Annoying 1

Annoying 2

For other posts on newspapers see: this and this.

getting around

I don't know if this guy's comment had anything to do with it but apparently there is a stigma related to riding a bicycle in a lot of neighborhoods in the US: you ride one only if you can't afford a car or if you have lost your license. (If you're wearing spandex it's of course an entirely different thing.)

Lapsus

Lapsus is a fairly widely used term in Finnish. I just found out that you can also use it in English (or can you?) - why not - any Latin term works just great with English (and makes you sound super smart). The funny thing is that I never knew that it is a Latin term. In Finnish it sounds very much like the word "lapsi" which means "a child" and hence I always imagined that lapsus is just derived from child - it is a childish mistake.

panting

[A special report from Finland]

I've been panting all these years without knowing that I was panting.
Although, while I'm on this side of the Atlantic, it should be called trousering.

carbon-offset-backpack

No more is there need to worry about the CO2 - a potent greenhouse gas - that we emit when we exhale.

secure enough

I saw the Finnish ambassador to the US, Pekka Lintu, give a speech. In describing how he wants to be sure about the facts before he makes big announcements, he said: "In Finland we like to have both a belt and suspenders."