eastern europe.

[IdleRich]

There's definitely something quite interesting about the difference between making culture in a language spoken all round the world and making culture in a language spoken in one small country, I don't really know how that affects it but it surely does.

 

[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.

In fact in Balkan Express they all die but then it was so popular they made a sequel so I think they had to come back to life somehow.

 

[IdleRich]

There's definitely something quite interesting about the difference between making culture in a language spoken all round the world and making culture in a language spoken in one small country, I don't really know how that affects it but it surely does.

Because Russian has more speakers than other Slavic languages it has changed and evolved more over the years. I remember Liza saying that whenever she heard people on the tube or whatever speaking other Slavic languages they sounded like backwards idiots speaking a primitive Russian for dummies. But she would say that wouldn't she?

I do agree that the feminine ending in Polish of -ska does lack the elegance of -skaya

 

[luka]

Shall i write you a poem to help win liza back? You dont want that slimeball craner moving in

 

[IdleRich]

He's welcome.

 

[luka]

She deserves better than that

 

[IdleRich]

We were doing so well in not talking about eastern european women....

 

[Corpsey]

I had a guy from Lithuania construct an Amazon chair for me

He was a great guy but he unfortunately dropped some anti Muslim chat and I had to decide if I wanted a probable racist putting up my curtains

I really do need those curtains putting up though

 

[Corpsey]

I lived with a polish woman who was lovely, very funny, I wonder if I should be looking for a polish bride?

Most of my contact with eastern Europeans is noticing small groups of eastern European lads on the tube, always in twos or threes, assume they come over to work here

Actually my mate who lives in Bristol and works as a stonemason also lives and works with some Hungarians. He once visited their homeland with them and they beheaded a pig and he drank the blood or something like that.

 

[IdleRich]

I lived with a polish woman who was lovely, very funny, I wonder if I should be looking for a polish bride?

Most of my contact with eastern Europeans is noticing small groups of eastern European lads on the tube, always in twos or threes, assume they come over to work here

Actually my mate who lives in Bristol and works as a stonemason also lives and works with some Hungarians. He once visited their homeland with them and they beheaded a pig and he drank the blood or something like that.

Probably the first time they did that but they told him it was a tradition.

 

[IdleRich]

When I was at uni my best mate was going out with a girl from Serbia. Her dad was an ex-military psycho whose party trick was apparently putting a matchstick standing up 100m away and then shooting with such accuracy that the bullet would graze the head and light the match. Probably bollocks but my friend really didn't want to meet him anyway, he was very protective. Last day of term he was coming to pick her up, my friend said "well I'll stay over at hers but I'll set the alarm early and fuck off before he arrives" obviously he completely failed to do that and he had to hide under the bed while this maniac was packing all her bags etc

 

[Corpsey]

There's that film Hostel which I think on some level many of us westerners think is a documentary about what happens if you stray too far from the outlook festival site

 

[Corpsey]

And as mixed biscuits pointed out nosferatu features an extended sequence which depicts Romania as a backwards hellhole where peasants dig up corpses and stab them through the heart (and they're right to cos it really is satanically evil over there)

Imagine a similar sequence set in "darkest Africa"

 

[IdleRich]

My older brother‘s been teaching in Krakow for years and is “never coming home”

It is a serene place, off-season, when it isn’t marred by Brits on a stag piss up either being rowdy, or passing out soiling themselves in public

Alcoholic hypocrisies aside, Britain treated Eastern European arrivals like shit. Paid less for longer hours, shared accommodation, usual bs of “but they work so hard” while withholding wages for people who were waking long before dawn

I went on a stag do to Tallinn once, my friend who was getting married was Bangladeshi and everyone on the stag do was muslim except me. Didn't stop them getting properly stuck into the booze and strip clubs (we went to more strip clubs that weekend than I have in the entire rest of my life) but when the food they'd ordered online came as a pork strew instead of a beef one they drew the line. They said "we're muslim we can't eat that" and the waiters had no idea what they were talking about.

I also remember Ahmed getting pulled on stage and stripped naked - I can't believe you saw my willy - by these two girls who rode around on his back and rubbed ice cubes on his nipples etc then suddenly his best man had a moment of clarity and shouted "Ahmed don't do anything you're uncomfortable with". He was so fucked up all weekend he was lucky they let him on the plane.

But these counties offering these stag tour things are entering a real devil's bargain. I think they do it for a bit liking the easy money but when enough boorish brits have pissed on their national statue or something then they realise it wasn't worth it.

 

[IdleRich]

Though when I was in Prague (I must have said this before) we were getting a taxi to the airport and I asked the guy about British tourists and he said "Actually they're not so bad but... " not realising Liza was Russian "...the really awful ones are the Russians, they are so arrogant and.... " and he went on and on that way for the whole forty minute journey. Maybe the best forty minutes of my life in fact.

 

[IdleRich]

There's that film Hostel which I think on some level many of us westerners think is a documentary about what happens if you stray too far from the outlook festival site

Hostel is set in Slovakia but there is a bit where they start talking about "the war" - I think they mixed Slovakia up with Serbia or Slovenia or something.

 

[luka]

I Was sort of tempted to visit slovakia i think it was but then i looked at what they eat and quickly changed my mind

 

[IdleRich]

I Was sort of tempted to visit slovakia i think it was but then i looked at what they eat and quickly changed my mind

What was it that put you off?

 

[luka]

Tripe, horse sausage, cabbage

 

[luka]

Rank. Stewed slop. Countryside looked pretty though