Today is the Independence Day here in Finland. That means a couple of things:
- The majority of Finns will be watching the TV broadcast of the Independence Day ball hosted by the president and judging the dresses the guests are wearing1, and
- There will be demonstrations and marches in Helsinki assembled by various groups, including far-right nationalists (from whom the police confiscated Nazi flags [yle.fi])2 and far-left anarchists.
Of course, there are other ”traditions” that will some people just have to follow. I personally could not care less about those things.
I will roll my eyes so hard that it will make the Earth reverse its spinning direction.
Insert another eye-roll here.