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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:21 [#01320671]
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well, i am greek, but not living there, and after they became european champions and hosted the olympic games they got the attention of the world, so tell me how do you think of this country? ever been there? you like our girls? fuck greece? whatever... tell us
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happy cycling
from berlin on 2004-09-01 15:22 [#01320674]
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i don't really know anything about it. i study a lot of classical philosophy but i guess that doesn't have much to do with greece of today.
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ecnadniarb
on 2004-09-01 15:23 [#01320676]
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The government is fucking disgusting the way it promised to spread the wealth of the games around and properly fucked over the businesses and people in the towns and cities surrounding Athens.
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2004-09-01 15:24 [#01320678]
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Uh, it's like, hot and stuff.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 15:24 [#01320679]
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I like your Kebabs.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:25 [#01320680]
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well, actually this year the government changed... the socialists stopped having the power and the more conservative party got it... there is some corruption though. dont know much about what happened during the olympic games...
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danbrusca
from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-01 15:25 [#01320681]
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I think of Greece as sunny and a bit ramshackle.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:26 [#01320683]
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it is called gyros, not kebap :)
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TonyFish
from the realm of our dreams on 2004-09-01 15:27 [#01320686]
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My girlfriend is greek. I like Greece but I think that, from what she's told me about Greek attitudes and the educational system and politics and so on, that the Greeks are a bit fucked up (no offense!) but then isn't everyone?
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hobbes
from age on 2004-09-01 15:29 [#01320691]
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yeah the souvlakis are nice. (depends where)
as for the games, they would have never happened was it not for a very rich greek bod and his money. the state was acting like shit before they had even secured the games.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 15:29 [#01320695]
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this is all greek to me.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:31 [#01320703]
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well, we like our country, and some of us are somehow too proud.. if germans would be like that you would call them nazis, for greeks it is patriotism... we are proud of the weather, the culture, the food, the girls we have, and easily say there is no country which has better as we have... that's why i dont really like to make friendships with greeks, many are like that... with education i dont know what you mean, probably that the school is not enough and everyone wanna study in greece, so the pupils have lot of pressure and they go after school to another school to learn more and more... it fuck them up, actually
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TonyFish
from the realm of our dreams on 2004-09-01 15:34 [#01320710]
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I fail to see how you can be proud of something you have no control over or participation in, like the weather...
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TonyFish
from the realm of our dreams on 2004-09-01 15:36 [#01320715]
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well from what I have heard from Greeks the national education system is crap and lacks disipline and therefore most students end up handing over large wads of cash to private schools for extra tuition.
I'm lucky to have found a Greek who has fallen in love with France but it's true that many Greeks I met at university where very nationalistic.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:40 [#01320720]
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yeah, that's true what you say, i totally agree. It is easy to provocate Greeks somehow. i mean, i dont go to greek places like greek cafes or discos, as every greek in our town do... i dont have greek friends except one, everyone else has majority greek friends... i am vegetarian, what for greeks is also not usual at all.. they think if you dont eat meat you will die soon... i dont listen to the crap greek music singing about love in a cheesy style... but i am proud being greek, not for the people but for other things :)
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Atli
from ReykjavÃk (Iceland) on 2004-09-01 15:42 [#01320724]
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good point on that german thing. i had a german boy in my class 2 years ago and he said it was impossible to be proud of being german; he would just be called a nazi or something. but there are nations who are overly proud imo, like italians for example. but it's fun to see that kind of nations lose something, like a football match for instance (it would of course be the ref's fault if they were to lose).
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dog_belch
from Netherlands, The on 2004-09-01 15:44 [#01320729]
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Any nation that gives its name as a synonym for sodomy to phone booth-based prostitution marketing is alright by me.
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clint
from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-01 15:53 [#01320743]
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How can I not like Greece, they invented the best song ever. That one one guitar or banjoy thing that speeds up from slow to insanely fast and everyone starts off dancing slowly and get faster and faster until wooooooaahhhhhhhhhh! too fast.
Yeah I like that song.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 15:59 [#01320750]
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you mean sirtaki? lol
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clint
from Silencio... (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-01 16:02 [#01320755]
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Cheers is that the name??? Lol the Greek restaurant near me plays that every time, the place goes mentalllllllllll I swear.
One of my mates downloaded it and burnt it onto CD and played it in the college common room... again the place went mental.
:)
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SValx
from United Kingdom on 2004-09-01 16:07 [#01320762]
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I'm Greek too. Well half anyway:)
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2004-09-01 16:07 [#01320764]
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I think most people know it as "zorba the greek".
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 16:15 [#01320771]
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geia sou :)
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SValx
from United Kingdom on 2004-09-01 16:22 [#01320779]
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I'm afraid i'm just in the process of learning greek so all i know now are the very basics and insults :O.
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 16:25 [#01320782]
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oh, that's a pity, i went to greek school in my town, and made my highschooldegree in greek but i didnt want to go to greece for studies and i stayed here to make my studies
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010101
from Vancouver (Canada) on 2004-09-01 16:25 [#01320783]
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I like Greece, I would like to live there but my misses has lived there and she doesn't want our son growing up in such a masogonist society.
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SValx
from United Kingdom on 2004-09-01 16:29 [#01320785]
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Better than Leftwich eh kid?
Yeah i'll learn then let you know and we can have a convo:)
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2004-09-01 16:38 [#01320793]
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they're easy going, taking it easy and slow...like every other balkan nation :)
i was surprised to see good looking girls actually...i've always imagined they'd look different.
i hardly know anything about greece...athens seem to be a beautiful city. the only thing that bothers me when it comes to greece are the tourists.
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Peter File
from the future!!! Ooooh chase me! on 2004-09-01 16:44 [#01320800]
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How do I think about Greece? Using my brain! Titter!
mmm bouzouki, plate-smashing, taramasalata, hairy men
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blowfield
on 2004-09-01 16:57 [#01320827]
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yeah, easy going is true, there is always time to smoke a cigarette or drink a glass of ice-coffee (frappe)...
hahaha - hairy men, my girlfriend says the same about me haha
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2004-09-01 17:35 [#01320846]
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i lived there for a bit when i was little, i loved it, we lived on serifos. we found our kitty in greece, discarded only days old.
my parents met in greece, on ios, years before i was born. i have very fond memories of the islands and would love to go back.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:38 [#01320849]
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Bollocks! You haven't been to Greece!
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:42 [#01320859]
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I don't believe a word of it!
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2004-09-01 17:44 [#01320864]
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i can prove it.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:45 [#01320867]
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finding discarded kittens, fond memories?! Yeah, right... and I've got a pocket full of hens teeth.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:45 [#01320871]
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Are you hairy mary?
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:47 [#01320874]
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if that's directed at me, that's really me in my avatar.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:48 [#01320875]
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yes, I know, I look almost exactly like Mira Calix.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:49 [#01320878]
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my story that that's me in my avatar is more believable than that pile of crap.
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:50 [#01320880]
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Sorry, I was doing a Partridge quote and asking that pretend greek person to proove his hairy greekness.
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2004-09-01 17:51 [#01320881]
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what, i promise, he was abandoned in a field when we lived somewhere near athens, i could ask my parents the name of the locale, anyways he was thrown into this field in a garbage bag.
i know you dont really disbelieve and are just pretending. FAKERS
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:52 [#01320882]
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how is that Partridge radio set, btw?
is the extra cd worth it?
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:53 [#01320883]
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oh! nice! now WE are the fakers!
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2004-09-01 17:54 [#01320884]
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thats me in my avatar as well... and yes i am a hairy greek man, no cat
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:54 [#01320885]
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I think it is. It certainly gives me joy no end!
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 17:55 [#01320890]
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theres an interview with Steve Coogan isn't there?
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JivverDicker
from my house on 2004-09-01 17:59 [#01320899]
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It doesn't say so on there but Steve Coogan used to make electronic music! The daft nerd.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-01 18:33 [#01320942]
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really? in what way?
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Chihiro
from twins land on 2004-09-01 18:38 [#01320949]
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Greece is a paradise on earth appart from Athens..... The islands and all are trully fantastic and full of history that you can feel..... For the european cup... well... a bit of luck and some good defence.... lucky for them the brits were eliminated..... And the Olympics... Well waow for that.... amazing security that we are still under by the way.... (gotta be carefull for weed deals)... and it went thru very easily with loads of success and world records.....
Now for the Greeks.... i can't stand them pricks most of the time... im not generalizing.... but some and a lot of 'em are very rude and with no respect for what so ever... no wonder it's one of the most poluted cities in europe. Once in a while you encounter the nice and caring dude... appart from that... The traffic drives you mad... like you can't escape.... It's very furstrating and stressfull.... The food is TOO oily... the weather is uplifting, it's about the only thing that is.... And the cats and dogs wondering about hungry and with injuries makes it sad......
O dear.... i hope i'll get out of here soon enough.... And in another way... i miss it (a little) when im away..... so it has it's attractiv and despizing bits... like all cities i guess
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happy cycling
from berlin on 2004-09-01 18:41 [#01320958]
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from the trenches!
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