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everyone should check out moonsorrow under penalty of death. :lol:

Oh, and speaking of gambling, the following anecdote:
My girlfriend's aunt used to play the lottery every day. For 30 years, she picked the same 5 (or however many) numbers. Every day. She never won. But one day, she could not make it to the gas station (she had some other pressing engagement or was sick or out of town, I can't remember correctly. She couldn't go.) so she gave a dollar to her mother-in-law and told her to play this game and pick these 5 numbers.

Her mother-in-law (let me preface this by saying I HATE HATE HATE when people act this way, no matter the situation, it is so fucking stupid and I wish they would just listen instead of thinking they know better and that they can show you up or think for you cause they're so effing smart.) ...

Anyway, her mother-in-law went and saw the tickets at the counter, asked the clerk about them, decided to buy a different game (because it was two plays for a dollar, so double the chances! I'm so smart teehee.) And she picked different numbers (why's the old bag play the same boring old numbers anyway right?)

Well turns out, those same old numbers won the 50 million dollar jackpot that day and my girlfriend's aunt was about as fucking pissed as anyone would be who just got handed a check for 50mil and someone running by tore it in half.
 
DoomsdayZach said:
but that's only one I after the k...

here's the reason i even bring it up. There's a song called Kaiku by moonsorrow (which even people who don't like moonsorrow should check out... awesome fucking mellow acoustic song). The title translates to "echo" and the line is:

kiirii laulu isien kaikuna ain
laulu isien kaikuna ain

which translates to:

the song of our fathers echoes

I was just curious what kiirii translates to because I don't understand what impact it has on the phrase which is repeated sans "kiirii".

I don't know if i make any sense either, so hopefully.... whatever.
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Kiirii translates roughly to "reach". :) I believe it's basic form is "kiiriä" (never heard that in use though), the form "kiirii" is mainly used in poems, lyrics and in spoken language.

Kaiku joka kiirii kauas -> An echo that reaches far.

kiirii laulu isien kaikuna ain
laulu isien kaikuna ain

Forever as an echo the song of our fathers reaches*. (the arrangement of words sucks, I know)

(*in this context "hears" or "sounds" can be used too, whatever suits better)
 
Kirii can also be translate to "reach" but it's used in different context. For example "loppukiri" means final push as in sports. Kirii is the verb form: hän kirii (jotakin) -> he is reaching/approaching (something.)
 
So, I finally got around to watching the SymX vids from the last special edition CD. Well, really, I finally got around to cleaning my desk a little and actually found the CD case. But I shouldnt' let on to that type of behavior, should I? The cleaning part, I mean? :lol:

Anyway, I found it very cool that "Of Sins And Shadows" was shot at the Journal Pavilion in Albuquerque, NM. That is bad ass!
 
Good story from yesterday. Jax will especially appreciate this one methinks :lol:

So my buddy is back from school and his girlfriend came with him. We went to visit my brother down in Centralia (which some of you will remember both Jax and myself describing as... a shithole. Total redneck place) and we wanted to show my buddy's girlfriend some of the local color. So, we decided to take a trip to Shop N' Kart, which is just the fucking worst grocery store ever... it's such a shithole and you're guarenteed to see some of Lewis County's finest there. So we see just the regular-ass white trash there getting groceries and such, nothing special.

Well, we go out in the parking lot and the girl goes "Oh my god, is that a horse in that truck?" which honestly didn't really phase me because there's a lot of people with horses down there. And cows and goats. It just is part of the landscape. the thing is, none of the trucks were hooked up to horse trailers, so i got confused. Then I looked in the bed of the truck she was pointed at and saw a big black mass, but it was just a matress covered with a tarp or something.

Then I looked in the cab of the pickup (extended cab) and in the back seat was a FUCKING HORSE sitting there in the goddamn truck! Never have I laughed so fucking hard at anything because it was just a perfect illustration of Lewis County.
 
That's awesome Zach! Completely unrelated is what is going on just across the street from where I work. Needless to say, this area is a shithole, and there have already been cars broken into in broad daylight, amongst every kind of vandalism possible. I made it known that for $1 USD more per hour, I'll sit up on the roof and start picking these little bastards (& big bastards too) with a 30-06...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-apartment-checkpoint-web-jun18,0,7435848.story

In a way, I DO feel bad for the decent people who live there, but in an article posted on Friday, 75% of the people who live there think it's a great idea....
 
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