huh?

[Wings of a dream]

Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish also spent 9 months playing clarinet in the Finnish Army. Service is mandatory for all men in finland, and he figured that was the easiest way to pass the time...he has never touched the clarinet since.

Tuomas Holopainen, as well as Emmpu and Jukka were in the finnish army for about 9 months. Tuomas hated it but spent most of the time playing trumpet (I think) in the army band.

Marco got out of the traditional finnish stint of being in the army by going to the doctors and saying his mind couldn't deal with it.




Huh Mandatory for all men in Finland? So when are the Bodom guys gonna go? Or did they go already?

And yeah pretty useless thread, so it can be deleted after I get my answer...

 

[Ralf]

Shit, if they kick me out of school I'll be taken to army too...

 

[Angels don't kill]

whaha that's fucked up. I can't emagine tuomas in the army

and do they have to shave there heads as well that would suck.
a bald alexi

hmmm spare me the thoughts of it

 

[Wings of a dream]

whaha that's fucked up. I can't emagine tuomas in the army

and do they have to shave there heads as well that would suck.
a bald alexi

hmmm spare me the thoughts of it

That along with a bunch of other things came to my head when I read about the army thing. Hence that's why I wrote this thread.

 

[M.]

famous people don't have to obey the law.
DUH!!
or maybe that's just america?

 

[Lanterns]

Alexi used to suffer from severe depression, he even attempted suicide once. He used to cut himself very bad too.

You do the math...

 

[Yetti]

[nelson]HA-HA![/nelson] @ mandatory military service

 

[Ralf]

if you'd border with Russia you'd have mandatory military service in America too

 

[Pohjatuuli]

whaha that's fucked up. I can't emagine tuomas in the army

and do they have to shave there heads as well that would suck.
a bald alexi

hmmm spare me the thoughts of it

Yep, it's mandatory here in Finland, but you can also go on non-military service. While military service is 6, 9 or 12 months (9 normally, 12 for officers), non-military service is always 12 months. You have to shave your heads in military service, but off course not in non-military. I guess Alexi and other Bodom guys have taken the non-military then

 

[Wings of a dream]

Yep, it's mandatory here in Finland, but you can also go on non-military service. While military service is 6, 9 or 12 months (9 normally, 12 for officers), non-military service is always 12 months. You have to shave your heads in military service, but off course not in non-military. I guess Alexi and other Bodom guys have taken the non-military then

So what do you do in the non-military service?

 

[PanzerKunt]

Non military service is ultra gay. You gotta work in a kindergarten or pick up litter or some other lameass 3rd world citizen job.

 

[Angels don't kill]

hehe I already see the bodom guys chilling in a kindergarten

hmm mandatroy glad I'm not an finnish guy

 

[Justinschut]

Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish is gay

 

[Angels don't kill]

^ not

 

[Lanterns]

Who cares about Holopainen's sexual oriantation...he makes good (if sometimes *somewhat* cheesy) music, that's what counts.

 

[Chainsaw_Gutsfuck]

Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish is gay

Agreed

And I think Janne wrote on this board that none af the bandmebers have done it (yet)

 

[CadalMord]

9 normally

That's 6. It's 9 for example for MP's and medics.

non-military service is always 12 months.

That's 13 actually.

I guess Alexi and other Bodom guys have taken the non-military then

No, they haven't done their service yet. I'm not sure about Roope but anyways. And if the other guys can somehow make excuses not to do any service before they turn 29 years, they won't have to do it at all.

 

[Heavenscent]

Nightwish isn't even that bad. If only that air-raid alarm would keep its mouth shut...

 

[Profanity]

That is the sexiest voice in Metal.

 

[CadalMord]

That is the sexiest voice in Metal.

Marco Hietala?