Depressing Finland

This blog is no-longer active. Enjoy the posts, have fun and laugh!

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Source: Yle

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Old Finnish beer advert. The six-pack conveniently comes with a seat cover for sauna. And a good amount of Finglish. (NSFW)

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“Never grow old.”

Is it possible for Donald Duck to make you cry? When watching this Finnish advertisement for Donald Duck magazine it seems like so.

Something just flew in my eyes. 

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Perkele it’s cold. But I won’t give up!

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More official note

As I stated in the last anon ask, I will not be updating the blog anymore. I just don’t have time anymore and it feels rude to keep you waiting for posts that might never come. But I really hope that somebody does the “How to do Finnish food” cooking post. 

If you liked this blog and want to look for alternatives, go to Facebook and search for Funland. That page has loads of content similar to my blog.

Thanks for all you who followed me. Thank you who liked and reblogged my posts. The ones who corrected me with spelling and facts. It has been educational and a great lesson in so many different ways.

Best wishes for you all

DF

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Päivitä blogiasi tai poista se.

“Update your blog or delete it”

Unfortunately I don’t have time to update my blog anymore. But I really don’t want to delete it either because there are posts that are still being visited, read and reblogged.

So it stays.Thank you all for these years. It has been a blast and I’ve learned so much from my own home country.

Finland isn’t depressing. It never was. Despite that one week in April when I set up this blog.

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Halp!

Joudun istumaan jonkun randomin vieressä bussissa 1,5h. En voi hyvin, ellei hän osaa historiaa.

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I just randomly spotted this from a random tumblr-Finn but I have to reblog this because it just capsulizes the Finnish anxiety for unwanted, uncomfortable human proximity in  public transport

“I’m in a bus and I have to sit next to some random person for the next 1,5h. I don’t feel well. Unless he knows history.”

I feel your pain.

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How do you know you’re in a Finnish home?

It’s not Finnish flag in every pillow or decorative item you’ll see. Finnish flag is commonly considered somewhat a sacred item. The Finnish flag has strict law how it is supposed to be flown and taken care of. Therefore items that have Finnish flags are not really common in Finnish homes. In Finnish home you’ll probably see Finnish flags usually only in small tourist memorabilia, or when people celebrate some national flag-raising day or have really formal family party, such as wedding.

Finns like to celebrate Finnishness by decorating their homes with Finnish design. If you spot furniture from Artek and Lundia, decorative items, curtains and sheets from Marimekko, plates, glasses and cups from Arabia and Iittala, kitchen equipment from Hackman and your quilt and pillow are made by Finlayson, you can be pretty sure you’re in a Finnish home.

But if you find a sauna and it’s warming up for you, then you can be 100% sure you’re in a Finnish home. 

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Pilvinen päivä lahes

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When you have to pose, you Have to pose. Even in Finland

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Guess who this is? Just another hipster grandpa? Nope. He’s actually one of the most popular Finnish presidents of all time, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen in his fishing garments. The photo is from 1975.

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Insulting someone’s mother in Finland

In Finland it’s very uncommon to annoy someone by insulting their mother. Therefore insulting someone’s mother is not very effective, it’s more like a very weird way of derailing from the subject of the argument and leaves people more confused than angry.

We sure do respect and love our parents, but you probably wont see Finns getting extremely offended when you tell that their mother is stupid, fat or whatever. 

Someone might even ask “Where do you know her from?” 

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Anything positive you wanna say about Finland?

Silence, variety of weather, clean environments (mostly), good internet connections and such things. There are plenty! These are the first ones to pop in mind.

Oh, and Fazer’s blue -chocolate. Haven’t found anything like it to this day.

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What does a Finnish guy generally mean when he says 'I like you'?

Well I can tell only by my own experience but every time a guy has said to me “I like you” he has had a crush on me. For some it has been just a crush, for some “like” means “love”. 

But sometimes he just means he likes you.

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Rule of Fist

The Finnish word “nyrkkisääntö” translates to “rule of thumb”. The literal translation is “rule of fist”.

--Fan submission, thanks  makelix!

Also one noteworthy saying is “Sopii kuin nyrkki silmään!”, fits like a fist in the eye. Finnish equivalent for “fits like a glove”.

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NI!

Do you know Monty Python’s The Knights Who Say Ni?

Did you know that when you end your phase with “Ni!” or “Nih!” in Finnish you basically say “I do what I want and I really don’t care about your opinion” eg

"This is my day, I can wear whatever I want! Nih!” - Antti Tuisku

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I just realized that the word "lihaskimppu" word-to-word translated is muscle bouquet

And it’s used to describe a very muscular person. Look at that Bull Mentula, what a bouquet of muscles!

I wonder if I actually should dedicate a whole own post to Bull. He’s a quite of a phenomenon in Finland after all...

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Would you like to explain the 'kuha on varaani' meme for everyone? Personally I love it way too much and find it hilarious(hiiri) btw, I love your blog ^.^

You mean this one?

Oh yes. The funs of Finnish language. There are two meanings of this sentence. It can either say “Pike perch is a lizard (varanidae), why not” in written Finnish but if you read it as if it was spoken Finnish it says “As long you can afford it then why not”.