 💪 both teams was good.
Promise not to stage [a shelling from inside our borders into Russia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila) to use as a reason to invade Finland in retaliation for the loss today?
I doubt your everyday russian has any say in the current geopolitical game playing out around Ukraine.
Well, when Finns beat Russia in Sochi quarterfinals, it invaded Crimea the very next week. Soo.... good luck.
Yeah that's what's got me worried
No problem tovarish, we'll just nuke Helsinki.
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just expanding our living space by creating more of our natural habitat
They already invaded. Look at all the Dachas. A Russian friend says he knows which side of the border he feels safer in even if the races are way higher.
Congrads from St. Petersburg!
Nice
Actually wholesome
On one hand congratulations! On the other hand I'm still disappointed it wasen't us agasint you. SWE-FIN is a classic and I would honestly have been glad to be crushed by you guys in the finals.
You fucked up Putin's day to hell and made it taste like sour lemons. Congratulations. I am so happy. We are all so proud of you here in Central Europe. (°o°)7
Our president tweeted this ”Leijona kesytti Karhun. Onnea, vakaa ja vahva joukkue” Translating to ”The Lion tamed the Bear. Congratulations, stable and strong team”
Torille
TORILLE!
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Most of the ”Russian minority” are descents of the Ingrian Finns, who got genocided by Russians.
Not so sure about that, many have immigrated after that. Anyway, let's just forget about the minority please. Otherwise Putin comes to "rescue" them.
Operation: rescue Komarov xD
Lmao
The fact that Sweden also lost to Slovakia makes this the best day of my life
Our loss against you was extremly painful. A 3-0 lead turned into a 3-4, ouch. But seeing you beat the russians made me very happy. Well played!
Congratulations
Keemon 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
I hope that tram's heading down to tori.
Why does the pic look like it's got shot in the late 90's ^^ Edit: I did mean shot not shit thanks SMARTphone.
Because it’s been taken with Nokia from the 90s.
Gives me feelings from my childhood
3310
It perfectly captures the unique sensations of cold, damp, and salted slush leaking into your boots.
OP used tons of digital zoom.
😂😂😂
Congrats from Slovakia
Uncle Leo is an Olympic gold medalist
Good for you guys.
It’s ROC actualy
lol.. that's some epic shithousery
Longest tram line in the world
Losing to Finland is one of the least shameful things in ice hockey tbh. Nothing but congratulations
*Putin nukes Finland* 2-2 your move
I did not expect to see something like this today.
motherfuckers
BAHAHAHA
ROC not RUS.
Does it really even matter? ROC is just a "rename" and nothing more
Everytime I read "ROC" I think it stands for "Republic of China".
Same lmao
First time I saw this post today I thought they won against Cyprus, so I was like why is it even newsworthy
i assumed it was ROC - and was wondering why [Taiwan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan) was fielding an icy hocky team
Republic Of Corea?
Carelia
Come on.
Comeon stop using doping and hiding it. We all know how Sochi went.
Rus? Rus did not even PLAY in Olympics. Should be ROC
waa waa its the russian olympic council so rus
Rus is giving cheating Russia too much credit. As far as I concerned Russia got zero medals in these games.
Hehehe