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Free Market Mambo posted:I'm an American who moved to Finland, it is good. I revel in the cold and darkness. I have learned to feel nothing. How cold is your typical winter? How many days do you live in complete darkness or complete sunlight? Tell us something that as Americans we'd find most interesting. AND HURRY.
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And just to be clear, they may be actually true facts too. For the same reasons. ^ Usually bottoms out at -20C. The fullbright/dark only applies to lapland. Think it's like a month or two at the northmost point. DeepQantas fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Gumdrop Larry posted:Finland seems pretty cool but apparently the people there like to kill themselves a lot. Here's a passage from a piecce of finnish classic literature known for its humor "The Lord made the world to test the strength of people's faith." "The strength of faith? He tries and tests men but that testing sends souls swarming thick as mosquitoes to that everlasting hell, to a place where even I wouldn't send a snake, the vengeful man that I am." "Life on this earth is a hard game, there's small hope for mankind when only two were chosen from six hundred thousand to see the promised land." "Right, what is life? The doorway to hell I say." "In my darker moods I even see life as hell itself, where I'm a soul in torment and our 'neighbours' are pitchfork-wielding devils. All of mankind behaves just as hell's evil spirits do anyway."
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:39 |
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Erethizon_dorsatum posted:I saw a really good Finnish horror movie called Sauna seriously though, it's good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jcKVsrgslM
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:41 |
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hard counter posted:Here's a passage from a piecce of finnish classic literature known for its humor lol you have to wonder why some places on this earth were even inhabited.. they were miserable! what was Finland's pre-Vatican religion? Shared with the Norse Vikings, or something else entirely?
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:42 |
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Whenever I hear Helsinki, this comes to mind: http://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/hel-looks-swat/1/
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:44 |
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Shadow posted:lol not really they had their own religion and myths. It's another thing that inspired Lord of the Rings.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:46 |
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H.H posted:Whenever I hear Helsinki, this comes to mind: http://www.somethingawful.com/fashion-swat/hel-looks-swat/1/ It's like a proto Tumblr thread on GBS. True comedy pioneers.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:46 |
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Shadow posted:lol shamanism
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:49 |
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i love my dead gay country. move to finland if you like following hobbies: suicide, depression, alcoholism, darkness.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:50 |
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Shadow posted:lol Random pagan hunting/fishing/whatever deities
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:51 |
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why didn't the evil dictator want to invade finland? he did, he was just stallin'
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:51 |
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Shadow posted:lol they were literally white walkers until the church rolled in with jesus and cleared all that poo poo out
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:51 |
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Lilyhammer itt
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:52 |
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Idiootti posted:i love my dead gay country. move to finland if you like following hobbies: suicide, depression, alcoholism, darkness. this is unironically what im all about
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:52 |
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I'm on the realatively balmy west coast, average winter temps are around -10 celsius, and we get about 4 hours of daylight at the solstice. Once you get further north and inland things get much more fun. I like it a lot here actually; I picked up the language fast, run a small business, and have had a very positive immigration experience. I actually drink significantly less than I did in the US, because the beer is both pretty bad and expensive. A big thing that stuck out to me as an American was that the class I was in during my vocational training was the first I had ever been in where I definitively knew what everyone looked like naked. I've had some weird culture shock moments, but nothing too bad. I've accepted that "Now is the time when we drink coffee, we do not talk," is totally ok. I have a Mr. Sparkle situation with one of the local bread mascots, it's great. Free Market Mambo fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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hard counter posted:Here's a passage from a piecce of finnish classic literature known for its humor here's another classic finnish joke: The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:55 |
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Free Market Mambo posted:I'm on the realatively balmy west coast, average winter temps are around -10 celsius, and we get about 4 hours of daylight at the solstice. Once you get further north and inland things get much more fun. What is this about knowing what everyone looks like naked? And no talking during coffee? I can imagine that in a place as cold as Finland, a warm beverage was when you finally felt human again and it was a special, almost religious experience, so talking and taking away from this was discouraged.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:58 |
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mongols are the only nation to invade russia. finland is the only nation to repel russians. coincidence?
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:59 |
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The sauna is a big communal thing, so it was common for us all to sauna together, and the not talking thing isn't specifically anything to do with coffee, more that silence is something Finns are more comfortable with than many other cultures, there's not a ton of pressure to engage in small talk. I've had a few moments where I wonder if someone hates me or is autistic, then I realize, "nope, just Finnish."
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:02 |
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Isn't Finland the country where all of the freegan dumpster divers come from and insist there isn't anything dirty about it, unlike awful American dumpsters?
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:06 |
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DeepQantas posted:http://unrealworld.fi/ funny how the older religions were so similar with these gods, men-turned-gods, and heroes. Free Market Mambo posted:The sauna is a big communal thing, so it was common for us all to sauna together, and the not talking thing isn't specifically anything to do with coffee, more that silence is something Finns are more comfortable with than many other cultures, there's not a ton of pressure to engage in small talk. Got it. I still attribute it to the weather. The snow's falling, everyone's miserable and cold. Not much to talk about. The sauna thing is cool. I wish that was a bigger thing in the US instead of by and large attracting rich, old, white men sitting around naked.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:06 |
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MrChupon posted:Isn't Finland the country where all of the freegan dumpster divers come from and insist there isn't anything dirty about it, unlike awful American dumpsters? Strangely, all the dumpster diving, greenpeacey types I encounter here are Swedish and German, but ymmv.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:12 |
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Shadow posted:I can imagine that in a place as cold as Finland, a warm beverage was when you finally felt human again and it was a special, almost religious experience, so talking and taking away from this was discouraged. that's why finns love saunas in the book I quoted earlier some finns got the poo poo beat out of them, literally by some probable ruskies and then metaphorically by polite civilized life. They go to a sauna but they warm it up too hot just to feel something again and it burns down. They watch naked in the darkness as the smallest shred of happiness there was in their world crumbles to ash lol
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:12 |
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do finnish people get offended irl if you imply they aren't white but rather mongolian
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:13 |
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Shadow posted:The sauna thing is cool. I wish that was a bigger thing in the US instead of by and large attracting rich, old, white men sitting around naked. My first winter here I reffed a post-sauna nude fight between a Finn and a Swede in Lapland. Such is life.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:14 |
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The Brown Menace posted:do finnish people get offended irl if you imply they aren't white but rather mongolian that's a slanderous myth made up by gay swedish fags
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:15 |
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kikkelivelho posted:
Well that settles it then. They're inbred. Explains a lot. e: literally! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_heritage_disease
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:15 |
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Nauta posted:that's a slanderous myth made up by gay swedish fags
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:16 |
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Nauta posted:that's a slanderous myth made up by gay swedish fags
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:17 |
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Free Market Mambo posted:My first winter here I reffed a post-sauna nude fight between a Finn and a Swede in Lapland. Such is life. who won?
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:19 |
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Was it better than the Borat wrestling scene?
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:20 |
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Cake Smashing Boob posted:Well that settles it then. They're inbred. quote:In Finland about one in five persons carries a gene defect associated with at least one Finnish heritage disease 2/10 just date swedes instead
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:20 |
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this is what swedes actually believe
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:21 |
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The Finn won. Date a Finn-Swede and get even more bottlenecky, them folks is all kin.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:22 |
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Cake Smashing Boob posted:Well that settles it then. They're inbred. quote:It is attributed to a population bottleneck among ancestors of modern Finns, estimated to have occurred about 4000 years ago, presumably when populations practicing agriculture and animal husbandry arrived in Finland. okay I guess technically they are in fact literally inbred but when you say it like that it makes it sound like modern finns are loving their sisters and uncles
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:23 |
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Nauta posted:this is what swedes actually believe Watching Swedes clutch their pearls when they come here is really funny.
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:24 |
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also if you speak finnish in a swedish crowd you get really dirty looks
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# ? Sep 25, 2015 21:26 |
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Free Market Mambo posted:The Finn won. drat right
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Can I take one of their spots in Scandanvian socialist paradise? I know Finland is like the Scandanavia equivalent of Alabama, but I'm sure it's still way better than living in the US. Dick Fagballzson fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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