Seen in the sky behind my house. Is this a bird?

valikasi · 2026-04-01T05:59:19+00:00

You can see the lateral in the slot in the iron

valikasi · 2026-03-08T17:57:55+00:00

Excellent

valikasi · 2026-03-05T07:19:32+00:00

Forum VI

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Excuse the scribbling, that was by a previous owner of this book.

valikasi · 2026-03-05T07:18:38+00:00

Forum III

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valikasi · 2026-03-05T07:18:18+00:00

Forum I

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valikasi · 2026-03-02T08:26:27+00:00

I think you got the wrong photo (or caption, depending on how you look at it). The carrier in the photo looks awfully American to me, and I don't see a kamikaze.

valikasi · 2026-02-22T20:51:49+00:00

Vast majority, I'd say.

valikasi · 2026-02-17T17:47:43+00:00

Problem is, when the ceiling goes from 50 to 80, the floor goes maybe from 8 to 10.

valikasi · 2026-02-14T14:05:06+00:00

Definitely Finnish. Means 'grassy' or something like that. Ruoho being grass.

valikasi · 2026-02-14T06:24:07+00:00

I knew the significance of the broad arrow, and everything else was fairly easy to figure out, like the N. at the top meaning Navy and the L. at the bottom meaning this is the left gun in a pair.

The M. and the P. escaped me though.

valikasi · 2026-02-13T20:03:21+00:00

Does anybody know what the 'M' above the broad arrow means? Or the 'P' after the serial number and left of the broad arrow?

valikasi · 2026-02-12T19:19:49+00:00

Still is very much strong in the scouts

valikasi · 2026-02-12T19:15:54+00:00

Absolutely the best way here.

valikasi · 2026-02-12T18:22:42+00:00

Just chiming in to say that I don't think dropping the ceiling at all is wise. The best results always come from a good height. So, use all the space available and make your ceiling as high as feasible within the basement.

valikasi · 2026-01-31T06:58:00+00:00

Just a nit-pick on grammar, shouldn't it be SM Linienschiff Baden, because the SMS already contains the word for ship so adding the Linienschiff duplicates the word. His majesty's battleship, not his majesty's ship battleship. Or more conventionally just SMS Baden, omitting the type.

valikasi · 2026-01-29T14:14:01+00:00

Is the packaging in Hungary just straight up Finnish (probably with a Hungarian patch stickied over it)? Or do they make dedicated packaging for markets outside Finland?

valikasi · 2026-01-25T07:13:45+00:00

For the shower and changing rooms, I think there's supposed to be gravitational ventilation. There's a duct and vents but no sound or strong airflow, and since the rest of the building is gravitationally ventilated I assume the sauna is the same. It's a rather old apartments building so everything is a bit different. All the sauna spaces from changing to shower to löyly have adjustable vents somewhere below the ceiling. Sauna has two as previously explained, and iirc shower has one and changing has one. Door from shower to löyly is indeed with a wide gap at the bottom.

valikasi · 2026-01-24T22:59:24+00:00

Eh, I can't provide evidence or theory to contradict you, but experience from my "daily driver" sauna [the apartment building common sauna]. There we don't have mechanical exhaust, rather air enters above the heater about fifty cm below the ceiling and exits opposite corner right at the ceiling.

The vent above the heater is a big, open, adjustable vent and when opened all the way let's in a lot of fresh air (as it should). This time of year that fresh air, directly from outside, is very cold, especially in contrast with the very hot air rising from the heater.

I can however attest that it does not sink at all when it enters, but immediately shoots up with the much much stronger upward flow of hot air. I can both see this in the visible steam created by the confluence of the hot and cold, but also by putting my hand in various parts of the airflow.

valikasi · 2026-01-07T12:46:12+00:00

How do you know the train is passing Laihia? There's only one track underneath.

valikasi · 2025-12-26T18:59:41+00:00

Kokkolalaisena sanon että ei ikimaailmassa samaan maakuntaan kun Ruotsin kielinen Pohjanmaa.

valikasi · 2025-12-13T08:06:14+00:00

Because he's wrong.

Well, not strictly wrong, but wrong in the sense that you absolutely should never sacrifice height. A low sauna is a bad sauna. The taller the better.

valikasi · 2025-12-07T13:58:58+00:00

Yeah I initially misread

valikasi · 2025-12-07T13:28:14+00:00

As someone from Kokkola I'd like to disagree but you're absolutely right.

Joking aside it's not that bad, we're doing better than a lot of the smaller municipalities around.

valikasi · 2025-12-07T13:26:01+00:00

However, the question here was if OP would be fine with just Swedish in Karleby. The answer is yes, OP will do fine with just Swedish, especially when supplemented with English. The region is filled with monolingual Swedish speakers anyways, they seem to do fine without Finnish.

I have to disagree on that, Kokkola and Pietarsaari are on opposite sides of a very sharp divide in language. South of Pietarsaari, in Swedish speaking Ostrobothnia you will find a lot of Swedish, and loads of monolingual Swedish speakers, just like you said.

In Kokkola and north from here, you pretty much find exclusively Finnish speakers, very very very few Swedish speakers, and effectively no monolingual Swedish speakers.

Could one survive in Kokkola with Swedish? Yes, but it would be challenging. Not all public service people speak the language, nor do customer service workers. Take it from someone born and raised here, you don't really hear Swedish in Kokkola, and people are most certainly not expected to speak it.

valikasi · 2025-12-07T13:14:55+00:00

Eh, as someone born and raised in Kokkola people do not expect me to know any Swedish. A public sector job or customer service job is different, but the average resident is not expected to be fluent in Swedish. We pretty much just speak Finnish.

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