You Know You Are a True Greek When...

[Hellenika]

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1) You respond to Rai or Morei.

2) You consider a koboloi to be a stress reliever.

3) Your parents believe that there is a conspiracy behind everything.

4) Your mother gets vicious on Jehovah Witnesses.

5) You bring your Greek flag to WWF event.

6) You know the Greek version of Ms. Cleo, she can tell you your future from the bottom of a coffee cup.

7) You have been so bored in church that you have imagined being Luke Skywalker with your labatha and that the priest was Darth Vader.

8) Fakais help fuel up your house in the winter.

9) Your luggage smells like: oregano, ouzo, figs, kefalotiri, loukoumia etc. It is also wrapped with string.

10) You have raised booze money by singing the kalanda.

11) Survivor and Big Brother are a joke after having spent a summer in the Horio.

12) You know that there is no mouthwash or toothpaste strong enough to conquer tzatziki.

13) You know that in Greece taxi driver means tour guide.

14) Your family argues over: Pasok vs. Nea Demokratia, Olympiakos vs. Panathinaikos, sheep vs. goats, feta vs. kefalotiri, & land vs. money, etc.

15) The closest you have come to winning the lottery is finding the flori in the Vasilopita.

16) You know that the term "Car Pool" in Greece means 3 on a donkey.

17) Somebody calls out your name at a family gathering and 5 people respond.

18) Your father still has Greek 8-Track tapes and a player.

19) Your parents know "Horiatika Martial Arts", they are trained with such moves as: the "traditional skabeelee", the always-dangerous "anapothee", the "sto dialo sfaliara", and the torture techniques, which involve the pulling of the ears or sideburns.

20) Your parents are also trained to use weapons such as: The "kolo killing koutala", the "flying padofla", the "lethal loureeda", and let's not forget a classic: The "vicious vairga."

[Prokomenos]

20) Your parents are also trained to use weapons such as: The "kolo killing koutala", the "flying padofla", the "lethal loureeda", and let's not forget a classic: The "vicious vairga."

Haha thats a good one.

[Hellenika]

Originally Posted by Prokomenos
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Haha thats a good one.

Yep, and this too "Horiatika Martial Arts", LOL My mother threatened the anapothee all the time. To be exact, "tha fas anapothee or "tha sou thoso mia anapothee" usually reserved for when I talked back. Which was a lot.
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[Behelit]

Originally Posted by Hellenika
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5) You bring your Greek flag to WWF event.

LOL

I have seen so much greek flags where there should not be one.
i think some greeks don't go out without his flag !

[Female]

I found another list
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Why being a Greek is great

- Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts.
- Because we never visit others empty handed.
- Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is "kapsoura"(burning desire for someone).
- Because in Greece family is still something valuable.
- Because we always make it, sometimes in the last moment.
- Because we were slaves for 400 years yet never bring that up as an excuse for our current state.
- Because we are everywhere around the planet.
- Because "filotimo" (friend of honour, helping someone because it is a shame not to) does not exist in any other language.
- Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours.
- Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family, not with shrinks.
- Because Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Greek.
- Because we invented theatre.
- Because we gave birth to Democracy.
- Because we discovered logic.
- Because we jumpstarted science.
- Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
- Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping on trees
- Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for peace by making wars.
- Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) and Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both of them passionately.
- Because Eros was a Greek God.
- Because we gave the oath "freedom or death".
- Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin we were weaving see-through linen.
- Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" (Winston Churchill,1941).
- Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans & our medieval alphabet to the Slavs.
- Because we are not ashamed to cry.
- Because we dance when we are sad.
- Because we work to live and do not live to work.
- Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek.
- Because when you shout "brother or cousin " in the streets everyone turns around.
- Because the inside of all our churches are not dark but full of light.
- Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18. Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl on grass or jump into fountains.
- Because our sun is healthy-you know this, bc grandma say it's good for your bones
- Because we confront every difficulty with humor.
- Because the Olympic games were born in Greece.
- Because, with OUR (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace.
- Because our sky is blue, not grey.
- Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words.
- Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means.
- Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned it into a movie just recently
- When you people were eating leaves, we had cholesterol.

[Prokomenos]

Good one Female!

[Mr.pSyChO!]

Omg... I haven't noticed before all these greek 'habits'. lol

So true... so true...
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[Apollyon]

Originally Posted by Female
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I found another list
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Why being a Greek is great

- Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means.

Yes, we know what kefi means (diaskedasi) , but kefi is a turkish word!

Originally Posted by Hellenika
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10) You have raised booze money by singing the kalanda.

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Its a good idea. Money for booze and coffee.
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[Megale]

Originally Posted by Apollyon
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Yes, we know what kefi means (diaskedasi) , but kefi is a turkish word!

Its a good idea. Money for booze and coffee.
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Wouldn't "glendi" be a better word than "kefi??"

[Ellinas]

Originally Posted by Megale
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Wouldn't "glendi" be a better word than "kefi??"

They don't mean the same thing. Γλέντι means party/celebration/wassail. Κέφι means cheer/good mood - or propensity to fun as Female said.

Also I wouldn't say that διασκέδαση (mentioned by Apollyon) is a word having the same meaning with κέφι. Διασκέδαση means amusement/entertainment. I would say that words of exclusively Greek origin that can replace κέφι are καλή διάθεση or ευθυμία