Another one I found
[quote]+15°C / 59°F
This is as warm as it gets in Finland, so we'll start here. People in Spain wear winter-coats and gloves. The Finns are out in the sun,getting a tan.
+10°C / 50°F
The French are trying in vain to start their central heating. The Finns plant flowers in their gardens.
+5°C / 41°F
Italian cars won't start, The Finns are cruising in cabriolets.
0°C / 32°F
Distilled water freezes. The water in Vantaa river (in Finland) gets a little thicker.
-5°C / 23°F
People in California almost freeze to death. The Finns have their final barbecue before winter.
-10°C / 14°F
The Brits start the heat in their houses. The Finns start using long sleeves.
-20°C / -4°F
The Aussies flee from Mallorca. The Finns end their Midsummer celebrations. Autumn is here.
-30°C / -22°F
People in Greece die from the cold and disappear from the face of the earth. The Finns start drying their laundry indoors.
-40°C / -40°F
Paris start cracking in the cold. The Finns stand in line at the hotdog stands.
-50°C / -58°F
Polar bears start evacuating the North Pole. The Finnish army postpones their winter survival training awaiting real winter weather.
-60°C / -76°F
Korvatunturi (the home for Santa Claus) freezes. The Finns rent a movie and stay indoors.
-70°C / -94°F
The false Santa moves south. The Finns get frustrated since they can't store their Kossu (Koskenkorva vodka) outdoors. The Finnish army goes out on winter survival training.
-183°C / -297.4°F
Microbes in food don't survive. The Finnish cows complain that the farmers' hands are cold.
-273°C / -459.4°F
ALL atom-based movent halts. The Finns start saying "Perkele, it's cold outside today."
-300°C / -508°F
Hell freezes over, Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.[/quote]
:v:
3 pages and not a single black metal joke.
I had to walk to school in -32 2 years ago. :colbert:
[QUOTE=Mudbone;26439117]3 pages and not a single black metal joke.[/QUOTE]
Norwegians don't mind the cold because they keep warm near one of the many burning churches in the country
[editline]1st December 2010[/editline]
There you go
I think it's arctic weather when it's 30 F out
I'd hate to live in Scandinavia in the winter
I fell on my ass when I slipped on ice a couple of years ago in grade school.
That was the coldest day maybe 50 degrees that morning.
What the fuck and here are my friends and I complaining about 20 degree weather. Fahrenheit.
Manitoba, Canada was the coldest place in the world last year. Shit SUCKED.
Slartibartfast fucked up. Why couldn't he put his fjord somewhere more comfortable, like Nowwhat or Hell?
Norway? Norway are you okay?
Norway, please wake up :crying:
It was 40 Fahrenheit here today, I thought that was cold...
Hey at least you have culture and great food.
-31 is slow cold death? Haha
Try -40 without windchill.
That's October-April in the Canadian praries.
Canada and Russia called. They want their weather back.
Norwegians knows how to survive in the winters and when there is cold.
[QUOTE=tomatmann;26441400]Norwegians knows how to survive in the winters and when there is cold.[/QUOTE]
No. :saddowns:
brrRRRRRrrrrRRRRERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrr
Another day, -20.
I walk like a penguin now.
[QUOTE=Mudbone;26439117]3 pages and not a single black metal joke.[/QUOTE]
how about a song?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFbfrNkn_s[/media]
"In the mountains of Norway
where the weather is cold
there's nothing to do
except kill eachother
and play guitar
in the snow"
:v:
[QUOTE=raBBish;26439012]Another one I found
[quote]-300°C / -508°F
Hell freezes over, Finland wins the Eurovision Song Contest.[/quote]
[/QUOTE]
So basically Hell froze over in 2006?
[QUOTE=IForgotPassword;26438250]Ha ha its 30 degrees average here in australia[/QUOTE]
Its 17°C right now and its summer.
shits cold.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;26435311]My question is: How do foreigners adapt to such severe temperatures over there, OP?
For instance, I doubt muslims can find that kind of cold in Iran or Saudi Arabia[/QUOTE]Same way the natives cope with the cold; proper winter clothing and/or alcohol.
The place where I live was one of the coldest places in Norway (Folldal if you're curious) last year. -48 Celsius, good weather for going 2km to school :v:
And now it's averaging at -35C, gonna be fucking cold rest of the winter.
And I thought the -20°C last week here in Finland was cold :frown:
Shit, I have a steam friend that lives in norway.
-30C erryday.
We're expecting it to become -40C before Christmas here.
I live in Røros, last year we reached -46C.
Damn Norwegians! Your freezing wind is blowing directly from your country to ours, the Netherlands :argh:
I live in a desert. It's forty degrees Fahrenheit, and we're all bitching about the cold.
I hate it when it's so cold your car won't start and even a block heater won't work.
[QUOTE=HawkeyeTy;26441326]-31 is slow cold death? Haha
Try -40 without windchill.
That's October-April in the Canadian praries.[/QUOTE]
No, that's quick death
Such is life in Norway.
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