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DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Pon de Bundy posted:

hallo i am fiiniis pleased to meeet uuu

*dies in a sauna drunk*
Ah... a natural death.

Zoness posted:

i used to hang out with a finnish goon and I learned thaat apparently they are in the one of the same time zones as the united states
Finns will absolutely tell you random real sounding "facts" because they can get away with it and because it's "huumor"

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DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
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

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Shadow posted:

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?
http://unrealworld.fi/

Random pagan hunting/fishing/whatever deities

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

hard counter posted:

I wonder how legit mongolians feel about their association with the lowly finn

are they as offended as you'd think?
If you mean not at all, then yeah, probably. We're talking about a conspiracy theory cartoon that turned into a 4chan meme, right?

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Let's get some international love in this house.

this goes to our dear friends in USSR and USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GRpA5H3CI

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

hard counter posted:


whenthe perfect blend of suomi, muscle tone, and sexuality come togeth

True finnish siisu

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
If you really want to grief a finn tell them their english accent is beautiful. :evilbuddy:

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

uber_stoat posted:

If you want to get high, you have to drink hallucinogenic reindeer piss.
Oh please... Lapin Kulta isn't hallucinogenic in the slightest

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:

Interesting, thanks.

can you tell me more about this government maze booze system?
you have to be 18 and carrying ID

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Morol posted:

Are the rumors about docking being a finish sauna tradition true?
only non-sexual docking in sauna

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

goatse.cx haver posted:

a finnish man and woman are talking
what is this, a joke?

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
P. sure most of those photos are from the Narnia movie. It's more like bike stuck in snow, less like dog walking on ice crystals.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Knife is how they say hello in Tampere. Mora mora.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Time to join NATO and buy more planes

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Cake Smashing Boob posted:

the only really hosed up nordic country on the pornmd map is (obviously) Finland because they've got hentai on there

HUGE loving SURPRISE
We... uh... have a lot of japanese tourists visiting the moominland.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Anime face = generic featureless asian
moomin face = generic featureless finn

not sure what it means, but I'm sure it's a piece of the puzzle

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Nurge posted:

I mean poronkäristys is great and all but I challenge any finns in the thread living south of Oulu to claim they have that poo poo at any regularity.
I have some rugged outdoorsy in-laws that could claim that but then again, they wouldn't post here. :>

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

hard counter posted:

you would think finns would be loling at sweden for recent events but whenever finland hears that a racially-motivated blade crime was commited finns collectively do this


Where's that gif from anyway?

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Spoiling wilderness is hard work. These beer bottles don't smash themselves

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Bog-Finns according to goons:


Bog-Finns in reality:

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Frostwerks posted:

first picture kinda looks cool whats that from
I just googled Iku Turso. Mythical monster.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Hey, we beat the germans in WW2.

Also Olaf the Holy. Possibly.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

ultrabindu posted:

Is this how Finns reproduce?
Let's just say both Tolkien and Peter Jackson were inspired by Finland...

Ahundredbux posted:

but whos frodo then
Hmm. Some humble, easy going folksy hero from a simple country that rises up in time of need to throw back the forces of evil...? :godwin:

DeepQantas fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Oct 29, 2015

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Lenin is Pippin cos he goes back to save Russia after his adventures in Finland.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
^^
just so noone's confused that means it was built in 1995, not that there's 95 roads in Finland

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

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Eating potato soup with meat right now.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Government mandated.

e:
pretty good, I guess:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhmf45fdef/no-10-finland/

e2:
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/fhmf45fdef/no-9-sweden/
:wth:

DeepQantas fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Oct 30, 2015

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
For more "moving to Finland" realtalk than you probably need, there's this couple from New Mexico I've been following:
http://katiekinsman.com/

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Ahundredbux posted:

just popping in to tell you finnland still owns :coffeepal:

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Water usage?

e: doesn't look like it after googling...

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

HerraS posted:

Also lol is that map really loving metal bands per 100 000 people?
drat...

http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/is_there_a_link_between_a_countrys_wealth_and_its_number_of_metal_bands

It totally is.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

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RocketSurgeon posted:

The finnish version of russian roulette. 6 bowls, 5 contain mämmi 1has poo poo in it.
How do you win?

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
My family still makes rubber dicks from tuohi (birch bark)

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

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Dyna Soar posted:

i see, they both have glasses which makes them nearly identical
They both also have those weird curved mouths that show their teeth.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

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Falun Bong Refugee posted:

It seems like Finish people are pretty cool but for some reason really uncomfortable with strangers.
I think it's a fear of inappropriateness. Every Finn wants to run naked on the frozen bog... but strangers might not understand.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

ultrabindu posted:

The gently caress is this? This is not a mighty Finnish bog man.
He has been eating mämmi before the game

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

st1LL_51ngl3 posted:

There's a Finnish couple my wife and I know from our yoga class. We went out to dinner with them a couple weeks ago and the husband says he doesn't really drink and now I'm unsure of what's going on with reality.
his mother or father is an alcoholic

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Jerry Cotton posted:

No, tell it to me please!

Actual Finnish joke: "Kimmo Kinnunen went into sauna and saw his father Jorma








's dick."

Hmm seems to lose something in translation :shrug:
You see the -nsä suffix is used for both the object and for possessive so it is unclear whether Kimmo saw his father Dick or his father's dick.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...
Finnish thermometer:



when it freezes over, you don't go outside

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DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

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Jerry Cotton posted:

Who the gently caress has a key hole on the inside?
who has two thumbs and is chronically depressed?

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