eastern europe.

[luka]

what do we think about this? im getting a lot of eastern euro stuff on youtube now. living ironically in europe is obviously omnipresent.
i went to hungary in 1993 but otherwise have no experience. i remember the men had brandy for breakfast. it gets the heart started they said. pretty place.

 

[luka]

@mixed_biscuits

 

[luka]

i guess the stereotypes would be sullen, withdrawn, suspicious, brutalised by communism, terrible food, sly, dishonest etc

 

[luka]

bad clothes, chain smokers, alcoholics, theives

 

[luka]

but i grew up next door to hungarians. got on well with them, played loads of football with them, spent lots of time with them. they grew up to be career criminals.

 

[luka]

got some lovely scenery. ive looked it up on google images. wolves roam the landscape.

 

[luka]

o they're notorious racists i guess that needs to be mentioned. determined to subvert the noble EU project of universal brotherhood.

 

[luka]

once i locked myself out the flat and i was weraing shorts and a t-short and i was sleeping on a bench so brutally cold and a romanian homeless man lent me his blanket and i realised they too can have good hearts and from that day on i was no longer prejudiced.

 

[Murphy]

Like a lot of life, you find common ground in your formative years with football teams

And then, when the drugs improved drastically, Red Star won the old European Cup

 

[Murphy]

followed by more telling realities for a continent divided for so long

 

[Murphy]

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

 

[Murphy]

Heard this a lot in specific supermarkets last year

 

[IdleRich]

Hardly an expert on eastern Europe but in my experience I fucking love it, I love the food the booze and the warm hearted nutters.
Eastern Europeans are like southern Europeans but more so.

 

[germaphobian]

The bigger issue here is the fact that people how certain misconception regarding where exactly is Eastern Europe located, but Eastern Europe truly starts (always has and always will) across river Elbe. Berlin, for example, is Eastern Europe too, like the ultimate Eastern Europe really.

 

[germaphobian]

It's been like that ever since Julis Ceasar started to conquer that region.

 

[germaphobian]

Must European blood has been shed due to this confusion about where the real borders of Eastern Europe should be (or the real borders of Western Europe to be more precise)

 

[Murphy]

That’s nice

 

[luka]

Eastern Europeans are like southern Europeans but more so.

Pretty sure the Poles are not that much like the spanish

 

[IdleRich]

Was thinking more of the last place I went in Eastern Europe which was Serbia.

 

[IdleRich]

If you ask people from Russia they would tell you that Poland is western europe.