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  1. Problem is that when our politicians look abroad for inspiration they look at places like...Venezuela. There's no politician, absolutely no one, in Greece right now who would even be remotely capable to start the change. Nobody.

    And as far as the Greek people goes, as a whole, they're as bad as the politicians THEY VOTE in power. The average Greek is a useless moron. It's proven time and again. 

     

    Seeing what's happening in Greece this last year made me finally realize once and for all that there's no hope for that land. No hope at all, as long as those same morons who call themselves politicians and public servants run the country. Nothing changes, and if anything things are getting worse every year that goes by.

     

    I stand by what I wrote earlier. Our only hope is help and guidance by the rest of the Europeans. I have no faith in any politician in Greece. None at all.


  2. The current regime...err government...will eventually bring that complete collapse. It's coming soon. The issue is that there's no one (and no party) on the horizon competent enough to lead Greece out of this mess. Nobody.

    So in my mind the only viable solution for the time being is an administration led by foreign technocrats who will put together a no bullshit government of shorts and will implement all the measures suggested by the Europeans a couple of years back.

     

    If European politicians and technocrats can run most European countries smoothly and humanely then I'd hope that they can help run Greece the same way, or at the very least take us by the hand and show us the way.


  3. No don't bring any of those assholes back. Bring European technocrats to govern the country for the next 50 years (make it 100...). There's no other way to save Greece.

     

    Greek people should not be allowed to elect who will govern them. They're incapable to doing so. They voted for Tsipras 3 times in the row (for god's shake!!!) even after all the mess he created the first time!


  4. Believe it or not, there's a perfectly good explanation for most of these sayings. A few years ago we had a good laugh in this forum trying to list and "translate" a long list of those sayings. Unfortunately the old forum crashed a couple of years back and we lost all this information.

     

    To go back to your question about the whore's fencepost...  :D

     

    This expression is used when we want to say that there are big (and unruly) crowds somewhere. Γινεται της πουτανας το καγκελο.

    From what I know this expression came about sometime before or after WWII when the allied fleet used to anchor at the port of Faliro (or it could have been WWI...). When the allied fleet was there the prostitutes of the area would squeeze themselves in a small platform (which was surrounded by an iron fence...) waiting for their sailor clients. As you can image that platform was way too small to fit all the prostitutes and there was a lot of pushing and shoving between the girls to get themselves at the front and "show off" their stuff. So that was the "whore's fencepost".

     

    In fact, I did a quick search and found the exact platform, it's this one: 

    10569059_765630006821038_596787797298207


  5. The gender side of the language takes a bit of getting used to as there is no sense of logic attributed to it. (well, not that I can see). If it ends in an A then it's female.........unless it's a statue! What's really hard to understand is the changing of words after θα, να η πρεπει. Then of course if I put the wrong stress on a particular vowel the meaning changes entirely. Verb conjugation is a challenge as well. In short, If and when I finally move to Greece I think I'll be fluent in around twenty years. :D

     

    Come on, English is no better with illogical grammatical rules  :D

     

    In any case, I know quite a few native English speakers (including my wife) who managed to learn speaking Greek fairly quickly. I'm not talking of course about full out Greek using all the idioms and all the correct grammatical rules, but decent conversational Greek where they can go out and around and be able to communicate their needs to the locals sufficiently well.


  6. The way people behave is a result of their upbringing and a result of the environment they grow up in.

     

    Most 2nd and 3rd generation Greeks who were born and raised in the US, Canada, Germany, Australia etc. are quite different in mentality (and work ethos...) as compared to most Greeks who were raised in the vitriolic environment of our homeland. Being a moocher or whatever else is not a trait it anyone's genes. It's an acquired behaviour based on the environment you're raised.

     

    The same goes of course for the Syrian refugees. They obviously behave exactly the way they'd behave if they'd still be living in their country. It will take time and effort to change their ways, but it's to the benefit of the Europeans (and Canadians) to work with these people and make them part of our societies instead of throwing them in ghettos and radicalize them.


  7. Not sure where the beans for Greek coffee come from. I'd assume mostly from Brazil, but they could really come from any coffee producing country. The secret is in grinding the beans down to a very fine powder. If you've seen Greek coffee it really looks like a powder, unlike all other types of ground coffee, and it also has a distinct very light brown colour.


  8. Greece is not a coffee producing country. Coffee came to Greece through the Arabs and Turks (as it did to the rest of Europe). The Greek coffee used to be called "Turkish coffee" in earlier times. In fact, I do remember distinctly my grandmother calling it "Turkish coffee" (Τουρκικο) into the 70s and 80s.

     

    Apparently, after doing a bit of research, I found out that Greeks started calling this coffee "Greek coffee" during the events of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus around 1973-74 (obviously for nationalistic reasons...).


  9. Επιβαλλουν ονομασια για διαφορετικο λογο.

     

    Σκεψου το διαφορετικα. Ειναι σα να ζεις στο Τεξας (το οποιο ειναι πολιτεια των Ηνωμενων Πολιτειων) και μια ωραια πρωια η επαρχια του Μεξικου που συνορευει με το Τεξας κυρησει την ανεξαρτησια της απο το Μεξικο κι ονομαζει το κρατος αυτο "Τεξας" (και διαφοροι Μεξικανοι του καινουργιου "Τεξας" βγαζουν στη φορα διαφορους χαρτες που να δειχνουν το Τεξας της Αμερικης σα κομματι του δικου τους "Τεξας").

     

    Πως νομιζεις οτι θα αντιδρουσε η Αμερικη κι οι Αμερικανοι σε μια τετοια περιπτωση?

     

    Εγω λεω οτι θα ειχαν μπει με τανκς μεσα και δε θα ειχαν αφησει ρουθουνι. Εσυ τι λες?

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