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>* Because we are European Champions in Soccer
>* Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices
>* Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces
>* Because nights in Greece finish in the morning
>* Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in "shots"
>* Because flirting is our national hobby
>* Because sex is our national sport
>* Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it
>* Because we are not puritans
>* Because we are not racists
>* Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless
>* Because we know how to spend better that we know how to save
>* Because we never visit others empty handed
>* Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what "kapsoura" is... (burning desire for someone)
>* Because to Greeks, family is still something valuable
>* Because we do not share the cost of petrol with those we take in our cars
>* Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment
>* Because for the sake of a woman we would wage war for 10 years (Trojan war)
>* Because we are everywhere around the planet
>* Because we love and hate with passion
>* Because the word "filotimo" (a friend of honor, helping someone because it is a shame not to) doesn't exist in any other language
>* Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they bloody steal one of ours
>* Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family, not with therapists and
>counsellors
>* Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek and we still quote from them
>* Because we invented theatre
>* Because we gave birth to Democracy
>* Because we discovered logic
>* Because we jumpstarted science
>* Because we invented Pizza (yes it is true...)
>* Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars
>* Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol
>* Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping under trees
>* Because when others created wars, we created games to stop wars
>* Because we can give anything up just to make love
>* Because Hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to get Laid
>* Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both passionately
>* Because Eros was a Greek God
>* Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin we were weaving see-through linen
>* Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" (Winston Churchill, 1941)
>* Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes damn good anyway
>* Because we tossed our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval alphabet to the Slavs
>* Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker
>* Because we are not ashamed to cry
>* Because we dance when we are sad and party when we are happy
>* Because we work to live and we do not live to work
>* Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek
>* Because although we know danger well, we dare
>* Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns around
>* Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal
>* Because a woman with a big arse is just as sexy as the woman with the small one
>* Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder
>* Because we do not know what anxiety is
>* Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
>* Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
>* Because it is safe to walk the streets at 4.00 in the morning. Full stop.
>* Because we are direct
>* Because we never report people who cheat
>* Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually, indirect or illegal
>* Because we have tendencies to extremity
>* Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18
>* Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl on grass or jump into fountains, or go to solariums
>* Because we confront every difficulty with humor
>* Because the Olympic games were born here
>* Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace
>* Because our sky is blue, not gray
>* Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet
>* Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words
>* Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens
>* Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means
>* Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still fresh
>* Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood, with all its SFX couldn't do a better job now.
>* Because in Greece nobody is hungry
>* Because in Greece nobody is homeless
>* Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!
>* Because our "model for life" has many curves
>* Because we wear sandals without socks
>* Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday morning
>* Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"
>* Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts
And I have more where that came from, including how to raise a Greek daughter. I LOVE IT.
Yeah I don't know what's up with all this posting lately, I guess I really don't have a life. And I'm also procrastinating doing my gopo outline & euro dbq. Zehra is going to kill me. LOL
So I was physically assaulted and harassed in Strathmore this morning? Thanks Nick, I love you too. *growlz*
Okay and about that Colts game yesterday....WTF? I want the Seahawks to win everything. I love Hasselback. <3