|
I'm an American who moved to Finland, it is good. I revel in the cold and darkness. I have learned to feel nothing.
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 20:33
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:03 |
|
|
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 |
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 20:53
|
|
|
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."
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:02
|
|
|
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.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:12
|
|
|
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.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:14
|
|
|
The Finn won. Date a Finn-Swede and get even more bottlenecky, them folks is all kin.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:22
|
|
|
Nauta posted:this is what swedes actually believe Watching Swedes clutch their pearls when they come here is really funny.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:24
|
|
|
hard counter posted:
2 late.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:39
|
|
|
 I speak Swedish, my Finnish is much worse
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2015 21:45
|
|
|
IMO If you haven't drunkenly stumbled out of a sauna, swam across a lake, beat a snake to death with a birch stick, and returned, you haven't really lived.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 26, 2015 18:57
|
|
|
Long drink
|
|
#
¿
Sep 26, 2015 20:15
|
|
|
Spent the morning driving through endless forest listening to unintelligible Finnish hiphop, am now eating a worryingly tasty buffet lunch. Please send help.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 11:59
|
|
|
I once had a boss whose name translated as Mr. Wolf, and as part of my training he made me fight a husky.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 12:01
|
|
|
There is a facebook group tracking the location of all 8 police in the region, they'll never take me.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 12:07
|
|
|
It's real rough, all kinds of trouble. Yesterday my neighbor said hello to me in the elevator.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2015 13:03
|
|
|
Spent the last evening whaling on a piece of birch with an axe, and am sending in an application to the Svenska Kulturfonden at this very moment.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 29, 2015 09:34
|
|
|
loving pretty boy. Prob. a crypto-Swede.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 29, 2015 11:49
|
|
|
Buying knife making supplies today. Store knife not sufficient for my deep Ugric needs.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2015 09:33
|
|
|
Kniv sleev
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2015 09:42
|
|
|
Puukko-Ukko
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2015 09:43
|
|
|
Build a Finn a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a Finn on fire, he thanks you for the sweet release you gave him.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2015 09:48
|
|
|
kikkelivelho posted:no knifes. poo poo is inaccurate To be shanked by svensk stål, the greatest shame.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 1, 2015 11:42
|
|
|
I'll take a hood rich Norwegian and a silent Finn over a sanctimonious Swede any day. Denmark is not included, they are confused.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2015 12:58
|
|
|
järn piller för sverige
|
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2015 13:03
|
|
|
Give Finn knife, friend for life.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 3, 2015 23:57
|
|
|
Realtalk, give me Mexican from a wheeled vehicle over the rotating shame-meat they call kebab in the Nordic lands.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 15:57
|
|
|
I'm salivating right the gently caress now.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 16:07
|
|
|
etalian posted:if you took the 6 million Finns and put them in a place with good Mediterranean weather like California would the suicide rate drop? Strangely, the life goal of every Scandinavian is to visit LA. It is inexplicable and concerning.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 18:43
|
|
|
AEMINAL posted:Lmao Fine, Stockholmers want to go to New York City. Then return and talk about how "real" it was. The Florida/Finn connection is another of life's little mysteries.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 20:13
|
|
|
I have a friend who is a half German, Swedish med student in Stockholm. I want you to close your eyes and imagine the levels of smugness and certainty this man possesses.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 20:24
|
|
|
Log island. Poop log island.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 20:34
|
|
|
Cake Smashing Boob posted:Helsingfors Now you've gone and done it. EFB
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 20:41
|
|
|
Yes, more, it tastes like socker dricka and kombucha.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 4, 2015 20:44
|
|
|
goatse.cx haver posted:that swedes are lil pissbitch fuccbois? It is known.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 6, 2015 09:51
|
|
|
Nauta posted:
Gatdamn.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 6, 2015 14:29
|
|
|
victory tanssi party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1vZJSDNHc
|
|
#
¿
Oct 7, 2015 13:47
|
|
|
It is their way, the way of piss. Pissvägen
|
|
#
¿
Oct 20, 2015 11:43
|
|
|
Dyna Soar posted:finnish fine dining 20 Euros
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2015 13:55
|
|
|
I'm in, saddle the poro and let's ride.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2015 14:01
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 20:03 |
|
|
Sauna check-in. Am naked standing on balcony, I have a beer and it is nice
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2015 19:25
|
|