Is the gollum game real or just a meme?

by aurora_truth6

33 comments
  1. Its as real as it gets. I play every now and then when we get together with the boys

  2. That’s no joke. This what guys do when they have Sauna with their mates – as usual finns are quiet and reserved so they might not spell it out when they invite you, but expect to play round or two during the night.

  3. It is a meme. And a really fucking stupid one, making finns seem like anophilic perverts.

    I really wish it would just go away. It is embarrassing. The fact that people are asking whether or not it’s real means it is way beyond time for this idiocy to cease.

    Edit: keep the downvotes coming, it’s like ambrosia.

  4. Yes. It is 100% true. Why would we lie about something like this?

  5. The next time you go to the sauna, you can try to see if your finger can fit between the benches.

  6. I just came back from do it at my local sauna and it was fun. Pentti even came over me, hilarious!

  7. Uhh, why wouldn’t it be real? We Finns are completely okay with nakedness and saunas.

  8. One version is “Secret Gollum” but it requires a bit of planning. It’s a sauna trip to cottage, but one extra member is invited by the organizer and they are taken to the sauna before anyone else. The goal is to guess the identity of the Secret Gollum, and there is the gist that the Secret Gollum gets to put fingers in two assholes.

  9. I can confirm. In fact, I am a multiple Gollum champion in our sauna crew. I am known by the master name Brown Finger.

  10. For most Finns, sauna is a holy place at least to some degree. And Finland is/has been a protestant Christian country for centuries.

    So draw your own conclusions.

  11. It depends on the friend group. Some do it for real, some only do it a little bit as a meme, and some think it’s a meme altogether and don’t think it’s real.

    Modern society is slowly ruining it I guess, but yeah it’s a tradition.

  12. To be honest, I saw how *pomppa* is played much more times than *Klonkku*. Also in *palju*.

  13. Totally real. It is on the Internet, after all. We all know that everything on the Internet is real!

  14. Its not in the asshole, but the gollum tries to poke everyones buttocks from the below and the guy who reacts becomes the next gollum

    Or thats how i’ve played it

  15. Are you implying someone would use the internet tobtell non-truths? Preposterous.

  16. It’s mostly probably just a meme, but especially mechanical engineering students sometimes do some pretty strange things in sauna and otherwise.

  17. Fun fact: J R R Tolkien’s Gollum was based on this Kalevala poem:

    Saunaklonkku surkea
    Lauteen alla lymyilijä
    Peukun perään pyöräytti
    Keskisormen kakkosehen

  18. I played this last summer with my friends. It was so exciting and fun we are going to play it again this summer when we go to summer cottage. We mostly go to different airbnb and the type of sauna is a major factor in our choice.

  19. Fuck me man im so confused on whether this shit is real or not lol

  20. Of course it’s real, it’s a tradition. Do you know why it is called Gollum? It’s because Gollum gets a ring on his finger.

  21. I don’t think Sauna would be as popular if it wasn’t for saunaklonkku.

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