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The intricacies of manufacturing process were driving me nuts, so this link sent in the mailing list of expats here, was a refreshing break. It contains jokes about the Finns, which are all hilarious. I will post one of the joke here which I thought was the best one. Well my Finnish brethren should not get offended due to this, it is just a joke and yet if someone gets offended put a comment and I will remove it.
“A guy sitting at an airport bar in Atlanta noticed a beautiful woman sitting next to him. He thought to himself, "Wow, she's so gorgeous she must be a flight attendant. But which airline does she work for?"
Hoping to pick her up, he leaned towards her and uttered the Delta slogan, "Love to fly and it shows?"
She gave him a blank, confused stare and he immediately thought to himself, "Ooh shit, she doesn't work for Delta." A moment later, another slogan popped into his head. He leaned towards her again, "Something special in the air?"
She gave him the same confused look.
He mentally kicked himself, and scratched American Airlines off the list. Next he tried the United slogan, "I would really love to fly your friendly skies?"
This time the woman looked irritated at him, "What the fuck do you want?"
The man smiled, then slumped back in his chair, and said: Aha, Finnair!"
I guess this joke must be floating around with the name being changed for different airlines. More Finn jokes can be found here.
I can vouch that Finnair is not like that, I have traveled once in Finnair from Paris to Helsinki and believe me the 2.5 hours journey was one of the best. It was my third flight in the last 12 hours, I was tired and sick with pounding headache. Immediately after take off the hostess came with drinks and I asked her that if she can give me a pill for my headache, she gave me a tablet of panadol. I then took a half hour nap and felt much relived. She came back asked how I was feeling and got me a hot cup of tea. Needless to say rest of the journey was also pleasant.
I traveled once more with "Blue1", which is another Finnish airline and had a good experience with it as well. The hostess were all nice and none as mentioned in the joke. Infact when she brought the dinner, she said that there was special vegetarian meal for us!. We were surprised, because we didn’t mention about it as we had booked the ticket through Internet. But it seems the airlines people knowing that we both were Indians made it a vegetarian meal.
So there is nothing that I have against Finns, infact after living in here for the past 8 months now, I have developed a bonding with Finland. When I am in some other country in Europe and see some Finn or hear about Finland, I get the same feeling as I get for my own country. I don’t know how long I will be in Finland but whatever time I spend here will be a memorable (already eventful) part of my life.
The intricacies of manufacturing process were driving me nuts, so this link sent in the mailing list of expats here, was a refreshing break. It contains jokes about the Finns, which are all hilarious. I will post one of the joke here which I thought was the best one. Well my Finnish brethren should not get offended due to this, it is just a joke and yet if someone gets offended put a comment and I will remove it.
“A guy sitting at an airport bar in Atlanta noticed a beautiful woman sitting next to him. He thought to himself, "Wow, she's so gorgeous she must be a flight attendant. But which airline does she work for?"
Hoping to pick her up, he leaned towards her and uttered the Delta slogan, "Love to fly and it shows?"
She gave him a blank, confused stare and he immediately thought to himself, "Ooh shit, she doesn't work for Delta." A moment later, another slogan popped into his head. He leaned towards her again, "Something special in the air?"
She gave him the same confused look.
He mentally kicked himself, and scratched American Airlines off the list. Next he tried the United slogan, "I would really love to fly your friendly skies?"
This time the woman looked irritated at him, "What the fuck do you want?"
The man smiled, then slumped back in his chair, and said: Aha, Finnair!"
I guess this joke must be floating around with the name being changed for different airlines. More Finn jokes can be found here.
I can vouch that Finnair is not like that, I have traveled once in Finnair from Paris to Helsinki and believe me the 2.5 hours journey was one of the best. It was my third flight in the last 12 hours, I was tired and sick with pounding headache. Immediately after take off the hostess came with drinks and I asked her that if she can give me a pill for my headache, she gave me a tablet of panadol. I then took a half hour nap and felt much relived. She came back asked how I was feeling and got me a hot cup of tea. Needless to say rest of the journey was also pleasant.
I traveled once more with "Blue1", which is another Finnish airline and had a good experience with it as well. The hostess were all nice and none as mentioned in the joke. Infact when she brought the dinner, she said that there was special vegetarian meal for us!. We were surprised, because we didn’t mention about it as we had booked the ticket through Internet. But it seems the airlines people knowing that we both were Indians made it a vegetarian meal.
So there is nothing that I have against Finns, infact after living in here for the past 8 months now, I have developed a bonding with Finland. When I am in some other country in Europe and see some Finn or hear about Finland, I get the same feeling as I get for my own country. I don’t know how long I will be in Finland but whatever time I spend here will be a memorable (already eventful) part of my life.
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