BANNED (The Game)

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Banned for pastoralism.

Sylkat is banned for unleashing that wet dog smell.

Mooms is banned for trying to get various people killed in the course of cat-bathing.

Krabo is banned for posting what surely would have been Hitler's favorite You-Tube video of all time: Stukas set to Wagner (Flight of the Valkyries, no less).

I am banned for not taking a picture for Krabo of the ME-262 I saw **in flight** last year.

Banned for not appreciating 'wet dog smell'.

Someone two frames up is banned for not taking into account that Hitler's Stukas obviously saved Finland from falling under Stalin's boots.

Banned for not knowing that I did not know that.

...Or did I? Did they go to Finland after the Siege of Leningrad?

Everyone is banned for not noticing that Theta called it Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries.

That would be Ride of the Valkyries, Theta.

Also, why are my italics and smilies not working???

Banned because although the Valkyries in question were riding their horses, they were flying through the air.

Banned because if Wagner specified that, he did so in German, and I cannot be expected to learn it on top if my other languages.

The German Luftwaffe helped Finland all along the war. However, when the war started, Finland was alone against the Soviet Union. Our front was separate from the German eastern front. No other country was willing to join the Finnish Army in our hopeless struggle against the world's largest land-based military force. However, my ancestors did pretty well in the early months of the war, but little by little it turned out to be impossible.

Understandably, the United States, for example, could not start a separate war on Finland's side against the Soviet Union because the two were already allies. The same goes for most western countries. In fact, the United Kingdom declared war upon Finland but the US never did (and this put Roosevelt in a bit awkward position). But this is something the Finns will always remember.

And, as we all know, Germany eventually lost the whole war and Russia took over most of Eastern Europe, including Finland in relatively mild terms.

Banned because the Valkyries rode their steeds down to Earth from Valhalla to battlefields to collect the souls of valiant warriors.

You knew that....aren't Moomins Finnish?

Didn't the Finns worship Wotan?

And Thor and that bratty Loki?

Not the Finns. It was the Norwegians and other Scandinavians who worshipped them. Finland has been counted among Scandinavia only in modern times. -- We had our own pantheon of which very little is known because in those days nobody could read and write. In fact, my early ancestors didn't know there are such things as reading and writing.

That would account for the spelling then.

Banned for not having Finnish Valkyries, then.

Though I rather doubt that Moomins would be taken to Valhalla, or that they would like it very much there if they were invited.

Our mythology is not as fancy as that of Vikings. And like I said before, little is known about its origin. There was nobody to write it down before the 1800s when Elias Lönnrot compiled our national epic Kalevala, published 1835. He travelled thousands of miles on foot collecting poems and other oral tradition.

I don't have the heart to ban you this time.

Banned: because I couldn't read all that.

Banned: For your impatience

Banned for not clarifying if Moomin Valley has its own Kalevala.

Somehow the vision of a Berserker Moomin in a horned helmet with a shield and six-foot-long battle axe just does not work.

Perhaps all that time ago, Moomins just stayed quietly in their valley raising beans and sheep and keeping bees.

And drinking goat milk.