Those funny Finns

[Tero]

Sports stars are held in high esteem, even after scandals. except for Nykänen. The last one to get into trouble was Häkkinen.

http://www.aulabaari.net/modules.php?name=AulabaariFoorumit&op=showthread&id=13&rid=76103&mode=1&start=1

[Jaana2]

The following translations are from real places in Finland. Everybody can have a bad day, also translators.

Shrimp and crap salad for two
You can have crap on your pizza
Tepid chicken salad with bread
We give you water only when you ask
(Café Rico, Turku 1997)

Dead snails from Turku in garlic and butter sauce
The cock is recommending today's beef
We can serve your steak with much blood, some blood, medium or well-done.
(Ramada Hotel, Turku 1999)

The house's tart is called Torttu in Finnish and is warm.
Ice cream with warm bear halves and toffee sauce
Finnish mushroom salad - wild, salty and sticky mushrooms with cream sauce and pickles
(Fransmanni, Turku 1993)

Mexican burrito with mutilated chicken meat and salsa
(Raxx, Turku 1998)

Try traditional Finnish pee soup
We can bring the nuts and drinks to your room (room service card)
Drink something if you want (room service card)
On our breakfast table you will find the cheese, the meat and some others
Omelette is made with recent eggs from a local farm where the chickens are alive
(Hotelli Helka, Helsinki 1993)

This week is "bird meat week" but we also have a good selection of mammal meat.
Japanese guests can have traditional breakfast with stinky rice and fishes
Cocktails are served in bar and there only. You must drink cocktails there only.
Blini served with cream and not real caviar
(Hamburger Börs, Turku 1997)

Tar ice cream - Finnish special. Good for people who eat tar and lingonberries.
(Viking Restaurant Harald, Turku 1998)

Children's hamburger is served with the French.
Pizzas after clock 21 are not. Sorry.
(Memphis, Helsinki 1994)


Seen on a faucet in a Finnish restroom:
To stop the drip, turn cock to right

[Tero]

Having run off from Mervi for two weeks, and on his way to Prague, he changed his mind:
Matti Nykänen muutti mielensä ja päätti rientää Mervi Tapola-Nykäsen syntymäpäivälle.

Matti Nykänen päätti maanantaina keskeyttää jo alkaneen Prahan-matkansa ennen aikojaan ja rientää myöhään viime yönä ex-vaimonsa Mervi Tapola-Nykäsen syntymäpäiville. Mervi Tapola-Nykänen täyttää tänään pyöreät 50 vuotta.

[Tero]

I think Matti and Mervi may be living some kind of life with a script designed for maximum press.
Matti Nykänen ja Mervi Tapola-Nykänen viettivät eilen Mervin 50-vuotissyntymäpäivien rääppiäisiä saunotellen ja nauttien kevään lämmöstä lähes kolmen viikon eron jälkeen. Pariskunta on jo aloittanut häiden suunnittelun.

- Haluamme viettää kunnon kesähäät, joita on suunniteltu huolellisesti. Häistä on nyt puhuttu vakavasti, kun oikeudenkäyntikin on ohi ja tilanteemme on rauhoittumassa, onnelliselta kuulostava Mervi kertoo.
Now they are planning another wedding. They must be eaiting for Matti's court cases to all go thru. I think they both got fines for assault.


http://www.iltalehti.fi/2004/04/16/1610776_vi.shtml

[Ville]

I think they should, by a court order, be ordered to live on the opposite sides of the country to protect themselves (and the innocent news-readers) from their on-again-off-again [and so on and so forth] relationship! :nut: :rolleyes:

[Tero]

I think they are missing a big opportunity for reality TV. One that no foreigner would be able to watch. It would be the test of a real Finn to sit through an hour of Matti and Mervia at home and in the ravintola.

[Tero]

Lack of public facilities in Tampere?
http://kuvat.iltasanomat.fi/iltasanomat/iDoc/760887-kansi2.gif

a businessman paid a big fine after a fun evening.