Youth are graded when they turn 18. If you are seen as defective, you are driven to slaughterhouse to be put down. These are those people on their last trip, its tradition to put on something silly to lighten the mood for people watching.
Actually its penkkarit.
Welcome to Finland
They throw candy
Mobilization to border of Tampere
They are throwing candy
It’s called “penkkarit” 🥳 last year students in upper secondary celebrate their study leave for ylioppilaskoe. Traditionally they host a “gala” in their school, maybe sing skit style songs about their school and teachers etc. They dress up in costumes and some go all out on these. Then they drive around their city in these trucks and throw candy at people. Also they make these banners for the trucks that usually say something funny or relatable about studying,kinda like irl memes 😄 In the evening they either go on a cruise or get drunk in other place together. Finnish culture at its finest 🥳🫶
Tradional ”Dress as some character, buy 2 kilos of candy, and ride in a truck and throw little kids with it”-day, Penkkarit. (Don’t forget the loud music and hidden alcohol beverages)
Celebration of the beginning of the reading-vacation, to prepare for the final exams, and to graduate high school, and get a cool bonus! (White hat, that you have to buy yourself and get a envelope with grades from Helsinki on a fancy paper)
Oh to be abiturientti again.
Penkkarit (Benchpressing festival?) is a yearly tradition among Finnish upper secondary school students. The occasion is celebrated in the spring of their final year as the final day of school, before the start of the matriculation exams. Traditionally, the date of penkkarit is a Thursday in late or mid-February. This means they load up the kids into the trucks whilst dressed up in different cosplay outfits with a bag of candy.
Then they proceed to drive around the city and the kids chuck candy to the folks around. It is like a funny combination of cosplay events and Halloween on wheels with a hint of weird Finnish tradition.
Ah, and sometimes they have funny slogans on the side of the truck, depending on what the theme or meme of the class has been during that year or years.
Penkkarit! To celebrate the end of high-school, you get to drive around the city, throwing candy at random people in the street, dress up, make banners and then most likely end up very drunk at some point. Oh, Finland <3
They are transporting the warheads for the new Väinämöinen 2 tactical nuclear missiles. It’s just a disguise to fool the Russians
Mass kidnapping
Finland is shipping troubled teenagers abroad to fight for Ukraine.
Failed highschool students are being moved to the local dump to remove them from our collective misery.
The annual candy sacrifice to the children of satan
i was in that convoy
Where is this picture taken? Looks like Kortepohja but I’m not sure.
Every spring each county needs to arrange a pickup for unwanted teens, to be shipped to Sweden.
The Revolution has started, nothing new.
Obvious human trafficking.
Yeah just got off mine, it’s about celebrating before the finals come and in between penkkarit and the finals there is time off, so basically for us school ended.
I had to remind all my abis “once you get on the lorry, you can’t get off to pee:”
I wonder how many ignored my advice and paid the price.
its a finnish tradition of going to a concentration camp
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Revolution!
Youth are graded when they turn 18. If you are seen as defective, you are driven to slaughterhouse to be put down. These are those people on their last trip, its tradition to put on something silly to lighten the mood for people watching.
Actually its penkkarit.
Welcome to Finland
They throw candy
Mobilization to border of Tampere
They are throwing candy
It’s called “penkkarit” 🥳 last year students in upper secondary celebrate their study leave for ylioppilaskoe. Traditionally they host a “gala” in their school, maybe sing skit style songs about their school and teachers etc. They dress up in costumes and some go all out on these. Then they drive around their city in these trucks and throw candy at people. Also they make these banners for the trucks that usually say something funny or relatable about studying,kinda like irl memes 😄 In the evening they either go on a cruise or get drunk in other place together. Finnish culture at its finest 🥳🫶
Tradional ”Dress as some character, buy 2 kilos of candy, and ride in a truck and throw little kids with it”-day, Penkkarit. (Don’t forget the loud music and hidden alcohol beverages)
Celebration of the beginning of the reading-vacation, to prepare for the final exams, and to graduate high school, and get a cool bonus! (White hat, that you have to buy yourself and get a envelope with grades from Helsinki on a fancy paper)
Oh to be abiturientti again.
Penkkarit (Benchpressing festival?) is a yearly tradition among Finnish upper secondary school students. The occasion is celebrated in the spring of their final year as the final day of school, before the start of the matriculation exams. Traditionally, the date of penkkarit is a Thursday in late or mid-February. This means they load up the kids into the trucks whilst dressed up in different cosplay outfits with a bag of candy.
Then they proceed to drive around the city and the kids chuck candy to the folks around. It is like a funny combination of cosplay events and Halloween on wheels with a hint of weird Finnish tradition.
Ah, and sometimes they have funny slogans on the side of the truck, depending on what the theme or meme of the class has been during that year or years.
Penkkarit! To celebrate the end of high-school, you get to drive around the city, throwing candy at random people in the street, dress up, make banners and then most likely end up very drunk at some point. Oh, Finland <3
They are transporting the warheads for the new Väinämöinen 2 tactical nuclear missiles. It’s just a disguise to fool the Russians
Mass kidnapping
Finland is shipping troubled teenagers abroad to fight for Ukraine.
Failed highschool students are being moved to the local dump to remove them from our collective misery.
They are on their way to teurastamo
The answer is [penkkarit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penkkarit).
What a day that was.
The annual candy sacrifice to the children of satan
i was in that convoy
Where is this picture taken? Looks like Kortepohja but I’m not sure.
Every spring each county needs to arrange a pickup for unwanted teens, to be shipped to Sweden.
The Revolution has started, nothing new.
Obvious human trafficking.
Yeah just got off mine, it’s about celebrating before the finals come and in between penkkarit and the finals there is time off, so basically for us school ended.
I had to remind all my abis “once you get on the lorry, you can’t get off to pee:”
I wonder how many ignored my advice and paid the price.
its a finnish tradition of going to a concentration camp