Georgians

Story #1

YOU KNOW YOU ARE GEORGIAN IF :

*Your blood has a permanent alcohol content level, no matter if you have been drinking or not

* Any outfit you wear involves leather and shoes (even in the summer when no coats are worn).

* Your idea of a normal Friday or Saturday night is spending it
raving with 200-300 of your closest friends

* Things you can't live without include food, wine, girls and a cell phone

* People are always asking you if you can get them a cheep deal on something...and you can

* Every sentence you say or hear includes "chemi deda ... " or
"bozi*** viko"

* You know all the cops by their first names (???)

* You are somehow related to most of the people you know

* You drive a BMW (or, in the EXTREME worse case a "zhiguli 06"), and your windows are tinted to twice the legal limit

* Your uncle is in the government or a representative in Parliament

* You can be identified as "Georgian" by your scent (D&G or Aqua di
Gio cologne).

* You've been dating a girl for 4 years and she is still virgin.

* You know you're Georgian if you got 20 speeding, red light, stop
sign tickets, and no record of it in Harrisburg.

* You wake up on a Saturday morning, unable to remember which one of your friends gave you a ride home because you couldn't even walk, but
see your car standing in the parking lot (you drove home yourself).

* You major in Political Science or in worst case scenario Business Administration
* Most of your clothes are fake brand names but you "just can't tell them apart from the real ones."

* You used to work out, but you don't anymore. If you do workout, you must wear all you golden chains and bracelets.

* You have a fake Movado because you can't afford a real Rolex.

* You date a girl for a week then she becomes your wife

* You usually spend 50$ to have sex with a prostitute 3 times a week, and your wife knows it (and she is OK with it ??? )

* You usually want to be N1 but you suck and you know it.
* You smoke weed and you're think you're a tough guy
* You tell every girl you meet "I love you "
* You tell your friends that you broke up with your girlfriend and
she cried all night long and begged you to give her second chance but actually you know who was begging her for second chance (!!!)

* You tell your girlfriend how much money your parents have, how much money you have , and how tough guy you are in Georgia....but actually hardly 3 people have heard of you in Tbilisi.

* You think you're so cool because you're Georgian.... (!!!)

* You have more hair on your chest than a Gorilla in a Zoo (and
you're proud of it )

* If you are a guy first thing you do when you turn your computer is
to go on http://www.HardcorePorn.com to see for new updates since
yesterday.

> If you are a girl, you think Georgian guys are better than
Americans,
> but in the end you get married to an American

Stopy #2

Frederik Coene
5 months is not much, but enough to know a lot. I have seen big parts of the country, read a lot, survived a lot, lived in a family, studied a bit of the language... I know probably more about Georgian politics than the average Georgian mortal. I also did not do like most foreigners... I lived like a Georgian, not like an expat ...

I could talk for hours about what I think about Georgians, but I do not feel as if I should write it down. But general ideas:

- Georgians are the only ones that can help their problems. They are always blaming other people or Russia. Without a good self-diagnose and the will to do something themselves, nothing is going to change.

- Georgians seem to be good talkers. A lot of talking, but doing nothing. All Georgians have good ideas of how it should be, but they lack the will to do it themselves... the implementation phase of their thinking does not happen.

Another sign that Georgians are great talkers is the tamada-culture. A lot of toasts are being said, but unfortunately... quite superficial. The toast always say the greates philosophical and moral theories, but Georgians do not really practice them.

- Georgians, just like all other people from former soviet states, do not appreciate foreign help. In other third world countries, the local population tries to work together with the foreign aid organisations. In the former soviet union, this is different though.

- Most people think that financial and other support to Georgia (but also the rest of the Caucasus) is completely useless and a waste of money.