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Fri, 11 Nov 2005
Onella - Party People
Zeeshan Ali writes about Finnish women. Onella is actually one of the better bars in Helsinki, hopefully you discovered the two "secret" bars after the inital heavy-metal one. The first is your typical dance-floor, the other is a uniquely Finnish experience.
Basically it consists of drunk Finns, mainly drunk Finnish women, getting up on the table — dancing as best they can — and singing along to all the recent songs. Except it is all in Finnish!. Every song you know, and some you wish you didn't, will be sung, the audio will sound familiar but the words are Finnish. Distinctly odd.
Yes, Zeeshan, Finns are very weird. I can not imagine anything like this happening anywhere else. Even the BBC's Night out in Helsinki is fairly tame to my experience at Debconf5
Over the course of many nights, I saw
- Drunk women falling off tables (many times – and cute ones too!)
- People punching fists into windows
- Large brawls
- Pepper spray indiscriminately bandied about
- Bottles being thrown – by the bar staff at customers
It makes for lots of fun adventures — If you ever meet Simon Horman, he can fill you in far better than I can
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