amusedSo, while trying to find pictures of the Finnish president to show to Chip because he's mentioned on the show that she looks like him, I also found this open letter written to Conan O' Brien by a Finn, encouraging him to visit Finland, and... I think I may understand why Tuomo Ruutu (and Ville Nieminen, and Jarkko Ruutu, and Hannu Toivonen, etc) are all insane.
Things Conan O' Brien should know about Finland
Here are my favourite bits:
David Lynch is 1/4 Finn - his grandfather was a Finn and very strange inward person.
Finns were last in Europe to have their own writing language - we are forest people, we were forced to be " civilized " by aggressive Swedish and Danish soldiers, reverends and monks who destroyed all our special sacred trees
Finns were Sweden´s slaves and it´s army in years 1400-1550 and we were very brutal and furious soldiers and that´s why Sweden was superpower and got rich country - robbing Europe by slave Finn-soldiers. But Sweden left us alone with war with Soviet Union. Thats bitter thing.
Swedes have been stolen sauna's marketing - their lame Swedish hot rooms are nothing like original hot saunas.
And then, the mention of a mysterious, feral race of people known only as "wild Finns"!
Conan,
I have heard that city of Turku is inviting you. Allright. They are our
"Texas", ruled by many elitist moneygangs.
Helsinki is "only" civilized place in Finland but you know, if you are
looking for speechless and facelss yuppies, go for Turku.
In Helsinki there is suburban place named Kontula. There you will see
quite wild Finns. Oh man. Pub and more pubs. Thats our Harlem. There´s our hip hop-culture and rebellious young street girls, "pissing princesses". Poorest but proudest Finns.
And, for Kennedy and Kate:
Procentually we have in Finland most in the world: most succesful rally drivers "flying Finns"
*GIGGLES*
One variation of the Finnish elephant joke:
"There were French, German and Finnish people, who all had to write a book about elephants. The French wrote a report about sexual life of the elephants, the Germans wrote a long 2-part book "A short introduction to the Anatomy of the Elephants" and the Finns wrote a book "What the elephants think about Finland"
You need to watch Nip/Tuck ASAP because there was THE BEST SCENE EVER OF ALL TIME. I almost died. I don't want to spoil anything so I'll just say IT WAS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ON A TELEVISION SHOW.
Okay shutting up now.
And NOW I'm done.
You just know that this is what the slash writers on the show have been working towards ever since they started the series!!!!!!!!
$#*))%@*&)@#
Oh and at the end, Christian and Sean sitting in the church and Sean saying he's coming back to him and Christian with tears in my eyes and like, maybe there's no big gathering in the church, and no priest, and no ceremony, and no rings, but but but that might be the closest to truly married they'll ever get!!!!!!!!!
You just know that this is what the slash writers on the show have been working towards ever since they started the series!!!!!!!!
YES! OH my God, YES. Like, when she called them a couple I thought "yay slashy joke" and expected them to deny it but then THEY SO TOTALLY WENT FOR IT and not just a little bit but THE KISSING AND THE DECLARATIONS OF LOVE AND I AM JUST SO GLAD I WAS TAPING BECAUSE I NEED TO SEE THAT AGAIN.
Oh and at the end, Christian and Sean sitting in the church and Sean saying he's coming back to him and Christian with tears in my eyes and like, maybe there's no big gathering in the church, and no priest, and no ceremony, and no rings, but but but that might be the closest to truly married they'll ever get!!!!!!!!!
Okay, ignoreing my quibble of Sean saying "you've never been alone" considering that no one has abandoned him more than Sean, YES. Just...YES. Not only was that just so wonderful and made me so happy but SEAN SAID "I DO" and....yeah.
Swedes have been stolen sauna's marketing - their lame Swedish hot rooms are nothing like original hot saunas.
I think that is my favorite part. There's such a bitter history between the nations that go back for centuries and then they're fighting about saunas.
I DO NOT THINK I WANT TO KNOW WHAT A PISSING PRINCESS IS.
There's a lot of resentment to Sweden and also bold statements of superiority! Like how they stole the swear words, hahaha.
I really... hope... that was some kind of translation problem and not like... literal. :P