David Mac Dougall

File under: But of course...

It will be like painting the Forth Bridge, as we say.

It's only been 48 hours and already @davekeating.substack.com needs to publish a second volume of his new book to take into account all the ways the US has tried to undermine Europe since his book hit the shelves earlier this week! 😱

🌊 The water is a bit too choppy for swimming today!

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(Not sure the word "potential" is even needed, considering the 🇬🇱 Greenland situation!)

I am learning lots of new wprds tonight! I usually just stick to "the Big 3" Finnish swear words 😂

Everyone is so creative. I was mostly looking for your help with the other phrases because my brain is fried in any language tonoght and I have to write before bed, but @thomasvb.bsky.social came up with the goods!

Kiitos!

I really need to expand my daily use of Finnish profanities. I usually stick to the "Big 3" 😂

To express extremeley annoyed frustration. But in Hesari. So not "FFS" / "MV" which is what I actually want to say!

You're not even doing this in your 1st language. You have shamed me. I'm just having a brain malfunction day, it's been a long week already! Tack!

While we're at it, I am also on the struggle-bus with "rules-based international order" and "values-based foreign policy". I know there are sort of set piece phrases in Finnish but tonight my brain has gone to mush so any help is much appreciated! Kiitos! @charlyjsp.bsky.social @corporalfrisk.com

Hyvää ilta. I have a slightly obscure translation question. How would you translate "Sweet Jesus" (used in the sense of "FFS") from English to Finnish? Is it enough to say Jumalauta or would Finnish speakers suggest something more creative - but which could still be printed in Hesari?

I shall wait patiently.

But the "Alba tsunami" they promised is definitely still coming, right? When will that be I wonder... 😂

I was just looking for Alba. Please could you point them out to me?

😂😂😂 that's brilliant!! 👏👏

It was early and I hadn't had a cup of tea yet... and I didn't bother checking the spelling first! My Finnish spelling is terrible! (but probably not much worse than many Finns!!)

*pilkkunnussija h/t @topiuusis.bsky.social

I missed the extra N! Argh! Thanks for the corretion!

In Finnish we have a word for this. Pilkkunussija.

No. Don't.

Kiitos, thank you, giitu @biret.bsky.social and @petralaiti.bsky.social for your help putting this together.

“I felt for a long period that I am nothing. I am not Sámi, I have no language, I am not Finnish. And I was ashamed to say my name, because people will know I am Sámi, and I don’t want to say I am Sámi. At the same time I loved being Sámi. It is very crushing feelings for a child" - Seija

New from me in @thetimes.com this morning, in print and online, a look at some of the harrowing details of abuse and generational trauma inflicted on #Finland's Indigenous Sámi people by the state - and how Prime Minister Orpo thinks it's time to say sorry. #Sápmi

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

The War Between the Land and the Sea review – prepare to roll your eyes a lot at this fishy Doctor Who spinoff Dodgy character names, zero subtlety, a dubious approach to female roles … Russell T Davies’s show about fishfolk is entertaining – but feels like a wasted opportunity to make genuinely great TV

Really enjoyed first 2 eps of BBC's The War Between the Land and Sea tonight. A fun and exciting addition to the Whoniverse. Surely everyone loved it? Well, everyone except the joyless snobs who work as TV reviewers at The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Or maybe they just shoved all the corpses out an airlock and fired a tri-cobalt device at them? 🤭

They just happened to have enough empty photon torpedo tubes to fire half the original crew into space. I don't buy it 😂

You might say that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

Hey good news! The first trains started running in the tunnel at Christmas 2024! At least, that's what 'The Greatest Showman' was promising in the media back in 2018 and 2019!! 😂😂 They were even going to start selling tickets at one point. I wonder if anyone bought any / what happened to their money