#nteni markora

Artemy: so you are saying that you've never done anything wrong?

Hi there!

2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad? 

I want to see to the whole world, so abroad!

14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?

Yes, a lot, especially the older classic cinema and television, they’re top notch. I was kinda disappointed in most modern cinema (too pretentious) and tv (too dumb), but some nice initiatives these later years give me hope:)

15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?

OH.GOD. They’re so many! We love our dictums, our popular sayings and especially our memetic quotes from tv or old movies! They’re so numerous and so funny I think I will have to do a separate post sometime. But for example…

-NO MORE COAL! (Όχι άλλο κάρβουνο!) - It’s from an older movie, where a sailor relates in court how a ship was sunk,because they didn’t stop stuffing coal in the furnaces. We use it when we just!can’t! about something, or think something is too much/has been talked or done to death.

- Well I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have a nice atmosphere here,really… (Λοιπόν δεν ξέρω αν το προσέξατε, αλλά είμαστε μια ωραία ατμόσφαιρα είμαστε…) - Older classic movie again, an awkward family affair. When the atmosphere is decidedly NOT nice XD

BONUS

-This lady here is THE BADDEST BITCH of greek tv, Nteni Markora from “Dyo Ksenoi” (Δυό Ξένοι,Two Strangers). Everything that comes out of her high class mouth is memetic. In the gif she calls someone “a cross between a badger and an anteater”. But her greatest IMO quote, and quite often used by yours truly is:

“Once upon a time we hid ourselves from the Communists,now we ask them to hide us. Christ! What decadence!”

(Άλλοτε κρυβόμασταν από τους κομμουνιστάς, τώρα τους ζητάμε να μας κρύψουν. Χριστέ μου! Τι ντεκαντάνς!”)

I don’t feel like providing context XD

18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language? 

No. People joke about the accent of my region, but my native city actually speaks the “clearest” Greek next to Athens.

24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country? 

Ha, Greeks have quite the acidic wit. We mostly joke about whoever we have history or contemporary issues with so, we joke about Turks,Albanians, Germans (these later years especially we joke ALOT about them), Americans, Brits…but I don’t think we joke about anyone as much as about ourselves XD