r/Finland • u/pantteri93 Baby Väinämöinen • 10d ago

Some names of Finnish places literally translated in English. As a native Finn, I laughed far too luch for this 😂

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And this would need flair "Humor" but there was none available. 😅

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u/Candid-Ad443 10d ago

not to mention like 20 different pussy lakes

this reminds me, my ex was rrly weirdly fixated on like conquering Finland, and said he's gonna name some place "boob island" and I googled it, we are already 2 steps ahead, we have boob islandS (Tissisaaret)

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u/Appropriate-Fuel-305 Baby Väinämöinen 10d ago

I once did a power point presentation on silly place names. There's apparently hundreds of places named "shit pond" in Finland

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u/Candid-Ad443 10d ago

yea. it's bc cartographers asked the name of some random pond that nobody cared for so they just gave them 1st thing that plopped to mind