That bullying thing was a joke about K-market's campaing about being a "bully free zone". While the idea is nice, as you and the commenter said, stores aren't usually that known to be places to get bullied on.
Well the campaign was started in a shop that was next to school and they needed shelter from time to time kids from their school bullies after school. Then they decided it's nice sentiment for the whole k-group to be behind. 🙂
the original "lego ismon ase supermarketti" part 1 had 14 million views before it got copyright striked about half a year ago. a 2008 video copyrighted in 2022.
This just might be the best video idea I've ever heard, although I genuinely think it might actually turn out surprisingly enjoyable! Born and bred in Kouvola and nothing bad to say except that it's a little boring for someone who has grown in the middle of everything that has given it the reputation
3:42 That indeed was incredibly viral. The voice lines are from a popular soap opera. It's one of the biggest finnish memes to take clips and voice lines from this one series (and just certain few characters) and mixing them into an animation, music or other works of internet art.
Yes 😄 But it goes the other way around as well! I read or heard somewhere that the word "hallitus" (government) in Finnish means mold in Estonian. Someone may correct me if I'm wrong though. I don't speak Estonian.
I find it funny when someone speaks Finnish with English pronunciation. (And opposite is hilarious as well to me) But still it's awesome when someone even tries speaking Finnish. I have some friends who have learned Finnish and I've seen their homework and it seems hard af even tho I'm a native speaker. So, I really appreciate the effort people put into learning this language even just a little bit.
@@slightlystressedoatmeal4291 That's been my experience as well, most Finns seem genuinely appreciative that I'd even try lol. I think the toughest part has been that there are really three languages: written, spoken, and how people *actually* talk!
I remember ~15 years ago when McD raised the cheeseburger price from 1€ to 1,20€. The "euron juusto" was a legit institution and the reaction from the public was so stark that they had to revert back to that 1€ price. These youths today have been weak if they have allowed that price to DOUBLE! I guarantee that no one would have bought those cheeseburgers at that price. During my military service we ended our evening bar sessions with a trip to the local McD and I once organized a group order from our entire unit. Imagine the face of the cashier at McDonalds when the boys in cucumber salad garb come and order 96 cheeseburgers. Would not have happened if the price had been 192€ in total, I guarantee you that.
@@cassu6 yea its kinda bad.. basic el maco with fries and small cola is like 13€ that used to be 8€ like 3 years ago. all for the inflation, that isnt actually true.
Back in the good old times we had a "euron juusto"-picnic with my friends. The first of us to walk to the cashier just slammed a 20€ bill on the desk and said "Twenty." And the cashier had the audacity to ask "Twenty what?" Like there was anything else on the menu for 1€.
Once during my military service while we were going to Niinisalo to practice with our tanks, our train had a stop at Tampere for over an hour. Me and my crewmates were hungry and decided we wanted cheeseburgers. We were not allowed to leave the train, but we called a friend who lived close to the station and was home. We told him to go to the McD in Hämeenkatu, and order as many cheeseburgers as they could make in an hour. I don't remember the exact amount, but I think we got close to a hundred. We ate like 5 each ourselves and sold the rest in the train for a good profit. Great times.
It wasn't that long ago at least not in Helsinki. I've known a friend for six year and at the start of our friendship we used to walk to McDonald's and get some one euro cheeseburgers.
I have never found the Finnish ice cream van music creepy, but let me tell you that when me and my flatmate were walking home at 8pm in complete darkness on a cycle path in Scotland and we heard the van, I have never be more scared in my life. Felt like a cryptid mimicking the sound was following us.
I grew up in Kouvola, most of my family still lives there. The stories are true. It is a hell hole. There's a paper mill in Kuusankoski (just on the otherside of Kymijoki), so when the wind is in the wrong direction the whole town smells of rotten eggs. They used to have (don't know if it's still open) an inpatient mental health hospital there and those patients would escape a lot. Just one hour there and you get chronic depression. I still get PTSD from just thinking about it.
Sorry to hear that you have such bad memories from that area 😕 I was born in Kuusankoski (now living in Kouvola) and the smell never bothered me; in fact, the smell was always referred to as "the smell of money" amongst my family and friends 😅
@@cayenigmareally? I thought it was because of the resemblance to a cat's an*s 😳 //a Finnish speaking Finn, raised in Sweden and therefore is unfamiliar with Finnish pop culture and slang, etc 🙈
Welcome to Kouvola, moved here this year, originally from Helsinki. This is a nice quiet little town and it has its weirdness. You should come in summer, we have an amusement park called Tykkimäki so you can spend the day there and the evening getting to know Kouvola city.
The K-group had an anti-bullying ad campaign of it being a bully-free zone, got subsequently memed quite hard. 3:45 That is a viral series of videos of lego-animations featuring characters from the long running series Salatut Elämät as well as their voices.
When I was a kid it was a different ice cream company with a different tune. That's the one that would get me running. They had a lot better ice cream too than the current "Jätskiauto".
When I was a kid and the schools started having their first "ATK classes", back in the 90's, I remember we were taught that it's miukumauku. I know, sounds super stupid and I actually have no idea where it even came from. Haven't used the word since childhood 😂
I just told my new friends in Joensuu that i actually was born in Kouvola and they were like oh my god that poor town of gray rock and they started to mock, ah im so used to it. Anyway, we are happy to have you here
I have experienced mostly the other way round. If I slip to old ways and say miukumauku in some official context people look me like I have three heads until either I say "at" or they remember what it means. I still say miukumauku in non-official situation sometimes though 😄
Kouvola Update: In my latest r/Finland reaction video I said I'm giving y'all until the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve to get the 10,000 likes to send me to Kouvola! Good luck! xD
One of the best Estonian sentences I've heard is very innocent in reality "Sit next to me and pet my cat" but for a Finn.... it sounds like "Sit on my dick and pet my balls"
I was born in Kuusankoski, which nowadays is a part of Kouvola. In my youth many teenagers my age had a dream of moving to Kouvola, which was considered a big city by our standards.
You say OUR icecream truck song is scary?! I almost died when I spent some time in the UK and that scary icecream truck came around, with the old scratchy childrens nursery rhyme kinda tune. Was like straight outta a nightmare, that was! I was expecting ghost children and killer dolls to jump through the window.
At least when I did my military service in Koria in 89-90, Kouvola was the most depressing town I had ever had the misfortune to visit in Finland. Hopefully, it is better nowadays.
Here’s hoping you hit that 10k! Welcome to Kouvola. 😁 The level of enjoyment you’ll get out of Kouvola will highly depend on when/where/with who you’ll visit here. There are many beautiful nature sites, a skiing center, art museums, artisan cafes, theaters, great lunch places (I believe Mimosa’s Aito was voted the beat lunch place in all of Finland a couple years in a row?) and the biggest shopping mall in Southeast Finland. Kouvola has also maybe the best hospitality I’ve come across anywhere in Finland. Servers will go above and beyond for your comfort. Surprisingly we also seem to have quite a few UK expats here as well? I personally know two and considering the sampling pool, that’s a lot. 😂 There’s an UK expat professor working in the Xamk university here and it would be an absolute hoot to see you collab! She’s probably one of the most brilliant, fun and trivia-jammed people I know! But yeah. All that being said, I absolutely believe all the shite being talked about Kouvola to be true. 🤷🏻♀️ Place, company and timing play a big part on how well you’ll like it here.
The context you need for the going to the s-ryhmään to bully post is that k-ryhmä has a movement to stop bullying, and their stores are a ''bully free zone''
The term "Lokkeilla" comes from "Lokki", which means seagull. Seagulls are known to be annoying beggars who leech off of other peoples food, so that's why it's like that..
There are direct trains from Helsinki to Kouvola - and, crucially, also in the opposite direction. It's only 1h22m each way, if you take the Intercity or Pendolino. I was easily able to pretend to book tickets for tomorrow at €39. If you plan further in advance, you might get a better price.
The lego video was indeed viral. The decade old original video got taken down this year for copyright reasons (I guess the production company didn't like their work used like that), but it had well over 15 million views. There were other videos as well. If you just type "lego ismo" on the search bar and look at the autocompletes you'll find more of them. I'd love to see your reaction to the finnish youtube poop scene (sinä tuuba paska) which really likes to remix clips from Salatut Elämät. You might want to start with popular channels such as Urpoliitikko (his name is a play on the words "urpo poliitikko")
Something that came in to my mind about the ice cream truck song, is that I was terrified of it when i was 5 or 6 years old. One day my mom put me outside because I had done something bad. Then I heard it. I never rang the door bell that fast.
Yeaaah, as a person who grew up in Kouvola and still has the mad side of the family living there, I really can't recommend visiting Kouvola. And people are absolutely right when dissing the city. It's what it deserves.
Kouvola is one of those places that's much better than its reputation. Admittedly, the architecture isn't exactly exciting (the picture you looked at is quite representative), and the entire Kymenlaakso area suffers from a structural change, having traditionally been heavy in industry. That being said, the people are quite friendly. I would argue friendlier than they are in, say, Lahti and west or south from there, but maybe I'm a little biased. There's some higher education available in Kouvola, some culture, decent enough restaurants, and really everything you need. And if you need to go somewhere else, just take the train! Kouvola is not really the most exciting destination for a tourist, but it is quite a nice place to live. With a _smart_ dialect, where you tactically save syllables. "Sellainen pieni sininen auto" becomes "sellain pien siniin auto". That's -3 syllables in total! Only makes sense!
1:44 I am on the side of homemade rye bread. You can't get proper rye bread from the stores, not even most bakeries. If you can cut thin slices with ease, then the texture is perfect. Combine it with relatively salty butter and it is 👌👌
@@cassu6 well i live in Switzerland but Mummu was from Finnland. And as a child we also had a savings box in form of a jäätelöauto and when you put a coin in it sounded this melody too. I am in Finnland every summer but our Kesämökki is on an iseland in the saaristonmeri so i have never heard the new one.
Flashbacks to when my friend said her sorority (or whatever the finnish version of that is) were deciding on a trip and ended up going to Kouvola exclusively for the meme.
there was that miukumauku meme, finns (especially older ones) call # häkki or risuaita häkki = cage risu = dead branch or a stick, aita = fence so risuaita = stickfence
Wellcome to Kouvola. Come to see our outer villages too. Countryside is the place to be, not the downtown Kouvola in the shades of the skyscrapers. I've been living here many years and even being working in Helsinki my home was here. Cheap housing, one hour drive to office in Helsinki, remote working and beautiful countryside and safe living. If you want to party, you can allways afford to take hotell for a weekend and have a party where you want. I've been living in Ullanlinna, Punavuori and Hakaniemi and many other places in Helsinki and I'm never going back. Dave, if you have a car, come to Kouvola with that and don't come here in the winter time. :)
Well... me and my family heard the ice cream van in the distance while on a walk after moving houses and then figured out which stop we would have enough time to run to. So that meme checks out!
Aww man, I've had to spend way too long looking at google translate in S-Market in Helsinki. One thing I learned over there is that if the packet is green, it doesn't necessarily mean the contents of your sandwich or whatever are vegetarian. So I had to spend ages making sure I wasn't buying fish or something I can't eat. The meat packets have green labels that make them look like beyond meat or something. It's so confusing lol.
You have to think this the other way round too. All those Finnish tourists trying to find quality Snellmann meat and ending up disappointed with vegetarian produce
Just translate the Swedish text.. Green colour could just be organic or something vaguely ecological, a design choice/brand identifier (like Snellmann) or mean that it's seasoned with something treehuggery like herbs or something vegetable-based.
It's one of those weird "Baltic Memes" kind of thing when you take Estonian stuff literally, without translating it into Finnish. Quite many of Estonian words are the same - or kinda NSFW slang - as in Finnish, except the actual meaning is (usually completely) different. Take the E:Pallit & F:Pallot. Both are CLEARLY word for "Balls", but you just cant escape the juvenile fun in it.
I always name my minecraft cat Miukumauku in honor of @, but I hardly ever use any word for the symbol. Usually it's obvious by the context where it belongs. I do like miukumauku, though. "At" sounds too close to "et" (&), although, to be real, if I have to say it out loud I would probably use "at" simply because it's fewer syllables.
Originally Kouvolas bad reputation is coming from one magazine named "Pahkasika" from the 80s, and then people just have seen pictures taken from Kouvola city centre during end of autumn when everything has already died towards winter. Most of the meme-doing people never have visited Kouvola, and if they are, then just by the 5min that their train stops at the exact city center. If you would look at Itä-Helsinki, Hervanta or Mukkula, all would be more cruel looking than Kouvola, but people just are too lazy to make new memes. :D
I just had to laugh at all the Kouvola jokes. I just recently moved away from there but it is still do like it. It's as nice as the memes make it look 😂
And that guy ordering in McDonald's can't beat our 7 president Paasikivi at the 1952 Olympics welcoming the athletes to the games XD and it is not because he was bad at languages.
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That bullying thing was a joke about K-market's campaing about being a "bully free zone". While the idea is nice, as you and the commenter said, stores aren't usually that known to be places to get bullied on.
Well the campaign was started in a shop that was next to school and they needed shelter from time to time kids from their school bullies after school. Then they decided it's nice sentiment for the whole k-group to be behind. 🙂
It wasn't about being bullied in stores. Safe place to go to when being bullied or scared of getting bullied.
You are stupid. Just my opinion dont come after me! :)
@@Jantzku News said it was.
My stepson unfortunately got called with a racist slur in K-Market and no one did anything so I guess the campaign doesn't work🤷🏼♀️
Kouvola update. My bag is packed. You better watch the video (I'll be going in March!)
Looking forward to it 😂
Don't forget to bring some licorice for me. They make some really good Licorice there. 😛
Came here to check, was not disappointed.
You bet!
Yes yes yes!!! Welcome to #betonihelvetti Dave! 🤗 If you need a local guide, i'm available! 🤗🏤
the original "lego ismon ase supermarketti" part 1 had 14 million views before it got copyright striked about half a year ago. a 2008 video copyrighted in 2022.
Ah I figured that it was probably older than 2011
14mil... Jesus, That's a lot
@@cassu6 Especially when it's a finnish video.
Why did it get striked
@@Emperoad It used sounds from a popular finnish soap opera called "Salatut elämät" or "Salkkarit"
Reminder... 10k likes and I'll spend a day (and night) in Kouvola (and make a video, of course). Good luck. You'll need it
Or you could give GoPro to Cat and tell her that there is this amazing thrift in Kouvola... Don't forget to give her few extra memory cards 😉
@ I like your style!
1.2k likes within 2 hours. Game on!
@@TM-xc1yc 😅😅😅
This just might be the best video idea I've ever heard, although I genuinely think it might actually turn out surprisingly enjoyable!
Born and bred in Kouvola and nothing bad to say except that it's a little boring for someone who has grown in the middle of everything that has given it the reputation
Muumipappa doesn't own the only fireALARM in the valley, he owns the only fireARM in the valley.
3:42 That indeed was incredibly viral. The voice lines are from a popular soap opera. It's one of the biggest finnish memes to take clips and voice lines from this one series (and just certain few characters) and mixing them into an animation, music or other works of internet art.
Cad is finnish who's lived there for years now. I think he knows about Salatut Elämät and RUclipsPoops now.
@@SnaksiXD But did he know about those two combined? Not sure.
Didn't it have like 10mil views or something insane like that before it got taken down?
@@cassu6 I think I saw it go over 15 mil at one point.
Video is by Michl234, it seems like he deleted his channel by now, sad.
Estonians: talk about basketball clubs
Finnish person some where close by: laughs hystericly
Yes 😄 But it goes the other way around as well! I read or heard somewhere that the word "hallitus" (government) in Finnish means mold in Estonian. Someone may correct me if I'm wrong though. I don't speak Estonian.
@@Nothingbutdust_ One Estonian did once tell fun tale about talking hernia removal surgery, as tyrä (hernia) means penis in Estonian...
@@Morhgoz Oh no 😳🤭
The guy reading McDonald's menu items in a Finnish cadence is how I think everyone hears me when I'm reading Finnish as an American lol
Sort of.. yeah.. have seen enough reaction videos and it is as hilarious to us when proper southener tries to pronounce Finnish words...
@@squidcaps4308 I'm fine with shorter words, but once I hit a "perheenyhdistäminen" I gotta take a second or I'm gonna be stuttering like crazy haha
@@LotharOfTheHillPeople Now i wanna hear how you say "perheenyhdistäminen" or "täysperävaunuyhdistelmä" :D
I find it funny when someone speaks Finnish with English pronunciation. (And opposite is hilarious as well to me)
But still it's awesome when someone even tries speaking Finnish. I have some friends who have learned Finnish and I've seen their homework and it seems hard af even tho I'm a native speaker. So, I really appreciate the effort people put into learning this language even just a little bit.
@@slightlystressedoatmeal4291 That's been my experience as well, most Finns seem genuinely appreciative that I'd even try lol. I think the toughest part has been that there are really three languages: written, spoken, and how people *actually* talk!
We're over half way to Kouvola 😂
25k now, Welcome! Come this November, we have cool game art exhibition currently
tervetuloa kouvostoliittoon, suomen chernobyliin. XD
Noo don't go there you won't return. This is your warning
@@henkkahenrik4183 Kouviet Union
come into Estonia or at least do video about Eesti
I remember ~15 years ago when McD raised the cheeseburger price from 1€ to 1,20€. The "euron juusto" was a legit institution and the reaction from the public was so stark that they had to revert back to that 1€ price.
These youths today have been weak if they have allowed that price to DOUBLE! I guarantee that no one would have bought those cheeseburgers at that price.
During my military service we ended our evening bar sessions with a trip to the local McD and I once organized a group order from our entire unit. Imagine the face of the cashier at McDonalds when the boys in cucumber salad garb come and order 96 cheeseburgers. Would not have happened if the price had been 192€ in total, I guarantee you that.
Honestly it's been so long since I last ate a cheeseburger that I had no idea it's price had doubled!
@@cassu6 yea its kinda bad.. basic el maco with fries and small cola is like 13€ that used to be 8€ like 3 years ago. all for the inflation, that isnt actually true.
Back in the good old times we had a "euron juusto"-picnic with my friends. The first of us to walk to the cashier just slammed a 20€ bill on the desk and said "Twenty." And the cashier had the audacity to ask "Twenty what?" Like there was anything else on the menu for 1€.
Once during my military service while we were going to Niinisalo to practice with our tanks, our train had a stop at Tampere for over an hour. Me and my crewmates were hungry and decided we wanted cheeseburgers. We were not allowed to leave the train, but we called a friend who lived close to the station and was home. We told him to go to the McD in Hämeenkatu, and order as many cheeseburgers as they could make in an hour. I don't remember the exact amount, but I think we got close to a hundred. We ate like 5 each ourselves and sold the rest in the train for a good profit. Great times.
It wasn't that long ago at least not in Helsinki. I've known a friend for six year and at the start of our friendship we used to walk to McDonald's and get some one euro cheeseburgers.
I have never found the Finnish ice cream van music creepy, but let me tell you that when me and my flatmate were walking home at 8pm in complete darkness on a cycle path in Scotland and we heard the van, I have never be more scared in my life. Felt like a cryptid mimicking the sound was following us.
Nobody actually says miukumauku but it was/is the finnish word for the @-symbol used back in the 90s - proper obscure meme, I love it
I sometimes do say it. 😂 Nowadays less because you get wierd looks from younger folk who doesn't understand what I'm talking at.
My parents used to say miukumauku when they did their first email
F*ck it, I'm gonna start saying "miukumauku" again.
We have to keep some traditions sacred.
i use it
I use it sometimes, but usually I just forget what it's called and say something incomprehensibly...
Kouvola update: Just 800 likes and just 2 days to go until the deadline of midnight on New Year's Eve as of writing this. Nice try 👍
Nice try. You have woken Kouvola's people. Video linked to Kouvola memes and other groups. Will see.
Here, have a like. Also lemme know when you get to here, and i'll come say hi.
600 more likes . WE GOT THIS!!! Edit: 300 more now WE CAN GET IT TODAY!!!
Welcome to Kouvola / Kouvostoliitto
Manskilla tavataan, jne!
Here's a good title for your next video Dave: "Minut muilutettiin Kouvolaan päiväksi!" XD
Maybe in a few years when this eventually hits 10k 😅😅😅
@@davecad you might get 10000 likes on THAT video from curious people hehe
@@davecad don't under estimate Kouvola .. and maybe few more day and 10K i feel so so sorry... 🤣😂🤣🤣😂 sad thing is I live in Kouvola...🤯🤣😂
@@davecad few years? More like month or two. 😛
@@davecad Its 10k now, atleast on mobile it shows 10k😂
I grew up in Kouvola, most of my family still lives there. The stories are true. It is a hell hole. There's a paper mill in Kuusankoski (just on the otherside of Kymijoki), so when the wind is in the wrong direction the whole town smells of rotten eggs. They used to have (don't know if it's still open) an inpatient mental health hospital there and those patients would escape a lot. Just one hour there and you get chronic depression. I still get PTSD from just thinking about it.
Wow. Talk about resentment 😕 And what the hell is Kymenjoki? 😉
@@sannamn80 no smoke without fire basically.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. I've edited it.
Sorry to hear that you have such bad memories from that area 😕 I was born in Kuusankoski (now living in Kouvola) and the smell never bothered me; in fact, the smell was always referred to as "the smell of money" amongst my family and friends 😅
miukumauku is the only right way to say it. Basically just means meow meow. Don't ask why don't know
It´s because the @ looks like a cat crouching its tail around it
@@cayenigmareally? I thought it was because of the resemblance to a cat's an*s 😳
//a Finnish speaking Finn, raised in Sweden and therefore is unfamiliar with Finnish pop culture and slang, etc 🙈
@@krista584 that too, it looks like a cat XD
Welcome to Kouvola, moved here this year, originally from Helsinki. This is a nice quiet little town and it has its weirdness. You should come in summer, we have an amusement park called Tykkimäki so you can spend the day there and the evening getting to know Kouvola city.
Traditionally, that's where all the good rides from Linnanmäki are sent. (Same owner)
@@blechtic Hopefully Top Spin
(kieputin tjs) comes to Tykkimäki, now that they are getting rid of it in Linnanmäki
The K-group had an anti-bullying ad campaign of it being a bully-free zone, got subsequently memed quite hard.
3:45 That is a viral series of videos of lego-animations featuring characters from the long running series Salatut Elämät as well as their voices.
Miukumauku is old school. You could translate it ziggywiggy and while you say it, draw it with your finger.
Tämä oli tosi hyvä. Nauroin. Tykätään Dave Kouvostoliittoon
When I was a kid it was a different ice cream company with a different tune. That's the one that would get me running. They had a lot better ice cream too than the current "Jätskiauto".
When I was a kid and the schools started having their first "ATK classes", back in the 90's, I remember we were taught that it's miukumauku. I know, sounds super stupid and I actually have no idea where it even came from. Haven't used the word since childhood 😂
I just told my new friends in Joensuu that i actually was born in Kouvola and they were like oh my god that poor town of gray rock and they started to mock, ah im so used to it. Anyway, we are happy to have you here
When I have to give out my email address, I say "at", but then the other person always looks confused so I sigh and say "..miukumauku"
I have experienced mostly the other way round. If I slip to old ways and say miukumauku in some official context people look me like I have three heads until either I say "at" or they remember what it means. I still say miukumauku in non-official situation sometimes though 😄
Kouvola Update: In my latest r/Finland reaction video I said I'm giving y'all until the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve to get the 10,000 likes to send me to Kouvola! Good luck! xD
5:02
I live in Kouvola and almost all my friends's only future plans is to get out from Kouvola, and I have no idea why. I love it here.
The old ice cream truck melody was WAY better 😤
One of the best Estonian sentences I've heard is very innocent in reality "Sit next to me and pet my cat" but for a Finn.... it sounds like "Sit on my dick and pet my balls"
Depending on the person, it's possible they will pick both
I was born in Kuusankoski, which nowadays is a part of Kouvola. In my youth many teenagers my age had a dream of moving to Kouvola, which was considered a big city by our standards.
You say OUR icecream truck song is scary?! I almost died when I spent some time in the UK and that scary icecream truck came around, with the old scratchy childrens nursery rhyme kinda tune. Was like straight outta a nightmare, that was! I was expecting ghost children and killer dolls to jump through the window.
At least when I did my military service in Koria in 89-90, Kouvola was the most depressing town I had ever had the misfortune to visit in Finland. Hopefully, it is better nowadays.
it's been so long since we had the "Euron juusto" Euro cheese burger which actually did cost only 1 euro
"Euro... Eurohan riittää!"
Ei riitä enää.
1:00 this is the moment Valtteri Valkoinen became Haisenberg.
I liked just to have even one person going to kouvola willingly without being born there.
Here’s hoping you hit that 10k! Welcome to Kouvola. 😁
The level of enjoyment you’ll get out of Kouvola will highly depend on when/where/with who you’ll visit here.
There are many beautiful nature sites, a skiing center, art museums, artisan cafes, theaters, great lunch places (I believe Mimosa’s Aito was voted the beat lunch place in all of Finland a couple years in a row?) and the biggest shopping mall in Southeast Finland. Kouvola has also maybe the best hospitality I’ve come across anywhere in Finland. Servers will go above and beyond for your comfort.
Surprisingly we also seem to have quite a few UK expats here as well? I personally know two and considering the sampling pool, that’s a lot. 😂 There’s an UK expat professor working in the Xamk university here and it would be an absolute hoot to see you collab! She’s probably one of the most brilliant, fun and trivia-jammed people I know!
But yeah. All that being said, I absolutely believe all the shite being talked about Kouvola to be true. 🤷🏻♀️ Place, company and timing play a big part on how well you’ll like it here.
The context you need for the going to the s-ryhmään to bully post is that k-ryhmä has a movement to stop bullying, and their stores are a ''bully free zone''
7:50 My dog went crazy :D I did not expect to hear jäätelöauto jingle. Why some dogs go crazy when they hear it
They want you to go and buy them some ice cream?
The term "Lokkeilla" comes from "Lokki", which means seagull. Seagulls are known to be annoying beggars who leech off of other peoples food, so that's why it's like that..
"l don't don't think you'll be sending me to Kouvola, somehow..."
Oh how wrong you were 😂
Not looking at that first hot post lost you a prime opportunity to learn what a telamiina is! :D
that lego meme was from video called ismon asemarketti. It had like 11 million views before it got taken down
There are direct trains from Helsinki to Kouvola - and, crucially, also in the opposite direction. It's only 1h22m each way, if you take the Intercity or Pendolino. I was easily able to pretend to book tickets for tomorrow at €39. If you plan further in advance, you might get a better price.
0:41 this one is a joke about the anti bullying posters in K markets :)
The lego video was indeed viral. The decade old original video got taken down this year for copyright reasons (I guess the production company didn't like their work used like that), but it had well over 15 million views. There were other videos as well. If you just type "lego ismo" on the search bar and look at the autocompletes you'll find more of them.
I'd love to see your reaction to the finnish youtube poop scene (sinä tuuba paska) which really likes to remix clips from Salatut Elämät. You might want to start with popular channels such as Urpoliitikko (his name is a play on the words "urpo poliitikko")
3:34 that video was posted in 2008 and the original had over 15 million views until it got deleted
Miukumauku was more of an early 2000's thing.
It's still used
Nah, Everyone I know still uses it including me
@@dyriten Ì guess you live in the 90's ?
Don't make me feel old now!
the old ice cream truck tune is the best still
Omg a fellow Reissumies Tosi Tumma enjoyer? BASED
S tier bread for sure 🤘
@@davecad especially when toasted! Just incredible, and so much fibre!
yep especially toasted
That ice cream truck song sounds like the beginning of Up Around the Bend by Hanoi Rocks
Something that came in to my mind about the ice cream truck song, is that I was terrified of it when i was 5 or 6 years old. One day my mom put me outside because I had done something bad. Then I heard it. I never rang the door bell that fast.
Yeaaah, as a person who grew up in Kouvola and still has the mad side of the family living there, I really can't recommend visiting Kouvola. And people are absolutely right when dissing the city. It's what it deserves.
Jesus i had completely forgotten about the seppo lego video! Such a classic
Kouvola is one of those places that's much better than its reputation. Admittedly, the architecture isn't exactly exciting (the picture you looked at is quite representative), and the entire Kymenlaakso area suffers from a structural change, having traditionally been heavy in industry. That being said, the people are quite friendly. I would argue friendlier than they are in, say, Lahti and west or south from there, but maybe I'm a little biased. There's some higher education available in Kouvola, some culture, decent enough restaurants, and really everything you need. And if you need to go somewhere else, just take the train! Kouvola is not really the most exciting destination for a tourist, but it is quite a nice place to live. With a _smart_ dialect, where you tactically save syllables. "Sellainen pieni sininen auto" becomes "sellain pien siniin auto". That's -3 syllables in total! Only makes sense!
The original Ismon asesupermarketti is even older. It and some other Lego videos were viral back in the day.
7:07 You've had a potentially lethal lapse in your judgement, but I admire your bravery 💀. All jokes aside, I love your videos👍.
1:44 I am on the side of homemade rye bread. You can't get proper rye bread from the stores, not even most bakeries.
If you can cut thin slices with ease, then the texture is perfect. Combine it with relatively salty butter and it is 👌👌
Need more likes. I hear Kouvola is beautiful this time of the year. 😂
1:50 NOO DAVE WHY
There is nothing better on this damn earth than puikula!
I do remember a different melody for the jäätelöauto. In our region it was kotijäätelö that doesn’t exist anymore as i belive.
It is this one i remember from my childhood: ruclips.net/video/acvV6yYNc7Y/видео.html
@@Superbus753 Bro... I got chills from listening to that :P
Must be like 15 years since I last heard that
@@cassu6 well i live in Switzerland but Mummu was from Finnland. And as a child we also had a savings box in form of a jäätelöauto and when you put a coin in it sounded this melody too. I am in Finnland every summer but our Kesämökki is on an iseland in the saaristonmeri so i have never heard the new one.
I was watching this from my tv and when the ice cream jingle came on my mom actually said: Ulukona on jätskiauto
Great video, couldn't give like to it tho..... I don't dare to threaten to send anyone in to Kouvola
thank you? 🤣🤣🤣
Kouvola mentioned XD (I am originally from that area, not exactly from Kouvola but close. I no longer live there tho)
4:26 yes!! Fun fact: My 6th grade English teacher said that Google translate sucks xd (that was in 2015 so Google translator may have improved)
Flashbacks to when my friend said her sorority (or whatever the finnish version of that is) were deciding on a trip and ended up going to Kouvola exclusively for the meme.
there was that miukumauku meme, finns (especially older ones) call # häkki or risuaita
häkki = cage risu = dead branch or a stick, aita = fence so risuaita = stickfence
Miukumauku literally mean meow meow and i think its just such a meme on its own
Wellcome to Kouvola. Come to see our outer villages too. Countryside is the place to be, not the downtown Kouvola in the shades of the skyscrapers. I've been living here many years and even being working in Helsinki my home was here. Cheap housing, one hour drive to office in Helsinki, remote working and beautiful countryside and safe living. If you want to party, you can allways afford to take hotell for a weekend and have a party where you want. I've been living in Ullanlinna, Punavuori and Hakaniemi and many other places in Helsinki and I'm never going back. Dave, if you have a car, come to Kouvola with that and don't come here in the winter time. :)
Sir, you are headed to Kouvola in matter of days. 2 days in and already almost half way there!
Well... me and my family heard the ice cream van in the distance while on a walk after moving houses and then figured out which stop we would have enough time to run to. So that meme checks out!
Aww man, I've had to spend way too long looking at google translate in S-Market in Helsinki. One thing I learned over there is that if the packet is green, it doesn't necessarily mean the contents of your sandwich or whatever are vegetarian. So I had to spend ages making sure I wasn't buying fish or something I can't eat. The meat packets have green labels that make them look like beyond meat or something. It's so confusing lol.
As a native, I have never even thought of this as a problem but u r so right! Damn those green Snellmann packages 😅
You have to think this the other way round too. All those Finnish tourists trying to find quality Snellmann meat and ending up disappointed with vegetarian produce
@@peliintiikerintuot241 hahaha yeah 😆
Just translate the Swedish text..
Green colour could just be organic or something vaguely ecological, a design choice/brand identifier (like Snellmann) or mean that it's seasoned with something treehuggery like herbs or something vegetable-based.
@@blechtic good idea, I'll do that next time I visit Finland!
Literally right now is perhaps the worst time to go to Kouvola..
It's one of those weird "Baltic Memes" kind of thing when you take Estonian stuff literally, without translating it into Finnish.
Quite many of Estonian words are the same - or kinda NSFW slang - as in Finnish, except the actual meaning is (usually completely) different.
Take the E:Pallit & F:Pallot. Both are CLEARLY word for "Balls", but you just cant escape the juvenile fun in it.
I always name my minecraft cat Miukumauku in honor of @, but I hardly ever use any word for the symbol. Usually it's obvious by the context where it belongs. I do like miukumauku, though. "At" sounds too close to "et" (&), although, to be real, if I have to say it out loud I would probably use "at" simply because it's fewer syllables.
I guess that 'shees buRgeR & frens fries' could be real, since it says 1984 in the top corner🤔 Finland wasn't very international back then😅
Let's get this to 10k! Halfway there already!
Originally Kouvolas bad reputation is coming from one magazine named "Pahkasika" from the 80s, and then people just have seen pictures taken from Kouvola city centre during end of autumn when everything has already died towards winter. Most of the meme-doing people never have visited Kouvola, and if they are, then just by the 5min that their train stops at the exact city center. If you would look at Itä-Helsinki, Hervanta or Mukkula, all would be more cruel looking than Kouvola, but people just are too lazy to make new memes. :D
0:13 Irish in Finland!!!
If you go to Kouvola dont only go to the centre but visit the other areas too
Kouvola mentioned, Torille!
Yea, Dave gonna visit Tšern...i mean Kouvola. I mean there is an amusement park if you gonna visit in the summer.
Miukumauku was taught in elementary school in the 90s
4:00. Yup that's accurate xD. That kid better get points for that
I just had to laugh at all the Kouvola jokes. I just recently moved away from there but it is still do like it. It's as nice as the memes make it look 😂
Hyvää Kouvolan reissua!
Yeah Dave, welcome to the fewer dream that is modern Finnish humor
Miukumauku reminds me so much of my childhood
When you visit us here in kouvola, atleast visit the licoricefactory Kouvolan Lakritsi. It's not far from the railway station.
-Ice cream truck-Dave isn't real, he can't hurt you
-Ice cream truck-Dave:
And that guy ordering in McDonald's can't beat our 7 president Paasikivi at the 1952 Olympics welcoming the athletes to the games XD and it is not because he was bad at languages.
It took me a while to realise you got microphone there. I thought your gonna introduce us your new shotgun.
I have been trapped there for so long now.
I started at miukumauku as a kid in the 90's but thanks to stupid office work I now use "at" :(
Over 8k there's still time untill the end of the year 💪 let's go
Time to fire up my army of upvote bots to get you on that Kouvola sightseeing trip :D (jkjk)
I was always scared of the ice cream car sound as a kid
The song was a different one when I was a kid 😅
"Pound menu" giggity.
Finally a video on mina_irl
"At" when it is someone i know, my age or younger. "Miukumauku" when it is older people i talk to.
Who doesn’t use miukumauku
Reissumies tosi tumma. Yes, chefs Kiss.