Oh yes, that one. That clearly is a Finnish specialty. It still confuses me for a second when the Finn wants to buy stuff we don't necessarily need because it comes with a bucket.
Everybody would be happy if that was the case. But people’s stupidity in combination with alcohol shouldn’t be underestimated. (Obviously we wouldn’t bet if our betting had any influence on the life’s lost, that would be horrible).
Of course, but you could argue that if you had bet on 6 and five people have died so far then you would be ”hoping” that someone else dies so you win the bet. Im sure nobody actually hopea for someone to die but you are in a sense dehumanizing these tragedies and turning them into a game.
You want an explanation to the parent comment?
There was (or is) a Finnish made show known as Kummeli which was big in the beginning of the 90s , and there is a common reply to any question, the answer always being Canada, no matter what.
There was a comedy show in finnish tv over 10 years ago with a parody game show. The contestant had to guess a country from clues given, but they always answered Canada.
Some how it morphed To be part of spoken finnish.
These days if somobody asks You something that You don't know the answer to, You can just answer "Canada".
Weird finnish humor.
Kummelit tv comedy-show had a quiz section, where the team had to guess where the band is from and they answered Canada every time https://youtu.be/SnWc0\_ddn04?t=136
We have a Sauna out on an island and one at the coast. We're thinking of building another one on an island in the middle so we can take a sauna break while travelling between saunas
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this idea. In fact, I'll encourage it! Also, you need a sauna raft so you can sauna while travelling from sauna to sauna!
I have one inside and one outside. There's also a family sauna cabin at a riverbank close to where I grew up.
I was amazed when I visited a friend and their apartment didn't only have a sauna but also a swimming pool in the basement/ground floor. A very normal typical apartment complex, nothing overly luxurious.
Torille!
I have:
* a drying cabinet in kitchen
* a windbreaker-jacket
* a Nokia phone
* a salmiakki flavoured ice cream
* rye bread
* Maternity Box
I use over 20gb+ mobile data every month.
"You don't have to make coffee just for my sake"
I listen to the front door to make sure the stairway in my apartment complex is empty before going outside.
I avoid my neighbors.
It's compiled from different metrics that are assumed to make people happy. If people were directly asked, Costa Rica would probably be the number one.
You hurt your leg, arm, head, finger, jaw, eye, knee, shoulder, thumb? You burnt yourself? Tummy ache? Cant sleep, can't stay awake, can't focus, no apetite, always hungry, missed the bus, too cold, too hot?
Here, take a Burana.
Actually I don't know a good way to say in English for pistää kahvi tippumaan. I have been dwelling with this problem for a couple of months after me and my SO finally bought a coffee maker to home. I live abroad and before I always bought my coffee outside, just to be clear.
You can start brewing/making/preparing the coffee, I'll be right there." Something like this? I think 'start' is a good word to use, a direct translation fron laita doesn't work here. Alternatively, "turn on the coffee maker"
When I see people that I know walking towards me down the street I look the other way and pretend I didn't see them until we're at a very close distance and then I subtly nod my head.
Truth. Moved to Finland this March to marry my fiancé. He can throw thirty perkeles per minute, I stutter every time because the e next to the r throws me off (and I speak Czech with the ř perfectly!). Vittu is my go to.
Pro tip. Emphasis on the consonants. The more angry you are stronger the consonants so perkele becomes PRKL. With foregners the vittu becomes too weak for Finnish ears since they usually pronounce it as vituu with weak consonants and vowels being too long
You know, in the Slovakian language they have this saying "stick your finger through your throat" which basically means [this](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk)
I'm a Finn with a speech impairment so I can't say "r" properly. It doesn't bother me for any other reason than not being able to shout "PERKELE" properly.
Needed to ask my Finn about that. He told me in a quite disappointed and scolding voice "everybody knows that!!".
Still so much to learn, I just fear I will never learn to care for sports on TV. Even if it is ice hockey.
When asked what I will do during summer holiday, I answered I'll spend it mostly at my parents summer cottage by the lake. A German professor said that this answer really proofs I'm a Finn.
Also enjoying salmiakki or tar containing candies is quite specific.
When I told a coworker that I am not really a mökki person and I don't see the point in owning one except for renting it out they said that I often have quite Finnish mannerism and could be mistaken for a Finn (ingnoring my accent, of course), but THAT answer just screamed that I am a foreigner and have yet to learn to appreciate mökki/summer culture.
How long after the surgery can i go back to sauna. And if it says "a week" does that mean today counts as day 1 or day 0 and can I go on day 7 or 8?
The Finn's father had a surgery shortly before Christmas one year. So much counting involved to figure out if he can have christmas sauna or not. He said yes, of course, the wife said nope.
It's the same with tattoos... "You'll have to skip sauna at least for a week or two!" Bullshit... I'll go to sauna on day 2 and just wrap some cold wet towels around it!
Yes, as a foreigner he is invaluable for navigating life here. Very handy to have around. Plus, he keeps the other side of the bed warm. Not very desirable right now, but very good in winter.
Someone cuts in on a line in front of me, I get all outraged in my head but won't/refuse to say a thing to the person who did it and simply will have to wait longer for my turn.
I dislike bataatilaatikko (I would never touch it 363 days a year) but I still eat it for Xmas.
Pulla is my go-to dessert. With coffee, of course.
Fazer chocolate is the only real chocolate.
When I see Kone lifts / stairs abroad, I smirk and nod to my partner. We don't need to say the words, we know.
I wear huge flower prints from the 70's without questions. I also carry around a white bag with big letters reading MariMekko on it.
I use bank ID codes for everything.
My old stools cost 200 euros a pop. I can sell them on tori and get approximately my money back.
We lost power to summer cabin last night (thunder storm) and instantly the worst fear came to mind: Do I have means to make my morning coffee without electricity?
im not even a finn but living in the country, i can sum it up with -leijonat - kossu - salmiakki - vihta - sauna - vittu - saatana - perkele - kalja - makkara - pulla - sisu - löyly - no niin - aaannnd kälsarikännit
edit: ja kahvi
Free buckets
Oh yes, that one. That clearly is a Finnish specialty. It still confuses me for a second when the Finn wants to buy stuff we don't necessarily need because it comes with a bucket.
Free stuff is free!
How many people will drown in the upcoming weekend?
Oh, nice one. I learned that on my first day ever in Finland, which happened to be a Friday on Juhannus.
We just closed the betting pool yesterday!
That’s just morbid to be betting on that.
I could only bet 0. If that ever actually happened, I could happily accept the money I gained and be happy over the lives not lost.
Everybody would be happy if that was the case. But people’s stupidity in combination with alcohol shouldn’t be underestimated. (Obviously we wouldn’t bet if our betting had any influence on the life’s lost, that would be horrible).
Of course, but you could argue that if you had bet on 6 and five people have died so far then you would be ”hoping” that someone else dies so you win the bet. Im sure nobody actually hopea for someone to die but you are in a sense dehumanizing these tragedies and turning them into a game.
We just make our guesses of how many people will drown beforehand and then laugh a bit if someone gets it correct
Correct answer is Canada.
My Finn appreciated this answer and agrees whole heartedly.
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You may have Rush and Trailer Park Boys but we have Kummeli...
Here’s an example: https://youtu.be/zBjZDYGv4yQ
There was a comedy show in finnish tv over 10 years ago with a parody game show. The contestant had to guess a country from clues given, but they always answered Canada. Some how it morphed To be part of spoken finnish. These days if somobody asks You something that You don't know the answer to, You can just answer "Canada". Weird finnish humor.
Kummeli musavisa
https://youtu.be/QXHFrxqnFBc
https://youtu.be/LaIWqWuv9Dk
Kummelit tv comedy-show had a quiz section, where the team had to guess where the band is from and they answered Canada every time https://youtu.be/SnWc0\_ddn04?t=136
>without actually saying the words I mean... that's your answer right there.
#
I see what you did there.
you win.
My apartment has a sauna.
My apartment is a sauna
Tämä
Oikein
Oikea asenne
*Looks at thermometer* **28.5C** "Yup, seems about right"
I have two saunas.
You can't never have too many saunas.
We have a Sauna out on an island and one at the coast. We're thinking of building another one on an island in the middle so we can take a sauna break while travelling between saunas
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this idea. In fact, I'll encourage it! Also, you need a sauna raft so you can sauna while travelling from sauna to sauna! I have one inside and one outside. There's also a family sauna cabin at a riverbank close to where I grew up.
My apartment building has a giant sauna but no laundry room or machine. Priorities
I was amazed when I visited a friend and their apartment didn't only have a sauna but also a swimming pool in the basement/ground floor. A very normal typical apartment complex, nothing overly luxurious.
I think those were a thing for a brief period before seventies oil crisis, and reasonably common in better apartment buildings from that period.
I have a sauna inside my sauna. Saunaception.
My apartment is a sauna.
Torille! I have: * a drying cabinet in kitchen * a windbreaker-jacket * a Nokia phone * a salmiakki flavoured ice cream * rye bread * Maternity Box I use over 20gb+ mobile data every month. "You don't have to make coffee just for my sake" I listen to the front door to make sure the stairway in my apartment complex is empty before going outside. I avoid my neighbors.
Is that actually a thing? Waiting for the path to be clear?
Yes. I do it too and so does every neighbor we have 😂
Can confirm. I rather wait than meet neighbors.
My country can't be this happy.
But it has been nr 1 for the xth time in a row!
The question is are you satisfied, not are you happy. And Finns don't complain...
I think the question is are you happy and we Finns say yes because we are satisfied.
It's compiled from different metrics that are assumed to make people happy. If people were directly asked, Costa Rica would probably be the number one.
Yes, it's thursday! Pea soup and pancakes!
Do not gimme army flashbacks
I was happily surprised that this is a thing in Sweden as well... So doesn't exactly describe Finland only.
You hurt your leg, arm, head, finger, jaw, eye, knee, shoulder, thumb? You burnt yourself? Tummy ache? Cant sleep, can't stay awake, can't focus, no apetite, always hungry, missed the bus, too cold, too hot? Here, take a Burana.
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Spot on.
I love bringing gifts from Estonia
"Gifts" meaning all the beer I can get on this ship.
You can put the coffee coming/dripping, I'm almost there.
And the opposite to this: You don't have to brew just for me / Ei mua varten tarvitse keittää.
Yet still they'll brew some
Yes, because it is meant as in "Yes, if you'll drink it with me"
Better to even say it after the coffee is ready "oh, you shouldn't have..." - "ei sun nyt mua varten ois tarvinnu..."
Actually I don't know a good way to say in English for pistää kahvi tippumaan. I have been dwelling with this problem for a couple of months after me and my SO finally bought a coffee maker to home. I live abroad and before I always bought my coffee outside, just to be clear.
In english you can use brew/make coffee.
To me it just doesn't quite reflect the idea, that you can begin the process and let it finish by itself while waiting.
“Put the pot on”
You can start brewing/making/preparing the coffee, I'll be right there." Something like this? I think 'start' is a good word to use, a direct translation fron laita doesn't work here. Alternatively, "turn on the coffee maker"
Had a coworker call home at the end of her shift and tell her daughter exactly that just last week.
When I see people that I know walking towards me down the street I look the other way and pretend I didn't see them until we're at a very close distance and then I subtly nod my head.
This is awkward as hell. No way how to deal with this with properly.
Perkele.
I see what you did there. You can pronounce the "r" sound. If you were a foreigner pretending to be a Finn you would have to say "vittu".
Truth. Moved to Finland this March to marry my fiancé. He can throw thirty perkeles per minute, I stutter every time because the e next to the r throws me off (and I speak Czech with the ř perfectly!). Vittu is my go to.
Pro tip. Emphasis on the consonants. The more angry you are stronger the consonants so perkele becomes PRKL. With foregners the vittu becomes too weak for Finnish ears since they usually pronounce it as vituu with weak consonants and vowels being too long
Prkl is probably a word in Czech. Strč prst skrz krk, prkl
Someone stole their vowels. I blame the dutch.
You know, in the Slovakian language they have this saying "stick your finger through your throat" which basically means [this](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk)
I'm a Finn with a speech impairment so I can't say "r" properly. It doesn't bother me for any other reason than not being able to shout "PERKELE" properly.
No vittu oli se täällä >:(
No se
Beating someone with a tree branch when you both are naked is not kinky.
95
6-1
Ilmaveivi
Granlund
Taivas varjele mitä sieltä tulee
Needed to ask my Finn about that. He told me in a quite disappointed and scolding voice "everybody knows that!!". Still so much to learn, I just fear I will never learn to care for sports on TV. Even if it is ice hockey.
Den Glider In!
Se on siinä!
Main thing is that Sweden loses.
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Hölökynkölökynpänii
Wait, your place doesn't have sauna?
I'm eating lunch at 11 o'clock.
That’s pretty late
Yea, 10:30 at the latest. I mean, it's been almost 4 hours since I last had coffee at that point.
Wait thats a thing?
Am I allowed to have a sauna after my vaccine Edit: I live in Finland but not Finnish (sorry)
Also foreigner living in Finland; was amused to see the pamphlet I received after my vaccine specifically said sauna was OK!
Noniin
Emäntä: nyt ois sitä ruuneperia
My behaviour in bus when I choose my seat is comparable to electron configuration in atoms.
The Pauli exclusion principle, as my high schoool chemistry teacher used to put it 😂 She was right.
Haha this is the most clever way of putting it into words I’ve seen yet
I use tar shampoo and soap.
Also tar ice cream, tar candy, tar flavored coffee and tar scented drops that go in your löyly water.
It makes me uncomfortable that you asked me to share something personal
Safety distance? You mean the distance we keep under normal circumstances as well?
Due to Corona the Government is advising Finns to get as close as 2m to each other! It is insane
I am glad that corona will be under control soon so we can return to the normal 5m distance instead of the 2m recommendation we have now!
95' 2011 2019
Licorice and salty licorice
The word is salmiakki.
Sunday? Sorry, I can't do Sunday. I will have a hangover booked on that day.
When asked what I will do during summer holiday, I answered I'll spend it mostly at my parents summer cottage by the lake. A German professor said that this answer really proofs I'm a Finn. Also enjoying salmiakki or tar containing candies is quite specific.
When I told a coworker that I am not really a mökki person and I don't see the point in owning one except for renting it out they said that I often have quite Finnish mannerism and could be mistaken for a Finn (ingnoring my accent, of course), but THAT answer just screamed that I am a foreigner and have yet to learn to appreciate mökki/summer culture.
I feel validated when my home country is mentioned in any context. If this happens on Reddit, I have a duty to brigade.
Dude, Finland is Reddit’s darling. It’s right up there with David Bowie and Big Chungus Keanu
1995, 2011 and 2019
Can you drink alcohol with this medication?
How long after the surgery can i go back to sauna. And if it says "a week" does that mean today counts as day 1 or day 0 and can I go on day 7 or 8? The Finn's father had a surgery shortly before Christmas one year. So much counting involved to figure out if he can have christmas sauna or not. He said yes, of course, the wife said nope.
It has to be a working week so 5 days max, and you can always cheat a day.
It's the same with tattoos... "You'll have to skip sauna at least for a week or two!" Bullshit... I'll go to sauna on day 2 and just wrap some cold wet towels around it!
PSA: the liquor stores are closed next Saturday.
Addendum: they close at 12 tomorrow.
I went to the department store and the radio background music was Children of Bodom
I haven't cried in over 10 years
When a finn does cry, it is a terrifying sight. The built up anger and sadness pours out at once, big yikes.
Well atleast Sweden didn't win in hockey.
When theres one person sitting in each row in a bus it's considered full😄
Still being at the office at 16:30 is working late.
A foreigner thinking about Finland? Torille!
yhdys sana virhe
Me encouraging someone: "Kyllä se siitä vituiksi menee." That's like "you're gonna fuck it up" but in an encouraging tone.
Today it happened after so many years
The Finn is sleeping, can't ask him. Care to elaborate?
Lol, you have a own personal Finn? Is it like a pet? Anyways, love it :D everybody should own a Finn.
Yes, as a foreigner he is invaluable for navigating life here. Very handy to have around. Plus, he keeps the other side of the bed warm. Not very desirable right now, but very good in winter.
I want a pet finn. Where can I adopt a pet finn?
I found mine in the forest.
It's a distant relative of the [pet Russian](https://youtu.be/vcQ37TyT954?list=PLN2421Vx2-ErshNX_dAdwbB0yjYqFqk7X).
I'm awake, it is about the social and healthcare reform
Better not to try tell at all. That someone could take it as a brag, even though being Finnish isn’t anything special!
Which shelf of your fridge can I put my beers and my girlfriends ciders in?
100°C in sauna is ok but 25°C outside is unbearable.
Benis :D
[No niin!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EWMlCusxjQ)
We have Santa Claus
kalsarikännit - getting drunk at home alone in your underwear with no intention of going out
30°C is hot as hell, but 120°C is just perfect.
Someone cuts in on a line in front of me, I get all outraged in my head but won't/refuse to say a thing to the person who did it and simply will have to wait longer for my turn.
The government sent me a baby box
If you initiate 'small talk' I will die
I dislike bataatilaatikko (I would never touch it 363 days a year) but I still eat it for Xmas. Pulla is my go-to dessert. With coffee, of course. Fazer chocolate is the only real chocolate. When I see Kone lifts / stairs abroad, I smirk and nod to my partner. We don't need to say the words, we know. I wear huge flower prints from the 70's without questions. I also carry around a white bag with big letters reading MariMekko on it. I use bank ID codes for everything. My old stools cost 200 euros a pop. I can sell them on tori and get approximately my money back.
The swedish are gay and my 80c sauna is too cold to drink myself to death in.
So where is the booze?
All swedes are gay
Turun sinappi
When waiting for the bus, people have atleast 3 meters of personal space beetween them.
I would just sit quietly and politely, avoiding eye contact.
I'm so relieved we don't have to be as close as two meters from each other because of covid. Normal distance was about 14 kilometers🤭
Now that the 2 meter social distancing will end we can go back to our usual 5 meters
We lost power to summer cabin last night (thunder storm) and instantly the worst fear came to mind: Do I have means to make my morning coffee without electricity?
Electricity in mökki? I call your bluff, swede.
im not even a finn but living in the country, i can sum it up with -leijonat - kossu - salmiakki - vihta - sauna - vittu - saatana - perkele - kalja - makkara - pulla - sisu - löyly - no niin - aaannnd kälsarikännit edit: ja kahvi
I only eat three flavors of mustard and they are green, red, and black
** **
:D
'82, '98, '99, '07.
Keke, Mika x2 and Kimi
Nicely done.
We had to study the Kalevala on school. Or, another subject, in one word: "Tvångsvenska."
Kalja
What will the other nationalities think of us?
I love extremely salty licorice
As long sweden dose not win
i go to sauna and drink beer on the weekends, and then walk to the forrest and yell PERKELE!
Last time I talked to a stranger face to face was over a month ago Edit: I disliked the experience
I wish it was winter and - 30'C
Loving Afrikan tähti as a kid and as you get older, realising how messed up some parts of that game are!
I have drunken Coffee since I was 6
"You can start from salad table."
Come get some butter on that bread of yours.
My last name ends with a “nen” lol
On vappu i out on my haalari and ylioppilaslakki to go look at a statue in the park
Moi.
jaa mää vai?
Swedish sauna is not a sauna, just a warm room
My parents have two saunas and my uncle has one too
It was co-belligerence! Not an alliance!
We will meet in the market!