# To My Hypocritical Finnish Friend

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 30, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-hypocritical-finnish-friend/736167 "2015-10-30T12:39:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-hypocritical-finnish-friend/736167/81 "2016-01-03T22:42:42Z")

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How can you tell a Finnish introvert from a Finnish extrovert? The Finnish introvert looks at his shoes when he talks to you. The extrovert looks at yours.

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-hypocritical-finnish-friend/736167/82 "2016-01-03T23:50:23Z")

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> [@Nelson\_Pike](#):
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> Oops- I take this back in the case of Muffin (whose posts I overlooked) and her grandmothers.
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> It helps that she has Danish blood-- my father was Danish. He said that Finnish women were great beauties even compared to other Scandinavians. Also, a girlfriend of mine who had traveled to Finland said that in general the people there were the best looking she had ever seen.

Sorry but just to clear things up. I am a female type person with the Finnish Grandmothers and was from Thunder Bay, but I now live in Vancouver.  
Muffin lives in Thunder Bay. He is male.

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-my-hypocritical-finnish-friend/736167/83 "2016-01-05T22:17:21Z")

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Most Americans are familiar with the “Miracle on Ice”, when a team of college hockey players defeated a professional-in-all-but-name Soviet team in the 1980 Winter Olympics. What is often forgotten is that that game was not their final one of the tournament; they had to beat the Russians to advance to the gold medal game against the Finns.

At the time, goalkeepers did not have throat protectors hanging from their masks. So in the pre-game warm-up, the Finnish players made a point of skating near American goalkeeper Jim Craig and repeating a phrase they’d all learned to say in English: “I’m aiming for your throat.”

Finns can be dicks.

(After the Americans beat them and won the gold, Craig returned the gesture; he skated near the Finnish team with his head held conspicuously high and his throat exposed. Because Americans know how to cap a rap, yo.)

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