The Finnish Way of Drinking – It’s pretty accurate 😀

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  1. The melancholy/crying part is 100% accurate. It gets awkward really fast when a drunk guy starts hugging and sobbing on you. And after that comes the self hatred and depression and it’s time to leave quick lol.

  2. Yeah, drinking and life itself is much more complicated here in the Österland. In Sweden everything’s just an endless Kräftskiva.

  3. I have seen my partner drunk only once (7 years ago). Even though he’s a happy and peaceful person, he eventually reached that sadness -> anger -> pass out stage. I think he was stressed.

  4. Foreigner here: Since I came here it the following situation has happened to me almost exactly the same way several times at a club/bar, and always when we were a group of 2-4 women.

    1. a random drunk Finnish guy comes up and tries to talk to us in Finnish

    2. we tell him that we (or some of us) don’t speak Finnish

    3. he asks us in English where we are from

    4. he doesn’t get our answer in English and repeats the question several times (provably due to alcohol and/or noise)

    5. We yell it at him in Finnish several times (one of the few things all of us know) and he finally gets it

    6. He gives a generic response like “nice” or “that’s interessting”

    6. He buys us a round of drinks

    7. We thank him and he just tells us a bunch random BS that makes zero sense

    8. then he just leaves without a word and is nowhere to be seen for the rest of the evening

    I’m not complaining in any way about this by the way. This just hasn’t happened to me back home and here it has almost every time I went out.

    What would be the reason behind this and what stage of drunkness would that be?

    Edit: The random BS is in coherent sentences though. For example:

    “Did you know that a moose can run up to X km/h ? My uncle was working as an accountant in Australia for 3 years. By the way, what do you think about birds getting killed by wind turbines? Maybe I will go fishing next week. Can any of you ride a motorcycle?”

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