Post by dijana on Apr 9, 2005 10:44:53 GMT 10
- Your father always has a shot of Rakija for breakfast.
- The minute church services are over you go straight for the bar and get smashed.
- You only go out of town for Macedonian Tournaments and Dances.
- Even if you're a girl, your parents call you "sine".
- You are hopelessly trying to bring the Macedonian community in Australia together.
- Your uncle makes his own wine that's stronger than 'rakija'.
- Your mother insists that 'promaja' will kill you.
- Your mother insists you must eat something with 'Sirenje' at least three times a week.
- You base your whole life on the fortune in your coffee cup.
- You use 'Rakija' to cure all illnesses, celebrate all occasions and as a massage lotion.
- You celebrate Christmas, Easter and New Years two weeks after everyone else.
- Your baba will not accept the fact that you're just not hungry.
- Your parents constantly say you'll end up a nobody if you don't graduate from University.
- You go to your baba's house, she offers you supa, sarma, piperki or Kolbasi and gets upset when you don't eat EVERYTHING.
- You are at a zabava and the guys try picking you up by asking, 'Hey baby, what's your slava?'.
- All other action stops when you hear the music of 'Ogan da go gori' or 'Biser Balkanski'
- When your mum calls you 'stoka'.
- You can always smell garlic on your parents' breath and they insist it kills all bacteria.
- Your walls are crowded with icons of saints.
- You have a Goce Delcev picture on the wall.
- There's a slab of fat in your fridge called 'SLANINA'.
- Your parents still prefer to buy tapes rather than CDs.
- Your mum has a whole pharmacy in her medicine cabinet.
- Your parents think everything is a conspiracy
- You have gone to at least 3 Macedonian protests in the city.
- Your old man hits you more because you are still crying.
- Your parents tell you that Virginity (for girls only) is more important than your life.
- You deinitely know your a Maco when the 'Kisela Voda' from the village of Dolno Dupeni is supposed to taste nicer than Evian mineral water.
- You have at least a whole 'tengere' left over with food after the whole family has eaten.
- If there is something wrong in the family, it definitely has something to do with 'Magija'.
- Everyone asks you how much money you made on your wedding night.
- You constantly get asked how much money you make at work and how big your home loan is.
- The longer you live with your parents after you get married the better off you are because you can save up enough money to buy a $400,000 home in cash.
- You don't have a middle name.
- Your wife has to make you food eveyday and if she doesn't she is not a 'domakjinka'.
- If you are caught doing the vacuuming by your mum or dad, they say that you are under the thumb and your wife's parents are laughing at you
- You have atleast 20 grand cash in the roof or under the pillow.
- Your parents invite 500 people over to your house because you proposed to your girlfriend.
- If you dont go overseas for your honeymoon, people think that you are having financial problems.
- Your parents can eat 'luti piperki' like chocolate and not break out in a sweat.
- The house has to be vacummed atleast 10 times a week.
- After a late night out with your mates on a Friday night, your mum comes into your room at 8:00 in the morning and vacuums your room and tells you to get up because it's almost lunch time... and then she accidently sprays windex on your face because she is trying to also clean the bed head.
- If you are seen drunk at a 21st by an oldie, your parents find out the next day and call you a "pijanica".
- Your fridge always has more beer than food, just in case 'gosti' come over.
- You always bargain at the market and try to get discounts.
