#slovenia facts

[genericpuff]

Hi I’m from Slovenia!

A small country in shape of a chicken. I apologise if it’s too late for interesting facts of our country but I wanted to share some, because we are not really well known except for some sports.

We have a legend about white snake with crown who is a queen of all snakes and she brings good luck. Her crown is known that it multiplies things, so if you put it in bag of cookies now you have never ending amount of cookies as long the crown is in the bag.

Another one is about slipper stealing cat. It’s not actually a legend, it’s written by Ela Peroci but it’s widely used for disciplining children, every kid knows about her. If you don’t take care of your slippers and keep them in order a cat will come and take them away.

For just one small tidbit our former president spoiled the ending of last James Bond film on instagram and it was a whole thing, he received so much backlash for this.

I hope that were some interesting facts about my country, because I learned a lot from previous asks.

I hope you have a nice day.

... omg i totally see it-

these are all so good, cats stealing slippers?? my heart?? 🥺❤️

I feel like I've learned a lot today too!! I'm so glad so many people stepped forward to share their own culture's stories and legends and fun facts, this was a really wholesome and humbling experience! Thank you so much for sharing yours <3 <3

[dis-mr-slovenia]

Bro's fursona 🐔

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

17 year old vita??? in the mv of kris and jan's old band buržuazija in 2019? WHAT THE HELL?

[plushytoast]

As a Slovenian, I am continually flabbergasted by the fact that Joker Out remains a thing on international hellsite, tumblr.com.

[world-of-advice]

[protoindoeuropean]

Knjigobube (from knjiga ‘a book’ + buba ‘a pupa’; I’d translate it as “bookbuds”) was [RIP Epta] a children’s book reading program where after reading a book, you would create some art on a page spread inside the provided drawing book, based on what you’ve read of course. Parents and children were supposed to create it together. (The drawing book itself contained suggestions: what to draw, which techniques to use and what kind of materials, which part the parent should do and which part the child etc.)

Anyway, these are some of mine 😌

[s4pphic-sh3nan1gans]

I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY BAMBIE THUG GOT THROUGH AAAAAA

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #808:

Slovenia was the first nation to send a drag act to Eurovision. In 2002 the trio drag act Sestre performed their song "Samo Ljubezen" in Tallinn. They finished 13th overall.

[Source]

"Eurovision in 'Blue and Red': Slovenia at the Song Contest," Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Tallinn 2002: Sestre, Eurovision.tv.

[olm-facts]

Olm Fact #2

Despite The Fact That Their Eyes Are Covered By Skin And Very Rudimentary, They Can Still Detect Light

[mchundawat]

Who would you love to visit Slovenia during autumn with? 🍂

[innovation-daughter]

put a down-payment on an apartment with roommates, gonna be moving in and starting work in september i really am just a young teenage girl almost 22 years old and i am all up for it

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

i was watching the lps osem korakov bts videos and cursed doll showed up!

[jazzerdoc]

🥹🥹🥹

online friends

“my friend the electrical engineer,” i say, or of someone else: “my friend the Canadian,” “my friend in Denver.” and i am down south, states and miles away.

“how did you meet?” they ask, puzzled by how far-flung my friendships. “the internet,” i say, a little proud, a little defensive because the next words are inevitable.

they always ask with a mix of amusement and horror. always. “have you met in person? no? how can you be sure it’s not an old pervert in his mother’s basement, a serial killer on the prowl?”

how can we be sure of anyone? the man who married a pastor’s daughter, then shot his pregnant wife in the back of the head–they thought they knew him. but these anonymous souls: they’re my friends.

we talk of books and ideas, family and differences in where we live and why we do what we do, and trade stupid jokes like candy, sweet and inclusive and joyful. my friends. my soul friends, who i meet on the internet.

friendships are not born of handshakes. they’re born of shared things and shared interests and sometimes just because you’re human and i’m human, and that praise God is enough. even over the internet, that is enough.

[shrews-things]

Ough the Yearning......

[protoindoeuropean]

i'm breaking my silence on the us elections to make two comments:

1) maybe when they replace biden, the us american political establishment will find out that they can in fact carry out an electoral campaign that lasts less than half a year, as is the case in most normal countries,* and take that as a lesson for the future (they won't, but still)

2) the whole voting pro:contra discourse is so baffling. in what world is "suck it up and vote" a good tactic to convince people to vote? like, someone addresses me like that and i will just automatically recoil. a lot of these posts are just very off-putting with the entitled attitude they're projecting. like, pushing the blame for electoral failures from politicians to the people who should've (??) voted for them just turns around completely the fact that politicians should customarily be accountable to the electorate. not the other way around. and wrt (??): why do you even think a certain group of people is supposed to vote for someone in the first place?

but also if you do want to steer politicians in a certain direction, publicly saying you will never vote for them is just throwing away your influence. even if you don't plan on voting! like, whether you do vote or not is your private matter and nobody will know what you do in the end, so whatever. but if you do have political goals you want to see realized, it only makes sense that your (appearance of) support is conditional. and always conditional, it goes both ways – blanket support is as toothless as blanket opposition. so yes, i find both cries that any and all criticisms of biden must be psyops as well as people convincing others that voting for democrats is always in vain quite baffling, at least as far as tactics go. you might prefer not to be strategic for whatever personal reasons and i have nothing to say to that**

and on this point as well, treating voting or not voting as some deeply moral act is misguided, i think. politics operates at a scale where one individual person has very little power, so to fault people for decisions on this level seems disproportionate if nothing else

[maiteo]

Georgia why do u hate Portugal but not Spain :( im jk they were so fun to watch it’s sad to see them go

that abysmal performance by portugal played a huge role in that win let’s be real

but true! I love a good cinderella story yk & it was nice for them to get a win, hoping they can keep the success up in the future