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- Reaction To 52 Mind Blowing Facts About Finland | Finnish Culture, Geography, Language and History
This is my reaction to 52 Mind Blowing Facts About Finland | Finnish Culture, Geography, Language and History
In this video I react to amazing facts about Finland
#finland #culture #reaction
Original Video - Discover Finland: World’s Actual Happiest Country?! | 52 Mind-Blowing Facts You Must Know - • Discover Finland: Worl...
i have never heard such a bad pronunciations of Finnish words. also taking someone behind the sauna means saying that u would beat them up or kill them, it never means shut up. to say shut up u could say turpa kiinni
Exactly, when you hear "Saunan takana on tilaa", you are going to have a really bad day 😅
And I also agree with pronunciations, it was painful to hear. I had hard time to understand what was said, but to be fair, I've only spoken Finnish for last 45 years as my native language 😅
That is propably AI that is trying to pronounce finnish.
I feel like it was made by AI with how confidently it kept going after that massager of a pronunciation... lmao some of those attempts werent even close xD
Probably a robot….
Some typos in the Finnish texts too 😬
take you behind the sauna has way stronger meaning than "shut up" (Shut up is actually "close (your) head" "pää kiinni") "take you behind the sauna" means to end you - it was where animals were slaughtered - behind the sauna. because you might need to wash parts of the carcass (like intestines to make (blood)sausage) and yourself after the work. Please do not say you take anyone behind the sauna - ever.
Reason why prepositions are an important part of English grammar to learn.
the sauna --> an honor
the sauna --> a threat 😁
A little warning. That channel has a huge amount of mistakes in its videos. I tried to spot all on their Åland video, but after about 8 minutes I gave up because there were so many that I couldn't count them. BTW that speech synthesizer they have used pronounces Finnish words hilariously wrong.
That facts video was far from good. I very rarely get upset about poor pronounciation but that facts guy murdered most of the world 😂
@@OH8EFIwatch that Åland video and get really frustrated 😀
You pronounced all those Finnish words better than the original video's voice did. My favourite natural park I have visited is Repovesi which can be hiked through and also has a boat ride.
I drink atleast 3 times coffee during a day, in total it is around 1 liter (I use 4dl mug at home and 3dl mug at work). My favourite coffee shops and restaurants are all located in Vaasa, where I used to study.
Finnish sport that could have been mentioned is cheerleading, I can't remember how many gold metals they have.
There is this book which has finnish proverbs and idioms "Matti in the Wallet". It is in english, and has visual representation with literal meaning and real meaning in english.
foreigner making films about finland. ** sigh **
2:56 We call our country "suo-mi" and the origins are well known, as it literally translate to swamp-land. And since we basically were and in place still are a swamp-land, the reasons are also well known.
So, if anyone is weird and perhaps disrespectful - its the foreigners who call the place by a name the natives have never used since they settled it during the ice-age.
Maybe we should call england weirdistan. And the u.s. "whoopdidoland"
Anyhow, guy is just listing tourist shit. And stuff foreigners find noteworthy. I have never eaten blood pancakes, i dont doubt it exist ... i am sure someone somwhere eats cockroaches too, but its _not really a thing_
burger king sauna - no i have not been there, that too is tourist-bullshit. All finns have access to a private sauna in their house, or in the basement of their appartment block which they can use privately. There is very little motivation to intermigle with tourists who panic when you make it a little bit warm.
Sauna means several things:
traditional: getting farmhands proper clean before sunday for church
traditional: giving birth, drying clothes, last rest of a deceased before transport to the grave. Because it is the cleanest room on a farm.
traditional: a place of contemplation, sometimes spirituality - (origin of the word vesihiisi is believed to come from the steam that leaves the stone after you throw water on them)
modern: party amongst friends, with customers or during political negotiations. (finnish president kekkonen, is known to have discussed business with his russian counterpart in the sauna)
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not a thing:
public mixed gender saunas that required swimsuit - the sauna is not a place to find your date, or to creep at them - and (especially synthetic)clothes are considered unhygienic.
Only foreigners do that, and this is what i would expect to see in "burger-king" saunas, or other public saunas in helsinki touristic areas.
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There is a nice sauna in one or more hockey-arenas/vip launge - there i would go, there i would expect finns to do it properly :)
ps: would you pronounce names and places like the narrator does, you would be thrown in jail, or shot... or forced to be in a room with an open can of rotten fish. - without subtitles, no finn would recognize any of the names and places like that.
Lots of the finnish saying are also not a thing.
Shut up you could say - close your head = pää kiinni or turpa kiinni
Bringing someone behind the sauna (viedään saunan taakse) is much more serious, in the civil war thats where executions happened.
(if a finn speaks in earnest like that to you - then it would be prudent to change the location... walk slowly and backwards, avoid eye contact - if you hear a roar, lay flat on the ground and cover your head)
Narrator is clueless... please forget it all again asap.
@17:06 I'd take the language related things in this video with a grain of salt. Unfortunately the presenter is absolutely butchering some of the pronunciation and some of these are just plain incorrect. (For example "olen hyvin" is a nonsensical word pairing.)
Oh and #38 is out of date. There used to be a sauna championship, but it was cancelled when a Russian participant died and a Finnish one ended up in intensive care (they were using painkillers to stay in the Sauna for way longer than their bodies could handle).
I am speechless. This video had so many mistakes and the pronunciation was horrible. Why would the creator not just use like the Google translate voice or something else.
I recommend the 100 facts about Finland made by Ville Mäkipelto he has 4 parts of Finnish facts
Same here
As a Finn, l had never heard of some of these facts 😂 but yes, our cuisine is a mix between Swedish and Russian cuisine and we have also adopted many customs of both of these countries.
Some good Finnish bands are Nightwish, HIM, Children of Bodom, Insomnium
And Amorphis, Mors Principium Est, Wintersun (not particularly productive, though), Omnium Gatherum, Swallow the Sun, Trees of eternity and Hallatar (r.i.p Aleah 💔 ), Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus, Ghost Brigade, Suburban Tribe... I would concider HIM more a poppy rock band, though? Or is it just the finnish way of rating what is heavy? 😁
@@sateentuoksutrue HIM isn't metal, but in the video they were asking for recommendations for metal/rock/any genre
@@madveiler oh, sorry. Misheard yt-video lyrics 😁
12:00 That's Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. I don't know why it's shown in a video about Finland.
As the christmas season is coming up, you should check "Raskasta Joulua". It's a group of finnish metal singers that sing traditional christmas songs as metal versions.
Greets from Finland! I just wanted to say firstly that I've been watching/listening your videos nonstop for a few weeks now, and wanted to give you a comment about this video. I visited the ice hotel in Levi, it was called Luvattumaa (Promised Land) and it was a total tourist rush. I enjoyed the stay there, but didnt stay the night because we had a cabin reserved for us. The food was great and the staff were great, but as a Finn I dislike crowded areas and people in general 😂 It's always fun to see foreigners being fascinated about Finland, so keep up the great work and keep making videos!
13:14 Well, as a Finn I have never heard about "day of failure". General public definitely don't celebrate it. Maybe it is just a thing of university students.
It's not. I've never heard about it and I've been really involved in student organizations.
I guess you failed then, since I have definitely heard about it years before.
About three cups of coffee a day is typical for myself but I think I don't make it very strong usually. The habit for me mostly comes from how the workday is structured/paced.
"I don't need to know you to know you means mugs, not cups" I said while putting my coffee mug back against my lips, with only a slight smirk on my stupid face.
Blood pancakes are delicious, as are blood sausages. I bet you would like them.
I prefer your pronounciation to the voiceover in the video 😅 Finnish is not easy for foreigners.
I was born in Rovaniemi, where the Santa Clause Village is. It is popular among tourists all year round.
My favorite Finnish band is Poets of The Fall. They sing in English, and Marko Saaresto has a divine voice. Their music is melodical rock/pop.
Yep, some inconsistencies in the video (like a picture of Tallinn, or a red
cardinal among the birds), but still it was very entertaining. Keep up the good work!
Blood pancakes and lingonberry jam. * Chef's kiss *
Finnish pronunciation is easy if you don’t try using complicated English pronunciation rules! Try Italian, Spanish or German instead 👌
Teemu Selänne (NHL) is probably the most famous athlete after the F1 drivers. Among active athletes probably best known is Lauri Markkanen (NBA). Most infamous in Finland was Matti Nykänen (Ski-Jumping)
Also pronunciations in the video you reacted to were comically wrong, don't try to learn them :)
Lol, never heard worse pronunciation of Finnish words in any video clip. I'm not sure if this is a machine speaking but it sounds like it.
When it comes to coffee, I don't measure the amount in cups. I drink 3-5 pots of coffee per day.
I do like the sound off moccamaster thrue the day👍🏾
that damn voicebot definitely cant speak finnish
Best finnish metal bands are absolutely Nightwish and Poets of the Fall. And yes we drink a lot of coffee... I drink about 5 cups per day and one cup is 2 desiliters😂.
Santa is from Korvatunturi, which is currently just over the border in Russia. The Santa village in Rovaniemi is a touristy place (although it can very well be the real Santa's exile residence).
I would recommend listening to Amorphis, a metal band in Finland that make their songs inspired by Kalevala, it's kinda like folk metal/progressive metal/even melodic death metal. Quite hard to put into one genre or subgenre, but the songs are beautiful. As for the songs I'd recommend You I need, Sacrifice, House Of Sleep, Silver Bride and The Bee. Please do enjoy
Okay yeah i cringe with the spelling and pronounciation....I mean if you are to make a video at least get it somewhat right....
Finnish city architecture varies quite significantly between areas and has lots similarities to the neighbouring countries.
For instance, in the capital area (and i'm sure in some other places too), we were building soviet style concrete buildings to house the growing population of major cities. You can still see these today, but I feel like they've fallen out of favor.
Another significant similarity is our general architechture to the other nordic countries. Our cities are extremely similar, to the point where you could probably call Stockholm & Helsinki the same city if you didn't know any better. I'd actually recommend opening google maps and visiting central Stockholm and Central Helsinki to get a feel for this. The suburban areas are also similar, since we generally have lots of space as opposed to more densely populated countries. On another note, we also have similar "mökki" or cottage culture as the Swedes, where lots of people have their vacation homes / cottages near lakes, and lots of finnish families have them. And you know what? The swedes even have their own ice hotel.
In short, finnish architecture and culture has lots of ties to the other Nordic cultures, as well as some to Russia. Many people around my age or older will probably even remember their grandmothers owning Matryoshka dolls, which originate from Russia.
And to add onto the culture topic, Finland is in a similar situation to lots of other countries, where some of our culture has become more and more westernized over the years. Thankfully we put lots of effort into writing down our history & making it accessible through museums and art exhibitions, personally I've been to some museums that some may consider "boring", such as a museum exhibiton dedicated to just how we used to farm. They may be a little boring, but they are important in keeping the history & culture alive when moving into the digital world
Edit: To add onto our architechtural design, our cities are also accomodating of large parks & lots of greenery. It was surprising to me that a place as beautiful as Sibelius park can be so close to central helsinki, next to apartment buildings and a reasonably busy road I used to drive down. Our cities look amazing in the summer, which, atleast for me, makes the quality of life much better than a soulless concrete block
Such a shame this guy can't speak any Finnish at all. I can't understand a single word he says in Finnish. Wife carrying race and mobile phone throwing competitions are pretty weird events. Never been to one. Some of the things he says are not really true. One of the craziest sports is bog football. Teams play knee deep in the swamp.
I would go for Nightwish - Phantom of the opera for the music reaction.
All the landscape stuff is real. We love it here and it shows well. But the pronounciation of the Finnish words in this video, especially on the locations, is absolutely horrendous. Please dont mimic it here 😂
There are multiples of stuff wrong in the video as well. Obviosly not made by a Finn.
The natives do not visit ice hotels. But Santa is from Lapland for sure! 😊 Donut is not part of the blood sausage, latter of which divides the country anyway. Carelian pies are close to all of our hearts, so that's the one to try. And salmon soup. You need to try the salmon soup over here. It is to die for.
Take you behind the sauna, actually means killing someone..😅
Give a good beating at least
Check out Temppeliaukion kirkko in Helsinki. Beautiful church made in 1969.
Finnish coffee isn't that good, to be honest. Most of the Finns drink light roasted coffee that is concidered too bitter for most of the foreigners, because dark roast is more commonly consumed coffee abroad.
The pronunciation of some Finnish words on the vid was quite terrible, and some of them were translated straight out wrong.
3-5 cups of coffee were mentioned but not that Finnish coffee cups are also bigger than in the rest of Europe. Worldwide, Finns consume most coffee per capita: 9.3 kg/person in a year.
Architecture: I'd highlight the Finnish functionalism, represented by e g. the architect Alvar Aalto.
Olympics: Finland has won more olympic medals per capita than any other country - except the Bahamas. The term "Flying Finn" used to refer to long distance runners like Paavo Nurmi before it was linked to rally drivers.
And about Finnish metal music - you yourself had a wonderful reaction video with Nightwish and "Ghost Love Score". Thanks! Can you recommend some Scotch band we Finns should hear about?
I think I'm 8 cups deep daily, has no effect at this point lol
i never put my tooth into spider's web cos' the fairy gave me so much money!
Many "facts" in this video are false or off. Anyway, this was entertaining. :)
My most appreciated Finnish athlete is Lasse Viren, who won 4 Olympic Gold Medals (10.000 m and 5.000 m in 1972 and 1976). Halfway in 1972 Munich's 10.000 m final he stumbled down, but got up and won. He has some Finnish Sisu. Today, at the age of 74, he is still with us and in good condition. Glory to Lasse.
Ole SINÄ ny kuule vaiti...
Lauri Markkanen is the best, he plays in nba utah jazz.
Coffee drinking is huge thing in Finland. Maybe this is the reason dark wintertime , maybe .
The snow hotel have smoke detectors in every room.
Cups of coffee? Who counts like that?
It's like counting bottles of beer instead of six packs.
7:24 That's not correct (depends).
Sometimes people do say that because they are really annoyed (or just because it's a funny saying).
"Viedä saunan taakse" means execution.
Much more common say is "turpa kiinni" which is snout shut.
Or "turpa kii tai se turpoo kii", which is snout shut or it will be swollen to shut.
Piehole is propably best translation for turpa in that case.
10:17 Santa moved there like 20 years ago. He lived in Korvatunturi before that and still has his house (somewhere)there.
Folk music festival(s) has much more disturbances than the Tuska metal festival (Tuska is the most peaceful big music festival in Finland)
The first part of your comment sounds like a country song. 😂
Also, I totally agree. We use mugs, not cups.
"Turpa kii tai se turpoo kii!", fucking love it. 😂
Matti Nykänen was THE Best skijumper In the world
Its not white night, its nightless night=yötön yö.
Nightwish-Ghost Love Score (Wacken 2013) 😁
This saippuakivikauppias pronounce 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh wtf. And all english speakers are so funny trying To say even Word Or two. Always so funny. Sorry❤️🇫🇮
They used English speech synthesizer which of course pronounces all the Finnish words completely wrong.
0:50 that is BTW Vaasa not Vaase ;)
5 cups of coffee sound about right to me or at least my coffee maker claims its 5 cups ☕☕☕☕☕
Another video of Finland where they showed views of Tallinn, Estonia. And where zero effort was made checking how to pronounce the Finnish words they used. 😂 Actually, no. Some words are quite good, but some entirely the opposite. Odd.
6-8 cups of coffee every day.
We finns really like coffee.😄.
Sami Hyypiä, captain of FC Liverpool
I live in Sonkajärvi and go to school next to the place where are wife carying contects and South korea and Japan have payed so they can playit in their country.
I myself drink about 5-7 large cups of coffee a day.
yepulis, 2 cups at home, 2 cups at morning priefing, 2 cups at noon and if im visit someone
Kalle Rovanperä (WRC)
My mother-tongue is swedish, finland is a bilingual country, so yes, still some "swedish things" still here ............
There is also Paavo Nurmi, famous Finnish runner: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paavo_Nurmi
Oh and about the heavy metal bands, you should check up Hevisaurus. It's a heavy metal band for kids, put together by professional heavy metal artists, who said that despite that they make lyrics for kids, the music is still composed like for adult listeners. They songs are very high in quality for kids' song. Like song Räyh (Roar)
I was in Finland for Vappu this year, what an amazing experience! The caps they were are from their graduation from Uni. Everyone seems to have one!
Actually the caps are mostly from graduating high school (lukio in finnish) or vocational school (ammattikoulu). They are both 2nd degree education, university is higher 3rd degree education. Vappu is the workers holiday (työväen juhla in finnish) celebrating working class people and students.
I live in Rovaniemi and used to work as guide, bringing tourists to Santa Claus Village. Couldn't stand Christmas songs since.
You should listen to: Turmion Kätilöt
let me stop this north-pole vs lapland depate with single queastion does santa fly with reindeers or penguins?
exactly! :D I'm so gonna use that from now on.
Oh the bit about Kimi Räikkönen and Mika Häkkinen took me back! When the Mika Häkkinen vs. Michael Schumacher fever was at its peak, my family would wake up at cock crow to watch it. I remember being shook awake by my dad before the sun was up, and I would join my family in front of the tv. We would wake up drinking coffee and eating oven warm pastries, and watch the whole spectacle. It was a really good time
The most famous metal band is Nightwish. Their music is symphonic metal. Well worth checking. Blood sausages are similar to black pudding in the UK. Doughnuts are eaten with coffee. Even more popular are buns called 'pulla' in Finnish. I usually drink three cups of coffee a day. The most common type is light roasted filter coffee. Nobody likes instant coffee. When it comes sports, the most popular ones are ice hockey and cross country skiing. I personally like snowboarders like Enni Rukajärvi. Every house has a sauna and a lot of families love to take sauna in their summer cottage by a lake. You stay in the hot sauna throwing water on the stones on the stove and then go to have a swim in the lake. Then back to sauna and so on. Then a wash and a cold drink. Sauna is the place clense your body and soul.
Spelled Rovio wrong.. It ain't revio. that's blasphemy :D
..and of course plenty of other spelling mistakes and pronunciation of most words were completely off. :D
Those kind of videos should make sure pronunciation and spelling are correct imho. I mean there are many speech synthesizers that know how to pronounce Finnish properly.
Edit: talking abt the original video of course.
Our 1 cup of coffee is more like 6 espressos in one. Usually with some milk and sugar.
Well few metalbands from us: Nightwish, Battle Beast, Sonata Arctica, Childrem of bodom.. theres so much :D Also check out Lullacry
Santa actually lives in korvatunturi. The workplace is somewhere else.
Favorite band... try Nightwish.
Nightwish is the best that stands internationally on a stage with the goddess Floor.
Some finnish band recommendations:
Hanoi Rocks
Zero Nine
Smack
Nightwish
Peer Gunt
HIM
many weird beliefs, "facts" and seems like all the photos are not from Finland. When it is raining cats and dogs. there is a saying in Finnish: tulee vettä kuin Esterin perseestä. Meaning it rains very heavily, like from Esteris` ass. I have heard it comes from a firetruck that was nemed Esteri.
AS for the metal... let's see... Wintersun, Wolfheart, Amorphis, Insomnium, Norther, Kalmah... The Metal Bands are too many! I prefer the folk and melodic death metal the most...
Boot throwing competitions are pretty fun. I highly recommend Raid movie and series. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes is still the best Finnish metal album. Very highly recommended.
I do have to apologise for being a bit late to this party, but I felt I had to add my two cents, or whatever is your local currency.
What comes to finnish blood sausage, you'd want to have either cranberry or, if you have the guts for it, lingonberry jam with it. A delectable finnish cuisine to be sure.
Regarding sneezes, the usual response to a sneeze around here is 'terveydeksi', literally translating to 'for health'. I have no idea for whose health. The sneezer or the sneezee? Might have germanic roots.
On the 'weird' beliefs in finland? Thank Väinämöinen christianity hasn't been able to snuff out all of the finnish shamanistic traditions yet.
On music? They say Finland has the most metal bands per capita in the world. So, I could only recommend Nightwish (as per the comments down below) and, if you want something lighter, the 69 eyes (gothic rock). As for for folk music, check out Loituma (you might find some familiar tunes such as Ievan Polkka)
Again, my apologies if I'm too late to this party and all of this is old news.
santa never was from northpole he was allways from city Rovaniemi Region Lappi contry Suomi.
My favorite bands are Nightwish and Wintersun (symphonic metal)
"Here's some funny finnish proverbs to make you smile." No, you ruined my day.
Biggest coffee consumers in the WORLD. About 12kg a year per capita.
I've never heard of those beliefs or facts, even though I'm Finnish. Look youtube Hard Christmas, in Finnish Raskasta Joulua. Hevi musicians sing/play Christmas carols. The very best.
Amazing how well you pronounciate this language! Very cool!
Finnish metal bands you should listen Sentenced Amorphis Cryhavoc
Also the world competition swamp soccer at Hyrynsalmi🎉 Diamond😂 timanttista💎
Idk if this is the number today, too, but 2019 count of heavy metal bands were said to be even higher: "The country now has some 70 bands per 100,000 people" (70.6 to be exact)
- - No.
2023 : "With around 84.5 Heavy Metal bands per 100 000 citizens, Finland has the most Metal bands per capita in the world by a wide margin"
You should do a reaction video about Teemu Selänne, the greatest finnish hockeyplayer ever :)
Santa clause in Rovaniemi also asks 35 € for a picture with him.
The guy (robot?) pronounces all the Finnish words and places completely wrong!!
SISU=perceverance when facing incomprehensable odds. guts, grit and determination to go thru rock and keep going despite the odds.
These are all words, the meaning cannot be truly explained, it has to be lived.
Check Richard Ayoade & Paul Rudd's 48hrs in Helsinki.
Also not many finns even know this, we have won multiple world championships in enduro and ISDE. Samuli Aro and Juha Salminen were one of the best in the world. If not the best.
On a normal day drink 3-4 coups of coffee in the morning. And 4-8 at work.
But I'm Swedish
Actually the Finnish Santa Claus lives in Korvatunturi. A hill far more north from Rovaniemi. The Santa Claus village is only a tourist trap and a very expensive one I wouldn't recommend that anyone for visit. Also forests are almost all choped down these days by UPM in Finland🤬. Wild life slaughtered almost extinct. Snakes ARE hated in Finland😪. Who the hell made this video?
38, the Sauna competition was canceled permanently there was Two guys left Finnish and Russian the Russian died but the Finnish guy survived but get severe body burn and much of his lungs burned, so the races were stopped as life-threatening. But the Finnish determination was again proven.. with SISU you can handle heat that actually killed a fellow competitor..
Wow, could even get the creator of agry birds right SMH.
The company is called Rovio not Revio
Just wondering why the 52 facts video had in the superstition part footage of Tallinn in Estonia, not some Finnish place - even though we do call Tallinn as Etelä-Helsinki (Southern Helsinki)
i luv how all these videos just butcher finnish words :'D - i used to listen to H.I.M and The 69 Eyes (Ville Valo from end of the video was from H.I.M/HIM)
@MertFin That last one got me, I went to Kaustinen Music College, which is literally located next to that festival area :D There's often a lot of people from the music college playing their things as well, so they get free pass to the main area. And the music college itself is also somewhat full of happening and stuff made and played by the students at that time. That school was a great experience.
EDIT: Also the thing takes like 9 days so prepare your liver!
Like others have pointed out, very bad pronunciation in that video you're watching, most of those not even close to how we say those words. 😅 Also wanted so clear that behind the sauna thing, but others have already done that nicely 🙏🏼 You have great videos and personality, keep up the good work 🏴
Oh my god, the narrator really truly butchered those Finnish words 😂😂😂
I'm a Finnish-Swede and we speaking Swedish are treated as 2nd class citizens since we are a bitter reminder that Finland belonged to Sweden from 1209, and the upper class took over the best parts of Finland, using Finns as their workers. Though this was millenniums have passed, we are considered as unwanted due to that. There is a tension between the two language groups, after all this time! Still I would choose living in Finland any day. All the facts presented in this video are true, and is one of the most beautiful countries in the world!
Good information. Entertaining yes. But speed on the video i hated. Feeled running 100 meter run. Too much information on short period time. Feeled like AI is talking to me and ready to wipe human race of the planet 😊
So many error in this video... Game developer named REVIO haha!
angry birds developer name is wrong also XD its not revio, its Rovio, means bonfire
Expresso is very strong.
Finlands coffee is rost level 1, and many other countries roast level is 3 or more. So you can drink more finnis coffee, because it's not that strong.
I would love to try blood pudding, I would enjoy it for shure.
It's AI voising this so it's pronounsing every finnish word wrong and there are some typos.