Chicks Have Feelings Too

Photos: CC BY-SA 4.0 - Insaneworks

Some Finns may wish other Finns, especially women: "Munarikasta pääsiäistä!" which translated almost word for word is: "Eggfull Easter" or "Have an Easter full of eggs". (muna = egg, rikas = rich, pääsiäinen = Easter) But the funny thing about this sentence is that it has a double meaning. For instance, if you want to be vulgar and you really want to know someones personal stuff, you can ask in Finnish: "Saitko munaa?" Which literally translated is: "Did you get some egg?" or "Did you get eggs?" But no-one ever in the Finnish history (I'm pretty sure of that, at least no adult.) has ever asked someone wanting to know if they actually got eggs, because the real meaning of the sentence is: "Did you get laid?" So when someone asks that, it's always because they either want to know if you got laid or because they want the person they are asking to know that they are funny and that they made a joke.

Keeping that in mind, when someone wishes another Finn an Easter full of eggs in Finnish, it means two things. Wishing someone lots of Easter eggs or lots of sex delivered to you by a man. Because the egg in this case has a double meaning as in English the word nuts has. Some may wish this to a man too, but every time when I've heard a man or a woman wishing a man lots of eggs on their Easter in Finnish, and I knew that the man receiving the joke is not gay, it has always left me confused. But that's okay because lots of things make me confused and half of the time I have no idea what's going on. It also may be that that certain joker hasn't had the chance to say that to anyone and (s)he is getting desperate. So anyone will do, as long as the joke is delivered. Then the right answer might be to say something that may either embarrass people, make everyone more confused, or be a "beautiful" start of a relationship: "And who do you prefer delivering that to you? Me?"

So perhaps there's a third meaning for the word egg and to the sentence "Munarikasta pääsiäistä", or the double meaning thing is just in my head. All the other adults in Finland have never thought of this sentence this way and as I am thinking that they are naive, they may be thinking that I am weird and have a dirty mind. All the time. Especially on Easters.

But don't take my word for it, ask some other Finn or wish them an Easter full of eggs in Finnish. Their reaction to your words might tell you something.

I could write something about the fact how screwed up it is how well pets are treated in some countries and treated almost as family members, or even better, but then again production animals are not seen the same way at all and are sometimes treated really cruel and their awful and short lives are seen as a necessity because without that the overpopulated earth wouldn't get it's daily dose off fat.

But perhaps I wont.

Chicks are so cute that they make you forget all about the death of those animals that never had enough space, good health, long life, chance to be raised by their own parents, chance to keep their own children, experience the natural way of life and then end up fried and thrown away in to garbage can because of all you can eat buffet is so tempting that people always have to take more than they can eat.

Perhaps I will tell you that you should always appreciate if you have that someone special, a family member, a friend or some person who listens to you, is interested in your life, cares about you and wants to be part of your life. Someone who wants to come to your graduation party. Someone who celebrates with you when you get a new job. Someone who is willing to come to support you on your first show or production, even thou they may not understand it. Someone who remembers what you've told them about you when they asked things about you. Someone who says nice things to you just to make you happy. And someone who supports you, no matter what you decide to do in your life.

And even if you don't have that special someone, remember that you can be that to someone else.

How do you like your eggs? Runny, blurry, dodgy, shady? Shaken not stirred? Over easy? Sunny side up? Scrambled?

Photos: CC BY-SA 4.0 - Insaneworks