Archives for June 29th, 2005

A hostile guide to Slovenia, in Croatian. Click to enlarge.

The
above guide to Slovenia strikes me as pretty goofy, and not in a ha-ha
way. Here are some of the "facts" about Slovenia it lists:

* Slovenes are Alpine Croatians.
* According to new research, Slovenia has a seaside. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen it around Piran and Koper.
* The climate is middle European, in the northwest it’s Alpine, and lately it’s anti-Croatian.
* The war for Slovenian independence (1991-1991) was one of the
bloodiest, longest, and most exhausting in the history of humanity.
* Slovenia has about 1.5 million inhabitants. For comparison: this is
how many people fit in Zagreb’s hippodrome. Of these: 16% are stingy
and selfish; 14% are rude and arrogant; 13% are alternative; 6% are
fat; 51% are women; 0.002% are innocent.

Maybe
I don’t have the right sense of humor, but man is this stupid. Then
again nationalist humor is almost never funny. I’m always reminded
of stuff like Die Brennessel, a patriotic German "humor" magazine that somehow managed never to be funny in seven years.

That said, the above guide is the lamest attempt at Slovenia-related humor since the Austrian newspaper Der Kurier published its ultra-dumb "Welcome to the EU"
cartoons last May. I don’t know how these writers are managing to get
paid for squeezing out such verbal flatulence. I wish I did.

(Thanks Mitja!)