SISU

[sufrommich]

I have a cousin who has a SISU sticker on the back of her car,for those of you who don't know what "Sisu" means,it's Finnish for perseverance,or guts,or moxie,it's a very common bumpersticker in Michigan.

Her husband was yelled at in a parking lot this morning for supporting the terrorists.After his initial WTF question,his accuser pointed to his sticker and said "they're beheading Christians you know?"

Murica.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Maybe the person was dyslexic, otherwise he is a red neck moron.

[sufrommich]

2. I'm going to go with red neck moron. nt

[libdem4life]

3. This stupid doesn't hurt, it makes me howl with laughter.

Oh, don't give him the benefit of dyslexia. Moronic and unintelligent.

[stevenleser]

4. Optical illusion. I've seen a number of demonstrations of this. When the mind encounters

letters arranged in a way that doesnt make sense, it tries to make sense of them based on letter combinations it knows about.

When I glanced at your title very quickly, I initially saw "ISIS" believe it or not. I think that is probably what happened.

The difference is, the idiot who yelled at your cousin didn't bother checking to make sure he saw what he thought he saw.

Here are a couple of examples of what I am talking about:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/brain_explorer/jumping.html

and

[sufrommich]

5. "I initially saw "ISIS" believe it or not"

Well that's interesting. I will say though that SISU bumperstickers are common enough in Michigan that if you lived here, you would probably read it as SISU.

[stevenleser]

7. Good point. This happened in Michigan? I saw that you said its a common bumpersticker in

Michigan but I wasn't sure if the event in question happened there. If so, that makes it more difficult to understand.

Still, anyone who goes off half cocked without making sure he saw what was offensive to him is a jerk.

[sufrommich]

9. Yes,it happened in Michigan. I had to laugh

that anyone would believe an ISIS supporter in the US would be stupid enough to have an ISIS bumpersticker.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Sisu can also mean character or heart.

Do Finns use the word rumal for "stupid"? I'm Estonian-American and we use the word sisu too, but not with the depth of meaning that our cousins the Finns do.

The guy in the parking lot sounds really rumal.

[sufrommich]

8. I don't speak Finnish ,my mom speaks a little

and my grandma could speak it fluently,so I can't answer your question about rumal. Does Estonia have it's own language?

[LiberalEsto]

10. We speak Estonian, but it's closely related to Finnish

I've been watching a couple of Finnish detective programs with English subtitles recently, and find that I can understand or guess at about a fifth of the words.

[sufrommich]

11. That's interesting. The things you learn on DU.