Ask A Bulgarian

[gay_Aleks]

Yes, but we use the superior Slavic alphabet so it wouldn't translate well over here in CFC.

 

[SouthernKing]

Do you get good doner kebab/shawarma in Bulgaria?

 

[cybrxkhan]

Yes, but we use the superior Slavic alphabet so it wouldn't translate well over here in CFC.

I vnderstandeth thy answere. I believeth thovgh, yonder effeckte is the same, nay? If onlie I covlde readeth svch fine langvage of Sclavinia, thovgh it is inferior to the Roman scripte!

 

[Takhisis]

Well, it is time to re-re-ressurect this thread once more, with a question:
Why? I mean, why are you interested in a minor country in the middle of nowhere?

That's the American way. Gotta bring democracy to obscure corners of the world.

Otherwise it'd be mainstream.

Hipsterism… damn kids and their newfangled ways.

Hark, Sir Tolnie of Bvlgarie! Today I hath a qvestione for thee: art there a manner of speeche, or writinge of yonder Bvlgarian langvage, vvhich, like "Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe" that I doth useth at this momente, mimickes the anciente mannere of the Bvlgarian langvage in a seeminglie accvrate, bvt in trvth horridlie incorreckte and wronge manner? If svch style of speech existeth, how doth it differ frome normal Bvlgarian?

Churche Slavonicke, surelie.

Do you get good doner kebab/shawarma in Bulgaria?

Remove kebab!

 

[Domen]

Try to remove a kebab in just 8 bit(e)s.

Spoiler :

Link to video.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Do you get good doner kebab/shawarma in Bulgaria?

Depending on wherever the owner wants to poison you or merely take your money.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Wait WAIT Bulgaria had a wall to keep people in ????
And then you removed the wall, and then rebuilt the same wall ........

Bulgaria Puts Up a New Wall, but This One Keeps People Out

LESOVO, Bulgaria — Less than two decades after the painstaking removal of a massive border fence designed to keep people in, Bulgarian authorities are just as painstakingly building a new fence along the rugged Turkish border, this time to keep people out.

Faced with a surge of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa — and the risk that they include jihadis intent on terrorist attacks — Europe is bolstering its defenses on many fronts, including this formerly Communist country, which little more than a quarter-century ago was more concerned with stanching the outbound flow of its own citizens to freedom. For the past 16 months, Bulgaria has been carrying out a plan that would sound familiar to anyone along the United States-Mexico frontier: more border officers, new surveillance equipment and the first 20-mile section of its border fence, which was finished in September.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/w...a-new-wall-but-this-one-keeps-people-out.html

 

[Takhisis]

Good old 'schland had one as well.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Wait WAIT Bulgaria had a wall to keep people in ????
And then you removed the wall, and then rebuilt the same wall ........

My friend, welcome to Bulgaria! In dearest country, we take our time. A highway here took...4 decades to build.

 

[Tahuti]

A highway here took...4 decades to build.

Sounds like the Dutch national railways trying to build a new piece of track!

 

[cybrxkhan]

VVovldst thov rather thov art a Tvrk, a Greek, or a Macedonian?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Neither. All of them are miserable Balkan folks, and I am already one as since as I was born.

 

[Takhisis]

My friend, welcome to Bulgaria! In dearest country, we take our time. A highway here took...4 decades to build.

Sounds very Latin-American to me.

Sounds like the Dutch national railways trying to build a new piece of track!

This shows that democracy (as opposed to Monarchy and Communism) is a better government.

VVovldst thov rather thov art a Tvrk, a Greek, or a Macedonian?

*wert

Neither. All of them are miserable Balkan folks, and I am already one as since as I was born.

The Greeks have a wider variety of alcohols to drink themselves to death with.

 

[gay_Aleks]

The Greeks have a wider variety of alcohols to drink themselves to death with.

[citation needed]

 

[Oerdin]

How have land prices changed in Bulgaria since it entered the EU? In Croatia I hear so many expats rushed in to buy up ocean front property that young Croats can no longer afford it; that is a double edged sword though as older Croats who owned land sold at high prices and so made big money. The problem is for the young who now can't afford to buy a home in the town they grew up. Have there been similar problems in Bulgaria or has it escaped the rush of retirees from western Europe looking to retire some where warm and cheap?

 

[gay_Aleks]

How have land prices changed in Bulgaria since it entered the EU? In Croatia I hear so many expats rushed in to buy up ocean front property that young Croats can no longer afford it; that is a double edged sword though as older Croats who owned land sold at high prices and so made big money. The problem is for the young who now can't afford to buy a home in the town they grew up. Have there been similar problems in Bulgaria or has it escaped the rush of retirees from western Europe looking to retire some where warm and cheap?

The market, as far as I can see, is a bloody mess with prices going up and down. Generally, however, as a rule of a thumb, property in Sofia is expensive, seaside property is even more expensive, and that hi-rise is actually a wheatfield.

And, well, let's say that wealthy Western retirees did come. Sadly, instead of panoramic sights and friendly people, they found spiteful asses and gypsies (or Roma for the friendly peoples out there.) to be all that inhabits their cheap property. Then the recession hit and most of them bailed out.

 

[Tahuti]

[citation needed]

My worst experience with alcohol was with Bulgarian rakia.

[Note: I actually meant what I wrote here]

 

[gay_Aleks]

Unfortunately, due to the specific process rakia is made through (i.e, take a fruit, then stick it in a barrel to ferment for 3 months), the results can be..varying.

 

[Takhisis]

Ima rakia!

 

[FriendlyFire]

My friend, welcome to Bulgaria! In dearest country, we take our time. A highway here took...4 decades to build.

O____o 500 meters of landlines, you crazy crazy Bulgarians
Also why have you not fled to Germany already ?

Cold War relic that had been the southern edge of the Iron Curtain. It was actually two fences, stretching across the entire land border, with a 500-meter minefield between them, designed to prevent residents of Communist nations from sneaking into the West.

The fence was dismantled piece by piece, he said, “and we very carefully removed each of the mines, one by one.”

Now, as a professor of national and international security at New Bulgarian University, Mr. Radulov is watching with some disbelief as the new barrier rises to take its place.

Tahani Halad Hamza, 21, was studying biology in Mosul, Iraq, when the fighting erupted there.

Her family hopes to get to Germany, she said,

“The only difference between Bulgaria and Syria is the conflict,” she said. “There is no work in either place.”