Partners

My new blog: Better! Funner!
Okay, so it’s clear I’m not blogging on Finland for Thought anymore, but I think seven years about Finland is plenty. I published a book, escaped to San Francisco, drank heavily, and launched a new blog: Better! Funner! It’s written and curated by yours truly. You?ll find funny original pieces, some not-so-funny pieces, plus stuff [...]

Mr. Hakkarainen goes to Helsinki
Check out this idiot from Perussuomalaiset, Finland’s racist party…

The A-Team of Finland
From Sunday night’s Simpsons. Watch this before YouTube take it down…

Finnish or retarded?
From last night’s season 3 premiere of Tosh.0 – Is this guy retarded? Or just speaking Finnish?

Bring Conan to Finland!
Jimmy Fallon sucks. And so does Jay Leno. There is only one late night talk show host: David Letterman. Oh, and Conan. After Conan O’Briend’s departure from The Tonight Show and move to TBS, no Finnish broadcaster has yet to pickup Conan’s new show. And the Conan fans in Finland (the ones who don’t know [...]

Why do Finns eat meat drowned in marinade?
…supposedly this book will tell you. “Quasi Democracy: Finland’s Fall From the Cradle of Innovation To the Abyss of Stagnation” was just translated into English and is available to download for free. ?What has created this culture of forced uniformity? We believe that the crisis has its roots in the era of so-called Finlandisierung, or [...]

Dennis Miller rips Finland on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
“The best part about living in Finland is that they don’t get Newsweek magazine”

Westend ? Bitchin?House [VIDEO]
You’ve all seen the viral video of the Rastafarian who shows off a house in Westend, Finland’s poshest neighborhood? Well the real estate agent, Lea Jakama, got a few of the translations wrong, so I fixed them…

How-to throw a Finnish party
Yo, I think a party’s about to break out… (is marijuana legal in Finland now, and I didn’t know??) Photo from my local KK-Market