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=== In the locker room === | === In the locker room === | ||
In private saunas there are no lockers but in many except the most ad-hoc saunas offer a lockable locker. Key is attached to a rubber ring (at the swimming hall) that is to be worn around the ankle. | In private saunas there are no lockers but in many except the most ad-hoc saunas offer a lockable locker. Key is attached to a rubber ring (at the swimming hall) that is to be worn around the ankle. | ||
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=== In the sauna === | === In the sauna === | ||
* fi."'''lisää'''" == en."more [of x]" | * fi."'''lisää'''" == en."more [of x]" | ||
* fi."'''heitä'''" == en."[you] throw" | * fi."'''heitä'''" == en."[you] throw" | ||
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::* -> fi."Heitä löylyä" == same thing | ::* -> fi."Heitä löylyä" == same thing | ||
[[File:Finnish Vasta (Vihta).jpg|left|thumb|250px|'''Vihta''' (Western Finland dialect) or '''vasta''' (Eastern Finland dialect) is an essential sauna culture thing. It is a bunch of birch branches tied together with a birch branch and it is used for whacking self and/or others with it. Believe it or not it actually makes the sauna even more soothing in the end-game.]] | |||
* fi."'''Vihdo'''" == en."[you] whack with vihta" | * fi."'''Vihdo'''" == en."[you] whack with vihta" | ||
* fi."'''lujempaa'''" == en."harder" | * fi."'''lujempaa'''" == en."harder" | ||