Saw this on Mastodon and had a laugh. Not sure if it’s real, but it’s funny.
I wish to go to Finland one day, I wish to test mine cold resistance against theirs. My best is -10 in a suede jacket, t-shirt, and standard cargo pants because I put my jeep into a ditch because fucking black ice.
C or F?
I’ve always had this romantic idea of meeting a woman from Finland, fall in love, and maybe, not likely, find peace.
That would be nice.
I love Finland. Gotta go back sometime.
I read bastard instead of badass. But the energy matched.
I like the Suomi.
Kinky Helskinki
What makes it kinky? Names and addresses please!
As someone from Winnipeg, why would I be afraid of warmer weather?
It’s hilarious to me that venetian snares made an entire album about Winnipeg “Winnipeg is a frozen shithole”
The clear blue sky backdrop leads to mild confusion
I think this is real. Was originally made several years ago.
Helsinki isn’t so bad in November, actually. I’m in Oulu, wayyy further up north. Starting to get into the oof territory. I would probably feel stronger about this if I was not mildly drunk.
Isn’t being mildly drunk sort of a prerequisite for winter where you are? It gets mighty cold where I am and I feel like that’s true.
Yes but are you also mildly nude?
As far as my arms go, yes.
The definition of kalsarikännit means being drunk on the couch with your underpants on. I have my underpants. And jeans. And t-shirt. 'Cause winter is coming. And…
Fff sshh
[goes to the kitchen to look at the thermometer]
OK not bad yet, but it reminds me I need to finally get Frostpunk off my Steam backlog this winter, been too long. …What were we talking about? [falls face first on the phone with nose on the submit button]
Frostpunk in the winter is great. I first played it in North Dakota during the 2019 polar vortex when the windchill got down to -50 degrees freedom units (-45 Celsius) with my new game-syncing lights. As the in-game temp got colder and ice crackled across the screen, the lights would brighten white to match and I became more and more aware of the cold creeping into my room through the house’s insulation. It was super immersive. I hope you get the chance to play it this winter!
I was there for that winter! Idk if it was 18 or 19 One of the -48f nights (ambient mind you, just west of Tioga, was told later wind chills were like -75-90) I went back out to site on my days off to help a friend fix an air line on one of our pumps. Spent about 4 hours out in it straight, was on site for a while longer in and out making sure his spare stayed operational. I will never be able to truly describe how that felt. It was cold enough to trigger fight or flight, and then you have to decide to stay in it, and then have to make mechanical, proper decisions. I lost like half of a tool kit in the snow because I could not feel anything, I had to watch my hands. Eyes squinted, keeping them open froze the tears and it was a constant minor burning sensation. I had to touch metal bare skinned to get a couple of fittings off, and started threaded when putting it back together. Lost skin but not that much, but still some.
The week or so before that night we’d had a couple feet of snow and williston main street via 1804 by Scenic Sports had about a foot of snow on it when I set out. Such a special memory for me it was one of the few times it was literally me vs the world.
The light pillars at night and sun dogs in the day when it is fucking cold are pretty spectacular
That’s super cool! I’ve never played it. How long does it take to complete?
I think it depends on your experience with city builders and resource management games. Having played games like Tropico 4 and some Sim City 3000 I managed to get through the main story on my first try in one 5~8 hour sitting. My friend who is less experienced lost entirely after ~2 hours and stopped there. It’s pretty tough until you know the mechanics, but that’s also part of what makes it so rewarding to survive.
I’ve played every sim city and cities skylines. Seems interesting I’ll have to check it out.
I have never seen snow in person before, having my first winter in Finland sounds cool. I’d love to do that.
Seeing snow is very nice. Living in it isn’t so much. It’s so fucking heavy and expensive.
I’m in Germany and was teaching a class as a group in the course of a teaching degree (basically, every class period a different pairing from our German language pedagogy class would team up and teach the same students in a subsidized German lesson), and my partner for the early morning December class was from Vietnam, experiencing her first winter. She was an hour late because she was completely unprepared for icy sidewalks and literally couldn’t walk to class.
She finally got there after she made makeshift crampons out of crumpled tinfoil, which was both clever and very cute. Nobody held it against her, but all found it a little funny (she did, too).
Edit: basically, you just need the right gear and it’ll be fine, but you might feel differently about it from how you expect to. Some people love it, but most people from warm places don’t.
When I was in Urumqi, I was hanging out with a guy from Shenzhen. I asked if he liked snowboarding, he said yes, but he doesn’t have a snowboard.
We get to the mountain, and there’s some hints, on the ride over I’m talking about falling on ice, and he says he has fallen a couple times. Maybe it’s translation or he just meant bad falls. He says he doesn’t know how to put his boots on, so I figure maybe he’s only ever used boa laces. We take the gondola to the top of the black diamond, we get our boards on. Guy says “How do I stand up”.
Not only had he never snowboarded before, he had never touched snow before.
So I helped him ride to the bottom and got him practicing on the bunny slope.
Even if you don’t love it, I think it’s something nice to experience.
Thank you for the comment, pretty informative and engaging!
Is November even the worst time to visit Finland? I’d assume January or February
January and February have snow and cold and sometimes sun.
November is just wet, dark and miserable.
Sounds similar to anything from Paris and above in Western Europe, just maybe a few less degrees.
The dark is the difference. Sunrise was at 8.00 today and sunset was at 15.45.
Basically if you work 8-16 you don’t see the sun until springtime… 🫠
It depends. You can get -20°C in November too. But yeah, mostly it’s just miserable and far more so than in central Europe.
Pretty sure they had that sign some year outside Slush, the venture capital event that’s coming up soon again.
Pretty sure your laugh was real 😉
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When I visited Europe before moving here we came in December/January. Far northern Sweden, Latvia, Estonia. We experienced a variety of overcast, cold, wet, snow, ice, loved every minute of it. Where I’m living now reaches -30c sometimes lower. Makes me happy :3
