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As an Estonian, I can relate to this. "How are you" and similar drivel gets me every time and borderline drives me mad. There is a brilliant comic called Finni
by clon 5y ago
As an Estonian, I can relate to this. "How are you" and similar drivel gets me every time and borderline drives me mad.
There is a brilliant comic called Finnish Nightmares that covers many situations like this. For anyone not Finnish (or Estonian) it is probably an inside joke.
http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com
- vidarh 5y agoAs a Norwegian who finds most Norwegians too chatty, my first experience with Americans saying "how are you?" as a greeting rather than a question still haunts me 15 years later. Also explains why I enjoyed my (so far only) trip to Estonia so much.
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- vintermann 5y agoThe top comic is a bit odd, though? I know a lot of wonderful choral music from Finland (more than from most countries!) so they can't all be afraid of singing in public.
- hazza_n_dazza 5y agoIn my experience a lot of tech people can't do smalltalk, so it might go down well