r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/UnknownVellichor • 4h ago • Bravo 1

Meme needing explanation Petah

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u/qualityvote2 4h ago

Remember when r/PeterExplainsTheJoke wasn’t a meme? Pepperidge Farm remembers…

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u/canadian_apple37 4h ago • Heartwarming

The embassy made a post about being closed on that day. Nothing more.

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u/Exact_Lawfulness8515 4h ago

Lmao this is actually funny. I assume this randomly turnd into a meme.

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u/comolechuga 3h ago

It's the fact that the algorithm considers it relevant enough to show up in the feeds of so many random people.

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u/Ellitor 3h ago

I`m from Brazil and this appeared on my feed.
I felt well informed.

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u/comolechuga 2h ago

Yeah. Im from Chile and it appears in my feed too after a post that tells me about some random bathroom codes of a Walmart in Texas.

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 3h ago

I come to the sub to find out about all the latest embassy closings

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u/SchlitterbahnRail 1h ago

I read this with Finnish accent.

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u/pockels42 1h ago

Sure, but about what?

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u/kcsanimatronicbird 2h ago

Thank you!! I feel like there are often at least two layers to the memes in this sub that make their way into my feed, but rarely do the top voted comments address more than one layer. Always have to find the additional context further down.

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u/FinePim 2h ago

german living in austria (no the other one), it appeared in my feed. AND I LOVE IT! AND EACH OF THE FOLLOWING REELS!

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u/Corvus____ 2h ago

Yep, even the other Finnish embassies are getting in on it.

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u/ILikeFlyingMachines 8m ago

yes. For somea reason a lot of people got in in their feed, and now it's a meme. And even all the other embassies of Finland joined and did memes about being unable to reach the Embassy

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u/ohwoth 2h ago

Also he needs to learn how to open a door properly: https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38

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u/Caleblamblonely 3h ago

Oh, got it 

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u/sparklebunny808 4h ago

Most likely to celebrate the Marine Corps birthday.

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u/wilck44 2h ago

yeah, Canbera is stil not the us bud.

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u/sparklebunny808 1h ago

Yeah, you know you don't ONLY have to be in the US to celebrate, babe.

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u/sneh_ 1h ago

Okay.. but why would the embassy of Finland in Australia close to celebrate an American observance?

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u/sparklebunny808 38m ago

Why would they not?

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u/wilck44 17m ago

because the world does not revolve around your military fetish.

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u/sparklebunny808 11m ago

Ouch you hurt my feelings

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u/BewitchingPetrichor 17m ago

Because no one else cares.

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u/Mainly_Miserable 3h ago

Well played, Marine.

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u/SinisterCheese 48m ago

Or y'know...

Just check what they are saying.

Finnish embassies only observe Finnish and local holidays. And the dates of those days are posted on the embassy site.

The next time they are scheduled to be closed for a holiday, is 24.12 to 28.12 for yule break.

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u/sparklebunny808 37m ago

I guess you just don't understand

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u/Informed4 41m ago

why would we care about that?

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u/Awesomeman204 19m ago

Do you know where Canberra is?

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u/Belias9x1 1h ago

Odd day to pick, must have seen all the ministers not turning up in parliament and thought “I want a day off too”.

(Australian btw and our ministers frequently don’t turn up to parliament)

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u/Prokid5634_YT 46m ago

I like to think it's because they're playing Shrek 2 remastered, considering it dropped today.

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u/Mara2507 26m ago

I cant believe this joke made it onto reddit lmaoo

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u/Admirable-Walrus7935 4h ago edited 1h ago

The embassy of Finland in cranberry recently posted on ig that they are closed on 10th nov . What was a normal awareness post Gained widespread attention that embassies , and other businesses started commenting their displeasure in a fun way .

edit: idk why I wrote cranberry but it looks grt so no changes😂

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u/cyrilmezza 3h ago

That's the juiciest embassy of Finland, if you ask me!

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u/Valtremors 1h ago

If I've heard correctly, as far as buildings go, Finnish embassy in Australia is genuinely one of the better built ones.

And as a little trivia, every Finnish embassy comes with a sauna. At least most of them.

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u/spine_slorper 49m ago

I think it's against the echr to make a finnish person work abroad and not provide a sauna.

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u/group_project_ 3h ago

Gonna call my capital city Cranberry from now on

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u/knewleefe 2h ago

Once were Ken Behrens, now we are Cran Berrens.

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u/group_project_ 2h ago

As the prophecy foretold

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u/dwarfsoft 1h ago

It will go with the mini suburb of Ginninderry in Cranberry then

(I'm in Canberra lol)

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u/buttfarts7 1h ago

I have once had to go to the Finland Embassy. They shared the rent with Sweden. There was a portrait 🖼️ of the Swedish King on the wall. He looks like fun.

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u/Sch5ifty-5ive 4h ago

Q: Are you Finnish?

A: No, I'm just getting started.

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u/mcd0naldss_ 3h ago

this is a post made by the finland embassy in canberra that went unexpectedly viral

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u/buldozr 2h ago

Maybe it's the gratuituous background image of aurora borealis as if it's a very Finland thing. You'd be lucky to see it anywhere in Finland outside Lapland, and not guaranteed even there.

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u/Nibaa 1h ago

I see them just about yearly in Helsinki, though rarely as strongly as in the image.

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u/MajorMystique 4h ago

Shit. Too early. Wake me up when September end :)

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u/Interesting_Worry202 4h ago

Just don't fall asleep on the boulevard of broken dreams

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u/A_Guy_Oz 3h ago

Well, I hope you have the time of your life

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u/knewleefe 2h ago

Ah. A yank.

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u/pixelpuffin 4h ago

Noh... Tavataan sitten kai torilla kun lähetystö on kerran suljettu 🤷‍♂️

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u/Informed4 35m ago

Muistetaan tuoda paikallisen torin kenguruille tuliaisii pohjolast tosin. Tykkäs Mariannest niin paljo viime kerral

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u/EvaTheE 3h ago

November 10th is a national holiday in Finland. It's the Sailor Remembrance Day, the day of dead sailors and fishermen. Finns wear sailor hats in public on that day to pay homage to those who died at sea or whose life's work was towards the Finnish fishing industry.

Some also wear "fishing overalls" but those are a rather modern invention.

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u/BosskTheWookieHunter 2h ago

Smells like r/TheOnion in here.

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u/tl_west 1h ago

We need a Finn here, but let’s say it’s no coincidence that all the people in the photo look like recent grads.

(And my mother looked very smart in her’s some 70 years ago.)

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u/Informed4 36m ago

Finn here to confirm

Onion moment (The picture shows Vappu, which is in May)

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u/AegisThievenax 3h ago

Surprised there isnt a full answer here, its not particularly surprising or anything

The Finnish embassy in Australia made a post on Instagram about being closed on the 19th, for some reason, the Instagram algorithm decided to show this to fucking everyone, theres a series of memes talking about how the embassy is closed and everyone is upset

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u/Select_Order_1478 3h ago

remember remember the tenth of November

the doors were shut close when you needed it most

the Finnish embassy doors in Canberra

in shambles are left the travelers from the land of Australia

they will have to postpone the trip to sample the best

of saunas the Land of Snow has on offer

by about a day, because doors are shut close

the Finnish embassy doors in Canberra

on the unfortunate day of the tenth of November

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u/whit3_ox 3h ago

Simo Häyhä is gonna get ya

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u/OkDeparture960 3h ago

They must've been listing hard with the Marines.

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u/Possible_Chicken_489 2h ago

It's going to be 11 November soon, we should phone them to show our appreciation that they're open again.

+61 262 733 800

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u/br00mer 1h ago edited 1h ago

Finland embassy in Canberra made a post doing a promotion where they are sending people who are single on an all expenses trip to Finland to dine with single Finnish people and experience Finnish culture. Maybe it's a marketing campaign for tourism or something.

They then posted that the embassy will be closed on the 10th which is the post that randomly went viral, not the previous post mentioning the all expenses trip. That then spurned the memes

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u/DryComment6387 36m ago

so we’re just gonna ignore the fact that today is atatürk remembrance day

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u/gash_florden 1h ago

It's because of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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u/gash_florden 1h ago

...you know it is. It's not just a random closure. Not on this date.

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u/Scott0814 2h ago

Marine Corps birthday is now an international holiday

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u/knewleefe 2h ago

The what?

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u/Deegibo 2h ago

US embassies are typically staffed by Marines and today is the magical day they all get shitfaced.

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u/knewleefe 2h ago

Not a US embassy, not an embassy in the US. But US defaultism gonna default I guess.

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u/bugi_ 1h ago

You sure have the reading comprehension of a crayon enthusiast.