Army - No thanks!

Originally posted by Seitse
Stock. friend, I have a doubt. Is it costumary in Sweden to go up to 115 degrees in sauna, then hit yourselves with leafs and end by running all together to icy water?

I think you're confusing us rational swedes with the ravingly crazy fins. Please don't do that. I have a sauna right here in my home as a matter of fact. I like it not too hot, and just a cool shower afterwards.

Although, the phrase: "Don't knock it 'til you've tried it" once hit me and my friends. So we went to the countryside, rented a sauna next to a frosen lake for the purpose of doing it the fin style. It was... i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-interesting.

Fins!? They're just a crazy bunch when it comes right down to it. 😀

Originally posted by scottishinnz
They do that in the Russian "banya" too. The idea is that the heat and beating opens your pores and makes you sweat (also the tree sap / resin goes into the skin making you smell good too), then you roll in the snow or jump in a river / lake which closes the pores keeping all the nasty toxins, that you sweated out, out.

Best hangover cure in the universe!

hangover? lol 🙂 I've never tried for hangover, though nice hint!! thanks mate! 😉

PS. However, I love to go in armed with a couple of dead cold pints 😵 Unlike Finland, here the leaf thing is not that common and the snow thing is replaced by a cold shower, for obvious reasons living in the city, though I guess people do it in the rural areas.

Originally posted by stocken
I think you're confusing us rational swedes with the ravingly crazy fins. Please don't do that. I have a sauna right here in my home as a matter of fact. I like it not too hot, and just a cool shower afterwards.

Although, the phrase: "Don't knock it 'til you've tried it" once hit me and my friends. So we went to the countryside, rented a sauna next to a f ...[text shortened]... i-i-interesting.

Fins!? They're just a crazy bunch when it comes right down to it. 😀

haha, the good ol' Swedish/Finnish love-hate relationship, uh? 😛

We must exchange some Swede/Finn jokes. Unfortunately I have no Swede friends but a bunch of Finns and I've learnt some good ones 😉

Originally posted by scottishinnz
[The fin sauna is the] best hangover cure in the universe!

There are far more sane ways of curing a hangover. Like avoiding it in the first place. Drinking water in between beers and what have you is one example of limiting the after effects. And keeping your drinking on a sane level.

Edit: Unlike those crazy fins, we swedes always drink with moderation. U-hum... 😳

Edit: Unless we're travelling the continent that is. :. < -- Me whissling an innocent tune...

Originally posted by stocken
There are far more sane ways of curing a hangover. Like avoiding it in the first place. Drinking water in between beers and what have you is one example of limiting the after effects. And keeping your drinking on a sane level.

Edit; Unlike those crazy fins, we swedes always drink with moderation. U-hum... 😳

Well, i was in Russia, it was our second last night at camp (at a biological research camp in the Urals), and a mates birthday. BIG party. I ended up halfway through the night having a judo match with a Russian army sergent in the lashing rain (I won) and hanging upside down from a tree (my own doing). Much vodka was drunk.

Originally posted by Seitse
We must exchange some Swede/Finn jokes.

How do you sink a norwegian submarine?

You dive down there and knock on the hatch. A norwegian will invariably open to see who it is.


How do you sink a fin submarine?

You dive down there and knock on the hatch. A fin will invariably open to say: "Hey!? Where not as dumb as those norwegians, you know?"

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What's the name of Finlands worst boxer?

Ranta Runtiringen

(Which is only funny in Swedish, because even though it sounds like a finnish name - to us swedes anyway - it actually means: To stumble about in the ring.)

Originally posted by stocken
How do you sink a norwegian submarine?

You dive down there and knock on the hatch. A norwegian will invariably open to see who it is.


How do you sink a fin submarine?

You dive down there and knock on the hatch. A fin will invariably open to say: "Hey!? Where not as dumb as those norwegians, you know?"

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What's the name of Finlands worst bo ...[text shortened]... like a finnish name - to us swedes anyway - it actually means: To stumble about in the ring.)

Very funny. Reminds me of the sort of jokes told in England about the Irish.

Originally posted by stocken
Where not as dumb as those norwegians, you know?

Before anyone gets the chance to correct me. It should be: "We're not as dumb...", of course. 😳

Originally posted by Nargaguna
Very funny. Reminds me of the sort of jokes told in England about the Irish.

And Irish about the english, I'm sure.

I really like most fins I've met. We have this special attitude going between us, and it's often very funny. I often laugh at jokes made about swedes by the fins, because they're often extremely amusing. (Depending on the persons you meet of course. Some people are actually serious about believing that they're better because of their nationality, and such people really tick me off.)