A simple 'hi' will do.

Hi.

Umm. Yes. Hi. Err, what to say what to say... Ah yes. London. Particularly nice city, real quiet for such a big place as this. Loads of black people here tho, far more than I'm used to. Not saying I'm a racist or anything, I just haven't seen so many people with different backgrounds come together to play "Who wants to marry a dentist from Ipswich?"

Me? Not from around here. No. I moved to London to be a part of a majority for once - the foreigners. Although, within those I must still be part of the minority - the Finnish foreigners. Now I think I know what you're all thinking about Finland and I can honestly say it's true. We ARE a very depressed nation but we fix that by drinking ourselves to death. It's not a healthy habit for your country in the long run. Especially if you've got the same amount of people living there that you have in your backyard swimming pool.

Aaaanyways. Thought I'd join this website, just out of curiosity and hopefully would meet some people and get to collaborate with them. Been working on a script hoping that it would get picked up eventually once I make it more relevant to British people, so far it's about Finnish things so I'd be happy to work with someone to teach me the "local ways".

That's about it for my introduction. I could also tell you that I've recently graduated to be Bachelor of Arts but so is probably everyone else. So why bother.

Cheers everyone! And lets be friends

PS. My name is not really Nick Flanagan, it's just the British version.

Ahoy thar shipmate! Welcome aboard.

I've no idea why I've suddenly gone all nautical. Maybe it's the amount of moisture in the air.

Ahoy to tharrrrr too!

I guess the weather here is still better than Finland. Yesterday it was +8 and almost snowing. That's at least what my cousin told me.

Hello and good afternoon to you, yes it always amazes how many Finns are actually living in England, you have all that space and lovely clean air and yet you are constantly flocking in your droves to our overcrowded little island with our filthy, almost unbreathable air. I am too impolite to ask why. I agree that the Finns are first rate drinkers though, I'd say only the Irish and the Scots could keep up with you, we're a little more civilised in England...burp.

Yes, we Finns tend to leave our lovely little piece of land for many different reasons. Mine being that I didn't want to bring my fiancé (who's Polish by the way) to Finland as she would have a hard time understanding our wacky language.

So I decided to do the next best thing and bring her to London where already lives like half a million Poles. She'll feel right at home

I think I know someone who's moved to Finland.
But it might have been Norway...

Yes I can see your point there, she must be feeling a bit lonely back in Poland now that most of them live over here. I hope you're more used to the way queues work than I find most Poles are, extraordinary people they really are, they spend half an hour in a group having a conversation about what cheese to buy, and then try and jump a queue of 15 people at the checkout!

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I guess the weather here is still better than Finland. Yesterday it was +8 and almost snowing.

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I'd prefer that.

I'd looove to live somewhere snowy!

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ June 6 2010, 5:43 PM BST

Yes I can see your point there, she must be feeling a bit lonely back in Poland now that most of them live over here. I hope you're more used to the way queues work than I find most Poles are, extraordinary people they really are, they spend half an hour in a group having a conversation about what cheese to buy, and then try and jump a queue of 15 people at the checkout!

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Yes, I find that the British people are probably the most advanced people in the world when it comes to queues. Every single place where there's at least two people next to each other they tend to form a queue. Even if they're not waiting for anything!

You would for a few weeks at the most, then the novelty would wear off, and perhaps other bits would drop off. I got frostbite in Finland by not judging the wind chill factor correctly, you really have got to factor it in. White fluffy snow is very gorgeous but constantly sub zero temperatures are not! I'd suggest this as one little reason why Finns are world class travellers.

Nah, I'd just wear lots of jumpers.

Then you'll end up looking like a Moomin (they're from Finland, you know).

Quote: Nick Flanagan @ June 6 2010, 5:48 PM BST

Yes, I find that the British people are probably the most advanced people in the world when it comes to queues. Every single place where there's at least two people next to each other they tend to form a queue. Even if they're not waiting for anything!

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I've done it myself. But when you're busy colonising two thirds of the world, the queue seems like a very good invention.

Ah yes, Finland, famous for ... well, let's face it - almost nothing.

Nice to meet you, though.

No, they do produce some very good motor racing drivers, both rally and F1. And Moomins.