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December 23, 2009 3:46 AM

Helsinki Mobile Phone Orchestra playing Phones in C [slyt] by Otto Romanowski
posted by infini (10 comments total)

That's one long elevator ride. My phone doesn't work so well in elevators either.
posted by twoleftfeet at 4:18 AM on December 23, 2009

Christmas Bells
posted by severiina at 5:39 AM on December 23, 2009

Finnish hipsters. I did not know such a thing existed.
posted by Jon_Evil at 6:13 AM on December 23, 2009

i love the finns.

hipsters is a stretch, perhaps, but there's some weird-ass shit that goes on over there. and that i love over here : )
posted by msconduct at 6:42 AM on December 23, 2009

You gotta do something to keep warm.
posted by The Whelk at 7:35 AM on December 23, 2009

It would be gruuvi, and yes, that word is actually used for "groovy" in Finnish. The letter "y" is pronounced like "u" in Finnish; "o" is always "o", and "ö" is always "ö", pronounced like "ehh".
/Finnish speaker, but not a Finn, lived in Finland, love their understated yet very-present wackiness
posted by fraula at 10:28 AM on December 23, 2009 [2 favorites]

Finland has some of the most fascinating cultural exports outside of Japan.
posted by LSK at 11:19 AM on December 23, 2009

love their understated yet very-present wackiness

fraula, you've capture the essence of why i will be returning to HEL after winterbreak on the equator, though i've not yet managed to learn more of the language than maito, juusto, kinkku and perunamussi ;p
posted by infini at 2:17 PM on December 23, 2009

Metafilter: understated yet very-present wackiness
posted by Cogito at 4:50 PM on December 23, 2009

understated yet very-present wackiness

I will be using this to explain why I like Helsinki from now on. Kiitti, fraula. :)
posted by taursir at 5:13 PM on December 23, 2009