{"id":106187,"date":"2026-04-07T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/106187\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:01:39","slug":"is-that-actually-a-well-known-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/106187\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that actually a well-known saying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lH6tFi6BE7luPB7RNh6TYVR0zz4UJ6yI2XZNPuLV4l8.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Several German websites about Finish culture and even the German <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sauna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article<\/a> about saunas mention the saying &quot;<strong>sill\u00e4 puheet kenell\u00e4 kuuppa<\/strong>&quot;, which is apparently an unwritten rule that whoever has the sauna ladle gets to decide.<\/p>\n<p>However, no source for this exact phrase is mentioned anywhere, and I could not find any actual Finnish sources using this phrase myself. So, I am curious: Is this phrase something that Finnish people actually know and say, or is it maybe just some kind of internet myth?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nZunicero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several German websites about Finish culture and even the German Wikipedia article about saunas mention the saying &quot;sill\u00e4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[46],"class_list":{"0":"post-106187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finland","8":"tag-finland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116362743850656390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}