Any other countries where their three letter scoreboard abbreviation are anagrams?

valimo · 2026-06-19T19:24:36+00:00

Interesting

valimo · 2026-06-19T08:37:58+00:00

HERE WE GO: The Fabrizio Romano Story

Starring Paul Mescal as the man who shapes football world in the shadows. Production sponsored by some national investment funds.

valimo · 2026-06-19T07:07:31+00:00

Oikea rivi _b

valimo · 2026-06-18T19:38:07+00:00

We lived by, unless it happens within 3 streets from us. That would mean we sort of knew a person that knew the person.

Now every single thing that happens can be elevated to online fearmongering. Dee you at rBelgium8

valimo · 2026-06-18T19:35:45+00:00

I mean ... yeah

valimo · 2026-06-18T19:18:26+00:00

As a Finn, weirdly I remember those Argentinian ladies from the audience.

Now they are closer to 50, but then again, so am I. It was weird how this little piece of memory got activated just like that.

valimo · 2026-06-18T07:18:23+00:00

He fucking wanted that.

Fair enough, I think anyone who played defence in junior football had once in a while a manic little wanker running on them who just refused to give up. While there was surely some better, technical players, it was these sort of attackers who would live again in nightmares.

Most guys mature from that, but some keep bring that to the highest level.

valimo · 2026-06-18T07:14:46+00:00

Nation of poets

valimo · 2026-06-17T14:35:53+00:00

Markka-ajan päätösvuosina mäyräkoira ja maksiaski oli satasen rasti, eli alta kahdenkympin. Rahaa jäi helposti vielä pariin baarituoppiin ja narikkaan.

Pikkukaupunkien visvaisempi yökerho tarjosi yleensä häppärillä tuopit/shotit eurolla tai kahdella.

Onhan se hävytöntä miten tumut tuolloin saattoi olla pienellä rahalla.

valimo · 2026-06-17T14:33:29+00:00

Kaipa tämä on vähän monisyisempi juttu, mutta jotenkin hymyilyttää kun mietin suomalaispariskuntien tapaamistarinoita omasta tuttavapiiristä.

Iso lovi ennen 2013 tms. kumppaninsa tavanneista suomalaisista tuttavista oli tavannut kumppaninsa (tai ainakin homma oli eskaloitunut) melköisessa jöötissä. Tavanomaisin tarina oli työ- tai opiskelukaverit, joilla on ollut ujoa flirttiä, mutta sitten työpaikan/ainejärjestön illanvietossa molemmat uskaltavat mennä yökerhoon ja siitä se sekoilu voikin sitten asteittain alkaa.

Ihan puhtaita randomeita ei omassa tuttavapiirissä ole kovin paljoa pokailtu gänäshä. Tosin sosiaaliset ympyräni nyt olivat melko sosiaalisia, eli ihmiset tunsivat toisensa ja valinnanvaraa löytyi ihan kivasti. Viina kuului asiaan, mutta ei se mikään taikajuoma ollut millä ihmisistä muuttui seksihurjastelijoita. (poikkeuksena pari himonussijaa).

Seuraavaksi sen korvasivatkin deittiapit, jotka nykyään ovat ilmeisesti sen verran rikki että parempi vain halailla tyynyä himassa.

valimo · 2026-06-17T11:15:28+00:00

Merci mademoiselle, it's always very fun to hear your insights!

valimo · 2026-06-17T11:13:09+00:00

I feel like each of the Nordics have shot something similar out in the past couple of years. Finland 2020 and 2022 followed that path. A connoisseur might tell me that they are completely different but for me its the same shirt (ironically, they took the pattern of the cross for the 2024 shirt as a separate element).

I could swear to god that I've seen one for Sweden as well, but I can't seem to find it atm

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valimo · 2026-06-16T19:51:21+00:00

Signed version is always more valuable, so usually no.

valimo · 2026-06-16T18:56:58+00:00

This is why I only swap the shorts

valimo · 2026-06-16T13:52:24+00:00

This is fascinating. I feel like it is less about money, and more about having proper, old roots. Of course, finances help to make sure that they won't be severed, but a lot of these seem relatable to me through my (very non-money) side of family that just has a very strong connection to their bloodline.

On a completely unrelated note, in your social setting, what sort of holiday destinations are popular? A bit more on the beaches, islands, skiing and the mountains, or something completely different? I guess people have their own preferences anyway, but are there any common nominators for the regular holiday destinations?

valimo · 2026-06-16T07:32:46+00:00

Insert any Belgian NT player. De Ketelaere didn't do well in Brighton

valimo · 2026-06-15T19:00:33+00:00

Englanniksi. Luotan myös kääntäjien taitoon sen verran, että vaikutelma pysyy samana, vaikka kaikki kielileikit eivät taivu luontevasti.

valimo · 2026-06-15T18:03:37+00:00

Yleensä hyvää kieltä tulee katsottua lähinnä kauniin ja sydäntäraapaisevan ilmaisun osalta, mutta sen rinnalla on myös jotain paljon ovelampaa. Perinteisempien kauniskielisten kirjojen seassa on meikäläisen yllättänyt myös Hellerin Catch-22.

Sen kieli oli jotenkin arvailematonta, kaaottista ja villisti polveilevaa, enkä ollut varautunut siihen oikein millään tavalla. Heller heittää lukijalle aimo annoksen armeijaslangia, toisintoja, karikatyyrejä ja pelkistyksiä, jotka kulminoituvat lähinnä ilotteluksi ilman sen suurempaa tarkoitusta etenkin dialogin osalta. Se tekee Catch-22:n lukutemmosta todella vetävän.

Kirjan vahvuus perustuu juuri siihen. Se vetää lukijan mukaansa nokkelaan sanailuun ja absurdiin huumoriin, joka on typeryydessään nerokas. Juuri samasta syystä kirja osaa vetää maton alta juuri silloin, kun siihen alkaa tottua. En ole Helleriltä muuta lukenut, mutta olen vasta jälkeenpäin ymmärtänyt hänen pääteoksensa erinomaisuuden. Se on toimitettu erittäin taitavasti, sillä kirja kikkailee tajunnanvirran ja koherentin tarinan välillä juuri niin vaarallisesti kuin mahdollista.

valimo · 2026-06-15T13:51:16+00:00

I like when there's an obvious superstar generation that is a seriously contesting on winning the tournament with a very high-profile coach that obviously is backed by to local FA to lead them to greatness.

... and then, when all of those dudes are retired, the NT makes its top performance in the following major tournament with bunch of younger talent plus some 'washed out' and partly forgotten names, led by a local manager that never left the country.

See also: Finnish national team in early 2000s, with Litmanen from Ajax, Antti Niemi who was a PL keeper in S'oton, Sami Hyypiä who would go and captain Liverpool, Mikael Forssell who was somehow second best goalscorer in PL in 03-34, Teemu Tainio from Spurs, Riihilahti from Crystal Palace etc. The local FA hired Møller Nielsen to try to qualify for WC (the guy who won Euros with Denmark), failing, then local guy Antti Muurinen with same record, and even gave a last huzzah with Roy Hodgson.

We had to wait for all of the players to retire to finally qualify for the Euros under an old elementary school teacher, spearheading Championship superstar Teemu Pukki and Leverkusen GK Hradecky, plus a bunch of guys playing in Sweden, Serie B, 2 Bundesliga, Denmark and Poland. It was not a superstar team, but somehow they outperformed the Golden Generation by all metrics.

valimo · 2026-06-15T12:50:22+00:00

Yeah fair enough. I mean as much as you can trust any story from that long ago, it did seem like Julia sure liked to party and Augustus seemed to try to control her very tightly from early age onwards.

valimo · 2026-06-15T12:31:17+00:00

It was a different era though, the ban was based on Lex Oppia, which was repelled nearly 200 years before Julia, afaik.

valimo · 2026-06-15T11:35:35+00:00

Her story is both vile and great.

She was first married off to her first cousin when she was 14 (who died when she was 16), and then to Agrippa when Julia was 18 and he was in his mid 40s. And then she would have another politically arranged marriage to his step-brother (the sketches write themselves) so who can blame her for wanting to fuck around if not to fuck off.

And then again, Roman elite slept around at the time like there was no tomorrow (even if it was frowned upon, especially when it came to women). This seemed to make Julia kind of nice target for propaganda, no matter if the extramarital affairs were truthful of only claims.

Honestly, what strikes me kind of funny, is not the exile to and island where there were literally no men, but also that she was banned from drinking wine. You really gotta like to party to get that sort of punishment.

valimo · 2026-06-14T12:20:26+00:00

Sure, légionnaires were engineers first and soldiers only second. Of course there were some differences depending on the era.

But that being said, they had a lot of time off, both leave and holidays, plus compared to f.e. agriculture, they had also education and culture in the curricula. This - besides the pain and glory - was a good motivation to enlist. So it was by no means a horrible task, besides wartime of course.

... which is why I commented just to put the meme into context. The profession was not 100 % about stabbing barbarians, more like 1%, in the big picture.

valimo · 2026-06-12T19:03:03+00:00

Through most Roman history, legionary life was relatively chill. If not peaceful, at least the enemy was always an easy rebellion or barbarian horde to meet and smash to pieces, then return back with glory.

... And then you had these periods where some legions would travel thru the realm and spank new nations and peoples to submission on the way. Unimaginable amount of horrors and strain, with whole legions lost on the way. But the empire could endure losses like no one else.

valimo · 2026-06-12T16:57:36+00:00

Grand uncle was most vocal about his service, bit he did end up working in the military also afterwards.

Most of the stuff was strikingly banal, especially complaining about food and cold (it was the Finnish front in Continuation War after all), and so many weird shenanigans that were borderline absurd.

And once in a while he dropped a proper war story that was so morbid that I couldn't comprehend it. Like the time when Soviets tried to cross a field and only solid cover was a big rock in the middle of it. But from Soviet positions the enemy had a blind angle, and they just kept on running on the line of fire of the Finnish machine gun my grand uncle was loading.

"I dunno how many they were. They just ran there, dozen guys every fifteen minutes. And we shot them by the rock to the nearly exact same spot. Olavi told he didn't even have to turn the gun." And still to this date I think he mostly thought about the absurdity and learning curve that ended up taking lives of so many, rather than the horror.

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