Dramagod wrote:

Irene Adler wrote:

And Dramagod, believe me, the Mexican and the Spanish culture have nothing to do with one another

I'm sure it's so. But I think the more different some culture is to your own the more two might feel similar. For instance to me Mexican and Spanish cultures seem more similar than North American and Russian.

Also Chinese and Japanese cultures seem similar to me as well, even though I know many differences between them. For one, samurais and ninjas.

Yes, I understand what you say. For me it's the same with Chinese and Japanese 

Dramagod, I seem to remember that Finnish people drink a lot of alcohol and that it is always dark in your country  .

'It's Finland, not Mordor.' Classic stuff DramaGod. That really made me laugh! I liked Finland when I visited although it was cold enough to freeze a brass monkey. Serious cold, frost-bite cold especially with the wind chill. I found the Lappish music and culture very interesting.

Davina wrote:

it was cold enough to freeze a brass monkey. Serious cold, frost-bite cold especially with the wind chil

So tell me, what was Finland like 10 000 years ago?

Irene Adler wrote:

I have a friend who lives in Finland that told me once (around February I think it was) they had -24º and five hours of sunlight.
I think I would die there

Yeah it was a pretty long and cold winter here this year. We had many winters like that when I was a kid but nowadays it's so random. There might be a winter that we have snow for a couple of weeks in total and the average temperature is around zero. I think it's because Mother Nature is having her menopause. The weather is weird all over the globe and that sucks. But now to the important issue here. This friend of yours... is she a she? She hot?

Irene Adler wrote:

Dramagod wrote:

Davina wrote:

it was cold enough to freeze a brass monkey. Serious cold, frost-bite cold especially with the wind chil

So tell me, what was Finland like 10 000 years ago?

Irene Adler wrote:

I have a friend who lives in Finland that told me once (around February I think it was) they had -24º and five hours of sunlight.
I think I would die there

Yeah it was a pretty long and cold winter here this year. We had many winters like that when I was a kid but nowadays it's so random. There might be a winter that we have snow for a couple of weeks in total and the average temperature is around zero. I think it's because Mother Nature is having her menopause. The weather is weird all over the globe and that sucks. But now to the important issue here. This friend of yours... is she a she? She hot?

Lol   

She is a she, yes, and she is hot, but I think she is not the exotic Spanish stereotype; she is blonde, blue eyes

I thought you've got a Finnish friend here. But a Spanish hottie with blonde hair and blue eyes? Well that's the best of both worlds (Spain and Finland). I'm intrigued, hah. So, where does she live here?

Davina wrote:

'It's Finland, not Mordor.' Classic stuff DramaGod. That really made me laugh! I liked Finland when I visited although it was cold enough to freeze a brass monkey. Serious cold, frost-bite cold especially with the wind chill. I found the Lappish music and culture very interesting.

Last year where I live it plunged to -5 Fahrenheit and everybody was horrified. So the idea of "brass monkey" weather really does vary.

Sammy wrote:

There aren't actually that many stereotypes reagarding Finland. Maybe that is one... Finland is enigmatic!
I would say the language is complicated, it's generally rather cold and there are not many people. 

@Smoggy: Seriously, though... try burgers. It will change your life! It's meat in buns. How better can it get? (Well, unless you're a vegetarian.)

What do you mean by enigmatic? Like there's unicorns, rainbows and houses made of candy everywhere? If that's what you meant you are correct. The language IS complicated, I'd say it's one of the hardest languages to learn to speak properly.

For instance in english there is the word cat. And depending on the situation you use other words with it. Like for cat, from cat, inside a cat and so on. But here the word itself includes those. An example. Cat = kissa in english. For cat = kissalle, from cat = kissalta, out of a cat = kissasta, into a cat = kissaan and so on. If there's someone here who's tried to learn Finnish, they could back me up with this.

You are correct, only a little over 5 million people live in Finland. And you speak Finnish only in Finland. So our language isn't spoken by many. I remember one old stereotype I always heard as a kid was that people think we have polar bears here. That's not true. They wouldn't survive here for a day in the wild. It's not THAT cold. I'm sure there's colder in Canada, Russia and places like that.

imane nikko wrote:

your ladies like to sit on rainbows and trick passing heroes into accidentally chopping themselves with axes.

I wish.

I've gone fishing once in the last 15 years. So I'm not one of those 11-month people. I don't like Jägermeister. You're right that we don't talk much. I understand that in many other cultures people can strike a conversation with total strangers but here that's quite rare. We mind our own business. I'd love that custom to come here as well, though. Would be nice if some nice woman just started talking to me without a reason or wanting something from me.

When we visited Finland it was -20 and blowing a hooley so it was definitely brass monkey weather.

I expect that has just added to the 'colloquial English' list.

Drama...hope springs eternal.