TBH, nobody is interested in the average person's salary and tax. Except once a year when the top earners list hits the media (this happened yesterday). Plus, the majority of employees are covered by collective agreements negotiated by unions, ensuring people doing the same job at the same level get paid the same amount and have the same benefits. The people who dislike this open taxation info most tend to be higher earners.
I'm super interested and you should be to. Employers push for obfuscating salaries to disempower workers. It's harder to know your worth if you don't know your colleagues or peers in other companies salaries.
@@moonliteXIn today's Finland you are pretty interested because all the costs goes up but very few wages. Like wages can go up by 2% in 10 years while costs goes up by 25%. Then the average salary in Finland goes up so you do start to wonder. The issue is that raises are done with % so some one that earns 2000 gets like 40 euros more from a 2% raise and someone earning 5000 gets 100 euros more plus that they usually get 1-2% more, so the wage gap is growing and usually those with higher wages do have extra to invest with and when investments need to pay out every year they raise the prices(easiest way to make profit to pay dividend). Its a spiral that will leads us into a society like USA if we don't start to wake up now. Worst thing is that jobs that paid very well 20 years ago can only pay half as much now because of the "EU open market" but prices do not go down. My point is that we keep reducing taxes and more and more full time workers need subsidies from the country because living in a shthole eating like a student starts to need a minimal wage of 2k per month. The ignorant leaders lowers taxes and ignorant people think its a good thing while they don't understand that the income for our country goes down while the needed subsidies goes up so we are living on the money of the future generations because they have to pay it back. So even if the ones born 70-90 are filling their pockets now they completely forget that they are creating problems for the future when the schools, healthcare, support net and so on can no longer be supported. Even if there is a group shouting that its the taxes or something similar its the american greed that has infected us. When the rents were let free the first blow was done and now you have people working 40 hours a week getting 300 euros a month for rent from that taxpayer pool so that a few can raise the rents every year by 5% to pay out dividends. Like I will die before this will crash but if our country wont wake up soon we are looking at people becoming homeless or the government starting to pay out 500+ euros per month reducing the quality of our services until there is only the private sector left that will also drain money from our tax pool like 5 times more because its private and they need to pay out dividends to the owners/partners/shareholders. So asking around what people earn has become a lot more common than back in year 2000 because you do wonder how the average wage can be at 48k when most earn less than 30k and closer to 20k.
Im pretty sure the whole no alcohol between 9 pm and 9 am is a way to avvoid people who are already drunk buying more alcohol outside of a controlled environment like a bar or club. This is just my guess, I've never bothered to look it up because I don't see it as an issue since Im used to it
Which is weird, because selling alcohol to a drunken person is prohibited anyway. But then again in the bars its also prohobited to sell to drunken people, though to my experience it seems to be that if youre able to keep standing up without assistance, youre apparently not drunk...
@@toniheikkila5607 I think it might also have something with prohibiting problems with drunk behaviour. Often the night times there is less staff in stores so perhaps when they started to prolong the opening hours they wanted to make the stores more secure for the staff working in other than day shifts. People with problems witch alcohol don´t of course always act unpredictably or rashly, but being under the influence does up the risk of that happening.
@@toniheikkila5607 Quite many people with high alcohol tolerance can have a lot of alcohol in their blood while still appearing relatively sober. They aren't sober, but they won't sway or slur their speech that much either, while still having their sense of judgement severely impaired among other things. Towards the end for alcoholics it flips around again as their liver starts to fail and all that ethanol stops being processed properly by their dying liver, then they would actually get super drunk even after a beer or two, as it all goes straight to their brain.
dunno about any of that but once i woke up like 6 am shop opened at 7 i had nothing to do i went to do my groceries then i thought im going to buy one beer for later..... then cashier was like.... wait a minute... you have to wait hour or so.... then i was like right i forgot this is fucking stupid so i left the beer at counter
I'm Finnish and here is my experience as I worked sometime as cleaner in hotel with swimming pool and sauna. As I went into men's changing room to empty trash cans, there was hotel guest in middle of changing. He actually apologized to me and asked if he was in my way as I worked. I said no, nothing to worry about, I'll just empty trash cans, have a good morning. That's just normal routine. Neither of us cared even if his natural goods were out in the open.
Someone whose lived here my whole life, I just see the openness of income as something to minimize corruption and discrimination. We should know how much money rich people make. But I can definitely understand it feeling wrong to people not used to it.
Also, people at large are pretty lazy about stuff, so it requiring contacting the tax agency, and your request being logged, adds a barrier to it. So it's available, but not "public" as such, you can see who has requested your information.
We finns have pretty much mastered the art of 'not seeing' naked people below their collarbones. We just don't really pay attention to any of it. I go to sauna with my mixed group of friends, no problems there. In public saunas like ones in swimmign halls we go there to swim, not gawk at people. Just like the cleanign crew is there to clean, not stare.
I would say that one of the main reason to not be able to buy alcohol from store between 9pm-9am is that then drunk people don't have a reason to go to store (to get more alcohol since you won't be able to buy and get it) and that way they won't possibly cause harm or disturbance in the store for other people. For the safety of other people, other customers and store staff.
There are lot of alcoholics in Finland, quite many buy the beers as they go, I've even encountered people who buy one beer at a time and when they finnish it they go buy another one from store. 9pm cuts their night short. They are usually people who can't afford to go bars.
People who have a risk a falling into gambling addiction, will get there no matter what restrictions you put to them. Finland decided that since gambling is one of the vices that will NEVER go away from demand, it is much better if there is a legal and controlled way to gamble, where all the profits will go to charities and helping people suffering from addictions. Especially in the past decade, a LOT of technology has been implemented, that will make spotting and reacting to problem gambling easier, and to keep underage gambling to a minimum, so I hope there has been at least some positive traction in this aspect as well. HOWEVER, the explosion of international online gambling has been extremely counter-productive to Finland's efforts to fighting problem gambling (and illegal gambling vanishing money away from economies and taxation) in a customer friendly manner. Also, you can't use loaned/credit card money for gambling. It is also very easy to set limits on your accounts, on how much you are allowed to gamble per month, which eliminates accidental gambling debt due to losing track of spending We have the same approach to alcohol as well, and in a limited form to prostitution as well, by legalizing the least harmful versions of these (selling your own body for sex is not illegal, but pimping/selling someone else is extremely illegal) , they can eliminate a lot of the most problematic black market/human trafficking aspects as well, and even earn some tax revenue as well Unlike what he claims, cash isn't actually always accepted anymore in all restaurants/shops, since it can be too risky/expensive for some shops to handle cash, they are no longer required to offer cash payment options in every situation. For example, in the University cafeterias, restaurants and shops where I lived, cash is no longer accepted at all. However, when you understand that only 20% of ALL transactions in Finland use cash anymore (and that stat is from 2019, and it has lowered by a LOT since then due to covid), it isn't that unreasonable of a change 13:10 There are actually many reasons, and this law is actually quite new. It encourages people to move out from unsupervised drinking after 9 pm into pubs and clubs where your drinking (and behaviour) is under supervision. Not only does it: 1) reduce problems of heavy drinking that happens behind closed doors it 2) supports local nightlife businesses by encouraging people to go out into pubs and clubs after downing a few at home, and 3) since the alcohol is MUCH more expensive in pubs and clubs than in the stores, most people will drink with a bit more moderation (since it is so expensive) and the government gets way more tax revenue from less alcohol consumed. 4) after parties when coming home from a club at 4-6 am are much less dangerous and rare, since most people don't have huge quantities of alcohol stocked up at home. This is also a time when people tend to make the most idiotic and dangerous decisions, eliminating the option to go buy more alcohol from the local store, limits these stupid options by quite a bit When people are still sober, they make more informed and better decisions, and don't stock up alcohol, since they know they shouldn't drink that much, but after you are already drinking/partying, that sort of judgement call is MUCH harder to make. You wouldn't believe how common the problem of running out of drinks after 9 PM still is in Finland 17:00 Yes, they are public, and very contemporary as well, since they were recently "revealed" for this year. Systems like these are the reason why Finland is one of the least corrupted countries in the World, also there are steps you can take to minimize your tax info being used for harmful purposes. Not only do you see who made the most money, it gives good insight on what businesses are trending and who is contributing the most to the society by paying a LOT of taxes. 18:30 this is just not true, only some parts of Finland have this.
Luckily the slot machines policy is changing in Finland. Some grocery store chains even kicked the machines out of their premises. The "money goes to good cause" argument doesn't hold water when gambling addiction is most common among the unemployed, poor, elderly and vulnerable.
Those registers actually have a 30 min grace period on selling alcohol. Depending on a store and how their alcohol section is monitored/locked stores can technically sell you alcohol up to 21:30. This is basically for the reason that you are viewed as in the middle of buying it if you have picked it from shelves before 21:00. Usually bigger stores have a hard line at 21:00 but smaller stores can keep better eye on people so they don't get more alcohol from shelves after 21:00 and you can come to register with your other groceries. But again this grace period is up to individual stores to if they honor it at all.
Yes, at least in my neighborhood store there is an announcement that all alcoholic beverages must be paid at the register before 2100. And its a basic small market.
Sauna: Same in Sweden, bathing suits were forbidden when I was young. And there were (usually) old ladies coming to do some cleanup in the mens section. Cash: Similar in Sweden, young people tends to pay with their phones though, I haven't used cash in over 20 years. Basically everything is the same or similar in Sweden.
Except you goddamn heathens use Assa instead of Abloy! =) I mean yes they're the same company since 1994, but the Assa models are worse! *rabble rabble* =)
1:44 Yes, It's normal here in west coast Finland that there are cleaning ladies doing the cleaning in Men's side of shower rooms at public swimming pool. It's told with a sign at the entrance that there are all kind of people working there and there might be a cleaning lady at Men's shower room. Everyone just nods at the sign and doesn't mind. The cleaners always mind their own business like professionals, so it's no biggie. Might be weird to foreigners but normal here, especially since we don't have gender pronouns like he/him. Tho it might feel out of the question even for native Finn like me if big brawny man as cleaner goes to Women's shower room as a cleaner. But I have no idea since i've never been to Women's side as a man. :D
I've watched about ten videos now, I've noticed one thing, you're really good at spotting things. you get a lot of new information at once, but you know how to extract the essential information from there
About the tax thing it offers like 0 negative things ... like no one cares about how much somone makes and you cant do anything with that information anyway and the pros are massive. Like he said in the video this ensures that no companies can just abuse their workers and give them zero pay or that any corruption can take place ... ofcorse there is tax evasion and such when it comes to what we refer as "black" jobs meaning that the income you make is not registered in the tax office and its highly iligal and punshiment can be equal to a murder felony. And for example in the US you even hear your own president talk about how he is using the system now imagine if he had to post his income online and he`d be taxed accordingly. In tose systems by design the rish take advantage of the poor. Having public tax info for EVERYONE its just massive for all this kinds of stuff and there is mostly no negative effects of this so yeah...
9 pm to 9 am alcohol thing is used for safety reasons. Example: children over age of 7-10 already go with public transports to schools and our schools at the ages between 7 to 13 start at 8-9 am, mostly 9 am tho so the kids can rest well and safely come to school soecially in winter when 90% of the time its pitch dark outside. With the winters slippery drive ways that havent yet to be taken care of as it is.. morning and workers well.. sleep, it is way to prevent drunk driving accidents and other drunken actions what might happen. 9 pm is so at late nights its pitch dark and if ur driving or a walker you wont run iver anybody or get run over youself and its very dangerous driving at night specially if you arent nearby finland big cities as there are moose and those guys like the roads.
Heehee, I only use cash nowadays. I learned this when I was working half of my time in Germany. I found out that it helps to stay in my budget frame; I leave my card home and only take with me the amount I allow myself to spend that day.
@@Novice9241 Hey, if it works for me, it's gonna work for anyone. I'm not new to configuring more-or-less obscure programs, but I'm also lazy as F. And Mint makes everything so easy to me to start with, and I can add the fancy configurations afterwards.
I find the tax thing quite weird as well and especially all the news stories about people's earnings. Money otherwise is kind of a taboo here, like nobody is ever talking about how much they earn. While America has TH-camrs who like to flex their wealth, we have TH-camrs who are like "Nah, I'm poor. I don't make any money. Stop asking."
Fiinland is still in prohibition. Restrictions are explained to target alcoholics but they are the very group that these restrictions don't effect are the alcoholics. Tax reveal day is also called "the day of the envy".
The last reason for me to use cash in Finland was the parking meters that worked with coins. When they were replaced with mobile apps (~ 10 years ago ?) I haven't used cash ever since.
"Sauna is almost holy in Finland" No, Sauna is completely holy in Finland. Also, we're all born naked, so there's nothing to shame or anything like that. I've been in Sauna's with complete strangers, acquaintances, family members, in-laws, friends, class mates etc. etc. and never wore anything. It's 100% natural and quite honestly, I think it's good for you since you aren't sexualisizing anyone even when you see them naked. We're conditioned on seeing each other naked in normal life. For example on my last relationship my girlfriend had a twin sister and she might walk out of the shower and dry her hair with the towel she dried her body pretty much next/in front of me while I'm reading or something. In my opinion that's just normal.
The return percentage of slot machines is reported to be a little over 90% in Finnish shops and gas stations, and about 95% in casinos. In other words, it means that the game organizer takes an average of 5-10% of all the money wagered in the game.
In Sweden the state run gambling regulators use a part of the fees from licensed gambling towards addiction help and mitigation, they run a help line you can call, gambling problem awareness campaigns, and some other projects.
The after nine no more alcohol rule is mostly for people that are already drunk and they wan't more but wouldn't make that desicion if they were not drunk. Or at least I have heard that as a reason for it.
Many Finns choose to not learn Swedish. I live in the Swedish speaking part and didn't have to learn Finnish. But many relatives never learned Swedish so they only speak Finnish. We cant talk with each together for they don't even know English 😂
I think the stopping alcohol sales after 9pm-9am is so people who were already drunk won't drive to stores to buy more... but other than that it is kinda stupid.
I don't really know if it's just me, but it feels like our driving culture has gotten worse in the last ten-ish years. People constantly speeding, ignoring signs, etc.
It is not an invasion of privacy - it is freedom of information. Why should this information be hidden? And, btw, I have never heard of anyone phoning to ask how much someone earns.
Tbh i dont know anyone who’s actually called to ask about other ppl’s earnings. It’s more on the level of knowing roughly how much the highest earners in this country make, how much your peers make on a more general level and how much public figures make. It feels fair, and i don’t worry about other ppl really caring how much I make specifically. Also it makes politics more transparent, don’t have to ask for politicians to release their tax info when it’s already public :D
You're allowed to place jack vegas and digital slot machines in restaurants and tobacco stores in Sweden if you get permits for it. In convenience stores, if they have a front desk connected to the main store, they usually have booths for horse and football betting too. This means that these establishments are not considered as "public spaces" as there are people taking responsibility for people who's gambling. This means that they can legally step in and deny people gambling if they find that the people are gambling too much. But well... That's not happening and "Svenska Spel" (Sweden's monopoly on gambling) are a huge bunch of hypocrits. Oh, that extra knob to lock your door was common in the older days and was actually a standard till the mid 90s I think. After that, the lock technology has advanced and I do not think they even make locks like that anymore.
The no alcohol used to start at 6pm and the designated alcohol shop Alko still closes at 6pm on the weekends. These are political decisions based on old regulatory systems put up by the Christian democrats (and the center party) to not allow people to get drunk because it’s not Godly. We are not a religious country any longer and it seems stupid to have these rules but we’re used to them. Also, by 9pm if you are going to get drunk that night you already are drunk enough to know not to drive to the store. As Finns are usually very good about not drinking and driving. And stocking up ahead of time.
The cleaning lady in the mens showers happened to me as well. I was really startled, but then I just turned my back to her while she was working. No reason to flash her or anything ^^ edit: oh and I'm Swedish for the record, not Finnish
Finns have had busieness meeting naked in the sauna so everyone is on the same level. I am half Finnish and half Swedish and my mom and dad always whent in to the sauna naked so naturally i copied them, nakedness is not a big deal in Sweden or Finland, it is more now becous of American and Muslim influence but not when i was young, girls on the beach were often topless.
Why boots? The competition is easy to organize. The gentlemen throw the nr 43 boot ( 880-1050 g) and the ladies throw the nr 38 (630-800 g) boot , in any case the martingale has to be removed. There is an other cultural aspect here: The most prominent rubber boot manufacturer Suomen Kumitehdas (the Finnish Rubber Works Ltd), est 1898, was merged into Oy Nokia Ab (Nokia Corporation) in 1967. Two of their boot models: Hai (The Shark) 1968 and Kontio (The Bear) 1973 are an integral part of Finnish outdoor life and beautiful plus practical design. In 1990 Nokian Footwear Ltd diverged from the mother company in and focused on manufacturing rubber boots. Nokia Corporation went on manufacturing televisions, monitors and mobile phones
I ve been in saunas with naked ladies and naked guys, public saunas are divided, but at the gottage party for example, its perfectly cool to go naked into sauna with people you havent seen before, men and women mixed.
Years back when you didnt have to have a account for those gambling machines, me and my buddies used to go to a local cafe/gas station and play those when we were like 13 :D
In Finland "No selling alcohol at night" -policy its to keep the disorderly conduct in public to a minimum and also preventing illegal alcohol dealings to minors. Light prosentidge (less than 20%) is restricted to +18 and heavy (+20%) is restricted to +25 years. And if you are looking below 30y old, whenever you are buiyng age restriction related products (tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment, or energy drinks [+16]), age verification document is mandatory. Same goes if you are just companying somebody for that particular purpose.
Correction: you need to be 18 years old to be able to buy alcoholic drinks up to 22% and 20 years old to buy anything stronger than that. From a (Alko) store that is. In bars and restaurants the general age limit for whatever alcoholic is 18. Also there is no law about any age restrictions on energy drinks but most stores won't sell them to kids under 15.
Swedish in Finland is somewhat prominent only in the coastal cities and around 4% of population speaks it as their first language, but it's pretty much unnecessary language in anywhere else around Finland and the most population can't speak it more than bare minimum if even that. Calling it a second language of Finland is a joke.
Only people we finns might be interested in to know how much they make money are politicians and celerebities. I have never heard anyone to check neighbors tax. Mostly we might check like how much most get paid in different occupations.
Hello, Dwayne! About 'cleaning women' coming into the saunas... There are usually elderly women who work as washing ladies. In the washrooms adjacent to the sauna rooms, there are wooden benches that the customer lies down on, in his birthday suit (yes, usually men, nothing sexual about it). These ladies will lather you down completely, then clean you vigorously with a hard and rough brush, rinse you by throwing a bucket or two of water over you - and you're done, both sides. These wash women have become very rare these days, but they can still be available, for instance, in some big hotels, and are booked in advance for a fee. Just another strange Finnish custom for foreign visitors to experience...
Tax records are public in Sweden too, you can even buy big phone-book like catalogues with the last few years of income for everyone in Sweden or your local area. Useful for businesses cause you can do a preliminary credit check instantly, just look up your customer in the book and you can say yes, maybe, or no to a payment plan.
Being naked is not a big deal. Its just bodies. The same goes for Sweden. Gambling is stupid. If you were taught probability and statistics in school -nobody would gamble! You could bet a million lifetimes and never ever win... its math! Buying alcohol after 21.00 - think about it. Actually think about it for a while. Do you really need to? No -unless you are drunk and want more! Its to prevent people from alcohol abuse. Its a bit meh, but it is what it is. You could be smart and stock up as you said, sure. You could go out to a bar, but that will cost you. So... its a preventative issue.
I think that the system here for to buy alcohol is just shit. Some times i would buy less alcohol, but as i know that if tastes and i get idea that i would like to grt few more, i just can´t get it. So usually i buy so much at once that it wont short. And of course that might lead to that if you have alcohol you drink it way more that you meant to just becouse you bought big amount once. I can control my drinking but i know people who cant left one or two beers in the fridge if they have. They just have to drink those all.
It's becoming common that people have to identify to be able to gamble and they can only gamble as much as what they have beforehand set as their limit. Can't even play euro worth of lottery without identifying. I don't know how many actually bothers to find out how much the neighbors earns. If they'd be millionaires, they'd be living somewhere else. It's a national pastime to come up weird events. Everything gets thrown. If I recall right, even washing machines. Some events are made up just for the sake of getting people together and getting attention, but some have actual basis for them. Like E.g. that swamp football, which originate to cross country skiing training. The idea of that 'no alcohol sales after 9 pm' is to keep drunken people out of the grocery stores and get them into pubs, restaurants and night clubs.
I quess we use only persons first names is because when you're naked in sauna, everyone is equal. No titles, higher ranks or nothing, just naked humans. It is also as simple in clothed world.
Not being able to buy alcohol during night time is not that old law. It came to be around mid 2000s if I remember correctly. So no ancient relics here folks.
1:40 yeah, really. Common thing. No fucks given. 3:00 Ditto. They're everywhere. And yes, senior citizens are their main users. Not too long ago, there was no age restriction whatsoever. Then they became R15, and now R18. 8:25 This however is BS. I barely used a card to pay ANYTHING before ~2010. Yeah, times are changing fast, but once again, just a short while ago during the 2000s, many things were still cash-only, including but not limited to parking meters, vending machines, gambling devices, coin lockers....
You have naked bike riding in the UK but when you should go naked in the sauna with your friends it is a whole different thing. That has always puzzeled me. Why are you so scared of nakedness in some aspects of life but you are just fine when you have to get naked in the locker room of a gym etc?
One odd world champion chip race is cancelled, because one competitor died! Reason was using pain killer medicine this competition it was like using steroids! Place was sauna over 100 degrees as long as you can before competition you can trink water during it no! Both competitors were lost, becouse they had to Carried out both! The winner was coma long time and who caused ending the games died! And there wasn't any price only new Kiuas! So I don't.understand why cheat this kind competition!😢
I thought being naked in public was very Brittish thing? I watched some UK cop show and those cops carried extra pair of pants with them in case of flashers.
I think being so afraid of nakedness that one would bother to carry extra pants is a British thing. Finnish police would never think public nakedness is a serious enough issue to bother.
Actually that tax porn day was yesterday. Went to work and opened up ilta sanomat. Fucking endless shit who earned or got that and this much of money. Closed browser and talked about music with client which is actually more productive. I do understand those are public for transparency but media wants to make it like spectacle or something. I don't care a shit how much my neighbor earns...well i don't even know my neighbors. Used to kinda chat a bit with indian couple downstairs but they left...so no idea and don't care. Very finnish i guess...
There are many mixed saunas in finland where girls and guys are naked together it is actually pretty normal here and me and my friends of all genders have gone to sauna naked no broblem. I even went with my ex boyfriends family members that were all guys (his cousin, his best friend, uncle, family friend all that etc) 😂😂
@@Songfugel the no alcohol sales after 21.00 rule came in 1995 I believe. And in 2007 the morning restriction went from 7.00 to 9.00. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Why you ask, because in Finland 3000 people die each year from alcohol related diseases. It's costs the taxpayers over 1 billion/year. It's a 85% leading cause in most cases of violence including homicide, which no one even knows the cost of. The most conservative estimates are 2-3 billion/year. The bottom line, Finns can't drink alcohol and thus something has to be done.
It's about mitigation and harm reduction. This way people pay into the tax pot when buying booze, and that helps fund programs to help those who fall victim to addiction. Far better than trying to ban it, as then: no money to help people, more dangerous booze as it's easy to make, but also easy to get distillation badly wrong.
Saying "Finns can't handle alcohol" is no different than saying "gypsies can't shop groceries without stealing" or "Arab men cannot walk past a drunk woman at night without raping her".
In only my opinion, I hate the fact that there's a chance that swimming halls might have opposite sex to come clean areas out of nowhere, I think it's really unacceptable 😮 me who has zero self-esteem, I would be so anxious and might even get a panic attack if a guy showed up there.. my opinion though 🥺 already get enough stares and saying fat to me here and there and also swimming halls, ( andsome ppl say Finnish ppl ar polite, not all ) that's why I haven't gone there in years, some ppl here are open minded to go to sauna with mixed genders as naked, just not my thing, I used to go sauna with my ex and his friends and we all used towels cos ofc they didn't want to see their friends gf naked, second, I also don't like the fact that anyone can see ppls taxes and how much you earn per year, that's really unfair and doesn't make sense 🙄 and like you Dwayne said that if you had really huge amout of money and didn't want anyone know about it if gets calls then that lend e and give and stuff my opinions here are harsh lol but ppl do what they like to do, I enjoy sauna only with my bf and few closest girlfriends, never been in sauna with other dudes in naked, maybe when I was a kid, can't say to everyone that it's completely normal cos for some ppl it is! Not for all, I know many ppl who doesn't go to sauna with opposite sex if they don't have towels or something covering, I see it it's good that way for some ppl, there's many ppl also who are fine with their own body but us who aren't it's not good 😢
Noooooo, Swedish is the FIRST official language. Written into the constitution in the 14th century, Finnish wasn't made an official language until early 20th century.
Wow, you can't be serious? You do realize Finland as a country didn't even exist before 1917 so how exactly did they have a constitution in the 14th Century? Not only that, the Finnish language is far older than the Swedish language. So please, go get even a basic idea of the things you are commenting on, before posting ridiculous stuff like that as facts
As a Fenno-Swede myself, yes, but also no. They're not numbered in the same way the dimensions of space aren't, which is the first dimension and which is the second? But they're still talked about in terms of first, second and third dimensions.
Yeah, and so? The people living on this land didn't much care about reading or writing before that, did they? But perhaps they still lived happily. Then came the bible and the sword from the west, and made things official.
Finns used at least 2 different writing systems before the Swedish crusades. While we have evidence of this, only very rare artifacts showcasing this have been found so far. Sadly there is so little known of these times, that we atm. have no way of knowing how widespread their use was, or if the even older Finnish runes were just "cave drawings" or part of some more elaborate symbolic writing system. There have been few relics found withe runestones (like a buckler) indicating that the rune writing system Vikings were using was borrowed from them at least at some capacity, seemingly to be used as a common trading language with them. The other evidence is the *Birch bark letter no. 292* dating to the 13th Century which is the oldest known document in any Finnic language @@m1k1a1 Also it doesn't help that there have been some ultra-nationalistic people trying to fake some evidence to justify their ridiculous fantasies about Finns being of some superior culture or some strange s**t like that
Naked bike ride is an annual event in Vancouver, Canada (not since covid but Im sure it will return)., Canada and Im sure other cities in Canada. We also have some nude beaches (one main well known and a couple others)
not selling alcohol after 9 is probably to prevent drunks from leaving a pub and picking up a bottle cause it cheaper and wandering the streets drunk and disorderly.
TBH, nobody is interested in the average person's salary and tax. Except once a year when the top earners list hits the media (this happened yesterday). Plus, the majority of employees are covered by collective agreements negotiated by unions, ensuring people doing the same job at the same level get paid the same amount and have the same benefits. The people who dislike this open taxation info most tend to be higher earners.
I would think that this would encourage scammers and hackers to create fake accounts
@@Googleistheantichrist What do you mean?
money is less important to finns i guess so even nosy people are more interested in general rumors than what someone makes mobey-wise..
I'm super interested and you should be to. Employers push for obfuscating salaries to disempower workers. It's harder to know your worth if you don't know your colleagues or peers in other companies salaries.
@@moonliteXIn today's Finland you are pretty interested because all the costs goes up but very few wages. Like wages can go up by 2% in 10 years while costs goes up by 25%. Then the average salary in Finland goes up so you do start to wonder. The issue is that raises are done with % so some one that earns 2000 gets like 40 euros more from a 2% raise and someone earning 5000 gets 100 euros more plus that they usually get 1-2% more, so the wage gap is growing and usually those with higher wages do have extra to invest with and when investments need to pay out every year they raise the prices(easiest way to make profit to pay dividend). Its a spiral that will leads us into a society like USA if we don't start to wake up now. Worst thing is that jobs that paid very well 20 years ago can only pay half as much now because of the "EU open market" but prices do not go down.
My point is that we keep reducing taxes and more and more full time workers need subsidies from the country because living in a shthole eating like a student starts to need a minimal wage of 2k per month. The ignorant leaders lowers taxes and ignorant people think its a good thing while they don't understand that the income for our country goes down while the needed subsidies goes up so we are living on the money of the future generations because they have to pay it back. So even if the ones born 70-90 are filling their pockets now they completely forget that they are creating problems for the future when the schools, healthcare, support net and so on can no longer be supported.
Even if there is a group shouting that its the taxes or something similar its the american greed that has infected us. When the rents were let free the first blow was done and now you have people working 40 hours a week getting 300 euros a month for rent from that taxpayer pool so that a few can raise the rents every year by 5% to pay out dividends. Like I will die before this will crash but if our country wont wake up soon we are looking at people becoming homeless or the government starting to pay out 500+ euros per month reducing the quality of our services until there is only the private sector left that will also drain money from our tax pool like 5 times more because its private and they need to pay out dividends to the owners/partners/shareholders.
So asking around what people earn has become a lot more common than back in year 2000 because you do wonder how the average wage can be at 48k when most earn less than 30k and closer to 20k.
Im pretty sure the whole no alcohol between 9 pm and 9 am is a way to avvoid people who are already drunk buying more alcohol outside of a controlled environment like a bar or club. This is just my guess, I've never bothered to look it up because I don't see it as an issue since Im used to it
Which is weird, because selling alcohol to a drunken person is prohibited anyway.
But then again in the bars its also prohobited to sell to drunken people, though to my experience it seems to be that if youre able to keep standing up without assistance, youre apparently not drunk...
@@toniheikkila5607 I think it might also have something with prohibiting problems with drunk behaviour. Often the night times there is less staff in stores so perhaps when they started to prolong the opening hours they wanted to make the stores more secure for the staff working in other than day shifts. People with problems witch alcohol don´t of course always act unpredictably or rashly, but being under the influence does up the risk of that happening.
@@toniheikkila5607 Quite many people with high alcohol tolerance can have a lot of alcohol in their blood while still appearing relatively sober. They aren't sober, but they won't sway or slur their speech that much either, while still having their sense of judgement severely impaired among other things.
Towards the end for alcoholics it flips around again as their liver starts to fail and all that ethanol stops being processed properly by their dying liver, then they would actually get super drunk even after a beer or two, as it all goes straight to their brain.
it's the same in sweden for alcohol 20:00, u can only buy alcohol under 2,7% later then that.
dunno about any of that but once i woke up like 6 am shop opened at 7 i had nothing to do i went to do my groceries then i thought im going to buy one beer for later..... then cashier was like.... wait a minute... you have to wait hour or so.... then i was like right i forgot this is fucking stupid so i left the beer at counter
I'm Finnish and here is my experience as I worked sometime as cleaner in hotel with swimming pool and sauna. As I went into men's changing room to empty trash cans, there was hotel guest in middle of changing. He actually apologized to me and asked if he was in my way as I worked. I said no, nothing to worry about, I'll just empty trash cans, have a good morning. That's just normal routine. Neither of us cared even if his natural goods were out in the open.
Someone whose lived here my whole life, I just see the openness of income as something to minimize corruption and discrimination. We should know how much money rich people make. But I can definitely understand it feeling wrong to people not used to it.
Also, people at large are pretty lazy about stuff, so it requiring contacting the tax agency, and your request being logged, adds a barrier to it. So it's available, but not "public" as such, you can see who has requested your information.
This!
In Sweden, the salary is a public document. If you call the tax office, you can request to see what other people earn in salary.
Swamp football has started to get teams in UK as well. Mostly in Scotland
Scots do seem to have a lot of Sisu qualities as a people, which is understandable.
We finns have pretty much mastered the art of 'not seeing' naked people below their collarbones. We just don't really pay attention to any of it. I go to sauna with my mixed group of friends, no problems there. In public saunas like ones in swimmign halls we go there to swim, not gawk at people. Just like the cleanign crew is there to clean, not stare.
I would say that one of the main reason to not be able to buy alcohol from store between 9pm-9am is that then drunk people don't have a reason to go to store (to get more alcohol since you won't be able to buy and get it) and that way they won't possibly cause harm or disturbance in the store for other people.
For the safety of other people, other customers and store staff.
Private gambling companies are not allowed in Finland.
There are lot of alcoholics in Finland, quite many buy the beers as they go, I've even encountered people who buy one beer at a time and when they finnish it they go buy another one from store. 9pm cuts their night short. They are usually people who can't afford to go bars.
And then they'll be first in line when the clock hits 9am again
People who have a risk a falling into gambling addiction, will get there no matter what restrictions you put to them. Finland decided that since gambling is one of the vices that will NEVER go away from demand, it is much better if there is a legal and controlled way to gamble, where all the profits will go to charities and helping people suffering from addictions.
Especially in the past decade, a LOT of technology has been implemented, that will make spotting and reacting to problem gambling easier, and to keep underage gambling to a minimum, so I hope there has been at least some positive traction in this aspect as well. HOWEVER, the explosion of international online gambling has been extremely counter-productive to Finland's efforts to fighting problem gambling (and illegal gambling vanishing money away from economies and taxation) in a customer friendly manner.
Also, you can't use loaned/credit card money for gambling. It is also very easy to set limits on your accounts, on how much you are allowed to gamble per month, which eliminates accidental gambling debt due to losing track of spending
We have the same approach to alcohol as well, and in a limited form to prostitution as well, by legalizing the least harmful versions of these (selling your own body for sex is not illegal, but pimping/selling someone else is extremely illegal) , they can eliminate a lot of the most problematic black market/human trafficking aspects as well, and even earn some tax revenue as well
Unlike what he claims, cash isn't actually always accepted anymore in all restaurants/shops, since it can be too risky/expensive for some shops to handle cash, they are no longer required to offer cash payment options in every situation. For example, in the University cafeterias, restaurants and shops where I lived, cash is no longer accepted at all. However, when you understand that only 20% of ALL transactions in Finland use cash anymore (and that stat is from 2019, and it has lowered by a LOT since then due to covid), it isn't that unreasonable of a change
13:10 There are actually many reasons, and this law is actually quite new. It encourages people to move out from unsupervised drinking after 9 pm into pubs and clubs where your drinking (and behaviour) is under supervision. Not only does it:
1) reduce problems of heavy drinking that happens behind closed doors it
2) supports local nightlife businesses by encouraging people to go out into pubs and clubs after downing a few at home, and
3) since the alcohol is MUCH more expensive in pubs and clubs than in the stores, most people will drink with a bit more moderation (since it is so expensive) and the government gets way more tax revenue from less alcohol consumed.
4) after parties when coming home from a club at 4-6 am are much less dangerous and rare, since most people don't have huge quantities of alcohol stocked up at home. This is also a time when people tend to make the most idiotic and dangerous decisions, eliminating the option to go buy more alcohol from the local store, limits these stupid options by quite a bit
When people are still sober, they make more informed and better decisions, and don't stock up alcohol, since they know they shouldn't drink that much, but after you are already drinking/partying, that sort of judgement call is MUCH harder to make. You wouldn't believe how common the problem of running out of drinks after 9 PM still is in Finland
17:00 Yes, they are public, and very contemporary as well, since they were recently "revealed" for this year. Systems like these are the reason why Finland is one of the least corrupted countries in the World, also there are steps you can take to minimize your tax info being used for harmful purposes. Not only do you see who made the most money, it gives good insight on what businesses are trending and who is contributing the most to the society by paying a LOT of taxes.
18:30 this is just not true, only some parts of Finland have this.
Luckily the slot machines policy is changing in Finland. Some grocery store chains even kicked the machines out of their premises. The "money goes to good cause" argument doesn't hold water when gambling addiction is most common among the unemployed, poor, elderly and vulnerable.
Those registers actually have a 30 min grace period on selling alcohol. Depending on a store and how their alcohol section is monitored/locked stores can technically sell you alcohol up to 21:30. This is basically for the reason that you are viewed as in the middle of buying it if you have picked it from shelves before 21:00. Usually bigger stores have a hard line at 21:00 but smaller stores can keep better eye on people so they don't get more alcohol from shelves after 21:00 and you can come to register with your other groceries. But again this grace period is up to individual stores to if they honor it at all.
Yes, at least in my neighborhood store there is an announcement that all alcoholic beverages must be paid at the register before 2100. And its a basic small market.
Sauna: Same in Sweden, bathing suits were forbidden when I was young. And there were (usually) old ladies coming to do some cleanup in the mens section.
Cash: Similar in Sweden, young people tends to pay with their phones though, I haven't used cash in over 20 years.
Basically everything is the same or similar in Sweden.
ayee en annan svensk här
Except you goddamn heathens use Assa instead of Abloy! =)
I mean yes they're the same company since 1994, but the Assa models are worse! *rabble rabble* =)
1:44 Yes, It's normal here in west coast Finland that there are cleaning ladies doing the cleaning in Men's side of shower rooms at public swimming pool. It's told with a sign at the entrance that there are all kind of people working there and there might be a cleaning lady at Men's shower room. Everyone just nods at the sign and doesn't mind. The cleaners always mind their own business like professionals, so it's no biggie. Might be weird to foreigners but normal here, especially since we don't have gender pronouns like he/him. Tho it might feel out of the question even for native Finn like me if big brawny man as cleaner goes to Women's shower room as a cleaner. But I have no idea since i've never been to Women's side as a man. :D
its the same in sweden for alcohol 20:00/8pm. You can only buy alcohol under 2,7% later then that.
I've watched about ten videos now, I've noticed one thing, you're really good at spotting things. you get a lot of new information at once, but you know how to extract the essential information from there
About the tax thing it offers like 0 negative things ... like no one cares about how much somone makes and you cant do anything with that information anyway and the pros are massive. Like he said in the video this ensures that no companies can just abuse their workers and give them zero pay or that any corruption can take place ... ofcorse there is tax evasion and such when it comes to what we refer as "black" jobs meaning that the income you make is not registered in the tax office and its highly iligal and punshiment can be equal to a murder felony. And for example in the US you even hear your own president talk about how he is using the system now imagine if he had to post his income online and he`d be taxed accordingly. In tose systems by design the rish take advantage of the poor. Having public tax info for EVERYONE its just massive for all this kinds of stuff and there is mostly no negative effects of this so yeah...
Oh yeah, alko is closed on Sundays and church holidays. And you can't buy alcohol out of bars, you have to drink it there.
When I was a kid, I got hit in the head with a boot in a boot throwing competition. I have been like this ever since.
9 pm to 9 am alcohol thing is used for safety reasons. Example: children over age of 7-10 already go with public transports to schools and our schools at the ages between 7 to 13 start at 8-9 am, mostly 9 am tho so the kids can rest well and safely come to school soecially in winter when 90% of the time its pitch dark outside. With the winters slippery drive ways that havent yet to be taken care of as it is.. morning and workers well.. sleep, it is way to prevent drunk driving accidents and other drunken actions what might happen. 9 pm is so at late nights its pitch dark and if ur driving or a walker you wont run iver anybody or get run over youself and its very dangerous driving at night specially if you arent nearby finland big cities as there are moose and those guys like the roads.
Heehee, I only use cash nowadays. I learned this when I was working half of my time in Germany. I found out that it helps to stay in my budget frame; I leave my card home and only take with me the amount I allow myself to spend that day.
I do the same by having my income and card account separate, and budgeting manually through the bank app when I need to buy something.
Very sensible.
If it works for you, it works. I guess I’m lucky that I don’t have to take these kinds of measures with my spending habits.
@@Novice9241 Hey, if it works for me, it's gonna work for anyone. I'm not new to configuring more-or-less obscure programs, but I'm also lazy as F. And Mint makes everything so easy to me to start with, and I can add the fancy configurations afterwards.
I find the tax thing quite weird as well and especially all the news stories about people's earnings. Money otherwise is kind of a taboo here, like nobody is ever talking about how much they earn. While America has TH-camrs who like to flex their wealth, we have TH-camrs who are like "Nah, I'm poor. I don't make any money. Stop asking."
WTF doesn't mean just What The Fuck, it also means Welcome To Finland! :D
Fiinland is still in prohibition. Restrictions are explained to target alcoholics but they are the very group that these restrictions don't effect are the alcoholics.
Tax reveal day is also called "the day of the envy".
The last reason for me to use cash in Finland was the parking meters that worked with coins. When they were replaced with mobile apps (~ 10 years ago ?) I haven't used cash ever since.
"Sauna is almost holy in Finland" No, Sauna is completely holy in Finland. Also, we're all born naked, so there's nothing to shame or anything like that.
I've been in Sauna's with complete strangers, acquaintances, family members, in-laws, friends, class mates etc. etc. and never wore anything.
It's 100% natural and quite honestly, I think it's good for you since you aren't sexualisizing anyone even when you see them naked.
We're conditioned on seeing each other naked in normal life. For example on my last relationship my girlfriend had a twin sister and she might walk out of the shower and dry her hair with the towel she dried her body pretty much next/in front of me while I'm reading or something. In my opinion that's just normal.
Many people play those machines in grocery-stores. But it is not allowed under 15 years old.
The return percentage of slot machines is reported to be a little over 90% in Finnish shops and gas stations, and about 95% in casinos. In other words, it means that the game organizer takes an average of 5-10% of all the money wagered in the game.
In Sweden the state run gambling regulators use a part of the fees from licensed gambling towards addiction help and mitigation, they run a help line you can call, gambling problem awareness campaigns, and some other projects.
The after nine no more alcohol rule is mostly for people that are already drunk and they wan't more but wouldn't make that desicion if they were not drunk. Or at least I have heard that as a reason for it.
Many Finns choose to not learn Swedish. I live in the Swedish speaking part and didn't have to learn Finnish. But many relatives never learned Swedish so they only speak Finnish.
We cant talk with each together for they don't even know English 😂
I think the stopping alcohol sales after 9pm-9am is so people who were already drunk won't drive to stores to buy more... but other than that it is kinda stupid.
Road raging in Finland: It happens, in this city anyway. Luckily not often.
LOL, pretty much on my every commute, by me. The older I get, the worse it gets, I just don't have the tolerance for idiots anymore. :D
I don't really know if it's just me, but it feels like our driving culture has gotten worse in the last ten-ish years. People constantly speeding, ignoring signs, etc.
It is not an invasion of privacy - it is freedom of information. Why should this information be hidden? And, btw, I have never heard of anyone phoning to ask how much someone earns.
Tbh i dont know anyone who’s actually called to ask about other ppl’s earnings. It’s more on the level of knowing roughly how much the highest earners in this country make, how much your peers make on a more general level and how much public figures make. It feels fair, and i don’t worry about other ppl really caring how much I make specifically. Also it makes politics more transparent, don’t have to ask for politicians to release their tax info when it’s already public :D
You're allowed to place jack vegas and digital slot machines in restaurants and tobacco stores in Sweden if you get permits for it. In convenience stores, if they have a front desk connected to the main store, they usually have booths for horse and football betting too. This means that these establishments are not considered as "public spaces" as there are people taking responsibility for people who's gambling. This means that they can legally step in and deny people gambling if they find that the people are gambling too much. But well... That's not happening and "Svenska Spel" (Sweden's monopoly on gambling) are a huge bunch of hypocrits.
Oh, that extra knob to lock your door was common in the older days and was actually a standard till the mid 90s I think. After that, the lock technology has advanced and I do not think they even make locks like that anymore.
The no alcohol used to start at 6pm and the designated alcohol shop Alko still closes at 6pm on the weekends. These are political decisions based on old regulatory systems put up by the Christian democrats (and the center party) to not allow people to get drunk because it’s not Godly. We are not a religious country any longer and it seems stupid to have these rules but we’re used to them. Also, by 9pm if you are going to get drunk that night you already are drunk enough to know not to drive to the store. As Finns are usually very good about not drinking and driving. And stocking up ahead of time.
The cleaning lady in the mens showers happened to me as well. I was really startled, but then I just turned my back to her while she was working. No reason to flash her or anything ^^
edit: oh and I'm Swedish for the record, not Finnish
Finns have had busieness meeting naked in the sauna so everyone is on the same level.
I am half Finnish and half Swedish and my mom and dad always whent in to the sauna naked so naturally i copied them, nakedness is not a big deal in Sweden or Finland, it is more now becous of American and Muslim influence but not when i was young, girls on the beach were often topless.
The CEO Veikkaus makes half a million a year.
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The ones who make the most money rarely pay the most taxes…
Why boots? The competition is easy to organize. The gentlemen throw the nr 43 boot ( 880-1050 g) and the ladies throw the nr 38 (630-800 g) boot , in any case the martingale has to be removed. There is an other cultural aspect here: The most prominent rubber boot manufacturer Suomen Kumitehdas (the Finnish Rubber Works Ltd), est 1898, was merged into Oy Nokia Ab (Nokia Corporation) in 1967. Two of their boot models: Hai (The Shark) 1968 and Kontio (The Bear) 1973 are an integral part of Finnish outdoor life and beautiful plus practical design. In 1990 Nokian Footwear Ltd diverged from the mother company in and focused on manufacturing rubber boots. Nokia Corporation went on manufacturing televisions, monitors and mobile phones
some trift shops in Finland only accept cash tho, specifically the ones at anime conventions
I ve been in saunas with naked ladies and naked guys, public saunas are divided, but at the gottage party for example, its perfectly cool to go naked into sauna with people you havent seen before, men and women mixed.
The newspapers just had that tax thing yesterday. It's bit annoying. Trying to read other news and it's only the taxes.
if there was no alcohol sales restriction in Finland, we would always be on call 24/7
Years back when you didnt have to have a account for those gambling machines, me and my buddies used to go to a local cafe/gas station and play those when we were like 13 :D
Until mid 2000's 16 or over were allowed to play these. At one point it was 15 or over in early days.
In Finland "No selling alcohol at night" -policy its to keep the disorderly conduct in public to a minimum and also preventing illegal alcohol dealings to minors. Light prosentidge (less than 20%) is restricted to +18 and heavy (+20%) is restricted to +25 years. And if you are looking below 30y old, whenever you are buiyng age restriction related products (tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment, or energy drinks [+16]), age verification document is mandatory. Same goes if you are just companying somebody for that particular purpose.
Correction: you need to be 18 years old to be able to buy alcoholic drinks up to 22% and 20 years old to buy anything stronger than that. From a (Alko) store that is. In bars and restaurants the general age limit for whatever alcoholic is 18. Also there is no law about any age restrictions on energy drinks but most stores won't sell them to kids under 15.
Swedish in Finland is somewhat prominent only in the coastal cities and around 4% of population speaks it as their first language, but it's pretty much unnecessary language in anywhere else around Finland and the most population can't speak it more than bare minimum if even that. Calling it a second language of Finland is a joke.
Only people we finns might be interested in to know how much they make money are politicians and celerebities. I have never heard anyone to check neighbors tax. Mostly we might check like how much most get paid in different occupations.
And that they don't sell alcohol between 9pm-9am probably gives more customers for nightclubs, pubs, restaurants.🇫🇮
I can assure you people use cash a lot still.
Hello, Dwayne!
About 'cleaning women' coming into the saunas...
There are usually elderly women who work as washing ladies. In the washrooms adjacent to the sauna rooms, there are wooden benches that the customer lies down on, in his birthday suit (yes, usually men, nothing sexual about it). These ladies will lather you down completely, then clean you vigorously with a hard and rough brush, rinse you by throwing a bucket or two of water over you - and you're done, both sides.
These wash women have become very rare these days, but they can still be available, for instance, in some big hotels, and are booked in advance for a fee.
Just another strange Finnish custom for foreign visitors to experience...
We have 2 types of nudity: the sexual one and then the bathing one. Sauna is for bathing (usually), so it is not sexual nudity there.
Many Finns still use cash, plastic money has started to be more common. Because smart phones.
It said that you don't have to learn Swedish if you don't want to but when I was at schools, it was forced to learn it cos sec language :/
I live here in Finland and haven't barely used cash or cards for years. I use Google Pay.
Google pay is basicly using a card, since Google pay needs your card to be used.
Tax records are public in Sweden too, you can even buy big phone-book like catalogues with the last few years of income for everyone in Sweden or your local area. Useful for businesses cause you can do a preliminary credit check instantly, just look up your customer in the book and you can say yes, maybe, or no to a payment plan.
and now days it's 18 y , but gambling was allowed to everyne as long if you have over 15 y old family member with you.
Being naked is not a big deal. Its just bodies. The same goes for Sweden.
Gambling is stupid. If you were taught probability and statistics in school -nobody would gamble! You could bet a million lifetimes and never ever win... its math!
Buying alcohol after 21.00 - think about it. Actually think about it for a while. Do you really need to? No -unless you are drunk and want more! Its to prevent people from alcohol abuse. Its a bit meh, but it is what it is. You could be smart and stock up as you said, sure. You could go out to a bar, but that will cost you. So... its a preventative issue.
I think that the system here for to buy alcohol is just shit. Some times i would buy less alcohol, but as i know that if tastes and i get idea that i would like to grt few more, i just can´t get it. So usually i buy so much at once that it wont short. And of course that might lead to that if you have alcohol you drink it way more that you meant to just becouse you bought big amount once.
I can control my drinking but i know people who cant left one or two beers in the fridge if they have. They just have to drink those all.
It's becoming common that people have to identify to be able to gamble and they can only gamble as much as what they have beforehand set as their limit. Can't even play euro worth of lottery without identifying. I don't know how many actually bothers to find out how much the neighbors earns. If they'd be millionaires, they'd be living somewhere else. It's a national pastime to come up weird events. Everything gets thrown. If I recall right, even washing machines. Some events are made up just for the sake of getting people together and getting attention, but some have actual basis for them. Like E.g. that swamp football, which originate to cross country skiing training. The idea of that 'no alcohol sales after 9 pm' is to keep drunken people out of the grocery stores and get them into pubs, restaurants and night clubs.
I quess we use only persons first names is because when you're naked in sauna, everyone is equal. No titles, higher ranks or nothing, just naked humans. It is also as simple in clothed world.
Not being able to buy alcohol during night time is not that old law. It came to be around mid 2000s if I remember correctly. So no ancient relics here folks.
I think the opening hours for shops was also more restricted back then. Hard to buy booze if the whole shop is closed =D
Listen to Värttinä.
I still use cash, and have seen plety of people use cash in Finland.
It's the same in Sweden !
1:40 yeah, really. Common thing. No fucks given.
3:00 Ditto. They're everywhere. And yes, senior citizens are their main users. Not too long ago, there was no age restriction whatsoever. Then they became R15, and now R18.
8:25 This however is BS. I barely used a card to pay ANYTHING before ~2010. Yeah, times are changing fast, but once again, just a short while ago during the 2000s, many things were still cash-only, including but not limited to parking meters, vending machines, gambling devices, coin lockers....
You have naked bike riding in the UK but when you should go naked in the sauna with your friends it is a whole different thing. That has always puzzeled me. Why are you so scared of nakedness in some aspects of life but you are just fine when you have to get naked in the locker room of a gym etc?
One odd world champion chip race is cancelled, because one competitor died! Reason was using pain killer medicine this competition it was like using steroids! Place was sauna over 100 degrees as long as you can before competition you can trink water during it no! Both competitors were lost, becouse they had to Carried out both! The winner was coma long time and who caused ending the games died! And there wasn't any price only new Kiuas! So I don't.understand why cheat this kind competition!😢
Getting rid of cash would be the 1st step towards a true dystopia😂
In the end the house always wins.
I thought being naked in public was very Brittish thing? I watched some UK cop show and those cops carried extra pair of pants with them in case of flashers.
I think being so afraid of nakedness that one would bother to carry extra pants is a British thing. Finnish police would never think public nakedness is a serious enough issue to bother.
Actually that tax porn day was yesterday. Went to work and opened up ilta sanomat. Fucking endless shit who earned or got that and this much of money. Closed browser and talked about music with client which is actually more productive. I do understand those are public for transparency but media wants to make it like spectacle or something. I don't care a shit how much my neighbor earns...well i don't even know my neighbors. Used to kinda chat a bit with indian couple downstairs but they left...so no idea and don't care. Very finnish i guess...
Why rubber boot throwing? Why Swamp football? Why does our countrys name begin with swamp (Suo = swamp, mi)?
There are many mixed saunas in finland where girls and guys are naked together it is actually pretty normal here and me and my friends of all genders have gone to sauna naked no broblem.
I even went with my ex boyfriends family members that were all guys (his cousin, his best friend, uncle, family friend all that etc) 😂😂
The commenter just saved "the we.." when nudity was mentioned.
I'm Finnish and that cleaning dude or lady thing is weird to me!! 😬 You can buy alcohol after 9 if it is under 2,8%. 🙂
That Finnish rule that prohibits selling alcohol between 9pm and 9am is probably a tiny remnant of the actual Prohibition back in 1920s.
It is not, since it is a recent thing
@@Songfugel the no alcohol sales after 21.00 rule came in 1995 I believe. And in 2007 the morning restriction went from 7.00 to 9.00. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
That seems to be correct @@janiilola5810
It is not normal for a cleaning lady to come in to the locker room or the shover.
Finlands government have always patronized its own citizens too much. Born and lived here almost 60 years and i can say that this is a fascist state.
My uncle stole two radios from my daycare to sell it and gamble 🤣💀 Miss you unc
Why you ask, because in Finland 3000 people die each year from alcohol related diseases. It's costs the taxpayers over 1 billion/year. It's a 85% leading cause in most cases of violence including homicide, which no one even knows the cost of. The most conservative estimates are 2-3 billion/year. The bottom line, Finns can't drink alcohol and thus something has to be done.
It's about mitigation and harm reduction. This way people pay into the tax pot when buying booze, and that helps fund programs to help those who fall victim to addiction. Far better than trying to ban it, as then: no money to help people, more dangerous booze as it's easy to make, but also easy to get distillation badly wrong.
Saying "Finns can't handle alcohol" is no different than saying "gypsies can't shop groceries without stealing" or "Arab men cannot walk past a drunk woman at night without raping her".
@@m1k1a1 Me nyt vittu syömään lääkkeesi saatanan pelle! Mitä helvettiä oikeasti?
In only my opinion, I hate the fact that there's a chance that swimming halls might have opposite sex to come clean areas out of nowhere, I think it's really unacceptable 😮 me who has zero self-esteem, I would be so anxious and might even get a panic attack if a guy showed up there.. my opinion though 🥺 already get enough stares and saying fat to me here and there and also swimming halls, ( andsome ppl say Finnish ppl ar polite, not all ) that's why I haven't gone there in years, some ppl here are open minded to go to sauna with mixed genders as naked, just not my thing, I used to go sauna with my ex and his friends and we all used towels cos ofc they didn't want to see their friends gf naked, second, I also don't like the fact that anyone can see ppls taxes and how much you earn per year, that's really unfair and doesn't make sense 🙄 and like you Dwayne said that if you had really huge amout of money and didn't want anyone know about it if gets calls then that lend e and give and stuff my opinions here are harsh lol but ppl do what they like to do, I enjoy sauna only with my bf and few closest girlfriends, never been in sauna with other dudes in naked, maybe when I was a kid, can't say to everyone that it's completely normal cos for some ppl it is! Not for all, I know many ppl who doesn't go to sauna with opposite sex if they don't have towels or something covering, I see it it's good that way for some ppl, there's many ppl also who are fine with their own body but us who aren't it's not good 😢
Noooooo, Swedish is the FIRST official language. Written into the constitution in the 14th century, Finnish wasn't made an official language until early 20th century.
Wow, you can't be serious? You do realize Finland as a country didn't even exist before 1917 so how exactly did they have a constitution in the 14th Century? Not only that, the Finnish language is far older than the Swedish language. So please, go get even a basic idea of the things you are commenting on, before posting ridiculous stuff like that as facts
As a Fenno-Swede myself, yes, but also no. They're not numbered in the same way the dimensions of space aren't, which is the first dimension and which is the second? But they're still talked about in terms of first, second and third dimensions.
You're quite right, Swedish is the first language of Sweden. Finland didn't even exist in the 14th century.
Yeah, and so? The people living on this land didn't much care about reading or writing before that, did they? But perhaps they still lived happily. Then came the bible and the sword from the west, and made things official.
Finns used at least 2 different writing systems before the Swedish crusades. While we have evidence of this, only very rare artifacts showcasing this have been found so far.
Sadly there is so little known of these times, that we atm. have no way of knowing how widespread their use was, or if the even older Finnish runes were just "cave drawings" or part of some more elaborate symbolic writing system.
There have been few relics found withe runestones (like a buckler) indicating that the rune writing system Vikings were using was borrowed from them at least at some capacity, seemingly to be used as a common trading language with them.
The other evidence is the *Birch bark letter no. 292* dating to the 13th Century which is the oldest known document in any Finnic language @@m1k1a1
Also it doesn't help that there have been some ultra-nationalistic people trying to fake some evidence to justify their ridiculous fantasies about Finns being of some superior culture or some strange s**t like that
Naked bike ride is an annual event in Vancouver, Canada (not since covid but Im sure it will return)., Canada and Im sure other cities in Canada. We also have some nude beaches (one main well known and a couple others)
not selling alcohol after 9 is probably to prevent drunks from leaving a pub and picking up a bottle cause it cheaper and wandering the streets drunk and disorderly.
Ur still gay😂❤