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[Chris_C]

Do Wimpy still have those awesome milkshake kinda things that I can't remember the name of? Something like a "squishy" but only ripped off, not copied from the Simpsons

[volvosneverdie]

I believe everyone else is enough sane to stay enough far from here at summer, winter time is at least semi understandable, but at summer I can't really see reason to be here, except midnight sun and about thousand lakes

Midnight sun?








Maybe not then.
I i didnt realise Finland was on Tatooine.

[jtbo]

As there is no day at winter, there is no night at summer, when you go to norhern Finland

Oh an here is those trees, it is bit of a problem really, if you like to see long distance, you need to find some tall hill or some tower as no matter where you are, those trees limit distance you can see, it is very abnormal to us if we can't see trees, can't remember such place right now as even in cities there are trees So I guess tree huggers would go insane in here, there is no way they can hug every tree

[volvosneverdie]

Im sure many a man has died trying.
Driven quite quite mad by the twenty four hour day/night.

must be terrible if youre a barn owl as well.
Do they just stay up all winter?

[filthyjohn]

Anybody fancy a run to finland in the summer?
They have tasty burgers.

I'd like to go one day, the countryside looks epic.
Oh and pretty much the only wimpys left are in service stations on the A1.

[volvosneverdie]

There you go then man.
Stop at every one on the way.

[jtbo]

Im sure many a man has died trying.
Driven quite quite mad by the twenty four hour day/night.

must be terrible if youre a barn owl as well.
Do they just stay up all winter?

Probably not, people also have brilliant new inventions in their houses, curtains and screen doors

I think that winter is more exciting as you really can't tell time without a clock, there is bit less dark at mid day, but it is very subtle effect at darkest time of year, summer there is sun that is quite low on sky, but it is relatively bright everywhere at night during summer time, I think?

Damn post office workers, they still haven't reply to my questions about how I collect my packages when post office is not open when I'm close to it, maybe they have forget to buy curtains and are loosing their mind already because of that

[volvosneverdie]

Theyre probably too busy loosing things and breaking things to get back to you jt.

[redline]

look at what I found

http://leisure.uk.freeads.net/hobbies/c ... -love/view

[volvosneverdie]

Two words.

GROUP BUY!

[jtbo]

Theyre probably too busy loosing things and breaking things to get back to you jt.

That is so wrong, when I send mail, I except they to stop everything they happen to be doing at the moment and start looking solutions to My problem

[germ]

Iam up for going to Finland, has to be wintertime and in the volvo sooo much fun to be had and don't forget finish chicks, i know a few so im reallly lucky or not depending mostly lucky tho (Red heads FTW!)

Chris do you mean the cool icecream thick ass shakes? if so mhhhhhhh i miss them lol

Iam waiting on a new router, has been over the 10 day wait. my old internet conection is going to be cut off in a few days lol Wheres my router royal mail!!!

[volvosneverdie]

Royal Mail sneaking in with another FAIL to keep us ticking over nicely.

I used to get in Wimpy as much as anyone and I cant remember Squishies at all

Mind you, i was probably too busy salivating over the burgers to notice anything that wasnt a burger.

im up for some Finnish action like. Winter sounds wild mind. Jtbo's youtube drive looks like a fraeky computer game. Scary.

[nomead]

If you completely loose your mind and decide to visit in Finland some day, try Hesburger, it has best beef from cheapo places. But if you would like to get bit different from standard burger, try Hotel Kajanus restaurant at Kajaani, that beef is just something words can't describe, I really can't imagine how beef could be made any better than that, it almost melts in mouth

Hesburger? Bleah. I'll never forgive them for buying out (and then killing off) the competing Carrols chain. I'm more of a McD guy myself. Though last summer when I was in London, I was quite disappointed with the "quality" of the local McD. Fries (chips?) tasted like fried cardboard, burger menu didn't have as many varieties, etc. So please understand, it's not that bad in Finland. Here though I also like to go to Scanburger when I can find one - they seem to be few and far between. But kebab is probably the all-time favourite.

Oh and one really good burger place, Classic Diner in Tampere - Big Tower with 1000g of beef (three patties with bacon and cheese) That should postpone hunger for a slightly longer while than usual.

So who needed those snow caps?

One thing i always wondered about those snow caps - is the opening supposed to be towards the front of the car, or the rear? If front, then isn't it a bit counterproductive?

[jtbo]

Mind you, I drove only 50kph in 2nd video and 75kph in first one, gearbox oil was so thick that I was afraid to go any faster, also engine did sound quite rough and that was only -16 or so.

At the moment there is -26C, just came outside as I tried to record some sound to you, but my equipment do lack of features, sounds are rather weird at these temps, all kind of burbs inside of ground and nearby lakes, trees make bang kind of noises, like you would hit tree with piece of wood.

Got only one weak sound, you need to increase volume quite a bit to really hear it:
http://jtbo.pp.fi/tiedostot/sounds.wav

Closest lake/pond is over 3km away, but there is swamp nearby and sound came from that direction.

I don't care what Hesburger has done, but Donald's can't really even compare in burger taste
Scanburger beef is horrible, can't eat it