Friday, July 15, 2005

Cultural diferences - coldness

I was always facinated by people from the Nordic countries and their way of dealing with coldness. Especially by Finish. I will never forget scene on one AIESEC conference where it was so cold that the penguins would faint, whole plenary was freezing and a Finish girl wearing mini skirt and flip-flops!!!
I guess it's all about cultural diferences!


+15°C
People in Spain are starting to wear winter clothes and glows. Finish people are sunbathing and catching suntan.

+10°C
French people are starting to use central heating. Finish are planting flowers.

+5°C
Italian cars won’t start. Finish are driving cabriolets.

0°C
Water is freezing. Water in the river Vantaa is just getting a bit thicker.

-5°C
People in California are freezing to death. Finish are making the last barbecue before summer.

-10°C
British are starting to heat their houses. Finish are starting to wear long pants.

-20°C
Finish people are ending their Midsummer festival. The autumn has arrived.

-30°C
Greeks are dying of coldness and vanishing from the face of the Earth. Finish are starting to dry their clothes inside.

-40°C
Zagreb is breaking down from the cold. Finish are standing in the line for hot dogs.

-50°C
Polar bears are being evacuated from the North Pole. Finish army is starting the preparation for winter surviving, waiting for the real winter.

-60°C
Korvatunturi (home of the Santa) is frozen. Finish are renting DVDs and watching them indoors.

-70°C
Santa is moving to the south. Finish are frustrated coz they can’t leave their Kossu (Koskenkorovaq vodka) outside.

-183°C
Microbes in the food can’t survive. Finish cows discover that finish farmers have cold hands.

-273°C
Everything, including the atoms stops moving. Finish say “Darn, it’s really cold today!”

-300°C
Even the hell is frozen. Finish song wins on Eurovision.