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pintoca
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I mean, we all knew that, after all, Perkele is Finnish and well, you know where I'm going...
anyway, I only knew one Finnish (Perk, and online at that). There is a new coworker of wifey, who happens to be Finnish as well. She invited us to her 40Yo Bday party.
So far, nothing unsual. So we head to her house on Saturday night and this is where all starts to look weird:
1. She lives 45 miles away (one way) from her office (and hence from us)... it woudn't be that bad, but she somehow managed to find a house in the middle of the woods, where no Autobahn comes remotely close, so we had to drive all 45 miles through backroads... it took forever to get there and all the while I was expecting a fucking deer or bopar to come charging out of the woods at us.
2. We arrived there and WTF is this? you had to take out your shoes at the door and prance around the house in your socks or barefoot. OK, this is not THAT weird, some older German families still do this (together with the MEN please pee sitting rule), and you do it out of respect for their work cleaning the house. Still, it was the first time EVER that I see foreigners (and young ones at that) enforcing that rule. Luckily, I was wearing my fashionable (and hole-free) socks.
3. So we go into the living room and SURPRISE: Only women are there, (this was not bad) all in their late 30s... and all Finnish (wtf? were they hiding somewhere). The annoying part is that ALL of them were speaking that funky language.
4. Now it gets freaky... they were all watching homevideos from 35-38 years ago from this woman who was 40 now... I mean, vids of her mom changing her diapers, skiing back in Finnland, going to lakes (half frozen) and skin dipping... I was aghast. Some people play some cool videos as background (like concerts and whatnot) and she decided to play homevids ON A FUCKING LOOP??? THE WHOLE NIGHT???
5. The music was no better... ABBA for most of the night
6. Now the food. You know when you throw a party and you put all your food in a table for people to help themselves? it is supposed to be something easy to eat, right? like finger food? well, apparently finger food up there translates into: BIG ASS FISH grilled, packed in aluminium foil... river crabs and some other stuff I could not even figure out what it was. I mean, fuck, how am I supposed to take a big ass grilled fish, take a piece, put in a flimsy paper plate and eat it, while standing, without making a mess?
7. Drinks you say? there was a HUGE bowl with some mint leaves in it and a HUGE iceberg-size chunk of ice... the liquid was clear so I can only presume it was vodka or gym... well, guess again, it was FUCKIN ABSINTHE!!! (reason why it was greenish). I mean, shit fuck, people need to drive back home from this Sheerwood Forest you know?
All in all, I should have stayed home and posted some more.
Perk, I should give you this womans number so you can bitchslap her for me... talk about giving a bad-rapport to you Finns.
anyway, I only knew one Finnish (Perk, and online at that). There is a new coworker of wifey, who happens to be Finnish as well. She invited us to her 40Yo Bday party.
So far, nothing unsual. So we head to her house on Saturday night and this is where all starts to look weird:
1. She lives 45 miles away (one way) from her office (and hence from us)... it woudn't be that bad, but she somehow managed to find a house in the middle of the woods, where no Autobahn comes remotely close, so we had to drive all 45 miles through backroads... it took forever to get there and all the while I was expecting a fucking deer or bopar to come charging out of the woods at us.
2. We arrived there and WTF is this? you had to take out your shoes at the door and prance around the house in your socks or barefoot. OK, this is not THAT weird, some older German families still do this (together with the MEN please pee sitting rule), and you do it out of respect for their work cleaning the house. Still, it was the first time EVER that I see foreigners (and young ones at that) enforcing that rule. Luckily, I was wearing my fashionable (and hole-free) socks.
3. So we go into the living room and SURPRISE: Only women are there, (this was not bad) all in their late 30s... and all Finnish (wtf? were they hiding somewhere). The annoying part is that ALL of them were speaking that funky language.
4. Now it gets freaky... they were all watching homevideos from 35-38 years ago from this woman who was 40 now... I mean, vids of her mom changing her diapers, skiing back in Finnland, going to lakes (half frozen) and skin dipping... I was aghast. Some people play some cool videos as background (like concerts and whatnot) and she decided to play homevids ON A FUCKING LOOP??? THE WHOLE NIGHT???
5. The music was no better... ABBA for most of the night
6. Now the food. You know when you throw a party and you put all your food in a table for people to help themselves? it is supposed to be something easy to eat, right? like finger food? well, apparently finger food up there translates into: BIG ASS FISH grilled, packed in aluminium foil... river crabs and some other stuff I could not even figure out what it was. I mean, fuck, how am I supposed to take a big ass grilled fish, take a piece, put in a flimsy paper plate and eat it, while standing, without making a mess?
7. Drinks you say? there was a HUGE bowl with some mint leaves in it and a HUGE iceberg-size chunk of ice... the liquid was clear so I can only presume it was vodka or gym... well, guess again, it was FUCKIN ABSINTHE!!! (reason why it was greenish). I mean, shit fuck, people need to drive back home from this Sheerwood Forest you know?
All in all, I should have stayed home and posted some more.
Perk, I should give you this womans number so you can bitchslap her for me... talk about giving a bad-rapport to you Finns.
- but at the same it's my lifestyle I can beat it into people that didn't grow up the same way.
