Saw this on Mastodon and had a laugh. Not sure if it’s real, but it’s funny.
This is the exact kind of stupid, childish advertising that has me shopping for plane tickets to Helsinki.
Welcome! :)
You and me both, BB. This is the kind of crap that gets me motivated.
Is November even the worst time to visit Finland? I’d assume January or February
January and February have snow and cold and sometimes sun.
November is just wet, dark and miserable.
Sounds similar to anything from Paris and above in Western Europe, just maybe a few less degrees.
The dark is the difference. Sunrise was at 8.00 today and sunset was at 15.45.
Basically if you work 8-16 you don’t see the sun until springtime… 🫠
Not too different from New England!
Except we still have 10 hours of sun for the next couple weeks and we’ve had a severe drought. Today was the first significant rain in over a month. More like 6 weeks.
It depends. You can get -20°C in November too. But yeah, mostly it’s just miserable and far more so than in central Europe.
I wish to go to Finland one day, I wish to test mine cold resistance against theirs. My best is -10 in a suede jacket, t-shirt, and standard cargo pants because I put my jeep into a ditch because fucking black ice.
Wander up to Luleå in Sweden if you can some day! Don’t go through Heathrow, legitimately the worst building I’ve ever been in, Take Icelandair through… Iceland. There is an ice road here you can walk, skate, and even drive on. Gets to -30c, though I’ve heard some years get as low as -40. They put a sauna out on the ice and cut a hole next to it so you can go right from the sauna to the water
I definitely want to second skipping Heathrow and instead using Iceland air for cheap. The Gin they serve on board is divine
Sounds glorious, gonna save your comment for hypothetical future reference.
Pretty sure your laugh was real 😉
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I’ve always had this romantic idea of meeting a woman from Finland, fall in love, and maybe, not likely, find peace.
That would be nice.
When I was younger, I had that dream too. But it was a dude instead of a lady. And we would start a heavy metal band.
This is real. I saw it up when I started my first year at Helsingin yliopisto, which was the second half of 2018. I think it stayed up for quite a while, it may have even been up until Vappu (May 1). I believe it was for Europe’s largest hackathon -Junction 2018.
I think this is real. Was originally made several years ago.
Helsinki isn’t so bad in November, actually. I’m in Oulu, wayyy further up north. Starting to get into the oof territory. I would probably feel stronger about this if I was not mildly drunk.
Hey we’re practically neighbors I’m in Luleå Sweden :3
I read bastard instead of badass. But the energy matched.
Tourism Banner in Helskinki
Kinky Helskinki
What makes it kinky? Names and addresses please!
It would be much funnier if they dropped the “except you” part, implying that you’re not in your right mind.
I love Finland. Gotta go back sometime.
Cold and wet, maybe, but no shortage of death metal.
When I visited Europe before moving here we came in December/January. Far northern Sweden, Latvia, Estonia. We experienced a variety of overcast, cold, wet, snow, ice, loved every minute of it. Where I’m living now reaches -30c sometimes lower. Makes me happy :3
I guess I am lame. I was there in July, when every true Fin is not to be found in Helsinki because there in their summer homes next to a lake.
I like the Suomi.
