ISMO | Drinking Habits

[@skjelm6363]

That made me laugh hard! Because once I met a finnish friend here in germany and he was really into it!

[@laivasimo8427]

This whole bit is so damn funny because it is really true. I am not sure if we should be ashamed or just keep laughing 😂

[@skjelm6363]

​@@laivasimo8427 I can't and won't tell you what to feel, but if I manage it to visit Finland one day, we should met 😉

[@sparkyfromel]

worked for a year in northern Russia , in our hotel there was two Fins working setting up some plywood machine , they had half a liter of vodka for breakfast and claimed that they hadn't be sober for a year , even the alcoholic Russians looked on them as some sort of freaks " the booze is so cheap here , would be a waste not to drink it "

[@georgegordonbrown9522]

It would be a waste.

[@Wolfdings]

10 years ago I was on a business travel with Finish authorities in Minneapolis. We went to Famous Dave's (back then a great place!) and after 2 hours the waiters started to move some tables right next to ours, just to put the next rounds within reach. After 4 hours of severe dancing to live music the place was never as it was before. Even the old folks from the last row had the time of their lifes :D

[@MikaelMurstam]

it's not a joke though. In the Nordics we have much stricter alcohol limits when it comes to driving so we really need to think about the next day. People have lost their driver's license from driving the next day.

[@Perkele_Itse]

One of the better clips for sure

[@BardovBacchus]

Come to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You will fell right at home

[@kevinjpluck]

Perfect typo

[@BardovBacchus]

Indeed, I will not change it @@kevinjpluck

[@creedor]

As a Norwegian who’s been to Wisconsin I can testify I felt right at home.

[@Meuracas]

@@creedor Pretty sure it’s spelled Whiskonsin

[@teemuhaavisto6986]

It's funny cause it's true😂🍻🇫🇮

[@Ironknuckle100]

I want to revisit Helsinki. I had fun there.

[@jarkkomakela7751]

Yeah, especially the driving part...

[@hsk2909]

Ismo never tells a lie.

[@itseperkele181]

Indeed. People here buy alcohol meters to check when they can start driving lol

[@seanpratt4704]

As a Canadian... yes it's funny cause it's true. Hah

[@macgyver15147]

Welp that's it I'm booking a flight to Finland 🇫🇮

[@AK-xq5cn]

You know, amounts Ismo thinks about drinking in Finland, he doesn't take in count the price

[@frodej6640]

Don't, please don't. It will be a terrible idea. Learn from others (like me).

[@Jerry_m81]

The most Happiest country in the world, 🇫🇮 👍👍👍

[@icurn2004]

😂

[@djgnu]

@@Jerry_m81 I have never seen a happy fin in my life.

[@toomask100]

four guys went into town in amsterdam....one was from Belgium, one from Estonia, another from Poland and one from Germany. One got lost, one got wasted, one got high and one got lucky....

[@StephNuggs]

What is Finnish summer soup? Koskenkorva served in a flowery deep plate.

[@panutalus]

"Did you finnish your last round yet?"

[@mnls0]

In Greece noone ever wonders if they can drive. And they can repeat the same thing the next day.

[@jouniinvelez7469]

This is no joke.

[@stephaniejar3884]

No, dear one, it isn't. Because Finland has a zero tolerance law for alcohol and driving. It is incredibly taboo in Finland, and actually all Nordic countries, to consume alcohol and drive. He's trying to make it sound funny, because, Finnish humor, but it's not actually a laughing matter in Nordic cultures (which is exactly why he's making a kind of meta joke about it). Hope that clears this up for you!

[@Antroid1]

@@stephaniejar3884Finland absolutely doesn’t have a zero tolerance for drinking and driving. The legal limit of blood alcohol level for drivers is 0,5g/l.

[@andrimar4362]

@@stephaniejar3884 xD pulling facts out of your ass great one :) Tell me again when they started to banning doctors drinking before a surgery in Denmark? Or if most of the highland roads constructed in Iceland were buildt sober or in a happy mood? Just dig a little, local stories tell way more than your "globalized" feelings. Also zero tolerance in Finland? Its 0.5 like in Denmark, Norway/Sweden its 0.2.

[@derlachendevagabund7942]

Finns do not drink every day, and usually not even every weekend, but when they do drink, they often believe that being half drunk is a waste of money.

[@jouniinvelez7469]

@@stephaniejar3884 I'm a Finn, and it's just as he tells it. Therefore it's a fact, not a joke.

[@santtuasp3136]

fact

[@juliaparadowska5090]

The same in Poland😂

[@toomask100]

it is a true story....there is a record

[@LoisFox131]

That’s true. Finland is tolerant.😂

[@operatori]

Five days! OMG, that's too much.

[@davidibib]

Fact I n Denmark too😂

[@jupe8025]

This is so tru and I don't know is it funny or sad... 😂

[@stefaneriksson9258]

Heja Finland!

[@georgegordonbrown9522]

Terve!?

[@z3r0c00l2]

That is actually true😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@timppao4664]

Yep and next Day is not are option because next Day u must fix u hangouver to drinking More soooo..next week is beter😂

[@slow_runner]

It's funny because it's true!

[@peterl5804]

So true

[@K1mmo]

Based

[@Manyxe]

On sitä nyt sallittava yks päivä saikkua viikossa krapulan takia.

[@itseperkele181]

Pelkästään tämän takia tarvitaan 4 päivänen työviikko.

[@derlachendevagabund7942]

@@itseperkele181 Home office is made for Finns. Chill naked in your mökki with iPad and Koskenkorva.

[@Sup3rman1c]

@@itseperkele181 Yks päivä lisää juomista siis

[@A77uros]

Joskus tarviis kyllä yksi viikko saikkua päivässä... 😁

[@tabin00]

Why Ismo hasn't been on Rogan yet?

[@amarug]

Finn here, I never drink any alcohol, but I am the anomaly 😂

[@JakeKilka]

I know what you mean. Used to party hard, but these days I have like six drinks in a year. Feels like I don't belong. People gift me booze, some of the gift bottles are 10 years old lol

[@hcmac]

"funny" part is that wasn't even exaggerated

[@pekkakuosmanen65]

So true😅

[@Jerry_m81]

It’s so true and typical finnish behavior. Ismo nailed it again. 🇫🇮 And Finland have another behavior thats quite common - ”Kalsarikännis”

[@Pedro-1979]

sad but true:D

[@serjtubin]

I'd say that "Europe" can be used in place of "Finalnd" in this joke too :D

[@teerikangas]

With my experience of other european countries I would say absolutely NOPE. Well okay, Germany was close.

[@serjtubin]

@@teerikangas I visited almost all countries of Europe, I know what I said :) but yes, if we're going to be very realistic, then ofc this cannot be applied to EVERY country in Europe, but for many of them, for sure.

[@cogboy302]

​@@teerikangas, in the UK & Ireland, drink is our national pastime. We don't have drinking games, because life is the drinking game. If you die, you lose.

[@nickvegas2459]

Norwegians and Swedes are exactly the same.

[@frostfyre8841]

Ensimmäinen

[@zlozlozlo]

Wow. "First" in Finnish is "Ensimmäinen"? By the time you've finished typing that, you'd be 4th at best. That's rough buddy.

[@ajkorras]

That's why nobody says that and it is 'eka' in spoken language

[@yuppyhater]

ROFL!!!!

[@zupergurkan]

Not sure how Sweden differs from Finland here, but if you have 2 beers, you don't drive, cus you can get arrested

[@foobar1500]

It's an implicit commentary on the fact that vast majority of Finns take a very dim view on driving even slightly over the legal limit of 0.5 per mille blood alcohol concentration, which is when being on the safe side, less than one litre of "regular" beer for most. At the same time people *do* drink, they just don't find an excuse to drive home themself. They're thinking when it becomes legal to do so again.

[@zupergurkan]

@@foobar1500 wow. Our limit is at 0.2 and I think most people take that seriously? At least the people I'm around. In my opinion it's not just about legality but safety too

[@foobar1500]

@@zupergurkan Legality is one thing, but gauging if it's safe is another. Most Finns definitely think that it's preposterous them to judge on the basis how they feel, instead of counting drinks and having a safe interpretation of it. Basically two slowly drank pints is the absolute maximum for hopping behind the wheel after it. (I don't think there's much evidence of large difference in safety between 0.2 and 0.5 per mille - but it's rather clear that one is going to exceed 0.5 per mille if one drinks more than two pints - or doesn't have *hours* of completely dry time after just one or two more.) To Americans the idea that they would be restricted from driving their own car and be on mercy of others in the name of safety seems harder to accept.

[@oslonorway547]

True. But for anyone wondering, it's because alcohol, especially beer, in the Nordic countries contain an additive - legally mandatory - to check us from over doing it. Doesn't help though.

[@ihmesekoilua]

That additive, in case anyone is wondering, is called "taxation". There is no actual additive :D

[@fayjan73]

​@@ihmesekoilua😂😂😂

[@kristian3472]

What on earth are you on about? What additive?

[@hsk2909]

@@ihmesekoilua The rising tax every 1st Jan is an "excuse"..They know it won't stop anybody from drinking just the same as before. Clever way of being double faced, as govs normally are.

[@applemos6714]

@@kristian3472He must be referring to taxation, but it isn’t obvious.

[@anttikettunen8601]

I don't understand what's funny about this. I am a finn.

[@mrtr0ya237]

No senhän näkee jo sun kuvasta

[@fdagpigj]

You might notice that the audience is americans. They have a "slightly" different relationship with alcohol there, it's the contrast that makes it funny.

[@mnls0]

And you are too sober also?

[@Folkgrunge]

Drinking a lot is a mental disorfer Ismo, is not fun. Is not normal to see in Finlanf in the morning people in the plane drinking a lot of bottles of wine, is a serious issue.