Finnish Word of the Day: Mahtava
Mahtava means “awesome” in Finnish.
Say Juusto = cheese! Available now in your local co-ops, yippii! Cloudberry jam, we need you now. #cheese #finnish http://www.pasturepridecheese.com/
Hahaha, this is awesome. And kind of sad that this is left for Americans to brand…
But yeah, leipäjuusto is the best.
(Source: finnycblog)
Kakslauttanen Igloo Village
For more photos from the igloos, check out the Kaksauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village Hotel location page.
196 kilometers (120 miles) north of the Arctic Circle near the Urho Kekkonen National Park in Finland lies the Kakslauttanen Hotel and Igloo Village, a complex of 40 log cabins designed to give travelers a more authentic glimpse into the scenery and traditions of the Finnish Lapland. The hotel’s real appeal comes in the winter months, however, when guests can stay in the Igloo Village made up of a combination of traditional ice and snow igloos and Kakslauttanen’s heated, modernized structures. The futuristic igloos feature large glass roofs for optimal viewing of the northern lights.
In addition to the igloos, Kakslauttanen also boasts a snow chapel, husky-led safaris and the opportunity to get up-close and personal with reindeer.
Kirsi Lehtosaari - Mä annan sut pois
To illustrate the consequences of the typological differences, Table 4 shows two Finnish phrases with their English translations.
(via allthingsfinnish)
Homo, illustration for Ylioppilaslehti, 2013
If you know your Finnish you should be reading this article (school bullying).
(via katiejeanshinkle)
Meanwhile in Finland: It’s completely okay to have picture of naked men sitting in sauna in your morning papers.
(Source: gracelescas, via suomi-finland-perkele)
In addition of how awful and inhumane the murder of the 8 year old girl is, it is also awful and inhumane how much Finland tries to sugar-coat itself. You fucking are not allowed to say it is lack of resources if a small child is first taken into care when she’s 6 moths old and then at 8 she is beated and tied into the couch every day and all the rest and finally suffocating to death for 5 to 6 hours. Fuck you and your lack of resources bullshit, Finland. Time to face the hard truths and get to work. NOW.
Dying at the tumblr which posts comments made by some members of the ‘True Finns’ party. Some majorly lol/anger worthy moments.
The legalization of equal marriage is not going to be taken into the Parliament of Finland decided The Legal Committee here today, votes having been 8-9. (x) You have no idea how fucking angry I am because of this.
Fuck you, Finland. And we claim to be so “”“liberal”“” and “”“approbative”“”.
Article in English and a tweet that wins:
Reblogging again because the biggest commercial channel in Finland decided that the sports doping in the 1990s is bigger than today’s setback on marriage equality.
Brand teams can keep doing their jobs but the truth is something else.
The legalization of equal marriage is not going to be taken into the Parliament of Finland decided The Legal Committee here today, votes having been 8-9. (x) You have no idea how fucking angry I am because of this.
Fuck you, Finland. And we claim to be so “”“liberal”“” and “”“approbative”“”.
Article in English and a tweet that wins:
Re: HuffPo’s Nordic Cool Power in Washington
Well there certainly are many things to cover from the article but I’ll just comment about this:
The fact that they hold hands is a victory of reason. None of them alone can wield as much power and influence as in unity. Together they are a formidable little giant to be reckoned with both economically, culturally and militarily.They have put aside historic grievances a long time ago, which today only exist in jokes. A hundred years ago Norway was still a Danish colony and in Finland the Swedish minority was discriminated against. Today they project power together, and the Finnish Secretary General of the Nordic Council, Jan Erik Enestam, is from the Swedish minority.
Hahaha. Sweden literally could not survive past few days if they were attacked (look it up) and Finland is all up in arms about monitoring the airspace of Iceland (NATO country) with Norway and Sweden.
I suppose the branding people have succeeded yet again, too bad that’s not what’s actually happening here in the ‘North’. Or perhaps it is more important to have cool looking angry birds than can be branded as national treasure than to bathe old people more than once in three months [if the reports are true].
All in all, yes I am super proud that we have Angry Birds and Adam Lambert is fast becoming our first husband thanks to Sauli Koskinen but it would be helpful/truthful if these articles were actually more than just puff pieces validating the job of marketing people.
