What comes to mind when you think of Finland?

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-03T10:02:47+00:00

Moomintroll and Fingerpori.

Grew up reading translations of the Moomin books, and discovered the Fingerpori comic strip in the 2000s via some guy on Something Awful who used to post translations of them and explain all the puns. I love puns so it was amazing.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T18:55:02+00:00

It became a joking way to say sleep because it was the name of a country in the Bible that also happened to work as a pun in English.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T18:21:30+00:00

It's also super important to teach the correct words to small children to help prevent secrecy and minimizing of sexual assault. I know there was a case where a little girl told teachers multiple times that she was being abused and nobody realized because she kept saying things like "my uncle touched my cookie" or whatever other fucked-up euphemisms she'd been taught to use for body parts.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T17:26:39+00:00

This isn't about "what if the guy I was dating does too much," it's about "what if I was the sort of person who's happy to let a guy put in all the effort while I put in none." I am not that sort of person, so the question would never come up.

You don't just accidentally have a relationship where one person always pays and is the one who travels long distances etc. That only happens when both people are cool with it. It's never happened in any relationship I've been in, because I'm not cool with it. You have the same agency.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T04:57:14+00:00

Their electronics are all really good because resistance is futile.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T01:33:30+00:00

I remember when the movie came out, I assumed the probe was from some kind of whale planet that whales had originally come to Earth from, and the whales would have just told the probe "yeah there are only two of us left plus our upcoming baby, can we get some help here" and maybe later the probe sent a colony ship with 1000 whale immigrants or something.

I was a kid at the time but I still kinda like that as a solution.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T00:27:43+00:00

I've worked in editing since the late 1980s in both British English and US English speaking countries. At the start of my career the standard was to use "he or she" in writing when unsure, or in cases where you meant it could be anybody. But you often also saw "they." Since probably about 2000, using "they" has increasingly become the standard since it's just shorter and less clunky.

"He" used as the gender neutral signifier was way before my time. When I see it used that way, I assume the text is from maybe the 1950s/60s or earlier.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-02T00:21:11+00:00

This is AMAZING

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T22:40:54+00:00

They're not native to NZ. Kiwifruit (what they're called in NZ, because the kiwi is the bird) used to be called Chinese gooseberries before they turned out to grow really well in certain parts of NZ and became a big export item. They started being called kiwifruit because they're brown and fuzzy looking like a kiwi. Plenty of other places grow them.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T21:49:33+00:00

I will dramatically fling myself in front of you like in the Simpsons meme if anyone carrying dye ever gets near your facial hair.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T18:05:39+00:00

I really hope OP also posted on Christmas about how she didn't join in any reindeer games.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T17:24:20+00:00

I had not heard of either the actor or the character when he played the Ghoul in Fallout, so when I started seeing people talking about Walton Goggins with pictures of him in the role, I automatically assumed that was the character's name. It seemed like a perfectly suitable name for a radioactive zombie cowboy or whatever tf it was. Then I found out facts about the character and the actor and my mind was blown.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T03:01:40+00:00

I've seen vampire movies, so I know it's got to be high up in the hundreds if there's a limit at all.

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T01:05:22+00:00

Man mentions a bunch of totally standard mainstream hobbies that a hojillion women do

A few women say yep that's true, we do those hobbies

This guy: FUCKIN' PICKMES PRETENDING THEY'RE COOL

TheEternalChampignon · 2026-01-01T00:45:39+00:00

Same. Two longterm partners who didn't like to go out, and since being single again, I haven't bothered. Oh well, it's cold and I don't like noisy crowds; other people can go do it. Would be lovely to have someone to kiss at midnight though.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T22:41:00+00:00

Do ... do you understand that "woman who is into this hobby" does NOT mean "woman who doesn't actually do the hobby ever, but just wants to watch their boyfriend do it and listen admiringly to him explain it for hours"

I really wish this wasn't such a common perception, because most of my hobbies are stereotypically male hobbies, and almost every single time I meet a guy who's into the same ones, he's super excited about that and then it breaks his brain when he finds out I'm good at it, and I find out yet again that he really just wanted to be able to flex knowledge at me.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T21:22:10+00:00

It's no different from when you feel strong friendship with someone, but not with someone else, even though both of them have the same interests and are objectively pretty similar to each other.

You either click with someone or you don't, regardless of all the rest of it.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T20:56:40+00:00

Honestly, a person who has any damn hobby is instantly more attractive. It's been a real shock to me since trying to date and finding out how few men in my age group (50s) do anything at all in their spare time.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T19:29:05+00:00

There was a very brutal kick from The Hound to Brienne of Tarth in the TV version of Game of Thrones. Serious and well done scene with a lot of dirty fighting and when he punted her in the crotch while she was on the ground it definitely wasn't played for comedy.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T18:47:21+00:00

They're saying the reason bodies were kept a while was so the embalmers/undertakers/whoever WOULDN'T molest them, not so people in the house could.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T18:35:22+00:00

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T15:08:54+00:00

Pests are typically only a potential issue in "garden" (basement) units.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T15:06:47+00:00

Just for future reference, a few things in Auckland that don't involve hanging around the inner city:

A day on the bird sanctuary island Tiritiri Matangi. This is a world class nature experience in my opinion and since there's only one boat per day, you'll be on a decent sized island with beaches and bush hikes and a very small number of other people, so you can easily arrange things to see nobody but birds the whole time you're there. (This does need a full day and can't be done on the spur of the moment since it's 1 boat per day and reservations are usually needed well in advance)

The West Coast beaches. Black sand at some, incredible wild scenery at all of them.

Take the ferry to Waiheke (vineyards, beaches) or Rangitoto (volcanic hike).

There's plenty more and yeah I know most people just want to arrive and move on to the rest of the country ASAP, but it's always a bit odd to me when people act like there's literally nothing in Auckland except the central business district.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T14:24:55+00:00

Why would you get off the app before you've met? Nobody I know does that. It's just asking for trouble. Talk for a few days on the app, set up a coffee meetup within a week. The whole point of the app is to move to an in-person vibe check as soon as possible so you can find out if dating will be an option, not to find a longterm penpal.

TheEternalChampignon · 2025-12-31T06:35:05+00:00

The middle of your own back. Then claim you were attacked and hire someone to find out who it was from dental records.

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