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Finland Releases National Emoji Collection (theguardian.com)
jones_supa writes: Finland has rolled out images of a couple in a sauna, a legendary Nokia phone (the 3310) and a heavy metal music fan as part of a set of official national emojis to be used in communication. Billing the use of national symbols for themed emojis as a world first, the government plans to publish the full set in December – for anyone in the world to download on its promotional website. "The Finland emojis were designed with a tongue in cheek approach, but I hope that they will tell the world not only about our special features but also something about our strengths," said Petra Theman, director for public diplomacy at the foreign ministry.
Is there a proper 'tongue-in-cheek' emoji?
Being your rebuttal contained no substance, I'm inclined to believe the OP
Or you could take 5 seconds to Google the answer. Finland's taxes are 44% of GDP. America's taxes are 27% of GDP.
List of countries by tax revenue as a percent of GDP.
Being your rebuttal contained no substance...
I pointed out that you are uninformed. What you choose to do with that substance is up to you.
... I'm inclined to believe the OP until someone presents a more informative reply than yours.
There's a third option: Do some research on your own. It involves more work, and it's not as fun as spitting pre-digested arguments that you really don't understand with anonymous people on-line, but you'll end up being far less prone to Sheepism than you are right now.
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They're not official until they get their own Unicode block.
I applaud the idea as a jab against the many emoji that are specific to Japan that got through Unicode's standardization process (*cough*U+1F5FF*cough*). Because if Japan could do it, why Finland can't?
--- Sueños del Sur - a webcomic about four young siblings
Another sign Idiocracy is the way we are going: the government feels using cutsy pictograms is an alternative to real sentences.
but I hope that they will tell the world not only about our special features but also something about our strengths
Finland's strength is in abandoning modern human languages and reverting to a hieroglyphic method of communication similar to the ancient Egyptians. Their strength is also in eliminating the need for language or spelling classes in their educational system, thereby saving tons of money. 0xffe3 0xf329 0x3f87!
Is it going to have satwcomic's 'special' lion with a sword thru the forehead?
3 emojis does not a collection make young padawan!
Did the Rooskies ever return the land they took from Finland before WWII?
Did you know that WWII started in September 1939? The "Winter War" took place in 1940
I know some people on slashdot think that WWII started Dec 7, 1941
and by culture you mean the chikan culture or the vomiting porn.
The emoji of the people in the sauna shows them as being naked. This is highly offensive to most religious people.
In highly related news, the following articles were linked in the story from TFA:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
and I want to "gun skull" someone.
Maybe if the locals were freed to make a vote on ceding from Russia and rejoining Finland. It worked for Crimea didn't it?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Why is it that when something bad is said about a nation, the automatic reaction is to compare it to the US like the US is the gold standard of everything.
I would tend to say that the US has high crime rates mostly because we have multiple cultures living in one country. Finland and Japan are pretty much homogeneous.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
The western world has enjoyed adding a bit of color and play to simple text messaging by mixing words and pictures for centuries. Rebus
The geek of course has his emoticons with their roots in the IRC chat and telegraphy. How to Type Emoticons ASCII art is as old as the typewriter.
The geek's distaste for emoji is irrational. The use of pictographs to supplement and enrich terse messages sent over low bandwidth connections makes perfect sense, as does building a strong visual as well as verbal vocabulary.
My new drinking game for Fridays is that every time someone mentions "SJWs" in a post, I have to take a drink.
I think we're off to a good start here.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I have a Nokia 635 so I'll be able to use these!
Egyptians had emojis like over 4000 years ago. The rest of us are just now catching up.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Why is it that when something bad is said about a nation, the automatic reaction is to compare it to the US like the US is the gold standard of everything.
It's definitely not, but the reason I compared to the US is because, in all likelihood, the anti-emoji poster above is American, so comparing to his own fucked-up country is entirely relevant. He's most likely American for simple reasons: this is an American site, and the majority of its users are American. He also writes like an American, and his obnoxious, ignorant attitude is extremely typical of American posters here. Usually, you don't see citizens of other nations here trashing various countries; that's something that's typical for Americans but not others.
I think you'll find that others eg inhabitants of the Sudetenland from the time will tell you their WW2 started in 1938. Being a Brit, I was brought up on the '39-'45 timescale but that obviously neglects the before and after that sears the national consciousness of many other countries.
"I know some people on slashdot think that WWII started Dec 7, 1941"
I've been to the war museum in NOLA (it bills itself as the National Museum I recall) and it doesn't represent WW2 in quite the same way as war museums I have visited in UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France. However the museum in New Orleans does star Tom Hanks - the other places I've visited can't compete with that.
My birthday is Dec 7 (and I am aware it is the day that Pearl Harbour was attacked.)
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"Finland and Japan are pretty much homogeneous."
Attempting to describe any country as homogenous is not a very good idea. I (possibly) understand where you are coming from but even within notional national boundaries there are other identities. For example (somewhere I do know about) within the UKoGB&NI, there are at least four national identities (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) then there are the other - relatively - nationalistic movements such as Cornwall (Kernow) and others that arise from time to time. You may or may not know or at least be dimly aware of Eire - the Republic of Ireland - which was once part of GB and gaining independence in the last century. Then as we slide back through time it gets increasingly complicated and involves bits of what we now know as France and Denmark with a light dusting of Sweden and a host of supporting characters. That's just the collection of islands to the right of mainland Europe. The history of the rest is a massively complicated web that has to be studied to be believed.
Notions of nationhood and ideas of some form of homogeneity just don't work. Apart from anything else, try and define what a nation really is. For example is Wales really a nation? Yes!! From one perspective it is part of England (I'm English). It is referred to as a "principality" and has a Prince of Wales (currently Prince Charles.) The Queen (Elizabeth), who is actually many queens eg Queen of Australia and and many other countries and in this case of Great Britain which includes Wales as part of England and Scotland. When we add in Northern Ireland we get the United Kingdom of GB and NI. Despite all that, Wales has a National Assembly ie local government and there is a national language which is fairly pretty widely spoken alongside English.
Japan and Finland both have a history that is rich and deep and bloody complicated. I know this purely because I know how the history of Europe works in some detail and I am gradually working my way out.
Parochialism is an easy trap to fall into. Please read and travel more: the world is an amazingly diverse place. You think the US is a bit mixed up? You have no idea mate. I'll give you three books to read for starters: "Germania" by Simon Winder, "1000 Years of Annoying the French" by Stephen Clarke and "Stalingrad" by Antony Beevor. All three are admittedly by British authors.
Anyway - there is no such thing as a homogenous country.
You're gonna die from alcohol poisoning. SJWs SJWs SJWs SJWs
Thank me later.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
If you're Chinese you may say that it started even sooner.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Yeah, the rape of Nanking is high culture, indeed. On the other hand, the Finn's are awesome, generally. They stand up against USSR and doesn't afraid of anything.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
I call your rape of Nanking and raise you a Trail of Tears, Jim Crow, slavery until the 1860s, lynchings until the 1960s or so, and police that shoot black men in the back in the 2010s.
Meh, those don't even come close to the total number of dead due to Japanese atrocities. Hell, you can even include all the natives wiped out by the various diseases in that number and it's still not even close. Shit, just in China they killed more and raped more. That's a mighty fine culture you've got there. Don't you still worship dead war criminals?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Well you're still murdering black people left and right in 2015 so I don't think you have much of a leg to stand on with your shitty "culture".
There's a huge difference between a country doing it to itself and a country invading another and committing atrocities up to and including medical experiments on life human beings. That you somehow think pointing to another country and claiming that they did something bad too is kind of unusual. I'm not actually sure what you're trying to prove. They pointed out that Japan has a rich cultural heritage and I pointed out that they do, indeed, have such a thing - albeit an immoral one. Hell, not even moral relativism helps this out.
It was bad. Just bad. They've a huge history or such behavior but, usually, kept it to themselves. Then they kind of flipped a cookie in the early 1900s and decided to try that whole empire thing. Pointing to others and saying, "You did it too!" Is not a valid rebuttal, it's just silly and childish. Accept it and move on. You'll be okay - you probably weren't even there. They seem to have, mostly, cleaned up their society since then. The only disconcerting thing that remains (that I know of) is their continued fascination with ancestral worship of war criminals but that's mostly harmless. I'd not call that culturally rich, however.
The height of culture must be anime and little girl panties out of a vending machine... Or preteen tentacle rape...
Alright, so that last line's kind of trolling. It's Friday (well Saturday morning) so I do insist on a little leeway and not have completely salient points.
If we wanted to get into the nitty gritty of every single culture on the planet, well, they're all probably lacking in some way. So, if you wanted to make a valid rebuttal that's how I'd have suggested you go about it. Hell, even my people have their faults and frailties. I'm Native American, from the Micmac tribe - mostly, and it seems my people hoarded a bunch of food and let a whole bunch of other natives die during some hard winters. We weren't really a warring people but evidence suggests that we could have shared our food and still been kept alive. Even my Irish and English heritage isn't without blight. I have a small amount of African in me, I don't know much about it, however. We can only trace ourselves back to around the Revolutionary War.
So, I guess my point is, lighten up Francis. Japan does have some culturally rich aspects but they've also committed (as a country, largely dead now) some atrocities that resulted in tens of millions of deaths. Some of those deaths were, shall we say, quite unnecessary. I'm pragmatic enough to understand the desire to expand and create an empire. Things like the Rape of Nanking were wholly unnecessary, however. I mean, c'mon now... At least Hitler had the decency to try to hide it.
Either way, pointing out things that a country has done to itself as a comparative to something done to them by a different country isn't really a good logical argument. I'm not sure what you were hoping to prove by that. Surely you had a point, right?
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Finns will understand
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APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
My point was that no matter what culture you name, we have it in the US. The cities are mixes of numerous cultures, Chinatown, the Italian district, the Irish quarter etc etc. Japan and Sweden, and even UK don't have the variety that any of the thousands of US cities has. This culture clash causes many of the issues the US has. Because of the culture clashes, any gang or mafia, or other criminal organization has a presence in the US, so we look violent mainly due to the numerous cultures.
I was refuting this:
The Japanese have far more culture than you'll ever have. "riffraff"? "low class"? Japan is a nation where there's virtually no petty crimes. Finland probably isn't much worse. America OTOH is full of crime and poverty by comparison.
The US has far more culture than just about any other country, because we have all of the world's cultures, and all the world problems get imported here, so we have large amounts of violence (which can mostly be tied to a few cultures).
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?