The drug-fuelled misadventures of a Finnish WW2 soldier | QI - BBC 

Hei! Siitäkö se termi tulee? :D

@@SK-nw4ig Valitettavasti ei. "Aimo" on ollut mainiota, runsasta jne. tarkoittava termi monta vuosikymmentä, mahdollisesti ollut käytössä jo ennen kuin siitä tuli miehen nimi. Mutta jos ulkomaalainen kysyy niin kyllä se tulee ;D

@@Taisto-Perkele dang. Ois ollut hyvä.

@@SK-nw4igMieti nyt vähän... Harvoin asia tulee nimestä, eikä toisinpäin. Yks poikkeus on se että mielivaltaisuus oikeudessa tulee siitä, kun Mielivalta niminen hämäläinen tuomari käytti valtaansa väärin Leväjärven käräjillä :DDD

@@SairanBurghausen tokihan on paljonkin termejä, jotka tulevat nimistä. Röntgen, huligaani, giljotiini, allit... :D

I can’t imagine what kind of story the winner must have told!

@@hks2377"you see, I was hiding in Hitler's couch during WW2..."

I think the fct that it came second is a hilarious detail.

​@@asheep7797They were not enemies so I don't think that's it😊

​@SvensktTroll they were though. Lapland war, Finland vs. Germany.

beat me to it ! was about to say the same thing.

The Fat Electrician is awesome. His retelling of this story is fantastic. This clip left out a lot of the story.

Yes

My sister used to work in emergency medicine, the number of patients who stepped on landlines and blew up a foot after fighting imaginary wolverines while on a massive meth bender is just insane ....

@@lilymarinovic1644 we've all done that

Lived till 71 years old.

Extreme cold helped to keep him alive but it's still insane how he survived that dose.

Finnish speed dealers in those days were well known to cut the pills with grain flower left over from baking

@@JP-oe4ry Perhaps, but the military issued Pervitin came from Germany.

It's a funny story. Even if it's about war you don't have to be party pooper.

Because it’s a panel show, not history channel.

Yes, he was a recon squad member. He was patrolling in Salla area, where landmarks are only trees, trees and more trees. They became a target and had to flee, and he took the pills by accident. Pills were very small and they were all stuck together. His fellow troops took away his ammo, because he was tripping so hard, and one day he was just missing. He once triggered a booby trap and got blasted by a granade. Still skiied, hit a land mine, damaged his leg, was not able to move. He drank only tea made from spruce buds, and only solid food was a jaybird he killed and ate it raw. Two weeks, 400km and finally he was found and delivered to hospital.

Well, I mean he ate a whole jay.

Also prolly ate snow to get hydrated

Iirc he was drinking pine needle tea at the start but at the trip professed he was basically just eating snow

Nobody would believe that movie....

There is many grazy stories for winter war. Simo Häyhä, Aimo Koivunen, Lauri Törni and many more. Hole Finnish nation was hero but those are the guys who became a legend some way. There would be nice movie about them.

Well there were no one to talk with. If he'd be talking by himself you could think he was crazy 😂

Qxir has easily one of the best tellings of this story, which this seems to heavily loan from, or they just have common sources.

It's a true story, but has a lot more to it and it gets added to every time.

Ain’t no way. Ootko suomalainen?

​@@angryfinn7737eiks toljanteri kertonu?

​@@Caldera01haven't heard of that, I'll check it out, thanks!

Ne varmaan aattelee että "skiing" tarkottais pelkkää laskettelua.

@@toveriemppuz1252 Niin tuppaavat tekemään. Aiheuttaa ainakin Briteissä ihmetystä, kun niille kertoo hiihtäneensä kakarana kouluun.

Taisi olla vain humoristinen korostus että hiihti paremmin/kovempaa kuin koskaan, ja vielä ylämäkeen!

@@jukkajokelainen418 Ei kaikki panelistitkaan näyttänyt miltään hiihtäjiltä ja heitä on paljon nykyään Briteissä. Joten kyllä siellä on ihan oikeastikkin täysin ymmärtämätöntä porukkaa tässä suhteessa nykyään.

Nah the real sisu is just a cover for a meth.

IDK if he had a knife, I think his mates took his knife together with his ammunition when they saw what condition he is in. I heard he killed the wolverine (actually a log of wood) with his compass which he thought was a knife…

He survived and lived long life after so why not.

Not quite true.

you'd fight like a bloody spartan too if you were that jacked up on speed

@@stocktonjoansHell, I’d come out of my retirement of being a dedicated, hermit-like, Nana if I dosed up like that. Sod the cats and knitting, let’s gooooo!

USSR did not win. Finland retained its independence and freedom.

But we lost 11% of our land. Like 300k+ people were homeless. We had to pay war reparations. For quite a long time we basically had to be careful what we did and said so it wouldn't anger the USSR. If they said we couldn't do something, we couldn't do it. Or else they would have become angry and very likely done something about it.​@@butterflies655

@@stocktonjoans Oh yeah. But they are mocking of People Who was fightinf for their countries. Their People.

It's a funny story, but I agree. People nowadays cant even begin to comprehend what it was like and how heroic these people were.

Finland's alcohol consumption is in the middle of Europe.

It doesn't matter if it's placebo if it works.

Really!

Just some raver they picked up off of the street. 😂

@@lizzlebizzle5003 i gotta get to those raves then haha my kinda party-goers lol

@@satyasyasatyasya5746 🤣🤣 I hope you find it! 😜

Sandi Toksvig

@@Tao_TologyHa!

The story i read a few years ago about his incident was quite different to what was presented here: this is what i read: The reason he took the pills was because his patrol got ambushed and the rest of his patrol died. He managed to get to cover, and knew he had to flee somehow. So he opened the pillbottle and tried to get one out (while still under fire). Problem was: when you take items from the freezing into the warm there's condensation and when you get back into the cold, the condensation freezes. And so the pills had frozen together and he wasn't able to just get one. But under the stress of getting shot at and the need to be quick, he got the "frozen block" of 30 pills in his mouth and ate/chewed that and fled. And there was no mention of the encounter of the russians or the setting fire to a room. Just that he skiied (cros country skiing not alpine skeeing) the 400km and 2 weeks. The mine and the bird were in the story i read too. And he lived to an old age despite all this.

@@nirfz There are so many versions of this story I'm not sure I believe any of them. I saw one youtube "history" channel claiming he killed hundreds of soviets in the process.

The pills were very small. They were stuck together, and he of course had no idea what the pills were supposed to look like. I was getting dark, they were shot at and followed, so he took that one big lumb and propably chewed it and ate it. The pills must have been in the package for a long time, went through hot periods near campfire and back to freezing cold, back to warm, back to cold. Perhaps the pills had melted a bit along with moisture and in the end was just one bigger chunk. The metal casing is no bigger than a remote control battery and had 30 pills, which were about the size of half a pea.

You seem unaware of the realities of television, which this is oringally made for. There are contracts for everything, including broadcasting rights, which the BBC holds. It will only be aired on tv for a period of time, to draw viewers to the channel. After it has run its course it is sold on or put on repeat on Dave. In todays world, that means RU-vid. They post full episodes, just a few seasons old. It is expensive to make a show like this, they want to make their money back first. There are shows that air straight to YT now. Taskmaster airs directly on US YT, so they don't have to deal with American broadcasters. In the UK it will be on TV first as it is a commercial show and the channel needs to keep the advertisers happy. This clip is to keep the QI channel high in the algorithm, so the full episodes get good exposure. The full episode will eventually be on YT, don't worry.

Yes they are.

Like said yep European version of Wolverines exists. But in all truth he gave a mighty beating to some Finnish tree, I believe it was birch, thinking it was this animal. Anyhow she got things wrong though. He was skiing under fire while trying to get the pills out which had frozen together due moisture in container and could not get just one. Also, it was twice he got blown up, a mine and at some door to a base which had been abandoned. Anyhow - this story was originally told by the guy himself for a writing competition on war stories a after the fact. The thing is that even though I am a Finn - I don't know why he got just second place and what the hell was the first place story about. That stated - real events though.

They indeed are. If you are Finnish you should know that there are "ahma"s here.

Definitely they are native to Finland. They are getting rarer anyway.

There's a whole team of them ;D