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.
Ah, a joke about Finns I actually laughed out loud for. Well done, sir.
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.
At that point you just pull one of those little red hammers off the wall and leave through a window.
I prefer standing, even on an empty bus. Call me shameless.
I will call you Seumus!
And I will call her Shamus and hand her a Guiness!
I was about to say this is the perfect manual to getting stabbed in that country. ^^
I don’t think we do the stabbing thing much anymore. We’ve lost our puukkojunkkari heritage, sadly.
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’.
It’s also handy for scaring away bears
This is why Russia doesn’t invade Finland. Just this guy.
Well, this guy and hundreds if not thousands of guys just like him. Rural Finns are tough as FUCK 😄
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
“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
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
Especially when they rock a mullet.
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.
Perhaps everyone gets it, but for some who might not, this is genuinely the last thing you should do.
And they won’t just tell you to fuck off (~go piss on a transformer is the literal translation but it’s just a way of saying fuck off), some of them would actively start a fight right there on the fucking bus.
It’s true that it’s not something we feel comfortable doing, but I think you’re going pretty over the top with this one :D
We wouldn’t fight anyone for invading our private space. Nor would we really tell them to fuck off. We would simply sulk in uncomfortable silence through the trip and very awkwardly and apologetically ask the person to move their shit when it’s our stop.
Later we would warmly think about the deep and personal friendship we made along the way.
So while your described reaction is much more common, I agree, mine isn’t even an exaggeration but a personal experience:
I don’t know where you live but I told off a junkie on the bus for starting sing karaoke in a bus filled to the brim at 14.00.
He started instantly making literal death threats. My stop luckily came up. He followed me out of the car to fight me. I didn’t even notice it. Luckily I went inside to buy something. I was the counter when he came from behind me, pushed me, started going for a fight.
I told the clerk to call the police because I didn’t want to fight that scrawny junkie, because while he may not remember me I’ve drunk with him once. A former neighbour who had done 10 years for murder. Pretty okay dude, I only felt threatened once when someone stole 500g of meth from him and he thought I might have let someone into the storage rooms. I hadn’t.
Anyway, that’s who this guy used to be friend with.
So I don’t want take my chances in getting stuck with some rusty knife.
So yeah, that shit does happen. That’s just the most recent example, from a few weeks ago.
Go to any of the major cities and take the worst buslines for a day or two or just on the weekend.
Bro literally had an altercation with a methhead and said “Damn these finns sure are an unfriendly bunch”
Most of the people on this line are addicts of some sort.
This one — while being a meth head — was not on meth, but drunk as a skunk.
Meth don’t make people violent by itself, but added alcohol does (and alcohol does it alone as well), and it’s plenty deep in the culture.
In Finland you piss on a transformer. In Soviet America
Lol “go pee on the transformer” with an insult like that finland is basically eastern european.
The Dutch are more concise: “Get cancer!” (Krijg de kanker!).
These comments do not seem to match the post. I thought we all loved each other at Lemmy. 🧜
There’s a reason it’s the happiest country on earth.
I know a couple of Finns on a discord server. They seem like pretty friendly people to me. I dunno, maybe it helps to have some kind of common interest first? One way I’ve found to meet people–although not always people I want to meet–is to see what other people are bringing to the gun range, and then ask them about what they’ve got, assuming that it’s something neat. That’s how I got to try out a CZ Shadow 2 Compact (…and I’m now waiting for the one I ordered to arrive!), and got to talk to a cool RSO.
I think the Finns I know would be happy to talk about things like that, and would probably even let you shoot a magazine or so.
