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How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979

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This video has subtitles. Be sure to enable them if you don't know Finnish. If you want to contribute by translating the subtitles to your language, shoot me a message, and i'll give you the info on how to do it.

Thanks go to the following people:
- Roy Mackenzie for the French translation
- Emmanuel Froissart for also submitting a French translation. Sorry but you were a bit late :)
- GothaRsk for the Slovak translation
- MrAlievren for the Turkish translation
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Dec 26, 2021 · 53 points, 24 comments · submitted by miohtama
teraflop
In a similar vein, here's a guide to the proper etiquette at a Japanese sushi restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0
andrewfromx
if party of one you should feel a little shame! wow.
appwiz
Order sushi like a CEO https://youtu.be/-gdjieGyB5s
lillesvin
Aw, man! I'd forgotten this existed. My gf and I used to do the "mah mah mah mah", "oh toh toh toh"-thing when pouring drinks for each other. Thanks for posting it and reminding me.
aflag
What does that actually mean? Is it a reference for something people do in Japan?
Arnavion
The person who the drink is being poured for is saying that it's too much and it's about to spill. The person pouring the drink wants to continue pouring out of generosity. "o-to-to" (sort of like "oops") and "maa maa" ("no no" / "doesn't matter") are normal things for the respective parties to say in this situation. It just won't go on for that long, or be done every time with those exact words like a ritual, which is the joke.
rapnie
And then there's Norman Doors..

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qtCEoGyfsxk

nahuel0x
Remembers me of a short text by Julio Cortazar (Argentinian writer) titled "Instructions on how to climb a staircase" (1962): https://doarchstairs2016.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/arch-25...
swader999
Most effective way to keep the heat in the sauna which is relevant over there.
jimothyhalpert7
I've heard from a person that they like purposefully slam the door (not pull the handle down and close it silently) in order to alert other people that someone walked in/out. Is that not abnormal?
blitzar
My neighbours do this. I guess I should appreciate them alerting the nearby residents that they have returned home or are entering or exiting a room in their house.
micromacrofoot
I do this so people know I’m in the bathroom
cafard
In a house where I lived long ago, one guy would pull doors closed with a wrist snap. His girlfriend did this too, so if they were shuttling in and out of bedroom and bathroom, it could sound like a toy-gun fight. But then there was the winter night when the door (wooden) bounced back a little before it could latch, and eventually came all the way open.
yboris
Related: Japanese Door Prank (Shimura Ken (志村けん)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-2USGVoEE
cf100clunk
http://www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/doors.html
vertere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_td1X_c5Gg
11thEarlOfMar
Gramps used to say, “You can always tell a Finn by the way they enter a room.”

It’s real closure for me to finally understand why.

throwaway81523
This works for me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3IXMTpWcAAPEQG.jpg
xarope
I've seen a cat hit a sliding door with its body, which was enough to push the latch up and off, and then squeeze through the gap, thus opening the door.

It was such a casual gesture, that I figured I was dealing with a higher life form...

wombatmobile
The doorway troubles me. The raised threshold is a trip hazard.
daneel_w
Just to settle any speculation: it's one of several funny skits from a Finnish comedy group (whose name escaped me) which was active in the 1970s. Most of what they did was Monty Python-esque and sometimes with a sprinkle of satire over typical societal/informational videos coming out of the Nordic countries' social services departments of that time.
tuukkah
Seems to have been from the show Hepskukkuu in 1979. Here's a link to the broadcaster's archive: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2007/03/28/hepskukkuu-kuinka-a...
Nuzzerino
The show "Burn Notice" does a lot of this as well, but with James Bond spy antics. Lots of which involve different ways to open doors. There was one episode where he explains that when you have to walk through a door in a hostile area, you have to assume someone is hiding behind the door ready to ambush you (but such a hiding spot would be a bad idea since you can just slam the door open and hit them with it, which he does).
xtiansimon
Not exactly opening the door, but the 2002 book “Inside Delta Force” by Eric L. Haney spends some time describing the problems of entering a room. Not joking.
Dec 22, 2021 · 5 points, 3 comments · submitted by vijaykodam
alamortsubite
Such effortless grace! I await part two with bated breath!
type0
Kiitos, olen erittäin iloinen, että tämä video opettaa minua avaamaan oven oikein. Olen käyttänyt huonompaa ruotsalaista tekniikkaa, nyt tiedän paremmin!

Hyvää Joulua!

vijaykodam
Kiitos, Hyvää Joulua!
The handle/touchpoint is not full user journey, let's pull back and explore the approach, the threshold navigation, the bio-mechanical motion & timing — the bigger picture: "How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38

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