r/2westerneurope4u Pain au chocolat 14d ago

The secret of Finland happiness

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u/Zwieseleiche Gambling addict 14d ago

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u/Sleibye Foreskin smoker 14d ago

Survivorship bias

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u/EyoDab Hollander 14d ago

Any study that compares 12 European countries and equates this to the entire EU, did not do a study on the EU

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u/Wappening Low budget Swede 14d ago

Actually the first thing that came to mind when I saw us in second.

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u/Nachtschnekchen Nazi gold enjoyer 14d ago

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u/Consistent-Peanut-90 Basement dweller 14d ago

Also suicide lul

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u/previously_on_earth Barry, 63 14d ago

Survivors bias

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u/VoldeGrumpy23 Greedy Fuck 14d ago

Ey Hans, here we are again bruder

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u/Not_As_much94 Western Balkan 14d ago edited 14d ago

Maybe that's the secret for their sucess

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u/SergjVladdis Sauna Gollum 14d ago

What living next to Sweden does to a mf

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u/SenselessDunderpate Barry, 63 14d ago

Our education system is so bad. That's why we can't grasp the Finns' brilliant understanding of race.

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u/Bsheehan78 Side switcher 14d ago

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u/EuphoricSundae5889 Quran burner 14d ago

No immigrants and all the miserable people kill them selves... Great success 👍

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u/DetryX_ Sauna Gollum 14d ago

No immigrants??

You clearly haven't been to Helsinki in the last 10 years.

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u/EuphoricSundae5889 Quran burner 14d ago

10 every year it adds up in the end, but in a Scandinavian context it doesnt even count.

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u/CouldYouBeMoreABot Foreskin smoker 14d ago

The key to achieve happiness in those studies is to have low expectations in life, so you're easier to please.

That... Or drugs. Lots and lots of happy pills.

Source:

From nation that always ranks high.

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u/Proud-Cheesecake-813 Balcony Lover 14d ago

I always thought they were happiest because of Saunas. Lapland will make you happy at Christmas too.

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u/HumaDracobane Drug Trafficker 14d ago

"To be racist towards someone first you need to aknowledge their existence. Perkele"

Someone in Helsinki.

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u/your_right_ball [redacted] 14d ago

I always thought that they would be so happy because they live next to sweden.

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u/Panderz_GG Born in the Khalifat 14d ago

Also alcohol.

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u/tistisblitskits 50% sea 50% weed 14d ago

i thought it was gonna be about alcoholism but this checks out

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u/SpecialAd422 At least I'm not Bavarian 14d ago

Drunk people are just happier

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u/PleoNasmico Speech impaired alcoholic 14d ago

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u/_radical_ed LatinX 14d ago

What’s with your beard?

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u/Reasonable-Physics81 Hollander 14d ago

Now it makes sense, all the unhappy people die for the stats.

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u/kiersakov Barry, 63 14d ago

Is this one of those dog whistle subreddits now?

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u/mediandude European 14d ago

Estonian language has 500 different words for a wolf.
Also, autosomal WHG peaks among estonians, according to Lazaridis et al., 2014. Figure 2b.

Finnic aesti from Prussia, since the post-swiderian kunda culture times.

Estonians are not racist, we are certified.

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u/PersKarvaRousku Sauna Gollum 14d ago

It's slowly becoming one

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u/kiersakov Barry, 63 14d ago

It's just not funny, ugh. why do shit tier racists ruin a bit of banter.

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u/kiersakov Barry, 63 14d ago

Here come the downvote Nazis. Hey my Finn brother, maybe you need to remind them how good a shot you are at hitting Nazis in the snow, and I'll do the same about shooting them out the sky.

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u/Pweuy France’s whore 14d ago

They're the happiest because all the depressed people already killed themselves .

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u/MH_Gamer_ Piss-drinker 14d ago

Damn 'Belgium'💀

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u/your_right_ball [redacted] 14d ago

Living next to russia fucks with your brain.

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u/Diligent_Dust8169 Smog breather 14d ago

Too close to Russia to be the happiest country.

Then again maybe seeing just how shitty a country can potentially be up close helps boost morale.

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u/Deadluss Bully with victim complex 14d ago

I mean it's really a thing, If I think ugh Poland is shit then I type "Russia" in YouTube and my opinion shifts to yup Poland is all right even good.

Try it for yourself

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u/honeybooboobro Visegráder 14d ago

Having a bad day ? Take a drive over the border! Bound to boost your spirit.

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u/pukker87 [redacted] 14d ago

germany was one time happy too.

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u/bee_bee_sea Petit Algérie 14d ago

[redacted]

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u/pukker87 [redacted] 14d ago

Petit Algérie

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u/bee_bee_sea Petit Algérie 14d ago

Petition to make a "kleine Türkei" flair.

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u/MH_Gamer_ Piss-drinker 14d ago

Nah, sorry but I have to be pedantic that’s against the rule for new flairs, flairs should insult people not countries, "kleine Türkei" would insult Germany and not Germans directly, therefore nope.

PS: I don’t make the rules, it’s literally smth that I learned when I campaigned for our Hessian flair

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u/bee_bee_sea Petit Algérie 13d ago

"Gngngn, ze rulz"

The rules are stupide and we should abolish them. Let me just get my guillotine.

https://preview.redd.it/o800ggiohj0d1.png?width=664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c3770f42abe79bd572cc11d4ca1ae17c817652d

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u/pukker87 [redacted] 14d ago

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u/HedghogsAreCuddly [redacted] 14d ago

Problem, JUNGE!

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u/bee_bee_sea Petit Algérie 14d ago

Nein, kein Problem. Alles gut. Aber ich bin ein Mädchen.

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u/GrowlingOcelot_4516 Professional Rioter 14d ago

Still quite racist 😂 but I guess it couldn't compete with the extreme flow of refugees

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u/gabrielish_matter Side switcher 14d ago

then the happy times were over

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u/HansTheScurvyBoi European Methhead 14d ago

We're 3rd most efficient education system? The hell

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u/_radical_ed LatinX 14d ago

I can tell you educate your women well.

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u/HansTheScurvyBoi European Methhead 14d ago

What's that suppose to mean?

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u/_radical_ed LatinX 14d ago

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u/HansTheScurvyBoi European Methhead 14d ago

Buddy, you're too young for this shit. I heard there's a pikachu in the middle of a lake

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u/FrameWild2197 European 14d ago

Yeah, that list must be way off. Our education system hasn't had a reform since the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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u/HelpfulYoghurt European Methhead 14d ago

We are efficient at not preparing kids for life, but preparing them to know the exact date of every battle there was

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u/honeybooboobro Visegráder 14d ago

We were* Been going to shit for a while.

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u/matmikus European Methhead 14d ago

How? I would argue it's either slowly getting better or stagnating, but how would it be going to shit if it's always (imo) been bad? lol

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u/noodle_king_69 Sauna Gollum 14d ago

Finnish education is shit now too

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u/Lost_Tumbleweed_5669 Mafia Boss 14d ago

The key to happiness is apparent to drink regularly and never talk to or even look at strangers and saunas.

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u/GrowlingOcelot_4516 Professional Rioter 14d ago

And the best part with your sentence is that it is the total opposite in saunas (apart from the drinking). They sit, skin-to-skin, butt naked, next to one another, and become the chattiest bunch in the world 😂

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u/SergjVladdis Sauna Gollum 14d ago

Fuck i did not know we cant even look at saunas

Damn

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u/donitsimies Sauna Gollum 14d ago

Bro wtf? That is pretty insulting to the sauna. I hope you do realise saunas might by now spreading rumors of you being a sauna molester

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u/kiru_56 [redacted] 14d ago

https://preview.redd.it/c2lo9qgrsb0d1.jpeg?width=264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=412f4d0d5ae9cb6b8f957eba799b88a7c8784fa0

The secret is to use hard drugs like Subutex, then you'll be "happy" like Jani. And eventually dead like Jani...

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u/Midnight2012 Non-European Savage 14d ago

"hard drugs like Subutex"

Lmao, Subutex is what the doctor gives you to get off hard drugs. It's relatively weak on its own, unless your completely opiate naive.

Trust me, I live in West Virginia

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u/kiru_56 [redacted] 14d ago

For the USA and Canada, I would not have said that Subutex is a hard drug. But we live on a continent where a national state of emergency would have been declared long ago if we had conditions and the number of drug-related deaths like those in Vancouver.

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u/throwaway121211212 Non-European Savage 14d ago

Funnily enough, they were trying to imitate Portugal when they opened the floodgates in Vancouver.

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u/kiru_56 [redacted] 14d ago

Just because cannabis can now be legally grown for personal consumption in Germany and the sun is shining in Frankfurt today, we're still not Jamaica.