SENSE - The Finns make none. That's how I feel at the moment.

The rerun of the 2009 season finale of the soap drama Salatut Elämät (or "Concealed Lives") was not broadcast today as scheduled. The reason might be that the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority is investigating the contents of that episode. It caused a huge stir in public, as it depicted a live burial of a pregnant woman and a gas explosion in a restaurant inside which almost the entire cast was at the moment.

Now, I must clarify that I'm not a fan of this show and that I do not care about the series' future from now on. But here's my point:

WHAT THE SCREAMING, BLEEDING FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
In TV and in that series alone, we see things much more horrifying than those. The live burial and the explosion were even depicted in a very euphemized fashion.
Secondly, people are responsible for their choices on what they watch on TV and what they let their kids watch on TV.

It doesn't make sense that only NOW people here in Finland are shocked by something which is pure fiction. This children's PSA [link] from 1986, which warned kids about weak ice, used to traumatize thousands of children, including me. It took me 17 years to gather the strength to see and hear it in its entirety without being scared shitless. Nobody acknowledged this issue in public. I shit you not, THIS is the scariest material Finnish TV has ever had, and will always have, to offer.

Well, enough with that. That's not my war to fight, I just wanted to give my two cents upon the matter.

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The USB terminal of my camera is broken. The only way to solve the problem was to buy a memory card reader. The only con is that I'm no longer able to update the firmware of my cam. The current firmware works wonderfully though, so that's not a realistic problem.

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As of now, the worst film I've ever seen is Chain Reaction aka House of Blood [link] . It is tries to be a horror film about a... uh... well, the plot of the movie is utterly undecipherable, so I'll rather tell you folks what it includes:

- German (99% of the cast) actors who act American men with thick German accent in their speech. (Seriously. How did they manage to get Jürgen Prochnow into that abomination of a movie?)
- One actor whose catchphrase is "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
- A dead bird falling of a tree in slow-motion. (This shot is repeated a few times during the movie, and is not even connected to the "plot".)
- "The Matrix" -zombies.
- A recurring car crash.
- A small white rock tumbling down a hill in slow-motion. (This shot is also repeated and has as much to do with the "plot" as the bird shot.)
- Horrible music which never fits with the movie's themes.
- A close up of a bloody pair of testicles.
- Automatic shotguns which are magically reloaded by handing them over to some other guy.
- Sound effects which are horribly out of sync.
- A guy who tries to impersonate Sir Anthony Hopkins.

All that in an inconsistent chaos of sound and images. It might give you a few laughs of pity, but it sure will ruin your movie night. No other movie makes you feel as WTF as this one.

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Tinnunculus

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1. Pier. HDR [link]
2. Seitenjärvi. HDR [link]
3. Bridges. HDR [link]
4. Rantapuisto. HDR [link]
5. Likolampi. HDR [link]


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