Like As Much As The Guy Annoys Me Otherwise, I Gotta Say Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Analogy Of The Golf Player

Imagine a world where, if you deadname someone, you legally have to change your own name to that name.

Possibly a better world than our own...

A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.

His response: "No, it's my name now."

I went to the pharmacist yesterday, his nametag is my deadname. He informed me he's immigrating and in the process he's changed his first name to my deadname to have an English sounding name. That's why he's now able to get a reprint of his nametag to be my deadname. And repeated, with the intense seriousness of someone who is going to die on this hill: "It's mine now. Not yours. I'm taking." His tone indicated that decision is final.

Bro literally deadnamed me once, and has committed to flat out stealing my deadname. It's his now. Legally. Officially. I over heard his co-workers call him by the name.

I was once at one of the busier stops of the 510 bus line (one of the busier lines in Helsinki) and on the stop opposite to me was I think 15 or so people, and iirc only 2 or 3 people were actually under the actual stop (it was like a double sized one)

Peak Finnish behaviour is waiting for a bus and the three people closest to me all standing 2 metres away.

Mind you I was standing basically in the middle of the area. And by a quick calculation we were ~ 17 people.

I once killed a fly with my eyelids

Before I knew what istg actually meant, I tried to decipher it by using the first words that I came up with that fit the thing.

What I came up with:

I shit the gay

Whenever I look at brazil on a world map I cannot unsee it as a fart pillow with uruguay being the opening.

An actual live photograph of my teeth btw

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

Now that I think about it, I'm half convinced it was made up by american corporations as a marketing tactic.

"I bet you remembered this brand name wrong" is a pretty good way to get people to recognize your brand, especially when you explain it with a trendy new phenomenon.

Like I still remember some of the brands even though I have never actually seen them anywhere.

Ok but the Mandela effect is like so fake. There is one actual example of this with Nelson Mandela himself and the rest are americans remembering brand names wrong.

I'm gonna add to this with some additions that are missing currently.

Haloo Helsinki is like the peak of finnish pop-rock currently. They have an amazing catalogue of complete bangers, that I feel have quite rich language as well.

PMMP is one of the most iconic finnish pop bands ever. They sold out multiple arenas after not making music or touring for a decade. Incredibly high quality music with really deep lyricism. They also sing really clearly most of the time so it should be pretty good for learning the language.

Gonna also give a mention to Happoradio, CMX, and Apulanta, which are all great finnish rock bands.

Do you have any good Finnish song recommendations? I'm wanting to learn Finnish and listening to songs in a language helps me learn faster. Love your blog by the way

Terve! Kiva, että pidät blogista. :)

Thinking of just lyrics, I think Zen Café, Happoradio, Arttu Wiskari, and Johanna Kurkela have some pretty interesting ones. Leevi and the Leavings from the previous ask, too. Juice Leskinen, Irwin Goodman.

Honestly, it also depends on what kind of music you like.

Perhaps my followers could share some of their favourite Finnish language music? I honestly know nothing about today's popular music in Finland.

For a learner, I would advise focusing on lyrics in kirjakieli (grammatically correct standard Finnish) or yleiskieli (spoken Finnish close to kirjakieli) rather than anything in obvious puhekieli (spoken Finnish dialects which can be pretty different from standard Finnish).

Once I had a dream where I flew to an unspecified part of the USA for a day trip, and one of the methods of identifying it as America was that the highway was racially segregated

I woke up with a cold the next day

To me, one of the core finland experiences is walking a long ass distance in the dead of night in freezing temperatures, on a quest to find the nearest bus stop that actually runs this late.

Just did that (still like 40 minutes away from home, but in the relatively warm bus now (bus also an integral part of the experience)) and I haven't felt more finnish in a while.