About Finland's Santa Claus:
[13:15]:Blax (chat): does Santa come during christmas eve night in Finland?
And kids find the presents Christmas morning?
[13:16]:Searc (chat): nope, he comes on christmas eve
[13:16]:Searc (chat): while people are still awake
[13:17]:Blax (chat): while people are awake?
[13:17]:Blax (chat): that is very different than how ive known it
[13:17]:Beow [chat]: the presents are either given by Santa from a sack he
carries ("juuttisäkki") or put below the Christmas Tree and picked up from
there, when the people are sitting and laying down next to the Christmas tree
- opening presents, and often eating chocolate given as gifts to them.
[13:19]:Beow [chat]: hessian sack, burlap bag
[13:20]:Searc (chat): and yes, santas usually can make nice profit on
christmas eve, usually 50-100euros a gig which lasts few minutes
[13:21]:Searc (chat): sometimes its someone from the family, quite often they
are hired guns
[13:22]:Kirjosieppo [chat]: guns?!
[13:24]:Beow [chat]: it is an idiom, not literally "guns" but "hired hands".