His site hasn't been updated for almost 2 months.
His facebook for over 1 month.
Last activity on his facebook is a virus post 2 weeks ago.
Is he dead?
Did he have a mental breakdown?
Cummon, Karl, people have paid you good money to post insipid platitudes about Serbia and you're letting them down!
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
'Anonymous' commentators
Hello fans/friends/frennemies.
I truly love all the comments I get on this bog. I enjoy them all.
I wish I could disable 'anonymous' posting. I could force people to log into google and post from a verified account, but I definitely don't want to do that. I want people to be able to post anonymously, but I would rather that people select "name/url" and type a name, any name.
It doesn't reveal your identity in any way, but it would be a little more interesting if one could differentiate between posters and it wasn't all just "anonymous".
Would you do me the favor? :)
I truly love all the comments I get on this bog. I enjoy them all.
I wish I could disable 'anonymous' posting. I could force people to log into google and post from a verified account, but I definitely don't want to do that. I want people to be able to post anonymously, but I would rather that people select "name/url" and type a name, any name.
It doesn't reveal your identity in any way, but it would be a little more interesting if one could differentiate between posters and it wasn't all just "anonymous".
Would you do me the favor? :)
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Comments are more frequent.
Looks like I get linked from b92.net every few weeks by some angry, I'm thinking teenager (hopefully) with Serbian roots posting from the USA. It's really boosting site traffic and I appreciate the all the comments - especially the furious ones. Keep em coming!
Don't have much to say, but the last "last post" has been up for far too long. Gotta post something :)
Don't have much to say, but the last "last post" has been up for far too long. Gotta post something :)
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Croatia and Montenegro suck too.
So, I decided to have a little trip to the Adriatic coast. wrong
decision. General impression of Croatia: a country of people
reluctantly forced into the tourism industry - desperate for your
tourist dollars, but wishing you would just fuck right off after you've
given it to them. Like Serbs, expecting that you'll loooooooooooooooove
their little country because it's self-evidently the best place on
earth. You're swarmed by toothless grandmas at the bus station who want
you to stay at their "hotel" who then get furious if you don't take the
room because it includes their chain-smoking deadbeat son hanging out in
the livingroom ("don't worry, he sleeps on the balcony").
They are fundamentally arrogant, like Serbs. They don't accept credit cards at major transport hubs. Why would they? They've already deigned to allow you into their wonderful country to take your money. Their bus station, their rules. now give me your cash and fuck off. The way-inflated prices for visiting another balkans dump is another symptom of this arrogance. No, you're not Italy or France or Monaco. I predict the free market will eventually crush Croatia (after a brief up-tick after EU ascension). People will visit once but not bother returning for a second visit.
Also, they are hypersensitive about the nomenclature of the language they speak. Croatian and Serbian are different languages like New Hampshire English and Louisiana English are different languages. Maybe you could make such a case, but it would be stupid to stamp your foot and insist that they ARE different languages. Anyway. If someone tells you "you speak Croatian wonderfully", don't tell them, "thanks, I learned it in Belgrade". Just a heads-up :)
Montenegro is Croatia on food-stamps. Same shit, but with a little less corn in it.
If you're in the region, skip Croatia, nevermind Montenegro. You get a better bang for your buck in Turkey, especially after this current political situation there dies down.
They are fundamentally arrogant, like Serbs. They don't accept credit cards at major transport hubs. Why would they? They've already deigned to allow you into their wonderful country to take your money. Their bus station, their rules. now give me your cash and fuck off. The way-inflated prices for visiting another balkans dump is another symptom of this arrogance. No, you're not Italy or France or Monaco. I predict the free market will eventually crush Croatia (after a brief up-tick after EU ascension). People will visit once but not bother returning for a second visit.
Also, they are hypersensitive about the nomenclature of the language they speak. Croatian and Serbian are different languages like New Hampshire English and Louisiana English are different languages. Maybe you could make such a case, but it would be stupid to stamp your foot and insist that they ARE different languages. Anyway. If someone tells you "you speak Croatian wonderfully", don't tell them, "thanks, I learned it in Belgrade". Just a heads-up :)
Montenegro is Croatia on food-stamps. Same shit, but with a little less corn in it.
If you're in the region, skip Croatia, nevermind Montenegro. You get a better bang for your buck in Turkey, especially after this current political situation there dies down.
Saturday, August 10, 2013
"If you don't like it, get out"
If you find yourself about to click 'reply' on one of my posts and have nothing to say but "if you don't like it, get out", I suggest you save your energy. Many half-wits before you have posted the same, so you're not really adding anything.
Same with "why are you here". I've answered that question a few times in various comments.
If you really can't see how someone could get satisfaction out of the projects they are doing yet still hate the surroundings they are in, then you are suffering from poverty of your imagination.
Even if I didn't actually hate it, which I do, there is so much in Serbia that is objectively ridiculous, why wouldn't I post about it for the amusement of myself and others? As if there aren't enough syrupy expat blogs out there.
Same with "why are you here". I've answered that question a few times in various comments.
If you really can't see how someone could get satisfaction out of the projects they are doing yet still hate the surroundings they are in, then you are suffering from poverty of your imagination.
Even if I didn't actually hate it, which I do, there is so much in Serbia that is objectively ridiculous, why wouldn't I post about it for the amusement of myself and others? As if there aren't enough syrupy expat blogs out there.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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Monday, June 10, 2013
"A Bridge between East and West"
File under "dumb shit Serbians love repeating amongst themselves"
Some Serbs love thinking that they have a magic ace up their sleeves - Something that will erase all their poverty, their stagnation, their bad international reputation - and lift them to vaunted heights.
And that is..... that they are "a bridge between East and West"
They believe this literally as well as figuratively.
Now, it is true that Tito, in the time of Yugoslavia, played the USA and the Soviet Union against each other and got tons of forgivable loans. These loans were used to subsidize a society that didn't produce much and provide a standard of living for the people that was higher than most communist countries.
In the literal sense, this belief is that Serbia is in a key geographical location and without Serbia, the world falls apart. Serbia is on an important crossroads and nothing can get anywhere without the blessing of Serbia. The conveyance of perhaps all international trade happens through Serbia. This, of course, is absurd. Rail infrastructure is abysmal. Most trains go less than 30 miles per hour where the European standard is about 120. The main highway from Hungary to the north and Croatia to the east is 2 lanes each way and acceptable until it changes to an unlit 2-way country road until you get to Macedonia. Belgrade doesn't even have a ring-road so all through-traffic has to pass through the city!
More common is this belief manifesting in a more metaphorical sense. They believe that since Serbia was under the Turks for 600 years and also since they were communist but not part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact, that they are somehow (still, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall) in this magical position between "The East" (I think they mostly mean Russia, 2000km and 3 countries away) and "The West".
Doesn't matter that they haven't done anything but wars and cry about how everyone hates them in the mean time, THE BRIDGE REMAINS!
What are these people unintentionally saying about Russia? They they are incapable of diplomacy? That they can't send their own diplomats somewhere but need Serbia's help, without which there will be no understanding in the world? What about Germany? Half of Germany was a semi Russian colony for 40 years. They know nothing about Russia? They are incapable of diplomacy with Russia without the intervention of Serbia?
file under "ridiculous"
Some Serbs love thinking that they have a magic ace up their sleeves - Something that will erase all their poverty, their stagnation, their bad international reputation - and lift them to vaunted heights.
And that is..... that they are "a bridge between East and West"
They believe this literally as well as figuratively.
Now, it is true that Tito, in the time of Yugoslavia, played the USA and the Soviet Union against each other and got tons of forgivable loans. These loans were used to subsidize a society that didn't produce much and provide a standard of living for the people that was higher than most communist countries.
In the literal sense, this belief is that Serbia is in a key geographical location and without Serbia, the world falls apart. Serbia is on an important crossroads and nothing can get anywhere without the blessing of Serbia. The conveyance of perhaps all international trade happens through Serbia. This, of course, is absurd. Rail infrastructure is abysmal. Most trains go less than 30 miles per hour where the European standard is about 120. The main highway from Hungary to the north and Croatia to the east is 2 lanes each way and acceptable until it changes to an unlit 2-way country road until you get to Macedonia. Belgrade doesn't even have a ring-road so all through-traffic has to pass through the city!
More common is this belief manifesting in a more metaphorical sense. They believe that since Serbia was under the Turks for 600 years and also since they were communist but not part of the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact, that they are somehow (still, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall) in this magical position between "The East" (I think they mostly mean Russia, 2000km and 3 countries away) and "The West".
Doesn't matter that they haven't done anything but wars and cry about how everyone hates them in the mean time, THE BRIDGE REMAINS!
What are these people unintentionally saying about Russia? They they are incapable of diplomacy? That they can't send their own diplomats somewhere but need Serbia's help, without which there will be no understanding in the world? What about Germany? Half of Germany was a semi Russian colony for 40 years. They know nothing about Russia? They are incapable of diplomacy with Russia without the intervention of Serbia?
file under "ridiculous"
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