This is based on a very retarded Finnish meme born of a Youtube video of two (drunk) guys ice fishing. It makes absolutely no sense outside the Finnish internet culture, so I never uploaded this despite it being one of the first ones posted. Not going to translate it, I'll leave it to the uploader. But rest assured it's not going to be very funny or make any sense at all. The original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugl42dbJyz0
njinx said: This is based on a very retarded Finnish meme born of a Youtube video of two (drunk) guys ice fishing. It makes absolutely no sense outside the Finnish internet culture, so I never uploaded this despite it being one of the first ones posted. Not going to translate it, I'll leave it to the uploader. But rest assured it's not going to be very funny or make any sense at all. The original video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugl42dbJyz0
I lol'd heartly. Thanks for referencing. Yeah, your mileage will vary greatly.
Browsing Danbooru to learn about my own country's online culture again... XD
Selected translations (rather free, trying to give the feeling of it) of lines in the original video to further entertain (?) Nana and Fred:
[Title:] For a Little Whitefish - Pro Ice Fishers
Tuoppi's friend: "...About to pull up some kind of big one fish... Oh my good lord... Look what a whitefish!"
Tuoppi: "Even asking for the lords to help, but we ain't gonna need 'em... Indeed a whitefish there, whitefish whitefish whitefish!! (...) So now, pick up the whitefish!"
TF: "Fuck, you ain't gonna esc-!"
T: "OH MY FUCKING GOD!! MY FUCKING GOD!! WOO-HOOOO! A two-kilo whitefish! A two-kilo whitefish!"
TF: "Now, look, hell... I have the jig in my finger, and deep..."
T: "A TWO-KILO WHITEFISH! A two-kilo whitefish! Oh my fucking god what a whopper!"
TF: "Well fuck it, this is-"
T: "EVERYBODY COME AND SEE THIS! Oh fucking fuck..."
[Ending credits:] Starring: Whitefish (weight 1.686 kg)
All I really know about whitefish is that properly smoked and salted it tastes delicious.
Taking a look at the Finnish Wikipedia, it seems that the Coregonus lavaretus species is divided into several different forms. Of these, the fastest-growing one found in Finland usually reaches the mass of 1 kg around the age of 7 years. While much bigger whitefish have been caught, I suppose 2 kg would be a somewhat rare occurrence -- perhaps even more so in the specific area where Tuoppi is filming the ice-fishing efforts of his friend.
The fair amount of booze Tuoppi has consumed raises the significance of the catch, of course.
You know, that's pretty much the same way I reacted when I first caught a fish, and I wasn't even drunk. Not to mention the fish was some scrawny Mediterranean sea bass instead of a glorious KAHEN KILON SIIKA!
