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50 ‘Finland Memes’ That Might Inspire You To Live In The Happiest Country In The World
Welcome to Finland, the happiest country in the world. With lots of beautiful nature, a wonderful education system, a passionately burning love of saunas, and deep respect for their fellow human beings, Finns are truly great. And you’ll know that if you have any Finnish people in your social circles, dear Pandas.
However, the Finnish can also seem mysterious, even peculiar. For one, they stereotypically love being left alone and social interactions allegedly scare them more than the local wildlife, the biting cold, and the fairytale creatures that lurk in the dark. However, that’s just the tip of the iceberg of what it means to be a Finn, as presented by the ‘Finland Jokes’ Instagram page.
As you’re scrolling down and upvoting your favorite Finnish memes, don’t forget to read through Bored Panda’s interview about introversion and extroversion with Dr. Andrew Spark from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
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Dasha Slepenkina 4 years ago
I'm Russian and grew up with a children's story in which to illustrate the characters going to a "cold place" they go to Lapland, which is a region in Finland.
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troufaki13 4 years ago
It's better to be happy inside and not show it, than the other way round... :/
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Britches are for everyone 4 years ago
I'm from Minnesota. It's colder here than in Helsinki. We still go to school.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Except it's dark in the morning and dark by mid to late afternoon.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
This will definitely be Winnipeg if the Jets ever win the Stanley Cup.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
I kinda ... okay yeah, lol relatable here, too. But more like when it gets above -10C in April.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
If I had to experience a long bout of not seeing the sun for a while I would do the same.
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Eevi 4 years ago
Okay so the ones in bottom left and bottom right do have blood as their main ingredient. They are blood sausage (musta makkara) and blood pancake (veriletut). They are both served with lingonberry jam and they are delicious. The one in the middle that looks like poop is called "mämmi". It is traditional dessert that we serve with cream and sugar on Easter. It contains rye flour (not blood :D) and is in my opinion also delicious. The one in the top right is called "hernekeitto" (pea soup). It is traditionally served on Thursdays (because before reformation Friday was the day of not-eating in the Catholic culture, and we needed some nutritioning and cheap food the day before.) When you put some mustard in it it also tastes quite good. I have to admit I googled the one in the top left. It is in facr chocolate with fishs, from Finnish trademark Taiga, but it's not a common thing in Finland.
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King Kashue 4 years ago
I mean, all of those are one language family (Indo-European, specifically Germanic) and Finnish is a very different one (Uralic). They're not related in the slightest. Modern geographical proximity isn't terribly meaningful with language.
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Auntriarch 4 years ago (edited)
Goes to Sweden, tries to speak Swedish, my Swedish is so poor that Swedish people beg me to speak English so they can understand me
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Jasper Cool 4 years ago
So it's introverts who care about their community and like saunas? I was definitely born in the wrong country because I would love this
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Karis Ravenhill 4 years ago
Like the Scottish year. Was the reason I moved overseas, just couldn't take the long dark half a year of cold anymore.
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Stefan 4 years ago
Some years ago, in Tampere, friends told me once to avoid some suburbs, saying it's dangerous. I imagined some petty criminals or something like this. They replied : No, you have to be careful for the bears !
Stefan 4 years ago
Some years ago, in Tampere, friends told me once to avoid some suburbs, saying it's dangerous. I imagined some petty criminals or something like this. They replied : No, you have to be careful for the bears !
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