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hikke/hikipinko (hikari, hiku)

a student that is good at school, studies a lot, may also be an outsider because of it. (may be mildly degoratory, usually used as a joke)

Ene on aikamoinen hikke, onks sillä ees vapaa-aikaa?

Ene is quite the hikke, do they even have free time?

Vou no ootsä aikamoinen hikke, kuus miikka!

Wow, well you sure are quite the hikke, 6- (on a test/exam)!

Me ollaan kaikki hikipinkoja, eiks ookkin paras powerpointti ikinä!

Actually, come to think of it, it comes with an assumption that someone, either God, the government, or people at large want you to fail, and are just waiting for you to give up and die. So you are sticking to your goals in order to spite people who want you harm and want you to perish, who may be completely imaginary. A hardy, determined fuck you to an imagined group of haters.

We were discussing carbohydrate-based - or "sugar glues", basically ones made of starches, and one of the students from the back row asked the teacher a question. When the teacher clearly couldn't understand why someone would ask such a stupid-ass question, and asked him to elaborate, the student just repeated the same question, word-for-word. Our teacher politely made it clear that he has not had enough sleep last night to process what the fuck was being asked of him.

After a while it clicked - the question "maistuuko sokeriliimat eläimille?" can be interpreted both as "would animals be tempted to eat sugar glues?" and "do sugar glues taste like animals?" This guy was asking whether ants, pets or children would be tempted to eat starch glue, and the way the teacher (and myself) had understood the question, we thought he was asking "does starch glue taste like venison".

I thought I'd do another little quiz for Finnish words used (generally) in the spoken language, since I've collected a few new ones.

See if you know (or can guess) the meanings of the following words (obviously not intended for native speakers of Finnish)....

1. puskaradio

2. kantsia (this is a verb)

3. filunki

4. hannari

5. kämänen

6. kohtapuoleen

7. ottaa päähän (verb)

8. revanssi

9. niksi

10. lunki

11. bilsa

12. heppa

13. soppa

14. laihis

15. likka

Sorry if any of these are repeats from earlier on, but I tried to give new ones only. I'll be interested to see if anyone has heard these in every day life (a few I think are pretty common!)

2. kantsia (verb)

kantsia = kannattaa, the verb "kannattaa" means, "to benefit through"/"to be worthwhile".

3. filunki

filunki = luvaton = something not allowed

4. hannari

hannari = pelkuri = chicken/coward/someone who is afraid

5. kämänen

kämänen = surkea = todella huono = something bad, low quality, sucky, etc.

6. kohtapuoleen

kohtapuoleen = very soon

7. ottaa päähän (verb)

ottaa päähän = to piss off, annoy, it is used in the same way as other transitive verbs:

Se ottaa päähän paljon ihmisiä. = It really pisses off a lot of people.

8. revanssi

revanssi = rematch

9. niksi

niksi = vihje/vinkki, kikka = trick, tip, hint

10. lunki

lunki = leppoisa, rento = relaxed, easy going

Hän on lunki tyyppi. = He is a chilled out guy/girl.

11. bilsa

bilsa = biologia = biology (the subject at school)

12. heppa

heppa = hevonen = horse

13. soppa

soppa = soup, but can be used to refer to a situation which has got out of hand i.e. "a mess"

Tästä syntyy vielä kunnon soppa! - This will turn in a bit mess!

14. laihis

laihis = diet (where you are specifically trying to slim down), you can say:

"Olen laihiksella" = I'm dieting, I'm trying to lose weight

15. likka

Azt elfogadjuk, hogy van többmillió szavazó, akinek a Fidesz jobban tetszik, mint az ellenzék. A nyilvánvaló haszonélvezőkön kívül nem gondoljuk, hogy az egész országgal ki akarnak baszni. Sokan lehet, hogy tévesen mérik fel a helyzetüket, de az ellenzéki alapállás, hogy megpróbáljuk meggyőzni őket.

Szerintem ennyi erővel a 9gag-ra, vagy az Illiberalmemes-re is lehetne szavaszni, mert a mémgyáron kivül más haszna nincs a kutyáknak immáron 7 éve. Boldog békeidőkben én is tök szivesen voksolnék ilyenekre, de csak az elmúlt 24 órában a következők történtek:

1. Komplett társadalmi csoportokat hoztak egy kalap alá a Kaleta féle pedofilokkal, kvázi polgárháborút kezdve az LMBTQ közösséggel.

2. Ellopták a várnegyed önkormányzati lakásainak egy részét.

3. Ellopják az autópályákat.

4. Ellopják a vizszolgáltatókat.

Szóval annyira nem tudok őszintén röhögni, egy különösen jól kitalált Baksy fricskán, vagy hanyatt esni egy szépen kifestett és lécekből összetákolt buszmegálló miatt.

Tedd a szivedre a kezed es mond ki, hogy pont ugyanolyan lenne, mint a NER.

Mert ha egy hangyafasznyival is kevesebb netto fasizmus lenne benne önkennyel es korrupcioval, akkor az mar minosegi valtozast jelentene. 

elhiszem es ertem, hogy kinek milyen ellenerzesei vannak az osszefogasos ellenzek ellen, de ha a kutyakra szavazol es nem erik el az 5%-ot, akkor ezzel a gyakorlatban a fideszre szavaztal. 

ez esetben hova hanysz? nem szavaztal a jobbikra-gyurcsanyra, ezert nem kell a szadba hanyni, de a szavazatod eredmenyekent marad mondjuk a fidesz.  most ezt le lehet meg irni 40 felekeppen es lehet arrol uresen moralizalni, hogy milyen figurak vannak az osszefogasban, de ez csak meleg levego. 

(en nem tudom, valaki kepzeli ugy, hogy a fanatikusokon kivul barki is szivesen akar gyurcsanyra, mszp-re, jobbikra szavazni? szerinted en nem szavaznek A Mult Nelkuli Szent Szakertore? Csak ilyen eppen nincs a szavazolapon.  MKKP, hihi, haha, cukisag. Ha nem erik el az 5%-ot /ami jelen allas szerint abszolut bizonytalan, tehat=kockazat, raadasul merhetetlenul kockazat/ akkor marad a NER. Hihi es haha.)

Én azt ismerem, hogy szarból nem lehet várat építeni.

három lehetőség van:

a) marad a Fidesz - ebben az esetben 2024-re kb. Törökország és Belarusz között leszünk félúton. kibaszottul szar lesz melegnek lenni ebben az országban, de szimplán csak függetlennek vagy ellenzékinek is.

b) leváltja a súlyosan terhelt arcokkal telerakott, de legalább nem nettó fasiszta és nem a kínaiaknak meg az oroszoknak az országot eladó ellenzék. (Gyurcsány is kellemetlenül gáz volt, de Gyurcsány idején nem lett a falubeli vízvezetékszerelőjéből az ország leggazdagabb embere, és az se rémlik, hogy a lánya meg a veje kapott volna ajándékba egy-két szektort.)

c) jövő márciusig a Kutyapárt úgy megerősödik, hogy kétharmaddal viszik a választást. 

_taktikailag_ azt gondolom, hogy egyáltalán nem lenne rossz a koalíciós kényszer _praktikusan_ meg azt, hogy nem fordulhat elő, hogy a nap végén ne számoljanak a Fidesznek megfelelő mennyiségű szavazatot a jó megoszlásban a parlamenti többséghez.

In finnish, it used to be common to teach very small children to refer to adults they don't know as "aunt" and "uncle". I don't know if it's done anymore since I don't interact with children, but as far as I know it's considered somewhat old-fashioned now. But it still lingers in language, referring to a middle-aged/older-than-oneself person one doesn't know as "setä" or "täti" implies they are indeed middle-aged people who have stagnated into their own, outdated ways. There's more nuance to this, of course, but I'm not stopping for details.

Here we get the term setämies, uncle-man, where bizarrely enough, the word "uncle" works almost as an adjective rather than a noun, "a man who is the uncle(degoratory) type", mainly meaning the kind of an older man who hits on women half his age.

And since verbing nouns is one of finns favourite linguistic sins, uncle in this context has also been turned into a verb, setäillä, "to behave like This Specific Kind of creep". Which leads to the term I wanted to introduce you today.

Anger, fear, and frustration. People who struggle with executive function (as in, doing something on time) spend so long pressing this button long after it’s ceased functioning for a very good reason: It USED to work! It SOMETIMES works! It’s the technique How to ADHD calls “Hulk Smashing through the Wall of Awful”. Hoooowever. As well as the downsides How to ADHD mentions (that it damages your relationships and self-esteem), building up enough adrenaline to get something done is extremely costly to your body--when you invoke the body’s stress response, you’re diverting a lot of resources from normal healthy processing--and it gets less useful the more you use it. Your body loses its sensitivity to that level of stress and you need ever-increasing amounts of anger and fear and frustration and self-hatred to motivate yourself. If you use this method enough, you can eventually become completely desensitized to these emotions, and literally no amount of them will motivate you, and it can take months or years of low-stress living before your brain will begin to respond to them again.

I hit that point somewhere around year four of a 2-year Master’s degree program. It was Not Fun. (I just had a dream last night that I had to go back to Vancouver to finish an assignment I’d left undone or they’d take away my license to practice. I graduated half a decade ago.) 

So one thing that works for me is to think in terms of what we know about optimal productive experience, a concept in psychology called Flow:

Flow means hitting the sweet spot of something challenging and interesting enough that you want to do it, and that you feel you have the skills and ability to do.

So if you want to be able to do something, you need to adjust the parameters of that task to make it either easier, more challenging, more interesting, or less overwhelming, until you feel capable of doing it.

For people locked up in the realm of anxiety, that often means cutting your workload until it actually feels manageable--lowering your standards or decreasing the amount you’re expected to take on until you can start. Often once you’ve started, you feel more capable and can up the challenge level again, but it can be important to give yourself an on-ramp.

On the other hand, it may involve increasing the skills you bring to bear. You can cast around for any related skills, anything that it feels like you do easily or well, to help you out, or even just remind yourself that you’ve been skilled enough in the past to help your confidence.

If what you’re dealing with instead is apathy or boredom, then you may need to make something more of a challenge or more intrinsically interesting, until you have a reason to want to do it. This is why gamification of basic tasks, like Habitica, can be so successful.

fú kevés cikibb dolgot tudok hirtelen mondani mint ez a fegyverré kovácsolt arany mérnök-öntudat, itt is van vmi csávó aki kurvaanyázott majd letiltott, miután vicceskedve megkérdeztem h te valami mérnök vagy ugye

jättimäinen = huge, gigantic jättiläinen = a giant 

keskimmäinen = middle, centre  keskimääräinen = average  keski-ikäinen = middle aged

valistaa = to educate, to enlighten  valaista = to light, to illuminate 

saattaa = to “may”/ to “could” sattua = to occur suuttua = to get angry

keskeytyä = to be interrupted   keskittyä = to focus, to give full attention

nisti / narkomaani = drug user

sössöttää = puhua epäselvästi = to speak unclearly, to talk rubbish 

sössiä = epäonnistua = to mess up 

dokaaminen = heavy drinking (dokata = to drink heavily)

itsari = itsemurha = suicide