stop alc
smoke weed
eat mushrooms
time to get drunk's :D
cya on sunday (maybe) (nod really) :D
not this time, but that is nothing out of the ordinary. when we were young there were times when we drank for 2 weeks, nowadays everyone is old and we barely drink 1-2 days
friday -> drink but not too heavily -> saturday -> drive to another town (200km) with fren to meet other frens -> drink whole day after that -> sunday -> hangover, supposed to drink more but friend cancels because he and his gf was moving to a new apartment (frens who get gf always become boring) -> decided to drive home in the evening -> arrive home, start medicating with tenticles and beers now
edit: so what we did was nothing special this weekend: drink beer, listen to music, go out to eat, go through several bars and then back home to continue serious discussions and listen to good music, corona restrictions shut down the bars at 10pm
noice then i'd hang out with u
Everything is taxed hard here and salaries are low. So when Finns use their money on alcohol, they will just not spend it on things like new clothes, eating at restaurant, traveling, stocks. So they pick and choose. People barely buy clothes here.
Finns are spineless kcmods with the mentality of a Russian serf, years of living under the boot of a massive scammunist nanny state has broken their will and alcohol is the coping mechanism to endure having all their fortune taxed away.
Moonshine and homebrew is not that common when you can travel to Estonia for cheaper booze. Or order from Germany and send tax money there. But of course, the government just keeps raising taxes, that is their solution to every single problem.
So there's an ongoing 1-man battle where basically 1 guy is fighting the finnish bureaucrats/state. The state is trying to keep it forbidden to order alcohol from abroad home. The guy is asking EU for help, because according to EU laws that Finland signed, it is not allowed to keep a monoply and the markets must be open for competition. The bureaucrats are playing it dirty and doing all sort of fishy/almost illegal tricks and delaying the matter.
If I remember correctly, Estonia backed down on their price increases after realising how much it affected the local (alcohol) tourism, but it still has reduced a bit. Now many Finns travel to either Latvia or Lithuania (I don't remember which one) for even cheaper alcohol. Yeah, because of taxes it's still worth it to take a trip down there either by bus or a van and bring alcohol back here.
Finns just continue to suffer, they have no spine for real protests or riots, they just sit at home demoralised. I wish we would have some French rioting culture here.
Good informative post, thanks Finland.
It's still shocking how an inclusive trip to a Baltic state is cheaper than locally sourced booze.
Why aren't there more bootleggers selling moonshine? I know sugar wine is popular there and vividly recall a post on oldkc of a Finn with a sauna stacked full of sugar.
No problem my friend. I think the trips to baltic states will stay cheaper because they will keep increasing taxes here at a faster rate than prices go up over there. Estonia also makes good money from non-alcohol tourism there, there was just a newsarticle I read about it that they are missing Finnish tourists, bad for business this corona.
>Why aren't there more bootleggers selling moonshine?
Good question, and I'm not really sure. I guess strong liqour isn't expensive enough yet, the alcoholics can buy their 40%, 50%, 60% or 80% bottle for 10-20 euros still, it gets more expensive when you want to have beers or long drinks. And the red wine, they just import stuff that cost 1-2 euros abroad and sell it for 10€, so Finns never really realise how low quality wine they buy (not to mention how much of the red wines are full of sugar).
>recall a post on oldkc of a Finn with a sauna stacked full of sugar.
Oh I think I know what picture you mean. That guy was preparing for a full stock market crash in 2010 and was gonna sell the sugar for great profit when worldwide famine hits. He managed to buy 3 tons of it when the picture was taken.
