Saw this on Mastodon and had a laugh. Not sure if it's real, but it's funny.
As someone from Winnipeg, why would I be afraid of warmer weather?
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It's hilarious to me that venetian snares made an entire album about Winnipeg "Winnipeg is a frozen shithole"
I think this is real. Was originally made several years ago.
Helsinki isn't so bad in November, actually. I'm in Oulu, wayyy further up north. Starting to get into the oof territory. I would probably feel stronger about this if I was not mildly drunk.
I have never seen snow in person before, having my first winter in Finland sounds cool. I'd love to do that.
I thought the Finns made fun of others for being overly complimentary/glazing?
At least the Finnish have a sense of humor.
Well, Helsinki (HEL is the airport) is very popular in October for some reason
Finnair used to do a spooky themed flight AY 666 from Amsterdam straight to HEL every Friday the 13th.
Nowadays they just have a regular flight from SIN to HEL.
I've been on 666 to HEL from Copenhagen before flying to China ✈️😊 no theme though!
When I visited Europe before moving here we came in December/January. Far northern Sweden, Latvia, Estonia. We experienced a variety of overcast, cold, wet, snow, ice, loved every minute of it. Where I'm living now reaches -30c sometimes lower. Makes me happy :3
Is November even the worst time to visit Finland? I’d assume January or February
January and February have snow and cold and sometimes sun.
November is just wet, dark and miserable.
Sounds similar to anything from Paris and above in Western Europe, just maybe a few less degrees.
The dark is the difference. Sunrise was at 8.00 today and sunset was at 15.45.
Basically if you work 8-16 you don’t see the sun until springtime… 🫠
It depends. You can get -20°C in November too. But yeah, mostly it's just miserable and far more so than in central Europe.
Pretty sure your laugh was real 😉
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Been to Helsinki in November and in April. November was magical
By "magic" do you mean someone made the sun disappear?
Almost found myself in a bar fight with Germans, played tabletop games with locals, and was offered drugs on the street. You know, Finnish magic.
What's the popular finnish drugs to offer tourists?
No, he means he really liked the glöggi.
Yeah I traveld south down there in November once, I brought sunblock...
I went there once for some work and it was -16c. I was glad I’d bought the right coat and gloves. :)
Tickets were cheaper.