As of June 4th 2010 youngsters are forbidden by school regulations to come to the school with tractors to get their summer report cards in Nivala, Finland, since the tractors are said to cause dangerous situations. It has been a long lasting tradition to drive a tractor to school at the final school day. One can get a tractor driving license at the age of 15.



I am saddened by this news and living in a farm milieu myself I can understand the disappointment this will cause.

[swervedriver]

That's a fantastic tradition. Is it just one school or are more going to follow now?

[Keeker]

As of June 4th 2010 youngsters are forbidden by school regulations to come to the school with tractors to get their summer report cards in Nivala, Finland, since the tractors are said to cause dangerous situations. It has been a long lasting tradition to drive a tractor to school at the final school day. One can get a tractor driving license at the age of 15.



I am saddened by this news and living in a farm milieu myself I can understand the disappointment this will cause.

Brilliant tradition! I am sad that the 'Health & Safety' brigade are spoiling it for you.

The original piece of news talked only about one school. Though this could be the start of more restrictions on tractor-driving. In related news it is said that youngsters' tractor-driving has started to become a problem around some places. It was pointed out that farming tractors can weight over tonnes and that their legal speed limit is around 25 mph.

A tractor driving at it's legal speed limit has roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a an average car driving at 40mph. That means they do the same amount of damage when they crash in to something.

It was pointed out that farming tractors can weight over tonnes

That's more or less a given. About 5 or 6 tons would be a start point for an agricultural tractor. Combination of torque and momentum can be way more lethal to opposing objects than cars.
I have (ahem) known people who, as teenagers drove tractors over the top of cars and through walls, with minimal damage to the tractor, but fairly devastating consequences for the cars and walls.

Heavy-duty farm cider and tractors can be a bad combination.

driving a tractor to school

thats fucking metal

driving a tractor to school

thats fucking metal

But if said event took place in the midwest of the United States, they would be written off as hillbillies! Either way, I'd laugh if something like that took place here.

driving a tractor to school

thats fucking metal

But if said event took place in the midwest of the United States, they would be written off as hillbillies!

pretty much, yep

driving a tractor to school

thats fucking metal

But if said event took place in the midwest of the United States, they would be written off as hillbillies!

pretty much, yep

Well I'm glad you don't consider us as hillbillies.

I would like to re-iterate how much I hate canker sores.

I would like to re-iterate how much I hate canker sores.

Put more ketchup on your food.

RE: Lauri,
Here's the problem, tonight my dinner was homemade pizza, and I love piling on the sauce.
I also like piling on the chillies, because I LOVE the pain! Just not the pain of the damn lip sore which ruins the experience. The experience of coffee, tea, or any other food that isn't a cold water bottle is also effected. Medicine I bought seems to be taking its time. How it mocks me.

RE: Lauri,
Here's the problem, tonight my dinner was homemade pizza, and I love piling on the sauce.
I also like piling on the chillies, because I LOVE the pain! Just not the pain of the damn lip sore which ruins the experience. The experience of coffee, tea, or any other food that isn't a cold water bottle is also effected. Medicine I bought seems to be taking its time. How it mocks me.

Sometimes when I have those canker sores I irritate the sore so much that it goes numb for a while. But I do almost cry when i do that: I bite it, I put salt or ketchup on it and I rub it with my tongue. I am not sure if it is wise though But it helps when I want to enjoy my dinner.

I've used mouth water-like stuff that you spit out for the sores too. But in my experience they take two days before they really help. I've also heard that milk helps to ease the pain a bit.

Some fucktard sabotaged one of my beehives - took the lid off and was trying to remove frames from the top super. presumably to steal honey. Clearly they were interrupted at that point by about 40,000 angry bees and absconded because I found the roof chucked off to one side and three frames scattered on the ground.

Less good was that it has been raining very heavily the past couple of days (so all the bees were in the hive, which would have been even more of a shock for the would be thief). I suspect it had only happened last night or this morning but the bees and the inside of the hive were drenched. this is not good for bees.

It was only by pure chance that we went to check on them today. Otherwise it wouldn't have been until the weekend by which time we would have lost the whole colony...

Why are people so stupid? I mean even if I was a thieving asshole, a beehive is not the place I would choose to go thieving...

That's what you get for living so close to the Hundred Acre Wood...