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Now I just imagine getting out of the airport in Finland, and there is a huge mega stadium, every single person in finland, sitting every other seat. I have to pick one to sit next to.
Pick the loneliest looking one. Then ask, mitä kuuluu?
According to Google translate:
Perkele - Evil spirit or a version of "god damn"
Mene kusemaan muuntajaan - Go pee on the transformer
Also, the tradition is the exact opposite as I understand.
In Finland they like to be alone and be left alone, so you don't just intrude on someone if they are in self-isolation.
Yeah that's the joke.
Or did I miss some sort of elaborate joke-joke?
The worst case scenario in scandinavia when boarding a bus is that it is exactly half full, which obligatory means every double seat is occupied by exectly 1 person, and you must choose which one to annoy (including annoying yourself, if you're Scandinavian because you too want to sit alone). Standing works, but you must feel shame all the time.
Second way to make friends in Finland: tell them how much you're enjoying your visit to Scandinavia.
Finland is the canton of Scandinavia I like second most after Sweden so far.
Though I must say Poland was nice too.
I prefer standing, even on an empty bus. Call me shameless.
I just stand then. Same thing when it is almost half full and I know there's going to be more people on one of the later stops before I get out, so that I don't take up anyone's seat. I always board buses and trains last for this reason.
Screw whoever thought of installing the 4 seat sections that face each other.
Especially a problem in trains where that's the majority. You get 1 person per 4 seats.
Example:
Fantastic for a family of four though, you block off any intruders possible aggression!
At that point you just pull one of those little red hammers off the wall and leave through a window.
TIL the Finns are my people
As an autist, Finnish culture sounds perfect.
Nah, because if you're silent the wrong way (and no one will ever tell you what that way is or how to be silent correctly) you'll be ostracized since pre-school and end up socially withdraw whether you want it or not. Or at least that is my experience growing up here as an autist, as well as every other autistic person I know.
Stop romanticizing this place and its laughable excuse for a culture. Most people hate it here, and would much rather live somewhere else were it not for the fact that everywhere else seems to be even fucking worse.
How is that any different from what I experience here then? If I'm dealing with all that crap anyway, then I'd rather do it with people NOT sitting next to me when there's a whole empty deck on the bus.
Fair enough. I'm mostly arguing with a strawman here, composed of all the content online about how supposedly great this place is, the most egregious being those fucking happiness indexes or whatever. By what I can tell by living here all my life is that the state sucks (as in nothing fucking works like it's supposed to), the location sucks (cold and/or dark most of the time), and all the people are drunks, depressed and thus hypermedicated, drug addicts, or inbred, xenophobic, racist homophobes. Or depending on how far from the nearest train station you stray a combination of all!
Welcome to Finland, I hate it here.
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A Finn once described the ... intensity of 'perkele' when used as an insult/curse to me, as: 'it is worse than 'horseshit', it is worse than 'god damn!', it is like you or it are worse and worth less and more despicable than flaming diarrhea from Satan himself'.
This was the first time I heard (saw) someone say it to a Finn and I was like wow what the heck just happened?
This user was pretty chill and then BAM! Insta-rage!
Perkele is the only finish word I know thanks to Robbaz
As a Finn, I can say this is pretty accurate. Perkele is sort of a Finnish folklore version of satan, but the word is most commonly used as an exclamation/general curse word.
I was about to say this is the perfect manual to getting stabbed in that country. ^^
"Go pee on the transformer" but that sounds like "fuck off and die!"
Oh
Ooooooooh lmfao
Ya fuck the transformers
especially the generative pretrained ones
How do you recognize an introvert Finn?
While chatting he is looking at his shoes.
How do you recognize an extrovert Finn?
While chatting he is looking at YOUR shoes.
The Finns were relieved when the covid rules ended. They finally could go back to 6 meters distance instead of 1.5.
In the UK, if you ever notice that the guy in front of you has trouble at the urinal, breathe soothingly down his neck and make reassuring tutting noises.
It's a tradition that dates back to the 10th century
In the US it's considered polite to hold their dicks for them.
But sometimes this can be uncomfortable... Are you able to just confidently walk up and grab it or do you loudly first ask "DO YOU NEED A HAND?!"
Most of the time this makes them super uncomfortable, which is great! Better them than me. But other times they're way too okay with it.
stream power is too unpredictable, it always gets in my eye
In the UK it’s tradition to ignore the queue and rush right to the front of the line.
In order to shake hands with the unemployed
I hear it really help the pee to come out when you stand next to the person and touch your dick to his dick while peeint yourself.
Don't cross the streams.
That's considered a compliment in many cultures
Lol "go pee on the transformer" with an insult like that finland is basically eastern european.
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There's a reason it's the happiest country on earth.
Vittu Saatana Perkele!
(Thank Robbaz the Swede for teaching swear words in Finnish)
I learned "perkele" from Scandinavia and the World. Although from various context on that site, I always thought it was the equivalent of saying "fuck."
These comments do not seem to match the post. I thought we all loved each other at Lemmy. 🧜
I guess this only applies to lonely Finns.
I have heard enough stories of Indians who get the cold shoulder and are treated unfriendly. It doesn’t matter if someone is fresh off the boat or has been there for over a decade, earned their citizenship, and truly assimilated. Finns just don’t seem interested in connecting with Indians.
I am not blaming the Finns, nor am I trying to criticise the idea of “perkele,” just offering some context.
Finns aren’t interested to connect with anyone once they have left college. They already have their own friend group they know for years or even decades by then. And aren’t interested in making new friends. This isn’t unique to the Finns though this attitude is quite common across Europe. Like I live in the Netherlands and often hear from expats how hard it is to make friends outside the expat community. And then some blame it on racism. But I also hear stories of Dutch people working abroad in Europe in those countries where the expats I know come from and it’s literally the same over there. It’s just that people don’t have the time to invest in new friendships once they enter the workforce and by then they aren’t interested in shallow friendships.
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Im unsure if youre pretending not to know this is a joke or if you really dont.
I really don’t.
Finns are infamous for disliking being physically close to each other in public with strangers. You do not intrude on anyone’s personal space, and the volume of that space is worth making jokes about. So being a foreigner is irrelevant in this context, one simply doesn’t sit next to a Finn on a bus. I don’t know what the translation is of the OP post, but I’m sure it’s rude.
Indeed. For the Finns, the hardest part of the coronavirus pandemic was adjusting to 2m of social distancing, down from their preferred distance of 5m.
I don't know that last phrase, but "perkele" is a swear word, used kind of like the F word (but different translation).
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