r/Finland on Reddit is both weird and wholesome...

[@davecad]

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[@GearZonom-b6z]

For the snow sculpture post bit you mean keltainen lumimies?

[@whitetrash81]

every finnish person knows it´s fish not chicken because white sauce

[@palleppalsson]

Yup that carry over to Sweden also,

[@user-in6tx3vm6i]

Exactly

[@rgracing4109]

Yes very true

[@verttikoo2052]

Yep 😂 My first reaction was that what the hell?? Chicken?? It’s fish 🤣

[@wesinokkamies1302]

Kalapuikot!

[@cayenigma]

The Gollum thing, I think it is a teekkari joke from the nineties. They used to publish a joke pamphlet every Vappu. Do not know if they still do. It was similar to Mad magazine but way smaller budget. The best jokes circulate still.

[@Hippinaama]

Äpy is being published still. Feels like the budget is lower every year ;)

[@cayenigma]

@@Hippinaama heh

[@onr-o1h]

Äpy and Julkku were the ones published in Helsinki area. Just legendary publications.

[@thamor4746]

I really don't think it's from the 90s, most like early 2000 when the first LOTR movie had come out. That is when I started hearing about this idiocy =)

[@cayenigma]

@@thamor4746 Dunno, it might have been sauna troll (peikko) first.

[@Yoarashi]

12:45 you can still swing in the winter! you only need to flip the swing over the bar a few times to shorten the ropes, thereby raising the swing higher off the ground. but kids generally can't undo this themselves, so make sure to lower the swing too as the snow below gradually melts or kids WILL attempt to use the now absurdly high up swing and wreck their palms and knees

[@jerejauho6827]

Yup, has happened to me many times.

[@aaronstavern]

r/finland: Northern lights, moomins and sauna r/suomi: perkele, saatana and kossubattery

[@BlessedDog]

r/mina_irl: jonne

[@Kuukeksi]

Funny to see you here and spreading facts no less LOL

[@xItzSpruce]

@@rastas_4221 on täällä

[@Garbox80]

"It's all fun and games until the snow starts speaking Finnish" - A Soviet saying from 1939 -

[@dotsinki1096]

"It's all fun and games until the snow starts shooting bullets" A common Russian proverb

[@TrolledBy]

The math speaks Greek The trees speak Vietnamese The snow speaks Finnish

[@Audiojack_]

I have heard of saunaklonkku as a game but never heard that anyone actually tried to play it. I think it's mostly a joke, or something very drunk people play when it feels like a good idea. Also the kurkkumopo ("cucumber moped") is very legendary!

[@pihlajafox]

Kurkkumopo is the most beautiful toy I have ever seen

[@DR_REDACTED]

My friend is that one guy who in his drunk mind wante d to play. And then hurt himself (no suprise there)

[@preda577]

Ihan helvetin harvinainen

[@Ironbattlemace]

Cucumber moped, the holy artefact.

[@Hezzu2000]

One of my earliest memories are pushing myself along on the kurkkumopo, I can feel the paved driveway with rocks on it after the snow is gone and all you have left is wetness and how it felt with my little saappaat on trying to push it forward with the little gravel stopping me. I can only imagine the sweet colorful reima jumpsuit i had on...

[@NotTonTon]

Gifflar are well loved by Finns and we have adopted them as if they were our own

[@jhutt8002]

Yep. Even finnish army rations include (at least when I was in army) a bag of Gifflars. I guess that's big part of why they ae so popular.

[@hannahoo8919]

I am absolutely terrified of Mörkö so that snow statue would make me run to the hills

[@PonytailCanyon]

Mörkö looked a bit like Putin.

[@Ytfrot]

Good luck, mörkö lives in hills :D

[@Ba_Yegu]

The Finns can't help being weird as they have been acquainted with creatures like Mörkö and Morso at their most tender age. Their sweet, naive innocence was brutally cut short.

[@michael7738]

Like Snufkin said in Moominvalley, "The Groke is just a misunderstood creature". And I do like how Moomin later got into more contact with her. Nothing to worry about, except of the plants in your garden if Mörkö comes too close. :-)

[@Novice9241]

I would just freeze in fear. As I did just now

[@Unknown_crusader]

If I saw Mörkö standing in my yard, all of my moomin traumas would resurface and I'd cry.

[@xezzee]

Japanese anime always has this table with blanket and heater under it on winters ... we as kid had blanket over table and we were watching Muumeja at winter from there and my god did we get traumas from the Mörkö ... I'm more scared of the ice Queen who even Mörkö is afraid ... or was he in love with her? poor Pikku Myy

[@nova_supreme8390]

@@xezzee My younger sister was scared of the Ice Queen and I just laughed at her because I thought that Ice Queen was just ridiculous. Like it has fucking star shaped wheels. It looks is like kid's toy or something. :D

[@jaanakosonen2470]

Many lapsihood ptsd surfaced

[@jaanakosonen2470]

@@nova_supreme8390 that thing was also hella nightmare Fuel When u was 5

[@LiXa_]

oon 15 ja silti nään painajaisia möröstä vähän väliä. Niinku kenen idea oli tehä siitä niin v!tun pelottava???

[@Randomizer939]

11:05 Enemy airplanes can't see the road since they see the road only from certain angle. Trees on both sides mostly in Finland so planes had to go "along with the road to bomb anything on it" and those trees block the view. So it was mainly protecting against dive bombers etc that seek any movement on the road.

[@jorbel3612]

I made a huge mistake few years ago while reinstalling Windows on my laptop. I set the locale as English and the keyboard layout as Finnish, so the rest of the installation Cortana was speaking in Rally English.

[@xWood4000]

My Google Maps speaks rally English and English Finnish, it switches mid sentence

[@TrolledBy]

@@xWood4000 Even though my Google Maps is in Finnish, the navigator says the location names with an English accent. I have to rely on road numbers because I can't understand any names it tries to pronounce.

[@wedebauss2173]

That cucumber thing was a "kurkkumopo" and it has a legend status in the finnish meme culture.

[@eevilauntie]

I'm so old I had a kurkkumopo when I was a kid. It was the coolest ride... cool as a cucumber one might say

[@JUMALATION1]

About the mobile internet speed: I moved to my current apartment 2.5 years ago and never even had to consider getting wifi. I have been hotspotting from my phone all the time, and I have been able to play online games on big servers and attend online meetings without problems. I'm very happy about the internet standard here.

[@artofstormdancing3319]

Yeah, I lived with my inlaws few summers ago and used my phone hotspot to play Battlefield on my desktop PC, it worked well and I had like 10 ping added compared to my own Internet at home. Mobile Internet is pretty damn solid nowadays.

[@ruukinen]

It's not perfect though. I wish I had a cable coming here and I don't even live that far off. Just Finnish things, move away from people to avoid them but having to put up with crappy internet.

[@Odud_rg]

Same thing for me right now

[@LotharOfTheHillPeople]

Planning on moving to Finland in the next couple of years from the USA. Your videos are very heartening. Cheers!

[@elisakallokoski801]

Welcome. Even the sun has moved here gain. For a couple months. XD

[@simo9482]

Don't do it. Putin crush Finland in the few days. Russians is very bad as neubor.

[@guanoapes771]

Yes dont

[@ndnddndndnnodemnnnddndndn]

dont

[@TeeDee87]

Welcome :)

[@ChristianJull]

When Finnish was added to Google Translate, they based it entirely on EU legislative and other formal documents that had trusted translations (in many languages). As such, the more formal the Finnish, the more accurate. That's why it was pretty useless at everyday Finnish. Of course, it has been constantly learning ever since, and people have suggested better translations (for better and worse). It is MUCH better today, though never perfect. It still has tremendous difficulty with gender and makes sexist assumptions about male and female based on the circumstance being translated. They have made headway on this too though, offering 'he/she' sometimes. And let's not get into the US date format translations/assumptions....

[@0wly]

9:43 that would be called a kurkkumopo or cucumber moped in english, but unfortunately it is missig the handle bars

[@0Quiwi0]

We can really make a sauna anywhere. On my few trips to UN peacekeepers the first thing we did at any base was building a tent sauna when we had any free time

[@MimiMangetsu]

Saunaklonkku is definitely something my friends would do. They had this fun idea of going together to a small shower stall and rub olive oil on themselves, then dance in a circle. Weird dudes

[@hago66]

That google english-finnish mix also happens to me when I'm using google maps and the app is in the background. It changes from smooth finnish to something like that. "In two hundred metriä turn to marijankatu numero 122 and pysy on the vasen side"

[@maleksanteri]

Not chicken on the school lunch, that's fish and dill lemon sauce.

[@9MMina]

That ice Mörkö was last year, directly outside my parents' home.. I can tell you it was terrifying to walk past in the dark to go to work the first morning it was finished :'D really cool though!

[@Sappengold]

I mean I have heard a lot of "Saunaklonkku" aka Sauna gollum. Didnt really know the rules but I guess it's more an meme than a real thing

[@hamstsorkxxor]

Like in Sweden, were you supposedly have the game "runka bulle", in which a group of men masturbate furiously while aiming on a cinnamon bun. The objective is to cum as quickly as possible, and whoever comes last, has to eat the bun. Obviously, nobody actually plays that game (I hope), but most people have heard of it.

[@heikkiremes5661]

As the jungle vegetation speaks Vietnamese, the snow speaks Finnish.

[@whazzup_teacup]

2:26 I've always wondered what it's like to try and learn this because learning about it as a native Finn in school was absolutely terrible. I knew what's right spelling but the tough part was why it was right. The absolute horror of naming all forms of word bending...

[@TheRawrnstuff]

For me, things like this were actually the reason why I fell love with the Finnish language. Obviously the meme highlights the confusing aspect of it, but the Finnish language allows for much more precise communication than English does. "Minä tykkään hänet" is not grammatically wrong, but the meaning is different from "minä tykkään hänestä". With the "hänet-variant", you are making a statement about what you are about to do. "Minä tapaan hänet", "minä merkkaan hänet", "minä katson sarjat", "minä luen lehdet". With the "hänestä-variant", the focus is more on the object of the sentence. In this case, "her". The confusing bit about this is just that the stä-suffix is also used as the linguistic equivalent of "from", making it look like "minä tykkään hänestä" would translate into "I like from her", which is a different (albeit identical) sentence altogether. Comparing Finnish and English makes English look like the quote "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?" The difference being, Finnish actually has the fewer words despite the increased communicative precision, as the nuance is in the suffixes and prefixes, instead of completely separate prepositions. One last thing about the meme though. The final correction in the meme is wrong. He should've corrected it into "Suomen kieli on vitun vaikea", not "Suomenkieli on vitun vaikeaa". "Suomen kieli" is two words, "suomenkielinen" is one word. Puhuminen on vaikeaa, kieli on vaikea.

[@whazzup_teacup]

@@TheRawrnstuff "hänet" implies someone (some people) do something that inflict them so there's why it's incorrect. I don't have a degree in any language but that's the best I could come up with by just thinking.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

@@whazzup_teacup Very true. "Hänet" implies that "hän's" status/condition undergoes a change of some kind. My point was that the sentence is grammatically correct, if we give "tykätä" a meaning that can be done in a one-and-done fashion. Like clicking the like-button. In that sense, "minä tykkään hänet" would be correct. Obviously, the most likely meaning of "liking someone" isn't in this one-and-done fashion but rather an ongoing process that never really resolves, so it's a very safe bet to say "minä tykkään hänet" is wrong, even when lacking context. But it's not wrong in the "absolute" sense. It's just very, very unlikely to be correct in practice and in real life.

[@whazzup_teacup]

@@TheRawrnstuff Yeah, and again it's hard for me as a native to think why "hänet" is wrong so thanks for clearing up a bit.

[@durabelle]

@@TheRawrnstuff And of course it gets even more confusing if we replace the verb "tykätä" with "pitää", which can and often does mean the same thing. "Minä pidän hänestä" means I like her, but "minä pidän hänet" means I'll keep her. Got to love this language.

[@julianaFinn]

I'm homesick now...😪 I'm a Finn living in Australia and while life is good here, I miss all the things that speak to me soul as a Finn.... thanks for the nostalgia 👍🇫🇮

[@Suduris]

Finland to Australia...do you just like fucked up weather?

[@julianaFinn]

@@Suduris right?? The irony of it is that I LOVE LOVE the cold and snow, not the rain and misery. So living 1st in the cold, then the extreme hot, and I'm uncomfortable almost all the time 🤣😳😳

[@Suduris]

@@julianaFinn Yeah, I'm similar in some ways. Family is from Europe so I don't handle the heat here at all. Cold is always preferable lol

[@madonpoikanen]

Imagine kids seeing that Mörkö It's pitch black winter afternoon and you're walking home from your friend's house. Then you see that huge realistic looking Mörkö standing there. You hear a huge bang from the woods and get scared that Mörkö became alive. You don't know that the sound came from a cracking tree and was caused by paukku pakkanen (very cold weather). You quickly take another route and run to home.

[@0xbaadf00d]

Hm, maybe a motion sensor to activate some led lights and a speaker...

[@madonpoikanen]

@@0xbaadf00d OOH YES!

[@Mrooooooooooooo]

I know the guy in the volvo sauna! Finns make saunas in the most unordirary places, there is a combine harvester sauna, a firetruck sauna.. Funny thing is that where ever finns go, first we make a sauna, then we can start working on other stuff!

[@TheRawrnstuff]

"There are more saunas than cars in Finland" Half true. If you included unlicensed, "standing" cars (not sure what one would call them in English) there would be more cars than saunas in Finland. So it's a question of what counts as a "car in Finland"

[@hannahietala2710]

Yeah! We had many like "peltoauto" at teenager 😀

[@guanoapes771]

Well its still a car 😂

[@MV-ri7zu]

More cars. Less registered cars.

[@vicmac3513]

@05:32 in Oulu, the lunch price used to be 0,88€ but apparently the quality was significantly lower than seen in the picture. They baked bread buns by themselves and it turned everything into fantastic.

[@mr_tumppi414]

9:36 Thats kurkkumopo. The greatest thing ever.

[@19smkl91]

My brother is currently working in Uruguay and he managed to be there without sauna for 6 months, one day he had enough and now there is DIY shed converted into a sauna. Don't know where and how he got kiuas but glad he could cause I'd imagine that nothing beats watching wild horses from lauteilta with some keppana after work.

[@dusterix]

Saunaklonkku (Klonkku is actually Gollum in finnish) is the official name for the game (meme). The finger comes up, the one who reacts is the new saunaklonkku. Bassoradio has a great video of the game.

[@magicalweirdstuff]

The sipoo thing schoked me cause thats like 500m from my home. I will say that wild boars are very dangerous, and schools even warned us about them!

[@larrywave]

I was looking for this you really need to be safe around boars

[@TimoLahti]

9:40 as a matter fact, that's a pickle car. It misses some parts like a handle.

[@p.o.3889]

Fun fact: the Covid-19 bar changed it's name from 88 Bar to that. It looked like a straight up Nazi place, but apparently 88 is a lucky number in Thailand. Also Covid-19 bar had a case of superspreading Covid at one point.

[@wombat4191]

I know a bit different version of Gollum. If someone reacts to the Gollum's fingers, he's the next Gollum.

[@sotirisriza]

My mate I've been in finland the past 4 months, I'm from greece, and the vibe of your video represents one of my biggest issues with finland, sooo peaceful and quite, nothing like the Mediterranean 🤣

[@cathsaigh2197]

It's a bit more difficult to make a sauna that lasts than that. Everything in it needs to be able to handle the moisture and changes in temperature.

[@thekorkki89]

There are multiple events where people bring their own saunas and the public can come and try them out! 😁

[@Lootgoblin_King]

9:45 It's a "kurkku mopo" or cucumber motorcyckle. You sit on top and push your self around.

[@milttu]

Dave you should definitely visit the mighty Sauna-ajot in Teuva! There's about 50 different kind of saunas gathered around a small pond where you can visit the saunas and swim all day. There's saunas that have been built in to cars (like the volvo) and boats and so on. There's even one sauna in a thresher, its awesome. The event is free (only parking 5€) and it's held 23.7.2022 in Teuva. It's fit for the kids too, so take your whole family :) You're welcome :3

[@finnishgamer92]

Finnish map with the flag colours mean that the blue and the white parts contain same amount of population in them.

[@zenosis]

There's also a strange game which I don't remember the name of. It's where a group of boys gather around a cookie and they start doing the dirty with their hands and the last one to cüm on the cookie has to eat it

[@samimiettinen3457]

Yes,of course...The name of the game is " Koijataan Apinaa"

[@zenosis]

@@samimiettinen3457 lmao en muistannu yhtää

[@Ryptahi]

This was freaking hilarious! More of this !

[@Redfizh]

Somewhere used to be a bar named Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsibaari

[@JulesVonBasslake]

I know I'm late, but part of the reason why the student meal is so cheap is that Kela sponsors about half of the cost of it. You need a valid student id to get the discount, at least here at KAMK, and if you don't, it costs like 5.50 or something, might be more... I tried looking up the prices quickly, but couldn't find it. But, bottom line is that as a student you get the food for cheaper because Kela pays for some of it.

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍😀 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

[@nemobot003]

Okay wow. I tried that Rally English thing with Google and it actually worked. Although with my Rally English it wasn't too easy to make it answer in proper English :'D

[@janiturunen4059]

The picture from the depressed Portuguese student is taken in Verkatehtaanpuisto in Helsinki, facing south-south-east looking at the buildings along Hämeentie.

[@frankhaula]

Wow.

[@squidcaps4308]

This is the best season to come to F1. The new cars work, we got new drivers on top, everything is at its best. I've followed it since 91... It has never been this good.

[@texdillinger6173]

5:11 I have a friend who works for a chinese company translating chinese adds to finnish. they pay bad but since he doesnt have to work hourly he does it as a side job to pay his life while studying.

[@chuiga2935]

For some reason I still think if the company is not Finnish and still have Finnish text, I call it sus :D

[@eVill420]

3:05 the only place that could be is around the capital because in december we had over half a meter of snow here.

[@1fknhpycmpr355]

I have heard that saunagollum, saunaklonkku before. But it was a bit different, the one who frightens the poking finger and raises his ass from the seat/lauteet, will be the next saunaklonkku. But its gotta be some meme or joke, i have never heard anyone playing that.

[@vissymies]

9:45 its kind on kick car, that one missing handlebar at top, usuallu red handlebar. I had one of those as children in 70`s

[@Atzy]

Google translate is getting much better at Finnish because there's a lot of techie people in Finland actively working to improve it.

[@koljkimm]

It is a funny thing that very often funeral service is located next or opposite side of the street to kebab-restaurant or hair salon. Might be that there are so many kebabs and hair salons that some of them always end up near a funeral service.

[@niskanen19]

just checked my most recent mobile data period report, ive used +2TB of mobile data *laughs in finnish*

[@killerkonnat]

3:12 There's a decent chance that picture is taken a couple hundred meters from where I live in Helsinki... But also not, because as you say it looks like it could literally be from anywhere.

[@Sefiisthebestxd]

9:35 OMG ITS THE KURKKU MOPO I REMEMBER SEEING ONE OF THOSE WITH MY FRIENDS WHEN I WAS IN 5TH GRADE AND WE PUT IT INTO OUR PRESENTATION AND GROUP PICTURE

[@mariannejtv2730]

Sidenote: you can barely call DTS (s4) a documentary as it takes so much stuff completely out of context trying to create "drama".

[@PonytailCanyon]

Dave: "Really stupid or genius".

[@thalionhallmastiffs1787]

Oh, I had that green toy with wheels on when I was a kid in the 70´s. Brings back memories.

[@IrnFox]

9:45 That thing is called Kurkkumopo, and they are one of the most dangeroys ridable toys for children. Handlebar is in FRONT of front tires so whenever onerides this to enge of the carpet or something, they will lose some teeth.

[@Arnoldfan89]

The version of sauna Gollum that I've heard says that the one that yelps when the finger enters their... you know, becomes the new Gollum.

[@TopiasSalakka]

About that Volvo sauna. A finn will make a sauna out of literally anything, once we built a savusauna out of scrap lumber, tarp, some random rocks and a metal grate.

[@derReiter]

”Gollum” might not be true but, oh boy, I so wish every foreigner thought it was!

[@cheekibreeki3607]

9:27 holy shit the legends are real, that's the iconic kurkkumopo

[@Thekovaluu89]

Liked it a lot. Commentary from your point of view was funny and you found nice topics ^^

[@Pyllymysli]

""It's all fun and games, until the snow starts speaking finnish."

[@Hippinaama]

12:45 Also finding sand under the melting snow is a bit similar than someone throwing candy to the ground.

[@mikanokia7550]

There was once in a TV show, sauna built into a small old airplane (Cessna I think) and also in a farmharvester

[@PastaAivo]

A daily reminder of "you will never be as cool as Mr Kekkonen".

[@ekkovaan2261]

You can have a sauna without a chimney as well, its a bit more of a hassel, but it is its own experience.

[@ylleba]

Yeah, in Lapland there is about 190 000 people of which about 65000 lives in Rovaniemi and the rest lives south.

[@jussimustonen6829]

3:57 that bar is actually located in Oulu and it's very real indeed, seen it with my own eyes.

[@liam3664]

Puhuuko lumi suomea?=Does the snow speak finnish? Like Simo Häyhä, he was so well camuflated so they could not see anyone. Only snow.

[@Jaegerrants]

"No one's that stupid" We call it taking piss at it. I mean we named fire bottle as a joke to have a drink to go with the bread.

[@Ran-tan-tan]

"Enough internet for today", eh, not the first one who's said that after browsing reddit for a bit...

[@_Lunaria]

6:55 that is related to a legendary finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, who got a nickname White Death cause of his insane body count in the war

[@Arkki11]

When I was in the military, some guys turned a tent into a sauna.

[@SweetPickingsCa]

The house my dad grew up in was called Mörkölä

[@Arpeman_Fi]

Speaking of Saunas In my city of Teuva we have "Sauna ajot" where saunas gathering in one place and you can try many different saunas that are gathered there and if you want you can get your own sauna there to share too if there still is enough space for it (Unfortunately KZbin don't allow adding pictures as comment so I can't give pic from there as comment)

[@MsWill813]

That Google thing works! Your Finnish is not ralli enough

[@sudenkieppi]

14:12 My dude has his saunakalja (sauna beer) nice and cooled off in the snow on the hood of the car too hahaha!!

[@Derinma]

The owner of the bar is married to my former Finnish teacher and they're a wondeful couple and the bar is chilla af

[@MØSS_MANN]

9:43 ITS A KURKKUMOPO! all hail the kurkkumopo.

[@saturahman7510]

Please, come to Mikkeli. We have lots of snow in the winter. Parhain terveisin: Satu & Topi-kissa.

[@squidcaps4308]

Klonkku is very real game, we played it in our church summer camp... The best part of it is when you get to lick the finger.

[@Redmanticore]

1:16 "helsinki, and turku, i guess.." ah yes, the two places of finland: helsinki, and all others turku i guess 4:44 deepL , for some reason, has added finland into it. i think its better version of google translation. might want to give it a try.

[@Jansmaaa]

I too started watching F1 in the middle of the last season because of drive to survive. Before I started watching I told my friend that I wonder how many minutes of screen time Kimi Räikkönen will have. I laughed as I said this. I think it was in the third season Kimi was being interviewed and he spoke for like 10 seconds and that was it. :D

[@SaschaLeib]

Haha, fun to see my old post about buying a mökki pop at me on a different medium. It turned out to be pretty bad timing, BTW, as we bought the place just two weeks before Covid-19 hit the world, with travel restrictions and all. So not many visits to Finland in the last two years, but we hope to spend more time there now...

[@jokintoinen]

5:07 the broblem comes when translating enhlish to finnish.

[@DevKoDec]

That cucumber toy is called kurkkumopo

[@kapelski104]

r/suomi is a better one. It's in finnish, but the posts are way better.

[@MadToxin2876]

I mean, r/finland has a lot of foreigners, whereas r/suomi is in Finnish, so it's restricted to mostly Finnish people. It's obviously going to have more authentic content. I do prefer it though.

[@ChefCaccavelli]

Chef Caccavelli Approves™, keep it up.

[@mehsatunnainen9726]

If there's no better way to send korvapuuusteja, then gifflar från Pågen are the perfect solution

[@lordoverflow]

There's a Finnish streamer on Twitch called funwithJapi. They've built sauna inside a caravan.

[@mehsatunnainen9726]

You in the reddit verse now. Nothing is real, everything is permitted

[@oh2mp]

That travel to moon question was the most hilarious thing I have heard this week :D :D