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Veep, Season 2

Veep is a 2012 HBO critically acclaimed television comedy series set in the Office of a fictional Vice President of the United States. The program is created by Armando Iannucci. more »

Gary:
I'm the VP's bag-man. Which I believe in Finland you say: kassi?

Mina Houkenen:
Excuse me?

Gary:
I'm a kassi.

[People around the table start tittering]

Mina Houkenen:
Where did you get this translation from?

Gary:
I have a Finnish friend in D.C. who works in the embassy and she gave me a lesson before I came.

Osmo Houkenen:
You see, "kassi" is "bag", but it's not, uh, "bag-man". It's a-- a man-bag you know? [makes a grasping gesture]

Mina Houkenen:
It is a container. It is a testicle container.

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  • Matti Kassi
    Matti Kassi
    You need an idiot to translate the word "kassi-mies" into scrotum. It is true that in colloquial speech starting in 1980 Finnish can call scrotum as "kassit" which is plural form of "kassi" because testicles look like two small plastic shopping bags. So "kassi" DOES NOT MEAN SCROTUM and kassi-mies (bag man) has no "funny" meaning. "Kassi" or "kassi-mies" cannot be translated to scrotum, unless you are very stupid and deliberately want to make that mistake.
    Mina Houkenen is no Finnish name. Miina Haukinen is a Finnish name which perhaps sounds like "mina houkenen". Only a Finnish dyslexic person might write Miina Haukinen as "Mina Houkenen".
    Finnish haven't had female Prime Minister for many years but we had female president for twelve years (2000...2012). I think the female PM in Veep referred actually to Tarja Halonen and thus it was quite an insult towards all Finnish to make PM's husband to be a pervert who is grabbing Veep's tits, because Tarja Halonen's husband Pentti Arajärvi cannot be imagined to do such a thing.     
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