Ask A Bulgarian

[cybrxkhan]

Prease arso to aporogise for not having as big a postcount-u as me, cybrxkhan-me.

I'm sorry I'm not as glorious as you, Takihisu-san, this is a great dishonor for me.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Somehow, you tend to interpret frugality and being a friggan' cheapskate as the same.

The second part of your post seems to point at your being good at playing Barbarians in RPGs.

Well, that's why I asked him if being a cheapstake is what he understands by "frugal". If yes, then I'd say we're all frugal and stuff. If no, well, he'd be pretty close to what's really happening - we're cheapstakes who buy easily breakable stuff due to mentality which is stuck in our brains caused by, well, generally, history.

Is a sign made by sticking your thumb out through your bunched fist taken to mean anything in Bulgaria?

Make a guess. Signs are all about being visual and delivering context.

In this case however, it'd be a sign for a dick for the really dedicated to getting that extra-offensiveness out there.

Maybe you should go to another store…

Maybe I should go to a different country...

Imagine what would have happened if Stalin had been a man of his word and allowed Bulgarian Yugoslavism to prosper in the 1950s, eventually joining Bulgaria as the 7th Republic!

Well, instead of verbally shouting at Macedonians every time they decide a piece of our history was theirs, I'd be actually shooting at Macedonians.

And I wouldn't have internet access, so it means that I wouldn't have spammed nearly 5k posts here.

So it all evens out, in the end, I guess.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Why did Bulgaria join the Germans in WW2 ?
Why did Bulgaria then join the Soviets in WW2 ?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Why did Bulgaria join the Germans in WW2 ?
Why did Bulgaria then join the Soviets in WW2 ?

To both question: Several thousand Nazi/Soviet troops happening to be hangin' 'round, plus a round of Germanophiles being the government and the only one able to get us out of this unscathed was poisoned in 1943. C'est a vie.

 

[Takhisis]

I'm sorry I'm not as glorious as you, Takihisu-san, this is a great dishonor for me.

Fear ashamed not, for not everyone is as cool as me.

Well, that's why I asked him if being a cheapstake is what he understands by "frugal". If yes, then I'd say we're all frugal and stuff. If no, well, he'd be pretty close to what's really happening - we're cheapstakes who buy easily breakable stuff due to mentality which is stuck in our brains caused by, well, generally, history.

People are too poor to buy cheap, but not everyone realises it.

Make a guess. Signs are all about being visual and delivering context.

In this case however, it'd be a sign for a dick for the really dedicated to getting that extra-offensiveness out there.

Wrong gonad…

Maybe I should go to a different country...

Argentina awaits you with open arms and sharpened knives!

Well, instead of verbally shouting at Macedonians every time they decide a piece of our history was theirs, I'd be actually shooting at Macedonians.

And I wouldn't have internet access, so it means that I wouldn't have spammed nearly 5k posts here.

So it all evens out, in the end, I guess.

We'd have had even more complicated Yugoslav wars, for sure.

Why wouldn't you have Internet access? The U.S. would've liberated Bulgaria, thinking that it was Bosnia, and you lot would've had chocolates, Internet and porn.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Why dose Bulgaria have a lot of bread ?

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[gay_Aleks]

People are too poor to buy cheap, but not everyone realises it.

Wrong gonad…

Well, the message, and not the anatomy is what matters here.

Argentina awaits you with open arms and sharpened knives!

I already come from a place with abundance of both.

We'd have had even more complicated Yugoslav wars, for sure.

Why wouldn't you have Internet access? The U.S. would've liberated Bulgaria, thinking that it was Bosnia, and you lot would've had chocolates, Internet and porn.

Nah. We'd invade Macedonia, get beaten, lie down for the next 25 years. As history shows, this is what happens to Bulgaria. See: 1878-1944.

 

[Takhisis]

How bad is the reputation of the Turks in Bulgaria? Is 'Turk' uttered as an insult, as in other regions in the Balkans?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Not an insult from the mouth of most people, save for several nationalist snowflakes.
We prefer using Janissary as an swear, really.

 

[Kyriakos]

How bad is the reputation of the Turks in Bulgaria? Is 'Turk' uttered as an insult, as in other regions in the Balkans?

Correct version, as you know, is Tourk.

 

[Perfection]

What's the best thing about being a Bulgarian?

What's the worst thing about being a Bulgarian?

If you could change one thing about Bulgaria what would it be?

What is your most favorite neighboring country?

What is your least favorite neighboring country?

 

[Borachio]

What's the collective noun for a group of Bulgarians? Is it a muttering of Bulgarians?

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm

 

[Tahuti]

How bad is the reputation of the Turks in Bulgaria? Is 'Turk' uttered as an insult, as in other regions in the Balkans?

It is a more general European thing actually. In German, 'getürkt' means fabricated, though it is derived from Turk. In Dutch slang, 'Turken-' can be used pejoratively as a prefix to specific instance of things that are both non-Western and working class: For instance 'Turkenclub' indicates a nightclub where patrons are working class non-whites.

 

[gay_Aleks]

What's the best thing about being a Bulgarian?

What's the worst thing about being a Bulgarian?

If you could change one thing about Bulgaria what would it be?

What is your most favorite neighboring country?

What is your least favorite neighboring country?

1.Being Bulgarian.
2. Living in Bulgaria.
3. Well, most of the history from 1245 onwards. Tall order, so I'll go with Boris III dying later.
4. Well, Greece as succesor of Byzantium, because they did one decent thing during their existence, and that is their culture which shaped Bulgaria in the medieval.
5. While not a real country per se, the best candidate would be Macedonia.

What's the collective noun for a group of Bulgarians? Is it a muttering of Bulgarians?

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm

Crowd of angry protesters?

 

[Tahuti]

4. Well, Greece as succesor of Byzantium, because they did one decent thing during their existence, and that is their culture which shaped Bulgaria in the medieval.
5. While not a real country per se, the best candidate would be Macedonia.

That's surprising. In my experience, Bulgarians tend to be Hellenophobes. And Turkophobes as well. Makedonia, naturally is seen as a Bulgarian brother.

 

[gay_Aleks]

That's surprising. In my experience, Bulgarians tend to be Hellenophobes. And Turkophobes as well. Makedonia, naturally is seen as a Bulgarian brother.

Not a hellenophile. Just appreciative that Byzantium turned us from a barbarian nomads to an actual Christian nation. Granted, the conversion initially was a political move, and so was the mission of Kyril and Methodius, but both took root.
And what kind of a brother steals your history?

It is a more general European thing actually. In German, 'get¨¹rkt' means fabricated, though it is derived from Turk. In Dutch slang, 'Turken-' can be used pejoratively as a prefix to specific instance of things that are both non-Western and working class: For instance 'Turkenclub' indicates a nightclub where patrons are working class non-whites.

Turks aren't considered exotic on account of living here for more than 6 centuries.

 

[Domen]

Makedonia, naturally is seen as a Bulgarian brother.

And what kind of a brother steals your history?

<< because history can't be shared, it always has one exclusive owner >>

 

[Kyriakos]

1.Being Bulgarian.
2. Living in Bulgaria.
3. Well, most of the history from 1245 onwards. Tall order, so I'll go with Boris III dying later.
4. Well, Greece as succesor of Byzantium, because they did one decent thing during their existence, and that is their culture which shaped Bulgaria in the medieval.
5. While not a real country per se, the best candidate would be Macedonia.


Crowd of angry protesters?

Bestmacedonia is far more than a country. It is a mental state.

 

[Domen]

Is it really a different mental state than in case of Bestromania, Bestgreece, Bestbulgaria or any other Balkan nation ???

This book, "History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness":

http://books.openedition.org/ceup/934

Could as well apply to Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, or any other Balkan nation, each seeking for purity in a melting pot.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is it really a different mental state than in case of Bestromania, Bestgreece, Bestbulgaria or any other Balkan nation ???

This book, "History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness":

http://books.openedition.org/ceup/934

Could as well apply to Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, or any other Balkan nation.

Considering that with Bestmacedonia it is:

1) on a different order of magnitude
2) next to other Balkan countries

yes, it is very bad and unusual even for this part of Europe

Even BestIllyria (Albania) is likely hugely saner.