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Love, s - 10:23 PM [ ]
Errr...
You know you've been in Finland too long when...
1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.
2.When a stranger on the street smiles at you:
a. you assume he is drunk
b. he is insane
c. he's an American
3. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
4. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.
5.You no longer scrunch up or fold your paper money. You always put your money in your wallet.
6.You see a student taking a front row seat and wonder "Who does he think he is!!??"
7.Silence is fun.
8.The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm is:
a. duty free vodka
b. duty free beer
c. to party hearty no need to get off the boat in Stockholm, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.
9.Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
10.You pass a grocery store and think "Wow, it is open, I had better go in and buy something!"
11.Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", and tell someone "you needn't to!" Expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
12.You associate pea soup with Thursday.
13.Your idea of unforgivable behavior now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no WALK symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.
14.Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
15.Your bad mood becomes your good mood.
16.Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
17."No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
18.You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?"
19.Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
20.Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay.
21.You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. the are Swedish-speaking
c. they are American
d. all of the above.
22.You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
23.You eat herring in 105 ways.
24.You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognize them as semi-formal wear.
25.You have undergone a transformation:
a. you accept mustamakkara (Black-blood sausage) as food
b. you accept alcohol as food
26.You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.
27.You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
28.You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.
29.You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
30.You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
31.You enjoy salmiakki.
32.You know that "men's public bathroom" is another phrase for sidewalk.
33.You know that more than three channels means cable.
34.You get all the Swedish jokes.
35.When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
36.You've become lactose intolerant.
37.You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.
/: (and for the record, i didnt write this one, either! :b)
Love, s - 3:00 PM [ ]
side note
(fcuk. they have changed the damn blogging system... now i'll have to edit everything in html myself!! grr. (hmm... i wonder what happens to those who know no html?? how cruel of uol... :b))
Love, s - 2:49 PM [ ]
Weather in Finland
(one more forwarded email... :b)
+15°C / 59°F
This is as warm as it gets in Finland, so we'll start here.
People in Spain wears winter-coats and gloves.
The Finns are out in the sun, getting a tan.
+10°C / 50°F
The French are trying in vain to start their central heating.
The Finns plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C / 41°F
Italian cars won't start.
The Finns are cruising in cabriolets.
0°C / 32°F
Water freezes.
The water in the Vantaa river gets a little thicker.
-5°C / 23°F
People in California almost freeze to death.
The Finns have their final barbecue before winter.
-10°C / 14°F
The British start the heat in their houses.
The Finns start using long sleeves.
-40°C / -40°F
Paris start cracking in the cold.
The Finns stand in line at the "grilli-kioski".
-50°C / -58°F
Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole.
The Finnish army postpones their winter survival training awaiting
real winter weather.
-183°C / -297.4°F
Microbes in food don't survive.
The Finnish cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.
-273°C / -459.4°F
All atom-based movent halts.
The Finns start saying "Perkele, it's cold outside today."
;D
Love, s - 2:45 PM [ ]
