WHY DO WE ENJOY OURSELVES FOR BEING GREEK

* Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices

* Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces

* Because nights in Greece finish in the morning

* Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in
"shots"

* Because flirting is our national hobby

* Because sex is our national sport

* Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks
to get a job in it

* Because we are not puritans

* Because we are not racists

* Because we cheat openly, without trying to hide it

* Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless

* Because we know how to spend better that we know how to save

* 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 do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars

* Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment

* Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan
war)

* Because we are everywhere around the planet

* Because we love and hate with passion

* Because "filotimo" (friend of honour, helping someone because it
is a shame not to) doesn't 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, Pluto 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 others were discovering meat, we already had
cholesterol

* 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 can give anything up just to make love

* Because hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to
get laid

* Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) &
Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both passionately

* Because Eros was a Greek God

* Because we change our cars every three years, our mobile phones
every year and our lover every three days

* Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin were
weaving see-through linen

* Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks"
(Winston Churchill, 1941)

* Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good
anyway

* Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our
medieval alphabet to the Slavs

* Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even
quicker

* Because we are not ashamed to cry

* Because we dance when we are sad

* Because we work to live and we do not live to work

* Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek

* Because although we know danger well, we dare

* Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns
around

* Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our
meal

* Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder

* Because we do not know what anxiety is

* Because although we smoke more than anyone in the world & eat the
most red meat in Europe we live the longest in Europe

* Because we are starting with "just a coffee" early afternoon and
end up off our heads in the morning

* Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there
are traffic jams

* Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there
are traffic jams

* Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00
or 4:00 o'clock in the morning

* Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually
indirect or illegal

* 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 we confront every difficulty with humour

* Because the Olympic games were born here

* Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the
message of peace

* Because we live permanently in the country that foreigners dream
to visit for a week

* Because our sky is blue, not grey

* Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet

* Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words

* Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens

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

* Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still
fresh

* Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned it
into a movie just recently

* Because in Greece nobody is hungry

* Because in Greece nobody is homeless

* Because we speak foreign languages - who learns Greek?

* Because Tsikoudia from Crete is the strongest drink in Europe
(85% alcohol)

* Because we grow hallucinogenic weed without biological
engineering!!

* Because our "model for life" has many curves

* Because we wear sandals without socks

* Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday
morning

* Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"

* Because God did not chose us as His favourite people, but we
chose our Gods

* Because we are European Champions in football

* Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big
hearts

[8D][:-shades]