Hygge is so 2016
February 18, 2017 9:22 AM Subscribe
Looks at lap.
Looks at boubon glass.
Check.
posted by mikelieman at 9:29 AM on February 18, 2017 [7 favorites]
Looks at boubon glass.
Check.
posted by mikelieman at 9:29 AM on February 18, 2017 [7 favorites]
Wow, I've been on top of this trend since 1992.
posted by Daily Alice at 9:33 AM on February 18, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by Daily Alice at 9:33 AM on February 18, 2017 [12 favorites]
Is there a word for the way the Chicago Tribune's site absolutely kills my web browser for no apparent reason?
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 9:38 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 9:38 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
Is there a word for the way the Chicago Tribune's site absolutely kills my web browser for no apparent reason?
Javascript? Flash?
posted by curious nu at 9:40 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
Javascript? Flash?
posted by curious nu at 9:40 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
Except for the fact that hygge isn't pronounced hoo-gah (although that is fairly close to how I approximate it, being an American with a crappy accent in Danish -- it should be [ˈhygə] ), and thus I don't trust their approximation of kalsarikannit, I approve of this article.
On the other hand, regardless of my alcohol status, my pants status is on today, because pants are warm.
posted by nat at 9:44 AM on February 18, 2017
On the other hand, regardless of my alcohol status, my pants status is on today, because pants are warm.
posted by nat at 9:44 AM on February 18, 2017
> my pants status is on today
But are they outside pants or inside pants? I would think inside pants such as pajama pants would be firmly in the spirit of kalsarikannit.
posted by needled at 9:49 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
But are they outside pants or inside pants? I would think inside pants such as pajama pants would be firmly in the spirit of kalsarikannit.
posted by needled at 9:49 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
Site blocks users with ad blockers.
Oh well.
posted by ardgedee at 9:50 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Oh well.
posted by ardgedee at 9:50 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
I feel I'm a bad Internet person, because I don't like hanging out in my underwear. Shorts, yes! Comfortable pants (in the US sense), yes! But just underwear? So exposed.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:51 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:51 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
If I just wore them outside, does that make them outside pants? No comment on whether they *should* be outside pants.
posted by nat at 9:52 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by nat at 9:52 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
People drink at home with their pants* on?
*I am going with pants here even though the word really means underpants. I'll go along with the idea that it means trousers just for the sake of UK/US relations.
posted by billiebee at 9:54 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
*I am going with pants here even though the word really means underpants. I'll go along with the idea that it means trousers just for the sake of UK/US relations.
posted by billiebee at 9:54 AM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
Since we're talking pants...
I changed the words of the intro to the Taio Cruz song Dynamite to sing to my toddler to help him get dressed. "It's time for pants pants pants pants/Now is our chance chance chance chance..." He loves it, works great. But now when I'm kalsarikannit or otherwise no-pants, he sings it to me and tells me to put on pants. Damn you, unintended consequences!
posted by medusa at 9:55 AM on February 18, 2017 [14 favorites]
I changed the words of the intro to the Taio Cruz song Dynamite to sing to my toddler to help him get dressed. "It's time for pants pants pants pants/Now is our chance chance chance chance..." He loves it, works great. But now when I'm kalsarikannit or otherwise no-pants, he sings it to me and tells me to put on pants. Damn you, unintended consequences!
posted by medusa at 9:55 AM on February 18, 2017 [14 favorites]
But just underwear?
Personally I believe sans pants to encompass underwear/jammies/trackie bottoms too raggedy for outdoor use, etc. not just lying around in your knickers.
posted by billiebee at 9:56 AM on February 18, 2017
Personally I believe sans pants to encompass underwear/jammies/trackie bottoms too raggedy for outdoor use, etc. not just lying around in your knickers.
posted by billiebee at 9:56 AM on February 18, 2017
What about smoking pot in assless neoprene hot pants? Because I assure you, that is definitely a thing.
posted by sexyrobot at 10:04 AM on February 18, 2017 [20 favorites]
posted by sexyrobot at 10:04 AM on February 18, 2017 [20 favorites]
(And oddly, just a coincidence)
posted by sexyrobot at 10:06 AM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by sexyrobot at 10:06 AM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
In Australia we call this 'summer'.
'Winter' is what we call that day it rained.
posted by adept256 at 10:07 AM on February 18, 2017 [11 favorites]
'Winter' is what we call that day it rained.
posted by adept256 at 10:07 AM on February 18, 2017 [11 favorites]
What about smoking pot in assless neoprene hot pants? Because I assure you, that is definitely a thing.
posted by sexyrobot
Are we *seriously* not doing "eponysterical" any more???
posted by ominous_paws at 10:16 AM on February 18, 2017 [14 favorites]
posted by sexyrobot
Are we *seriously* not doing "eponysterical" any more???
posted by ominous_paws at 10:16 AM on February 18, 2017 [14 favorites]
argedee, I used an adblocker too. Try it with javascript turned off as well?
posted by infini at 10:16 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by infini at 10:16 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Huh, my word for this has always been Thursday.
posted by pipoquinha at 10:20 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by pipoquinha at 10:20 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Oh, if you want to be that commenter on the internet, you can point out that *pushes glasses up bridge on nose* kalsarikännit is spelled with an umlaut on the third a. Sadly, leaving the umlaut out doesn't result in a funny obscenity.
posted by Kattullus at 10:38 AM on February 18, 2017 [8 favorites]
posted by Kattullus at 10:38 AM on February 18, 2017 [8 favorites]
You may already be Finnish...
posted by jim in austin at 10:50 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by jim in austin at 10:50 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
... if you'd rather drink in your underpants than care about a missing umlaut ;p
posted by infini at 11:11 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by infini at 11:11 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
My actual favourite Finnish "word" is Juoksentelisinkohan? (6)
posted by infini at 11:15 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by infini at 11:15 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Metafilter: we're talking pants
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:34 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 11:34 AM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
My actual favourite Finnish "word" is Juoksentelisinkohan? (6)
Länsigöötanmaanpystykorva!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:42 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Länsigöötanmaanpystykorva!
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:42 AM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Sorry, the "long funny foreign words" meme is dead. And I'd say I was happy, but that would be schadenfreude (the word that both started it and went a long way toward killing it).
And when I first saw/heard hygge pronounced as "hoo-gah", I thought some toady of Donald "HYOOGE!" Trump had infiltrated Denmark.
But I hang out at one chatroom where the first rule is "NO PANTS" (yes, even if you're chatting at work). So, if the word isn't, the concept IS relevant to my interests.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:44 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
And when I first saw/heard hygge pronounced as "hoo-gah", I thought some toady of Donald "HYOOGE!" Trump had infiltrated Denmark.
But I hang out at one chatroom where the first rule is "NO PANTS" (yes, even if you're chatting at work). So, if the word isn't, the concept IS relevant to my interests.
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:44 AM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Site blocks users with ad blockers.
That can be dealt with by carefully following this procedure:
That can be dealt with by carefully following this procedure:
- Right-click to remove overlay using the "nuke anything enhanced" firefox extension, observe that this does not work here
- Inspect element and search for "overflow: hidden" to disable that attribute in the body or wherever, observe that this doesn't work either
- get a beer, this might take a while
- Scan through the dom to see that it looks like some javascript has probably removed the actual article text, an uncommonly obnoxious approach
- Open up the ublock logger, disable some scripts at random from their site until it works
- notice some hits to scorecardreasearch.com in the log, wonder if ghostery is still blocking those
- remove some clothing, it's hot in here on such a sunny day at this time of the year when the sun is low and comes directly in the windows
- get a drink of rum and grapefruit juice
- look around for the ghostery settings menu option which used to be there, but now is gone
- reconfigure firefox to show the ghostery button thingy because there seems to be no other way to get to its settings now
- set ghostery to not update automatically, which I'm pretty sure I already did because last time it was the cause of things breaking for no apparent reason when it updated without telling me
- remove the ghostery button again now that it's all configured, because who needs that taking up space
- double-check all the other firefox add-ons to make sure they're still setup reasonably
- read the article
- drink a shot of jagermeister
- declare this a kalsarikännit day
17. Replace Ghostery with Privacy Badger
18. Read article
19. Chuckle
20. FPP
posted by infini at 11:57 AM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
18. Read article
19. Chuckle
20. FPP
posted by infini at 11:57 AM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
Another vote for Privacy Badger (but avoid Privacy Mushroom, it's a hiding place for snakes)
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:02 PM on February 18, 2017 [8 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:02 PM on February 18, 2017 [8 favorites]
I found Privacy Badger to be a little too lenient for my liking. I've had better luck with a combination of NoScript and uBlock Origin (plus Ghostery blocking ALL trackers by default). It's a bit more fiddly, and occasionally I have to skip an article because I can't read it without unblocking too many sketchy elements,* but I feel safer.
*Oddly enough, I was able to read this article without doing any unblocking at all.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:19 PM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
*Oddly enough, I was able to read this article without doing any unblocking at all.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:19 PM on February 18, 2017 [2 favorites]
ohitta artikkelit ja kommentoida. Kalsarikommentit.
posted by fraula at 12:34 PM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by fraula at 12:34 PM on February 18, 2017 [3 favorites]
I found Privacy Badger to be a little too lenient for my liking.
Ah, but I love the slider bars. You have to go in and be fiddly the first time you surf and play around with the slider bars.
NoScript is default. Such a peaceful silent meadowland I pick my way through.
posted by infini at 12:48 PM on February 18, 2017
Ah, but I love the slider bars. You have to go in and be fiddly the first time you surf and play around with the slider bars.
NoScript is default. Such a peaceful silent meadowland I pick my way through.
posted by infini at 12:48 PM on February 18, 2017
the word for drinking at home without pants on.
A concept that sounds rather like an item on a "you might have a problem if..." list of questions.
posted by Dip Flash at 12:58 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
A concept that sounds rather like an item on a "you might have a problem if..." list of questions.
posted by Dip Flash at 12:58 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Kommentoin tähän kalsarikänniketjuun kalsarikänneiltä. Kippis!
posted by Soi-hah at 1:05 PM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Soi-hah at 1:05 PM on February 18, 2017 [5 favorites]
As a point of reference, Google Translate interprets "kalsarikänneiltä" as "underweardrunk". Which does sound like it tips toward the "you might have a problem" end of the scale...
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:23 PM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:23 PM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
uMatrix; from the makers of uBlock Origin, is the go-to for javascript (and then some) tuning.
posted by Xyanthilous P. Harrierstick at 1:39 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Xyanthilous P. Harrierstick at 1:39 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
As a point of reference, Google Translate interprets "kalsarikänneiltä" as "underweardrunk". Which does sound like it tips toward the "you might have a problem" end of the scale...
Well, it's the literal translation.
Wiktionary tells me the "känni" is from Swedish "känning" in the sense of "a feeling". Not sure how it mutated from "feeling" to "being drunk", but I guess that tells you something about the Finnish soul :-)
(And for reference, the Swedish term is "kalsongfylla".)
posted by effbot at 1:43 PM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
Well, it's the literal translation.
Wiktionary tells me the "känni" is from Swedish "känning" in the sense of "a feeling". Not sure how it mutated from "feeling" to "being drunk", but I guess that tells you something about the Finnish soul :-)
(And for reference, the Swedish term is "kalsongfylla".)
posted by effbot at 1:43 PM on February 18, 2017 [4 favorites]
I see, pants as in trousers. That's what you all meant right?
posted by biffa at 2:46 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by biffa at 2:46 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Yes.
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:33 PM on February 18, 2017
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:33 PM on February 18, 2017
I found Privacy Badger to be a little too lenient for my liking.
Couple of months ago, I spent a couple of days instrumenting and trying to debug a javascript issue, turned out there was a bug in Privacy Badger causing it. Disabled it, and done.
It was a known issue and they patched it soon thereafter, but you know until now I looked and it had been disabled. Re-enabled it. Moved a bunch of sliders to No, and there's the article.
posted by mikelieman at 5:45 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
Couple of months ago, I spent a couple of days instrumenting and trying to debug a javascript issue, turned out there was a bug in Privacy Badger causing it. Disabled it, and done.
It was a known issue and they patched it soon thereafter, but you know until now I looked and it had been disabled. Re-enabled it. Moved a bunch of sliders to No, and there's the article.
posted by mikelieman at 5:45 PM on February 18, 2017 [1 favorite]
is there word for drinking in your underwear *outside*?
Inquiring minds, etc. The judge wants to know.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 5:45 PM on February 18, 2017
Inquiring minds, etc. The judge wants to know.
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 5:45 PM on February 18, 2017
So how long before kalsarikännit proves to have an unsavory connotation like hygge?
I'll put the over/under at three days.
I have no evidence save my cynicism. You see, the term is amusing and fun. Therefore it must be horribly tainted, because that's how everything works now.
Go on, internet. Show me.
posted by Harvey Jerkwater at 7:54 PM on February 18, 2017
I'll put the over/under at three days.
I have no evidence save my cynicism. You see, the term is amusing and fun. Therefore it must be horribly tainted, because that's how everything works now.
Go on, internet. Show me.
posted by Harvey Jerkwater at 7:54 PM on February 18, 2017
Go on, internet. Show me.
Eek. So are you naive, insanely brave, or a masochist?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:35 PM on February 18, 2017
Eek. So are you naive, insanely brave, or a masochist?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:35 PM on February 18, 2017
I love that there are emojis for it!
posted by peppermind at 1:39 AM on February 19, 2017
posted by peppermind at 1:39 AM on February 19, 2017
So how long before So how long before kalsarikännit proves to have an unsavory connotation like hygge? proves to have an unsavory connotation like hygge?
What unsavory connotation is this? Or are you referring to the tendency of racists to co-opt Nordic symbolism in general? Because "hygge" is a fucking weird thing to single out for that, and no more possessive of that connotation than anything Nordic at all, such as kalsarikännit or heck, Finland itself.
posted by Dysk at 3:48 AM on February 19, 2017
What unsavory connotation is this? Or are you referring to the tendency of racists to co-opt Nordic symbolism in general? Because "hygge" is a fucking weird thing to single out for that, and no more possessive of that connotation than anything Nordic at all, such as kalsarikännit or heck, Finland itself.
posted by Dysk at 3:48 AM on February 19, 2017
How weird. Did I tell you how the Finnish Immigration Officer gave me a bow and a Namaste when we finished my residence extension interview last month?
posted by infini at 4:26 AM on February 19, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by infini at 4:26 AM on February 19, 2017 [1 favorite]
What about drinking in your favorite bar without pants on?
Do the Finns have a word for that as well?
Something tells me, they just might.
posted by sour cream at 8:31 AM on February 19, 2017
Do the Finns have a word for that as well?
Something tells me, they just might.
posted by sour cream at 8:31 AM on February 19, 2017
force multiplier: sauna.
posted by mule98J at 9:58 AM on February 19, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by mule98J at 9:58 AM on February 19, 2017 [3 favorites]
Finland is the first country in the world to publish its own set of country themed emojis. The Finland emoji collection contains 56 tongue-in-cheek emotions, which were created to explain some hard-to-describe Finnish emotions, Finnish words and customs.
You can use and share the unmodified images freely for non-commercial use.
posted by ZeusHumms at 12:08 PM on February 19, 2017 [3 favorites]
You can use and share the unmodified images freely for non-commercial use.
posted by ZeusHumms at 12:08 PM on February 19, 2017 [3 favorites]
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