Insert old joke:
Q: How do you know if a finn is happy of your question?
A: He looks at you with a grim face, and answers in dialectal finnish you don't get.
The difference to a Dane is of course the face is bland on a Dane. This is why finns and danes get along so well, I'm told.
Maybe that's why I had to work with Danes in the past?
Kahden medialähteen mukaan Pohjois- ja Etelä-Korean sekä Yhdysvaltain välisiä neuvotteluja edistettäisiin seuraavaksi Suomessa.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10121591
Now you have your chance Pmt, to teach those representatives what terve means!
Terve järki, would be too much...
Q: How do you know if a Finn is happy ?
A: His (or her) knife says attached to the ankle.
Once upon a time I was sent to Västerås to learn Portuguese (the world of international development is sometimes strange). Me and this Irish guy got bored and went to the Friday night disco in town. We did not know it was pay day at the huge ASEA plant. The place was full-up Finns, most of the women in full traditional dress.
It was very quiet, very very quiet. Me and my Irish mate were at the bar, and he asked the bar manager - why so quiet? She answered "They are Finns, they are drinking. Words would interrupt the drinking."
Later, after traditional dancing to traditional tunes from a traditional band, a disco really did start to happen. My idiot Irish mate decided to try his luck. He was doing well until a woman marched up to his partner and decked her - and I mean decked her. The aggressor was the aggressee's sister - "My sister is going with a foreigner !" she shrieked. I saw some men reaching to their ankle and bring out shiny sharp looking things. I grabbed the Irishman by the hair and marched him to the exit and heaved him into a taxi as the cops were rushing in with guns drawn.
It was a cop who explained, after grilling us, all about the Finns who worked at ASEA, drinking on pay day, Finnish knives, and that we were lucky to exit in one piece.
But have to say that that evening was not boring.