#croatia mention!!

[n1ckelpistol]

Your polish gardener Hank 🤝 my croatian farmer Hank

The power of slavic Hanks doing agriculture.

I just know he'd kill for his peonies

[bananaa-fever]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A witch unleashed a cucumber cruse that hit all coastal towns in Croatia.

People ate the cursed cucumbers.

A grandma almost died.

[balkanradfem]

How did the Yugoslav Wars affect your childhood? What do you think about other Balkan countries now? Would you like to see Yugoslavia back?

That is a loaded question! I was 5 while it was going on, so I don't exactly remember much, what did affect me was that male soldiers, including my father, had their rage and violence excused with 'he was in the war', which makes me so mad. For all I know they went there to rape women and shoot people, I have zero sympathy for that.

I don't think Yugoslavia will be back unless we the women abandon the boarders, and form our own female-only Yugoslavia, which I would be into. Wars and borders are male construction, we don't benefit from it at all, and there's no reason for us to stand by them.

I love all of the women from all balkan countries. I think all other balkan countries are great, only croatia sucks! I do believe that croatia is specifically a bad country, because we're hushing up the genocide of serbs still, and it's always making me mad. It's still openly nazi, fascist, racist, nationalist and extremely patriarchal country, and it drains me every day to live here.

I find all other balkan nations are at least a bit more chill and tolerant, maybe because they're not constantly hushing up a past genocide. I've noticed croats are very focused on putting blame and bad word on their neighbour countries, which I also believe is a part of the huge victim complex croatia has.

I don't remember anything of Yugoslavia, and my family never told me much (except my mom still being weirdly into the dictator), but I found books in the library detailing how life looked back then, and how close the people were in the past and the community they've formed, and it sounds... like nothing I've ever experienced. I would have loved to see it. All older people talk about the past with the fond, nostalgic tone, describing the local dances, villages working together to harvest crops, having big friend groups and stable work, having much more fun and relaxing times in life than I've ever seen anyone have right now. That made me feel like Yugoslavia had to be much better than what we have right now. But it is all stories, I've never experienced it myself past the age of 5, so I can't speak from real experience.

[eccentrickleptomaniac]

shit content for exactly one guy

[definitely-totally-croatia]

Hey Croatia

Pssssstt

I dare you to tell serbia kosovo is independent

- Washington official

I would do that, but unfortunately there is no Serbia blog *Sob*

[majortomwaits]

one of the reasons why i rewatched Repo Man is because this like three day old Alex Cox interview popped up on my youtube front page, but he's talking about an upcoming movies of his which has a placeholder title My Last Movie and he took a whole minute to clarify that it's not a remake of, and i quote 'Dennis Hopper's immortal classic', it is gonna be a western, a western version of Gogol's Dead Souls and i'm already hooked

[asterjaxx]

very late response but who cares ^_^

so in the olympics 2024 (I was only watching it for ryujin Nippon (jpn national vb team) and for the philippines !) there's volleyball right?

so ryujin nippon was in the olympics blah blah blah. I'm skipping all their previous matches because italy vs japan is what took me into the five stages of grief LMAO

in the quarterfinals, japan and italy were against each other

japan was doing great and amazing in the first two sets, taking them both

but in the third set and so on.. JSHFISNSUF

that score board or whatevehrdhfheb it was the third set and japan had 24 (match point) and italy had 21

and then italy fucking locks in and takes the set and wins the whole match

AND ISHIKAWA (the captain) SAID HE FWELS LIKE HE DIDNT DO GOOD ENOUGH WHEN HE SCORED LIKE MORE TYAN 30 POINTS IN THE WHOEL GAMR

THEY COULDVE TOOK THAT POJNT AAUSHFGHRHDBFJFBCUFBFVTHFB I WAS SO SAD I THOUGHT THEY WOULD WIN I FUCKINSTZByrejgryr

mayeb this is dmore tahn 2 paragraphs .. sorry :3

toodles ^⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠^

yeah a little more than two paragraphs but that's okay

i don't watch sports or care so

[transmasc-wheatley]

it might be euro but i sure wish i didnt vision it

do the audience votes even matter actually. like fr

the jury decided it. ich hasse es hier

[ynwa4eva]

John oliver talking about my country 😚 its about the afd 😞

[dr-drea]

My Top 5 ranking is now a sad list of countries who got robbed at Eurovision 2023

[sunflowervolum-6]

I just finished people we meet on vacations and i have a lot of questions

[soulmvtes]

okay guys top 5 for me was cyprus, albania, finland, slovenia and germany !

[dracolizardlars]

Two months ago I, completely unexpectedly, saw a Eurasian Hoopoe pecking around on someone's front lawn while visiting Tenerife (the most built up, tourist trap area of Tenerife) and it still makes me genuinely HYPE every time I think about it like. I don't even know WHY seeing uncommon birds means so fucking much to me and gets me so excited but it REALLY FUCKING DOES and I'm grateful I have that source of joy bc like 98% of people absolutely Do Not Get It when I express that sentiment

I think a HUGE part of it is that, since the age of about 5, I have been A) reading Britain & Europe bird guides and B) collecting the official RSPB range of bird plushies, and the thing with both of those is that I've spent my whole life very aware of a lot of Cool Birds that either 1) are mainly found in continental Europe / north Africa and only occasionally show up briefly in the UK or 2) are only found, within the UK, in the highlands of Scotland. All these birds I've known the existence of all my life, even played with plushies of in many cases (this includes the hoopoe), but have never had a realistic chance of ever seeing anywhere near where I live in the far south of England. Then as an adult I've travelled and I've finally seen some of these incredibly beautiful looking birds and it is literally a fucking *lifelong dream come true*! It's like getting to meet your favourite fictional character or something. It's so fucking incredible fr!

(The primary "childhood bucket list" birds that remain are the European roller and the European bee-eater, although the latter is lower priority because I've seen other bee-eater species in Africa)

[probayern]

my very scientific research conclusion from this wc is that nothing gets you more hate than hating messi/argentina lmao