eastern europe.

[luka]

Tempted to treat that lot as a seperate category

 

[luka]

War crimes, suntans, beautiful beaches, australian party tourists

 

[IdleRich]

Tempted to treat that lot as a seperate category

Serbians?

 

[luka]

When i think of eastern eurpope i more think of the pale morose sullen kind. Men standing round a bin drinking methodically. Not sexy albanian coke dealers in speed boats.

 

[IdleRich]

But they - Serbs - are slavs so that's kinda as eastern-european as you can be isn't it?
I remember Igor saying that a guy was visiting him from Italy, walking round Novi Sad he said "It's just like Europe" - Igor replied "It is Europe you dickhead"

 

[IdleRich]

Loads of Russians in Serbia now, means they started selling vodka in bigger bottles for easier methodical drinking.

 

[luka]

Yeah i know its weird though isnt it thinking of the sexy balkan people as the same breed as the other ones. Doesnt feel right

 

[luka]

Warm weather and beaches is a whole different thing. Even if theyre all technicaly slav

 

[IdleRich]

One of his mates was trying to impress some girl, he wanted to show her the best thing in Serbia... the Croatian coast.

 

[IdleRich]

Warm weather and beaches is a whole different thing. Even if theyre all technicaly slav

Are Albanians Slavs? Not sure they are.

 

[IdleRich]

This put the cat among the pigeons I seem to remember



Proud to be Albanian... albeit playing for Switzerland.

 

[IdleRich]

Isn't that terrible singer that no-one likes from Albanai?

 

[IdleRich]

I didn't mean Dua Lipa but apparently she is Albanian too. I meant Rita Ora.

 

[luka]

Yes they both are

 

[IdleRich]

This put the cat among the pigeons I seem to remember



Proud to be Albanian... albeit playing for Switzerland.

I can see why the Serbs got cheesed off about that, I remember one of them said "If they are so passionate about Albania they should play for Albania" and he's got a point. Seems a bit sneaky to join another to beat Serbia and then celebrate the country you've left.

 

[luka]

Craner said serbs are pure evil though

 

[luka]

I just asked the albanian who works next to me he said hes not a slavic

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah I looked it up too. But Serbs and Bosnians are and Croats too.
Anyway, what about art from Eastern Europe, when I was in Serbia my friend showed me loads of films, what was interesting was that, just as in American films you know that the goodie is going to win, in a Serbian film (not A Serbian Film) you know that everyone is going to die, it's just accepted that at the end the good guys (if there are any) will snuff it. Totally different mentality.

 

[IdleRich]

I've been to Hungary too a couple of times, I think that has a completely different culture again due to the language being so different from that of all their neighbours. Although Budapest does look kinda like Prague etc
I had a friend doing a phd in anthropology and she was staying in a Roma village outside Debrecen, she had to move out though cos they kept nicking her stuff. Not that I blame them, when we went to the village it was the most terrible poverty I've ever seen, "houses" made of sheets of metal leaning together, kids with rotting teeth etc

 

[IdleRich]

I remember enjoying this film but it was so long ago I couldn't tell you anything about it now




It's called The Voyages of Sindbad

The film opens with a sequence of fleeting images - the stamens of a flower, drops of oil on water, glowing embers, a spider's web, a strand of blonde hair, a leaf frozen in the ice, rain dripping from a wooden roof, etc. - each of which will subsequently be linked to one of Szindbád's memories of his love affairs. We then see the body of the dead or dying Szindbád lying in a cart drawn by a horse through the countryside, where nobody any longer seems interested in him. A voiceover (of Szindbád) then introduces a stream of memories, often disconnected and unchronological, of the many women who have been the focus of his life.