1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.
has somehow happened in exactly that way ;)
2. When a stranger on the street smiles at you:
a. you assume he is drunk
b. insane
c. foreigner
I knew at least that it was not a normal Finn.
3. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
"finnish people are so smart"
4. 5°C means mild weather.
5. Temperature below zero and snow does not stop you from biking.
even temperatures below -10 wouldn't...
6. You find it normal to drink milk with your meals.
it IS normal!!!
7. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.
I went to europe for the rest of my life :(
8. You no longer scrunch up or fold your paper money. You always put your money in your wallet.
9. Silence is fun.
It was more fun to make fun of Finns who considered silence as fun...
10. The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm or Tallinn is:
a. duty free vodka
b. duty free beer
c. to party hearty no need to get off the boat in Stockholm, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.
We actually wanted to see the city of Tallinn... but we were the only ones with plans like that in our bus! But we did at least some shopping...
10. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
It did exacly like this before... BUT it would have decreased if i had only finnish coffee!
11. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", and tell someone "you needn?t to!"
I started to "hoffe so" and so on...
12. Expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
It was necessary not to panic in many situations!
13. Your bad mood becomes your good mood.
14. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
Finland is great!!!
15. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
no comment has always been a conversation strategy!
16. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.
17. Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
:-S
18. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay.
omg, I did some sexual foreplay in the club :-S
19. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume:
a. they are drunk
b. the are Swedish-speaking
c. they are American
d. all of the above.
23. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
never tried to...
24. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
NO WAY :D
25. You eat herring in 105 ways.
Fixing would be the better choice...
26. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognize them as semi-formal wear.
27. You have undergone a transformation:
a. you accept mustamakkara (Black-blood sausage) as food
NO WAY
b. you accept alcohol as food
maybe...
c. you accept.
ok!
28. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.
:D :D
29. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
30. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.
31. You no longer correct people who say MAC Donald's.
32. You just love Jaffa.
33. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
:D :D :D
34. You enjoy salmiakki.
:))) kippis :)
35. You know that "men?s public bathroom" is another phrase for sidewalk.
36. You know that more than three channels means cable.
37. You get all the Swedish jokes.
38. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
39. You've become lactose intolerant.
FORTUNATELY (!) not (yet...)
40. You accept that 80 degrees C in a sauna is chilly, but 20 degrees C outside is freaking hot.
41. You stop asking "how are you" when you meet people. It's just plain "hi" or
"mmph" or *nod*. Communicating becomes less and less important...
