Everyone has access to state provided emergency dental care, and this includes, as well as emergency services, an annual check-up at a pre-arranged time including x-ray and full oral examination. One can also book a cleaning service once every
three years, but the waiting list often fluctuates and if one person can't make their appointment and notifies in advance (
you have to cancel at least one week ahead of schedule or else pay a fine of the equivalent of a private dental care appointment) then you can get lucky and be chosen as a short-notice patient.
Every dentist I've been to speaks excellent English and they all use the session to practice their English skills on me, this is very common these days.
So their English vocabulary is in fact often several times superior to your average Dublin skanger with a tiny lexicon and rampant use of the term 'fuck'. When I say this to Finns, they always laugh it off as a compliment with no basis in reality. And to be perfectly honest, I don't insist otherwise no matter how true it is. So yes, they might use 'onkalo' as a loose term, but it's not the proper medical term in Finnish. Rather what Finns call '
stadin slangi' meaning street talk. The type one NEVER uses to any person over the age of sixty-five or seventy. The elders don't understand street terminology and they use the language very precisely.
Sauli Niinistö, our previous president, is a great example of this.
He oozes gravitas and has no time for fools - hence this photo-op from when Trump and Putin met in his house.
He went for a pint with the presidential dog instead.
After Monday’s summit, president Sauli Niinistö of Finland went to a bar. Just like anyone would after a hard day’s work.
www.hs.fi
True, but as the narrator said: the tombs of the great Kings and Queens of Egypt were also designed never to be opened for eternity. Which is all well and good in theory, but not so much when every country in the fucking world has pillaged their history - and in many cases, killed the natives if they objected. Go to any modern western world museum and tell me any different?
You mean '
cavity-men' - right?
Well, any future society which can dig down several hundreds of meters into the rock and stone but who haven't clocked the existence of radiation just yet would be a strange race of human/people/animal/cavity-men? Perhaps by the same days you project about - they take it out into space and dump it there?
There aren't really any 'clean' solutions to the problem of nuclear waste.
It's a messy business, but then again so was coal mining.
And remember: we're not amateurs at this. The Helsinki you see above ground is one aspect of the city, what's underground is entirely another. Even in commercial terms. For example, under Central Station there are three separate shopping centres, two bus depots, multiple underground car parks, bomb shelters, etc, etc all connected together. You can enter at say the curve on Kaisaniemenkatu and walk two kilometers over to Kamppi without going back above ground. A city beneath the city. It serves all things to all people and relieves the overground of much of the daily stresses you might endure in Dublin, which is a polo-mint city: all edges and no centre.
My old studio under Uspenski Cathedral was being exploded deeper and deeper down into the bedrock for around three of the last years I rented Skatta studios. Now it houses a multi-billion euro data processing centre that serves all of the southern Finnish broadband needs, and yet the same keys open the door to the studio floor (mine was the Presidential Suite, 105SqM around 35M beneath terra firma. So the engineers who work on the data processing floors meet the punks and rockers and jazzers of the bomb shelter floor.
We trust each other, I guess - or rather the state is aware of how we utilize the underground networks for artistic purposes and they mostly help us along in ensuring access is ongoing. Sadly, what was a golden egg one day became a rotten egg the next when the new Fire Chief was installed and decided to do a complete clean/clear-out of rooms like mine which was designed to house the president. Those rooms are still available but at prices far out of my reach. Some are used by larger companies looking to store hard data which has to be transferred to virtual. Massive storage rooms. But the emphasis is still for arts and music in general, that'll never change.
