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Nordic country that had a tradition where marriageable girls wore empty sheaths for potential suitors to fill with knives as marriage proposals until open carry was banned in 1977.

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"it's amazing how little it's known about in the US, UK, Australia etc, where expensive mostly useless revolving door rehabs are all the rage. In finland it's the first go-to treatment for alcoholism"
"Clearly, like many European countries, liberal-minded Finland felt the urge to select a woman self-evidently not from their native ethnic group to represent the beautiful women of their nation. It goes with out saying that this sort of thing is normally catnip for perpetually incensed right-wing nat"
Real life Cum Town bit happening right now in Finland · u/anahorish · ↑308 · 2025-12-17
"As recently as the 19th century, Finnish girls who had reached a marriageable age would wear an empty sheath on their girdle. If one of these young ladies caught a man's eye, he would make or buy a knife to put in her sheath. Finland banned the open carry of anything that could be used as a weapon i"
"The only solution that has been proven to work time and time and time again is to fucking give people housing. It was a major success in Finland when they tried it."
The takes about homelessness in this sub are terrible too · u/[deleted] · ↑123 · 2022-10-14
"Apparently the strongest Zyn pouch you can get in the States is 6mg nicotine. In Finland I had no trouble finding 16mg pouches."
Vomited all over myself before the plane even left the gate · u/mcbobgorge · ↑123 · 2025-04-07
"This part was also comprised of political rants about how the perfect political system mixed would ideally mix nationalism with socialism and a welfare state (national socialism?), and then you'd get a system which would make my country become... Finland, apparently?"
My autistic colleague's shitty novel · u/TTDirk · ↑97 · 2023-06-26
"I love the holidays but I also just love bundling up and going outside, if I could I'd love to be in some cabin in Finland somewhere sitting in a sauna getting whacked with eucalyptus leaves."
Does anyone have the opposite of SAD? · u/Puzzleheaded-Car1771 · ↑90 · 2023-12-17
"Finland has such an impressive output for 5 million people Sauna some of the best racing car drivers in the world Nokia Linux heart rate monitor modern day internet browsers Dish draining closet many great metal band ice skates safety reflectors"
Finland has such an impressive output for 5 million people · u/roman13122 · ↑65 · 2024-08-05
"Like I want to cure them and make them normal like me, I am normal"
Finnish people are so autistic it makes them irresistible · u/bihumanoidrobot · ↑58 · 2022-11-20
"They derive that answer—usually Finland, with Denmark and other Nordics close behind—by getting people in multiple countries to answer a single self-assessment question about life satisfaction."
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy? · u/OJ_Soprano · ↑46 · 2025-05-01
"Basically this Finnish lady cleans the super filthy depression homes of her followers... the homes in this channel are in Finland happiest country etc etc."
This channel inspired me to finally clean my depression cave apartment · u/RSgirlsPMmeUrFeet · ↑47 · 2022-08-14
"They derive that answer—usually Finland, with Denmark and other Nordics close behind"
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy? · u/OJ_Soprano · ↑46 · 2025-05-01
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