Depressing Finland

“Never grow old.”

Is it possible for Donald Duck to make you cry? When watching this Finnish advertisement for Donald Duck magazine it seems like so.

As I stated in the last anon ask, I will not be updating the blog anymore. I just don’t have time anymore and it feels rude to keep you waiting for posts that might never come. But I really hope that somebody does the “How to do Finnish food” cooking post. 

If you liked this blog and want to look for alternatives, go to Facebook and search for Funland. That page has loads of content similar to my blog.

Thanks for all you who followed me. Thank you who liked and reblogged my posts. The ones who corrected me with spelling and facts. It has been educational and a great lesson in so many different ways.

Best wishes for you all

“Update your blog or delete it”

Unfortunately I don’t have time to update my blog anymore. But I really don’t want to delete it either because there are posts that are still being visited, read and reblogged.

So it stays.Thank you all for these years. It has been a blast and I’ve learned so much from my own home country.

It’s not Finnish flag in every pillow or decorative item you’ll see. Finnish flag is commonly considered somewhat a sacred item. The Finnish flag has strict law how it is supposed to be flown and taken care of. Therefore items that have Finnish flags are not really common in Finnish homes. In Finnish home you’ll probably see Finnish flags usually only in small tourist memorabilia, or when people celebrate some national flag-raising day or have really formal family party, such as wedding.

Finns like to celebrate Finnishness by decorating their homes with Finnish design. If you spot furniture from Artek and Lundia, decorative items, curtains and sheets from Marimekko, plates, glasses and cups from Arabia and Iittala, kitchen equipment from Hackman and your quilt and pillow are made by Finlayson, you can be pretty sure you’re in a Finnish home.

In Finland it’s very uncommon to annoy someone by insulting their mother. Therefore insulting someone’s mother is not very effective, it’s more like a very weird way of derailing from the subject of the argument and leaves people more confused than angry.

We sure do respect and love our parents, but you probably wont see Finns getting extremely offended when you tell that their mother is stupid, fat or whatever. 

Silence, variety of weather, clean environments (mostly), good internet connections and such things. There are plenty! These are the first ones to pop in mind.

Well I can tell only by my own experience but every time a guy has said to me “I like you” he has had a crush on me. For some it has been just a crush, for some “like” means “love”. 

The Finnish word “nyrkkisääntö” translates to “rule of thumb”. The literal translation is “rule of fist”.

--Fan submission, thanks  makelix!

Do you know Monty Python’s The Knights Who Say Ni?

Did you know that when you end your phase with “Ni!” or “Nih!” in Finnish you basically say “I do what I want and I really don’t care about your opinion” eg

And it’s used to describe a very muscular person. Look at that Bull Mentula, what a bouquet of muscles!

You mean this one?