Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Oh, How I Missed My Family!
It is brilliant, a huge space adventure that indulges the nostalgia of the first three films whilst simultaneously bringing the franchise up to date.
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Bad Customer Service Pisses Me Off
Taunting a customer is fiendish and pisses me off.
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My Lack of Proper Finnish Is Like Only Being Able to Walk Backwards
One trap that foreigners can find themselves falling into over here in Finland is that situation where your understanding of the native tongue becomes little more than the formalities and trivialities.
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A Trip to the Autumn Cabin Makes Me Most Productive
The cabin is a great place to work at this time of year, the low temperature and darkness ensure that everybody fervently pulls together until we have accomplished the luxuries of light and warmth, once these tasks are completed work can commence.
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The Serenity of Succumbing to Your Age
I’m in my mid 30’s, I have reached the halfway point of global life expectancy, in five years I will have reached the halfway point of Finland’s male life expectancy.
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FILM REVIEW: 007 Spectre is Confusing And a Bit Weak if Anything
Due to the incredible success of the last Bond film Skyfall, I was pretty sure that Mendes would play it safe and give us something in a similar vein, but the more I think about the film the more I think Skyfall may have been a fluke.
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Autumn Makes Me Miss a Steady Salary
It is times like this that I do miss my old work-life. The boring but predictable call centres of my youth were always warm and bright and guaranteed you a consistent pay-check at the end of each month.
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I Came to Finland Three Years Ago, But it Feels Like a Lifetime
I celebrated my three-year anniversary in Finland recently which is a very big thing, almost as big as my seven-year anniversary of watching the Bad Brains perform at London Astoria eight years ago but I digress.
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KKK and the Barrage of Dumb-Arse-Ry
In an act with about as much class as school on Christmas Day, a mob of alabandical “patriots” decided they would intimidate some very vulnerable families, waste police time and embarrass the country they seem so proud of.
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Why Are We So Obsessed With Making Life Hard For Each Other?
As the sci-fi Robert Heinlein writer so eloquently put it “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” So why are we so obsessed with making our short time here so hard for each other?
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COLUMN: About Finland, England, Refugees and Empathy
I know this crisis is bigger than we can comprehend but together people can do something and if we don’t it will be the shame of our grandchildren that we will face when they learn of our complicitness.
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Column: Naked Cavalier and The Smugglers of Finnish
How they managed to get us all talking in this new language is beyond me, it’s like teaching a fish to climb a tree.
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I Am the Proud Antithesis of Olli Immonen’s Ethos
With Gaelic, Celtic, Scandinavian, West African and Carib Indian ancestry and a wider family that is made up of about every demographic on the planet my children and I are the proud antithesis of Immonen’s ethos.
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This is Why It’s My Duty to Tell You Why the Finnish Cheese Slicer is Great
As a sort of herald of life in Finland it is my duty to put straight the myths and inform of the wonders of the country.
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I love summer, I really, really love summer
For me summer is a time to indulge in a sun drenched, languid apathy. A barbecue here, a white wine spritzer there, nothing too fancy and nothing too potentially stress inducing.
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Oh My God, I Live in Finland!
Have you ever had that dream when you suddenly wake in a mild panic thinking to yourself “Oh my god, I live in Finland!?”
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I Hope they Don’t Screw Up the Finnish Education System
Alec Kyle Sibbald explains why the education system failed in his home country and why Finland is taking a leap in the wrong direction.
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The Naked Cavalier
Finland Today columnist Alec Kyle Sibbald explores the working life in Finland from the perspective of an immigrant.
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