Comments on: You know you’ve been in Finland too long, when… http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/ Politics, current events, culture - From Finland & United States Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:19:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mac http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-19143 mac Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:47:31 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-19143 I first received the list in 1997, way, way before Hesari put it on the web. Have you checked my 42 good reasons to be in Finland from http://alessandromaccari.com/ ? mac I first received the list in 1997, way, way before Hesari put it on the web.

Have you checked my 42 good reasons to be in Finland from http://alessandromaccari.com/ ?

mac

]]> By: Antti (the redneck one) http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18918 Antti (the redneck one) Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:28:47 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18918 Hmmm, I think my generation continued the bareheadedness well into their adulthood. I also remember those later pompoms well. I wore a terrible Nikita at winter all through my lukio ("high school") years just to protest them. Hmmm, I think my generation continued the bareheadedness well into their adulthood. I also remember those later pompoms well. I wore a terrible Nikita at winter all through my lukio (“high school”) years just to protest them.

]]> By: Anzi http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18900 Anzi Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:16:33 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18900 I didn't go to school in the seventies, but in the eighties. Back then, it was cool to wear one of those hats with huge brightly colored pompoms on top. Later on, it wasn't cool to wear a hat or pipo at all but since I wasn't cool, I wore one. My pipo was snatched off my head a couple of times. We're not talking about schoolkids here, but about adults. As far as I know, this list was written in the 90's and not the 70's. I didn’t go to school in the seventies, but in the eighties. Back then, it was cool to wear one of those hats with huge brightly colored pompoms on top. Later on, it wasn’t cool to wear a hat or pipo at all but since I wasn’t cool, I wore one. My pipo was snatched off my head a couple of times.

We’re not talking about schoolkids here, but about adults. As far as I know, this list was written in the 90’s and not the 70’s.

]]> By: Antti (the redneck one) http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18898 Antti (the redneck one) Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:58:11 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18898 "18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather. Nope, these are the Dutch, the Brits, and the French..." Anzi, apparently you didn't go to school in the seventies. Teachers and mothers had full-time job to have everybody wear pipo no matter how freezing it was. There were even letters to editor in the newspapers about youngster not wearing hat or pipo in the winter. It is other way around these days. You need a hammer and chisel to remove their knitted caps, even inside the house and at the lunch table. “18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather.

Nope, these are the Dutch, the Brits, and the French…”

Anzi, apparently you didn’t go to school in the seventies. Teachers and mothers had full-time job to have everybody wear pipo no matter how freezing it was. There were even letters to editor in the newspapers about youngster not wearing hat or pipo in the winter.

It is other way around these days. You need a hammer and chisel to remove their knitted caps, even inside the house and at the lunch table.

]]> By: Anzi http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18887 Anzi Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:51:30 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18887 <i>18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather.</i> Nope, these are the Dutch, the Brits, and the French. I feel like a freak here with my hat and gloves, when even the food delivery guys do not wear gloves while driving around on their scooters. Brrr.... <i>33. You accept that 80°C in a sauna is chilly, but 20°C outside is freaking hot.</i> True. Saunas here are a joke, plain and simple, and not worth visiting. 18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather.

Nope, these are the Dutch, the Brits, and the French. I feel like a freak here with my hat and gloves, when even the food delivery guys do not wear gloves while driving around on their scooters. Brrr….

33. You accept that 80°C in a sauna is chilly, but 20°C outside is freaking hot.

True. Saunas here are a joke, plain and simple, and not worth visiting.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18884 Ryan Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:03:30 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18884 Well, future can also be indicated by object marking. Funny thing about the hugging though, since getting here I've become more standoffish for some reason in terms of hugs, whereas I used to be all over people in typical yank fashion in terms of hugs. Hm! Well, future can also be indicated by object marking.

Funny thing about the hugging though, since getting here I’ve become more standoffish for some reason in terms of hugs, whereas I used to be all over people in typical yank fashion in terms of hugs.

Hm!

]]> By: Donkey http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18875 Donkey Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:37:14 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18875 Salt sucks. Salt sucks.

]]> By: Martin-Éric http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18868 Martin-Éric Fri, 13 Jan 2006 04:34:30 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18868 61. You have gone beyond finding the issue offensive and in fact won't even bother reacting if anyone asks the classic 3 questions (Where are you from? What are you doing here? When are you going back?). 61. You have gone beyond finding the issue offensive and in fact won’t even bother reacting if anyone asks the classic 3 questions (Where are you from? What are you doing here? When are you going back?).

]]> By: Phil http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18823 Phil Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:16:24 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18823 <i>62. You spend your day at Finland for Thought by twisting and bending it out from a railroad track for those foreigners, why it is great to have your tax information published every year, get a maternity pack from the government, pick berries on somebody else’s property, have a public health care, Kekkonen, conscription, Alko monopoly and two-lane roads with no salt in the winter…</i> :lol: 62. You spend your day at Finland for Thought by twisting and bending it out from a railroad track for those foreigners, why it is great to have your tax information published every year, get a maternity pack from the government, pick berries on somebody else’s property, have a public health care, Kekkonen, conscription, Alko monopoly and two-lane roads with no salt in the winter…

:lol:

]]> By: antti (the redneck one) http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18817 antti (the redneck one) Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:37:35 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18817 ...and tell them to get over the mämmi... …and tell them to get over the mämmi…

]]> By: antti (the redneck one) http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18816 antti (the redneck one) Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:34:29 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18816 62. You spend your day at Finland for Thought by twisting and bending it out from a railroad track for those foreigners, why it is great to have your tax information published every year, get a maternity pack from the government, pick berries on somebody else's property, have a public health care, Kekkonen, conscription, Alko monopoly and two-lane roads with no salt in the winter... 62. You spend your day at Finland for Thought by twisting and bending it out from a railroad track for those foreigners, why it is great to have your tax information published every year, get a maternity pack from the government, pick berries on somebody else’s property, have a public health care, Kekkonen, conscription, Alko monopoly and two-lane roads with no salt in the winter…

]]> By: juggu http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18808 juggu Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:04:48 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18808 If some Finn answers that he/she cannot speak English properly, it means that he/she does not like you. If some Finn answers that he/she cannot speak English properly, it means that he/she does not like you.

]]> By: TH http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18796 TH Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:37:23 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18796 61. You don't ask people wazza?, when you know you have less than twenty minutes to spend listening to a whiny explanation concerning mostly of their poor health. 61. You don’t ask people wazza?, when you know you have less than twenty minutes to spend listening to a whiny explanation concerning mostly of their poor health.

]]> By: XL http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18789 XL Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:13:35 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18789 In colloquial English the use of the present tense to mean the future is pretty common. "When are you going to Sweden?" "I'm going to Sweden next summer." In colloquial English the use of the present tense to mean the future is pretty common.
“When are you going to Sweden?”
“I’m going to Sweden next summer.”

]]> By: Olli http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/comment-page-1/#comment-18775 Olli Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:12:03 +0000 http://www.finlandforthought.net/2006/01/10/you-know-you%e2%80%99ve-been-in-finland-too-long-when/#comment-18775 "But there is “tulla” in Finnish. It’s used very seldom to refer to the future compared to the Swedish “kommer att” but I think there are exceptional situations where it is perfectly natural to say or at least write “tulee olemaan” or “tulen tekemään”." Exactly, there are ways of refering to the future, of course, but there is no future tense. It works in Finnish the way as in English (F: verb in the present tense + tulla = reference to the future, E: verb in the present tense + will/shall = reference to the future). “But there is “tulla” in Finnish. It’s used very seldom to refer to the future compared to the Swedish “kommer att” but I think there are exceptional situations where it is perfectly natural to say or at least write “tulee olemaan” or “tulen tekemään”.”

Exactly, there are ways of refering to the future, of course, but there is no future tense. It works in Finnish the way as in English (F: verb in the present tense + tulla = reference to the future, E: verb in the present tense + will/shall = reference to the future).

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