don't worry it does in Finnish:
Hevonen - hevoset.
Most other things get a t added: koira - koirat. (dog, dogs.) But you can't just stick a t on the end of an n so you have to mutate the whole word. Welcome to Finnish.

Maybe it's a little reductive but if the land *were* in fact a garden of Eden that provided easily before agriculture, why would anyone have bothered to invent agriculture? Agriculture is hard but it gives you staple crops (wheat, rice etc) that'll store well to survive when food is out of season

Like yes I guess if you cherry pick left leaning middle class Victorian vegetarians who lived in the country, maybe their diet was pretty good (if bland as fuck). But the average person? It was either too much meat, not enough veg, or basically just bread/potatoes/oats, and that, adulterated.

She also was into this book which was written about gut health or something, and the author said that Victorians had a better diet than we do, which my Mum read out and I immediately howled with laughter because far too many Victorian working ppl basically just ate bread and jam and had rickets.

My parents had Jared Diamond books on their shelf (I think mostly my Mum, she gets a lot of science...related books) so I would like to know what they're actually like without having to read any.

IMO a good way to be cured of this kind of thinking is to go foraging. You either have abundant foods like nettles or bilberries which have lots of vitamins but v few calories and are absolutely exhausting to pick, or you have something better like chanterelles, which are extremely rare. It's HARD

Also Finns had absolutely terrible health outcomes and terrible lives until post WW2. This is a harsh part of the world and a lot of Finnish history was just struggling, eating pine bark, and then rejoicing because potatoes were introduced and they had a lot more food value than turnips.

So it's good to forage them yourself if you can - and they *are* stupidly abundant. Bilberries are one of the few forageables where you actually can go back day after day and keep picking them, at least for the month or so when they're ripe.

The only reason I would say "until 50 years ago" is because people do sell bilberries if you couldn't be bothered picking them yourself. Unfortunately they've mostly been picked by exploited migrant workers. yle.fi/a/74-20119552

I once again haven't even finished the episode when I'm already having thoughts (thanks 70,000 years ago!) RE foraging and agriculture coexisting - in many parts of the world they still did until like 50 years ago! In Finland if you want bilberries you forage them! Nobody bothers to farm them!

What's extra odd about it to me is that it's so fucking dark and bleak here 5 months of the year that you'd think you wouldn't want to be dressed in a way that you're indistinguishable from the wet, muddy ditch you're walking beside, but what do I know.

Unrelated but it is probably important for everyone to know that Anthony Horowitz wrote a lot of (great) Poirot episodes, including one where Poirot has "phobie d'faggot" and also "phobie d'dick." Legendary. youtu.be/E4Pqly047LA?...

I have to laugh at the concept of HelLooks (a Helsinki street style blog) although maybe the website started because it was actually notable whenever anyone wore anything interesting and so you had to document it.

Yeah I think it's similar to Finland. There's a saying here (paraphrased) "if you dress up nicely it must be because you're actually ugly." So the Finns dress like absolute garbage. Just grey and black. Tracksuits. Leggings as pants. Sometimes their summer looks include beige. I hate it.

Already saw the next James Bond www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Ej...

Given how crap Finnish google translate is (I only really use it when I have to), I can't imagine what a pig's ear it'd make of anything that's intended to be poetic or literary. Translators in Finland already basically can't make a living :/