>make some new friend because he was interested in my style and I didn't have any friends>he is 24, a few years younger than me>he plays random music a lot and is into K-pop>I haven't played music in front of him but he was broadly aware of my "niche" taste>asks me to play some music>play a few songs>he seems to like it>the last song I played was a Finnish song>ask him if he can tell what language it is, as he asked me if I could tell what language his K-pop was in before>he listens to it closely>"is it a Slavic language?">"no">he listens for a while>"I give up, where is it from?">"Finland">"like what country is it from?">"Finland, the country">he pauses>"I don't know about any country called that, what's the language?">"Finnish">he pauses>"umm, I don't know it">"really?">"I've never heard of that before">"they play hockey with us sometimes. do you watch hockey?">"no">don't know what to say, don't want to make him feel stupid so there's an awkward silence, then I switch the topic to the band's lore
>>224701126why would an average normie know the map of the world? if I didn't shitpost here daily and didn't need to recognize flags in order to know how to insult them I probably wouldn't be able to name my own neighbours lmaoit's generally useless knowledge in day to day life if you don't travel a lot
>>224701419I would expect someone to have at least heard of the name before. Boomers have heard of it at least from hockey, so that's where my mind went first when trying to explain it.
>>224701126If you weren't a pussy you'd talk about finland and create an interesting discussion about stuff like the winter war. If he's your friend, informing him about something shouldn't make him feel stupid.
>>224701694I talked about the band's lore in a way that it might intrigue him about Finland. If anything, people are tired of hearing about 20th century wars.
>>224701126you're gaynothing wrong with that just saying
>>224701126Finland? Oh, you must mean East Sweden.
>>224703367Yeah, I am. Not interested in that guy THOUGH.>>224703406Don't be rude!
>>224701126>"Finland, the country">he pauses>"I don't know about any country called that, what's the language?"This is where you fucked up
>>224701126hanging out with normies is a nightmare, last time i went out with my friends the conversation kept shifting between pussy, whores and weed
>>224703633Yeah, it is sad. This guy is always trying to hook me up with girls when I'm not even interested.
>>224701419Finland is hardly the most obscure country on Earth.
>>224705183You underestimate how stupid normies are
>>224703633Replace weed with japan and it's /int/
many normies are incredibly ignorant and have no clue about the worldthey only care about fashion and the newest iPhone
>>224701126You sound like an autistic closeted homo
>>224705183>>224703406>>224701419finland is massively overrepresented in internet culture for some reason but irl they're like paraguay or bhutan, nobody ever has any reason to hear about them
>>224701419really puts into perspective how fringe this shithole still is despite the influx of thirdies and bots
>>224701126Tbf it takes two to make a conversation and he didnt seem very curious about Finland
I first discovered Finland when as a young lad, a Finnish girl from next door gave me a drawing she made of my likeness. I was something like 7 years old. It's a shame I haven't encountered any grown Finnish women like that since.
>>224701126what did you expect from some normnigger? Also you sound like a zesty ass nigga
>>224701126>"Well, now you know!" and you laugh it off and change topicwouldn't something like that work?
>>224701793>If anything, people are tired of hearing about 20th century wars.Since when?
>>224706896For about 20 years now.
>>224706384replace japan with cagada and it's the CIA
People won't care about Finland until you tell them the tale of Simo Hayha and how he sniped hundreds of Russians in WW2, then they perk up.
not knowing every country in the world is actually embarrassing
