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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

krampster2 posted:

gently caress that movie is poo poo. I remember we had to watch it in high school English class because no one had the attention span to get through reading the play.

lmao in socialist europe enior school we got to watch the 1968 version where olivia hussey gets her tittays out :smug:

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Oberleutnant posted:

lmao in socialist europe enior school we got to watch the 1968 version where olivia hussey gets her tittays out :smug:

in gently caress you poors capitalist america we watched the same thing in high school. i still jerk it to that old lady.

CaptainQuirk
May 9, 2009

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
otso is totes the better word for a bear. p. sure karhu just caught on because there's a beer called that

Doctor Shapes
Mar 17, 2009

Ask and ye shall receive.

Pyrolocutus
Feb 5, 2005
Shape of Flame



generative grammer posted:

finland.jpg, a slice of life

images courtesy of Finland In Pictures thread in the punkinfinland.net forums

recommended background music: jean sibelius - finlandia, op. 26




Why is John de Lancie in Finland :confused:

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

quakster posted:

otso is totes the better word for a bear. p. sure karhu just caught on because there's a beer called that

karhu (karhea ie. rough) is just an euphemism for otso (bear) because finns were bear worshippers and didn't want to summon bears by saying their true name

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Hogge Wild posted:

karhu (karhea ie. rough) is just an euphemism for otso (bear) because finns were bear worshippers and didn't want to summon bears by saying their true name

In Finland, if you say "karhu" five times you'll be mauled by a bear get a fine for advertising alcoholic beverages in public

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Hogge Wild posted:

karhu (karhea ie. rough) is just an euphemism for otso (bear) because finns were bear worshippers and didn't want to summon bears by saying their true name

btw. the original form of the word is oksi (inflectional stem ohde-)

from protofinnic *okte i guess

generative grammer fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 10, 2014

Gunky Junket
Oct 30, 2014

by Ralp

Do you want to build a snowman?

Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010


don't worry, a couple of those forms are too weird to be used in normal language

rest of them are viable finnish though

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

generative grammer posted:

btw. the original form of the word is REDACTED (inflectional stem REDACTED-)

from protofinnic *REDACTED i guess

good job now the bears will get you

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Minorkos posted:

don't worry, a couple of those forms are too weird to be used in normal language

rest of them are viable finnish though

it's a really dumb comparison, it's not like it's any easier to express the same things in any other languages. in for example Germanic languages instead of suffixes you'd just have to use a shitload of prepositions and other crap, which can be even more complicated than Finnish suffixes

School Nickname
Apr 23, 2010

*fffffff-fffaaaaaaarrrtt*
:ussr:

Oberleutnant posted:

is this true elsewhere in scandinavia?

In Sweden they're just in complete denial about their alcoholism and claim that everyone's on the straight and narrow or just has the odd tipple. Then you come across the street which is literally all pubs and ask, "what's that for then?". "Tourists. All for tourists." :raise:

In Denmark they buy their booze on credit since they spent it all on a couch that cost more than a car.

You've seen the finland.jpg post.

Golden Gate Bride
Oct 23, 2008
knife to meet you

CAT rear end now!!! posted:

In Finland, if you say "karhu" five times you'll be mauled by a bear get a fine for advertising alcoholic beverages in public

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
its really fun to be unemployed with a goony sleep schedule when it's pitch dark outside already at 4pm during the darkest season. thank you idiot poo poo fucker ancestors for settling north of the 60th parallel. on the plus side i don't live in lapland anymore

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



generative grammer posted:

its really fun to be unemployed with a goony sleep schedule when it's pitch dark outside already at 4pm during the darkest season. thank you idiot poo poo fucker ancestors for settling north of the 60th parallel. on the plus side i don't live in lapland anymore

my mom's boyfriend committed suicide because he got depressed living alone in Lapland for a bit lol

good times

a cyborg mug fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Nov 10, 2014

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
suic'de is good, & cool

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



quakster posted:

suic'de is good, & cool

we're pretty good at it :cool:

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
is winter in finlandiya. woman come home and find hers husband have hanged himself. woman cry of upset because man was selfish to escape cruel world first whitout her and using up expensive rope. such the life -- is never ending misery.

Desperado Bones
Aug 29, 2009

Cute, adorable, and creepy at the same time!


Are you finn guys still nazi? :hitler:

a cyborg mug
Mar 8, 2010



Desperado Bones posted:

Are you finn guys still nazi? :hitler:

maybe we have more in common with nazis than we've thought, after all even Hitler was also pretty good at killing himself

slidebite
Nov 6, 2005

Good egg
:colbert:

krampster2 posted:

Results of the world sauna championships. Basically they just turn the heat up until everyone but one man gives in.



It had to end in 2010 because a Russian died. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/08/sauna-championship-russian-dead

quote:

The annual sauna world championship in Finland has been called off after a Russian man died after spending six minutes enduring a temperature of 110C.

Vladimir Ladyzhenskiy was pronounced dead after being dragged from the sauna by judges. Police were investigating the cause of death.

wtf

Roy
Sep 24, 2007

quote:

Police were investigating the cause of death.

Might have been the heat in the sauna.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Desperado Bones posted:

Are you finn guys still nazi? :hitler:
Standard finnish bathroom fixtures:

concerned mom
Apr 22, 2003

by Lowtax
Grimey Drawer

How it works is because the air is so dry, its quite hard to transfer the heat in to your body. If it had normal humidity you'd just boil. There is some moisture though and combined with the insane heat in there your extremities start to cook

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
unless the temperature meters lied to me, i've been in a sauna up to around 100 degrees celsius. that russian guy totally hosed up. if it gets too hot, you get out

wouldn't try dipping into a frozen lake in-between löyly again, though. that poo poo was crazy

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

quakster posted:

unless the temperature meters lied to me, i've been in a sauna up to around 100 degrees celsius. that russian guy totally hosed up. if it gets too hot, you get out

wouldn't try dipping into a frozen lake in-between löyly again, though. that poo poo was crazy

iirc he used pain medication

clever slav

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
suicide by doping at a loving sauna competition. guy basically qualified as a honorary finn

The Cubelodyte
Sep 1, 2006

Practicing Hypnolaw since 1990
Grimey Drawer
The (mostly necessary) extended explanations of the otherwise nigh-inscrutable translations of Fingerpori in the BSS newspaper comics thread taught me that Finnish is a ridiculously weird language where words are so similar and context-dependent that I'd be terrified to to even attempt to say something ostensibly safe as "hello" in Finnish for fear that it would be misinterpreted as some horror like "I gargle your uncle's piss."

quakster
Jul 21, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
Hei, Moi, Terve, Päivää, all good neutral greetings. you can try to add regional flavor with things like Moro or Morjens

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
there's homonyms in the english language, fingerpori jokes are literally what you guys call 'puns' but extremely far-fetched sometimes

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
Are fins slavs?

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
like "terve" means literally "healthy" so yeah someone who thinks he's the funniest guy in the room might playfully presume that you're introducing yourself as a healthy person and answer back "sairas" ("sick") . that's actually a really stale joke that my 6th grade teacher really loved.

Dave Concepcion
Mar 19, 2012

jBrereton posted:

Standard finnish bathroom fixtures:



not gonna lie, that does look sharp

generative grammer
Jul 28, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Zzulu posted:

Are fins slavs?

we speak a heavily indo-europeanized form of uralic because apparently the way the more prestigious northwestern indo-europeans in the finnish gulf area butchered their language sounded really cool to our western uralic speaking ancestors

Hob_Gadling
Jul 6, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Grimey Drawer

generative grammer posted:

like "terve" means literally "healthy" so yeah someone who thinks he's the funniest guy in the room might playfully presume that you're introducing yourself as a healthy person and answer back "sairas" ("sick") . that's actually a really stale joke that my 6th grade teacher really loved.

Same sort of play on words in this classic "terve perse rupia täynnä".

Communication is really pretty simply in Finnish, you can say whatever you want as long as you only talk to your friends. You can make friends by drinking a whole lot of alcohol.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

Oberleutnant posted:

my dad lives in norway its okay i guess. he drives across the border to go shopping in sweden where iuts cheaper. one time when i was over visiting we went across to sweden for my first time ever and the first thing i saw was a guy drunk at like 9am pissing in a bus shelter. that's my sweden story. :)

You saw me op.

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serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!

Finnish is retarded op.

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