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This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] | This joke has taken on a life of its own. Some of members of Redbrick work in Google and they slipped in an ad to Google's ads: [http://thedeadone.net/?p=194 Redbrick has an Army?] | ||
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From: Disposable Teen <bosco@RedBrick.DCU.IE> | |||
Newsgroups: redbrick.babble | |||
Subject: Re: Internet addiction | |||
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:25:51 +0000 (UTC) | |||
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 Captain Olimar <myk@RedBrick.DCU.IE> wrote: | |||
> From Ireland.com | |||
> | |||
> Helsinki: A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full | |||
> term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the | |||
> Finnish Defence Forces announced yesterday. | |||
> | |||
> Doctors found that the young men miss their computers too much to cope | |||
> with their compulsory six months in the forces. | |||
> | |||
> "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any | |||
> friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big | |||
> shock," said Commander-Captain Jyrki Kivela at the military conscription | |||
> unit. | |||
> | |||
> "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come | |||
> back and we ask if they are okay ... they will have had time to grow | |||
> up." | |||
> | |||
> "We are very proud of our Finnish men. Eighty-two per cent of all | |||
> Finnish men manage their whole military service," Commander Kivela | |||
> added. | |||
> | |||
> | |||
Finland has an army? | |||
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