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Also, the tradition is the exact opposite as I understand.
In Finland they like to be alone and be left alone, so you don't just intrude on someone if they are in self-isolation.
Yeah that's the joke.
Or did I miss some sort of elaborate joke-joke?
The worst case scenario in scandinavia when boarding a bus is that it is exactly half full, which obligatory means every double seat is occupied by exectly 1 person, and you must choose which one to annoy (including annoying yourself, if you're Scandinavian because you too want to sit alone). Standing works, but you must feel shame all the time.
Second way to make friends in Finland: tell them how much you're enjoying your visit to Scandinavia.
Finland is the canton of Scandinavia I like second most after Sweden so far.
Though I must say Poland was nice too.
I prefer standing, even on an empty bus. Call me shameless.
I will call you Seumus!
And I will call her Shamus and hand her a Guiness!
I just stand then. Same thing when it is almost half full and I know there's going to be more people on one of the later stops before I get out, so that I don't take up anyone's seat. I always board buses and trains last for this reason.
Screw whoever thought of installing the 4 seat sections that face each other.
Especially a problem in trains where that's the majority. You get 1 person per 4 seats.
Example:
Fantastic for a family of four though, you block off any intruders possible aggression!
At that point you just pull one of those little red hammers off the wall and leave through a window.
TIL the Finns are my people
As an autist, Finnish culture sounds perfect.
Nah, because if you're silent the wrong way (and no one will ever tell you what that way is or how to be silent correctly) you'll be ostracized since pre-school and end up socially withdraw whether you want it or not. Or at least that is my experience growing up here as an autist, as well as every other autistic person I know.
Stop romanticizing this place and its laughable excuse for a culture. Most people hate it here, and would much rather live somewhere else were it not for the fact that everywhere else seems to be even fucking worse.
How is that any different from what I experience here then? If I'm dealing with all that crap anyway, then I'd rather do it with people NOT sitting next to me when there's a whole empty deck on the bus.
Fair enough. I'm mostly arguing with a strawman here, composed of all the content online about how supposedly great this place is, the most egregious being those fucking happiness indexes or whatever. By what I can tell by living here all my life is that the state sucks (as in nothing fucking works like it's supposed to), the location sucks (cold and/or dark most of the time), and all the people are drunks, depressed and thus hypermedicated, drug addicts, or inbred, xenophobic, racist homophobes. Or depending on how far from the nearest train station you stray a combination of all!
Welcome to Finland, I hate it here.
That's just like Florida here in US - except it's hot/muggy and too bright.
Well there you have it: Finland - no better than Florida!