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122k+ People Are Loving This Funny Instagram Page That Shares “Very Finnish Problems” (45 Pics)
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Just like every nation has its own culture, traditions, and, ultimately, identity, it’s also natural to think that every nation also has its own personality and quirks when it comes to things that people do or believe in collectively as a nation.
Very Finnish Problems is one of many internet projects dedicated to celebrating cultural and national identity—the Finnish one, to be precise—whilst also having some fun with it in the form of memes.
And it’s not just an Instagram page, as there’s also a “branch” on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and it even has its own website. Heck, there’s even a book with the same theme by Joel Willans, the guy behind all of this.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best memes shared on the Very Finnish Problems Instagram about all of the very Finnish things that may or may not raise an eyebrow outside of Finland. And while you’re scrolling through the list, why not vote and comment on the entries you enjoyed or related to the most!
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Rasmus Be 4 years ago (edited)
Could be Sweden if the image was without the snow, for we don't have that much days with snow nowadays!
Eemeli Saarelainen (Molter) 4 years ago
Sadly snow has been mostly absent here as well. That's from Tampere, though, and since it's that much more north than for example Helsinki and inlands, it has somewhat more snow.
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Avery Day 4 years ago
in this aspect (sufficient personal space in public places), Finland has always been my kind of country. i grew up and lived in southeast asian cities and hated them, there were always people around and too close. sadly i have only managed to haul my ass as far north as Germany and Switzerland....
Marie Pindstrup Linde 4 years ago
3 meters in Helsinki, but only because there is so crowded.
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Emir 4 years ago
Beats me why Trump's followers think he is macho. He has a lot of prissy habits.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
The orange buffoon does NOT make small talk. That's what polite people do. He makes 'it's all about me' talk. God I'm glad we'll see the end of him soon. Go on Donald, off you f**k. No, shush. You lost. Off you go.
Dorothy Cloud 4 years ago
I'm so tired of rude remarks. Some day maybe someone else will get the bad attention.
#3
Jukka Nurmi 4 years ago
Actually, the first skyscrapers are being built in Helsinki, with more to come in the near future. I don't complain: I love high-rises!
Very Finnish Problems is the brainchild of Joel Willans, author of the Spellbound and Very Finnish Problems books and Creative Director at Ink Tank Media with whom Bored Panda got in touch for an interview. The VFP book in particular shares amazing insights into the everyday trials and tribulations of life in Finland.
Very appropriately, the Instagram page kind of does the same, except in the form of hilarious internet memes. Speaking of memes, these cover a variety of very Finnish things!
These include taking a jab at Finnish personal space, their natural facial expressions and reactions, their love for hockey, disdain for small talk (and talk in general), linguistic intricacies, and, of course, COVID jokes!
#4
YoChicken 4 years ago
i hate when people just like sit really close to you, and are not even aware they are doing it and then you're like please move and they come even closer
Raine Soo 4 years ago (edited)
I remember sitting on the bus during my university days, comtemplating a final exam and being very nervous about it. There were plenty of seats all around me, and some lady decides to sit right next to me. Granted, she was probably unaware of my existential crisis, but why right next to me? I thought that I was giving out plenty of negative vibes.
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I am Japanese. This is not a photo taken in Finland. There is Kyushu Institute of Technology Iizuka Campus. More precisely, it is located between the cafeteria and the research building.
#5
Mike Pence's Fly 4 years ago
Batteries not included. Playback may differ from actual results.
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Russell Ellwardt 4 years ago
Perfect. Works better than those automated cameras. Fast information spread included.
Beakdbhd Jnudv 4 years ago (edited)
Same Poland. More of elderly polish people staring from windows and balconies look like CCTV.
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Anthony Goldstein (female) 4 years ago
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE your name.
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"I’m the Creative Director at a digital marketing agency, Ink Tank Media, and I bet one of my clients that I could create a Facebook page of 10K fans in a month without spending a penny," explained Willans the origins of Very Finnish Problems. "The bet was made during Finnish winter, which was typically dark and very, very cold. The pavements were super slippery and it was taking me ages to walk to work, and I remember thinking how winter is trying to kill me, and what a very Finnish problem that is."
He continued: "Then it struck me that it was one of very many Finnish problems faced by an Englishman in the far north. That was how it all began, and it clearly resonated with lots of people, because I won the bet and got nearly 20K fans in a month."
#7
Heather Ob 4 years ago
This just makes me want to move to Finland. Just for the weather forecasts.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I don't think the Finnish weather is actually scared by your sword, Mr. Presenter.
#8
Bendy Rainbow 4 years ago
*freezes while thinking of every possible thing that could go wrong with a bear at the window*
New Prometheus 4 years ago
We don't have black bears in Finland :D WTF is this page about? It's updated by an American or what?
Niffler_13 4 years ago
Typically it's done by a wildlife biologist who specializes in Bears. They tranquilize the animal, check vitals, collect samples (hair, blood, saliva, nail clippings) and then tag the animal.
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#9
SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
The t in tsunami isn't really silent, it's really abrupt kind of like if you were to say "Bad dum dum tsss", but it's definitely there.
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
If you aren't saying the T in tsunami then you are saying it wrong. "Tsu" is a Japanese phonic that sounds a little like English's "ch".
But it’s not just memes. It’s really anything about Finland. On the various social media that this project is on, you can find Joel Willans himself running his “Working Wonders” series where he talks about innovative Finnish companies.
There are also videos discussing iconic Finnish music, how to do things like a Finn, and videos listing very Finnish things, like stuff that should never be sold in Finland, the happiest Finnish words, the weird things to love about Finland, reasons why Finland is the future of humanity, and many more.
"Just like most observational comedy, Very Finnish Problems are usually observations dramatized or exaggerated for comic effect. Normally, they come from things I’ve experienced or conversations I’ve had, which seem more strange to a foreigner than a native Finn. I’ve now written two best-selling Very Finnish Problems books. 101 Very Finnish Problems: The Foreigner’s Guide to Surviving Finland and More Very Finnish Problems: An Even More Essential Guide, and while doing research for these I got loads of new material for memes and videos. Once I come up with an idea, I either create it myself or if it’s more complicated, our Graphic Designer will work her magic or I’ll work with our filmmaker on a video," explained Willans.
#10
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
All diacritical marks create these separate meanings in the countries that use them...
Gab Ferweb 4 years ago
Not true actually, in spanish paraguas or paragüas is the same and means umbrella, or pingüino and pinguino means penguins, several years ago the dieresis(the 2 points) it's becoming useless for RAE (real academia española)
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I'm not even Finnish and I hate it when English speakers use diacritics as though they are “fun“ decoration.
Christel Nellemann 4 years ago
Imagine , dear americans and brits, how silly it looks for us, that already passed fad with adding the “dots” over rrandom words to look “coool” . Like Mötörhead 🙄. Cööl does NOT sound cool 😌
Rasmus Be 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, Motörhead and Mötley Crüe is really not pronouced correctly, also use ö on cool makes no sense. You change prounce to something completely different, at least in Swedish.
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Anu Tuulmets 4 years ago
It’s the same in Estonian: ämm - amm (mother in law / wet nurse); äi - ai (father in law / ouch!); käru - karu (wheel barrow / bear); lõhe - lohe (salmon or gap / dragon); nöör - noor (string, cord / young); küür - kuur (hump / shed); etc.
Hilu 4 years ago
It can be understood both ways, 'should I' and 'did I', and also 'will I' (which, to me, is more accurate than 'should I').
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Lisa Johannesson 3 years ago
I mean... They're completely different letters, so yes the dots matter? I'm pretty sure Finnish isn't different from my country in that regard 🙄
#11
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Not all Americans want ostentatious abodes. I would love to have a half-acre of land in Point Reyes Station and a tiny house.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Not just Finnish, though. I'd love that house (if it has internet!)
Shull GaRett 4 years ago
The Finnish dream home should be even farther than that. As you can see here someone is able to take a photo of it. Barbarian!
BoredPundits 4 years ago (edited)
It looks like Chris Hemsworth's home in Byron Bay, NSW, Australia. Chris-Hems...ouse-3.jpg 
Carol Lewis 4 years ago
American dream house too big, gives my anxiety. I'm American and no way.
#12
Canadian in Cornwall 4 years ago
I have a Scottish friend who is so white, she goes off-white in the summer, never brown or even a toasty shade !
Marnie 4 years ago
I'm going way off tangent, but this reminds me that some kids created a video about how not to be racist, and they said that complaining that you burn easily to a black person is racist. Why is that? Can anyone explain? I would say this to anyone of any ethnicity/ancestry. I tell my son this. He does not burn easily and doesn't get it. Why is it okay to say it to a non-black person, but not to a black person? FYI, I'm white than the arm in the photo :-) You can see the veins in my legs. I'm like a guppy. It's gross.
Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago
My avatar is me. However, my ex and our kids...just a pale as above. They're as red as boiled lobsters in our CA summers...
Now, the page has gone a very long way, and it has started looking more like Very Finnish Things rather than Very Finnish Problems. Willans commented on this:
"We always try to craft everything as a “problem” with the copy because literally everything can be a problem if you frame it in the right way. So, if it's a really hot and sunny day, which most people would consider a blessing, we might write, 'When your body is allergic to sunshine' with a comparative meme, 'What you think you’ll look like in summer/What you actually look like'. So, in short, even when it’s Finnish 'things', we try to make them into fun 'problems'."
The Instagram page currently has a little bit over 400 posts, most of which are "problems", and 122,000 people are following the page. Facebook, however, is home to a Very Finnish Problems fan page with nearly 435,000 followers.
#13
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
It’s weird that my 23 & Me genetic breakdown showed no Finnish background...this is definitely the life I’m leading!
Marnie 4 years ago
My son used to play WoW with a guild that had a few people from Finland. And he said they very, very rarely got excited about anything and all spoke in a monotone. We're from Minnesota, the land of the reserved people, so for my son to notice this must mean the Finns have taken being reserved to ANOTHER level.
Eirik Johnsbråten 4 years ago
In Norway you would swap those with smiling faces. Doesn't make it any better.
#14
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
It would be my dream to live in the far north in the summer and in New Zealand in the northern winter months. Seasonal Affective Disorder—BE GONE!!!
J. F. 4 years ago
I would love the opposite - as much darkness as possible ^^
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#15
Gustavo Siqueira 4 years ago
Kimi Räikkönen smiled a lot in 2020. Maybe because his teammate is Italian... maybe because 2020 has been weird af.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
theres a clip from one of the drivers' press conferences on YouTube where Seb Vettel (who certainly has experience with Finns) and Lewis Hamilton are either side of Bottas and Seb is asking him if Finns even have a word for excited.
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DetongLhamo 4 years ago
Maybe they’re happy because they don’t get told by their fellow citizens to ‘smile’ when they’re just Being Themselves.
Marta Dyrgała 4 years ago
I respect that. People should be able to not smile like a moron all day long without someone thinking they are unhappy. I smile when I feel like it and was asked a lot in my life if I'm ok 😒 Polish person here btw.
Lastly, we've asked Willans about his favorite Finnish problem that he had posted over the span of the page's existence. He had this to say:
"This is a really tough question. Probably my favorites are the ones that highlight the extremes of weather, national character and language. Weather because it really is so beautifully weird and you don’t really appreciate it until you live it and national character because in many ways it’s so different to the British national character. Possibly the best example is how we deal with small talk. Brits love it, Finns typically avoid it at all costs, which can make for some very awkward social situations when they get together. As for language, it’s one of the most challenging in the world for an English speaker to learn, but it has some really happy words, which always put a smile on my face."
#16
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I've had a lot of fun learning Finnish (my Fiance is Finnish), it's not as hard as people think. :P
J. F. 4 years ago
Speaking something like german really helps with the pronouncement of words - same letters as we have and they sound similar. The hardest part is to memorize grammar and the meaning of words
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian are a (very small) language group.
Candace Fitzpatrick 4 years ago
I’ve watched a lot of Finnish TV shows so I know what kiitos means (thank you) and i love how they say poliisi (police) PO-lee-see!
Ann Rii 4 years ago
It isn't that hard if your native language happens to belong to the same language group.
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Martine Remmelzwaal 4 years ago
OK now I am determined to learn Finnish. I had my eye on Welsh, but I am tempted to learn Finnish now.
#17
Mike Pence's Fly 4 years ago
Boris Lachan: [Gently steps over border] Vladimir Lenin Scherbina: [In Communist Russian] "Snipey time comrade..." *Explosion and automatic gunfire, Soviet Anthem plays and border is destroyed* "It is now OUR land.."
Mike Pence's Fly 4 years ago
*Lenin, Stalin, and all of the soviet premiers get resurrected suddenly* *Soviet Flags appear*
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Ksenia M 4 years ago
As someone who lives near the Russian-Finnish border reading the comments has made me facepalm so hard.
🅼🅸🅺🅴 🅿🅴🅽🅲🅴🆂 🅵🅻🆈 4 years ago
Is it true or has Trump hijacked Finland with Fake News?
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Felix Feline 4 years ago
USA-Canadian border is like the Finnish-Russian border. Millions of Russians are not trying to get into Finland, nor are millions of Canadians trying to get into the USA.
Diana Buckland 4 years ago (edited)
😅Yes, and I would like suggest the reverse: it's not like Finnish are trying to get into Russia (imagining Canadians to be akin to the Finnish in this scenario
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Diana Buckland 4 years ago (edited)
...this is a perfect example of "things aren't always what they seem..." eh?
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YoChicken 4 years ago (edited)
America need a president like this.. (not saying biden is bad, because he is a definite improvent)
Zuko 4 years ago
I think every country needs a president like this. This... This is amazing
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I’ve now got “Smooth Operator” running through my brain from reading your comment!
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lara 4 years ago
Oh, oh, we almost met him when we were walking around Helsinki. I was with a group and we had just left the Soviet Union and we were in Helsinki and a few of us were walking around the city and we stopped in front of where he lived and there was a single guard [?] outside, he spoke English and we asked him if we could meet the President and he said, well come back later, he may be taking a walk. Best thing that happened on the trip.
Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago
So, he can fish by wading, and ride a motorcycle in the same day...
#19
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
So what they’re saying here is that Finland is an adventure in autism...
pusheen buttercup 4 years ago
Just so you know, some people with autism are quite extroverted and touchy feely :) not everyone obviously. I'm autistic and pretty much the classic definition. My friend though is also autistic and we could not be more different.
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ScarlettofHydraIsland 4 years ago
Thank you! Someone else finally recognizing the book and television series that made up my childhood!
Phil Boswell 4 years ago
I'm fairly sure that several of these can be said in one word of Finnish 👍
Marta Dyrgała 4 years ago
Then explain 6 please. Moomins are not pink? 😳 I'm confused 😆
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Lillian Castellow 4 years ago
moomin's is creepy if you don't know what it is search it right now
#20
Jo 4 years ago
I heard lots of comments about our government but nobody said "gorgeous". You know in Finland politicians are judged based on politics they advocate not by looks. That's why we have so many women in the government. I hate this kind of sexism I see at the very moment the discussion goes international. Shame on you.
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Sari Siipola 4 years ago
Many likes to swim in ice holes during winter . It´s very healthy and it feel sooo good after that . First you warm up in hot sauna and then... ice cold water :)
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YoChicken 4 years ago
nope! go with a few friends so when you fall, they can try and pull you up and fall too, and keep each other company while you die! thats what friends are for...
Mere Cat 4 years ago
No, there's no falling. They willingly go into the hole and enjoy it. Afterwards, sauna. :)
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Martine Remmelzwaal 4 years ago
I am really curious how I would perceive Fins. I often see people misinterpret other people's bodylanguage (like can't you see he/she really wishes she wasn't there or at least for you to go away.) And people saying ow look how happy he/she is while they are clearly not or vice versa (also with animals...). So I would expect my perception would be different here too, that I would find people warm where others would call them closed or distance. The most interesting part though, is fins seems to agree with the image (as seen in this post but read about in other place too).
Viki Banaszak 4 years ago
I think my friends would suspect me of being from Finland. I am so happy to have found my people.
#23
Jus 4 years ago
I love lockdowns. What a pity I have to go to work every day... But I can finally sit in the underground train! Less people in the streets! I can stay at home during weekends and no one can criticize me! I started studying something new, because now I can do it online! I love it all.
Downunderdude 4 years ago
Hey, world, that's the Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin. Not fair, is it?
#24
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
True in Canada too. After a long hot summer, +5 feels freezing. After a long freezing winter, +5 feels balmy.
Tammy Hawkins 4 years ago
Newfoundland one Winter I remember saying, "I heard that it is going to warm up to -20 tomorrow", at -10 people were out in shirt sleeves!
Lillian Jimenez 4 years ago
I'm like that. I wear shorts as early in the year as a can, even if it's freezing
M Kate McCulloch 4 years ago
It's about 32 deg. F right now in colorado. That's 0 celcius. I've got a sweater on and walk in my socks between the house and the garage to smoke. 5 celcius is about 41 deg. F - not quite shorts for me, but nothing heavier than a sweater. And I'm a Southern California girl by birth! 41 deg F/5 Deg C is fine if it's not windy...
#25
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
THAT’S MY DREAM HOME!!! Sorry about the shouting—I got so excited about seeing a built version of the home that lives in my head.
Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago
...just the giant library. (Disclosure: I am a librarian)
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AntiAntiVaxx 4 years ago
A british dream home looks like a place where a demon would haunt the halls.
Martine Remmelzwaal 4 years ago
Yea the American one might have had some truth for at least some Americans. But I don't think any British person would want this.
Martine Remmelzwaal 4 years ago
Unless of course they turn it into a hogwarts copy and use it as an enourmou's themed bed and breakfast :)
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lara 4 years ago
I had a Russian document I couldn't quite get right. I was having problems with references. I put it through Google Translate and it wouldn't even "accept" the document or my typing of it.
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Jacques Lacroix 4 years ago
Try DeepL, it's much better than Google translate, but in less languages though...
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Sue Arnold 4 years ago
This week in Australia we have had snow down south, 30+ temps out west, fires up north, and just to make it interesting la Nina rain with associated flooding and evacuations along the northern Eastern coast, with gale force winds and 10 metre seas with massive coastal erosion. Bring on 2021.
Meyer Weinstock 4 years ago
You have snow? ooooh....now I want to move....
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Diana Buckland 4 years ago
Icy roads, through forest fires...EXPLAIN (this is not Australian or Californian--a new kind of fresh hell...)
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
Very sisu of them. There’s not really a perfect translation to English, but words that come close are determination, willpower, strength, guts, courage.
DogMatic 4 years ago
Wiki: Sisu is a Finnish concept described as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience, and hardiness and is held by Finns themselves to express their national character. It is generally considered not to have a literal equivalent in English.
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Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes 4 years ago
They thought he was dead, but discovered later he just fell to thinking.
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Emily Geels 4 years ago
Yeah, the view on the left is yesterday at my house and the right is today. I live at 9500 ft in Colorado.
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DKS 001 4 years ago
I'm in America ... I'm in the wrong country. If it weren't so cold I would jump on the "yesterday" plane to Netherlands or Finland.
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Is it really the case that Finnish people hardly speak to each other?
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Esa Tuunanen 4 years ago
Winter scale is missing: -5C is too hot to work outside, because you get sweaty so easily. -15C is lot better in that. Also -10C seems to be limit for comfortable bicycling with eBike.
(っ◔◡◔)っ im a domestic weeb 4 years ago
i go to nebraska for winter sometimes and i live in america it took me 3 hole years to get used to both at the same time especially when we take a walk to the park
#33
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago (edited)
Yet another OH HELL NO! (My guess is that I could be saying this a lot.)
Ludwig Michiel 4 years ago
Remarkable for a country with only 5.5 million inhabitants: Finland has had 3 world champions and 1 vice champion in Formula 1, and 7 world champions in rally. Probably because they learn excellent car control on those icy roads!
Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
Reminds me of my old hometown, Anchorage, AK. Anchorage also spent significant portions of the winter trying to kill us.
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#35
Boop 4 years ago
- Get the whole bonfire together - The whole bonfire? - The whole bonfire.
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Matheus Oliveira 4 years ago
Wow! In Brazilian Portuguese those would sound like onomatopoeic chicken expressions. Very cool though!
cassiushumanmother 4 years ago
As a proud owner of a finnish sami dog, i named him Iskko. My brother makes fun at him because when you say "Iskko's leash, Iskko's bowl, Iskko's stuff..." in French (la laisse d'Iskko) it sounds like the disco leash, disco bowl, disco stuff... He's shining!
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Alien 4 years ago
Wait- wait a minute- is that johnny depp and the kid who played Charlie buckets from Charlie and the chocolate factory?
Emily Ashyn 4 years ago
Winter is actually my favorite season so I wouldn't care that much lol
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#38
Kennedy Longworth 4 years ago
Do you want to live in the maa? Could mean ground, or countryside in this instance.
CrEaTiVe_duck 4 years ago
damn i cant prank my mother!!i cal her ma soooo me saying mAA wont matter XC
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Mere Cat 4 years ago
I've heard but it's very marginal and at a joke level. - Another Finn
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Carol Lewis 4 years ago
Spent two years in Montana, looks the same to me. Back home in California now. So happy!
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
Not really. Take the famous sentence “Vihdoin vihdoin vihdoin.” Means “I finally whipped myself with a birch branch.” Vihdoin 1 = Finally Vihdoin 2 = The basic form is "vihtoa". It's a verb meaning "to whip or strike" and it refers specifically to those branch thingys that Finns beat each other with in the sauna. It's verb type 1 so the past form becomes "vihdoi-" and the "-n" means that it's the "minä" form. Vihdoin 3 = The basic form is "vihta". This is a noun. It's the name given to that leafy twig that Finns use for their perverse sauna activities. "Vihdoin" is "vihta" in the instructive case, so it means "using a vihta"
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Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
San Francisco does this too. When I would ride my bike up Market Street after crossing Castro, the last six blocks to where I lived were brutal. The wind came from every angle and I would have to get off and just walk my bike up the hill.
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Walked from car to work and wore full waterproofs. Near Port Solent, by Portsmouth, UK is one of many places it rains sideways and upwards because of the wind
Jane Moore 4 years ago
and wales - oh Finland is so like Wales - and apparently our language is even harder to learn
#43
Isabel Care 4 years ago
Bought a rye loaf in Luxembourg. Took 4 people, sharpening 6 knives a few times, all their energy to cut two slices. Bread that uses more calories to eat it than you get from it. Tasty
Vuun 4 years ago
Love the dried rye bread! By the way, there is a good argument to be made that the Nordic baking culture is the most diverse. Wheat can only be grown in the southern parts, so oats, rye and barley are also staples. Furthermore, the sparse population has caused every region to kind of have their own thing and everything from blood to potatoes may be used. If you visit the Nordics, do visit a bread section of a supermarket!
Nonda Hannan 2 years ago
Traditional Finnish Bread Pulla is absolutely delicious!!! I bake it once a week & a lot for other people who can't live without it... LOL
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Until you've had the Russian version of this - which is a bit like a heavier Pumpernickel - you have no idea of how difficult bread can be to eat ; it makes your jaws ache just chewing the damn stuff !! On the upside, you don't need to eat much of it to feel full up !!
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Eemeli Saarelainen (Molter) 4 years ago (edited)
Like that but with more skill. Only from one side, though. Turn the "wings" all the way back and sort of squeeze them. It's hard to describe but fairly easy to do. I'm still pretty sure that every native has managed to botcher that at least once in their lifetime. 😄 Thankfully, someone has made an instructional video: https://youtu.be/jlVhfibkIEs Mind you, the inventor of that style of packing is actually Austrian. They just are very popular in Finland as Finns consume a s**t ton of milk and other dairy products.
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fin_evander 4 years ago
Not sure about others but Americans know how to do this from cafeteria milk at school :P
Trond Hermansen 4 years ago
In Denmark we have 1-liter bags. We oour the milk into glass pitchers from Ikea with a cork lid for easy storage in the fridge.
Laura Lawson 4 years ago
The only thing that still bothers me with bagged milk is that they use 3 equal bags to make up a 4 litre pack. This is mathematically impossible!! Each bag is equal in size & is 1.3 litres so technically you only get 3.9 litres in a pack! 3.9 litres!! Not 4 litres! We are being ripped off by 0.1 litres every time we buy it. Is this being passed down to the farmers are does the dairy keep that extra 0.1L to itself? I know that perhaps each bag could be 1.33L, the the deficit would only be 0.1L but we will never get 4L out of 3 equal bags!! And if you multiply that 0.1L by the millions of bags leaving the dairy, it could add up to 10's of thousands of litres of milk that the dairy doesn't pay for, but is changing you for. I figured out this scam as a kid & it still bothers me! *and we breathe* Rant over.
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Rae Black 4 years ago
Pete & Repeat were in a boat, Pete fell out. Who was left?
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ML 4 years ago
Pitäiskö is should in Finnish. This sentence is wrong. This means did I marry grandpa?
Hiie Posti 4 years ago
Estonian is so similar to Finnsh. Näinko is näen and väärin is väär. Vaarin is vaar.
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
What’s the difference between an introverted and extroverted Finn? The introvert looks at his own shoes when talking to you, and the extrovert looks at your shoes.
Alloydog 4 years ago
Also... In Finland, you can be watching the Simpsons when it gets interrupted by the emergency broadcast system with .......
.... a bear warning! BearWarnin...2a1089.jpg 
Alloydog 4 years ago
This is a decorative glass panel on a building front, in the city of Oulu, northern Finland.
It is a message in ASCII, coded in binary. It reads "Paska kauPunni!", which translates into english as "S**t city!" binary-5fd...9cc846.jpg 
Mere Cat 4 years ago
Spaces also matter. Kuusi voi palaa = spruce can burn. Kuusi voipalaa = six pieces of butter.
mph seti 4 years ago (edited)
I know very little about Finland, but from what I've heard, I'd probably like it there. I also love the design and functionality of the puukko, a Finnish traditional knife. I own a couple of them and they've become my absolute favorite camp/hike/craft/whittling knife.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
I'm an introvert who has enjoyed quarantine, and I even I think finland may take it too far.
Lira Mai 4 years ago
Just finished watching Borderland (Sorjonin) in Netflix. It is crime drama in Finland, I can't pronounce the city. But it is where the border of Finland and Russia.
Alloydog 4 years ago
Lappeenranta: "LaP", but make the "p" strong. The "ee" is a long "eh" sound, like "air", "hair", "cairn" and finally, "ranta" is pretty straight forward: LaP-airn-ranta :)
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
What’s the difference between an introverted and extroverted Finn? The introvert looks at his own shoes when talking to you, and the extrovert looks at your shoes.
Alloydog 4 years ago
Also... In Finland, you can be watching the Simpsons when it gets interrupted by the emergency broadcast system with .......
.... a bear warning! BearWarnin...2a1089.jpg
Alloydog 4 years ago
This is a decorative glass panel on a building front, in the city of Oulu, northern Finland.
It is a message in ASCII, coded in binary. It reads "Paska kauPunni!", which translates into english as "S**t city!" binary-5fd...9cc846.jpg
Mere Cat 4 years ago
Spaces also matter. Kuusi voi palaa = spruce can burn. Kuusi voipalaa = six pieces of butter.
mph seti 4 years ago (edited)
I know very little about Finland, but from what I've heard, I'd probably like it there. I also love the design and functionality of the puukko, a Finnish traditional knife. I own a couple of them and they've become my absolute favorite camp/hike/craft/whittling knife.
Helen Haley 4 years ago
I'm an introvert who has enjoyed quarantine, and I even I think finland may take it too far.
Lira Mai 4 years ago
Just finished watching Borderland (Sorjonin) in Netflix. It is crime drama in Finland, I can't pronounce the city. But it is where the border of Finland and Russia.
Alloydog 4 years ago
Lappeenranta: "LaP", but make the "p" strong. The "ee" is a long "eh" sound, like "air", "hair", "cairn" and finally, "ranta" is pretty straight forward: LaP-airn-ranta :)
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