I’m British, (even better, Welsh 🏴) and I’ve been in Finland for more than 25 years. I *love* the lack of small talk, and long silences (e.g. in Finnish business meetings) I thrive on it (not survive without it)
“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day,” or “You’re very tall,” or “So this is it, we’re going to die.”
His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.
After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this–“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Easy, we don’t do that here. (Insert the Black Panther meme image here)
Keep small talk away from Finland.
No talk > small talk
We don’t “survive” it. We thrive without it. That is the whole point. This logic is backwards. It is a hassle to small talk for a Finn.
Speech is silver, silence is gold.
Easy. We enjoy silence and not having to talk about all things which do not matter.
Yep, Finns are not afraid of silence and don’t feel the need to fill it with idle chit chat about weather or what have you.
Small talk is annoying. If there is nothing to talk about, why bother to make more noise into already noisy world?
Forced small talk goes usually like [this.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udaW_vqMPNk)
I’m British, (even better, Welsh 🏴) and I’ve been in Finland for more than 25 years. I *love* the lack of small talk, and long silences (e.g. in Finnish business meetings) I thrive on it (not survive without it)
“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day,” or “You’re very tall,” or “So this is it, we’re going to die.”
His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.
After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this–“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
happily?