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"Bloody hell it's hot down here. And no hotels either! Sauna'a are quite warm though."
The guy on the right is Ben Innes from Aberdeen. He posed for a picture to post on social media next to Seif Eldin shortly after he hijacked a plane in Cyprus whilst wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt. Ben didn't know it was fake at the time of course.
He also said later that it was to try and get a better look at the bomb.
Cool, if morbid, photo to have afterwards, though!
That's a big smile for not knowing
I mean if you think it's your last photo, wouldn't you wanna look good
"Welp!"
Anything to escape Great Britain
He went to Thailand to go BACK to Britain.
"On two wheels" implies it's a sightseeing trip. Basically seeing the sights between Thailand and home. Probably only to leave again because... y'know.
Rather than a motorcycle, it's funnier to imagine he made the whole trip on a hoverboard.
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Careful, he might accidentally appropriate your cultural items and place them in his museum
Man, I just watched this video last night and it's a crazy watch. The guy was surprisingly calm given the situation (though I'm sure he was freaking the fuck out on the inside.) and it just kept escalating.
Seeing the humanity among the Nepal community was heartwarming as well.
I haven't watched the update videos yet, but I know he's released several more videos recapping the events, the proceeding fallout, and interviewing some of the people he had encountered.
Love the reference and the image. Do you know the author?
Twoflower is the first place my mind went, too.
Same
Terry Pratchett nailed it in The Color of Magic.
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.
Asking: “ where can I find a pub”
Wherever you are in the world, there is usually an Irish pub serving Guinness.
Also according to Hemingway, you can find at least 2 Estonians in every port in the world.
I can’t confirm that, but I can confirm that there are Irish pubs here in Estonia too.
I once went on a perilous hiking trip with my dad. We jumped crevices, scaled bare rock with nothing but ropes and wits, and spent the nights alone up in that wilderness, shivering next to insufficient fire pits. Once we got to the peak and took in the majesty of creation, we turned around saw that there was an Irish pub there at the top
As a Finn, even when we have five times your population, I still believe that to be true of Estonians but not of Finns.
Also when you find those two Estonians, you can purchase cartons of cigarettes and bottles of Viru Valge off of them.
You know, to have after the visiting the Irish pub.
Viru Valge? God damnit they're letting out reputation down. Everyone knows you take crates of Vana Tallinn with you on trips so you can use it to bribe people. Or maybe that's just in former soviet republics
Vana Tallin is for the bougie folk who can't handle 80% Viru Valge. I was but a youngster when I first encountered a bottle. Friend said you can take a sip if you don't look at the bottle. I took a few massive gulps, almost half the bottle.
Then I swallowed.
Man I was surprised. And it didn't spend that long in me, tbh.
But yeah Vana Tallin is a much more sociable liquor. I'm just Finnish and want my money's wörth, lol.
Ah that one is called Viru Valge Vägev, where Vägev means Mighty.
Of course when I was a student, I bought alcohol by euros per millilitre of alcohol content to get my money’s worth too. Nowadays I buy what I like the taste of, which sometimes ends up being expensive peaty Islay single malt scotch, and sometimes the cheapest gin I can find, to pair with a mediocre tonic. I don’t remember the last time I drank vodka neat lol
Juu väkeväähän se oli.
It's almost the same word in Finnish, "väkevä" which does mean "mighty", "strong", but literally it's basically "full of (little) folk", although idk if Estonian also uses "väki" in the same way but it's the etymology of vägev anyhow. As in "the little folk" or "fairy folk" sort of, as anything magical or powerful would've been said to be so. Not that anyone's really believed in any sort of fairyfolk for a long time, but just thought it might be interesting, perhaps especially so for a fellow finnic person (and/or I'm just somewhat interested if this all works in Estonian as well or if you've read about it idk)
In Finnish folklore, Väki is the life force that flows in every single living creature and being. It is similar to the concept of mana in Hinduism, life force chi in Chinese culture or the Force in Star Wars. Väki literally means a group. It describes the power / group or spirits that reside in a certain idea/concept/element or being.
https://littlewomen.medium.com/v%C3%A4ki-the-power-in-finnish-folklore-abeb0a9d3c04
Oh yeah I don't buy the cheapest stuff anymore either. Actually bought fairly expensive rums last winter, tried some out to see whether it was worth it. It definitely is worth it to go at least mid-shelf in most things, and sometimes the top shelf doesn't feel like a waste either.
Vodka neat is kinda horrible, tbh. A good vodka martini with a really smooth vodka, yea. Just vodka, neat? No thanks, can't do it since that one time I drank a little hand sanitizer (non-denatured) in the army. 'Twas like >73% abv. I was fuuuuuccckeeed, uuupp. Luckily I was an NCO and had independence a bit so I went to the neighbouring barracks (just a firedoor in between them, same building) to use their showers for an hour or so (as the barracks was empty 1/3 of the year).
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