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I agree
Yoda feels a little under the weather
This actually is a backpack I got in the US last month.
The Finnish NATO predicament
Finland has a continuous history of being a non-aligned country, but some politicians hereabouts have started to wonder whether they should be joining NATO. They know that they would be most welcome, but domestic public opinion seems to oppose it, preferring the status quo of universal military conscription. Somebody close to me summarised the situation with the following line:
"Who do I trust to defend Finland, crooked foreign politicians or drunken Finnish teenagers?".
The SEO rapper
This guy rules.
Tototoromoomin
What happens when you mix Finnish & Japanese cartoons?
De “robo del siglo” a “robo de película… cómica”
Para terminar en una nota alegre, checa esta historia de El Universal sobre un robo de banco fallido en la Ciudad de México. Los ladrones, queriendo perforar con martillo y cincel de una casa abandonada a la bóveda del banco, terminaron primero en un salón de fiestas pero no se dieron por vencidos. En su segundo intento, esta vez desde el establecimiento para párvulos, fueron a dar al baño del banco, activando la alarma.
Estos cuates si no hubieran nacido los habría inventado Walt Disney…
The secret of a good marriage
As a friend would say, the secret of a good marriage is that both of you should "play for the same team". So, "if the goal is that way, no shooting on own goal is allowed".
I knew that football is life, but this is starting to get ridiculous 😉
Learning Finnish swearwords
Surgeon general warning: if you get easily offended please skip this post. Move along.
I guess it is true that one of the first things people want to learn when starting a new language is the profanity… which in my case caused a couple of hilarious situations, as I came to Finland being able to utter only "kiitos" (thanks) and "perkele" (a general swearword of very strong intensity).
One of my first encounters with other vocabulary was in the public transport. I used to live in a rather bad area (for the standards here) of east Helsinki and for a long time I would hear teenagers finishing their sentences with something that sounded like "tu". Something like "Yadda yadda yadda tu, yadda tu. Tu, tu, tu". Further down the line I understood that they meant "vittu" (cunt, but used as the local alternative to fuck).
Then came the summer, and a game called mölkky. The problem was that I had some difficulty with Finnish frontal vowels (ä, ö, y), which led to me referring to it as mulkku (prick). Hilarity ensued.
La mejor versión de "Las Mañanitas" es la de Pedro Infante
Eso sí, no me vengan con “Amapolita dorada de los llanos de Pekín” que así la cantaba un cuate que conozco, jajaja.