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18.11.2006., subota

CURSE OF A CURSING CURSE

Cursing is relaxing and it's part of a personality. If you are a lady it would be better not to curse but sometimes you really need to. Also, language would be boring without curses. I have some nice ones of my own and I am attached to them severely. Some of them are in, some are out but they are a part of my everyday life. What is the best curse you have ever heard? There is a finnish curse which has a special sound. It has more than a meaning, especailly when you hear those Finns say it, PERRRRRKELE. Actually, the meaning is not hursh at all, at least compared to Croatian curses. Perkele is for hard working people with converged cheek-bones and rough voice. Here is some wiki info about perkele to prove my point:Perkele is a god in the Finnish mythology equivalent of the God of Thunder, which was also referred to as "Ukko", meaning "an old man". The name is originally taken from Indo-European cultures. With Christianity, the priests co-opted Perkele for one of the many names of Satan eventually turning the name of the god to a swearword. Today, "perkele" is one of the most common words of power in the Finnish language. The word also has a special role of realizing and strengthening the Finnish national identity when it is carefully used in occasions of exceptional determination and hard work. Perkele is a name from Finnish mythology that later acquired the meaning of devil. Perkele is probably the most well-known Finnish swearword outside of Finland. When used for expressing one's miscontent or frustration, perkele often suggests that the sayer is determined to solve the problem, even if it will be difficult. It is one of the first Finnish words learned by foreigner, as well as vittu. Vittu is a quite ancient word for the female genitalia but now has the literal meaning of "cunt." Linguistically it is used similar to how 'fuck' is used in English to add force to a statement or express frustration. Often considered extremely profane, its usage is nowadays not only limited to teenager slang, but is often used as an emphasis in a forceful or frustrated expression, as in "Mitä vittua" meaning "what the fuck". There, I hope it was an useful lesson for some of you. Perkele is also a swedish band and, as the picture shows, someone's nick name here in Zagreb. That guy has definitely left his mark, he signed his nick on the former mosque in the center of the town back in 1984. and it is still there. Onnea perkele!

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08.11.2006., srijeda

MARTIN JE U ZAGREBU

Second edition of Martin's pics is out in "take a sneaky peek" section! Enjoy! Few quotes for you: Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -- Unknown He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonnette Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill

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04.11.2006., subota

TEEN HELLOWEEN

Ten years ago on Halloween I was spending some all-night-killer-time in the police station in Samobor. It was a week day, I think. We went to a punk gig and did not expect to stay long. When we came to Samobor in the bowling alley, the concert was already very late. We were waiting for quite some time and then we were told that the concert was canceled. As we found out later, the concert did not have permission to take place, and the organisers were not aware of that. Anyway, we left the alley and walked to the bus terminal. The crowd was wild with disapproval and then the police came to dispel them. By that time I was already half way to the terminal with bunch of my friends. As we were moving away we heard gunshots but we did not pay attention. As we got to the terminal we set down on a sidewalk and we waited for the bus to take us home. Then, out of nowhere, a police van pulled over, guys were armed and they came running out yelling at us to lay on the floor face down with our hands up. They were hitting those who tried to protest with batons. We were all cca 18 then and we were horrified. I avoided hits since I kept extremely low profile. It was pretty cold especially on the concrete...we heard voices of people passing by who were trying to obstruct the disaster. They could not because they were told that they will join us if they do not shut up and leave. After that, they put overmuch of us in that van with no seats and windows and the worst part was that they drove like crazy. We just hoped that we will get alive no matter where they were taking us. As they stopped, we litteraly fell from the van. We saw that we came to some police station and since it was a short ride it must have been Samobor. Whole station was full with people from the concert. Some were drunk, some were beaten, some were quiet, some where protesting, some were just confused. They put us all around the hallway where we were supposed to stand with our hands up on the wall. We had no mobile phones then and I could not call anyone to tell what was happening. If some of us had mobiles then, things would have been different. We were not allowed to go to the toilet and we were called one by one to a serious chat in some room upstairs. It lasted for hours... Finally, it was my turn. They called my ma to tell her where I was (I was already soooo late) and she froze. I remember that my friend's mother came to pick us up and there was 7 of us in the car home. The next few days it was all over the media, worried and resentful parents wondering how can this happen in a democratic state like ours (!!). Who do hell ordered that the special police formation who was very known from the war, abuse their teenage children? There were so many stories of so many people who were there...things have happened that I did not see, I just heard about them later. All the fuss came down pretty quickly and nothing ever happened...authorities did not consider the event as a faut pas. They kinda tried to convince us that we deserved it. I regret that I do not remember more details about that event. All in all, it was pretty nasty. Anyway, people may say this and that about present political power in Croatia, regardless which party is concerned, but I do not think that something like that could happen nowdays. Maybe something has changed in this 10 years...or was it all over and done on decembre 10, 1999?

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01.11.2006., srijeda

Murphy's Laws

Nothing is as easy as it looks. To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view. Two wrongs are only the beginning. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. Every solution breeds new problems.. If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Hello there, Just to tell you all that if you are interested how vizsla of 2 weeks looks like, you can check it out in the gallery! Enjoy! Greetings from Martin!

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