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I'm gonna go on a bit of a rant here ABOUT A DATE because I just remembered something that annoyed me to no end 4 years ago and I didn't rant about it at the time so I'll do that now while I am waiting for my coffee to brew. So first: Yes, I went on a date once! [thread]
I actually went on a few dates with this person but it was this one date that set something off. Somehow we got onto the topic of #TheMoomins. Now I am Finnish, Moomins are Finnish, I feel strongly about this one. All Finns do. Even if we don't we do when we talk about them with
someone less Finnish than we are. And this date was so un-Finnish they were Australian. So I mentioned that I loved Moomins. They go "Really? Aren't they a bit annoying?". So I was fumin'. Who the f*ck finds Moomins annoying? Not on my turf! So I told them how it was.
I told them Muumins were super progressive, they were Finnish like me - and then they rudely interrupt me mid-sentence and go "Woah, I am pretty sure they were invented by some American guy". So now I am feeling like my national pride that I had never felt until this moment
had been hit with a hammer, shattered into tiny little pieces and I went onto defend the Moomins. They were authored by an openly gay woman, that is so progressive, and they deal with a lot of progressive themes in a really subtle way.
So then they go "Are you talking about the musical?" - and I go onto talk about the TV series and the progression of the TV series and I am now in a state of honest, pure, annoyance and there is NO WAY there is going to be another date with this Moomin-hating bigot who then...
... after I am Finnished (that's a pun) ranting about how great the Moomins are checks if we are talking about the same thing - the Moomins that come knock on your door in their little suits and try to convert you to Moominism. And that's how I learnt Moomins never really
reached my generation of Australians but the Mormons did... there were a couple of more dates but in the end I couldn't marry someone who can't tell Moomins from Mormons. #moomins #mormons #allthesame
Cc @YesWithDex I think I told you about this when it happened?
