Oh dear god, I have discovered the Depressing Finland blog and it's fucking hilarious. I mean, that kind of encapsulates the dark, deadpan gallows humour of the entire culture, I suppose. Some gems:

Remember FBI Cat and those other FBI animals? Here's a Lapland policeman with a POLICE REINDEER.

Not comedy, but a cool time lapse video illustrating ( Read more... )

American blogger: I have short legs and therefore have been an abused minority all my life and you don't know what it's like and I need justice ( Read more... )

...apparently my unfeminine lack of a shoe fetish is explained by good old Nordic plainness once more. Because I just found Neosens and oh my fucking God, I am seriously tempted to go to Spain to try some on. I don't think I've ever even *seen* a Pompadour heel in a Finnish shoe shop and decorations are rare, too--and yet the Nordic women's shoes ( Read more... )

Oh shit. Finland's gone past Norway as the country with the most coffee consumption per capita on the entire planet. And by 2.1 kg at that, too. I think that tells you everything you need to know.

-Home from blood tests. Dying. I'd want to collapse, but I still have to go and do stuff in town. Noooo.

-Recovered a bit in the hospital cafe with a rye burger. As in proper motherfucking brown-to-the-core rye. I expect only Northern Europeans will get the awesomeness of this, but it is great. That stuff tastes pretty full and nom with chicken or ( Read more... )

I don't normally post macros, but this guy is my hero. This has been a ridiculously snowy winter all over the world, and people are, understandably, bitching about it. This guy, however, decided to put it into the correct perspective for folks on some internet forum.


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-Bollocks! It's too damn hot to draw even in the middle of the night. Typical, just when I've had interesting ideas that involve Ten on a leash.

-Speaking of lolololDaveTenninchishawtlololol: I've been thinking of writing a parody post of a typical who_daily installment, although I don't know if it'd come across badly. Whodom's pretty crap about parody, ( Read more... )

-Found a guide to foreigners about Finnish customs and manners. That's quite... interesting. It's refreshing to read something from an outsider POV and be reassured that no, I'm not the way I am just because there's something wrong with my brain, but because grumpiness, frankness and honesty and preferring electronic communications can be cultural ( Read more... )

Yep, more bad Finnish titles for movies and telly. The previous editions are all here.

The Devil's Whore: The Bride of Evil. (Pahan Morsian) it sounds like a Hammer movie.

Blades of Glory: Hockey Skate Dudes (Hokkarihemmot) Since these are most definitely figure skates we are talking about, not hockey skates, this deserves some kind of award for ( Read more... )

Finnish meme, snatched off fellow Hyperboreans (and edited slightly because of the clumsy English):

( Finland, Finland, Finland )