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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 17:
BREAKSHIT: HOW THEY SWUNG IT
Back in the day, everywhere was like Slovenia. Men were men and women weren't. Women who smoked were sluts.
88 years since Edward L Bernays "empowered" women smokers, the grisly awfulness of misused mass psychology encircles the globe like a boa.
Public relations media manipulation was bad enough when it was just trying to sell shit such as Lidl's Silvercrest SSMP 2000A1 LB3-16 Standmixer Pro food mixer.
To progress from defending the odd indefensible product to installing entire regimes to do its bidding was only a type of capitalist efficiency, from banana republics to the Brexitrumps of today.
Towed from empire to empire, ending in the present theo-oligarchic attempt to please a tough and divided crowd, present-day Slovenia never had long enough to toy with the notion of freedom in a 70s way to actually miss it now.
It's all in the art of the flip. Bernays' "torches of freedom" march was designed to flip public perceptions of the image of women smoking (even in public) from sluttiness to sophisticatedness, when it had become clear to too many people from their own behaviour that they could not possibly be responsible for that amount of sluttiness.
The flipping process was enabled by the way in which the behaviour of smoking and the opinion about sluttiness had become yoked together in public opinion.
In the ensuing rebellion for someone else's cause, non-smoking for a bad reason was exchanged for smoking for the opposite of a bad reason...which, disappointingly, turns out not to be a good reason.
flip flop
Brexitrump was a flip in which the unnatural behavioural demands of political correctness and a realistic world view were flipped in favour of a myopic view of self-interest with the promise that simple ideas will win, if we just act within national borders.
Fanatical ethnicism has always worked out really well in the past. So would any national Hungarian iodine-131 on its way to Slovenia from dirty medical reactors please turn around at Rédics thanks.
Brexitrump was an all-or-quits rampage, just like Peter the Hermit's people's crusade (1096). If you didn't sell up the farm for peanuts to go off a-burning and a-raping and a-looting across Europe to get to Jerusalem to expiate your sins, you were definitely an enemy of the people.
Nobody knew what to do with these problematical pilgrims, who visited bloodshed and mayhem from Neuss to Niš. What were Peter's qualifications? Like Farage and Trump, he knew the right guy for creepy Facebook analytics (Pope Urban II).
The hermit guy (Trump) wore simple clothes (this was before Ralph Lauren) - he rode a donkey (equivalent to a BMW today) - and had a letter personally signed by http://www.jesus.si himself for chrissakes. Still think you're an individual with free will? Get over it.
cancerapitalism
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/8CqodihTBQ5
so yesterday
http://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/news/g4254/designers-who-wont-dress-melania-trump/
we know where you live and which biscuits you like
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
why we flip - overloaded back end flipping hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jk9H5AB4lM
BREAKSHIT: HOW THEY SWUNG IT
Back in the day, everywhere was like Slovenia. Men were men and women weren't. Women who smoked were sluts.
88 years since Edward L Bernays "empowered" women smokers, the grisly awfulness of misused mass psychology encircles the globe like a boa.
Public relations media manipulation was bad enough when it was just trying to sell shit such as Lidl's Silvercrest SSMP 2000A1 LB3-16 Standmixer Pro food mixer.
To progress from defending the odd indefensible product to installing entire regimes to do its bidding was only a type of capitalist efficiency, from banana republics to the Brexitrumps of today.
Towed from empire to empire, ending in the present theo-oligarchic attempt to please a tough and divided crowd, present-day Slovenia never had long enough to toy with the notion of freedom in a 70s way to actually miss it now.
It's all in the art of the flip. Bernays' "torches of freedom" march was designed to flip public perceptions of the image of women smoking (even in public) from sluttiness to sophisticatedness, when it had become clear to too many people from their own behaviour that they could not possibly be responsible for that amount of sluttiness.
The flipping process was enabled by the way in which the behaviour of smoking and the opinion about sluttiness had become yoked together in public opinion.
In the ensuing rebellion for someone else's cause, non-smoking for a bad reason was exchanged for smoking for the opposite of a bad reason...which, disappointingly, turns out not to be a good reason.
flip flop
Brexitrump was a flip in which the unnatural behavioural demands of political correctness and a realistic world view were flipped in favour of a myopic view of self-interest with the promise that simple ideas will win, if we just act within national borders.
Fanatical ethnicism has always worked out really well in the past. So would any national Hungarian iodine-131 on its way to Slovenia from dirty medical reactors please turn around at Rédics thanks.
Brexitrump was an all-or-quits rampage, just like Peter the Hermit's people's crusade (1096). If you didn't sell up the farm for peanuts to go off a-burning and a-raping and a-looting across Europe to get to Jerusalem to expiate your sins, you were definitely an enemy of the people.
Nobody knew what to do with these problematical pilgrims, who visited bloodshed and mayhem from Neuss to Niš. What were Peter's qualifications? Like Farage and Trump, he knew the right guy for creepy Facebook analytics (Pope Urban II).
The hermit guy (Trump) wore simple clothes (this was before Ralph Lauren) - he rode a donkey (equivalent to a BMW today) - and had a letter personally signed by http://www.jesus.si himself for chrissakes. Still think you're an individual with free will? Get over it.
cancerapitalism
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/8CqodihTBQ5
so yesterday
http://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/news/g4254/designers-who-wont-dress-melania-trump/
we know where you live and which biscuits you like
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
why we flip - overloaded back end flipping hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jk9H5AB4lM
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 22:
A RATHER LONG RESPONSE
...to https://medium.com/@wyattegates/how-should-men-interact-with-women-in-public-at-night-b34acf2e6a77
Women never tire of the company of other women. Whereas often I get bored with the guys and their deep conversations about sport and alcohol and cars in about five seconds.
Am I gay? In my town the boys all want to drink with the boys, and the girls with the girls. Public demonstrations of affection are awkward and exceedingly rare. You will be a slut. And the boys want to keep it a secret too: you can’t let your mates down by preferring her, to drinking with them.
Here, women are more concerned about how others will portray them, than the ridiculous proposition that they could love some guy. But if encumbered with one, it doesn’t mean you’re exempt from a misandry arms race.
Despite their support through the pain, the collective wisdom of the women is little help. What if you have already “fallen”? Your running commentary about how miserable the guy you were forced to choose is making you will elevate your standing among the watchwomen, in equal measure to the intimacy trashed by your personal life’s conversion into a public drama.
Over coffee and carcinogens, it would be embarrassing not to be able to show the watchwomen that you had somehow failed. Therefore self-abasement before her listening friends, for letting some guy into her life, is key to maintaining a girl’s credibility. Until everyone has to go off because they have found something more important to do. You will be about 29.
So I should have said, young women never tire of each others’ company. As love matters develop women become very bad allies to each other.
Beneath this defensive mask they are SO frightened — and not without reason. The notion that synchronicity might be a turn-on remained unformed in some earlier agrarian hell. Then sex and the struggle for goods became even more inseparable under communism, and its daughters and granddaughters were instructed accordingly. The psychedelic 60s, like everything not-from-around-here, were never more than a superficial pastiche, omitting the anti-materialism and the catholics’ unmentionables. And so the locals never overcame a mostly-physical, unromantically pragmatic, no flirt love model.
They have heard what happened to Auntie Janja. They are timid, and they seem to think that’s a good thing.
Somehow eventually some go off and do it, like mushrooms, in the dark. They have worked out a way of keeping all the men and women apart at night in public especially if they are in any way remotely attractive and we call this scheme JISM — the Jealous Interrupting Slovenian Man. Try to talk to a single woman and within seconds a JISM will jump in to screw up the feng shui. Not to be with this woman, but just to stop the other guy.
Reputation is key, and the most important use of Slovenia’s many languages is to ensure equality, through reputation management. The ultimate societal aim — which is economic — is for everybody’s reputation to be trashed equally.
The general idea seems to be that relationships might slow down or interrupt the drinking which they have been told by their fathers and grandfathers is the main hope for their future. Sure. It is likely to consist of little else. Slovenia’s population grew last year only because of immigration.
Eventually, when nobody is looking, the go-girls give it up, dealing with the nasty necessity the way you might conduct a minor medical procedure or deal with a dangerous snake. Sex is only for reproduction: reproduction jewellery, reproduction furniture…How the girls laugh as the stupid boys battle it out to prove their pork sword is the most honourable, least bothersome, but…y’know…STILL THERE.
As her bewilderment and hopelessness grows, the greater her delight in this, until she ends up inexplicably impregnated by the biggest, wildest, drunkest, most obviously unreliable psycho available. And unhappier than ever, boo hoo. If I am to integrate in Slovenia I must become a proper schadenfreuder.
As everyone here seems to agree, the default guy is a problem guy. A single guy in a bar with women in it. What if he just won’t stop hanging around?
My advice to these very local ladies is to stop flattering your un-60s-ised egos by enjoying that stupid competition. It won’t get you what you want (unless you want Hulk Hogan) because intimacy isn’t a competitive thing at all.
Intimacy cannot be rushed, to fit into the brief periods when you are available. And, a committee-led compromise on who you should fuck is likely to work out about as well as any other committee decision on some complex issue.
Slovene is a language into which world-vibrating catholic sex scandals cannot be translated, thus generating virtually no national media coverage. Theirs is a claustrophobic, inexorably possessive, relentlessly chauvinist, alcohol-based “social life” of limited ideas — the one Melania showed her heels at the earliest opportunity.
Press commentary on Presidential hand-swatting etc. elicits little attention in Slovenia, revealing only the lack of interaction— any more would mean shame of one sort of another — regarded as normal in Slovenia. In the words of Girls Aloud, we’re living in two tribes, and ready for war. Suicide, and spousal murder-suicide, that’s the classic Balkan divorce. Slovenia is top.
Girls have got the upper hand. That’s about all they’ve got. The hand says no. Flirtation is weakness. Relaxation is danger. Surrender is not an option. They might dress real hippy an’ all. But for the mightily uptight, any looseness — which fun demands — implies a trick around the corner (pun intended).
What is my problem? It is a classic case of over-analysis. Pulling technique is a non-subject. Following your unnecessarily arduous but socially-required clamber amid the obstacles of alcoholic desensitization, fellow-girls you must be unhappy for, and JISM, “falling” in love turns out to more of a collapse. You didn’t know, in your teens, that it was just going to go on and on and on like this. Now you are about 29 and almost anything or anyone halfway decent that gets you away from this cycle will do.
You get hitched…but immediately similar orthodoxies apply. As partners you may hang around near one another in public at night. Better to arrive and leave separately, and not to look at or touch each other. Ignore your partner completely and snub them if they make the mistake of paying you any attention, or do anything that might reveal to the assembled onlookers that you are a unit of some kind. Because it’s just so EMBARRASSING! An added benefit is that singles lurking nearby can become inappropriately attentive to the ghost partners, resulting in a confusing fight that you can watch with contempt.
This beautifully correct scene is fun like pulling a big rubber band, to see how far it will stretch before it breaks, is fun. And the result is similarly painful.
A RATHER LONG RESPONSE
...to https://medium.com/@wyattegates/how-should-men-interact-with-women-in-public-at-night-b34acf2e6a77
Women never tire of the company of other women. Whereas often I get bored with the guys and their deep conversations about sport and alcohol and cars in about five seconds.
Am I gay? In my town the boys all want to drink with the boys, and the girls with the girls. Public demonstrations of affection are awkward and exceedingly rare. You will be a slut. And the boys want to keep it a secret too: you can’t let your mates down by preferring her, to drinking with them.
Here, women are more concerned about how others will portray them, than the ridiculous proposition that they could love some guy. But if encumbered with one, it doesn’t mean you’re exempt from a misandry arms race.
Despite their support through the pain, the collective wisdom of the women is little help. What if you have already “fallen”? Your running commentary about how miserable the guy you were forced to choose is making you will elevate your standing among the watchwomen, in equal measure to the intimacy trashed by your personal life’s conversion into a public drama.
Over coffee and carcinogens, it would be embarrassing not to be able to show the watchwomen that you had somehow failed. Therefore self-abasement before her listening friends, for letting some guy into her life, is key to maintaining a girl’s credibility. Until everyone has to go off because they have found something more important to do. You will be about 29.
So I should have said, young women never tire of each others’ company. As love matters develop women become very bad allies to each other.
Beneath this defensive mask they are SO frightened — and not without reason. The notion that synchronicity might be a turn-on remained unformed in some earlier agrarian hell. Then sex and the struggle for goods became even more inseparable under communism, and its daughters and granddaughters were instructed accordingly. The psychedelic 60s, like everything not-from-around-here, were never more than a superficial pastiche, omitting the anti-materialism and the catholics’ unmentionables. And so the locals never overcame a mostly-physical, unromantically pragmatic, no flirt love model.
They have heard what happened to Auntie Janja. They are timid, and they seem to think that’s a good thing.
Somehow eventually some go off and do it, like mushrooms, in the dark. They have worked out a way of keeping all the men and women apart at night in public especially if they are in any way remotely attractive and we call this scheme JISM — the Jealous Interrupting Slovenian Man. Try to talk to a single woman and within seconds a JISM will jump in to screw up the feng shui. Not to be with this woman, but just to stop the other guy.
Reputation is key, and the most important use of Slovenia’s many languages is to ensure equality, through reputation management. The ultimate societal aim — which is economic — is for everybody’s reputation to be trashed equally.
The general idea seems to be that relationships might slow down or interrupt the drinking which they have been told by their fathers and grandfathers is the main hope for their future. Sure. It is likely to consist of little else. Slovenia’s population grew last year only because of immigration.
Eventually, when nobody is looking, the go-girls give it up, dealing with the nasty necessity the way you might conduct a minor medical procedure or deal with a dangerous snake. Sex is only for reproduction: reproduction jewellery, reproduction furniture…How the girls laugh as the stupid boys battle it out to prove their pork sword is the most honourable, least bothersome, but…y’know…STILL THERE.
As her bewilderment and hopelessness grows, the greater her delight in this, until she ends up inexplicably impregnated by the biggest, wildest, drunkest, most obviously unreliable psycho available. And unhappier than ever, boo hoo. If I am to integrate in Slovenia I must become a proper schadenfreuder.
As everyone here seems to agree, the default guy is a problem guy. A single guy in a bar with women in it. What if he just won’t stop hanging around?
My advice to these very local ladies is to stop flattering your un-60s-ised egos by enjoying that stupid competition. It won’t get you what you want (unless you want Hulk Hogan) because intimacy isn’t a competitive thing at all.
Intimacy cannot be rushed, to fit into the brief periods when you are available. And, a committee-led compromise on who you should fuck is likely to work out about as well as any other committee decision on some complex issue.
Slovene is a language into which world-vibrating catholic sex scandals cannot be translated, thus generating virtually no national media coverage. Theirs is a claustrophobic, inexorably possessive, relentlessly chauvinist, alcohol-based “social life” of limited ideas — the one Melania showed her heels at the earliest opportunity.
Press commentary on Presidential hand-swatting etc. elicits little attention in Slovenia, revealing only the lack of interaction— any more would mean shame of one sort of another — regarded as normal in Slovenia. In the words of Girls Aloud, we’re living in two tribes, and ready for war. Suicide, and spousal murder-suicide, that’s the classic Balkan divorce. Slovenia is top.
Girls have got the upper hand. That’s about all they’ve got. The hand says no. Flirtation is weakness. Relaxation is danger. Surrender is not an option. They might dress real hippy an’ all. But for the mightily uptight, any looseness — which fun demands — implies a trick around the corner (pun intended).
What is my problem? It is a classic case of over-analysis. Pulling technique is a non-subject. Following your unnecessarily arduous but socially-required clamber amid the obstacles of alcoholic desensitization, fellow-girls you must be unhappy for, and JISM, “falling” in love turns out to more of a collapse. You didn’t know, in your teens, that it was just going to go on and on and on like this. Now you are about 29 and almost anything or anyone halfway decent that gets you away from this cycle will do.
You get hitched…but immediately similar orthodoxies apply. As partners you may hang around near one another in public at night. Better to arrive and leave separately, and not to look at or touch each other. Ignore your partner completely and snub them if they make the mistake of paying you any attention, or do anything that might reveal to the assembled onlookers that you are a unit of some kind. Because it’s just so EMBARRASSING! An added benefit is that singles lurking nearby can become inappropriately attentive to the ghost partners, resulting in a confusing fight that you can watch with contempt.
This beautifully correct scene is fun like pulling a big rubber band, to see how far it will stretch before it breaks, is fun. And the result is similarly painful.
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managementspeak
This English managementspeak version of Slovenian evergreen Slovenija Od Kod Lepote Tvoje is now available for recording or performance at the usual author rates.
SLOVENIA, WHENCE THY MARKETING RESOURCES?
Eyeballs consuming content,
We have a wow factor,
Did you discover an exciting acquisition scenario?
Can you visionise raising value-added vis-a-vis touching base?
Seizing the vertical I revisit the big picture
Brainstorming on maximizing oversight
Outreaching to a blue-ocean opportunity
Can you visionise raising value-added vis-a-vis touching base?
CHORUS:
Slovenia, going forward,
Hack me a hammock task,
Phone it in, homing from work.
Slovenia, sunshine enema,
Seeking strap-on statistical massage.
Feedback from the cloud
Whose rubber hit the road
Who can action breakthrough engagement
More than our rock star deliverables?
Cross-boundary workstreams resonated
Road map circumnavigated
Nowhere's price-point, is my prebuttal,
Productizes like our head shed.
CHORUS
original lyrics here
http://www.besedilo.si/ansambel-avsenik/slovenija-od-kod-lepote-tvoje?pdf
and performed here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mrWXvGTAE
This English managementspeak version of Slovenian evergreen Slovenija Od Kod Lepote Tvoje is now available for recording or performance at the usual author rates.
SLOVENIA, WHENCE THY MARKETING RESOURCES?
Eyeballs consuming content,
We have a wow factor,
Did you discover an exciting acquisition scenario?
Can you visionise raising value-added vis-a-vis touching base?
Seizing the vertical I revisit the big picture
Brainstorming on maximizing oversight
Outreaching to a blue-ocean opportunity
Can you visionise raising value-added vis-a-vis touching base?
CHORUS:
Slovenia, going forward,
Hack me a hammock task,
Phone it in, homing from work.
Slovenia, sunshine enema,
Seeking strap-on statistical massage.
Feedback from the cloud
Whose rubber hit the road
Who can action breakthrough engagement
More than our rock star deliverables?
Cross-boundary workstreams resonated
Road map circumnavigated
Nowhere's price-point, is my prebuttal,
Productizes like our head shed.
CHORUS
original lyrics here
http://www.besedilo.si/ansambel-avsenik/slovenija-od-kod-lepote-tvoje?pdf
and performed here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mrWXvGTAE
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axe murders
ONE-LEGGED MAN AXED 37 TIMES
Bobo (pictured clutching inspirational people's tabloid Slovenske Novice) admits, phlegmatically, that he did it. Apparently his motivations were inadmissible, and the judge - who has not yet been eaten by worms, see https://is.gd/pFaUol - shouted at him.
Bobo, who complains of digestive problems and told police he can only eat fish and figs, engaged in his one-legged neighbour overkill 18 days after a fire at a chemical dump and recycling plant, 30km away on the other side of Ljubljana, released mercury and various other hazardous materials into the air. It was one of at least three such fires across Slovenia this year.
It turns out the wind blew in Bobo's direction for 9 out of the 18 days between the fire and the murder. During that time the temperature rose steadily to 31 degrees. Mercury flux from soil to air is positively correlated with UV intensity and soil temperature, as well as Hg concentration in soil.
Mercury kind of hangs around in the large gut. Mercury can cause rages.
All kind of circumstantial, and inconvenient if truly a causal factor, as that would make the Kemis factory partly responsible for the murder, and way beyond any Slovenian public defender that Bobo is likely to encounter.
Bobo has his own rationale in mind, to be sure. Bobo is not defending himself - as he denies being a murderer.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-prica-umora-v-rokah-je-imel-sekiro-po-obrazu-mu-je-spricala-kri
around Slovenia's axe crime scene
https://is.gd/yBz23w
https://is.gd/jnXUrD
https://is.gd/qRos9f
ONE-LEGGED MAN AXED 37 TIMES
Bobo (pictured clutching inspirational people's tabloid Slovenske Novice) admits, phlegmatically, that he did it. Apparently his motivations were inadmissible, and the judge - who has not yet been eaten by worms, see https://is.gd/pFaUol - shouted at him.
Bobo, who complains of digestive problems and told police he can only eat fish and figs, engaged in his one-legged neighbour overkill 18 days after a fire at a chemical dump and recycling plant, 30km away on the other side of Ljubljana, released mercury and various other hazardous materials into the air. It was one of at least three such fires across Slovenia this year.
It turns out the wind blew in Bobo's direction for 9 out of the 18 days between the fire and the murder. During that time the temperature rose steadily to 31 degrees. Mercury flux from soil to air is positively correlated with UV intensity and soil temperature, as well as Hg concentration in soil.
Mercury kind of hangs around in the large gut. Mercury can cause rages.
All kind of circumstantial, and inconvenient if truly a causal factor, as that would make the Kemis factory partly responsible for the murder, and way beyond any Slovenian public defender that Bobo is likely to encounter.
Bobo has his own rationale in mind, to be sure. Bobo is not defending himself - as he denies being a murderer.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-prica-umora-v-rokah-je-imel-sekiro-po-obrazu-mu-je-spricala-kri
around Slovenia's axe crime scene
https://is.gd/yBz23w
https://is.gd/jnXUrD
https://is.gd/qRos9f
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9 Nov 2017
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decapitations
PARENTICIDES CONTINUE
If there was any doubt that Miha, 30, had some psychologically-defined parental issues, like having to live with them, that all went out of the window when he finally matured, and cut dad's head off with an axe.
It's only seven weeks since the last (double) decapitation in Slovenia - a brother and a grandmother.
And a couple of years ago a guy released from psychiatric detention for killing his mother went right back to the village and chopped off his father's head.
It seems they like to be sure here.
In the UK one beheading can keep the presses going full steam for months.
In Slovenia they shrug - it's not random serial killers or terrorists you need to worry about, but family tensions. You can see it's a very small country.
beheadings of march 2017
https://is.gd/yBz23w
beheading of 2014
https://is.gd/qRos9f
PARENTICIDES CONTINUE
If there was any doubt that Miha, 30, had some psychologically-defined parental issues, like having to live with them, that all went out of the window when he finally matured, and cut dad's head off with an axe.
It's only seven weeks since the last (double) decapitation in Slovenia - a brother and a grandmother.
And a couple of years ago a guy released from psychiatric detention for killing his mother went right back to the village and chopped off his father's head.
It seems they like to be sure here.
In the UK one beheading can keep the presses going full steam for months.
In Slovenia they shrug - it's not random serial killers or terrorists you need to worry about, but family tensions. You can see it's a very small country.
beheadings of march 2017
https://is.gd/yBz23w
beheading of 2014
https://is.gd/qRos9f
Miha umoril očeta, kot
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slovenian wine
AVERAGE VINTAGE TO INCREASE
Unofficial non-existent global weather disturbances and unpopular insurance companies are threatening to ruin viticulturalists after two once-in-a-century spring frosts in a row.
Last year's 1 in 100-year chance-inspired bad minus temperatures were a freak event, according to statisticians.
And so are this year's, meaning that Slovenia's statistical century now began in 2017, and not 2001 as previously believed.
Foreigners, including Slovenian First Husband foreign King MacDonald, were believed to be responsible for the poor weather.
Ptuj, whose wine cellar welcomes tourists who like light music and has wine dating back to 1917, will celebrate the centennial by drinking beer and shouting.
frosty reception
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/frost-believed-to-have-decimated-crops
AVERAGE VINTAGE TO INCREASE
Unofficial non-existent global weather disturbances and unpopular insurance companies are threatening to ruin viticulturalists after two once-in-a-century spring frosts in a row.
Last year's 1 in 100-year chance-inspired bad minus temperatures were a freak event, according to statisticians.
And so are this year's, meaning that Slovenia's statistical century now began in 2017, and not 2001 as previously believed.
Foreigners, including Slovenian First Husband foreign King MacDonald, were believed to be responsible for the poor weather.
Ptuj, whose wine cellar welcomes tourists who like light music and has wine dating back to 1917, will celebrate the centennial by drinking beer and shouting.
frosty reception
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/frost-believed-to-have-decimated-crops
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screech bang sizzle
SLOVENIA'S AGING DEMOGRAPHIC CONTINUES
Both the driver on the right side of the road and the front passenger in this car were over the alcohol limit. The driver was too busted up to take the test.
Both his teenage female passengers were trapped in the rear seats, and were incinerated as passers-by watched helplessly, in the rolling hills near Šentilj where dangerous migrants recently massed at the border with Austria.
An in-depth exploration into the Maribor area vineyard’s atmosphere takes place on May 6 at the Old Vine House.
drunk slovenia
https://is.gd/zIJXBI
SLOVENIA'S AGING DEMOGRAPHIC CONTINUES
Both the driver on the right side of the road and the front passenger in this car were over the alcohol limit. The driver was too busted up to take the test.
Both his teenage female passengers were trapped in the rear seats, and were incinerated as passers-by watched helplessly, in the rolling hills near Šentilj where dangerous migrants recently massed at the border with Austria.
An in-depth exploration into the Maribor area vineyard’s atmosphere takes place on May 6 at the Old Vine House.
drunk slovenia
https://is.gd/zIJXBI
FOTO: V prometni
nesreči umrli dve najstnici |
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military pursuits
DOG SEX: ARE WE BEHIND?
Lincolnshire has now overtaken Slovenia in canine copulation although no-one has actually been killed doing it in Bomber County yet. I am glad to see the RAF was involved and I hope the Echo will continue to mention it every day or two for the next 70 years lest we ever forget and perhaps erect a memorial to dog bonking at a cost of millions, perhaps with a flea past and a dog fight by the Red Arrooooooos.
DOG SEX: ARE WE BEHIND?
Lincolnshire has now overtaken Slovenia in canine copulation although no-one has actually been killed doing it in Bomber County yet. I am glad to see the RAF was involved and I hope the Echo will continue to mention it every day or two for the next 70 years lest we ever forget and perhaps erect a memorial to dog bonking at a cost of millions, perhaps with a flea past and a dog fight by the Red Arrooooooos.
Pensioner didn't know
it was wrong to have sex with dogs
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dirty mac brigade
Q. What's President Trump's favourite social media?
A. WeeChat
nposialpu trump archive
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Q. What's President Trump's favourite social media?
A. WeeChat
nposialpu trump archive
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dandelion bureaucracy
JE NE REGRAT RIEN
People's tabloid Slovenske Novice has outlined the lawful Slovenian procedure for picking dandelions (regrat).
While picking them for personal use is somehow still unregulated, Slovenia is so anal that it even has legislation mandating the size of business cards, and anyone unlucky enough to be selling dandelions they've harvested must obey the laws - or face a fine of up to 7000 euros for black market work, says the paper.
Dandelioneers will first need to apply by email to their local Administrative Unit, and to the business registration thing AJPES from whence, after obtaining first one password then another, you will be awarded a digital certificate. With this you will be allowed to obtain a kind of casual labour permit.
Then you need to go to queue at the other office (see www.nyjets.si) to get your odd-job work permit stamped or it won't be valid. Everything in Slovenia supports the rubber stamp industry. Usually, the first time you go it will be closed.
Be sure to carry your validated dandelion permit wherever you might encounter dandelion inspectors. If you cannot produce it on the spot, you will get fined anyway. You need to get a new permit every month. It's going to cost you nine euros.
The good news, SN says, is that once you are an authorised dandelion picker, you can pick as many as you like.
The purpose of the article is to remind bored, cross-eyed jealous villagers of another of the myriad ways they can grass up enemies of the state who happen to be their neighbours, fellow citizens, or brown people - Slovenia's number one pastime.
Black market work is ok if you are a lawyer not paying me to fix her English report into corruption at Slovenia's largest power station - http://www.aaa.si/q - and she could get my emails hacked to remove some of the evidence against her.
Meanwhile a woman who was turfed out of her €160,000 flat in some legal shenanigan over a €2,800 debt has threatened to set fire to herself. https://is.gd/jKnsYP
She is white, but Roma and therefore technically brown.
The Pope ripped off Slovenia's banks for €1.5 billion but the government rallied round to let him off.
catholic remedies
https://is.gd/uQV09f
JE NE REGRAT RIEN
People's tabloid Slovenske Novice has outlined the lawful Slovenian procedure for picking dandelions (regrat).
While picking them for personal use is somehow still unregulated, Slovenia is so anal that it even has legislation mandating the size of business cards, and anyone unlucky enough to be selling dandelions they've harvested must obey the laws - or face a fine of up to 7000 euros for black market work, says the paper.
Dandelioneers will first need to apply by email to their local Administrative Unit, and to the business registration thing AJPES from whence, after obtaining first one password then another, you will be awarded a digital certificate. With this you will be allowed to obtain a kind of casual labour permit.
Then you need to go to queue at the other office (see www.nyjets.si) to get your odd-job work permit stamped or it won't be valid. Everything in Slovenia supports the rubber stamp industry. Usually, the first time you go it will be closed.
Be sure to carry your validated dandelion permit wherever you might encounter dandelion inspectors. If you cannot produce it on the spot, you will get fined anyway. You need to get a new permit every month. It's going to cost you nine euros.
The good news, SN says, is that once you are an authorised dandelion picker, you can pick as many as you like.
The purpose of the article is to remind bored, cross-eyed jealous villagers of another of the myriad ways they can grass up enemies of the state who happen to be their neighbours, fellow citizens, or brown people - Slovenia's number one pastime.
Black market work is ok if you are a lawyer not paying me to fix her English report into corruption at Slovenia's largest power station - http://www.aaa.si/q - and she could get my emails hacked to remove some of the evidence against her.
Meanwhile a woman who was turfed out of her €160,000 flat in some legal shenanigan over a €2,800 debt has threatened to set fire to herself. https://is.gd/jKnsYP
She is white, but Roma and therefore technically brown.
The Pope ripped off Slovenia's banks for €1.5 billion but the government rallied round to let him off.
catholic remedies
https://is.gd/uQV09f
Globa zaradi regrata
znaša do 7000 evrov | Slovenskenovice.si
slovenskenovice.si
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road shows
NLB MUST GO, SAYS EU
State-owned bank NLB must be sold, says Mr Juncker. Possibly this summer, this time. To recover the 2.2bn euros it has lost assisting Slovenian business, NLB would have to sell for 1.8 times the book value of its shares.
The actual value of NLB is unknown. But considering BHS was only worth £1, the London Stock Exchange might seem an unwise venue for the Slovenian government to dispose of 75% minus 1 share of its holding.
Nobody seems to know who would buy an unsuccessful Slovenian bank that, by changing its name when Slovenia seceded, dragged its heels for decades after cheating its former non-Slovenian Yugoslavian customers out of their deposits. Some may remember what happened last time the bank was "definitely" going to be sold to Belgian outfit KBC.
Never mind. The roadshows have begun, and the appropriate words for these have headlined in Finance, as though "potujoče kampanje" simply could not do justice to an event as grand as John Peel at the Basildon Locarno.
Would potential buyers please note however that, as with Telekom Slovenije and the airports, the country does not really want to sell its biggest bank, that it has to sell, and certainly not for less than the book price.
Foreign purchasers should expect to pay more than it is worth. While rules about speaking Slovenia's secret language mean they will have little control over it once they've bought it.
Future executive summer holidays to London and New York at the taxpayers' expense depend on a prolonged and difficult sale, at a time when tarnished bank brands are scarcely a rare or popular commodity.
With the exception of nposialpu's very artistic http://www.bank.si - now approaching its 10th anniversary without losing or stealing anyone's dosh, or getting ripped off by the Pope, and with a zero bad loan ratio - Slovenia's banks service only a drab elite.
BHS lingered around for years and had a narrow range of boring clothes and a canteen.
previous nlbeetling around
https://is.gd/8mbxLa
NLB MUST GO, SAYS EU
State-owned bank NLB must be sold, says Mr Juncker. Possibly this summer, this time. To recover the 2.2bn euros it has lost assisting Slovenian business, NLB would have to sell for 1.8 times the book value of its shares.
The actual value of NLB is unknown. But considering BHS was only worth £1, the London Stock Exchange might seem an unwise venue for the Slovenian government to dispose of 75% minus 1 share of its holding.
Nobody seems to know who would buy an unsuccessful Slovenian bank that, by changing its name when Slovenia seceded, dragged its heels for decades after cheating its former non-Slovenian Yugoslavian customers out of their deposits. Some may remember what happened last time the bank was "definitely" going to be sold to Belgian outfit KBC.
Never mind. The roadshows have begun, and the appropriate words for these have headlined in Finance, as though "potujoče kampanje" simply could not do justice to an event as grand as John Peel at the Basildon Locarno.
Would potential buyers please note however that, as with Telekom Slovenije and the airports, the country does not really want to sell its biggest bank, that it has to sell, and certainly not for less than the book price.
Foreign purchasers should expect to pay more than it is worth. While rules about speaking Slovenia's secret language mean they will have little control over it once they've bought it.
Future executive summer holidays to London and New York at the taxpayers' expense depend on a prolonged and difficult sale, at a time when tarnished bank brands are scarcely a rare or popular commodity.
With the exception of nposialpu's very artistic http://www.bank.si - now approaching its 10th anniversary without losing or stealing anyone's dosh, or getting ripped off by the Pope, and with a zero bad loan ratio - Slovenia's banks service only a drab elite.
BHS lingered around for years and had a narrow range of boring clothes and a canteen.
previous nlbeetling around
https://is.gd/8mbxLa
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gamey goljufije
HIGH-PHEW-KU
It's a privilege
To golf in the dumps. Top chaps
Tap putts atop tip.
Of golf course! Capitalism's green waste solution.
http://www.trumpferrypoint.com/
HIGH-PHEW-KU
It's a privilege
To golf in the dumps. Top chaps
Tap putts atop tip.
Of golf course! Capitalism's green waste solution.
http://www.trumpferrypoint.com/
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jealous guys
13 YEARS FOR ROMEO
The prosecution wanted 25, but mitigating circumstances prevailed in the murder of partner Lidija Škratek.
For one thing, Romeo was very drunk. And she made him very angry! And so his capacity was diminished.
That's the whole point of getting drunk, and it would be simply unjust not to take account of his decision to uphold local traditions and express his manhood. Besides, he said, she was sleeping around - if so, somewhat pointlessly as it's well known all men are the same. And she was generally behaving like a woman!
Even these attenuating factors did not prevent Romeo regretting the deed, as evinced soon after by his post on Facebook. Whereas shortly before, Lidija had liked something of his.
He even drove to the health centre to see if she could be undeaded, in some of the most selectively diminished capacities ever.
The lesson for Slovenian burglars, rapists and killers of all types hoping for lenient treatment is clear: make sure you are plenty drunk enough to explain why you can't explain why you did it.
Confess quickly and in social media. Merely exhibiting passion in any form is itself regarded as a type of mental defect in Slovenia, and will get you a lighter sentence.
Remembering to do something grey and banal like going on Facebook, after you can't remember what you hit her with, means your sins will be partly forgiven.
It will also help local politicians channel your feelings as a voter, by promising to alter laws to favour domestic violence, as recently occurred in Russia, a country Slovenia is not near.
After a big hangover and interregnum following the collapse of the Roman Empire, organised alcoholism was reintroduced into the area by Minorite monks from around the 7th century AD, along with bad contraception advice and general religious mysogyny.
Although Slovenia is still for the most part backward enough to make accusing your priest of sex abuse likely to upset your mother and all major local employers, Romeo, who is not a priest, already got jail for having sex with a 10-year-old girl.
The judgment in his murder trial is not yet final.
crime report
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/atZK5wrhSwg
nposialpu's sexy slovenia archive
https://is.gd/k7HTCO
history of sex in europe
http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
13 YEARS FOR ROMEO
The prosecution wanted 25, but mitigating circumstances prevailed in the murder of partner Lidija Škratek.
For one thing, Romeo was very drunk. And she made him very angry! And so his capacity was diminished.
That's the whole point of getting drunk, and it would be simply unjust not to take account of his decision to uphold local traditions and express his manhood. Besides, he said, she was sleeping around - if so, somewhat pointlessly as it's well known all men are the same. And she was generally behaving like a woman!
Even these attenuating factors did not prevent Romeo regretting the deed, as evinced soon after by his post on Facebook. Whereas shortly before, Lidija had liked something of his.
He even drove to the health centre to see if she could be undeaded, in some of the most selectively diminished capacities ever.
The lesson for Slovenian burglars, rapists and killers of all types hoping for lenient treatment is clear: make sure you are plenty drunk enough to explain why you can't explain why you did it.
Confess quickly and in social media. Merely exhibiting passion in any form is itself regarded as a type of mental defect in Slovenia, and will get you a lighter sentence.
Remembering to do something grey and banal like going on Facebook, after you can't remember what you hit her with, means your sins will be partly forgiven.
It will also help local politicians channel your feelings as a voter, by promising to alter laws to favour domestic violence, as recently occurred in Russia, a country Slovenia is not near.
After a big hangover and interregnum following the collapse of the Roman Empire, organised alcoholism was reintroduced into the area by Minorite monks from around the 7th century AD, along with bad contraception advice and general religious mysogyny.
Although Slovenia is still for the most part backward enough to make accusing your priest of sex abuse likely to upset your mother and all major local employers, Romeo, who is not a priest, already got jail for having sex with a 10-year-old girl.
The judgment in his murder trial is not yet final.
crime report
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/atZK5wrhSwg
nposialpu's sexy slovenia archive
https://is.gd/k7HTCO
history of sex in europe
http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
Oče mater koroških
dečkov pretepel in zadavil |
Slovenskenovice.si
slovenskenovice.si
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flipping
We know the emotional cycle of http://www.television.si - how long before we start feeling sorry for Donald (it will be Donald by this point).
britain's brexit flipping hell
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/1KmyyHHDPMD
We know the emotional cycle of http://www.television.si - how long before we start feeling sorry for Donald (it will be Donald by this point).
britain's brexit flipping hell
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/1KmyyHHDPMD
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You can go here:
http://eurdepweb.jrc.ec.europa.eu/EurdepMap/Disclaimer.aspx
Accept and on the radiation map change the date to 2017-01-31, click "done", select "1 month", select I-131 from the nuclide list, "outdoor air", and "maximum value". Refresh the map and you will see the maximum values for iodine-131 in the air for January.
The half-life of this isotope is 8.02 days.
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non-employment
PILOT TERROR
The grim effects of it being too expensive to employ people extend even to airline pilots, who despite (unsurprisingly) having to do what they are told when they are told to do it, are still equivalent to Uber drivers in their relations with their non-employer. Except for owning the plane.
Well done Germany for dragging Ryanair (but not its pilots) through the courts. It is surely mad enough that they are prepared to pay the employer insurance themselves, on top of pretending to be self-employed, rather than take on insurocrats from every nation under the sun, and Germany.
The solution - which addresses the original problem, of Ryanair boss Mr O'Leary having to pare everything to the bone in order to compete - is so simple that even a UKIP voter can understand. By following instructions at http://www.bank.si he will merely be replicating the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, only at a level where the money actually does something useful.
nposialpu's neoliberalism archive
https://is.gd/rbkOBf
PILOT TERROR
The grim effects of it being too expensive to employ people extend even to airline pilots, who despite (unsurprisingly) having to do what they are told when they are told to do it, are still equivalent to Uber drivers in their relations with their non-employer. Except for owning the plane.
Well done Germany for dragging Ryanair (but not its pilots) through the courts. It is surely mad enough that they are prepared to pay the employer insurance themselves, on top of pretending to be self-employed, rather than take on insurocrats from every nation under the sun, and Germany.
The solution - which addresses the original problem, of Ryanair boss Mr O'Leary having to pare everything to the bone in order to compete - is so simple that even a UKIP voter can understand. By following instructions at http://www.bank.si he will merely be replicating the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, only at a level where the money actually does something useful.
nposialpu's neoliberalism archive
https://is.gd/rbkOBf
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slovenia goes to the polls
FIND OUT HOW YOU WILL VOTE
With Brexit on the horizon you have just a short time left to use EU Data Protection law to find out what you think according to data held by a British election-rigging and psyops company.
With its prejudices, language bubble, and high dudgeon, Slovenia is perfect for electoral psyops, which used Facebook likes to press voters' buttons and bring victories for foreign king MacDonald and Prince Boris of Islington.
For just £10 you can now find out what you are like with respect to who you will vote for as President this year and whether you will make Slovenia great...again.
There is no evidence that any Slovenian candidate uses SCL Elections Ltd. But it seems likely that the winner will be he who most successfully exploits anger and fear.
So if what you read makes you angry and afraid and broadly fits in with what you already thought, you are probably being manipulated and your vote doesn't count. Well it counts, for the candidate with the best artificial intelligence. It's a bit sad really.
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Slovenija gre na volitve
IZVEDETI, KAKO BOŠ GLASOVALI
Z Brexit na obzorju ste le kratek čas zapustil za uporabo zakonodaje EU o varstvu podatkov, da ugotovite, kaj misliš, da je po podatkih, ki jih je britanski volitev, vrvja* in psyops podjetju.
S svojimi predsodki, jezične mehurček, in visoko dudžon, Slovenija je kot nalašč za volilnih psyops, ki uporabljajo Facebook rad pritiskom tipke volivcev in prinašajo zmage za tuje kralja MacDonald in princ Boris Islingtona.
Za samo £10 zdaj lahko ugotovite, kaj ste kot glede na to, kdo jih bo glasovala za predsednika letos, in ali si bo Slovenija super ... spet.
Nobenega dokaza ni, da slovenski kandidat uporablja SCL Elections Ltd. Toda zdi se verjetno, da bo zmagovalec tisti, ki najbolj uspešno izkorišča jezo in strah.
Torej, če kaj berete naredi jezen in strah in se na splošno ujema s tem, kar ste že mislili, ste verjetno manipulira in vaš glas ne šteje. No to šteje za kandidata z najboljšo umetno inteligenco. To je malo žalostno res.
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notes on the translation and woosification problems
* Wrong word, pending arrival of the right word for election-rigging, which is impeded by the impossibility of a non-Slovenian person having anything bad that might take place in Slovenia translated into Slovene without it being watered down and made to sound "nice" - the so-called Woosification Effect.
Here, Slovenia is sure rigging should be woosified into "prirejanje". But there is nothing wrong with merely arranging an election. Some find prirejanje more perjorative - but are immigrants to Slovenia. Others who are not could not produce any word for "arranging" - elections or anything else!
So I refuse to use the unreliable "prirejanje" until it has been fully tested for all possible woosy misinterpretations. For it to pass, a neutral word for arranging an election must also be revealed! Flowers, meetings, and songs are also waiting.
We agree with the voters that the dumbest voter is equal to the smartest. We agree with nearly all of them that they are smarter than the average. Bombarding target groups with the correctly-chosen kind of crap "knowledge" which will get out a numerically superior vote, is what we're talking about. https://is.gd/xUJWXw
So unlike in the court of foreign king MacDonald there is no point SCL Elections Ltd trying to generate Slovenian outrage about election-rigging. They would face a hurdle of some inconceivability.
Non-nautical Slovenia is equally happy to go whichever way its Facebook wind is blowing. Of course "rigging" here is a part-exaggeration (see Popeye).
But the effects of the WE on the People don't apply only to artificial intelligence-based mind games. Properly illegal "ballot stuffing" would be woosified into "ballot filling".
How about rigirati? I made that up but you can see it looks Slovenian and you can do the usual things, rigiš, rigirali etc. I also added a new word to the local vocabulary: dudžon. It is always visoko and never nizko. As usual I only got half an answer in exchange. Where do I pick up the money?
instructions / navodila
https://medium.com/@pdehaye/quick-guide-to-asking-cambridge-analytica-for-your-data-52f9e74bd059#.47jef1nna
how slovenia voted
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20poet%20election/top
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 18
FIND OUT HOW YOU WILL VOTE
With Brexit on the horizon you have just a short time left to use EU Data Protection law to find out what you think according to data held by a British election-rigging and psyops company.
With its prejudices, language bubble, and high dudgeon, Slovenia is perfect for electoral psyops, which used Facebook likes to press voters' buttons and bring victories for foreign king MacDonald and Prince Boris of Islington.
For just £10 you can now find out what you are like with respect to who you will vote for as President this year and whether you will make Slovenia great...again.
There is no evidence that any Slovenian candidate uses SCL Elections Ltd. But it seems likely that the winner will be he who most successfully exploits anger and fear.
So if what you read makes you angry and afraid and broadly fits in with what you already thought, you are probably being manipulated and your vote doesn't count. Well it counts, for the candidate with the best artificial intelligence. It's a bit sad really.
Slovenija gre na volitve
IZVEDETI, KAKO BOŠ GLASOVALI
Z Brexit na obzorju ste le kratek čas zapustil za uporabo zakonodaje EU o varstvu podatkov, da ugotovite, kaj misliš, da je po podatkih, ki jih je britanski volitev, vrvja* in psyops podjetju.
S svojimi predsodki, jezične mehurček, in visoko dudžon, Slovenija je kot nalašč za volilnih psyops, ki uporabljajo Facebook rad pritiskom tipke volivcev in prinašajo zmage za tuje kralja MacDonald in princ Boris Islingtona.
Za samo £10 zdaj lahko ugotovite, kaj ste kot glede na to, kdo jih bo glasovala za predsednika letos, in ali si bo Slovenija super ... spet.
Nobenega dokaza ni, da slovenski kandidat uporablja SCL Elections Ltd. Toda zdi se verjetno, da bo zmagovalec tisti, ki najbolj uspešno izkorišča jezo in strah.
Torej, če kaj berete naredi jezen in strah in se na splošno ujema s tem, kar ste že mislili, ste verjetno manipulira in vaš glas ne šteje. No to šteje za kandidata z najboljšo umetno inteligenco. To je malo žalostno res.
notes on the translation and woosification problems
* Wrong word, pending arrival of the right word for election-rigging, which is impeded by the impossibility of a non-Slovenian person having anything bad that might take place in Slovenia translated into Slovene without it being watered down and made to sound "nice" - the so-called Woosification Effect.
Here, Slovenia is sure rigging should be woosified into "prirejanje". But there is nothing wrong with merely arranging an election. Some find prirejanje more perjorative - but are immigrants to Slovenia. Others who are not could not produce any word for "arranging" - elections or anything else!
So I refuse to use the unreliable "prirejanje" until it has been fully tested for all possible woosy misinterpretations. For it to pass, a neutral word for arranging an election must also be revealed! Flowers, meetings, and songs are also waiting.
We agree with the voters that the dumbest voter is equal to the smartest. We agree with nearly all of them that they are smarter than the average. Bombarding target groups with the correctly-chosen kind of crap "knowledge" which will get out a numerically superior vote, is what we're talking about. https://is.gd/xUJWXw
So unlike in the court of foreign king MacDonald there is no point SCL Elections Ltd trying to generate Slovenian outrage about election-rigging. They would face a hurdle of some inconceivability.
Non-nautical Slovenia is equally happy to go whichever way its Facebook wind is blowing. Of course "rigging" here is a part-exaggeration (see Popeye).
But the effects of the WE on the People don't apply only to artificial intelligence-based mind games. Properly illegal "ballot stuffing" would be woosified into "ballot filling".
How about rigirati? I made that up but you can see it looks Slovenian and you can do the usual things, rigiš, rigirali etc. I also added a new word to the local vocabulary: dudžon. It is always visoko and never nizko. As usual I only got half an answer in exchange. Where do I pick up the money?
instructions / navodila
https://medium.com/@pdehaye/quick-guide-to-asking-cambridge-analytica-for-your-data-52f9e74bd059#.47jef1nna
how slovenia voted
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20poet%20election/top
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 18
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NUKE PLANT CONKS OUT AGAIN
Slovenia's only nuclear power station has shut itself down again, just three months after a 20m euro refit which saw it offline for 30 days.
Not counting the English-language Slovenia Times - which is unknown in Slovenia - the latest atomic hiccup seems to have gone largely unreported in the free and independent media of Slovenia, except for the obscure Dolenjski List.
The N-plant has previously been brought to a halt by leaves.
But the biggest concerns to be raised about its safety came during the migrant crisis, when it was thought non-white people coming near Krško might affect it in some unspecified way.
Operators HSE said they weren't quite sure why the station shut itself down last week. Since then no further word has emerged concerning the ghost in the machine.
Who ya gonna call? The Russians? Er, no. It's the Americans.
As engineers pondered the reason for the latest incident the Prime Minister, Minister for Education, various other ministers and advisers and their Head of Communications jetted off to France on the government's official plane Air Force Nun, ostensibly to watch handball.
previously on flukey nukey
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20nuclear%20poet/top
NUKE PLANT CONKS OUT AGAIN
Slovenia's only nuclear power station has shut itself down again, just three months after a 20m euro refit which saw it offline for 30 days.
Not counting the English-language Slovenia Times - which is unknown in Slovenia - the latest atomic hiccup seems to have gone largely unreported in the free and independent media of Slovenia, except for the obscure Dolenjski List.
The N-plant has previously been brought to a halt by leaves.
But the biggest concerns to be raised about its safety came during the migrant crisis, when it was thought non-white people coming near Krško might affect it in some unspecified way.
Operators HSE said they weren't quite sure why the station shut itself down last week. Since then no further word has emerged concerning the ghost in the machine.
Who ya gonna call? The Russians? Er, no. It's the Americans.
As engineers pondered the reason for the latest incident the Prime Minister, Minister for Education, various other ministers and advisers and their Head of Communications jetted off to France on the government's official plane Air Force Nun, ostensibly to watch handball.
previously on flukey nukey
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20nuclear%20poet/top
Kam je ena oseba
izginila s falcona med Cerarjevo potjo?
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fish and ships
MONTENEGRO IS CLOSER TO RUSSIA
BUT ALSO FURTHER AWAY
It's just 1802km by road from the Montenegrin capital Podgorica to the Ukraine-Crimean border, 20% nearer than Ramsgate.
But if you are planning a parliamentary bloodbath involving a massacre of your own supporters, don't bank on a quick getaway.
It takes four hours longer to drive to the Russian enclave than to Kent. https://www.google.si/maps/dir/Podgorica,+Montenegro/46.1429906,33.6365415/@46.1512536,33.6247518,15z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x134de8079606867d:0x6bf78a76ea588ae9!2m2!1d19.2593642!2d42.4304196!1m0!3e0
The attempted coup in Montenegro has not been reported in the free and independent media of its former Yugoslavian neighbour Slovenia at all, as it needs the money.
Sanctions-bound Russia is Slovenia's biggest trade partner outside the EU. Russia has responded to the EU sanctions over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine by going on hunger strike until the end of 2017.
And nearly half of Ptuj's chicken factory smell belongs to a Russian-owned firm. https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5p7yTRsQXS5
those sanctions in full
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/cZNg1FQHMSV
see also:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XeM4K95PgRD
MONTENEGRO IS CLOSER TO RUSSIA
BUT ALSO FURTHER AWAY
It's just 1802km by road from the Montenegrin capital Podgorica to the Ukraine-Crimean border, 20% nearer than Ramsgate.
But if you are planning a parliamentary bloodbath involving a massacre of your own supporters, don't bank on a quick getaway.
It takes four hours longer to drive to the Russian enclave than to Kent. https://www.google.si/maps/dir/Podgorica,+Montenegro/46.1429906,33.6365415/@46.1512536,33.6247518,15z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!1m1!1s0x134de8079606867d:0x6bf78a76ea588ae9!2m2!1d19.2593642!2d42.4304196!1m0!3e0
The attempted coup in Montenegro has not been reported in the free and independent media of its former Yugoslavian neighbour Slovenia at all, as it needs the money.
Sanctions-bound Russia is Slovenia's biggest trade partner outside the EU. Russia has responded to the EU sanctions over Crimea and Eastern Ukraine by going on hunger strike until the end of 2017.
And nearly half of Ptuj's chicken factory smell belongs to a Russian-owned firm. https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5p7yTRsQXS5
those sanctions in full
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/cZNg1FQHMSV
see also:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XeM4K95PgRD
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very local traditions
A 16-year-old female was killed in the latest fatal drink-drive incident.
She was the second teenage passenger to die in four days, in an impressive start to the year, which has included the torture and fatal beating of a bloke live on Facebook, and the decomposing body of a lady which turned up outside a pizzeria in Izola.
Actually that's just the last few days' worth.
The population of Slovenia is still two million.
A 16-year-old female was killed in the latest fatal drink-drive incident.
She was the second teenage passenger to die in four days, in an impressive start to the year, which has included the torture and fatal beating of a bloke live on Facebook, and the decomposing body of a lady which turned up outside a pizzeria in Izola.
Actually that's just the last few days' worth.
The population of Slovenia is still two million.
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KING OF THE TWEETERS:
SLOVENIA SHOWS THE WAY
The foreign king MacDonald follows the wise counsel of our own Emperor Miro and his priests and courtiers who, although they seldom go mad on Twitter, reject any insufficiently misty-eyed reports on Queen Melanitito's homeland in their mediasphere.
Once again we have proved ourselves to be years ahead of the Americans - this time in the area of sullen and humourless crackdowns on alternatives to the alternative facts.
Slovenia's government, industry and tourist processing plants have been running on official factoids since the country was invented by PR gurus in 1991.
various examples of wrongminded commentaries
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20deletion/top
KING OF THE TWEETERS:
SLOVENIA SHOWS THE WAY
The foreign king MacDonald follows the wise counsel of our own Emperor Miro and his priests and courtiers who, although they seldom go mad on Twitter, reject any insufficiently misty-eyed reports on Queen Melanitito's homeland in their mediasphere.
Once again we have proved ourselves to be years ahead of the Americans - this time in the area of sullen and humourless crackdowns on alternatives to the alternative facts.
Slovenia's government, industry and tourist processing plants have been running on official factoids since the country was invented by PR gurus in 1991.
various examples of wrongminded commentaries
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20deletion/top
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images of the depression
Ginger sounding a bit like Janis.
Later, is this what English sounds like to the Slovenians?
nposialpu's trump archive
https://is.gd/j9RGew
Ginger sounding a bit like Janis.
Later, is this what English sounds like to the Slovenians?
nposialpu's trump archive
https://is.gd/j9RGew
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 15:
BLUT UND BODEN
British bureaucrats have one in their mindedness and the other in their ears.
In the latest Guardian round-up of the changing face of foreign-ness, a London lawyer in the field of nationality issues describes a worst case scenario for people who find themselves in the wrong country.
https://is.gd/x18Rju
It is pretty much the present scenario, but worse. He avers that immigration-and-everything-else outsourcing firm Capita were recently ringing types of humans deemed unsuitable to live it up in Britain every hour to remind them of their marching orders.
This impressive oppressive official stalking behaviour by men in shirts and ties who are ony doing their job will come as no surprise to millions of UK welfare and housing benefit claimants, stitched up by the very same Capita's robotic accountancy and ideologically-driven management of the masses back in the 90s and noughties.
This adds urgency to my mission to find out what exactly it is these national bureaucracies are trying to do with their sorting of "deserving cases", that could not nowadays be achieved with a few cookies - on a global basis and without reference to their clients' country of birth.
Who has no cookies these days? Just poor people!
That's all you need to identify the genuinely indigent (and Osama Bin Laden) who could then have a square drawn round them with some statistics next to it by a videodrone or satellite.
Because this is where it usually comes in handy to inject a bit of fear into the TV news equation.
For in the TV minds of the Brexitrumpeteers, you can stop all terrorism just by refusing "entry" to "our" country to people from countries "we" don't like, as though the population of, say, Saudi Arabia, consisted in its entirety of cookie-cutter potential suicide plane hijackers ...every man jack and jill of 'em.
The same fallacy somehow befalls those possibly well-intentioned people who beaver away at those lists - lists of who gets to eat, lists of who gets to live somewhere, lists of who stays on a piece of territory and who must leave - people with their own economic motives for migrating to the bureaucracy God has chosen for them, people who cannot really see the woods for the trees.
Such works present little emotional difficulty to the participants.
Now www.television.si here is very opposed to this sort of thing.
Surely the least we can expect in return for being tracked geographically, intellectually, and economically, is the right to go wherever we damn well please.
www.television.si has no interest in your purchasing behaviour; it is unconcerned by national borders and takes no position on either side of any.
But the very same crass emotional appeal that makes television popular has got us Brexitrump.
Fortunately, by contrast with Brexitrump and television, www.television.si is not very populist, or popular.
But it could soon be more popular in continental Europe than Theresa Maybe or the American king MacDonald.
Believing in European-ness to the alarming extent of upping sticks to a remote country belonging to the same club, then once settled having the rug pulled from under you by the same forces which motivated you to flee, is a very interesting sensation - something to be experienced at least once in life if possible, like weightlessness.
It is the sense of being chased by nonsense, a roaring ogre full of nonsense, convinced of its own essentiality.
Its data-based view is the inversion of the western value placed on individuality that they don't like so much in Slovenia. It is - and it is - a Hitlerian shift in thinking. Individuals can be little more than plankton or an amoeba with the forces of 28 nation states and their respective Crapitas microwaving down their databases.
In www.television.si's plan, if your cookies show you bought some Melania Trump jewellery or suchlike, you should be able to ignore the most stringent passport control and visa requirements in the world.
Which is basically the same as what immigrationcrats do now.
see more tales of the tame frontier
on
www.television.si
BLUT UND BODEN
British bureaucrats have one in their mindedness and the other in their ears.
In the latest Guardian round-up of the changing face of foreign-ness, a London lawyer in the field of nationality issues describes a worst case scenario for people who find themselves in the wrong country.
https://is.gd/x18Rju
It is pretty much the present scenario, but worse. He avers that immigration-and-everything-else outsourcing firm Capita were recently ringing types of humans deemed unsuitable to live it up in Britain every hour to remind them of their marching orders.
This impressive oppressive official stalking behaviour by men in shirts and ties who are ony doing their job will come as no surprise to millions of UK welfare and housing benefit claimants, stitched up by the very same Capita's robotic accountancy and ideologically-driven management of the masses back in the 90s and noughties.
This adds urgency to my mission to find out what exactly it is these national bureaucracies are trying to do with their sorting of "deserving cases", that could not nowadays be achieved with a few cookies - on a global basis and without reference to their clients' country of birth.
Who has no cookies these days? Just poor people!
That's all you need to identify the genuinely indigent (and Osama Bin Laden) who could then have a square drawn round them with some statistics next to it by a videodrone or satellite.
Because this is where it usually comes in handy to inject a bit of fear into the TV news equation.
For in the TV minds of the Brexitrumpeteers, you can stop all terrorism just by refusing "entry" to "our" country to people from countries "we" don't like, as though the population of, say, Saudi Arabia, consisted in its entirety of cookie-cutter potential suicide plane hijackers ...every man jack and jill of 'em.
The same fallacy somehow befalls those possibly well-intentioned people who beaver away at those lists - lists of who gets to eat, lists of who gets to live somewhere, lists of who stays on a piece of territory and who must leave - people with their own economic motives for migrating to the bureaucracy God has chosen for them, people who cannot really see the woods for the trees.
Such works present little emotional difficulty to the participants.
Now www.television.si here is very opposed to this sort of thing.
Surely the least we can expect in return for being tracked geographically, intellectually, and economically, is the right to go wherever we damn well please.
www.television.si has no interest in your purchasing behaviour; it is unconcerned by national borders and takes no position on either side of any.
But the very same crass emotional appeal that makes television popular has got us Brexitrump.
Fortunately, by contrast with Brexitrump and television, www.television.si is not very populist, or popular.
But it could soon be more popular in continental Europe than Theresa Maybe or the American king MacDonald.
Believing in European-ness to the alarming extent of upping sticks to a remote country belonging to the same club, then once settled having the rug pulled from under you by the same forces which motivated you to flee, is a very interesting sensation - something to be experienced at least once in life if possible, like weightlessness.
It is the sense of being chased by nonsense, a roaring ogre full of nonsense, convinced of its own essentiality.
Its data-based view is the inversion of the western value placed on individuality that they don't like so much in Slovenia. It is - and it is - a Hitlerian shift in thinking. Individuals can be little more than plankton or an amoeba with the forces of 28 nation states and their respective Crapitas microwaving down their databases.
In www.television.si's plan, if your cookies show you bought some Melania Trump jewellery or suchlike, you should be able to ignore the most stringent passport control and visa requirements in the world.
Which is basically the same as what immigrationcrats do now.
see more tales of the tame frontier
on
www.television.si
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A decade ago it seemed Slovenians' sense of humour was frozen forever in the Monty Python and Only Fools And Horses eras. As far as homegrown comedy was concerned, the following seemed typical:
You see a white man and a black man drowning in the sea. Which do you save? The black guy - the white one might be Croatian.
Then in 2008 it seemed progress of the kind the UK saw in the 80s might be on the horizon.
For a moment it looked as though a solution had been found: why not avoid the difficulties of setting up a joke in a highly-inflected language by simply abandoning it?
http://www.stendap.si/najljubsi.html
But alas, the birth of sexual innuendo still had to await the birth of flirting. Worse, innuendo might acknowledge the existence of gayness. It has been decided in a referendum that gayness doesn't exist.
Either way, flirting cannot begin without chairs flying in a whiskey bar. Flirting is too much of a risk, something society trains you not to do.
Flirting in a traditional chauvinistic society might result in bastards, with all the shame and economic confusion that entails.
Accommodation is another restriction on Slovenian funniness. How can you deride the mother-in-law when you depend on her to cook your dinner?
Successfully funny innuendo and self-deprecation both demand the abrogation of jealousy and of hatred of the other. It is hard to ask folks to laugh at you making yourself look stupid, when looking stupid simply means stupid, humourless people thinking you are stupid. And, as they are quick to conclude, inferior.
So self-deprecation is simply taken literally. Self-deprecation has no use in sport, nor in a sporty model of how we are supposed to live.
Like innuendo, self-deprecation requires ambiguity. Innuendo depends on the ambiguity of language - usually impossible in Slovene. Often you do also need to know something about fucking. And bitches. http://jim.si/love
The more complex ambiguity of comic self-deprecation requires the listener to empathise with the character being portrayed, so that the comedic situation can be distinguished from the performer's real-life overview of himself/herself.
Once again, with Slovenians struggling to comprehend each other in their own language, there is zero room for manoeuvres of this kind, and this explains why the only situational pratfalls to crack a smile in their mainly dull, overanalytical world were those of Mr Bean - utterly silent.
So unfortunately, just doing your "stendap" in English wasn't the answer. First you must engineer a society in which laughter matters more than the main preoccupations of the citizenry: money, and the qualifications required to slot yourself into a rigid system so as to get it.
Who wants to be the first to make it more important than doing down your rival, milking every exploitative business, and impressing the bitches? Of course those folks are laughing, and of course they're naughty, but they are not nice.
www.ptuj.co.uk
Before some Slovenian professor suggests a university examination course in comedy, I must opine that a Sense Of Fun, the egolessness associated with the non-Catholic drugs, and a relatively unstructured individualism are what really distinguish the British lack of seriousness from the dreary status extant in the serious business of the Slovenian entertainment firmament.
Is it necessary for the audience to be ahead (or at least abreast - fnarr fnarr) of the comedian in its cultural references, or does the comedy define where the public is - or ought to be - at? If anyone can enlighten me in this regarding Slovenian humour www.television.si is waiting to hear from you.
When you realise that a fragile ego never mends, and that there are more important things in life than survival, you can count yourself emotionally stable and fit to weather the slings and arrows - even the most ridiculous outcomes of ephemeral political ideological bandwagons, and the rest.
Here at least the Balkans, through familiarity with audiences' everyday experience of its pre- and post-communist institutional shambles, has an inkling of where to point its newly-imitated Sense Of Fun.
If only it was economically viable, not a ruinous career move, and too scary, to actually say it. If only woosy complacency was not the order of the Slovenian nation, and its fun did not = drunk.
Until this changes, you could run a translated Bernard Manning show to packed houses in Slovenia tomorrow.
For the indelibly serious-minded, for whom happiness is not enough, humour "has a direct bearing on the nature of conformity, indoctrination, dissent and resistance".
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~dbranden/PHadvertSlavica.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes
A decade ago it seemed Slovenians' sense of humour was frozen forever in the Monty Python and Only Fools And Horses eras. As far as homegrown comedy was concerned, the following seemed typical:
You see a white man and a black man drowning in the sea. Which do you save? The black guy - the white one might be Croatian.
Then in 2008 it seemed progress of the kind the UK saw in the 80s might be on the horizon.
For a moment it looked as though a solution had been found: why not avoid the difficulties of setting up a joke in a highly-inflected language by simply abandoning it?
http://www.stendap.si/najljubsi.html
But alas, the birth of sexual innuendo still had to await the birth of flirting. Worse, innuendo might acknowledge the existence of gayness. It has been decided in a referendum that gayness doesn't exist.
Either way, flirting cannot begin without chairs flying in a whiskey bar. Flirting is too much of a risk, something society trains you not to do.
Flirting in a traditional chauvinistic society might result in bastards, with all the shame and economic confusion that entails.
Accommodation is another restriction on Slovenian funniness. How can you deride the mother-in-law when you depend on her to cook your dinner?
Successfully funny innuendo and self-deprecation both demand the abrogation of jealousy and of hatred of the other. It is hard to ask folks to laugh at you making yourself look stupid, when looking stupid simply means stupid, humourless people thinking you are stupid. And, as they are quick to conclude, inferior.
So self-deprecation is simply taken literally. Self-deprecation has no use in sport, nor in a sporty model of how we are supposed to live.
Like innuendo, self-deprecation requires ambiguity. Innuendo depends on the ambiguity of language - usually impossible in Slovene. Often you do also need to know something about fucking. And bitches. http://jim.si/love
The more complex ambiguity of comic self-deprecation requires the listener to empathise with the character being portrayed, so that the comedic situation can be distinguished from the performer's real-life overview of himself/herself.
Once again, with Slovenians struggling to comprehend each other in their own language, there is zero room for manoeuvres of this kind, and this explains why the only situational pratfalls to crack a smile in their mainly dull, overanalytical world were those of Mr Bean - utterly silent.
So unfortunately, just doing your "stendap" in English wasn't the answer. First you must engineer a society in which laughter matters more than the main preoccupations of the citizenry: money, and the qualifications required to slot yourself into a rigid system so as to get it.
Who wants to be the first to make it more important than doing down your rival, milking every exploitative business, and impressing the bitches? Of course those folks are laughing, and of course they're naughty, but they are not nice.
www.ptuj.co.uk
Before some Slovenian professor suggests a university examination course in comedy, I must opine that a Sense Of Fun, the egolessness associated with the non-Catholic drugs, and a relatively unstructured individualism are what really distinguish the British lack of seriousness from the dreary status extant in the serious business of the Slovenian entertainment firmament.
Is it necessary for the audience to be ahead (or at least abreast - fnarr fnarr) of the comedian in its cultural references, or does the comedy define where the public is - or ought to be - at? If anyone can enlighten me in this regarding Slovenian humour www.television.si is waiting to hear from you.
When you realise that a fragile ego never mends, and that there are more important things in life than survival, you can count yourself emotionally stable and fit to weather the slings and arrows - even the most ridiculous outcomes of ephemeral political ideological bandwagons, and the rest.
Here at least the Balkans, through familiarity with audiences' everyday experience of its pre- and post-communist institutional shambles, has an inkling of where to point its newly-imitated Sense Of Fun.
If only it was economically viable, not a ruinous career move, and too scary, to actually say it. If only woosy complacency was not the order of the Slovenian nation, and its fun did not = drunk.
Until this changes, you could run a translated Bernard Manning show to packed houses in Slovenia tomorrow.
For the indelibly serious-minded, for whom happiness is not enough, humour "has a direct bearing on the nature of conformity, indoctrination, dissent and resistance".
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~dbranden/PHadvertSlavica.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_political_jokes
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TRUMP ALTERS SLOVENIAN CONSTITUTION?
Since being threatened with litigation by Melania Trump, Slovenian people's tabloid Slovenske Novice has taken a cautious line regarding any mention of the royal couple.
This seems to have resulted in a royal battle over nposialpu's fairly innocuous comment concerning Slovenia's latest plan to ingratiate itself with the super-rich, which is now being reposted every day - and then deleted.
In case this important comment is missing at the time of day you go to look for it at http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-sloveniji-najvec-zapravi-ameriski-turist, it's reproduced in bold below.
If you are some kind of travelling comedian, you need not bother including Slovenia in your itinerary. Unless, presumably, you are super-rich but not funny....
And the comment which has struck terror into the heart of Slovenian journalism? It is simply a response to their banal and ill-starred aim of targeting ultra-wealthy tourists, namely....
And why exactly would high-income-bracket Americans in particular want to come here?
Yes, you other type of Americans - Slovenia is unashamedly poor-ist.
One thing we do know in Slovenia is that we don't want thousands of foreigners cluttering up the place with their non-red faces and their modern ways. But we do want foreign money.
That's why we only want the super-wealthy glamping and staying in our 70s hotels.
So look out, any high-income-bracket Americans reading Slovenske Novice, the grinning Cheshire Cats of the non-legally-liable Slovenian Tourist Organisation want to meet you.
But first they must have a very important meeting to see who gets to go out of Slovenia.
Apparently if you suggest success you can get a free holiday to America, on a very important mission to clop around in high heels at some exhibition thing. Maybe you'll even meet Mel - eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/W9KzeLk3mZJ
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are protected by Article 39 para. 1 of the Slovenian Constitution of 23 December 1991.
slovenia's previous plans to ingratiate itself with rich people
..and other financial hilarity
https://is.gd/YMP2nw
TRUMP ALTERS SLOVENIAN CONSTITUTION?
Since being threatened with litigation by Melania Trump, Slovenian people's tabloid Slovenske Novice has taken a cautious line regarding any mention of the royal couple.
This seems to have resulted in a royal battle over nposialpu's fairly innocuous comment concerning Slovenia's latest plan to ingratiate itself with the super-rich, which is now being reposted every day - and then deleted.
In case this important comment is missing at the time of day you go to look for it at http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-sloveniji-najvec-zapravi-ameriski-turist, it's reproduced in bold below.
If you are some kind of travelling comedian, you need not bother including Slovenia in your itinerary. Unless, presumably, you are super-rich but not funny....
And the comment which has struck terror into the heart of Slovenian journalism? It is simply a response to their banal and ill-starred aim of targeting ultra-wealthy tourists, namely....
And why exactly would high-income-bracket Americans in particular want to come here?
Yes, you other type of Americans - Slovenia is unashamedly poor-ist.
One thing we do know in Slovenia is that we don't want thousands of foreigners cluttering up the place with their non-red faces and their modern ways. But we do want foreign money.
That's why we only want the super-wealthy glamping and staying in our 70s hotels.
So look out, any high-income-bracket Americans reading Slovenske Novice, the grinning Cheshire Cats of the non-legally-liable Slovenian Tourist Organisation want to meet you.
But first they must have a very important meeting to see who gets to go out of Slovenia.
Apparently if you suggest success you can get a free holiday to America, on a very important mission to clop around in high heels at some exhibition thing. Maybe you'll even meet Mel - eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/W9KzeLk3mZJ
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are protected by Article 39 para. 1 of the Slovenian Constitution of 23 December 1991.
slovenia's previous plans to ingratiate itself with rich people
..and other financial hilarity
https://is.gd/YMP2nw
V Sloveniji največ
zapravi ameriški turist |
Slovenskenovice.si
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KEKEC DEFILED: NOW IT'S WAR!
A Slovenian claims to have seen these "anti-Slovenian" posters. They claim to have seen them in Austria.
I'm guessing most Austrians have no more idea who Kekec is than folks in Shepherds Bush do - and you would have to know him as a Slovenian icon for this to work, semiotics-wise. Apart from the little flag.
Und, wer ist "uns"? I believe it is an attempt at political irony and as such should be applauded - as an attempt.
Its problematical beam in its eye is the conservative villagers' tendency to take everything WAAAAY too literally, and their rushes to judgment when it comes to tribal lurches against this stimulus generalisaton or that.
It's just not funny enough - when stirring trouble is so easy. And we have a problem with sick humour being too much of the former and very little of the latter.
The Austrian Embassy in Ljub City, tipped off by Večer, pronounced itself "surprised" and said it would have Herr Plod look into the matter.
On the plus side, it will be quite a bit less unfunny if it turns out it wasn't really even displayed in Austria. It also kinda reminds me of https://is.gd/JmhXZm
nposialpu's österreich archive
https://is.gd/Np5RXN
KEKEC DEFILED: NOW IT'S WAR!
A Slovenian claims to have seen these "anti-Slovenian" posters. They claim to have seen them in Austria.
I'm guessing most Austrians have no more idea who Kekec is than folks in Shepherds Bush do - and you would have to know him as a Slovenian icon for this to work, semiotics-wise. Apart from the little flag.
Und, wer ist "uns"? I believe it is an attempt at political irony and as such should be applauded - as an attempt.
Its problematical beam in its eye is the conservative villagers' tendency to take everything WAAAAY too literally, and their rushes to judgment when it comes to tribal lurches against this stimulus generalisaton or that.
It's just not funny enough - when stirring trouble is so easy. And we have a problem with sick humour being too much of the former and very little of the latter.
The Austrian Embassy in Ljub City, tipped off by Večer, pronounced itself "surprised" and said it would have Herr Plod look into the matter.
On the plus side, it will be quite a bit less unfunny if it turns out it wasn't really even displayed in Austria. It also kinda reminds me of https://is.gd/JmhXZm
nposialpu's österreich archive
https://is.gd/Np5RXN
Lokalec.si » Slovenci
v Avstriji nezaželeni
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FRIGHT CLUB
It was an instant knockout as a quartet of Roma from the Kamenci settlement thanked Črešnovci Mayor Anton Törnar for his tireless efforts to improve relations between the gypsies and other local people.
The Mayor, 55, quickly found himself unconscious and minus two teeth after apparently minding his own business and not responding to demands for money from the group drinking nearby, in Odranci's popular Gaj bar and restaurant.
Mayor fighting is a popular activity in Slovenia and the focus of Slovenia's current drive to become a high-profile sports tourism destination.
For details of future tourist opportunities keep watching Črešnovci's official web page, below.
If Občina Črešnovci needs help promoting mayor boxing in English, or you want top-quality English publicity for any rival tourist events in Slovenia, please go to https://is.gd/wKcEs9
Tight-lipped locals could not help reporters with the exact story behind the attack - if there is one - as they have to live there.
nposialpu's slovenian mayoral battle archive
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
FRIGHT CLUB
It was an instant knockout as a quartet of Roma from the Kamenci settlement thanked Črešnovci Mayor Anton Törnar for his tireless efforts to improve relations between the gypsies and other local people.
The Mayor, 55, quickly found himself unconscious and minus two teeth after apparently minding his own business and not responding to demands for money from the group drinking nearby, in Odranci's popular Gaj bar and restaurant.
Mayor fighting is a popular activity in Slovenia and the focus of Slovenia's current drive to become a high-profile sports tourism destination.
For details of future tourist opportunities keep watching Črešnovci's official web page, below.
If Občina Črešnovci needs help promoting mayor boxing in English, or you want top-quality English publicity for any rival tourist events in Slovenia, please go to https://is.gd/wKcEs9
Tight-lipped locals could not help reporters with the exact story behind the attack - if there is one - as they have to live there.
nposialpu's slovenian mayoral battle archive
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
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TRUMPOCALYPSE 9/11
NEW COOK AMERICA
New US Queen Melanitito
Banned the mole and burrito
Meanwhile insisting every pizza
Begin with base of gibanica,
And ordered culinary labours
Must only imitate white neighbours'.
Then with a tax on refried beans
Erased the Latino cuisine.
Deciding that her people needed
Her wiser national diet, she deed it.
Fox News revealed all foreign spices
Were actually attacks by ISIS.
A royal address on CBS
Advised sports coaches on the mess:
"If Uncle Sam eats curry - fail!
Pineapple with ham? Throw 'em in jail!"
At breakfast beer and burek, NATO
Mapped Peru's evil potato.
All burgers were charred with the Queen's
Logos: skincare, jewellery, jeans.
Appointees to X-Factor panels
And cookery and fashion channels
Promoted haggis: every putz
Wore fashion kilt, dunked ginger nuts.
"Of frijoles and deeez marinades
We have no need Unided Stades;
You mustn't put fruit in your meat - ya
Gonna ruin zat pleskavice.
Viz turnip peel and gelatine,
Ve'll make America grate lard again!
Trotters, tripe, will be your hrano -
And go easy on that oregano!
The strongest taste of any fare
Should not exceed Ptuj's air!"
Naturally to make the topic as dull as possible, the Slovenian Tourist Board convened a multidisciplinary committee on "The Strategic Development of Slovenian Gastronomy" (see waffle) which after dividing up the boringness into the inevitable 23 gastronomic regional categories has cooked up - instead of something tasty - 269 pages of comparisons and statistics trying to find out what the foreigner "means" with his interest in food, solemnly observing that in Slovenia:
"The presence of hedonism in eating is not as high as is observed in other cultures"
...and explains there is no history of enjoying food as...
"The culture of eating in accommodation establishments in Slovenia does not appear to favour the development of Slovenian gastronomy."
The ten years since this have offered little hint of a gastronomic revolution - while the report does not mention smoking once.
Rather, by way of a solution, many of the committee members' methods and recommendations focussed on the type of research which would require a lot of trips abroad.
the death of the burrito
http://www.burrito.si
potato haters
https://www.phactual.com/the-little-known-connection-between-potatoes-and-demon-worship/
tourism alternative facts
http://www.slovenia.info/pictures/business_event/atachments_1/2006/Strategija_gastronomije-31.8.2006_4277.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-12,765
...naturally after reading this post, sometime between Nov 9 2016 and Mar 9 2017 the Slovenian Tourist Board removed the gastronomic report quoted above from the slovenia.info site and reclassified it as doubleplusunthink
rauchenmenschen
https://is.gd/mZHLnO
ptuj weather arr-bisto-chive
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
melania mania
https://is.gd/OTa12R
all the tales of the tame frontier
https://is.gd/puofrW
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 13:
NEW COOK AMERICA
New US Queen Melanitito
Banned the mole and burrito
Meanwhile insisting every pizza
Begin with base of gibanica,
And ordered culinary labours
Must only imitate white neighbours'.
Then with a tax on refried beans
Erased the Latino cuisine.
Deciding that her people needed
Her wiser national diet, she deed it.
Fox News revealed all foreign spices
Were actually attacks by ISIS.
A royal address on CBS
Advised sports coaches on the mess:
"If Uncle Sam eats curry - fail!
Pineapple with ham? Throw 'em in jail!"
At breakfast beer and burek, NATO
Mapped Peru's evil potato.
All burgers were charred with the Queen's
Logos: skincare, jewellery, jeans.
Appointees to X-Factor panels
And cookery and fashion channels
Promoted haggis: every putz
Wore fashion kilt, dunked ginger nuts.
"Of frijoles and deeez marinades
We have no need Unided Stades;
You mustn't put fruit in your meat - ya
Gonna ruin zat pleskavice.
Viz turnip peel and gelatine,
Ve'll make America grate lard again!
Trotters, tripe, will be your hrano -
And go easy on that oregano!
The strongest taste of any fare
Should not exceed Ptuj's air!"
Naturally to make the topic as dull as possible, the Slovenian Tourist Board convened a multidisciplinary committee on "The Strategic Development of Slovenian Gastronomy" (see waffle) which after dividing up the boringness into the inevitable 23 gastronomic regional categories has cooked up - instead of something tasty - 269 pages of comparisons and statistics trying to find out what the foreigner "means" with his interest in food, solemnly observing that in Slovenia:
"The presence of hedonism in eating is not as high as is observed in other cultures"
...and explains there is no history of enjoying food as...
"The culture of eating in accommodation establishments in Slovenia does not appear to favour the development of Slovenian gastronomy."
The ten years since this have offered little hint of a gastronomic revolution - while the report does not mention smoking once.
Rather, by way of a solution, many of the committee members' methods and recommendations focussed on the type of research which would require a lot of trips abroad.
the death of the burrito
http://www.burrito.si
potato haters
https://www.phactual.com/the-little-known-connection-between-potatoes-and-demon-worship/
tourism alternative facts
http://www.slovenia.info/pictures/business_event/atachments_1/2006/Strategija_gastronomije-31.8.2006_4277.pdf#page=1&zoom=auto,-12,765
...naturally after reading this post, sometime between Nov 9 2016 and Mar 9 2017 the Slovenian Tourist Board removed the gastronomic report quoted above from the slovenia.info site and reclassified it as doubleplusunthink
rauchenmenschen
https://is.gd/mZHLnO
ptuj weather arr-bisto-chive
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
melania mania
https://is.gd/OTa12R
all the tales of the tame frontier
https://is.gd/puofrW
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 13:
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down with this sort of thing
CRACKDOWN ON UNI ENGLISH
Altered education laws proposing allowing English-only lecture courses in Slovenian universities have been spat out by the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science, Sports and Yoof.
The continuing paranoid siege follows musical laws prescribing Slovene minima for radio playlists, and insistence on Slovenian lyrics for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Attempts to free up communication on the latest ideas about electric kettles, custard, lung cancer, and particle physics in the higher education system were met with reserve and indignation.
The Rector of the University of Ljub City waded in to explain that many who had gone on some kind of school trip abroad as middle school students were those who later fled Slovenia for good at the earliest opportunity.
The party of Janšaria Law's former interior minister's view was that Slovenia speaks Slovenian, which is also called Slovene.
However good you are, English is no use if your mates are around as they will suspect you are getting uppity.
http://www.dostop.si/Novica.aspx?ID=7143
Although any teenager could name topics impossible to study in Slovene alone, the Committee found itself pressured to instead expand its native language base in education by a powerful combined lobby of academic Slavic boffins and right-wing retards.
After a year of debate, it decided to continue with this somewhat pointless speech impediment via an amendment to the amendment which proposed loosening of rules preventing course availability in foreign languages alone, covering such Slovenian subjects as biznis, marketing, turizem, filozofija and inženiring.
However students who are too brainy, and pass their exams early, will no longer be deprived of health insurance, food, accommodation and the student status required to work in a bar for the rest of the year as a result, potentially threatening neoliberal incomes from long-winded fat-chewing and sending you to the other office - www.nyjets.si
Putting a positive spin on her defeat at pro-educational education lawmaking, science-education-sporty-yoof minister Brenčič claimed the outcome would "unify" the profession, according to Google Translate. By slowing things down in as many ways as possible, presumably.
For instance, foreign students wishing to study in Slovenia would still need to learn Slovene if no English-language course was available and after a few stiff drinks should go immediately to www.a2z.si for further advice.
meine kleine muzak archiv
https://is.gd/OQxjY1
pIcture
Saturday afternoon marketing in progress in the Supermesto shopping centre, Ptuj.
CRACKDOWN ON UNI ENGLISH
Altered education laws proposing allowing English-only lecture courses in Slovenian universities have been spat out by the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science, Sports and Yoof.
The continuing paranoid siege follows musical laws prescribing Slovene minima for radio playlists, and insistence on Slovenian lyrics for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Attempts to free up communication on the latest ideas about electric kettles, custard, lung cancer, and particle physics in the higher education system were met with reserve and indignation.
The Rector of the University of Ljub City waded in to explain that many who had gone on some kind of school trip abroad as middle school students were those who later fled Slovenia for good at the earliest opportunity.
The party of Janšaria Law's former interior minister's view was that Slovenia speaks Slovenian, which is also called Slovene.
However good you are, English is no use if your mates are around as they will suspect you are getting uppity.
http://www.dostop.si/Novica.aspx?ID=7143
Although any teenager could name topics impossible to study in Slovene alone, the Committee found itself pressured to instead expand its native language base in education by a powerful combined lobby of academic Slavic boffins and right-wing retards.
After a year of debate, it decided to continue with this somewhat pointless speech impediment via an amendment to the amendment which proposed loosening of rules preventing course availability in foreign languages alone, covering such Slovenian subjects as biznis, marketing, turizem, filozofija and inženiring.
However students who are too brainy, and pass their exams early, will no longer be deprived of health insurance, food, accommodation and the student status required to work in a bar for the rest of the year as a result, potentially threatening neoliberal incomes from long-winded fat-chewing and sending you to the other office - www.nyjets.si
Putting a positive spin on her defeat at pro-educational education lawmaking, science-education-sporty-yoof minister Brenčič claimed the outcome would "unify" the profession, according to Google Translate. By slowing things down in as many ways as possible, presumably.
For instance, foreign students wishing to study in Slovenia would still need to learn Slovene if no English-language course was available and after a few stiff drinks should go immediately to www.a2z.si for further advice.
meine kleine muzak archiv
https://is.gd/OQxjY1
pIcture
Saturday afternoon marketing in progress in the Supermesto shopping centre, Ptuj.
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absurd economic dogmas having their day
WHO'S NEOLIBERAL IN SLOVENIA - AND WHO'S NOT
Head of Tourism in Slovenia - employee, not neoliberal. Aims: to lend authority to claims of environmental sustainability based on the colour of vegetation: https://is.gd/1KL92f
Head of Tourism in Ptuj - self-employed contractor, neoliberal. Aims: the same as above; to shunt visitors in the direction of her brother's wine outlets in the guise of a public service; avoid mentioning aggressive drunks, hate campaigns, grumpy poor people, or the green destination's grim routine of chicken factory rendering smells; dangle a few crumbs in the direction of oblivion-supportive artists to keep 'em in line; impede rivals and outsiders. https://is.gd/9BGuzd
Mayors are not self-employed and therefore not neoliberal. Aims: to support enough rich families to get re-elected, e.g. by paying ten grand a month to the above: https://is.gd/PMEqFl
Dustmen are un-neoliberally employed by neoliberal-style private companies. Aims: to start their own private, cheaper, greener rubbish collection services (according to neoliberal economic theories).
Counting foreigners is a national function, not neoliberal. Aims: make sure as many leave as arrive, after giving them a hard time in revenge for the Hapsburgs and extracting all of their money. www.aaa.si
Running day centres whence non-neoliberal employment offices can consign unemployed yoof caused by neoliberal policies is private business, and neoliberal. Aims: to pocket a big wedge; help pay for their estate agency premises while things are a bit quiet; wait forever for someone to do them a legible English web page who is related to them: https://is.gd/5gypa3
Selling the extra health insurance you may need but can't afford is the job of oligarchs of the common-or-garden chicken factory and bankrupt bank variety, among others, and neoliberal. Aims: pay out as little in healthcare costs as possible as you impress the bitches by driving around in a new Audi with a big fat stupid face.
The seven years' unanswered Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire is at www.aaa.si/q
previously on neoliberalism
https://is.gd/1XX5lE
neo-neoliberalism
https://is.gd/GHD9sW
WHO'S NEOLIBERAL IN SLOVENIA - AND WHO'S NOT
Head of Tourism in Slovenia - employee, not neoliberal. Aims: to lend authority to claims of environmental sustainability based on the colour of vegetation: https://is.gd/1KL92f
Head of Tourism in Ptuj - self-employed contractor, neoliberal. Aims: the same as above; to shunt visitors in the direction of her brother's wine outlets in the guise of a public service; avoid mentioning aggressive drunks, hate campaigns, grumpy poor people, or the green destination's grim routine of chicken factory rendering smells; dangle a few crumbs in the direction of oblivion-supportive artists to keep 'em in line; impede rivals and outsiders. https://is.gd/9BGuzd
Mayors are not self-employed and therefore not neoliberal. Aims: to support enough rich families to get re-elected, e.g. by paying ten grand a month to the above: https://is.gd/PMEqFl
Dustmen are un-neoliberally employed by neoliberal-style private companies. Aims: to start their own private, cheaper, greener rubbish collection services (according to neoliberal economic theories).
Counting foreigners is a national function, not neoliberal. Aims: make sure as many leave as arrive, after giving them a hard time in revenge for the Hapsburgs and extracting all of their money. www.aaa.si
Running day centres whence non-neoliberal employment offices can consign unemployed yoof caused by neoliberal policies is private business, and neoliberal. Aims: to pocket a big wedge; help pay for their estate agency premises while things are a bit quiet; wait forever for someone to do them a legible English web page who is related to them: https://is.gd/5gypa3
Selling the extra health insurance you may need but can't afford is the job of oligarchs of the common-or-garden chicken factory and bankrupt bank variety, among others, and neoliberal. Aims: pay out as little in healthcare costs as possible as you impress the bitches by driving around in a new Audi with a big fat stupid face.
The seven years' unanswered Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire is at www.aaa.si/q
previously on neoliberalism
https://is.gd/1XX5lE
neo-neoliberalism
https://is.gd/GHD9sW
Chicken Lake
ptuj.co.uk
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slovenglish
CUT-AND-PASTE SLOVENGREENWASH TO CONTINUE
Slovenia's Tourism Board stumbles at the first long word...extited.
Perhaps this refers to the milking to exhaustion of its largely self-awarded green credentials - obtained off the shelf at a reasonable price and meaningless of course.
Gorged on sustainable caviar, Ljub City's terylene-clad tourististas have been drilled in their seminars to keep repeating this green thing - it's what today's modern ABC1 foreigner wants to hear.
Consider how credible this claim might be in a country that outsmokes and outdrinks nearly all of Europe.
Meanwhile the tourism troops on the ground who have to actually face the enemy can merely point to the nearest grass and trees. It is a cheap trick any thick hick can pull off. And completely litigation-proof!
Ptuj is not such a green destination. We've gone for more of a grey-brown flavour. To join in the recycling simply step outside and breathe. www.ptuj.co.uk
Research proves that over 50% of our green wines contain residues from no more than two pesticides. Give our 1999 Roundup Rizling or refreshing Boscalid Nouveau a try!
You'll soon be too hammered to give a fuck. With sex education in Slovenia apparently something of a guessing game, that's probably just as well, and good for the economy.
https://is.gd/tF2SXu
The best bit is that your hosts will see absolutely no connection whatsoever between their green-ness and your interest in what you want to eat, drink, or breathe, being chiefly nicotine devotees and hobbyist alcoholics who have merely muddled up market research and their personal fascination with losing control of various parts of their anatomy.
https://is.gd/pnCEUS
With no major air cleanup or Slovenglish engineering contracts in sight, or indication that ga. Pak knows her As from her LBO, the known similarities of English and Dutch suffice to prove that square-vadge Slovenia wrote this environmentally unconscious hagiography themselves, and not the Dutch owners of the site:, e.g.:
"The emphasis in her work was on the marketing of Thermal Spa Rogaška and tourism products for foreign markets and the organisation of the communication campaigns."
I am being pedantic, of course.
nposialpu's tourism archive
https://is.gd/6kdbP0
wine, w...and, er, more wine
https://is.gd/jQMld9
CUT-AND-PASTE SLOVENGREENWASH TO CONTINUE
Slovenia's Tourism Board stumbles at the first long word...extited.
Perhaps this refers to the milking to exhaustion of its largely self-awarded green credentials - obtained off the shelf at a reasonable price and meaningless of course.
Gorged on sustainable caviar, Ljub City's terylene-clad tourististas have been drilled in their seminars to keep repeating this green thing - it's what today's modern ABC1 foreigner wants to hear.
Consider how credible this claim might be in a country that outsmokes and outdrinks nearly all of Europe.
Meanwhile the tourism troops on the ground who have to actually face the enemy can merely point to the nearest grass and trees. It is a cheap trick any thick hick can pull off. And completely litigation-proof!
Ptuj is not such a green destination. We've gone for more of a grey-brown flavour. To join in the recycling simply step outside and breathe. www.ptuj.co.uk
Research proves that over 50% of our green wines contain residues from no more than two pesticides. Give our 1999 Roundup Rizling or refreshing Boscalid Nouveau a try!
You'll soon be too hammered to give a fuck. With sex education in Slovenia apparently something of a guessing game, that's probably just as well, and good for the economy.
https://is.gd/tF2SXu
The best bit is that your hosts will see absolutely no connection whatsoever between their green-ness and your interest in what you want to eat, drink, or breathe, being chiefly nicotine devotees and hobbyist alcoholics who have merely muddled up market research and their personal fascination with losing control of various parts of their anatomy.
https://is.gd/pnCEUS
With no major air cleanup or Slovenglish engineering contracts in sight, or indication that ga. Pak knows her As from her LBO, the known similarities of English and Dutch suffice to prove that square-vadge Slovenia wrote this environmentally unconscious hagiography themselves, and not the Dutch owners of the site:, e.g.:
"The emphasis in her work was on the marketing of Thermal Spa Rogaška and tourism products for foreign markets and the organisation of the communication campaigns."
I am being pedantic, of course.
nposialpu's tourism archive
https://is.gd/6kdbP0
wine, w...and, er, more wine
https://is.gd/jQMld9
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male inequality
PHARMING TODAY
Accusation: Ljub City Mayor Zoki's
Made appointment conjoined with his cock. His
Interest in pharmacy?
The condoms were free.
That a team's listening in's no big shock - jeez!
If found guilty of sex AND giving someone a job, under Slovenian law Mayor Janković has to do four years' bird.
Except for four months when Zoran nearly became PM, he has been sitting as the capital's Mayor since 2006. In a pharmaceutically profitable spin-off from Slovenia's alcoholic industry, his appointee Katarina Ravnikar is an expert on hemorrhoids. https://www.lekarna24ur.com/si/aktualno/farmacevti-za-vas/clanek/hemoroidi-1
Janković has not done a tweet since 2014.
mayoral archive of nposialpu
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
ptuj's rival hemorrhoid cure
www.a2z.si/h
jeez
www.jesus.si
PHARMING TODAY
Accusation: Ljub City Mayor Zoki's
Made appointment conjoined with his cock. His
Interest in pharmacy?
The condoms were free.
That a team's listening in's no big shock - jeez!
If found guilty of sex AND giving someone a job, under Slovenian law Mayor Janković has to do four years' bird.
Except for four months when Zoran nearly became PM, he has been sitting as the capital's Mayor since 2006. In a pharmaceutically profitable spin-off from Slovenia's alcoholic industry, his appointee Katarina Ravnikar is an expert on hemorrhoids. https://www.lekarna24ur.com/si/aktualno/farmacevti-za-vas/clanek/hemoroidi-1
Janković has not done a tweet since 2014.
mayoral archive of nposialpu
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
ptuj's rival hemorrhoid cure
www.a2z.si/h
jeez
www.jesus.si
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ptuj weather special report
ALL DAY PERCUSSIVE AIR
City Vonjsity 1385 chickenfeet/m3 at 1.9atm, cycling speeds reduced, some windscreen smearing.
Widespread chicken across the road.
Tourist outlook: angry.
What to wear: Wipe-clean coat, goggles, clothes peg.
Get today's PPM Labs cross-olfactorypathic Ptuj weather recreation here.
kodela mystique sex cymbal mix
play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXqGybRUhY
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5TMFc5kXc
not one after the other, stupid - both at the same time!
other special reports
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
ALL DAY PERCUSSIVE AIR
City Vonjsity 1385 chickenfeet/m3 at 1.9atm, cycling speeds reduced, some windscreen smearing.
Widespread chicken across the road.
Tourist outlook: angry.
What to wear: Wipe-clean coat, goggles, clothes peg.
Get today's PPM Labs cross-olfactorypathic Ptuj weather recreation here.
kodela mystique sex cymbal mix
play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXqGybRUhY
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5TMFc5kXc
not one after the other, stupid - both at the same time!
other special reports
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
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schools of grammar
QUALITY ASSURANCE
A quick check of Ptuj's glossy trilingual brochure for the tourist season reveals a bothersome read, replete with Neanderthal missing articles, vectorless anti-sentences, plus the usual Slovenglish specialities such as watered-down blandness, have-to-write-more-than-I-was-told-to-say, and hapless, eye-bulging, customer-scarers.
However its editors, native speakers of the various agglutinated, highly-inflected, unromantic Slovene dialects, did better than Lincolnshire County Council whose "Literature Newsletter" I analysed in 2006.
This big občina in a part of England with fluoridated people managed over 100 mistakes in their own language, in only four pages.
Besides increasing Pb uptake, fluoride itself has a dubious effect on the developing brain, although they don't seem to have twigged in Lincolnshire yet. https://www.flickr.com/photos/luqi/5193600401/
Sometimes it takes some groups a while to catch up and 70 years after the first artificially fluoridated Americans were born to the PR muzak of Edward L Bernays, they now claim to have a plan to find out what fluoride does to the rest of you https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/2015/december/meetingmaterial/fluoride_508.pdf
Not doing any such thing prior to fluoridating themselves suggests the damn yankees were already dumb enough in 1945. Later western leaders were more cautious www.nfl.si/merron.htm
I don't know if this research by this organisation connected with fluoridation could possibly go wrong and make a scientific discovery against fluoride. What a lawsuit that could turn out to be! I mean, just look at these troublemakers! http://image.slidesharecdn.com/sachin2-140906043528-phpapp02/95/seminar-on-endemic-flurosis-11-638.jpg?cb=1409978304
The effects on IQ are obvious enough to me from this comparison of language abilities. Language acquisition, like odontogenesis and being fluoridated by the council, does begin in early pregnancy. The presumably unfluoridated Ptuj folks' summer brochure has more pages than Lincolnshire's newsletter, and 10,000 copies were produced at no small expense.
Despite breathing chicken gluck on an almost daily basis, rampant regional historic pesticides and mercury and who knows what else, on top of hundreds of generations of fetal alcohol and millions of hours of industrial-scale tobacco exposure, in a quick scan I was able to find only 93 English errors in Ptuj's brochure. Bravo Slovenia and Občina Ptuj! You have beaten the Brits at their own lingo.
This proves Britain's current all-time low in adult smokers of 16.9% has failed to maintain optimal tobacco levels. Tobacco-deficiency has led to a loss of concentration, as the fluoride story shows.
Steps will be taken across the UK to raise dense fag smoke to optimal levels using public chimneys, especially in more upmarket, better-educated areas where - like fluoridation - nicotine and tars are most certain to be missing.
The existing Woodbine Stack at Smoke-on-Trent will be joined by a giant six-superchimney array replacing Great Missenden, which will now be known simply as No. 6. And as Brexit Britain throws off the shackles of European directives, the DCameron Blackdeath Superking Megapuffer will burn gigatonnes of east European dog-ends night and day to get residents addicted again in the former PM's Oxfordshire constituency.
Meanwhile teach-yourself-Slovene site www.slovene.si offers a peep into the latest foreigner-oriented educational psychology at work, with this advice:
Brez slovenščine? Brez veze!
(Without Slovene? You're stupid!)
how to teach slovenijese
http://www.a2z.si/dear
water
www.agua.si
QUALITY ASSURANCE
A quick check of Ptuj's glossy trilingual brochure for the tourist season reveals a bothersome read, replete with Neanderthal missing articles, vectorless anti-sentences, plus the usual Slovenglish specialities such as watered-down blandness, have-to-write-more-than-I-was-told-to-say, and hapless, eye-bulging, customer-scarers.
However its editors, native speakers of the various agglutinated, highly-inflected, unromantic Slovene dialects, did better than Lincolnshire County Council whose "Literature Newsletter" I analysed in 2006.
This big občina in a part of England with fluoridated people managed over 100 mistakes in their own language, in only four pages.
Besides increasing Pb uptake, fluoride itself has a dubious effect on the developing brain, although they don't seem to have twigged in Lincolnshire yet. https://www.flickr.com/photos/luqi/5193600401/
Sometimes it takes some groups a while to catch up and 70 years after the first artificially fluoridated Americans were born to the PR muzak of Edward L Bernays, they now claim to have a plan to find out what fluoride does to the rest of you https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/2015/december/meetingmaterial/fluoride_508.pdf
Not doing any such thing prior to fluoridating themselves suggests the damn yankees were already dumb enough in 1945. Later western leaders were more cautious www.nfl.si/merron.htm
I don't know if this research by this organisation connected with fluoridation could possibly go wrong and make a scientific discovery against fluoride. What a lawsuit that could turn out to be! I mean, just look at these troublemakers! http://image.slidesharecdn.com/sachin2-140906043528-phpapp02/95/seminar-on-endemic-flurosis-11-638.jpg?cb=1409978304
The effects on IQ are obvious enough to me from this comparison of language abilities. Language acquisition, like odontogenesis and being fluoridated by the council, does begin in early pregnancy. The presumably unfluoridated Ptuj folks' summer brochure has more pages than Lincolnshire's newsletter, and 10,000 copies were produced at no small expense.
Despite breathing chicken gluck on an almost daily basis, rampant regional historic pesticides and mercury and who knows what else, on top of hundreds of generations of fetal alcohol and millions of hours of industrial-scale tobacco exposure, in a quick scan I was able to find only 93 English errors in Ptuj's brochure. Bravo Slovenia and Občina Ptuj! You have beaten the Brits at their own lingo.
This proves Britain's current all-time low in adult smokers of 16.9% has failed to maintain optimal tobacco levels. Tobacco-deficiency has led to a loss of concentration, as the fluoride story shows.
Steps will be taken across the UK to raise dense fag smoke to optimal levels using public chimneys, especially in more upmarket, better-educated areas where - like fluoridation - nicotine and tars are most certain to be missing.
The existing Woodbine Stack at Smoke-on-Trent will be joined by a giant six-superchimney array replacing Great Missenden, which will now be known simply as No. 6. And as Brexit Britain throws off the shackles of European directives, the DCameron Blackdeath Superking Megapuffer will burn gigatonnes of east European dog-ends night and day to get residents addicted again in the former PM's Oxfordshire constituency.
Meanwhile teach-yourself-Slovene site www.slovene.si offers a peep into the latest foreigner-oriented educational psychology at work, with this advice:
Brez slovenščine? Brez veze!
(Without Slovene? You're stupid!)
how to teach slovenijese
http://www.a2z.si/dear
water
www.agua.si
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ptuj weather
SOBOTA SPECIAL
Starter: Air
Main: Stagnant Stegne
Dessert: Wandering Waftova Wingpit.
Thanks to PPM Labs, those unable to receive smells over the internet can recreate tonight's atmosphere using this absolutely free weather simulation.
saturday night crying re-remix mashup mix
mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeopH9OKNMg
with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SRUqnsntgU
...and enjoy it just like we did here in downtown Ptuj!
more mega-pong mashups
https://is.gd/68NpXT
SOBOTA SPECIAL
Starter: Air
Main: Stagnant Stegne
Dessert: Wandering Waftova Wingpit.
Thanks to PPM Labs, those unable to receive smells over the internet can recreate tonight's atmosphere using this absolutely free weather simulation.
saturday night crying re-remix mashup mix
mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeopH9OKNMg
with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SRUqnsntgU
...and enjoy it just like we did here in downtown Ptuj!
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competitive womanhood
MISSING WORLD
Here's the selection for Best Yugobitch 1966, including the ultimate Miss World entrant Nikica Marinović, the first Commie-bloc and best-placed-ever Yugoslavian representative.
Somehow she was prevented from winning Miss World because she turned down the prize (yes, I know!) which was a trip to Vietnam to entertain the troops.
Yeah, you've seen that scene in Apocalypse Now. And just to be clear how twisted such machinations must be, Miss World is a 1951 British invention of Eric Morley of the Mecca organisation - not American - and the UK wasn't in that war. It's all a fix. Do as yer told, luv.
However, like Cassius Clay, she refused to go to Nam and pucker lips - saying Yugoslavia disapproved of the war. Thus proving she was no bimbo and that Tito would not bow to Mecca, with its bingo and its www.jim.si.
And what kind of a booby prize is a trip to a war zone anyhow? The sort that turns up when it becomes obvious Yugoslavia's going to win Miss World of course!
From the sound of things Nikica would have been thrilled to win a week at Butlins. Either way, it was a Yugo no go. So Miss India won it instead, despite not being as good.
Nikica's entry was fortuitous, unplanned. During the national heats Yugoslavian officials, after what they judged a lacklustre volunteer intake, had picked her up whilst cruising some college. She was a poor girl who couldn't even do makeup, but who did have access to lots of fish.
The photogenic but shy and reluctant pageanteer then stunned Hollywood by turning down offers of a Hollywood film career, flatly telling de Laurentiis she couldn't act.
Unfortunately Nikica Marinović committed suicide in 2008. Time will tell how she compares for integrity and ambition with Melania Trump. As if we didn't already know.
Here she is on the road to Mecca.
MISSING WORLD
Here's the selection for Best Yugobitch 1966, including the ultimate Miss World entrant Nikica Marinović, the first Commie-bloc and best-placed-ever Yugoslavian representative.
Somehow she was prevented from winning Miss World because she turned down the prize (yes, I know!) which was a trip to Vietnam to entertain the troops.
Yeah, you've seen that scene in Apocalypse Now. And just to be clear how twisted such machinations must be, Miss World is a 1951 British invention of Eric Morley of the Mecca organisation - not American - and the UK wasn't in that war. It's all a fix. Do as yer told, luv.
However, like Cassius Clay, she refused to go to Nam and pucker lips - saying Yugoslavia disapproved of the war. Thus proving she was no bimbo and that Tito would not bow to Mecca, with its bingo and its www.jim.si.
And what kind of a booby prize is a trip to a war zone anyhow? The sort that turns up when it becomes obvious Yugoslavia's going to win Miss World of course!
From the sound of things Nikica would have been thrilled to win a week at Butlins. Either way, it was a Yugo no go. So Miss India won it instead, despite not being as good.
Nikica's entry was fortuitous, unplanned. During the national heats Yugoslavian officials, after what they judged a lacklustre volunteer intake, had picked her up whilst cruising some college. She was a poor girl who couldn't even do makeup, but who did have access to lots of fish.
The photogenic but shy and reluctant pageanteer then stunned Hollywood by turning down offers of a Hollywood film career, flatly telling de Laurentiis she couldn't act.
Unfortunately Nikica Marinović committed suicide in 2008. Time will tell how she compares for integrity and ambition with Melania Trump. As if we didn't already know.
Here she is on the road to Mecca.
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ptuj weather
It's off to work with a steady lingering whiff from the chicken factory this morning. PPM Labs has issued the following advisory weather-to-sound champion show me up molecules of meaty mortality wake me up with a bang mix
playlist 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E&list=PLmOJUpdlspijzC-T6077DwY0Z5is1-oxJ
playlist 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEROcqaFo1k&list=PLmOJUpdlspihLYAEolXR0F9G-to8cpsnN
play both playlists simultaneously as usual, for a second-by-second Ptuj weather re-creation experience....
previously on ppm labs
https://is.gd/68NpXT
pic by boris voglar
working with the Ptuj Cloud Computer at PPM Labs
It's off to work with a steady lingering whiff from the chicken factory this morning. PPM Labs has issued the following advisory weather-to-sound champion show me up molecules of meaty mortality wake me up with a bang mix
playlist 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E&list=PLmOJUpdlspijzC-T6077DwY0Z5is1-oxJ
playlist 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEROcqaFo1k&list=PLmOJUpdlspihLYAEolXR0F9G-to8cpsnN
play both playlists simultaneously as usual, for a second-by-second Ptuj weather re-creation experience....
previously on ppm labs
https://is.gd/68NpXT
pic by boris voglar
working with the Ptuj Cloud Computer at PPM Labs
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inspirational duet
KODELA MELANIA SLOVENIA MANTRA MANIA
In the steely manner of a stern but occasionally merciful interplanetary android ruler, Melania brainwashes her fellow-Americans about her citizenship in a dome on Slovenia's US-based mother ship The Cleveland.
In the postwar sci-fi era entities from planet Slovenia landed in Ohio, and began a breeding program impossible to undertake in their cramped homeland.
Eventually the genetic basis of the territory they occupied cleaved away. The Slovenians expand their population by cleavage, but only when a spare room becomes available.
Thus in Ohio a super-race was begun - and thinking themselves pretty smart Cleveland was born (sounds like Kleverland in Slovene - suck that Jacko).
Now the Queen has flown into the centre of the nest.
Due to a feww quiet days on the Ptuj weather front, PPM Labs has been able to put aside its usual business of creating synesthesic representations of it to model Her inspiring plans concerning Slovenia's takeover first of America then, disguised as America, the rest of the world.
Using a high-distortion sentimental algorithm PPM Labs was able to mash up the platitudes with three of Kodelaism's best-loved anthems from the home planet into the platinum Slovenioid smash of the decade.
The marriage of Melania and Samo unites the maniacal wisdom of two of the greatest messengers of a post-ironic age in an idiotological tour de farce, in which science fact meets irrational faction, cerebral erection meets celebrity election: the lyrics of a balloteering robot in orbit, swinging eccentrically to the balladeering of a synchronous dead gravity as sublime as the celestial clockweights infused with the green genes of the galaxies.
Anyway, load these two and play them simultaneously ...and the future for mankind will become clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E&list=PLmOJUpdlspijzC-T6077DwY0Z5is1-oxJ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt_9yb4FSYA
All enquiries to townsong@ptuj.co.uk thanks.
more kodela mashups from ppm labs
https://is.gd/68NpXT
nposialpu's plagiarism archive
https://is.gd/R0COjd
KODELA MELANIA SLOVENIA MANTRA MANIA
In the steely manner of a stern but occasionally merciful interplanetary android ruler, Melania brainwashes her fellow-Americans about her citizenship in a dome on Slovenia's US-based mother ship The Cleveland.
In the postwar sci-fi era entities from planet Slovenia landed in Ohio, and began a breeding program impossible to undertake in their cramped homeland.
Eventually the genetic basis of the territory they occupied cleaved away. The Slovenians expand their population by cleavage, but only when a spare room becomes available.
Thus in Ohio a super-race was begun - and thinking themselves pretty smart Cleveland was born (sounds like Kleverland in Slovene - suck that Jacko).
Now the Queen has flown into the centre of the nest.
Due to a feww quiet days on the Ptuj weather front, PPM Labs has been able to put aside its usual business of creating synesthesic representations of it to model Her inspiring plans concerning Slovenia's takeover first of America then, disguised as America, the rest of the world.
Using a high-distortion sentimental algorithm PPM Labs was able to mash up the platitudes with three of Kodelaism's best-loved anthems from the home planet into the platinum Slovenioid smash of the decade.
The marriage of Melania and Samo unites the maniacal wisdom of two of the greatest messengers of a post-ironic age in an idiotological tour de farce, in which science fact meets irrational faction, cerebral erection meets celebrity election: the lyrics of a balloteering robot in orbit, swinging eccentrically to the balladeering of a synchronous dead gravity as sublime as the celestial clockweights infused with the green genes of the galaxies.
Anyway, load these two and play them simultaneously ...and the future for mankind will become clear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E&list=PLmOJUpdlspijzC-T6077DwY0Z5is1-oxJ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt_9yb4FSYA
All enquiries to townsong@ptuj.co.uk thanks.
more kodela mashups from ppm labs
https://is.gd/68NpXT
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competitive world of amateur sports
OLYMPIC GLORY HOLE RESULTS
Boxov Saxo > 999 < -11 Gong Knokoff Mockva
Putin Botlavi > 999 1 World & His Nandrolone
Veliki Testikli -2 -3 Ova Kompetitotivo
Moskva Mozkitos 0 ∞ Rio Insecto Assassino
Herija Bulgaria P P Tampa Pruf Atletikno
Real men and women get their wee passed through a government-sponsored hole in a lab wall at midnight.
OLYMPIC GLORY HOLE RESULTS
Boxov Saxo > 999 < -11 Gong Knokoff Mockva
Putin Botlavi > 999 1 World & His Nandrolone
Veliki Testikli -2 -3 Ova Kompetitotivo
Moskva Mozkitos 0 ∞ Rio Insecto Assassino
Herija Bulgaria P P Tampa Pruf Atletikno
Real men and women get their wee passed through a government-sponsored hole in a lab wall at midnight.
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due to personal reasons of his boss
STATE SECRETARY AT FINMIN QUITS
www.bank.si was unaffected again today as finance ministers in both Slovenia and the UK departed office.
more on this phase
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RCJAuU9Cu7Q
and
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4xxwKoPJ1is
STATE SECRETARY AT FINMIN QUITS
www.bank.si was unaffected again today as finance ministers in both Slovenia and the UK departed office.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RCJAuU9Cu7Q
and
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4xxwKoPJ1is
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ref-u-flee
UKIP AND AWAY!
NARROW VICTORY DESTINATIONS
Is the tiny-minded xenophobic isolationism of Britain's Brexit referendum voters threatening your business? Would you sooner starve than eat foreign foods such as the potato? Slovenia has the destination for you!
Dragi ustanavljanjem podjetij, ostanite mirni in se premakniti na Ptuju says the Slovenian equivalent of this German advert visible in London, which is written on a piece of A4 on a plumbers' van driving between Markovci and Stojnci. It is in black and white.
Only Italy, Germany and China send more tourists to Ljub City than the UK. https://www.visitljubljana.com/assets/Dokumenti-PDF/Ljubljana-Turizem-v-stevilkah-A5.pdf
UK tourists stay longer than average - over two days! What's wrong with them? Why can't they be more average?
Inexplicably, visitors flying into Slovenia prefer the culture, sophistication, dancing and contemporary sexual mores of the capital to the stuffy medieval atmosphere of Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town.
But Ljub City is prone to flooding due to its large swamp of gays. http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/08/ukip-candidate-has-a-theory-about-what-caused-storm-desmond-and-this-time-its-not-gay-marriage-5551958/
And there are also foreigners there. So we just don't get what is stopping Vote Leavers coming to Ptuj for the suspicious narrow-minded holiday of a lifetime.
Whether you are migrating for economic reasons or just prefer things the way they were before, everything is being done to make Ukippers/Leavers feel welcome in Ptuj.
Relax in an atmosphere completely free from environmental regulations and enjoy our Town Smell (weather conditions permitting - go to https://is.gd/EVJtN6 for events).
As a fully-qualified immigrant you can enjoy regular political incorrectness from lary drunk racists-who-aren't-racists, meet resentful smokers, scheming thugs, pointless misdirection, lying athletic lunatics, twisted vote-hoovering clero-nationalist ideologies, and incipient self-justifying violence in every social, business, and political situation.
In Ptuj, the typical anti-European Brit will find a true home from home. What more does this average 52% majority of people from the UK want?
Relax while our well-organised team exploits its own inability to teach its version of the secret language as a threadbare excuse to incite an unreasonable, impecunious mob against you. www.a2z.si.
Hate foreign food and missing the www.television.si? Thanks to EU freedom of movement foreigners are free to leave our country anytime at our nearby www.mariborairport.si. Don't forget to bring your own plane!
And, of course, you can expect a lot of smiles! We like to motivate our compulsory DIY language students with a mixture of schtick and caret.
Ljubljana is even more jealous of us in www.ptuj.co.uk now we have the new MacDonalds monument - and after consulting an orange-coloured travel agent in Essex I can confirm that the eastern half of Slovenia is depicted in UK tourist brochures as a featureless terra incognita, so you'll just blend right in!
Ali je turizem in neposredne tuje naložbe, problem v Sloveniji je enak. Kako ste dobili vse dobre stvari, ki prihajajo iz tujcev, ne da bi tujci, ki prihajajo in uničuje našo nacionalno kulturo?
Don't forget there's a house up for grabs for just 1000 euros in a fantastic two-for-one offer at www.mavs.si which the locals appear not to understand. In kako vam je všeč negotovost teh možnih davkov? https://is.gd/Qb99KT
nposialpu fdi archive
https://is.gd/RsAsJe
UKIP AND AWAY!
NARROW VICTORY DESTINATIONS
Is the tiny-minded xenophobic isolationism of Britain's Brexit referendum voters threatening your business? Would you sooner starve than eat foreign foods such as the potato? Slovenia has the destination for you!
Dragi ustanavljanjem podjetij, ostanite mirni in se premakniti na Ptuju says the Slovenian equivalent of this German advert visible in London, which is written on a piece of A4 on a plumbers' van driving between Markovci and Stojnci. It is in black and white.
Only Italy, Germany and China send more tourists to Ljub City than the UK. https://www.visitljubljana.com/assets/Dokumenti-PDF/Ljubljana-Turizem-v-stevilkah-A5.pdf
UK tourists stay longer than average - over two days! What's wrong with them? Why can't they be more average?
Inexplicably, visitors flying into Slovenia prefer the culture, sophistication, dancing and contemporary sexual mores of the capital to the stuffy medieval atmosphere of Ptuj, Slovenia's oldest town.
But Ljub City is prone to flooding due to its large swamp of gays. http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/08/ukip-candidate-has-a-theory-about-what-caused-storm-desmond-and-this-time-its-not-gay-marriage-5551958/
And there are also foreigners there. So we just don't get what is stopping Vote Leavers coming to Ptuj for the suspicious narrow-minded holiday of a lifetime.
Whether you are migrating for economic reasons or just prefer things the way they were before, everything is being done to make Ukippers/Leavers feel welcome in Ptuj.
Relax in an atmosphere completely free from environmental regulations and enjoy our Town Smell (weather conditions permitting - go to https://is.gd/EVJtN6 for events).
As a fully-qualified immigrant you can enjoy regular political incorrectness from lary drunk racists-who-aren't-racists, meet resentful smokers, scheming thugs, pointless misdirection, lying athletic lunatics, twisted vote-hoovering clero-nationalist ideologies, and incipient self-justifying violence in every social, business, and political situation.
In Ptuj, the typical anti-European Brit will find a true home from home. What more does this average 52% majority of people from the UK want?
Relax while our well-organised team exploits its own inability to teach its version of the secret language as a threadbare excuse to incite an unreasonable, impecunious mob against you. www.a2z.si.
Hate foreign food and missing the www.television.si? Thanks to EU freedom of movement foreigners are free to leave our country anytime at our nearby www.mariborairport.si. Don't forget to bring your own plane!
And, of course, you can expect a lot of smiles! We like to motivate our compulsory DIY language students with a mixture of schtick and caret.
Ljubljana is even more jealous of us in www.ptuj.co.uk now we have the new MacDonalds monument - and after consulting an orange-coloured travel agent in Essex I can confirm that the eastern half of Slovenia is depicted in UK tourist brochures as a featureless terra incognita, so you'll just blend right in!
Ali je turizem in neposredne tuje naložbe, problem v Sloveniji je enak. Kako ste dobili vse dobre stvari, ki prihajajo iz tujcev, ne da bi tujci, ki prihajajo in uničuje našo nacionalno kulturo?
Don't forget there's a house up for grabs for just 1000 euros in a fantastic two-for-one offer at www.mavs.si which the locals appear not to understand. In kako vam je všeč negotovost teh možnih davkov? https://is.gd/Qb99KT
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https://is.gd/RsAsJe
A German political
party is now trolling Britons with this
ad around London
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freight in a state
RAILWAY, PORT, GRINDS TO HALT
Slovenia's only serious docks at Koper (Capodistria) and surrounding railways are all bolloxed up, with protesting workers demanding to meet Emperor Miro, who has refused the ultimatum.
The boutique nation is looking for railway experts to sort out whatever it is they are bickering about now. They think the people in charge are clueless twats who are refusing to make them richer and richer forever.
They don't seem to have much luck with it. Could any railway experts from Lincoln possibly get in touch and sort it out, before Brexiting and the teaching of Slomerican English in Slovenian universities makes it too hard to understand what they are saying.
nposialpu's port archive
https://is.gd/XrnKl8
RAILWAY, PORT, GRINDS TO HALT
Slovenia's only serious docks at Koper (Capodistria) and surrounding railways are all bolloxed up, with protesting workers demanding to meet Emperor Miro, who has refused the ultimatum.
The boutique nation is looking for railway experts to sort out whatever it is they are bickering about now. They think the people in charge are clueless twats who are refusing to make them richer and richer forever.
They don't seem to have much luck with it. Could any railway experts from Lincoln possibly get in touch and sort it out, before Brexiting and the teaching of Slomerican English in Slovenian universities makes it too hard to understand what they are saying.
nposialpu's port archive
https://is.gd/XrnKl8
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battle of the british chavs and the chav-nots
UNOFFICIAL ADVICE FOR TRAVELLERS
Family and friends of Slovenians in the UK - especially those venturing west of Egham or north of Biggleswade - need to be aware of the possibility of attacks on non-UK nationals and people who resemble these.
In a reported five-fold explosion of incidents of xenophobic hatred encouraged by a poster contrasting refugees with the green fields of Slovenia, some of the 52% who voted to flee the EU actually think they have just voted for all foreign, foreign-looking, or foreign-sounding people to leave "Britain".
Don't bother arguing for a strict definition. Really, anyone could qualify given the right circumstances, such as going out in public, or on the internet.
A mini-Kristallnacht is already under steam. It will gather pace as our football ambassadors recover from a bellyful of foreign-ness in France only to find examples of these categories still going about their business everywhere - as though control hadn't been taken, at all.
Will Boris be sending the troops into (the newly American-renamed) Edinburg in an Anschluss type move? Could Slovenia possibly resell all that fencing to patch up the missing bits of Emperor Hadrian's border control facility?
Time will reveal the Brexiteers' master plan - which basically remains saying anything calculated to add votes, regardless of how ignorant or downright wicked their owners happen to be.
This is how the "socialist" party of equality - among others - became a priesthood of Marie Antoinettes ...supported by a mass of lary marionettes.
nposialpu's foreign desk
https://is.gd/PcmpsW
UNOFFICIAL ADVICE FOR TRAVELLERS
Family and friends of Slovenians in the UK - especially those venturing west of Egham or north of Biggleswade - need to be aware of the possibility of attacks on non-UK nationals and people who resemble these.
In a reported five-fold explosion of incidents of xenophobic hatred encouraged by a poster contrasting refugees with the green fields of Slovenia, some of the 52% who voted to flee the EU actually think they have just voted for all foreign, foreign-looking, or foreign-sounding people to leave "Britain".
Don't bother arguing for a strict definition. Really, anyone could qualify given the right circumstances, such as going out in public, or on the internet.
A mini-Kristallnacht is already under steam. It will gather pace as our football ambassadors recover from a bellyful of foreign-ness in France only to find examples of these categories still going about their business everywhere - as though control hadn't been taken, at all.
Will Boris be sending the troops into (the newly American-renamed) Edinburg in an Anschluss type move? Could Slovenia possibly resell all that fencing to patch up the missing bits of Emperor Hadrian's border control facility?
Time will reveal the Brexiteers' master plan - which basically remains saying anything calculated to add votes, regardless of how ignorant or downright wicked their owners happen to be.
This is how the "socialist" party of equality - among others - became a priesthood of Marie Antoinettes ...supported by a mass of lary marionettes.
nposialpu's foreign desk
https://is.gd/PcmpsW
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BREXIT: WHAT IT MEANS
social conditions
Before Brexit vote: No role for foreigners in Slovenia.
After Brexit vote: No role for foreigners in Slovenia.
Before Brexit vote: No permanent residence allowed for home owners.
After Brexit vote: No permanent residence allowed for home owners.
Before Brexit vote: No health insurance allowed.
After Brexit vote: No health insurance allowed.
Before Brexit vote: No official answers to health insurance questionnaire.
After Brexit vote: No official answers to health insurance questionnaire.
money
Before Brexit vote: Hilariously inept Slovenglish tourism literature.
After Brexit vote: Hilariously inept Slovenglish tourism literature.
Before Brexit vote: No unemployment benefits allowed.
After Brexit vote: No unemployment benefits allowed.
Before Brexit vote: Slovenian economy plunges.
After Brexit vote: Slovenian economy plunges a bit more.
tourism
Before foreigners came: No-one available to popularise Ptuj's Town Smell in good English.
Since www.ptuj.co.uk (2005): diminishing intensity/frequency of olfactory episodes in Slovenia's oldest town.
BREXIT: WHAT IT MEANS
social conditions
Before Brexit vote: No role for foreigners in Slovenia.
After Brexit vote: No role for foreigners in Slovenia.
Before Brexit vote: No permanent residence allowed for home owners.
After Brexit vote: No permanent residence allowed for home owners.
Before Brexit vote: No health insurance allowed.
After Brexit vote: No health insurance allowed.
Before Brexit vote: No official answers to health insurance questionnaire.
After Brexit vote: No official answers to health insurance questionnaire.
money
Before Brexit vote: Hilariously inept Slovenglish tourism literature.
After Brexit vote: Hilariously inept Slovenglish tourism literature.
Before Brexit vote: No unemployment benefits allowed.
After Brexit vote: No unemployment benefits allowed.
Before Brexit vote: Slovenian economy plunges.
After Brexit vote: Slovenian economy plunges a bit more.
tourism
Before foreigners came: No-one available to popularise Ptuj's Town Smell in good English.
Since www.ptuj.co.uk (2005): diminishing intensity/frequency of olfactory episodes in Slovenia's oldest town.
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go-it-a-loners
WHITE HEAT OF FARAGEOLOGY
A photograph of non-EU refugees being treated nicely in Slovenia becomes a "UK Independence Party" propaganda poster about EU migratory flows, as white nuttery reaches its Breaking Point Temperature.
In Britain BPT is about 15 degrees Celsius, or any time the sun appears. Or something appears in the Sun.
Advertising works.
nposialpu's slovenia refugee archive
https://is.gd/2lXKna
WHITE HEAT OF FARAGEOLOGY
A photograph of non-EU refugees being treated nicely in Slovenia becomes a "UK Independence Party" propaganda poster about EU migratory flows, as white nuttery reaches its Breaking Point Temperature.
In Britain BPT is about 15 degrees Celsius, or any time the sun appears. Or something appears in the Sun.
Advertising works.
nposialpu's slovenia refugee archive
https://is.gd/2lXKna
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"The first thing that happened, the union officials came to us, and told us we had to go back to work, that we were violating an agreement. We said to hell with the agreement, we're gonna stay out on strike until we get our demands. Well then the politicians began visiting us and putting pressure on us. Then the parish priest. Well finally, the coal company did agree to meet with us, and they agreed to raise the hourly pay from six and a fraction cents to eight cents an hour...I learned that the politicians worked with the coal companies, I found out that the union officials were working with the coal companies, I also found out that the catholic hierarchy was working with the coal officials...here was a combination of the whole thing, see, that you had to bump up against the whole combination of them."
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tv crimes
Mr Hojs has apparently won his battle not to pay a TV licence, because he doesn't want to look at RTV. And indeed this is something nobody should be forced to do.
I suggest he watches www.television.si instead.
Slovenia has had since 1992 until 28th April 2016 to pay for its licence for this television.
But - and I'm not saying Slovenia is a stubborn, introverted country or anything like that - it's televizija, the way they stare at it. Someone else got that.
Slovenia will probably get all jealous now and react with some rumours about viruses in my www.television.si. Fortunately this report attests that Slovenia's domain names are among the safest in the world!
http://promos.mcafee.com/en-US/PDF/MTMW_Report.pdf
Mr Hojs has apparently won his battle not to pay a TV licence, because he doesn't want to look at RTV. And indeed this is something nobody should be forced to do.
I suggest he watches www.television.si instead.
Slovenia has had since 1992 until 28th April 2016 to pay for its licence for this television.
But - and I'm not saying Slovenia is a stubborn, introverted country or anything like that - it's televizija, the way they stare at it. Someone else got that.
Slovenia will probably get all jealous now and react with some rumours about viruses in my www.television.si. Fortunately this report attests that Slovenia's domain names are among the safest in the world!
http://promos.mcafee.com/en-US/PDF/MTMW_Report.pdf
FOTO: »Tako se odpove
RTV-naročnina«
slovenskenovice.si
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hots on for everywhere
I'LL BE DEAD ANYWAY
Meanwhile the live poet's society welcomes intelligent investors to www.solarpanel.si
How do I afford a solar panel? First thing we need is to get the capitalist pricing system out of the way.
Failure to price in the cost of the world will mean longer sea journeys for economic migrants.
And even with this map the world economic pricing system doesn't factor in the cost of migrants simply drowning in a field full of cauliflowers near Boston -for instance - after surviving a hazardous journey.
Who will pick the vegetables then? Some kind of salt-water rice presumably.
saving our ball: is it economically viable?
http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/version_5_3.php
boston as we know it
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/NeUVHQSBE3Q
I'LL BE DEAD ANYWAY
Meanwhile the live poet's society welcomes intelligent investors to www.solarpanel.si
How do I afford a solar panel? First thing we need is to get the capitalist pricing system out of the way.
Failure to price in the cost of the world will mean longer sea journeys for economic migrants.
And even with this map the world economic pricing system doesn't factor in the cost of migrants simply drowning in a field full of cauliflowers near Boston -for instance - after surviving a hazardous journey.
Who will pick the vegetables then? Some kind of salt-water rice presumably.
saving our ball: is it economically viable?
http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/version_5_3.php
boston as we know it
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/NeUVHQSBE3Q
Hot spots: Global
temperature rise
washingtonpost.com
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sabotage news
PROFITS RISE AS €1.44bn NEXT-GEN GENERATOR SWITCHES ITSELF OFF
Mistakenly-constructed coal-fired power station TEŠ6 shut itself down at 2142 on Sunday, after wires connecting sensors for checking hotness and vibes were cut.
Electricity union members had been told they'd be sacked if they tried to reduce output so the whole thing's gone off now instead. The potential lost generation capacity amounts to 600 MWe.
In October 2006 the TEŠ6 plan was to cost 602m euros, but has so far cost 1.44bn euros.
TEŠ6 loses money on every watt produced. Sunday's so-called criminal damage actually increases the company's profitability. Criminal damage like this reduces emissions by about 8 ktCO2eq/day.
But management immediately emptied TEŠ6's ash tray and started looking around for some newspapers and sticks to get it going again.
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5H5bPDdvZ2F
nposialpu's TEŠ6 archive
https://is.gd/EPDoSv
PROFITS RISE AS €1.44bn NEXT-GEN GENERATOR SWITCHES ITSELF OFF
Mistakenly-constructed coal-fired power station TEŠ6 shut itself down at 2142 on Sunday, after wires connecting sensors for checking hotness and vibes were cut.
Electricity union members had been told they'd be sacked if they tried to reduce output so the whole thing's gone off now instead. The potential lost generation capacity amounts to 600 MWe.
In October 2006 the TEŠ6 plan was to cost 602m euros, but has so far cost 1.44bn euros.
TEŠ6 loses money on every watt produced. Sunday's so-called criminal damage actually increases the company's profitability. Criminal damage like this reduces emissions by about 8 ktCO2eq/day.
But management immediately emptied TEŠ6's ash tray and started looking around for some newspapers and sticks to get it going again.
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5H5bPDdvZ2F
nposialpu's TEŠ6 archive
https://is.gd/EPDoSv
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fight afternoon
Thurs 12 May 1500 hrs Ptuj Castle
MO Ptuj Fr. Jimmy Saveloj Memorial Boxing Club
in conjunction with
Ronski and Redgski Promotions
presents:
SHOWDOWN!!! --- HOTTEST GRUDGE MATCH
CRAFTERNOON PUNCH-UP
On the occasion of his official appearance at the 45th anniversary of the Ptuj Chamber of Crafts, World (Ptuj Smelly Belt) title-holder Sonny Boy Miran "The Mayor" Senčar was met in the parking arena of Ptuj Castle for a bare-knuckle confrontation with challenger Legal Igor "The Maniac" Majnik, Liberal Democrat champion lawyer under the old system.
After police were called in to break it up and a short outpatients visit, medics gave Senčar the all-clear and he was able to continue Mayoring in a dignified manner.
Point scoring has begun and the judges will be looking for clean punching, effective aggressiveness, dominance of the car park, men going ooof!, and legal defensive skills.
Unfortunately technical difficulties at www.television.si prevent me bringing you coverage of this middle-aged bout for fans of public servant box action. While we look into it here's a cartoon.
other sports journalism news...
Excited Ptuj documentary makers got out cameras both still and video to capture a glimpse of a yard sale in Ptuj at the weekend. Folks are a little understimulated around here!
hop, skip, and jump to the ptuj mayoral archives
https://is.gd/ulHI0H
Thurs 12 May 1500 hrs Ptuj Castle
MO Ptuj Fr. Jimmy Saveloj Memorial Boxing Club
in conjunction with
Ronski and Redgski Promotions
presents:
SHOWDOWN!!! --- HOTTEST GRUDGE MATCH
CRAFTERNOON PUNCH-UP
On the occasion of his official appearance at the 45th anniversary of the Ptuj Chamber of Crafts, World (Ptuj Smelly Belt) title-holder Sonny Boy Miran "The Mayor" Senčar was met in the parking arena of Ptuj Castle for a bare-knuckle confrontation with challenger Legal Igor "The Maniac" Majnik, Liberal Democrat champion lawyer under the old system.
After police were called in to break it up and a short outpatients visit, medics gave Senčar the all-clear and he was able to continue Mayoring in a dignified manner.
Point scoring has begun and the judges will be looking for clean punching, effective aggressiveness, dominance of the car park, men going ooof!, and legal defensive skills.
Unfortunately technical difficulties at www.television.si prevent me bringing you coverage of this middle-aged bout for fans of public servant box action. While we look into it here's a cartoon.
other sports journalism news...
Excited Ptuj documentary makers got out cameras both still and video to capture a glimpse of a yard sale in Ptuj at the weekend. Folks are a little understimulated around here!
hop, skip, and jump to the ptuj mayoral archives
https://is.gd/ulHI0H
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DENARI-LEMMA
Yugoslovenians live in a constant state of tension, torn between Nostalgia and the Latest Great Big Thing.
A reporter from people's tabloid Slovenske Novice went to Hrastnik because Melania Trump's half brother lives there. This is the LGBT issue for Slovenia as they see it.
As a result of Hrastnik's moment in the spotlight, a reader was able to send in this photo to remind us that the past is alive and well there - as supermarket produce is still priced in tolars, the feelgood currency which ceased operation after 15 years in Slovenia on 1 January 2007.
Pegged since their birth and until forever at 239.640 to the euro, your tolars can buy these bananas at the equivalent of just 29 eurocents per kilo, showing that life in Yugonostalgialand continues at much cheaper rates.
The arithmetically unnecessary zero in 239.640 - always included in Slovenia - probably did more to stabilise the economy in the nineties than anything else, demonstrating as it did certainty if nothing else.
Those who did not turn in their old banknotes would find a shopping trip to Hrastnik well worthwhile. Don't forget your passport and euros for bribes. Anyone interested in exporting bananas from Hrastnik please contact Melania's half brother who knows them at the shop.
www.bank.si/yes
DENARI-LEMMA
Yugoslovenians live in a constant state of tension, torn between Nostalgia and the Latest Great Big Thing.
A reporter from people's tabloid Slovenske Novice went to Hrastnik because Melania Trump's half brother lives there. This is the LGBT issue for Slovenia as they see it.
As a result of Hrastnik's moment in the spotlight, a reader was able to send in this photo to remind us that the past is alive and well there - as supermarket produce is still priced in tolars, the feelgood currency which ceased operation after 15 years in Slovenia on 1 January 2007.
Pegged since their birth and until forever at 239.640 to the euro, your tolars can buy these bananas at the equivalent of just 29 eurocents per kilo, showing that life in Yugonostalgialand continues at much cheaper rates.
The arithmetically unnecessary zero in 239.640 - always included in Slovenia - probably did more to stabilise the economy in the nineties than anything else, demonstrating as it did certainty if nothing else.
Those who did not turn in their old banknotes would find a shopping trip to Hrastnik well worthwhile. Don't forget your passport and euros for bribes. Anyone interested in exporting bananas from Hrastnik please contact Melania's half brother who knows them at the shop.
www.bank.si/yes
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puertas delanteras
EX-FACTOR: SLOVENIA'S GOT STEPSISTERS
Es la entrada del bloque donde el medio hermano de Melania vive en circunstancias relativamente modestas, en comparación con los Trumpos; a quien nunca ha conocido, y por qué deberían hacerlo? ... ¿y porqué? ... y ... espera, eso es una demostración de la realidad allí ...
Podrían un ser humano en el piso encima ser del Prince John del EU, con el tiempo a ser coronado rey legítimo del Omari-Co, siguiendo la muerte del famoso Rey McDonald en la Cruzada Mexicana y el encarcelamiento de Melania en las cadenas a www.mexicocity.si?
Podría ser el Juan? www.juan.si Mira este espacio.
EX-FACTOR: SLOVENIA'S GOT STEPSISTERS
Es la entrada del bloque donde el medio hermano de Melania vive en circunstancias relativamente modestas, en comparación con los Trumpos; a quien nunca ha conocido, y por qué deberían hacerlo? ... ¿y porqué? ... y ... espera, eso es una demostración de la realidad allí ...
Podrían un ser humano en el piso encima ser del Prince John del EU, con el tiempo a ser coronado rey legítimo del Omari-Co, siguiendo la muerte del famoso Rey McDonald en la Cruzada Mexicana y el encarcelamiento de Melania en las cadenas a www.mexicocity.si?
Podría ser el Juan? www.juan.si Mira este espacio.
Razkrivamo, kje živi
Melanijin polbrat Denis
slovenskenovice.si
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tourism bounces back
FREE HOLIDAY SOLUTIONS FOR SLOVENIANS
I just spotted an amazing bargain in Slovenian convenience store Mercator.
Three sponge scourers, normal price €2.80, were only €1.40.
Meanwhile in any Tesco Superstore such as the one 13 minutes' drive from Stansted Airport you can buy 20 for two euros.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/poundland-price-comparison/Cleaning_Accessories/Spontex_Sponge_Scourers_20.html?TrackingCode=152.T30LyLG3LkqdKmMc8N_uzA
Cost increase thanks to award-winning Slovenian Finance Minister Mramor
(best possible case): 467%
(vs. regular price): 934%
So to cover your €130 round-trip air fare to the UK you only need to bring back (vs Slovenian sale price) €130/(€0.47 - €0.10) = 351 dish scourers.
Comparing Tesco to the regular Slovenian price (and I'm sure you can pay more) you only need to bring back 156 scourers.
Slovenian economists have fixed stuff for Slovenian holidaymakers so well, that they only need to bring back eight packs, to recoup their air fare to England and back.
Weight won't be a problem, and should you be the unlucky type they might even come in handy on the way, as Eddie Izzard sort of demonstrates here.
L-plates, highly valued here on the Slovenia Islands, are another possibility.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2PN9sRZquNs
Everything's pointing towards hen parties with a housework theme.
FREE HOLIDAY SOLUTIONS FOR SLOVENIANS
I just spotted an amazing bargain in Slovenian convenience store Mercator.
Three sponge scourers, normal price €2.80, were only €1.40.
Meanwhile in any Tesco Superstore such as the one 13 minutes' drive from Stansted Airport you can buy 20 for two euros.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/poundland-price-comparison/Cleaning_Accessories/Spontex_Sponge_Scourers_20.html?TrackingCode=152.T30LyLG3LkqdKmMc8N_uzA
Cost increase thanks to award-winning Slovenian Finance Minister Mramor
(best possible case): 467%
(vs. regular price): 934%
So to cover your €130 round-trip air fare to the UK you only need to bring back (vs Slovenian sale price) €130/(€0.47 - €0.10) = 351 dish scourers.
Comparing Tesco to the regular Slovenian price (and I'm sure you can pay more) you only need to bring back 156 scourers.
Slovenian economists have fixed stuff for Slovenian holidaymakers so well, that they only need to bring back eight packs, to recoup their air fare to England and back.
Weight won't be a problem, and should you be the unlucky type they might even come in handy on the way, as Eddie Izzard sort of demonstrates here.
L-plates, highly valued here on the Slovenia Islands, are another possibility.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2PN9sRZquNs
Everything's pointing towards hen parties with a housework theme.
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culture shock
MERCURY RISING: CULTURE MINISTER QUITS
Here's a handy intro to mine dewatering techniques for the Minister for Slovenians Abroad, who is taking over the Culture portfolio and its associated pumping activities for a couple of weeks.
http://www.groundwatereng.com/uploads/groundwater_engineering/files/TDS_-_Mine_Dewatering1.pdf
back story
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Sj8UTwPH5nX
MERCURY RISING: CULTURE MINISTER QUITS
Here's a handy intro to mine dewatering techniques for the Minister for Slovenians Abroad, who is taking over the Culture portfolio and its associated pumping activities for a couple of weeks.
http://www.groundwatereng.com/uploads/groundwater_engineering/files/TDS_-_Mine_Dewatering1.pdf
back story
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Sj8UTwPH5nX
Julijana Bizjak Mlakar
odstopila
delo.si
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peak routine
MONOTONOUS AGE IS OVER
Except for bureaucrats and mine-dewatering engineers, comes the welcome news that routine is on the way out.
Since 1987, use of the term in English has been plunging, and has already dropped back to 1941 levels.
The demise of routine is correlated with a rise in the use of the word inspiration. Who'd have guessed it?
Inspiration is now poised to overtake routine for the first time since the mid-1930s.
http://is.gd/zrB0yl
1987's Peak Routine and the dawn of this conceptual shift in the meaning of life coincided with a stock market crash and the creation of UUNET.
Meanwhile in Yugoslavia, a truck driver who had killed his colleague, colleague's wife and two infants to avoid repaying loans (in Deutschmarks) became the last person executed there.
Smoking 1987 top ten UK hits marking Peak Routine included Rick Astley's paen to continuity Never Going To Give You Up, Starship's insistence that Nothing's Going To Stop Us Now, Mel and Kim's (admission that they were never gonna be) Respectable, and Whitney's opt-out announcement, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
MONOTONOUS AGE IS OVER
Except for bureaucrats and mine-dewatering engineers, comes the welcome news that routine is on the way out.
Since 1987, use of the term in English has been plunging, and has already dropped back to 1941 levels.
The demise of routine is correlated with a rise in the use of the word inspiration. Who'd have guessed it?
Inspiration is now poised to overtake routine for the first time since the mid-1930s.
http://is.gd/zrB0yl
1987's Peak Routine and the dawn of this conceptual shift in the meaning of life coincided with a stock market crash and the creation of UUNET.
Meanwhile in Yugoslavia, a truck driver who had killed his colleague, colleague's wife and two infants to avoid repaying loans (in Deutschmarks) became the last person executed there.
Smoking 1987 top ten UK hits marking Peak Routine included Rick Astley's paen to continuity Never Going To Give You Up, Starship's insistence that Nothing's Going To Stop Us Now, Mel and Kim's (admission that they were never gonna be) Respectable, and Whitney's opt-out announcement, I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
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A DAY AT THE MUSEUM
Starring Christopher Walken as Emperor Miro, with Julijana Bizjak Mlakar as May Day.
UNESCO's resource manual on Managing Disaster Risks for World Heritage inspires new ideas in disused mine economics...
http://whc.unesco.org/en/managing-disaster-risks
shafted
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Sj8UTwPH5nX
A DAY AT THE MUSEUM
Starring Christopher Walken as Emperor Miro, with Julijana Bizjak Mlakar as May Day.
UNESCO's resource manual on Managing Disaster Risks for World Heritage inspires new ideas in disused mine economics...
http://whc.unesco.org/en/managing-disaster-risks
shafted
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Sj8UTwPH5nX
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trouble at the old mine
WOMEN WHO DO NOT OBEY MEN, IT IS NECESSARY TO SUBMIT, SAYS CULTURE MINISTER*
Shaken and ready to stir things up after an audience with Emperor Miro, Culture Minister Julijana Bizjak Mlakar isn't best pleased with his insistence that she be wholly responsible for Idrija's neurotoxic and mutagenic tourist attraction - a leaky old mercury mine.
A distraught ga. Mlakar warned of the (continuing) dangers to the public and the environment, as the Culture Ministry was not oriented to maintaining disused mercury mines, which is mainly a culture of water pumping and waste management. And it was written in the time of Alenka The Legs, and also spracht Miro, that mining technology and geological sciences are a culture issue in this case.
shaft
For Miro, forced to co-work with the Party of The Old People of Prince Karl, her refusal to pick up a pickaxe to join in plundering what's left of the culture budget for Hg mine rehab is just the final proof of Ms Mlakar's unculturedness.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-011-9410-6#page-1
Mercury contamination from Idrija, the world's all-time second largest mercury mine by product, stretches all the way to the Gulf of Trieste, where it swirls around, some of it organic, threatening a mini-Minamata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12663193
Clearly management of this UNESCO world heritage site has implications for areas far beyond the scope of its immediate location, such as the ability to walk straight.
Little encourages that more in Slovenia than foreign organisations waving free money. If this means hydrologists dressing up as museum attendants, eey, senor, eet's-a no a problem.
local veg
I would give the local veg a miss. But if grim medieval metallurgical progress is your thing there's plenty to go at. And we know our priorities. The Idrija Mine Museum is still managed by the Mercury Mine Idrija company (in liquidation).
http://www.culture.si/en/Idrija_Municipal_Museum
I have a very nice translation of Slovenia's Mining Act, into English, which I was never paid for, but I expect the PM already knows about the rules governing mine-owners' responsibilities concerning rehabilitation and the kind of qualified personnel you must have to look after used-up mines, even if that needs to go on forever as would appear to be the case if Idrija's is an item of cultural heritage.
It doesn't sound like she's getting much sense from the young Slovenians. So if that popular-language version would help the Culture Minister with her claim, could she just get Ms Cooper - whose own limited mining experience led her to suggest using of a lot of boars, as I recall - to settle up the bill and try to explain about the hacked emails.
It's been a few years now but apparently people are not very happy with the way things are run so mining laws, like the employment ones, may not apply if the boss doesn't like them, and I never heard any more from the so-called Work Inspectorate. www.aaa.si/q
Julijana protests a lack of "professional, staff, supervisory and financial conditions" for the kulturniki to go smurfing. She would look daft in a yellow hard hat. Her ally Prince Karl tried to smooth things over, but to no avail. Meanwhile Idrija's Mayor just wants things looking after, and doesn't care which Ministry's budget the money comes from, as long as it does.
If it doesn't, and damage results, his district (and probably a few others, if they can coordinate their fingers) will simply file a criminal complaint against Emperor Miro or whomever can be held accountable.
But how could cultural mercury damage be distinguished from industrial mercury damage, from centuries of it pancaking onto the landscape and riverbeds? If it cannot, how could the Mayor prove his damage?
How could anyone? Mercury was extracted at Idrija from the 1490s until 1995. Mercury in urban road dust and streams was first measured in Idrija in 2013.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-013-9571-6
*according to Google Translate
WOMEN WHO DO NOT OBEY MEN, IT IS NECESSARY TO SUBMIT, SAYS CULTURE MINISTER*
Shaken and ready to stir things up after an audience with Emperor Miro, Culture Minister Julijana Bizjak Mlakar isn't best pleased with his insistence that she be wholly responsible for Idrija's neurotoxic and mutagenic tourist attraction - a leaky old mercury mine.
A distraught ga. Mlakar warned of the (continuing) dangers to the public and the environment, as the Culture Ministry was not oriented to maintaining disused mercury mines, which is mainly a culture of water pumping and waste management. And it was written in the time of Alenka The Legs, and also spracht Miro, that mining technology and geological sciences are a culture issue in this case.
shaft
For Miro, forced to co-work with the Party of The Old People of Prince Karl, her refusal to pick up a pickaxe to join in plundering what's left of the culture budget for Hg mine rehab is just the final proof of Ms Mlakar's unculturedness.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-011-9410-6#page-1
Mercury contamination from Idrija, the world's all-time second largest mercury mine by product, stretches all the way to the Gulf of Trieste, where it swirls around, some of it organic, threatening a mini-Minamata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12663193
Clearly management of this UNESCO world heritage site has implications for areas far beyond the scope of its immediate location, such as the ability to walk straight.
Little encourages that more in Slovenia than foreign organisations waving free money. If this means hydrologists dressing up as museum attendants, eey, senor, eet's-a no a problem.
local veg
I would give the local veg a miss. But if grim medieval metallurgical progress is your thing there's plenty to go at. And we know our priorities. The Idrija Mine Museum is still managed by the Mercury Mine Idrija company (in liquidation).
http://www.culture.si/en/Idrija_Municipal_Museum
I have a very nice translation of Slovenia's Mining Act, into English, which I was never paid for, but I expect the PM already knows about the rules governing mine-owners' responsibilities concerning rehabilitation and the kind of qualified personnel you must have to look after used-up mines, even if that needs to go on forever as would appear to be the case if Idrija's is an item of cultural heritage.
It doesn't sound like she's getting much sense from the young Slovenians. So if that popular-language version would help the Culture Minister with her claim, could she just get Ms Cooper - whose own limited mining experience led her to suggest using of a lot of boars, as I recall - to settle up the bill and try to explain about the hacked emails.
It's been a few years now but apparently people are not very happy with the way things are run so mining laws, like the employment ones, may not apply if the boss doesn't like them, and I never heard any more from the so-called Work Inspectorate. www.aaa.si/q
Julijana protests a lack of "professional, staff, supervisory and financial conditions" for the kulturniki to go smurfing. She would look daft in a yellow hard hat. Her ally Prince Karl tried to smooth things over, but to no avail. Meanwhile Idrija's Mayor just wants things looking after, and doesn't care which Ministry's budget the money comes from, as long as it does.
If it doesn't, and damage results, his district (and probably a few others, if they can coordinate their fingers) will simply file a criminal complaint against Emperor Miro or whomever can be held accountable.
But how could cultural mercury damage be distinguished from industrial mercury damage, from centuries of it pancaking onto the landscape and riverbeds? If it cannot, how could the Mayor prove his damage?
How could anyone? Mercury was extracted at Idrija from the 1490s until 1995. Mercury in urban road dust and streams was first measured in Idrija in 2013.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10653-013-9571-6
*according to Google Translate
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dan 3994 na planet slojezika
My comprehension of spoken Greenslovene (see map) is nowhere near as good as my understanding of the excellent Michelle Gomez in this, without the subtitles.
This results in a lot of squinting and stressful concentration from time to time.
The main problem can be described as keeping up, while matching known words or phrases from Standard Slovenske Novice Slovene with the zlogovna prozodija (syllabic prosody) of conversational use. Even Mary QoS displays a decidedly word-based prosody, as in English. In Slovenia it is very difficult to hear and isolate word units, not least among the Greenslovene speakers - who nevertheless say their neighbours the Yellowslovene speakers to the north-east are the worst.
Meanwhile the natives are typically unlikely to expect an adult with a childlike concept of sentence formation, and either press on at the normal speed - or switch to another language.
But there is still hope for a language tourism visitor boom if there is perhaps a village whose vocabulary, grammar, and pronounciation revolve unsteadily around Standard Slovenske Novice Slovene, but where everyone is just really, really, slow...and says everything quite clearly, one word at a time...Is there somewhere with a dialect like that?
slovene dialects
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/B8eQoU1e6xY
My comprehension of spoken Greenslovene (see map) is nowhere near as good as my understanding of the excellent Michelle Gomez in this, without the subtitles.
This results in a lot of squinting and stressful concentration from time to time.
The main problem can be described as keeping up, while matching known words or phrases from Standard Slovenske Novice Slovene with the zlogovna prozodija (syllabic prosody) of conversational use. Even Mary QoS displays a decidedly word-based prosody, as in English. In Slovenia it is very difficult to hear and isolate word units, not least among the Greenslovene speakers - who nevertheless say their neighbours the Yellowslovene speakers to the north-east are the worst.
Meanwhile the natives are typically unlikely to expect an adult with a childlike concept of sentence formation, and either press on at the normal speed - or switch to another language.
But there is still hope for a language tourism visitor boom if there is perhaps a village whose vocabulary, grammar, and pronounciation revolve unsteadily around Standard Slovenske Novice Slovene, but where everyone is just really, really, slow...and says everything quite clearly, one word at a time...Is there somewhere with a dialect like that?
slovene dialects
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/B8eQoU1e6xY
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NAVEL MANOEUVRES
A better article from Slonnect, which owns up to a lot as well as providing some non-local facts, for a change.
Dialects are of only tangential relevance to the Slovenians' refusal to teach their language to us.
The main reasons are that they are too lazy and don't really know how to approach it. Or why...as success will deprive them of exclusive control over their most potent symbol which - as it now turns out - doesn't exist.
For the Slovenians - although teachers do go from one part of the country to another sometimes - are not often very good at Standard Slovene. In Slovenia, low scores at Standard Slovene are routine.
Natives have competing ways of explaining it all to us, from the popular Where-Are-You-From?-Pivo-Pepelnik-Pizda-Complete-Vocabulary Method, to the How-Long-Are-You-In-Slovenia-How-Come-You-Don't-Learn-Slovene Heavy Staring Technique.
Slovenia's top educationalists' explanations of its grammar are usually in Slovene, to instruct natives trying to grapple with such matters.
The gradient of a Slovenian learning English begins with a confrontation with illogical spelling - but is basically a downhill ride of forgetting about case and gender endings.
But an anglophone learning a European language without reference to grammar is inconceivable, due to the demands of inflection.
That's why our structural analysis approaches to learning the highly-inflected language Slovene quickly overwhelm the locals - for whom inflection and learning a widely-used language are just "normal" - from the frighteningly precise Chinese Anglo-French Canadian attack of https://annainslovenia.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/second-sklon-genitive/ to my own fuckwittedly frank fact-fest How To Speak Slovenijese www.a2z.si/dear
With its ten year accumulation of belated language revelations - extracted at 1000th the speed of treacle from the experts themselves right here in Ptuj, Slovenia's home of linguistic excellence - this one page is all you need and will save you hundreds of hours in the pub watching the locals entertain themselves with your reflection of their disorganised, mean-minded village idiocy. Which is authority-led.
chacun à son goût
These dialects on the map must be democratically equal in status, and so too the non-methods of not imparting "the" language that they uninspire.
But as the historical evolutionary trend in language is to leave behind the highly-inflected and go towards uninflected, these areas with no neuter tense or those who use male forms for females ought to be the pioneers to be emulated - if you plan to do any evolving.
I wish I had chosen one of these more go-ahead dialect zones. How many generations must pass before we see the back of grammatically mummified organisms as beautiful as marketingom?
http://www.startupmaribor.si/sl-si/dogodek/85/start-up-m-sli-s-startup-marketingom-nad-ustaljene-prakse-
Like roadmenders, there is a high ratio of watchers to actors in language modulation, and most observers are waiting to see which way things go. Ali bo Tanja sčasoma našla na salonu vajazzlinganju? Only time will tell.
"Standard" Slovene can only result from the slow distillation of local intermingling, and this, as the article suggests, is a work likely to remain in progress for centuries at least.
Standard Slovene, then, is the natural language of nobody: a sort of mini-Esperanto.
trawl the slovene archive
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovene
NAVEL MANOEUVRES
A better article from Slonnect, which owns up to a lot as well as providing some non-local facts, for a change.
Dialects are of only tangential relevance to the Slovenians' refusal to teach their language to us.
The main reasons are that they are too lazy and don't really know how to approach it. Or why...as success will deprive them of exclusive control over their most potent symbol which - as it now turns out - doesn't exist.
For the Slovenians - although teachers do go from one part of the country to another sometimes - are not often very good at Standard Slovene. In Slovenia, low scores at Standard Slovene are routine.
Natives have competing ways of explaining it all to us, from the popular Where-Are-You-From?-Pivo-Pepelnik-Pizda-Complete-Vocabulary Method, to the How-Long-Are-You-In-Slovenia-How-Come-You-Don't-Learn-Slovene Heavy Staring Technique.
Slovenia's top educationalists' explanations of its grammar are usually in Slovene, to instruct natives trying to grapple with such matters.
The gradient of a Slovenian learning English begins with a confrontation with illogical spelling - but is basically a downhill ride of forgetting about case and gender endings.
But an anglophone learning a European language without reference to grammar is inconceivable, due to the demands of inflection.
That's why our structural analysis approaches to learning the highly-inflected language Slovene quickly overwhelm the locals - for whom inflection and learning a widely-used language are just "normal" - from the frighteningly precise Chinese Anglo-French Canadian attack of https://annainslovenia.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/second-sklon-genitive/ to my own fuckwittedly frank fact-fest How To Speak Slovenijese www.a2z.si/dear
With its ten year accumulation of belated language revelations - extracted at 1000th the speed of treacle from the experts themselves right here in Ptuj, Slovenia's home of linguistic excellence - this one page is all you need and will save you hundreds of hours in the pub watching the locals entertain themselves with your reflection of their disorganised, mean-minded village idiocy. Which is authority-led.
chacun à son goût
These dialects on the map must be democratically equal in status, and so too the non-methods of not imparting "the" language that they uninspire.
But as the historical evolutionary trend in language is to leave behind the highly-inflected and go towards uninflected, these areas with no neuter tense or those who use male forms for females ought to be the pioneers to be emulated - if you plan to do any evolving.
I wish I had chosen one of these more go-ahead dialect zones. How many generations must pass before we see the back of grammatically mummified organisms as beautiful as marketingom?
http://www.startupmaribor.si/sl-si/dogodek/85/start-up-m-sli-s-startup-marketingom-nad-ustaljene-prakse-
Like roadmenders, there is a high ratio of watchers to actors in language modulation, and most observers are waiting to see which way things go. Ali bo Tanja sčasoma našla na salonu vajazzlinganju? Only time will tell.
"Standard" Slovene can only result from the slow distillation of local intermingling, and this, as the article suggests, is a work likely to remain in progress for centuries at least.
Standard Slovene, then, is the natural language of nobody: a sort of mini-Esperanto.
trawl the slovene archive
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovene
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plans for the future - from the nposialpu archive!
JUST IMAGINE!
Slovenia now leads the world in photoshopped cities populated by sims.
As a hypothetical future visitor to this virtual architectural world you'll be able to...
shake yourself violently in the Baroque monasterial surroundings of
http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1323284406-enota-ptuj-archaeological-museum-07.jpg
blend in invisibly with
http://www10.aeccafe.com/blogs/arch-showcase/files/2011/02/Design-Initiatives-MAG-04-photomontage.jpg
or keep underwater search teams busy by skateboarding on
http://jastudioinc.com/images/Project_DRAVA/drava_04.jpg
Fancy some art? Why not buzz like wasps around
http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55e5/8972/9f38/5615/0500/09b5/slideshow/a_stan-allen-poster.jpg?1441106270
lurk pointlessly outside
http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Art-gallery-in-Maribor-Slovenia-2.jpg
flatly deny your three-dimensionality at
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/slovenia/maribor_art_gallery_f020410_1.jpg
explore the air conditioning systems of
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n08MX7glDgk/S8c75czFnZI/AAAAAAAACiM/rO8eecgu8OY/s1600/1271276818-honorabledavid3-1000x577.jpg
or simply march pointlessly up and down in any direction except towards
http://www.made.lv/?section=selected-work&tag=maribor-ugm-art-gallery
Virtual city facilities like these Maribor Art Galleries prevent noisy construction sites, save on building and running costs, and art, and you can have as many as you want in the one space you would have wasted on a real building - if only you hadn't spent all the money on architectural competitions.
It makes sense to me. What would you rather do with a Mac? Play with one in a nice warm office? Or wear one to trudge round a muddy hole with a theodolite?
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JUST IMAGINE!
Slovenia now leads the world in photoshopped cities populated by sims.
As a hypothetical future visitor to this virtual architectural world you'll be able to...
shake yourself violently in the Baroque monasterial surroundings of
http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1323284406-enota-ptuj-archaeological-museum-07.jpg
blend in invisibly with
http://www10.aeccafe.com/blogs/arch-showcase/files/2011/02/Design-Initiatives-MAG-04-photomontage.jpg
or keep underwater search teams busy by skateboarding on
http://jastudioinc.com/images/Project_DRAVA/drava_04.jpg
Fancy some art? Why not buzz like wasps around
http://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55e5/8972/9f38/5615/0500/09b5/slideshow/a_stan-allen-poster.jpg?1441106270
lurk pointlessly outside
http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Art-gallery-in-Maribor-Slovenia-2.jpg
flatly deny your three-dimensionality at
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/slovenia/maribor_art_gallery_f020410_1.jpg
explore the air conditioning systems of
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n08MX7glDgk/S8c75czFnZI/AAAAAAAACiM/rO8eecgu8OY/s1600/1271276818-honorabledavid3-1000x577.jpg
or simply march pointlessly up and down in any direction except towards
http://www.made.lv/?section=selected-work&tag=maribor-ugm-art-gallery
Virtual city facilities like these Maribor Art Galleries prevent noisy construction sites, save on building and running costs, and art, and you can have as many as you want in the one space you would have wasted on a real building - if only you hadn't spent all the money on architectural competitions.
It makes sense to me. What would you rather do with a Mac? Play with one in a nice warm office? Or wear one to trudge round a muddy hole with a theodolite?
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world waiter day
The three artificial lakes of the Velenje coalmine.
Škalsko, Velenjsko, and Šoštanjsko which is the deepest Slovenian lake, with a depth of around 90 m together covered 200 ha and contained 46 million m3 of water in 2005.
Due to mining subsidence the terrain had dropped up to 100 metres in places, including the lakes, and by a volume of approximately 140 million m3, according to a 2012 report.
It would continue to do so for a further 40 million m3 even if mining were to cease immediately. It didn't!
Source: Technological and environmental risks of TEŠ 6.
Miroslav Gregorič, univ. grad. of mechanical engineering, Msc.
Ljubljana. Ref. Ares(2012)286592 – 09.03.2012
The three artificial lakes of the Velenje coalmine.
Škalsko, Velenjsko, and Šoštanjsko which is the deepest Slovenian lake, with a depth of around 90 m together covered 200 ha and contained 46 million m3 of water in 2005.
Due to mining subsidence the terrain had dropped up to 100 metres in places, including the lakes, and by a volume of approximately 140 million m3, according to a 2012 report.
It would continue to do so for a further 40 million m3 even if mining were to cease immediately. It didn't!
Source: Technological and environmental risks of TEŠ 6.
Miroslav Gregorič, univ. grad. of mechanical engineering, Msc.
Ljubljana. Ref. Ares(2012)286592 – 09.03.2012
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shaving the planet
REMINDERS OF THE DAY
The UN: water means jobs.
Greenpeace: coal-fired electricity uses up loads of water.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/world-water-day-coal-plants-use-as-much-water-as-1-billion-people-and-its-set-to-double
The International Energy Agency: solar PV and wind do not create significant water stress, in contrast to carbon capture, and improved cooling systems for fossil and nuclear fuel generating sites, which do.
There is also the rather unhip news that biofuel production uses more water than natural gas drilling (Table 17.3).
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2012/WEO_2012_Water_Excerpt.pdf
The European Commission: Slovenia is an economic, business and financial dead man. But it's doing ok at renewables. They think it better not to mention the TEŠ6 carbon-capturing money hole though.
Apparently the money "isn't flowing to the right ends".
https://plus.google.com/+SVLOZASLOVENIJONOVAGORICA8888/posts/RnnMJz4tGCC
Finally the Slovenia Times reminds us that Dušan Mramor is in London to receive The Banker magazine's award in a Crufts-type contest for best European finance minister of the year. Sorry George!
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-probing-investor-interest-in-london
Meanwhile in Ptuj it has been another quiet day for www.agua.si and www.solarpanel.si and there are no plans to pay or insure the workers www.aaa.si/q
REMINDERS OF THE DAY
The UN: water means jobs.
Greenpeace: coal-fired electricity uses up loads of water.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/22/world-water-day-coal-plants-use-as-much-water-as-1-billion-people-and-its-set-to-double
The International Energy Agency: solar PV and wind do not create significant water stress, in contrast to carbon capture, and improved cooling systems for fossil and nuclear fuel generating sites, which do.
There is also the rather unhip news that biofuel production uses more water than natural gas drilling (Table 17.3).
http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2012/WEO_2012_Water_Excerpt.pdf
The European Commission: Slovenia is an economic, business and financial dead man. But it's doing ok at renewables. They think it better not to mention the TEŠ6 carbon-capturing money hole though.
Apparently the money "isn't flowing to the right ends".
https://plus.google.com/+SVLOZASLOVENIJONOVAGORICA8888/posts/RnnMJz4tGCC
Finally the Slovenia Times reminds us that Dušan Mramor is in London to receive The Banker magazine's award in a Crufts-type contest for best European finance minister of the year. Sorry George!
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-probing-investor-interest-in-london
Meanwhile in Ptuj it has been another quiet day for www.agua.si and www.solarpanel.si and there are no plans to pay or insure the workers www.aaa.si/q
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ptuj weather miracle
SMELL COULD MEAN VISION, BLESSING
Ptuj is waiting with bated breath for a religious coming.
Noting the first sunny days of the year have been greeted by a steady hum of boiled-up chicken factory waste, Ptuj weather sages are pointing to the destiny of Joan of Arc. The Vatican control room is being put on red alert.
In her biography of J-d'Arc Laura Mirabal describes how, when 13, Jehanne was first tipped off about her upcoming mission against the English by Saint Michael, an archangel siding with the French nationalists.
Mike's appearance was accompanied by a special aroma.
Well it's Ptuj. Need I say more? In case the answer is yes, www.ptuj.co.uk
With their solid Slovenian historical provenance and range of magical abilities dating back to antiquity, is it really a coincidence that the twin miracles of www.jesus.si and www.maria.si have materialised in Slovenia - and right here in the specially aromatic oldest town of Ptuj...? That's some coincidence! And why trash a perfectly good omen?
Of course an important part of the legal proof against Joda was that her visions and voices didn't speak English and this is exactly the sort of criterion which is very important to Slovene national catholic aspirations. And sure enough, it's those damned immigrants again!
Jesus and Mary's connection to this area of present-day Slovenia dates back as far as anyone in the area can remember - and as a matter of historical fact it could even be considerably longer ago than last weekend.
Saints alive! If today's airborne visitation from Perutnina isn't a sign from Big G that Slovenia is about to experience a Counter-Counter-Reformation then superstition just ain't what it used to be.
more on Ptuj's religious atmosphere
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GMTvft4LJJ3
previous religious experience
http://is.gd/zPsVib
SMELL COULD MEAN VISION, BLESSING
Ptuj is waiting with bated breath for a religious coming.
Noting the first sunny days of the year have been greeted by a steady hum of boiled-up chicken factory waste, Ptuj weather sages are pointing to the destiny of Joan of Arc. The Vatican control room is being put on red alert.
In her biography of J-d'Arc Laura Mirabal describes how, when 13, Jehanne was first tipped off about her upcoming mission against the English by Saint Michael, an archangel siding with the French nationalists.
Mike's appearance was accompanied by a special aroma.
Well it's Ptuj. Need I say more? In case the answer is yes, www.ptuj.co.uk
With their solid Slovenian historical provenance and range of magical abilities dating back to antiquity, is it really a coincidence that the twin miracles of www.jesus.si and www.maria.si have materialised in Slovenia - and right here in the specially aromatic oldest town of Ptuj...? That's some coincidence! And why trash a perfectly good omen?
Of course an important part of the legal proof against Joda was that her visions and voices didn't speak English and this is exactly the sort of criterion which is very important to Slovene national catholic aspirations. And sure enough, it's those damned immigrants again!
Jesus and Mary's connection to this area of present-day Slovenia dates back as far as anyone in the area can remember - and as a matter of historical fact it could even be considerably longer ago than last weekend.
Saints alive! If today's airborne visitation from Perutnina isn't a sign from Big G that Slovenia is about to experience a Counter-Counter-Reformation then superstition just ain't what it used to be.
more on Ptuj's religious atmosphere
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GMTvft4LJJ3
previous religious experience
http://is.gd/zPsVib
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the russians came
MEGLATHLON RALLY TACTICS (MISTY CONDITIONS):
STOP. GET OUT. LEG IT. HEAD FOR THE HILLS!
Our latest pile-up made it to video. In Slovenia the average driver knows what to expect from the average driver...as, with fine comedy timing, this clip reveals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoR29HrbOrQ
Here, fogs due to water bodies and topography can be sudden and overwhelming, and a consensus on safe distance and how much to slow down hard to find.
As you are legally required to keep lights on whenever the car is moving - day or night, rain or shine - there is no switching-on moment obliging the idiot behind you to notice he can't see you.
Seeing nothing in front of him can only mean...go as fast as possible.
More pile-up pics at the People's Tabloid
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/video-najhujse-verizno-trcenje-kabino-zmeckalo-do-zadnjih-sedezev
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR5OS1NNe_4
MEGLATHLON RALLY TACTICS (MISTY CONDITIONS):
STOP. GET OUT. LEG IT. HEAD FOR THE HILLS!
Our latest pile-up made it to video. In Slovenia the average driver knows what to expect from the average driver...as, with fine comedy timing, this clip reveals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoR29HrbOrQ
Here, fogs due to water bodies and topography can be sudden and overwhelming, and a consensus on safe distance and how much to slow down hard to find.
As you are legally required to keep lights on whenever the car is moving - day or night, rain or shine - there is no switching-on moment obliging the idiot behind you to notice he can't see you.
Seeing nothing in front of him can only mean...go as fast as possible.
More pile-up pics at the People's Tabloid
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/video-najhujse-verizno-trcenje-kabino-zmeckalo-do-zadnjih-sedezev
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR5OS1NNe_4
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FOTO: To so zjutraj iz
NLB sporočili poslancem
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rocket science
LINGUISTS DISCOVER SLOVENE ASTONISHMENT GAP
Slovenians who acquired their vocabulary from multibillion-dollar tax experts Google would not find the median price of 640,000 euros for a home in London astonishing.
They simply can't. As according to the search engine behemoth, presenetljivo is not astonishing, but merely surprising.
Whereas osupljivo, which appears to be the nearest relative, on examination turns out to be astounding.
Which is, I hope you would agree, some way beyond astonishing, just as dumbstruck exceeds awestruck.
Between presenetljivo and osupljivo lies a range of shocked surprise, more than mildly disconcerting, yet not so overwhelming, less than paralysing. Of this Slovenia knows nothing?
Then there is začuditi, which means "to astonish" in Croatian, but in Slovene predictably morphs into a more reverent "marvel". The bewilderrrnent hinted at by the former is absent in the latter. Of course like all machine interpreters Google Translate cannot be 100% accurate, or someone would have trouble overcharging for software/wetware that works better.
If that someone was me I'd be fine with it. But it isn't. That just leaves me with the frustrating feeling that I ought to have the right to be more astonished than surprised, but less surprised than if I were astounded, without needing to marvel in any way, at London's half million quid property price median for instance.
With a maximum of only two million Slovene experts available, you would think the astonishment gap could be ironed out pretty sharpish. But instead of telling Google where they are going wrong, the experts are apparently relying on foreigners to decide whether they are surprised, marvelling, or astounded - if these are the only choices.
The national view is that non-native speakers should sort out any fiddly misunderstandings, such as these under- and over-statements, between themselves and in the non-Slovenian "outside" world, inhabited by foreigners both in and beyond Slovenia.
Fortunately there is one topic about their language upon which all Slovenes agree: Google Translate is rubbish, they say...and that's the end of that.
And? And nothing. Because it's nothing to do with them, the only Slovenians who exist.
And these include the same people, the only type of Slovenians we meet, who are complaining we do not try, at their language. Astonishing!
LINGUISTS DISCOVER SLOVENE ASTONISHMENT GAP
Slovenians who acquired their vocabulary from multibillion-dollar tax experts Google would not find the median price of 640,000 euros for a home in London astonishing.
They simply can't. As according to the search engine behemoth, presenetljivo is not astonishing, but merely surprising.
Whereas osupljivo, which appears to be the nearest relative, on examination turns out to be astounding.
Which is, I hope you would agree, some way beyond astonishing, just as dumbstruck exceeds awestruck.
Between presenetljivo and osupljivo lies a range of shocked surprise, more than mildly disconcerting, yet not so overwhelming, less than paralysing. Of this Slovenia knows nothing?
Then there is začuditi, which means "to astonish" in Croatian, but in Slovene predictably morphs into a more reverent "marvel". The bewilderrrnent hinted at by the former is absent in the latter. Of course like all machine interpreters Google Translate cannot be 100% accurate, or someone would have trouble overcharging for software/wetware that works better.
If that someone was me I'd be fine with it. But it isn't. That just leaves me with the frustrating feeling that I ought to have the right to be more astonished than surprised, but less surprised than if I were astounded, without needing to marvel in any way, at London's half million quid property price median for instance.
With a maximum of only two million Slovene experts available, you would think the astonishment gap could be ironed out pretty sharpish. But instead of telling Google where they are going wrong, the experts are apparently relying on foreigners to decide whether they are surprised, marvelling, or astounded - if these are the only choices.
The national view is that non-native speakers should sort out any fiddly misunderstandings, such as these under- and over-statements, between themselves and in the non-Slovenian "outside" world, inhabited by foreigners both in and beyond Slovenia.
Fortunately there is one topic about their language upon which all Slovenes agree: Google Translate is rubbish, they say...and that's the end of that.
And? And nothing. Because it's nothing to do with them, the only Slovenians who exist.
And these include the same people, the only type of Slovenians we meet, who are complaining we do not try, at their language. Astonishing!
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at least dee nae haram
One who did make it to Glasgow is Hassan Rouhani. Here he would have witnessed many scenes of utter debauchery - such as these bare-headed hussies dancing with unrelated boys in public. He must have had a haram old time avoiding it all on religious grounds.
You would have thought his days at Caledonian University might have loosened him up a bit as he comes from a village of just a few thousand.
But no, it was only a couple of days and instead of loosening up Hassan went and became the President of Iran.
Rouhani's politco-legal fellow-alumni include angry, mean Gordon Brown. And the only person I ever heard of succeeding getting compensation for a smell in Slovenia, Gregor Virant.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ePhALXg6vP7
One who did make it to Glasgow is Hassan Rouhani. Here he would have witnessed many scenes of utter debauchery - such as these bare-headed hussies dancing with unrelated boys in public. He must have had a haram old time avoiding it all on religious grounds.
You would have thought his days at Caledonian University might have loosened him up a bit as he comes from a village of just a few thousand.
But no, it was only a couple of days and instead of loosening up Hassan went and became the President of Iran.
Rouhani's politco-legal fellow-alumni include angry, mean Gordon Brown. And the only person I ever heard of succeeding getting compensation for a smell in Slovenia, Gregor Virant.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ePhALXg6vP7
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chicken factory smell joins presidential runoff
SEPARATED AT BIRTH
Ptuj: Age of Reason began again:
Wife of new chicken boss, she gan vegan...!
She can't visit - the air
Around there, au contraire,
Is for omnivores, like pigs, and Stygian.
You can just see things are going to be totally different from now on.
Congratulations to g. Šimonka on deposing dr. Glaser - who is stepping down a rung from the top job at environmentally and financially controversial chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj following a police swoop because he does not feel guilty about anything. Really, anything.
Still disappointed are the small shareholders whom Glaser and his former management board associates seemed to try to stiff by selling options to buy PP shares held by a shell company as a critical part of the takeover - owned by Perutnina's management board.
This would effectively have got them 12 times as much for their shares. FinMin said sexy no no no. For this unparalleled gamesmanship the small shareholders want Glaser to go away completely. But he wants paying for that too.
Instead he is staying on to offer his decades of cost-cutting expertise in using Slovenia's oldest town as his personal gut bucket, and keeping inferior foreign tourists at bay by making the town whose name is in his brand stink like an undertaker's jockstrap.
The new guy Tibor's wife is a real-life Sloveni-vegan and clearly a principled woman who would not be able to keep an eye on her husband over here in Ptuj without breathing apparatus.
Karin I can only entreat you to help your three or four fellow-vegans in Ptuj. Why not do like Lysistrata and say nebo until hubby gets PP's meaty molecules out of our nebo?
Then you'll be able to visit lovely Ptuj and breathe uninhibitedly. You simply can't put a price on some things.
Slovenians meekly accept the routine olfactory outrages from the poultry firm's rendering down of its impressive tonnage of bits and pieces. Unfortunately there are now several foreigners living in Ptuj. Now too a forensic link between its smell and the race for the White House has surfaced.
Tibor's missus is an ex of an ex of Melania Knavs, aka Mrs The Donald.
This means there is now a direct chain of bodily fluids connecting Ptuj's chicken factory smell and the botox of the prospective First Lady.
the first lady sings the blues
https://twitter.com/queenmelanitito
nposialpu's Perutnina archive
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20smell
SEPARATED AT BIRTH
Ptuj: Age of Reason began again:
Wife of new chicken boss, she gan vegan...!
She can't visit - the air
Around there, au contraire,
Is for omnivores, like pigs, and Stygian.
You can just see things are going to be totally different from now on.
Congratulations to g. Šimonka on deposing dr. Glaser - who is stepping down a rung from the top job at environmentally and financially controversial chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj following a police swoop because he does not feel guilty about anything. Really, anything.
Still disappointed are the small shareholders whom Glaser and his former management board associates seemed to try to stiff by selling options to buy PP shares held by a shell company as a critical part of the takeover - owned by Perutnina's management board.
This would effectively have got them 12 times as much for their shares. FinMin said sexy no no no. For this unparalleled gamesmanship the small shareholders want Glaser to go away completely. But he wants paying for that too.
Instead he is staying on to offer his decades of cost-cutting expertise in using Slovenia's oldest town as his personal gut bucket, and keeping inferior foreign tourists at bay by making the town whose name is in his brand stink like an undertaker's jockstrap.
The new guy Tibor's wife is a real-life Sloveni-vegan and clearly a principled woman who would not be able to keep an eye on her husband over here in Ptuj without breathing apparatus.
Karin I can only entreat you to help your three or four fellow-vegans in Ptuj. Why not do like Lysistrata and say nebo until hubby gets PP's meaty molecules out of our nebo?
Then you'll be able to visit lovely Ptuj and breathe uninhibitedly. You simply can't put a price on some things.
Slovenians meekly accept the routine olfactory outrages from the poultry firm's rendering down of its impressive tonnage of bits and pieces. Unfortunately there are now several foreigners living in Ptuj. Now too a forensic link between its smell and the race for the White House has surfaced.
Tibor's missus is an ex of an ex of Melania Knavs, aka Mrs The Donald.
This means there is now a direct chain of bodily fluids connecting Ptuj's chicken factory smell and the botox of the prospective First Lady.
the first lady sings the blues
https://twitter.com/queenmelanitito
nposialpu's Perutnina archive
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20smell
Šimonka in Korčagin v
upravo Perutnine
vecer.com
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shoplifting secretaries of state
SUCK MY DICHTUNG
ANDREJ ŠPENGA
Leading light of the government SMC party in second city Marlboro, Secretary of State to the Interior Ministry with responsibility for Ministry of Defence Intelligence and Security Services in the field of counter-intelligence and security affairs. Arrested for stealing a 40 euro fan gasket from Bauhaus.
Ethical outcome: if Špenga is forced to resign, the Maribor SMC will desert Emperor Miro and his government will fall. Špenga has full support of the government who agree with their Secretary of State that the Bauhaus DIY superstore have got it all wrong...and 40 euros is a ripoff anyway.
JANKO BURGAR
Caught repeatedly stealing pate and biscuits from Mercator.
Ethical outcome: get caught stealing from the shop and you will have to go to court - unless you are a Secretary of State and not the kind of person who would ordinarily do that. If you are, you can just pay for the stuff you lifted and everything will be forgotten.
Burgar is on record apologising about the biscuits and pate. He believes that it was an immature act, which does not affect his role as State Secretary with the Ministry of Public Administration.
SUCK MY DICHTUNG
ANDREJ ŠPENGA
Leading light of the government SMC party in second city Marlboro, Secretary of State to the Interior Ministry with responsibility for Ministry of Defence Intelligence and Security Services in the field of counter-intelligence and security affairs. Arrested for stealing a 40 euro fan gasket from Bauhaus.
Ethical outcome: if Špenga is forced to resign, the Maribor SMC will desert Emperor Miro and his government will fall. Špenga has full support of the government who agree with their Secretary of State that the Bauhaus DIY superstore have got it all wrong...and 40 euros is a ripoff anyway.
JANKO BURGAR
Caught repeatedly stealing pate and biscuits from Mercator.
Ethical outcome: get caught stealing from the shop and you will have to go to court - unless you are a Secretary of State and not the kind of person who would ordinarily do that. If you are, you can just pay for the stuff you lifted and everything will be forgotten.
Burgar is on record apologising about the biscuits and pate. He believes that it was an immature act, which does not affect his role as State Secretary with the Ministry of Public Administration.
Državni sekretar (SMC)
kradel v Bauhausu?
slovenskenovice.si
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what's up in kidričevo
WHINGERS OF DISCONTENT
Nimby protestors defile a tourist sign with male and female versions of the "Gotof je" slogan, previously successful in ousting Maribor's mayor when there was a protest once before, about speed radar.
This time it is about foreigners coming to stay, with the Interior Minister and her Secretary of State depicted resembling Hindley and Brady.
All we need here is joined up thinking. Military-industrial beauty spot Kidričevo has failed to come to terms with its tyre disposal problem. Whereas some refugees are not who they say they are, or what they ought to be.
Why not set these lost souls to work, including any women and children, fulfilling our Christian duty to God's earth by excavating the remaining shredded-up tyres, that they may discover their true identities in this unwelcoming world.
This will keep their wandering hands busy and their minds free of impure thoughts - at the same time sparing Slovenia some hefty fines from the EU!
Many of the migrants will already be familiar with large quantities of old tyres from the Middle East, or their stay in Greece, and a multicultural workshop could further build upon their successful integration in the town by exploring avenues for recycling tyres into floating bridges, razor-wire-proof clothing, and the like. And they could marry your daughter.
military industrial cornflakes
Like much of Slovene, gotof/gotofa is not a real word, but means something like "finished", "you're done". It stands in interesting grammatical contrast to the imperatives of most western protest cries.
Instead of signifying a demand - resign! - as the desired path to the future, this portrays the proposed demise of the personnel in the past - as an achievement already attained: their joyride on the conveyor belt of the Slovenian politic has juddered to an inevitably abrupt end.
Like chanting cult members, for the anti-migrantniki reputation is repetition. There is no great battle of ideas. The only idea is to keep shouting about this imaginary conclusion until the opponent gets fed up and leaves, taking any ideas with him.
For in this melancholy world view, all the utilitarian decisions and subtle real-world complexities of the situation can somehow be miraculously consigned to the same spacious dustbin as their associated gotof/gotofa personalities, Stalinist purge-stylee.
WHINGERS OF DISCONTENT
Nimby protestors defile a tourist sign with male and female versions of the "Gotof je" slogan, previously successful in ousting Maribor's mayor when there was a protest once before, about speed radar.
This time it is about foreigners coming to stay, with the Interior Minister and her Secretary of State depicted resembling Hindley and Brady.
All we need here is joined up thinking. Military-industrial beauty spot Kidričevo has failed to come to terms with its tyre disposal problem. Whereas some refugees are not who they say they are, or what they ought to be.
Why not set these lost souls to work, including any women and children, fulfilling our Christian duty to God's earth by excavating the remaining shredded-up tyres, that they may discover their true identities in this unwelcoming world.
This will keep their wandering hands busy and their minds free of impure thoughts - at the same time sparing Slovenia some hefty fines from the EU!
Many of the migrants will already be familiar with large quantities of old tyres from the Middle East, or their stay in Greece, and a multicultural workshop could further build upon their successful integration in the town by exploring avenues for recycling tyres into floating bridges, razor-wire-proof clothing, and the like. And they could marry your daughter.
military industrial cornflakes
Like much of Slovene, gotof/gotofa is not a real word, but means something like "finished", "you're done". It stands in interesting grammatical contrast to the imperatives of most western protest cries.
Instead of signifying a demand - resign! - as the desired path to the future, this portrays the proposed demise of the personnel in the past - as an achievement already attained: their joyride on the conveyor belt of the Slovenian politic has juddered to an inevitably abrupt end.
Like chanting cult members, for the anti-migrantniki reputation is repetition. There is no great battle of ideas. The only idea is to keep shouting about this imaginary conclusion until the opponent gets fed up and leaves, taking any ideas with him.
For in this melancholy world view, all the utilitarian decisions and subtle real-world complexities of the situation can somehow be miraculously consigned to the same spacious dustbin as their associated gotof/gotofa personalities, Stalinist purge-stylee.
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presidential grill
FAR ON RIGHT 451
It's them writers again, with a headline being considered for entry in the Slovenglish Hall of Fame at www.a2z.si/jungle
They aren't surprised a recent book-burning by depraved Janša supporters wasn't "persecuted" (sic) as this was "believed to be a thing of the past. No law includes such depraved acts and those who wrote the Constitution had no idea this would return."
One such constitutional author would be current PM Miro The Silencer, under whose reign public commentary records have mysteriously vamoosed in peoples' tabloid Slovenske Novice as well as the unashamedly positive Slovenia Times.
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Depraved Slovenian book-burnings of the past commenced in the Counter Reformation. The calorific value cannot have been great, as the first Slovene books were only printed in 1550, one a bunch of hymns and the other an eight page guide to learning the alphabet.
From 1579 the Hapsburgs reasserted themselves - and Jesuits under Archbishop Horseradish purged the local gentry and lands of not just Protestant books, but also their churches, preachers, cemeteries, and Protestants.
Yes, IS-like, it was convert or quit the farm, except in remote Prekmurje, which Catholics do not like as it has few hills to stand on top of, or hide behind.
Psychotic activity peaked over the Christmas/New Year/Centennial holidays of 1600-1601 - as the first 2000 Slovenian books ever printed were torched in front of Ljub City Hall.
In 1899, Ivan Cankar a previous national poet here in Slovenia who is something like Elton John published his first collection of poetry called Erotika - full of mucky sex stuff.
Demonstrating the way things work in Slovenia, the bishop of Ljubljana Anton Bonaventura Jeglič used his organisation's economic clout to buy every single copy and quickly had them destroyed, saving the public.
And of course Nazis loved a good book fire, during the period up to the beginning of modern Yugoslavia. Finally Tito's victorious Partisans took over all book reviews with order No. 1737-45 of June 3 1945, signed by Minister of Internal Affairs Vicko Krstulović, by which:
"It is forbidden to do any further provisions of sale and any distribution of any literature that was released after April 10th, 1941 in Croatian, German or Italian language. This order is effective immediately. Death to Fascism - Freedom to the people!"
Sounds reasonable. But somehow everything in books became a matter for educationalists. "Because among [books on sale] is a big part of the Ustaša and fascist propaganda literature, and also in the works of international writers are often falsified several passages, the Ministry of Education will appoint a commission of experts who will review all the literature and thereafter approve or prohibit the distribution of individual works."
Decisive conflagrations have accompanied all these assertions of cultural identity in the Slovene lands.
So it seems odd to say, as does yet another poet Boris A Novak, that Emperor Miro had "no idea" book-burning would need to be criminalised, especially as Article 39 of Miro's blockbuster does guarantee freedom of expression.
Might that include literary arson or ex-Presidential papery pyres, though? What about the country's biggest bank's books getting burned for 1.5bn by the Archdiocese of Maribor's front company's internet company? Isn't it less book-burnings and more disk-wipings, with which Slovenians should be concerned, in these razor-wire-enclosed days?
Those Balkans eh? It's pršut first, prosicuttio later.
Probably, more precise statutes and regulations about permitted combustibles remain in the pipeline. Meanwhile, full freedom of expression is guaranteed in Slovenia.
But for whose side? This bit is yet to be resolved.
FAR ON RIGHT 451
It's them writers again, with a headline being considered for entry in the Slovenglish Hall of Fame at www.a2z.si/jungle
They aren't surprised a recent book-burning by depraved Janša supporters wasn't "persecuted" (sic) as this was "believed to be a thing of the past. No law includes such depraved acts and those who wrote the Constitution had no idea this would return."
One such constitutional author would be current PM Miro The Silencer, under whose reign public commentary records have mysteriously vamoosed in peoples' tabloid Slovenske Novice as well as the unashamedly positive Slovenia Times.
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Depraved Slovenian book-burnings of the past commenced in the Counter Reformation. The calorific value cannot have been great, as the first Slovene books were only printed in 1550, one a bunch of hymns and the other an eight page guide to learning the alphabet.
From 1579 the Hapsburgs reasserted themselves - and Jesuits under Archbishop Horseradish purged the local gentry and lands of not just Protestant books, but also their churches, preachers, cemeteries, and Protestants.
Yes, IS-like, it was convert or quit the farm, except in remote Prekmurje, which Catholics do not like as it has few hills to stand on top of, or hide behind.
Psychotic activity peaked over the Christmas/New Year/Centennial holidays of 1600-1601 - as the first 2000 Slovenian books ever printed were torched in front of Ljub City Hall.
In 1899, Ivan Cankar a previous national poet here in Slovenia who is something like Elton John published his first collection of poetry called Erotika - full of mucky sex stuff.
Demonstrating the way things work in Slovenia, the bishop of Ljubljana Anton Bonaventura Jeglič used his organisation's economic clout to buy every single copy and quickly had them destroyed, saving the public.
And of course Nazis loved a good book fire, during the period up to the beginning of modern Yugoslavia. Finally Tito's victorious Partisans took over all book reviews with order No. 1737-45 of June 3 1945, signed by Minister of Internal Affairs Vicko Krstulović, by which:
"It is forbidden to do any further provisions of sale and any distribution of any literature that was released after April 10th, 1941 in Croatian, German or Italian language. This order is effective immediately. Death to Fascism - Freedom to the people!"
Sounds reasonable. But somehow everything in books became a matter for educationalists. "Because among [books on sale] is a big part of the Ustaša and fascist propaganda literature, and also in the works of international writers are often falsified several passages, the Ministry of Education will appoint a commission of experts who will review all the literature and thereafter approve or prohibit the distribution of individual works."
Decisive conflagrations have accompanied all these assertions of cultural identity in the Slovene lands.
So it seems odd to say, as does yet another poet Boris A Novak, that Emperor Miro had "no idea" book-burning would need to be criminalised, especially as Article 39 of Miro's blockbuster does guarantee freedom of expression.
Might that include literary arson or ex-Presidential papery pyres, though? What about the country's biggest bank's books getting burned for 1.5bn by the Archdiocese of Maribor's front company's internet company? Isn't it less book-burnings and more disk-wipings, with which Slovenians should be concerned, in these razor-wire-enclosed days?
Those Balkans eh? It's pršut first, prosicuttio later.
Probably, more precise statutes and regulations about permitted combustibles remain in the pipeline. Meanwhile, full freedom of expression is guaranteed in Slovenia.
But for whose side? This bit is yet to be resolved.
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national pride
"A RECENT American essayist, Mr. Godkin, has said that 'no country retains the hearty affection of its educated classes which does not feed their imagination.' Patriotism, that is to say, does not rest to any large degree upon a natural pride in the physical beauty of the country that gave us birth, nor yet on a legitimate satisfaction in its commercial or industrial prosperity; it rests upon what we may call the historic imagination. It connects itself with certain events in the past history of our country, or with occurrences, sometimes of a semi-legendary character, that have stamped themselves upon the mind of the nation in a series of vivid mental pictures, and have fostered a just pride in the deeds and epochs of their forefathers.
"Countries that have their history still to make, or that have risen rapidly to greatness by colonisation from outside, without any background of romantic legend or heroic action, are lacking in the first elements that call a pure and elevated patriotism into existence. The memory of great deeds; the slow growth of ideas, expressed either in literature or in the constitution of the country; the mysterious and always attractive twilight of romance, out of which a nation has emerged into the broad daylight of historic life: all these are wanting. The consciousness of a greatness rooted firmly in the past is gone."
----from the introduction to THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE by Eleanor Hull (1898)
"A RECENT American essayist, Mr. Godkin, has said that 'no country retains the hearty affection of its educated classes which does not feed their imagination.' Patriotism, that is to say, does not rest to any large degree upon a natural pride in the physical beauty of the country that gave us birth, nor yet on a legitimate satisfaction in its commercial or industrial prosperity; it rests upon what we may call the historic imagination. It connects itself with certain events in the past history of our country, or with occurrences, sometimes of a semi-legendary character, that have stamped themselves upon the mind of the nation in a series of vivid mental pictures, and have fostered a just pride in the deeds and epochs of their forefathers.
"Countries that have their history still to make, or that have risen rapidly to greatness by colonisation from outside, without any background of romantic legend or heroic action, are lacking in the first elements that call a pure and elevated patriotism into existence. The memory of great deeds; the slow growth of ideas, expressed either in literature or in the constitution of the country; the mysterious and always attractive twilight of romance, out of which a nation has emerged into the broad daylight of historic life: all these are wanting. The consciousness of a greatness rooted firmly in the past is gone."
----from the introduction to THE CUCHULLIN SAGA IN IRISH LITERATURE by Eleanor Hull (1898)
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fat splattering
OI, VERB, HUH?
I went in search of an anti-fat-splatter thing for the frying pan at Poundland clone Tedi. Tedi's main difference from Poundland is that similar or worse crap can cost three or four euros at least.
Well what the hell. Details like price get lost in the battle to describe the desired item.
This one was a spectacular challenge. There is, frankly, no word in English for it. Splatter guard? Fat splash mesh lid? That's the best Amazon can do. "Fat guard" internet searches? - well try it.
By this, the third shop, I had formulated all sorts of clever strategies to obtain the no-spitting thing. It passes the time. I was looking for... a cover...for a pan...against danger...from fat...in the air...when making pommes frites.
And this is what I was reciting, using Slovene words which seemed to elicit at least a sort of disdainful comprehension, as long as there was plenty of hand-waving.
In Slovene-English comparisons, false friends lurk at every turn. Čips are crisps, you see, while chips are designated by the charmless Franken-mutant "pomfri".
Be assured the locals have no idea pomfri have anything to do with French, but have every reason to conclude the term is the idea of some long-forgotten vegetable professor from a different Slovenian village to their own. Professor Pomfri, possibly.
The disconcerting thing that you see in such household goods departments, though, is hand-waving customers and assistants with furrowed brows making shapes in the air AT EACH OTHER - and these are Slovenians from the same town!
And so, I asked the assistant if the enormous perforated lid I had discovered really was a....
We studied the package, with its six languages but not English, along with the price for each country.
As usual, all the countries had the same price. Except Slovenia, which always has an extra buck on it for whatever it is they have here which makes the same thing worth more in the dead centre of the "single market".
This buck covers the cost of the extra calories for all the arm-waving athletics required at every point in the chain, from raw material, to manufacturer, to retailer.
In the hope of reducing future disdain I thought I would try and get something thrown in for that extra amount.
And so I asked her what the Slovenian word for spitting was - in the unlikely event that I would need it again, perhaps ten years down the line.
Her eyes fell, apparently unable to recall this in her own lingo. Or maybe she was thinking, what was the official word? Maybe she was a nice girl and couldn't use that word. Whatever the reason, it didn't come. No sign that this was an imposition of mine - she simply didn't know what to tell me.
After checking for clues on the packaging in Slovene, Slovak, Italian, Hungarian, Italian and German the native speaker gave up, looking a bit sheepish. This happens all the time.
I felt vindicated in my alleged ignorance - if the natives don't know, how could they expect me to???...but of course they do expect that.
She brightened up considerably as I tried a bit of English (accompanied by the crucial gesticulations, of course).
Suitably inspired, she suggested, I think, sprejenje.
"That's what we'd say in my house," she added brightly, as if I could always refer anyone whose vocabulary didn't mesh with my expectorations to her mum.
Sprejenje is spraying, not spitting or splattering, but I accepted this dubious result politely and left with my overpriced, indescribable item.
Pljuvanje, pljunki, or razprševanje, Google's suggestions, did not occur to her. As it turns out they would be entirely inappropriate for the spitting/splattering of inanimate fats: you can never be too careful with such details here.
The great solution to my problem, and possibly the reason she works in Tedi, is spricati - but even this overlaps into the realm of squirting.
I remembered how speechless I was when a Slovenian guy visited my house for the first time and immediately spat on the floor.
Well at least he didn't squirt on it. But if you can't find a word for gobbing in the single market, imagine trying to find words for someone in the singles market!
So dancing around trying to buy things, which words to choose? You might as well ask, who dances best...Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse, or Ginger Rogers? I chose this one because I like the colours.
OI, VERB, HUH?
I went in search of an anti-fat-splatter thing for the frying pan at Poundland clone Tedi. Tedi's main difference from Poundland is that similar or worse crap can cost three or four euros at least.
Well what the hell. Details like price get lost in the battle to describe the desired item.
This one was a spectacular challenge. There is, frankly, no word in English for it. Splatter guard? Fat splash mesh lid? That's the best Amazon can do. "Fat guard" internet searches? - well try it.
By this, the third shop, I had formulated all sorts of clever strategies to obtain the no-spitting thing. It passes the time. I was looking for... a cover...for a pan...against danger...from fat...in the air...when making pommes frites.
And this is what I was reciting, using Slovene words which seemed to elicit at least a sort of disdainful comprehension, as long as there was plenty of hand-waving.
In Slovene-English comparisons, false friends lurk at every turn. Čips are crisps, you see, while chips are designated by the charmless Franken-mutant "pomfri".
Be assured the locals have no idea pomfri have anything to do with French, but have every reason to conclude the term is the idea of some long-forgotten vegetable professor from a different Slovenian village to their own. Professor Pomfri, possibly.
The disconcerting thing that you see in such household goods departments, though, is hand-waving customers and assistants with furrowed brows making shapes in the air AT EACH OTHER - and these are Slovenians from the same town!
And so, I asked the assistant if the enormous perforated lid I had discovered really was a....
We studied the package, with its six languages but not English, along with the price for each country.
As usual, all the countries had the same price. Except Slovenia, which always has an extra buck on it for whatever it is they have here which makes the same thing worth more in the dead centre of the "single market".
This buck covers the cost of the extra calories for all the arm-waving athletics required at every point in the chain, from raw material, to manufacturer, to retailer.
In the hope of reducing future disdain I thought I would try and get something thrown in for that extra amount.
And so I asked her what the Slovenian word for spitting was - in the unlikely event that I would need it again, perhaps ten years down the line.
Her eyes fell, apparently unable to recall this in her own lingo. Or maybe she was thinking, what was the official word? Maybe she was a nice girl and couldn't use that word. Whatever the reason, it didn't come. No sign that this was an imposition of mine - she simply didn't know what to tell me.
After checking for clues on the packaging in Slovene, Slovak, Italian, Hungarian, Italian and German the native speaker gave up, looking a bit sheepish. This happens all the time.
I felt vindicated in my alleged ignorance - if the natives don't know, how could they expect me to???...but of course they do expect that.
She brightened up considerably as I tried a bit of English (accompanied by the crucial gesticulations, of course).
Suitably inspired, she suggested, I think, sprejenje.
"That's what we'd say in my house," she added brightly, as if I could always refer anyone whose vocabulary didn't mesh with my expectorations to her mum.
Sprejenje is spraying, not spitting or splattering, but I accepted this dubious result politely and left with my overpriced, indescribable item.
Pljuvanje, pljunki, or razprševanje, Google's suggestions, did not occur to her. As it turns out they would be entirely inappropriate for the spitting/splattering of inanimate fats: you can never be too careful with such details here.
The great solution to my problem, and possibly the reason she works in Tedi, is spricati - but even this overlaps into the realm of squirting.
I remembered how speechless I was when a Slovenian guy visited my house for the first time and immediately spat on the floor.
Well at least he didn't squirt on it. But if you can't find a word for gobbing in the single market, imagine trying to find words for someone in the singles market!
So dancing around trying to buy things, which words to choose? You might as well ask, who dances best...Eleanor Powell, Cyd Charisse, or Ginger Rogers? I chose this one because I like the colours.
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THE GAY TODAY
Pro-marriage pro- and anti- same-sex marriage ideologues went at it hammer and tongues prior to a referendum on whether to have marriage or more marriages.
Highlights here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENOkrChK58
flammaaurea describes it as "the best Slovenian comedy of all time".
Our local green party candidate speaks for the "Proti" group here:
https://youtu.be/mCOyivTb73U?t=2943
"Proti" looks like a mixture of pro- and anti-. Actually here it's anti, against more marriages, but proti can also mean "toward" - in the same way that we could be sailing "against the tide" but still feel a forward motion, I guess.
Proti is "toward" in physical space only, I theorize, not when applied to the abstractions of controversies such as these - though there's very little point asking the locals to confirm or deny such factoids.
When a poll's JA or NE of course, everyone wants their side to be the JA side. There's the risk of an unseemly squabble about who gets to frame the question.
But in advertising balance terms ZA and PROTI are flawed too. What if some villager does think voting PROTI means going toward the thing he's against? The Village People in his village bar, in this example.
But the worst of it is simply that PROTI is a bigger word than ZA.
It's just NOT FAIR. It's BIGger on the screen. Clearly every speaker with a BADGE acts like a billBOARD. Should PROTI be made to use smaller letters, so that the total area of the letters is equal with ZA on TV and so forth?
And then, just being Slovenian makes the electorate more likely to be PROTI. So PROTI should be made even smaller still, to compensate for that - and there should be a referendum to decide exactly how small.
The pro-marriage referendum is scheduled for the Sunday before Christmas after church.
Main link: Slovenia's square box makes its entrance
THE GAY TODAY
Pro-marriage pro- and anti- same-sex marriage ideologues went at it hammer and tongues prior to a referendum on whether to have marriage or more marriages.
Highlights here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oENOkrChK58
flammaaurea describes it as "the best Slovenian comedy of all time".
Our local green party candidate speaks for the "Proti" group here:
https://youtu.be/mCOyivTb73U?t=2943
"Proti" looks like a mixture of pro- and anti-. Actually here it's anti, against more marriages, but proti can also mean "toward" - in the same way that we could be sailing "against the tide" but still feel a forward motion, I guess.
Proti is "toward" in physical space only, I theorize, not when applied to the abstractions of controversies such as these - though there's very little point asking the locals to confirm or deny such factoids.
When a poll's JA or NE of course, everyone wants their side to be the JA side. There's the risk of an unseemly squabble about who gets to frame the question.
But in advertising balance terms ZA and PROTI are flawed too. What if some villager does think voting PROTI means going toward the thing he's against? The Village People in his village bar, in this example.
But the worst of it is simply that PROTI is a bigger word than ZA.
It's just NOT FAIR. It's BIGger on the screen. Clearly every speaker with a BADGE acts like a billBOARD. Should PROTI be made to use smaller letters, so that the total area of the letters is equal with ZA on TV and so forth?
And then, just being Slovenian makes the electorate more likely to be PROTI. So PROTI should be made even smaller still, to compensate for that - and there should be a referendum to decide exactly how small.
The pro-marriage referendum is scheduled for the Sunday before Christmas after church.
Main link: Slovenia's square box makes its entrance
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expat culture
Emigre Slovenians in Perth having a good time, as only they know how. Ms Blagajna's down-under tour is being filmed in Dalek-sanjevision.
Surely they have been there a while and should be listening to songs in Australian by now. Rolf Harris or something.
Here in the homeland, I did hear some Rolf the other week, in the supermarket. No Gary Glitter yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBnzXgC9QlM
Emigre Slovenians in Perth having a good time, as only they know how. Ms Blagajna's down-under tour is being filmed in Dalek-sanjevision.
Surely they have been there a while and should be listening to songs in Australian by now. Rolf Harris or something.
Here in the homeland, I did hear some Rolf the other week, in the supermarket. No Gary Glitter yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBnzXgC9QlM
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record attempts
TWINGO HAIKU
Singles, couples, drive:
Pijanci in pijanke
Banging on the road.
Yes, it's Guinness time as Slovenia produces two two-car 100% drink driving accidents in under 24 hours - one appears to be a collision between a drunk man and a drunk lady, while in the second, two drunk couples, driven by the ladies, met upon the highway.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/voznik-pod-vplivom-104-od-zadaj-v-voznico-pod-vplivom-109
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-18-letnika-pod-vplivom-17-promila-odbilo-v-pijanega-20-letnika
TWINGO HAIKU
Singles, couples, drive:
Pijanci in pijanke
Banging on the road.
Yes, it's Guinness time as Slovenia produces two two-car 100% drink driving accidents in under 24 hours - one appears to be a collision between a drunk man and a drunk lady, while in the second, two drunk couples, driven by the ladies, met upon the highway.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/voznik-pod-vplivom-104-od-zadaj-v-voznico-pod-vplivom-109
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-18-letnika-pod-vplivom-17-promila-odbilo-v-pijanega-20-letnika
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westinghouse music
Think Slovenia has no role to play in fighting Islamic State beyond muttering into its spritzer about people running away from p(r)oxy wars?
Wrong.
When our GIs take leave from the war for Turkey, tired and frustrated after a long tour of firing phosphorus across the Bosphorus and raising hell in the Dardanelles, Slovenia will be standing by ready to provide vital R&R services and logistical support.
Great for GDP accounting too, as tourism counts as an export. Sex tourism counts as a sexport. Koper has the most sexport experts. But it's not just about bitches and pussy, remember all the other things that go with, among them the following interesting items intercepted in the Port of Koper in recent years:
2014: more than 14 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Egypt)
2013: five 200-litre barrels (1000 l) of precursors for the production of ecstasy (China)
2013: more than 24 tons of counterfeit spray (herbicide) of the trademark Syngenta (China)
2013: several cases of cold weapon smuggling: 1,880 telescopic batons, 7,954 electroshock weapons, 4,997 special blades, 2,792 knuckledusters and 898 numchucks (China)
2013: 13 and 10 tons of tobacco for water pipes (Dubai, Jordan)
2012: 10.6 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Dubai)
2012: together with the criminal police, a delivery of precursors was controlled and accompanied to Hungary, then to the Netherlands, where the seizure of 150 barrels of 2-phenylacetoacetonitrile, i.e. APAAN, weighing 3,450 kg was carried out
2011: 13.5 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Dubai)
2011: 4,376 of counterfeit Slovene yearly motorway vignettes (China)
2010: 2,028 of counterfeit chain saws (China)
2010 – 2014: more than 20 tons of undeclared foodstuffs of animal origin (China)
Source:
http://www.policija.si/eng/index.php/component/content/article/13-news/1497-launch-of-interpols-turn-back-crime
Whoever gets the upper hand, the domineering Islamic State or the domineering American military-industrial complex, the boom times are coming. Remember how proud Romania was when it finally exported something?
Think Slovenia has no role to play in fighting Islamic State beyond muttering into its spritzer about people running away from p(r)oxy wars?
Wrong.
When our GIs take leave from the war for Turkey, tired and frustrated after a long tour of firing phosphorus across the Bosphorus and raising hell in the Dardanelles, Slovenia will be standing by ready to provide vital R&R services and logistical support.
Great for GDP accounting too, as tourism counts as an export. Sex tourism counts as a sexport. Koper has the most sexport experts. But it's not just about bitches and pussy, remember all the other things that go with, among them the following interesting items intercepted in the Port of Koper in recent years:
2014: more than 14 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Egypt)
2013: five 200-litre barrels (1000 l) of precursors for the production of ecstasy (China)
2013: more than 24 tons of counterfeit spray (herbicide) of the trademark Syngenta (China)
2013: several cases of cold weapon smuggling: 1,880 telescopic batons, 7,954 electroshock weapons, 4,997 special blades, 2,792 knuckledusters and 898 numchucks (China)
2013: 13 and 10 tons of tobacco for water pipes (Dubai, Jordan)
2012: 10.6 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Dubai)
2012: together with the criminal police, a delivery of precursors was controlled and accompanied to Hungary, then to the Netherlands, where the seizure of 150 barrels of 2-phenylacetoacetonitrile, i.e. APAAN, weighing 3,450 kg was carried out
2011: 13.5 tons of smuggled cigarettes (Dubai)
2011: 4,376 of counterfeit Slovene yearly motorway vignettes (China)
2010: 2,028 of counterfeit chain saws (China)
2010 – 2014: more than 20 tons of undeclared foodstuffs of animal origin (China)
Source:
http://www.policija.si/eng/index.php/component/content/article/13-news/1497-launch-of-interpols-turn-back-crime
Whoever gets the upper hand, the domineering Islamic State or the domineering American military-industrial complex, the boom times are coming. Remember how proud Romania was when it finally exported something?
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national sloventry
COALITION OF THE KILLING
Like Palmyra Atoll, designation
Of Slovenia's national vocation
Is a whim of Obama -
De-IS instant karma -
Barefaced cheek meets meek humiliation.
Here in the 78th state, apparently it's one rule for Argentinian national sovereignty and the same one for the US of A.
Surely the wishes of the Slovenian islanders must be paramount? Where's Mrs Thatcher when you need her?
COALITION OF THE KILLING
Like Palmyra Atoll, designation
Of Slovenia's national vocation
Is a whim of Obama -
De-IS instant karma -
Barefaced cheek meets meek humiliation.
Here in the 78th state, apparently it's one rule for Argentinian national sovereignty and the same one for the US of A.
Surely the wishes of the Slovenian islanders must be paramount? Where's Mrs Thatcher when you need her?
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caliphornication
HARD LINE NEWS CLERIC OUTLINES "NEW" SEX RULES
Pursuant to takeover procedures by Messrs Moham Med Solutions these new rules on shyness, shagging, and wanking in Slovenia have appeared on the Slovenian internet, formerly partly owned by Moral Code Unlimited (in Receivership: Ding and Dong and Co. on behalf of Diocese of Marsbar vs. Novo Slabobankokoko; Novo Novo Ljubljubilee Bank; everyone else).
Mr Godly-Pope has bowed out, ceding control of the Board of Sex Supervisors to Mr Al Lah. As the new rules haven't been explained in Slovenian here are the main points.
Your new god doesn't want to see you in bed in the nuddy, or hanging around the flat starkers either, even on your tod - although he'll politely turn a blind eye if you're grinding the missuses or having a dump.
Overall, changes to cultural norms have been slight, as the dangers attendant upon loopy, non-militant dancing or dressing like a floozy make the latest ban pointless, here in the terrified farmburbs.
Legal shagging arrangements remain immune to challenge in the Constitutional Court, as commanded by the deity or his agent.
TV news sets are staying blue, with round things and square things and absurdly pretentious dolly shots also unchanged.
Luckily during the transition period there are a number of these helpful chaps who are kindly devoting their time to informing the locals about the ins and outs of life beneath the Kalifstate, before the formal handover on December 25th. The first statute to be enacted will be a 100% tax on Christmas presents.
As previously, god's servants cannot be criminal if they are religious. Life will carry on pretty much the same.
I personally would like to ask one question requesting his detailed theological guidance on a couple of areas. Firstly, should I not have hung around the kitchen in my underwear, contrary to what we were previously led to believe? And how did he get interested in all this in the first place?
Second vibrator use: would it for instance be haram to vibrate above the belly button but out of range of the nips? From where exactly in the Caliphate is it you come? How about behind the knee? And what about mojsterbation?
HARD LINE NEWS CLERIC OUTLINES "NEW" SEX RULES
Pursuant to takeover procedures by Messrs Moham Med Solutions these new rules on shyness, shagging, and wanking in Slovenia have appeared on the Slovenian internet, formerly partly owned by Moral Code Unlimited (in Receivership: Ding and Dong and Co. on behalf of Diocese of Marsbar vs. Novo Slabobankokoko; Novo Novo Ljubljubilee Bank; everyone else).
Mr Godly-Pope has bowed out, ceding control of the Board of Sex Supervisors to Mr Al Lah. As the new rules haven't been explained in Slovenian here are the main points.
Your new god doesn't want to see you in bed in the nuddy, or hanging around the flat starkers either, even on your tod - although he'll politely turn a blind eye if you're grinding the missuses or having a dump.
Overall, changes to cultural norms have been slight, as the dangers attendant upon loopy, non-militant dancing or dressing like a floozy make the latest ban pointless, here in the terrified farmburbs.
Legal shagging arrangements remain immune to challenge in the Constitutional Court, as commanded by the deity or his agent.
TV news sets are staying blue, with round things and square things and absurdly pretentious dolly shots also unchanged.
Luckily during the transition period there are a number of these helpful chaps who are kindly devoting their time to informing the locals about the ins and outs of life beneath the Kalifstate, before the formal handover on December 25th. The first statute to be enacted will be a 100% tax on Christmas presents.
As previously, god's servants cannot be criminal if they are religious. Life will carry on pretty much the same.
I personally would like to ask one question requesting his detailed theological guidance on a couple of areas. Firstly, should I not have hung around the kitchen in my underwear, contrary to what we were previously led to believe? And how did he get interested in all this in the first place?
Second vibrator use: would it for instance be haram to vibrate above the belly button but out of range of the nips? From where exactly in the Caliphate is it you come? How about behind the knee? And what about mojsterbation?
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muslim boom
FOREIGNERS COULD CAUSE
NUKE STATION TO BLOW
NU KAJ?-KU
...|...|...|...|...More refugees will
.....Be downstream of the N-plant
~~~~~~~~~ The water's warmer.
Apparently Slovenske Novice readers are worried that passing migrants might attack Slovenia's half-a-nuclear-power-station.
If they attacked Croatia's half, that would be OK though, as it would only serve them right for sending these people up here unannounced.
Refugees might kick a cooling tower, or clog up the cold water intake with their plastic bags.
FOREIGNERS COULD CAUSE
NUKE STATION TO BLOW
NU KAJ?-KU
...|...|...|...|...More refugees will
.....Be downstream of the N-plant
~~~~~~~~~ The water's warmer.
Apparently Slovenske Novice readers are worried that passing migrants might attack Slovenia's half-a-nuclear-power-station.
If they attacked Croatia's half, that would be OK though, as it would only serve them right for sending these people up here unannounced.
Refugees might kick a cooling tower, or clog up the cold water intake with their plastic bags.
Migranti, nevarni
celo za nuklearko?
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humanitarian holdup
PEOPLE MANGLEMENT: KEY PHRASES
"doctors of the organisation of chaos"
"reminded me of scenes from Schindler's List"
"barking dogs driven into the crowd"
"shouting, crying, cries for help"
"weapons and smoke everywhere*
"we can't...it's a catastrophe"
"they walk from Dobova to Brežice...then are bussed back to Dobova"
"order with tear gas and water"
"cold. hungry, tired, ill"
"I don't know which doctor of logistics invented such a plan"
"completely absurd"
"meandering around"
"herded like animals"
"eventually they pass through the northern border"
"they do not need us because they could get there on their own"
Source:
http://www.zurnal24.si/doktorji-organiziranega-kaosa-clanek-258560
PEOPLE MANGLEMENT: KEY PHRASES
"doctors of the organisation of chaos"
"reminded me of scenes from Schindler's List"
"barking dogs driven into the crowd"
"shouting, crying, cries for help"
"weapons and smoke everywhere*
"we can't...it's a catastrophe"
"they walk from Dobova to Brežice...then are bussed back to Dobova"
"order with tear gas and water"
"cold. hungry, tired, ill"
"I don't know which doctor of logistics invented such a plan"
"completely absurd"
"meandering around"
"herded like animals"
"eventually they pass through the northern border"
"they do not need us because they could get there on their own"
Source:
http://www.zurnal24.si/doktorji-organiziranega-kaosa-clanek-258560
Da Michelangelo a
Frida Kahlo, dal Veronese a Tina
Modotti: un'estate di grande mostre
foglidarte.blogspot.si
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ye olde frontier
HIGHLY-OLD-STYLE-HIGHWAY-ONLY-
IS-MY-WAY-ANYWAY-KU
-----------------Austrian nonfence: --------------------
-----------fences each fide of the fing --------------
fey try to go round.
The rail station at Spielfeld - which is also a frontier crossing between Slovenia and Austria - is historically a not-very-joined-up travel option.
HIGHLY-OLD-STYLE-HIGHWAY-ONLY-
IS-MY-WAY-ANYWAY-KU
-----------------Austrian nonfence: --------------------
-----------fences each fide of the fing --------------
fey try to go round.
The rail station at Spielfeld - which is also a frontier crossing between Slovenia and Austria - is historically a not-very-joined-up travel option.
Avstrijci na meji s
Slovenijo postavili bodečo žico
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absolutely screamingly high red alert at refugee thing
SLOVENIA'S FIVE-DIGIT FOREIGNOMETER CLOSE TO GOING TWANG OVER INCALCULABLE FOREIGN NUMBERS
People's tabloid Slovenske Novice reports that 94,444 migrants have now entered Slovenia's southern holes. 73,563 have already left. Most had no time to try gibanica and enjoy a relaxing erotic massage.
That leaves 20,881. Slightly less than the 21,000 capacity crowd for the Girls Aloud Ten Tour show at Manchester Arena on 5th March 2013. And the 6th. And the 7th.
I also came across this handy world map of GA concerts.
http://www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/girls-aloud-2bd6bcfe.html
All the Youtubes of the Manchester shows are wobbly and blurry so here's one from the slightly smaller (20,000) London O2 arena instead.
During the Girls Aloud tours the government did not meet overnight to discuss the implications for public order and the protection of citizens.
Nobody went on CNN about the crisis. The armed forces were not given special police powers, and so no referendum or legal challenge was initiated over constitutional areas affected by Girls Aloud fans.
https://protimilitarizaciji.wordpress.com/english/
The Girls Aloud audiences were not kept hanging around in camps. The typical Girls Aloud crowd was compliant, happy to be getting to where it wanted to go, and no tear gas or firemen were needed. It was emotional enough.
SLOVENIA'S FIVE-DIGIT FOREIGNOMETER CLOSE TO GOING TWANG OVER INCALCULABLE FOREIGN NUMBERS
People's tabloid Slovenske Novice reports that 94,444 migrants have now entered Slovenia's southern holes. 73,563 have already left. Most had no time to try gibanica and enjoy a relaxing erotic massage.
That leaves 20,881. Slightly less than the 21,000 capacity crowd for the Girls Aloud Ten Tour show at Manchester Arena on 5th March 2013. And the 6th. And the 7th.
I also came across this handy world map of GA concerts.
http://www.setlist.fm/stats/concert-map/girls-aloud-2bd6bcfe.html
All the Youtubes of the Manchester shows are wobbly and blurry so here's one from the slightly smaller (20,000) London O2 arena instead.
During the Girls Aloud tours the government did not meet overnight to discuss the implications for public order and the protection of citizens.
Nobody went on CNN about the crisis. The armed forces were not given special police powers, and so no referendum or legal challenge was initiated over constitutional areas affected by Girls Aloud fans.
https://protimilitarizaciji.wordpress.com/english/
The Girls Aloud audiences were not kept hanging around in camps. The typical Girls Aloud crowd was compliant, happy to be getting to where it wanted to go, and no tear gas or firemen were needed. It was emotional enough.
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slovenia on high alert as student radio referendum bid stalls cross-party plan to give army police powers
BIG NUMBERS OF PEOPLE SHOCK
In 12 days 89,789 migrants entered Slovenia, nearly as many as the 90,396 who arrived at Wembley Stadium to watch Oxford United defeat Queens Park Rangers 3-nil in the 1986 League Cup Final - and then went back where they came from. In one day!
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/law-giving-army-police-powers-delayed-by-referendum-petition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Football_League_Cup_finals
BIG NUMBERS OF PEOPLE SHOCK
In 12 days 89,789 migrants entered Slovenia, nearly as many as the 90,396 who arrived at Wembley Stadium to watch Oxford United defeat Queens Park Rangers 3-nil in the 1986 League Cup Final - and then went back where they came from. In one day!
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/law-giving-army-police-powers-delayed-by-referendum-petition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Football_League_Cup_finals
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paramilitary games
NEW RECORD IN THE ONE-DAY MIGRATHLON!
(train-bus-walk-run-nightswim-marathonqueue)
Biro Slo Statiztika 2500 : 6666.67 Real Migranti
Policija Zagrab 1000 for 6 : 99-ish Damascus Dolphins (all out)
Shuffled Wednesday 12600 : 27 or 25 Bedouin Incinerator (Selfi, 1)
UREFUA Champions' League:
Hitro Hrvati 40000 : 2 Late Donut Orient
Portaloo Ajax 1701 : 1700 West No Ham United
Dynamo Homs 0 : 0 Lederhosen
Expectorant Motherwell 1 : 4 years Corrupto Ginekolog Ptuj
Evening kickoff:
Croatia vs. Serbia vs. Macedonia vs. Greece vs. Turkey vs. Syria vs. Germany
Koncerta Modrijana vs. Pivo Athletico:
POSTPONED due to šotor shortage
Travel memories:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/brezice-begunec-pred-gorecim-sotorom-posnel-selfi
To avoid panic, police pretend Slovenia doesn't exist
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/begunci-hocejo-internet-mislijo-da-so-na-hrvaskem
Buy urn, Munich:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/munich-fears-migrants-and-beer-hunters-may-not-mix-well-at-oktoberfest
It's tourism, Janez, but not as we know it:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/refugee-numbers-rising-after-record-on-wednesday-40-000-entered-so-far
Around the wards:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/hrvati-k-nam-poslali-zensko-ki-je-bila-tik-pred-porodom
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/ptujski-ginekolog-mora-v-zapor
NEW RECORD IN THE ONE-DAY MIGRATHLON!
(train-bus-walk-run-nightswim-marathonqueue)
Biro Slo Statiztika 2500 : 6666.67 Real Migranti
Policija Zagrab 1000 for 6 : 99-ish Damascus Dolphins (all out)
Shuffled Wednesday 12600 : 27 or 25 Bedouin Incinerator (Selfi, 1)
UREFUA Champions' League:
Hitro Hrvati 40000 : 2 Late Donut Orient
Portaloo Ajax 1701 : 1700 West No Ham United
Dynamo Homs 0 : 0 Lederhosen
Expectorant Motherwell 1 : 4 years Corrupto Ginekolog Ptuj
Evening kickoff:
Croatia vs. Serbia vs. Macedonia vs. Greece vs. Turkey vs. Syria vs. Germany
Koncerta Modrijana vs. Pivo Athletico:
POSTPONED due to šotor shortage
Travel memories:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/brezice-begunec-pred-gorecim-sotorom-posnel-selfi
To avoid panic, police pretend Slovenia doesn't exist
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/begunci-hocejo-internet-mislijo-da-so-na-hrvaskem
Buy urn, Munich:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/18/munich-fears-migrants-and-beer-hunters-may-not-mix-well-at-oktoberfest
It's tourism, Janez, but not as we know it:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/refugee-numbers-rising-after-record-on-wednesday-40-000-entered-so-far
Around the wards:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/hrvati-k-nam-poslali-zensko-ki-je-bila-tik-pred-porodom
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/ptujski-ginekolog-mora-v-zapor
VIDEO: Neuradno:
begunci v Brežicah zažgali 25 šotorov
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SCHLOCK AND SAW
Minister for arborification
Reincarnates national vegetation:
Government is just flogging
Itself rights to the logging -
Židan's notion of privatisation.
The government's latest state-owned company is a private company.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4Zx5VHZaT1u
It's a mystery why rival forestry companies don't like Desperate Dejan's idea, as the government is only trying to protect them.
Little is known of the politics of wood outside Slovenia.
We know Slovenian wood is political as it appears under the Slovenia Times' "Politics" section and not its "Business" section.
Soon the private state-owned forests will be able to supply all the wood to make all the 70s furniture for all of Slovenia's private state-owned 70s banks and private state-owned 70s hotels, although I'm sure these will be free to source it from private, non-state-owned manufacturers, if they can find any. And don't mind being punished.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/DV4FPyWsMQY
In terms of political philosophy, what the Social Democrats' Minister of Wood has come up with here is neither socialist or democratic. The government's really in a wald of its own.
I hope it's not a Maoist forest - the last time that happened, the owners found themselves on the wrong end of 400,000 tons of napalm and 19.1 million gallons of teratogenic herbicide.
SCHLOCK AND SAW
Minister for arborification
Reincarnates national vegetation:
Government is just flogging
Itself rights to the logging -
Židan's notion of privatisation.
The government's latest state-owned company is a private company.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4Zx5VHZaT1u
It's a mystery why rival forestry companies don't like Desperate Dejan's idea, as the government is only trying to protect them.
Little is known of the politics of wood outside Slovenia.
We know Slovenian wood is political as it appears under the Slovenia Times' "Politics" section and not its "Business" section.
Soon the private state-owned forests will be able to supply all the wood to make all the 70s furniture for all of Slovenia's private state-owned 70s banks and private state-owned 70s hotels, although I'm sure these will be free to source it from private, non-state-owned manufacturers, if they can find any. And don't mind being punished.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/DV4FPyWsMQY
In terms of political philosophy, what the Social Democrats' Minister of Wood has come up with here is neither socialist or democratic. The government's really in a wald of its own.
I hope it's not a Maoist forest - the last time that happened, the owners found themselves on the wrong end of 400,000 tons of napalm and 19.1 million gallons of teratogenic herbicide.
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DUTB: GOVERNMENT NON-INTERFERENCE TO CONTINUE
The government is upset about the government-owned bank NLB unloading the indebted hotel industry (in the form of Sava Turizem) onto the bad bank DUTB.
Yes, that DUTB the government was told by the EU to set up to do jobs like this, to make the banks' books look pretty, on the conditions that it was run by foreigners and gov.si kept their sticky hands off.
Sava got into trouble borrowing money from Gorenjska Bank - but not too much as it owns it - and Gorenjska Bank got into trouble with the central bank for lending money to its owners it can't get back. All the money will have safely disappeared into holding company Sava d.d. which is entirely unresponsible for the debts of Sava Turizem, we can safely assume.
It has been suggested the non-touristic, non-hotel-owning taxpayers of Slovenia should pay the government so it can use the money to get Gorenjska Bank out of its 58m euro-and-counting hole. The Bank of Slovenia does not think Sava Turizem with its own 238m euro-and-counting hole and debts to the bank - in which it is a 44% major stakeholder - can or ought to stump up somehow.
Now what the bad bank was invented for, was to inject some kind of reality into situations like these, instead of the government - which is already a stakeholder in Sava - having to buy the whole sorry mess, or let one or both firms fall to the vicissitudes of those damn market conditions and each others' business acumen in a drowning embrace.
But now the government has spotted a bargain, on sale at that bad bank it invented so as to make sure that government only gets mixed up in commerce at arm's length, and to prevent corruption and such...
The aim is a competitive nationalised hotel industry which with its access to off-the-shelf legislation will be able to compete on a level playing field alongside non-nationalised hotels and B&Bs. And they might just win. Long live the glorious Tourism Five Year Plan!
DUTB: GOVERNMENT NON-INTERFERENCE TO CONTINUE
The government is upset about the government-owned bank NLB unloading the indebted hotel industry (in the form of Sava Turizem) onto the bad bank DUTB.
Yes, that DUTB the government was told by the EU to set up to do jobs like this, to make the banks' books look pretty, on the conditions that it was run by foreigners and gov.si kept their sticky hands off.
Sava got into trouble borrowing money from Gorenjska Bank - but not too much as it owns it - and Gorenjska Bank got into trouble with the central bank for lending money to its owners it can't get back. All the money will have safely disappeared into holding company Sava d.d. which is entirely unresponsible for the debts of Sava Turizem, we can safely assume.
It has been suggested the non-touristic, non-hotel-owning taxpayers of Slovenia should pay the government so it can use the money to get Gorenjska Bank out of its 58m euro-and-counting hole. The Bank of Slovenia does not think Sava Turizem with its own 238m euro-and-counting hole and debts to the bank - in which it is a 44% major stakeholder - can or ought to stump up somehow.
Now what the bad bank was invented for, was to inject some kind of reality into situations like these, instead of the government - which is already a stakeholder in Sava - having to buy the whole sorry mess, or let one or both firms fall to the vicissitudes of those damn market conditions and each others' business acumen in a drowning embrace.
But now the government has spotted a bargain, on sale at that bad bank it invented so as to make sure that government only gets mixed up in commerce at arm's length, and to prevent corruption and such...
The aim is a competitive nationalised hotel industry which with its access to off-the-shelf legislation will be able to compete on a level playing field alongside non-nationalised hotels and B&Bs. And they might just win. Long live the glorious Tourism Five Year Plan!
Država razmišlja o
odkupu Savinih terjatev od DUTB
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LARS' LAUGH
Departing Bad Bank chief Lars Nyberg gives it to Emperor Miro with both barrels in an interesting letter in English.
And joj verily wath hith pdf reproduced in Slovenske Novice and became known throughout the Slo-venial tribes.
Ptuj's local tourist amenities and business formats bear witness to these things of which the foreign Prince Lars hath testified.
For was not our newest 70s hotel raised up from the earth, in 2007, thanks to loans from this bank that the company that owned the hotel owned?
And so what would have happened if the hotel company didn't pay its own bank's loan to it, would their bank's magician come and make Terme Ptuj disappear?
Probably not. But the Swedes at the bad bank would.
The local bosses couldn't get their head around the idea of them being paid absurd amounts precisely to reduce their susceptibility to deals on the side. It seems likely our local champion embezzlers are more dopaminergic about the cheating than about the money itself.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/h2oKShncfWy
And having spoken his mind, Prince Lars - along with fellow outlander Torbjörn The Asset Stripper - was banished forthwith from the kingdom of Miro - even as they had only just finally got their health insurance sorted out.
Lars' letter to the PM is worth reading.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/2015/10/12/www_slovenskenovice_si_sites_slovenskenovice_si_files_article_attachments_lars_nyberg_miro_cerar_pdf.jpg
Page 2 here:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/2015/10/12/www_slovenskenovice_si_sites_slovenskenovice_si_files_article_attachments_lars_nyberg_miro_cerar_pdf_2.jpg
What will be the effect of this on the people at the bottom on the front line? Very little, as they are already on their knees.
To celebrate the bad bank's impending deliverance into the hands of local tycoonery, Slovenian state potter Mihold Čajna has designed this commemorative mug, available only EUR39,99 at all good hotels.
LARS' LAUGH
Departing Bad Bank chief Lars Nyberg gives it to Emperor Miro with both barrels in an interesting letter in English.
And joj verily wath hith pdf reproduced in Slovenske Novice and became known throughout the Slo-venial tribes.
Ptuj's local tourist amenities and business formats bear witness to these things of which the foreign Prince Lars hath testified.
For was not our newest 70s hotel raised up from the earth, in 2007, thanks to loans from this bank that the company that owned the hotel owned?
And so what would have happened if the hotel company didn't pay its own bank's loan to it, would their bank's magician come and make Terme Ptuj disappear?
Probably not. But the Swedes at the bad bank would.
The local bosses couldn't get their head around the idea of them being paid absurd amounts precisely to reduce their susceptibility to deals on the side. It seems likely our local champion embezzlers are more dopaminergic about the cheating than about the money itself.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/h2oKShncfWy
And having spoken his mind, Prince Lars - along with fellow outlander Torbjörn The Asset Stripper - was banished forthwith from the kingdom of Miro - even as they had only just finally got their health insurance sorted out.
Lars' letter to the PM is worth reading.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/2015/10/12/www_slovenskenovice_si_sites_slovenskenovice_si_files_article_attachments_lars_nyberg_miro_cerar_pdf.jpg
Page 2 here:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/2015/10/12/www_slovenskenovice_si_sites_slovenskenovice_si_files_article_attachments_lars_nyberg_miro_cerar_pdf_2.jpg
What will be the effect of this on the people at the bottom on the front line? Very little, as they are already on their knees.
To celebrate the bad bank's impending deliverance into the hands of local tycoonery, Slovenian state potter Mihold Čajna has designed this commemorative mug, available only EUR39,99 at all good hotels.
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FAG BAN COULD MEAN WIDER HIGHWAYS
An odd assortment of locales are paying attention to science these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_bans_in_private_vehicles
As the only EU country where smoking has significantly increased since 2006, Slovenia is not the sort of place where the costs of cancer, car crashes or forest fires are likely to outweigh drivers' inalienable right to stunt their junior passengers' growth. Anyone who suggests otherwise is committing political suicide, a far worse sort.
Nicotine addiction is so crucial to Slovenia's national identity that when smoking indoors in bars and restaurants became illegal, angry ideologues were demanding it should leave the EU - rather than give up the fight for slavery and conformity.
That didn't happen. And unlike the UK, anti-smoking does not have the weather on its side in Slovenia. But even through the winter fogs, the minority merely meekly followed the normal people outside to watch them grappling grumpily with their fun.
But we like a fuzzy compromise involving small print here. Soon, transparent tents, lean-to conservatories, and quasi-outbuildings popped up all over the alpine landscape. Their insides remained, officially, outside, and woe betide the bar with no space for one. Smokers both active and passive were able to continue with the penis-envy as before in these aerotoxic-as-ever environments.
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/06/26/penis-envy-try-tobacco/
As, from Oct 1, Britain bans puffing away in vehicles carrying under-18s, the random worldwide application of this outrage threatens its spread even here. But as we saw last time, this is really a golden business opportunity for Slovenia's automotive industry.
For surely some kind of temporary structure could be created to accommodate those who are too young to smoke properly yet, so that technically they are not in the car? Children could travel in trailers covered with plastic sheeting, or alongside in a special tobacco-free sidecar.
This will permit the desired result - continued smoking - and would also boost Slovenia's economy in a Rooseveltian style, as all our roads would need widening to cope with the new-shaped traffic.
And smokers travelling without the burden of minors aboard can also be given special lanes where, due to their superior concentration and devil-may-care attitude to factual risks, driving without speed and alcohol limits, seatbelts, or annual safety checks is allowed.
nposialpu's smoking slovenia archive
https://is.gd/Tyj7ex
FAG BAN COULD MEAN WIDER HIGHWAYS
An odd assortment of locales are paying attention to science these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_bans_in_private_vehicles
As the only EU country where smoking has significantly increased since 2006, Slovenia is not the sort of place where the costs of cancer, car crashes or forest fires are likely to outweigh drivers' inalienable right to stunt their junior passengers' growth. Anyone who suggests otherwise is committing political suicide, a far worse sort.
Nicotine addiction is so crucial to Slovenia's national identity that when smoking indoors in bars and restaurants became illegal, angry ideologues were demanding it should leave the EU - rather than give up the fight for slavery and conformity.
That didn't happen. And unlike the UK, anti-smoking does not have the weather on its side in Slovenia. But even through the winter fogs, the minority merely meekly followed the normal people outside to watch them grappling grumpily with their fun.
But we like a fuzzy compromise involving small print here. Soon, transparent tents, lean-to conservatories, and quasi-outbuildings popped up all over the alpine landscape. Their insides remained, officially, outside, and woe betide the bar with no space for one. Smokers both active and passive were able to continue with the penis-envy as before in these aerotoxic-as-ever environments.
http://www.ladybud.com/2013/06/26/penis-envy-try-tobacco/
As, from Oct 1, Britain bans puffing away in vehicles carrying under-18s, the random worldwide application of this outrage threatens its spread even here. But as we saw last time, this is really a golden business opportunity for Slovenia's automotive industry.
For surely some kind of temporary structure could be created to accommodate those who are too young to smoke properly yet, so that technically they are not in the car? Children could travel in trailers covered with plastic sheeting, or alongside in a special tobacco-free sidecar.
This will permit the desired result - continued smoking - and would also boost Slovenia's economy in a Rooseveltian style, as all our roads would need widening to cope with the new-shaped traffic.
And smokers travelling without the burden of minors aboard can also be given special lanes where, due to their superior concentration and devil-may-care attitude to factual risks, driving without speed and alcohol limits, seatbelts, or annual safety checks is allowed.
nposialpu's smoking slovenia archive
https://is.gd/Tyj7ex
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HOW FRENCH ECONOMIC MIGRANTS SNEAKED INTO OUR LANDS
OK, that nails it. Using Bing Maps you can plot the movements of the last Bourbon king of France Charles X, from the July Revolution of 1830, to his abdication, flight to England, Scotland, then to Czech places, then finally for the healthier climate to Nova Gorica, where he caught cholera and died, seventeen days after arriving.
But you cannot chart his royal retreat into the crevices of catholicism using Google Maps any more as it now has a limit of ten waypoints for driving directions. Just a couple more would have made it possible. We should question such unlikely decimal decisions.
When the ex-Charles-X arrived, Nova Gorica dwelt in the fabulous-sounding Kingdom of Illyria, which endured for a glorious 33 years as an Austrian-run successor to Napoleonic rule, and covered present western Slovenia, a bit of Austria, northern Croatia and north-eastern Italy.
Ancient Illyria lay in what is now Albania, and this classical Illyria is nowhere near the Kingdom created in 1816 to face off the Hungarians.
Apparently they all thought they were descended from the (Albanian-area) Illyrians.
The fear in Croatia was that Hungarian linguistic influence would overwhelm them. Hungary was so touchy about the Duchies it banned the use of the word "Illyria". It in turn feared the Germanisation of its territory.
Croat Ljudevit Gaj convinced the administration's inhabitants to speak Štokavian instead of the Kajkavian we still have here in Štaerska. Štokavian became Serbo-Croat, getting it together somewhat.
As 1848 came around and Austria and Hungary unfriended each other, Hungary's official language of Latin had been replaced with...Hungarian.
Some Kajkavians asked politely if their half of the Slovenian-speaking lands could join the Štokavians and be in Illyria too. Slovenian intellectuals immediately had a big squabble about their language, specifically whether it existed, or, if it did exist, whether it was worth making a country to fit it. Nothing happened. Next year Illyria was broken up by the German-speaking people in charge, in Vienna.
So Hungarians didn't have to speak Latin or German. "Illyrians" didn't have to speak German already anyway. And fortunately things worked out so well, nobody was forced to speak Hungarian either.
Squashed in between all this, Slovenians tilled on regardless, speaking 49 subdialects in 8 groups. It took from the early 19th century until 1983 just to agree on how to classify them.
In 1947 the Yugoslav-Italian border was moved a few hundred yards, amusingly shifting the crypt of the unpopular Bourbon king and his refugee relatives over to Tito's communist sovereignty.
Slovenia left Yugoslavia in 1991 and the rest is history. And that's how come Charles X is in Slovenia.
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Note: some of the roads shown in the king's post-royal route to Nova Gorica didn't exist then, and the channel crossing couldn't be shown quite right as you can't sail from Cherbourg to Cowes on Bing Maps.
HOW FRENCH ECONOMIC MIGRANTS SNEAKED INTO OUR LANDS
OK, that nails it. Using Bing Maps you can plot the movements of the last Bourbon king of France Charles X, from the July Revolution of 1830, to his abdication, flight to England, Scotland, then to Czech places, then finally for the healthier climate to Nova Gorica, where he caught cholera and died, seventeen days after arriving.
But you cannot chart his royal retreat into the crevices of catholicism using Google Maps any more as it now has a limit of ten waypoints for driving directions. Just a couple more would have made it possible. We should question such unlikely decimal decisions.
When the ex-Charles-X arrived, Nova Gorica dwelt in the fabulous-sounding Kingdom of Illyria, which endured for a glorious 33 years as an Austrian-run successor to Napoleonic rule, and covered present western Slovenia, a bit of Austria, northern Croatia and north-eastern Italy.
Ancient Illyria lay in what is now Albania, and this classical Illyria is nowhere near the Kingdom created in 1816 to face off the Hungarians.
Apparently they all thought they were descended from the (Albanian-area) Illyrians.
The fear in Croatia was that Hungarian linguistic influence would overwhelm them. Hungary was so touchy about the Duchies it banned the use of the word "Illyria". It in turn feared the Germanisation of its territory.
Croat Ljudevit Gaj convinced the administration's inhabitants to speak Štokavian instead of the Kajkavian we still have here in Štaerska. Štokavian became Serbo-Croat, getting it together somewhat.
As 1848 came around and Austria and Hungary unfriended each other, Hungary's official language of Latin had been replaced with...Hungarian.
Some Kajkavians asked politely if their half of the Slovenian-speaking lands could join the Štokavians and be in Illyria too. Slovenian intellectuals immediately had a big squabble about their language, specifically whether it existed, or, if it did exist, whether it was worth making a country to fit it. Nothing happened. Next year Illyria was broken up by the German-speaking people in charge, in Vienna.
So Hungarians didn't have to speak Latin or German. "Illyrians" didn't have to speak German already anyway. And fortunately things worked out so well, nobody was forced to speak Hungarian either.
Squashed in between all this, Slovenians tilled on regardless, speaking 49 subdialects in 8 groups. It took from the early 19th century until 1983 just to agree on how to classify them.
In 1947 the Yugoslav-Italian border was moved a few hundred yards, amusingly shifting the crypt of the unpopular Bourbon king and his refugee relatives over to Tito's communist sovereignty.
Slovenia left Yugoslavia in 1991 and the rest is history. And that's how come Charles X is in Slovenia.
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Note: some of the roads shown in the king's post-royal route to Nova Gorica didn't exist then, and the channel crossing couldn't be shown quite right as you can't sail from Cherbourg to Cowes on Bing Maps.
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SLOVENSKE NOVICE ACCUSES BBC OF BORDERLINE MEDIA MANIPULATION AS BLOODLESS BORDER CROSSINGS BORE BBC BACKROOM BOYS
Poor BBC reporter Feargal Keane has been lambasted in the people's tabloid Slovenske Novice for portraying a Slovenian refugee transit centre in a rather grim light.
http://is.gd/Ee8DxU
Having apparently gone out of its way to position itself in the undergrowth, a somewhat melodramatic FK team has overdone it a bit with the fence shots. We are not even specifically told the crew was refused entry.
The victim is being "detained in Slovenia" - which is "a waystation on Europe's trail of failure" FK informs us, in his most minor key.
Refugees are being "pushed from border to border", Feargal moans drearily as the creepy-looking destination "Občasni prevoz" looms into view on British screens for the first time ever, in a bus window.
Seconds later her "imprisonment" and "release" quite naturally results in Noujain's successful arrival by train at her intended destination in Germany.
I can explain everything. The Beeb has two known representations of this part of the world.
One is the one you like: a scenic alpine trip.
The other is the camp at Srebrenica, a Bosnian town some 500km from Slovenia's border, where the BBC did a report during the war.
As this was a sad story with a happy ending the Beeb had to opt for the latter cliche on this occasion.
The unreportably boring truth is that Slovenia is being perfectly ok, certainly a lot more reasoned in its handling of the flow than some countries these travellers have recently visited.
Unluckily Slovenians cannot join in with the cream of their journalists, at Slovenske Novice, and slag Feargal off in its comments columns, and nor there can he defend his gloomy portrayal of our reception points as, in common with all articles on their website since the refugees began arriving, "Komentiranje članka v tem trenutku ni mogoče."
Ignoring the alleged victim of this horrifying treatment (by the BBC) the outraged SN vainly focusses instead on the primary issue being confronted thanks to the refugee crisis.
Which is Slovenia's image, of course.
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Writing 103 years ago, Dr Henrik Tuma advised readers of Planinski Vestnik that approaching Kanin from the Italian side is much more popular, while the choice of routes down to Bovec is so diverse that "it is almost incomprehensible, how Kanin is abandoned".
http://is.gd/0fKS2A
"Slovenian tourists on Kanin are so rare that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand," reported the 1912 No. 3 edition of the alpinist gazette (p44).
Plus ca change...
In April 2015 the municipality of Bovec was prepared to pledge a surety of 112,000 euros http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/04/bovec-creditors-of-atc-kanin-reject.html for its ski lift gondolas.
Which had crashed to earth, insists The Slovenia Times - contradicting the relatively unimportant opinion of the Slovenian Meteorological Society - due to a freak wind. Yeah, sorry about that.
Every day with the lifts out of action increases the losses. But the government couldn't just hand money to the company as that would be state aid ...which is bad.
It would've threatened cable car competitiveness. So that company is now bankrupt.
Now since trashing its famous ski-making company Elan with EU money, which the EU subsequently decided the company would have to repay as it counted as unfair state aid, the Slovenian government has become more cautious in its largesse.
And so in the case of Kanin, control of the business and the money has been handed to the local council instead.
The council will undoubtedly do its best, and we can certainly expect to see a mission with a forward-looking vision when the time comes to elect a working committee to formulate a strategic plan to give the green light for their ski lifts' ticketing system.
Probably you will just be able to buy one ticket to enter Bovec-Land covering all your food, drinks, betting stakes, accommodation, hosting, hostessing, and hoisting.
And the brave entrepreneurs will be paid back by the council eventually, somehow.
At any rate, the cable car system should be funded by the "linked businesses" - except they're going to be the council's now too - but also subsidised "as with uneconomic bus routes".
http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/razgovori-pri-koncu-smucisce-kanin-bi-lahko-v-naslednji-zimski-sezoni-ozivelo.html
By May the repairs needed to the unmaintained ski transport infrastructure were being estimated at 3m euros.
http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/05/bovec-third-auction-unlucky-for-hotel.html
By July when the council coughed up the fees for the receiver - and transfer of ATC Kanin's bits and pieces to public ownership via a "little-known law" - they had risen to 170,000 euros.
But this is small change, as it turns out, as the municipality of Bovec (pop. 1613) will now receive 5.7m euros for "tourism development" - starting with mending the ride.
This cannot now be illegal state aid for a company as it is only the state aiding itself, see?
Better still, being run by local government it doesn't matter if the economics make any sense, as bureaucracy can always create a value for itself. And soak up any spare money.
If it doesn't work out, it will be the fault of those responsible for this democratically-elected ski-travel and restaurant business: the voters.
With typical melancholy, even the good news is bad news. It turns out tourist income in Bovec only fell 13% during the ski-interregnum, bringing the whole question of the value of the cableway into perspective - alas too late to avert this swashbuckling local transport govbusiness adventure. Onward and upward!
Meanwhile gov.si has reached for its most gormless English student and put out this appropriately dated press release about this money, on 9/11.
http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/09/boveckanin-press-release-from-ministry.html
But wait, this gives me a fantastic idea!
This is a great model - first transferring non-performing assets into public ownership, then doling out the foreigners' money, then, presumably, selling said assets in perfect condition as a going concern to someone - while councillors and bureaucrats get in the way all over the place with their hands out. We definitely need more of this over here in my end of Slovenia.
Couldn't officials simply move Ptuj's unprofitable chicken factory air into the public sector? Ptuj air has not performed well in decades. Taking it into public ownership might qualify it for some grant.
Ptuj's council might get 5.7m euros for some equipment to put between it and Perutnina Ptuj to kiss off the Town Smell!
This will transform the place, giving their air a mountain-fresh, morale-boosting, tourism-friendly air flavour! And recover the untold millions in lost tourism, caused by the smell keeping visitors away.
For current flavours see www.ptuj.co.uk/rendering
Maybe, though, Ptuj's dismal atmospheric situation bears no semblance to that of a tiny council, remote from Ljub City, lumbered with an extraordinary one-trick-pony of a white elephant.
At first sight, skiing and breathing have nothing in common. Skiing is obviously more popular and important as this investment shows.
It is harder to see a way to turn a smell into cash than a cable car. On the map, Kanin is on the left, while Ptuj is on the right, and maybe that's all this ideological conflict is about.
If nobody bids for Perutnina Ptuj's air in three successive auctions, we can really, legally, have it transferred to the občina, who can fix it up, trouser the rest and then sell it back into a competitive air marketplace.
PP do seem to be bankrupt, as far as ideas go. Any bids then?
Writing 103 years ago, Dr Henrik Tuma advised readers of Planinski Vestnik that approaching Kanin from the Italian side is much more popular, while the choice of routes down to Bovec is so diverse that "it is almost incomprehensible, how Kanin is abandoned".
http://is.gd/0fKS2A
"Slovenian tourists on Kanin are so rare that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand," reported the 1912 No. 3 edition of the alpinist gazette (p44).
Plus ca change...
In April 2015 the municipality of Bovec was prepared to pledge a surety of 112,000 euros http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/04/bovec-creditors-of-atc-kanin-reject.html for its ski lift gondolas.
Which had crashed to earth, insists The Slovenia Times - contradicting the relatively unimportant opinion of the Slovenian Meteorological Society - due to a freak wind. Yeah, sorry about that.
Every day with the lifts out of action increases the losses. But the government couldn't just hand money to the company as that would be state aid ...which is bad.
It would've threatened cable car competitiveness. So that company is now bankrupt.
Now since trashing its famous ski-making company Elan with EU money, which the EU subsequently decided the company would have to repay as it counted as unfair state aid, the Slovenian government has become more cautious in its largesse.
And so in the case of Kanin, control of the business and the money has been handed to the local council instead.
The council will undoubtedly do its best, and we can certainly expect to see a mission with a forward-looking vision when the time comes to elect a working committee to formulate a strategic plan to give the green light for their ski lifts' ticketing system.
Probably you will just be able to buy one ticket to enter Bovec-Land covering all your food, drinks, betting stakes, accommodation, hosting, hostessing, and hoisting.
And the brave entrepreneurs will be paid back by the council eventually, somehow.
At any rate, the cable car system should be funded by the "linked businesses" - except they're going to be the council's now too - but also subsidised "as with uneconomic bus routes".
http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/razgovori-pri-koncu-smucisce-kanin-bi-lahko-v-naslednji-zimski-sezoni-ozivelo.html
By May the repairs needed to the unmaintained ski transport infrastructure were being estimated at 3m euros.
http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/05/bovec-third-auction-unlucky-for-hotel.html
By July when the council coughed up the fees for the receiver - and transfer of ATC Kanin's bits and pieces to public ownership via a "little-known law" - they had risen to 170,000 euros.
But this is small change, as it turns out, as the municipality of Bovec (pop. 1613) will now receive 5.7m euros for "tourism development" - starting with mending the ride.
This cannot now be illegal state aid for a company as it is only the state aiding itself, see?
Better still, being run by local government it doesn't matter if the economics make any sense, as bureaucracy can always create a value for itself. And soak up any spare money.
If it doesn't work out, it will be the fault of those responsible for this democratically-elected ski-travel and restaurant business: the voters.
With typical melancholy, even the good news is bad news. It turns out tourist income in Bovec only fell 13% during the ski-interregnum, bringing the whole question of the value of the cableway into perspective - alas too late to avert this swashbuckling local transport govbusiness adventure. Onward and upward!
Meanwhile gov.si has reached for its most gormless English student and put out this appropriately dated press release about this money, on 9/11.
http://lakesandmountainsuk.blogspot.si/2015/09/boveckanin-press-release-from-ministry.html
But wait, this gives me a fantastic idea!
This is a great model - first transferring non-performing assets into public ownership, then doling out the foreigners' money, then, presumably, selling said assets in perfect condition as a going concern to someone - while councillors and bureaucrats get in the way all over the place with their hands out. We definitely need more of this over here in my end of Slovenia.
Couldn't officials simply move Ptuj's unprofitable chicken factory air into the public sector? Ptuj air has not performed well in decades. Taking it into public ownership might qualify it for some grant.
Ptuj's council might get 5.7m euros for some equipment to put between it and Perutnina Ptuj to kiss off the Town Smell!
This will transform the place, giving their air a mountain-fresh, morale-boosting, tourism-friendly air flavour! And recover the untold millions in lost tourism, caused by the smell keeping visitors away.
For current flavours see www.ptuj.co.uk/rendering
Maybe, though, Ptuj's dismal atmospheric situation bears no semblance to that of a tiny council, remote from Ljub City, lumbered with an extraordinary one-trick-pony of a white elephant.
At first sight, skiing and breathing have nothing in common. Skiing is obviously more popular and important as this investment shows.
It is harder to see a way to turn a smell into cash than a cable car. On the map, Kanin is on the left, while Ptuj is on the right, and maybe that's all this ideological conflict is about.
If nobody bids for Perutnina Ptuj's air in three successive auctions, we can really, legally, have it transferred to the občina, who can fix it up, trouser the rest and then sell it back into a competitive air marketplace.
PP do seem to be bankrupt, as far as ideas go. Any bids then?
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Slovenia announces border controls.
If your Balkan refugeeography is - like most people's - a bit vague, Slovenia has borders with Hungary in the east, Croatia in the south, Italy in the west, and Austria in the north.
Slovenia has no border with Serbia. So with them we get on a bit better.
Slovenia announces border controls.
If your Balkan refugeeography is - like most people's - a bit vague, Slovenia has borders with Hungary in the east, Croatia in the south, Italy in the west, and Austria in the north.
Slovenia has no border with Serbia. So with them we get on a bit better.
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farewell parties
As another Slovenian political party bites the dust, this Youtube unknowingly summarises how the Slovenian politic churns away in its sorry entirety, namely through displacement of the incumbents by a never-ending succession of public shamings, a sort of Aunt Sally for schadenfreude-addicted baying mobs. Those catholics, eh.
For anyone interested, the latest party-that-split-from-another-party, that of previous PM Alenka Bratušek, has been deserted by its parliamentary leader, leaving it with just two members, too few to entitle it to parliamentary office services.
Faced with the horrifying prospect of a lack of bureaucrats and expense accounts, Alenka tried to split from herself, and join the Social Democrats.
But too many SD members said they would split themselves, if she was allowed to join, as she had been shamed for nominating herself for the post of EU Energy Commissioner.
Meanwhile two-time PM Janša will not be going back to jail for arms deal backhanders, as he is now innocent due to the statute of limitations. But the energy and cash expended campaigning for his release has sapped his SDS.
Janša has now popped up on Croatian TV for an interview with our neighbours' idea of Paxman - https://youtu.be/pQqj1QXdYmQ
JJ's appearance is calculated to appeal to Croatia's own penchant for Slovenia-shaming, due to the interminable maritime border and Ljubljanska Bank disputes. As a result his chances of becoming PM of Croatia are somewhat better than a third go here.
His motive, as usual, was to point the finger at former communists in Slovenia for framing him via an un-lustrated judiciary.
He accuses these eminences grises of inventing a procession of new parties, containing the same faces but with new names - he means the LDS, Positive Slovenia, and latterly Bratušek's - to give the electorate new hope every time a scandal tarnishes their good name.
What, does he think the punters are goldfish-brained, convinced by image over substance, lured to the polls by boring suits and bland promises? Played like fiddles and bounced around into making the same mistakes again and again by a bit of scandal and rebranding? Well...
With the now-defunct LDS it was special treatment in returning confiscated savage dogs to Ljub City's favourite post-op transsexual dildodogfucking doctor to the political shitterati, here he is: http://www.genspot.com/Handlers/LinkImage.ashx?linkId=20151
With the now presumably defunct PS of Ljubljana mayor Zoran Janković the shame centres on several hundred grand in backhanders for putting up a sports stadium shopping centre nobody wants to rent, while the firms that actually built it were driven into bankruptcy due to "lack of funds". As this is tied up with nepotism and is something to do with men running around in shorts it is the sort of shame that is regarded as heroic in Balkan circles.
All three have, at various convenient political moments, been raided by the cops. All three have continued as before.
All these pigs at the trough despise each other: the once-young-communist Janša is regarded by the left as a traitor and revisionist, while the supposedly centre-leftists have become gimps of the biggest parodies of post-soviet oligarchs in Europe.
http://diepresse.com/home/meinung/dejavu/717680/Slowenien_Wo-die-Vergangenheit-der-Zukunft-im-Wege-steht
Much of this relies on a tired and emotional Slovenian electorate to completely forget everything, every time a new party - be it any of the above, or the now defunct list of Gregor Virant, or the current ruling SMC - gets created and sweeps to power virtually overnight.
Between left and right, the shame has now evened out.
Keep up to date with the latest Slovenian political parties at www.nyjets.si/spp.htm
As another Slovenian political party bites the dust, this Youtube unknowingly summarises how the Slovenian politic churns away in its sorry entirety, namely through displacement of the incumbents by a never-ending succession of public shamings, a sort of Aunt Sally for schadenfreude-addicted baying mobs. Those catholics, eh.
For anyone interested, the latest party-that-split-from-another-party, that of previous PM Alenka Bratušek, has been deserted by its parliamentary leader, leaving it with just two members, too few to entitle it to parliamentary office services.
Faced with the horrifying prospect of a lack of bureaucrats and expense accounts, Alenka tried to split from herself, and join the Social Democrats.
But too many SD members said they would split themselves, if she was allowed to join, as she had been shamed for nominating herself for the post of EU Energy Commissioner.
Meanwhile two-time PM Janša will not be going back to jail for arms deal backhanders, as he is now innocent due to the statute of limitations. But the energy and cash expended campaigning for his release has sapped his SDS.
Janša has now popped up on Croatian TV for an interview with our neighbours' idea of Paxman - https://youtu.be/pQqj1QXdYmQ
JJ's appearance is calculated to appeal to Croatia's own penchant for Slovenia-shaming, due to the interminable maritime border and Ljubljanska Bank disputes. As a result his chances of becoming PM of Croatia are somewhat better than a third go here.
His motive, as usual, was to point the finger at former communists in Slovenia for framing him via an un-lustrated judiciary.
He accuses these eminences grises of inventing a procession of new parties, containing the same faces but with new names - he means the LDS, Positive Slovenia, and latterly Bratušek's - to give the electorate new hope every time a scandal tarnishes their good name.
What, does he think the punters are goldfish-brained, convinced by image over substance, lured to the polls by boring suits and bland promises? Played like fiddles and bounced around into making the same mistakes again and again by a bit of scandal and rebranding? Well...
With the now-defunct LDS it was special treatment in returning confiscated savage dogs to Ljub City's favourite post-op transsexual dildodogfucking doctor to the political shitterati, here he is: http://www.genspot.com/Handlers/LinkImage.ashx?linkId=20151
With the now presumably defunct PS of Ljubljana mayor Zoran Janković the shame centres on several hundred grand in backhanders for putting up a sports stadium shopping centre nobody wants to rent, while the firms that actually built it were driven into bankruptcy due to "lack of funds". As this is tied up with nepotism and is something to do with men running around in shorts it is the sort of shame that is regarded as heroic in Balkan circles.
All three have, at various convenient political moments, been raided by the cops. All three have continued as before.
All these pigs at the trough despise each other: the once-young-communist Janša is regarded by the left as a traitor and revisionist, while the supposedly centre-leftists have become gimps of the biggest parodies of post-soviet oligarchs in Europe.
http://diepresse.com/home/meinung/dejavu/717680/Slowenien_Wo-die-Vergangenheit-der-Zukunft-im-Wege-steht
Much of this relies on a tired and emotional Slovenian electorate to completely forget everything, every time a new party - be it any of the above, or the now defunct list of Gregor Virant, or the current ruling SMC - gets created and sweeps to power virtually overnight.
Between left and right, the shame has now evened out.
Keep up to date with the latest Slovenian political parties at www.nyjets.si/spp.htm
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stat wars
In January-March 2015 Hungary had 32,810 new asylum applicants, 22,830 of them from Kosovo. Apparently the mafia runs everything there and people want to get away from that. http://is.gd/jYP6Dq
Hungary logged 54 thousand illegal border crossers in the first five months of 2015. By the end of the year, this number could reach 120 thousand, in contrast to just below 40 thousand in 2014. http://is.gd/x8lmao ...Then there's the other 80% who don't get pulled.
Let the tunnelling begin. Or which way will you go now, to get around The Great Fence of Hungary? Towards Romania and the Ukraine?
Seems the poor little bottleneck of Slovenia doesn't even merit a label, on its incomprehensible neighbour Hungary's map, of migration away from international arms trade successes.
In January-March 2015 Hungary had 32,810 new asylum applicants, 22,830 of them from Kosovo. Apparently the mafia runs everything there and people want to get away from that. http://is.gd/jYP6Dq
Hungary logged 54 thousand illegal border crossers in the first five months of 2015. By the end of the year, this number could reach 120 thousand, in contrast to just below 40 thousand in 2014. http://is.gd/x8lmao ...Then there's the other 80% who don't get pulled.
Let the tunnelling begin. Or which way will you go now, to get around The Great Fence of Hungary? Towards Romania and the Ukraine?
Seems the poor little bottleneck of Slovenia doesn't even merit a label, on its incomprehensible neighbour Hungary's map, of migration away from international arms trade successes.
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PTUJ WEATHER - Wed 19 August
Perutnina Ptuj gravy rain, steadying later to a fine gristle drizzle.
As usual, every smell from the chicken factory is matched with a poem as part of our festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell and here it is...
AROMA THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD
O2 be entangled -
Flap smell away there,
Phew! Many chickens mangled -
Jeez, appalling manky air.
Shut your windows tight. Economic whiff.
Town must pay its toll, to da chicken massive.
Vile guff inches, wings up the street - enough!
Slove-kno-how?
Big city fable, bathed in sorrows,
Air-be-unstable, the rest just follows!
Park where it bottoms out, they cut the hedge
Leaving our smell free to splatter all over
Unstopped by the gym of Dejan Zavec
Past the dentist's; it heads on towards Hofer...
CO2's not what Ptuj needs to recapture:
Huh-couldn't-care-less factor!
And whoa, pluh-ease! Town Smell rough, somewhat shit:
Its owner's basking on a yacht off Split.
Flag flutters, caps off! Perutnina power
— Far tighter than his factory of ours!
based on Home Thoughts, From Abroad, by Robert "Microwave" Browning
http://poemsandprose.blog.co.uk/2006/04/13/o_to_be_in_england~724082/
Perutnina Ptuj gravy rain, steadying later to a fine gristle drizzle.
As usual, every smell from the chicken factory is matched with a poem as part of our festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell and here it is...
AROMA THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD
O2 be entangled -
Flap smell away there,
Phew! Many chickens mangled -
Jeez, appalling manky air.
Shut your windows tight. Economic whiff.
Town must pay its toll, to da chicken massive.
Vile guff inches, wings up the street - enough!
Slove-kno-how?
Big city fable, bathed in sorrows,
Air-be-unstable, the rest just follows!
Park where it bottoms out, they cut the hedge
Leaving our smell free to splatter all over
Unstopped by the gym of Dejan Zavec
Past the dentist's; it heads on towards Hofer...
CO2's not what Ptuj needs to recapture:
Huh-couldn't-care-less factor!
And whoa, pluh-ease! Town Smell rough, somewhat shit:
Its owner's basking on a yacht off Split.
Flag flutters, caps off! Perutnina power
— Far tighter than his factory of ours!
based on Home Thoughts, From Abroad, by Robert "Microwave" Browning
http://poemsandprose.blog.co.uk/2006/04/13/o_to_be_in_england~724082/
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warning! extremely graphic ethnographic infographic
Unfortunately my picture hasn't been validated by expat blog.
They don't accept photos on which people are recognisable or which would not respect privacy, logos, photos which are not owned by the sender, or photos with no apparent link with the selected country or life abroad.
I don't see any problem with ownership, or recognisable people. Privacy in the romantic-looking town of Ptuj is hardly an issue as it hasn't been invented here yet, and the connection with life is quite clear (unless you had a Slovenian sex education).
I guess this must be Ptuj's logo then. Thanks to expat blog.
Unfortunately my picture hasn't been validated by expat blog.
They don't accept photos on which people are recognisable or which would not respect privacy, logos, photos which are not owned by the sender, or photos with no apparent link with the selected country or life abroad.
I don't see any problem with ownership, or recognisable people. Privacy in the romantic-looking town of Ptuj is hardly an issue as it hasn't been invented here yet, and the connection with life is quite clear (unless you had a Slovenian sex education).
I guess this must be Ptuj's logo then. Thanks to expat blog.
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80s hair
BANANARAMA BUYS CURLING HALL
According to multi-billion-dollar software giant Google's translation of http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/prvi-bananar-kupuje-stozice-dela-za-zorana-jankovica the eighties trio Bananarama have acquired financially flopped shopping centre sports centre project Stožice, over in Ljub City.
Boringly the buyer turns out not to be the Decca pop proteges after all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyu4mKaHtag - but Slovenia's First Husband of Bananas, as they say around here.
When the shops turned out to be too expensive, it was suggested to turn the retail areas of the stadium complex over to additional sporty facilities.
Noting that an existing oversupply of sports centres damages their own financial survival, councillor Jazbinšek proposes that the unused retail space be used for more sports centres - and suggests the Highland pastime of curling as one of the best space user-uppers.
Due to the lack of demand for curling this won't upset any rival sports facilities but, vitally, still allows the creation of still more sports facilities.
BANANARAMA BUYS CURLING HALL
According to multi-billion-dollar software giant Google's translation of http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/prvi-bananar-kupuje-stozice-dela-za-zorana-jankovica the eighties trio Bananarama have acquired financially flopped shopping centre sports centre project Stožice, over in Ljub City.
Boringly the buyer turns out not to be the Decca pop proteges after all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyu4mKaHtag - but Slovenia's First Husband of Bananas, as they say around here.
When the shops turned out to be too expensive, it was suggested to turn the retail areas of the stadium complex over to additional sporty facilities.
Noting that an existing oversupply of sports centres damages their own financial survival, councillor Jazbinšek proposes that the unused retail space be used for more sports centres - and suggests the Highland pastime of curling as one of the best space user-uppers.
Due to the lack of demand for curling this won't upset any rival sports facilities but, vitally, still allows the creation of still more sports facilities.
"Za trgovine naj bo
čim manj prostora"
zurnal24.si
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vieilles valises diplomatiques
ELLE RECEVRA LA BOTTE? NE SOYEZ PAS CHAUSSURE...
Petite mama Noël
Triché? Karl, tu imbécile.
Récépissés pissé avait,
Doublait par elle grand calculait.
Folles dépenses, vente prend fin sam -
Peut-être ira au Vietnam.
Delors, plus élargissement pas...
Muppet Antoinette, bizarre.
As President of the Anna Lindh Foundation ga. Stabej "works to improve mutual respect between cultures" and rakes...sorry... takes "action across fields impacting on mutual perceptions among people of different cultures". In this I think we can say she has succeeded.
http://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/membership.php
And lo meanwhile, in their columns, the Slovenske Novic-ites whose culture she represents hurled down spears of fire, such as toncek, who says: Quite typical for a totally non-human sex.
And WDFW chips in with: Again, someone who does not distinguish foreign from our own. Bitch!
Presumably, a reminder of whom Slovenians are supposed to steal from:
ELLE RECEVRA LA BOTTE? NE SOYEZ PAS CHAUSSURE...
Petite mama Noël
Triché? Karl, tu imbécile.
Récépissés pissé avait,
Doublait par elle grand calculait.
Folles dépenses, vente prend fin sam -
Peut-être ira au Vietnam.
Delors, plus élargissement pas...
Muppet Antoinette, bizarre.
As President of the Anna Lindh Foundation ga. Stabej "works to improve mutual respect between cultures" and rakes...sorry... takes "action across fields impacting on mutual perceptions among people of different cultures". In this I think we can say she has succeeded.
http://www.alda-europe.eu/newSite/membership.php
And lo meanwhile, in their columns, the Slovenske Novic-ites whose culture she represents hurled down spears of fire, such as toncek, who says: Quite typical for a totally non-human sex.
And WDFW chips in with: Again, someone who does not distinguish foreign from our own. Bitch!
Presumably, a reminder of whom Slovenians are supposed to steal from:
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consulting
TOWN BIN MONEY SHOCK:
X-MAYOR ČELAN'S SECRET OVERSIZED PLAYGROUND DISCOVERED
Just kidding. In fact while X-Mayor was Mayor4eva, gov.si was ripping off his regional centre by not calling it a regional centre, keeping all the loot in Ljub City and leaving the region, its centre, and its rubbish to rot.
Vital services were so affected that some of our strippers even had to buy their own accordions, without the support of EU Cohesion Funding.
Meanwhile ZRS Bistra were busy at Cero Gajke researching the perfect combination of garden waste and shitesludge, also known to police investigators as thermophilic solid state anaerobic digestion of OFMSW in sequential batch reactors, which is the technical term for three wheelie bins.
A fairly illiterate outline of the commercially secret findings about the 17 muncipalities' compost plans - which sadly did not enjoy the benefits of my English scientific proofreading skills www.a2z.si/a - was published by an associate in 2011, operating out of the logical choice of base for this kind of work: Mauritius.
http://www.codwap.hs-bremen.de/02%20Material/session_day%203/14.%20Belsak.pdf
A couple of months ago Cero Gajke finally obtained its licence from the Environment Ministry. This took eight or nine years. Most of the complications seem to have nothing to do with rubbish. Not that kind, anyway.
TOWN BIN MONEY SHOCK:
X-MAYOR ČELAN'S SECRET OVERSIZED PLAYGROUND DISCOVERED
Just kidding. In fact while X-Mayor was Mayor4eva, gov.si was ripping off his regional centre by not calling it a regional centre, keeping all the loot in Ljub City and leaving the region, its centre, and its rubbish to rot.
Vital services were so affected that some of our strippers even had to buy their own accordions, without the support of EU Cohesion Funding.
Meanwhile ZRS Bistra were busy at Cero Gajke researching the perfect combination of garden waste and shitesludge, also known to police investigators as thermophilic solid state anaerobic digestion of OFMSW in sequential batch reactors, which is the technical term for three wheelie bins.
A fairly illiterate outline of the commercially secret findings about the 17 muncipalities' compost plans - which sadly did not enjoy the benefits of my English scientific proofreading skills www.a2z.si/a - was published by an associate in 2011, operating out of the logical choice of base for this kind of work: Mauritius.
http://www.codwap.hs-bremen.de/02%20Material/session_day%203/14.%20Belsak.pdf
A couple of months ago Cero Gajke finally obtained its licence from the Environment Ministry. This took eight or nine years. Most of the complications seem to have nothing to do with rubbish. Not that kind, anyway.
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recycling
PTUJ WEATHER FORECAST: YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE
v hot z drobovine...
unbearable humidi-meaty-air-illogical conditions...
grim greasy cock coating caking Winnebago windows.
Stillness turning later to motionlessness...
static stratified aldehyde...
with a chance of rooster-stones.
Meanwhile something's afoot at the recycling centre. X-Mayor has received a visit after a complaint from a Swiss company. 17 councils round Ptuj chipped in for a thingumyjig - but I'm afraid the rest of the news emerges from my lingo-gizmo in the form of too much garbage to separate.
Ptuj may even be bankrupt due to the cost of its mucknicipal crevices - happily there is already a tried and tested solution. The public is already very good with the plastics, glass and paper and so on.
This just leaves the smelly organic natural rubbish which we could also easily deliver by ourselves to the back of Eurospin, where it could be vaporised along with our popular airborne chicken remains and incorporated into the regular Town Smell.
It can only improve our municipal ming, as meat and veg obviously go together. And the garbage will literally disappear!*
*Not literally literally - that would contravene the law of the conservation of matter.
PTUJ WEATHER FORECAST: YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE
v hot z drobovine...
unbearable humidi-meaty-air-illogical conditions...
grim greasy cock coating caking Winnebago windows.
Stillness turning later to motionlessness...
static stratified aldehyde...
with a chance of rooster-stones.
Meanwhile something's afoot at the recycling centre. X-Mayor has received a visit after a complaint from a Swiss company. 17 councils round Ptuj chipped in for a thingumyjig - but I'm afraid the rest of the news emerges from my lingo-gizmo in the form of too much garbage to separate.
Ptuj may even be bankrupt due to the cost of its mucknicipal crevices - happily there is already a tried and tested solution. The public is already very good with the plastics, glass and paper and so on.
This just leaves the smelly organic natural rubbish which we could also easily deliver by ourselves to the back of Eurospin, where it could be vaporised along with our popular airborne chicken remains and incorporated into the regular Town Smell.
It can only improve our municipal ming, as meat and veg obviously go together. And the garbage will literally disappear!*
*Not literally literally - that would contravene the law of the conservation of matter.
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Ptuj, A.D. 2015
FIRST NON-BAD AUCTIONS EVER TAKE PLACE
Like people all over the world, Slovenians want the best for themselves, and they want it to cost virtually nothing.
Instead they have made everything more expensive in Slovenia than is normal in similar places.
But anyway, that's The Way Things Are. And so as not to upset them we must learn only very slowly how to create our own values.
Slovenian folk understand auctions somewhat differently to you or I, namely solely as destructive, publicly-feared weapons used by desk-murdering bureaucrats to evict families and sell their homes from under them for a fraction of the true value, over debts as small as 100 euros, accompanied by huge fees starting with a legally obligatory property valuation at 700 euros.
But Slovenians blaming auctions for this is like blaming the typewriter for Jeffrey Archer. You could probably build a religion around his novels if no other books existed. It's like that.
Confusingly too, there's a vague perception that auctions are some kind of a competition - but one in which physical exertion confers a limited advantage; nor are drinking and cheering your allegiances to some faction very helpful to the process.
We know Slovenians, until zombie paralytic and ready to slay their relatives or departing girlfriends, are very timid and shy and may not wish to bid, especially if they don't know what bidding is. Because hitherto auctions have been an entertainment reserved for a clique of legal twisters, vampires and spivs, and otherwise a peril to be avoided.
Auctions also bring with them the embarassing revelation, novel here, that two people can think differently about something's value - at practically the same time!
To prevent any complications which could be introduced into the valuation of items due to their quality, quantity, desirability or availability, competitors here normally agree to charge the same for things - the maximum possible - to avoid a big fight.
So this auction that, inaccurately, reminds Slovenians of the threat constantly posed by their own bloodsucking system, has been oddly scheduled, at six in the evening on a Saturday night, when all good men and true are recovering from watching sport, and poised to find oblivion from their daily reality in strong drink, instead of changing it.
So hopefully those who come will not have to go red in the face bidding against anyone. That way they are sure to pick up something cheap. If anyone brings anything.
For that, of course, those people would have to have some new kind of idea, explaining why they would wish to sell their things. And how that could possibly be allowed.
FIRST NON-BAD AUCTIONS EVER TAKE PLACE
Like people all over the world, Slovenians want the best for themselves, and they want it to cost virtually nothing.
Instead they have made everything more expensive in Slovenia than is normal in similar places.
But anyway, that's The Way Things Are. And so as not to upset them we must learn only very slowly how to create our own values.
Slovenian folk understand auctions somewhat differently to you or I, namely solely as destructive, publicly-feared weapons used by desk-murdering bureaucrats to evict families and sell their homes from under them for a fraction of the true value, over debts as small as 100 euros, accompanied by huge fees starting with a legally obligatory property valuation at 700 euros.
But Slovenians blaming auctions for this is like blaming the typewriter for Jeffrey Archer. You could probably build a religion around his novels if no other books existed. It's like that.
Confusingly too, there's a vague perception that auctions are some kind of a competition - but one in which physical exertion confers a limited advantage; nor are drinking and cheering your allegiances to some faction very helpful to the process.
We know Slovenians, until zombie paralytic and ready to slay their relatives or departing girlfriends, are very timid and shy and may not wish to bid, especially if they don't know what bidding is. Because hitherto auctions have been an entertainment reserved for a clique of legal twisters, vampires and spivs, and otherwise a peril to be avoided.
Auctions also bring with them the embarassing revelation, novel here, that two people can think differently about something's value - at practically the same time!
To prevent any complications which could be introduced into the valuation of items due to their quality, quantity, desirability or availability, competitors here normally agree to charge the same for things - the maximum possible - to avoid a big fight.
So this auction that, inaccurately, reminds Slovenians of the threat constantly posed by their own bloodsucking system, has been oddly scheduled, at six in the evening on a Saturday night, when all good men and true are recovering from watching sport, and poised to find oblivion from their daily reality in strong drink, instead of changing it.
So hopefully those who come will not have to go red in the face bidding against anyone. That way they are sure to pick up something cheap. If anyone brings anything.
For that, of course, those people would have to have some new kind of idea, explaining why they would wish to sell their things. And how that could possibly be allowed.
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wine
TOUGH TIMES FOR TOURIST FARMING
Haloze winegrowers face almost impossible conditions scratching around trying to eke out a living with a perennial shortage of tourists.
It's unclear who is responsible when there are not enough tourists...while enough tourists to support local viticulture would be too many for the infrastructure to support especially as they don't speak Slovene.
Non-tourists worry that adequate numbers of tourists could swamp the culture of Slovenia which was the whole reason for setting it up in the first place.
Nobody wants to see fist-fights over foreigners, due to either their scarcity or overwhelming numbers. So the EU has stepped in with some free money with which associations have prepared themselves in case anything happens, and here is a video of their grateful testimonials.
From a series "what [sic] enables rural stakeholders and broader public to get to know the LEADER approach in Slovenia and the role the local action groups (LAG) have in implementing various LEADER projects" produced by Radio-Television of Slovenia in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, Slovenian National Rural Network, and cofinanced by The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas.
It has had 177 views.
TOUGH TIMES FOR TOURIST FARMING
Haloze winegrowers face almost impossible conditions scratching around trying to eke out a living with a perennial shortage of tourists.
It's unclear who is responsible when there are not enough tourists...while enough tourists to support local viticulture would be too many for the infrastructure to support especially as they don't speak Slovene.
Non-tourists worry that adequate numbers of tourists could swamp the culture of Slovenia which was the whole reason for setting it up in the first place.
Nobody wants to see fist-fights over foreigners, due to either their scarcity or overwhelming numbers. So the EU has stepped in with some free money with which associations have prepared themselves in case anything happens, and here is a video of their grateful testimonials.
From a series "what [sic] enables rural stakeholders and broader public to get to know the LEADER approach in Slovenia and the role the local action groups (LAG) have in implementing various LEADER projects" produced by Radio-Television of Slovenia in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, Slovenian National Rural Network, and cofinanced by The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas.
It has had 177 views.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD KAO TO DIE: LOCAL LOOPERICK
Guv's engaged...Jittery, S-SH-shudders:
When it comes to comms, sale is his brothers'.
Every packet reflecting,
'Eck, who's Mufti's perplexing.
Each hopes kao loss blamed on de udders.
Note: kao = " "
Guv's engaged...Jittery, S-SH-shudders:
When it comes to comms, sale is his brothers'.
Every packet reflecting,
'Eck, who's Mufti's perplexing.
Each hopes kao loss blamed on de udders.
Note: kao = " "
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 6:
LEFT-RIGHT VISION
PTUJ 17.11.2012 12.39 - Waitresses and checkout ladies watch as a foreign minister and a mayor and some other men prepare to reveal why (then German-speaking) Marburg didn't remain in Austria after WW1, and became the Slovenian-sprachen Maribor of today.
In the spiky-helmeted days of 1918 soldier-poet General Rudolf Maister found himself a career soldier working for the enemy, and they were losing.
He and 4200 or so like-minded folk sort of went off, and assumed control of the Styrian/Štaerskan capital amid the collapse of Austro-Hungarian institutions. Four fifths of its population spoke German, his guys and the surrounding rural territory almost entirely Slovenisch.
Things were a bit edgy for the minority takeover forces in the city, and there was a bit of crowd-shooting, of disputed origin. Those that could, or should, had departed to Austria by the end of the year. By the beginning of WW2 the German-speaking population was roughly 25%.
Maister went on to less successful things, trying to Slovenify up in Carinthia. The Entente had other ideas, while not only the Deutschlautsprechern but also the Slovenisch-govorcev there weren't having any of it either, and made this plain when its population as well as women got to decide in a vote. Maister and his fighters went back to their own Kingdom.
Here, also, a few wimmins was asking to do some voting. But no-one paid any attention to them as they were women and didn't have the right to decide on anything. If you want Ikea, you still have to go to Graz even now - 97 years later!
The laydeez had nothing to do with electing any of the 39 governments which followed during the next 23 years. Ideological opposition to ladyvoting was exported by Slovenian liberal thinkers to Croatia and Serbia.
It was viewed as a backdoor to conservative control by the Catholic Church. Nowadays, and despite all their efforts, it still is.
Universal suffrage didn't arrive in Maister's stomping ground until the communists took over. But suspicions of the enemy's conservatism persisted for decades.
Despite quotas and independence, a girl's place remained chained to the štedilnik, and until 2011 Slovenia had the lowest percentage of women MPs in the EU.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Rj1c12nMbxZ
LEFT-RIGHT VISION
PTUJ 17.11.2012 12.39 - Waitresses and checkout ladies watch as a foreign minister and a mayor and some other men prepare to reveal why (then German-speaking) Marburg didn't remain in Austria after WW1, and became the Slovenian-sprachen Maribor of today.
In the spiky-helmeted days of 1918 soldier-poet General Rudolf Maister found himself a career soldier working for the enemy, and they were losing.
He and 4200 or so like-minded folk sort of went off, and assumed control of the Styrian/Štaerskan capital amid the collapse of Austro-Hungarian institutions. Four fifths of its population spoke German, his guys and the surrounding rural territory almost entirely Slovenisch.
Things were a bit edgy for the minority takeover forces in the city, and there was a bit of crowd-shooting, of disputed origin. Those that could, or should, had departed to Austria by the end of the year. By the beginning of WW2 the German-speaking population was roughly 25%.
Maister went on to less successful things, trying to Slovenify up in Carinthia. The Entente had other ideas, while not only the Deutschlautsprechern but also the Slovenisch-govorcev there weren't having any of it either, and made this plain when its population as well as women got to decide in a vote. Maister and his fighters went back to their own Kingdom.
Here, also, a few wimmins was asking to do some voting. But no-one paid any attention to them as they were women and didn't have the right to decide on anything. If you want Ikea, you still have to go to Graz even now - 97 years later!
The laydeez had nothing to do with electing any of the 39 governments which followed during the next 23 years. Ideological opposition to ladyvoting was exported by Slovenian liberal thinkers to Croatia and Serbia.
It was viewed as a backdoor to conservative control by the Catholic Church. Nowadays, and despite all their efforts, it still is.
Universal suffrage didn't arrive in Maister's stomping ground until the communists took over. But suspicions of the enemy's conservatism persisted for decades.
Despite quotas and independence, a girl's place remained chained to the štedilnik, and until 2011 Slovenia had the lowest percentage of women MPs in the EU.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Rj1c12nMbxZ
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BIG BAD BANK NOW COUNTRY'S BIGGEST BAD HOTELIER
Handbags are flying as hotel owners Sava are outraged at the bad bank seizing 99% of its shares, while it was still supposedly undergoing preventive restructuring.
"Pillaging of the shares was carried out in contravention of the provisions of credit agreements and contracts of insurance...contrary to the law, which defines the procedure for preventive restructuring, and because court proceedings were ongoing, the plundering of the shares was not legally permissible," says Sava, whose concerns the government listened to carefully before telling it to eff off.
DUTB is lumping together hotels from ten indebted companies, giving its SPV vehicle 30% of Slovenia's capacity, and says it will have to do better than the present owners. Perhaps some help with the cooking?
Handbags are flying as hotel owners Sava are outraged at the bad bank seizing 99% of its shares, while it was still supposedly undergoing preventive restructuring.
"Pillaging of the shares was carried out in contravention of the provisions of credit agreements and contracts of insurance...contrary to the law, which defines the procedure for preventive restructuring, and because court proceedings were ongoing, the plundering of the shares was not legally permissible," says Sava, whose concerns the government listened to carefully before telling it to eff off.
DUTB is lumping together hotels from ten indebted companies, giving its SPV vehicle 30% of Slovenia's capacity, and says it will have to do better than the present owners. Perhaps some help with the cooking?
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SECOND GREAT PEACE OF MIRO I BEGINS
SLOVENIA TIMES CULTURAL LOVE MISSION CONTINUES
There was a dark cloud floating on the sea horizon. And lo, the Sages consulted the Magic Onion, asking, surely not many refugees could be stuffed into tiny Slovenia?
And Emperor Miro was forced to make a cautious proclamation, floating the shockingly high number of 15.
This provoked outrage amid the Slovenske-Novic-ites. And there was consternation in those columns...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
And it came to pass that the EU-ites decided the number will be 495. And as the news sunk in, a commenter did comment among the columns of The Slovenia Times, yea! for it was he whose comments in the first 14 days of the reign of Miro I had led to The Great Peace of Aashaddap.
And in those times, in the process of stopping his uncontrolled commenteering, most of the national poetry of Slo-ven-i-a was consigned to the Pit of Provocative Pixels.
And it did not stop there, because they couldn't find a way of stopping the funny ones but leaving the many fantastic offers of loans and relationship-assistive witchcraft spells, that form the majority of the ST's comments.
Thereforeuntofore ALL comments of all the peoples of Slo-ven-i-a and from the Outlands, also ceasedethed, and in fact only resumed six weeks ago.
And lo, it was done differently, so that comments became impermanent. And yea, any English-speaking comment on the land of Slovenia followed by five more comments on the land of Slovenia did vanish into the blackness of used-up cyberspace at The Slovenia Times.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2th86fAt8jE
And those among the people who were Charlie did wonder what all the fuss was about, and what exactly The Slovenia Times had achieved with its Orwellian tactics?
Whereas those who went among the sages of chicken were indeed wrathful and said, Behold what trouble just this one immigrant has caused with his announcements about the Insurance of the Elf, about Ptuj's bitchin' gossip and - as he dwelt amid the fat-tanks of Ptuj - about the Inane Aromas of The Ages - www.ptuj.co.uk which is still for sale by the way.
And this foreigner's not even black, they muttered, a bit confused that he was not on their SIDE. For he could understand why the refugees didn't want to hang around and get blown up by superpower arms salesmen, and thought the peoples of Gadaffiduck and the Bashar Street Kids were human too, if sometimes a bit underinformed about metaphysical developments in recent centuries, not unlike the Slo-ven-i-ites themselves.
So anyway this time the commenter, Mohammed Hamsandwich, did comment here
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/eu-proposes-slovenia-take-in-495-refugees-from-greece-and-italy#komentarji
as follows:
LOSS OF NATIONAL IDENTI-KU
Though Slovenia was feeling delighted
After forty-five years Yugo-nited
When at last they broke free
They grew melancholy
By self-government they feel benighted.
I'm sure once the locals see how the Arabs treat their bitches they will be welcomed and fit right in.
Slovenia did subscribe to the blowing up of these countries, in the hope of making a buck or two.
Perhaps if it hadn't, it could make some kind of case for reserving its part of the planet for people not affected by the outcomes of supplying religious people with guns, chemicals, and high explosives.
Sadly it was so desperate to get its own place Slovenia didn't read the EU's tenancy agreement.
And below this Mohammed Hamsandwich did reference the following foreign policy background.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GhHsDWegMsc
And once more there was consternation in sensitive, feely Slo-ven-i-a, and verily even as the comment crept through the PR servers of Slo-ven-i-a overnight his tablets were dispensed with and his comment did totally vanishethed from the PR archives of The Slovenia Times.
And 'twas as if the comment had never been. And yo, just as in times past, from this day forth, nor could be made any comment.
For all scribes were expunged equally due to the catastrophic comment of Hamsandwich.
And nor was it because of strings therein, or his name, or even blocked unto just his own IP. A few suggestions for the ST's supporters of village racism there.
And yea, all was peaceful once more in those columns and in the Kingdom of Miro, for the man on the Ptuj omnibus could speaketh not.
Thus began The Second Great Silence Of Miro I.
At least you could say Slovenia is a country where a single voice can still have an impact.
SLOVENIA TIMES CULTURAL LOVE MISSION CONTINUES
There was a dark cloud floating on the sea horizon. And lo, the Sages consulted the Magic Onion, asking, surely not many refugees could be stuffed into tiny Slovenia?
And Emperor Miro was forced to make a cautious proclamation, floating the shockingly high number of 15.
This provoked outrage amid the Slovenske-Novic-ites. And there was consternation in those columns...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
And it came to pass that the EU-ites decided the number will be 495. And as the news sunk in, a commenter did comment among the columns of The Slovenia Times, yea! for it was he whose comments in the first 14 days of the reign of Miro I had led to The Great Peace of Aashaddap.
And in those times, in the process of stopping his uncontrolled commenteering, most of the national poetry of Slo-ven-i-a was consigned to the Pit of Provocative Pixels.
And it did not stop there, because they couldn't find a way of stopping the funny ones but leaving the many fantastic offers of loans and relationship-assistive witchcraft spells, that form the majority of the ST's comments.
Thereforeuntofore ALL comments of all the peoples of Slo-ven-i-a and from the Outlands, also ceasedethed, and in fact only resumed six weeks ago.
And lo, it was done differently, so that comments became impermanent. And yea, any English-speaking comment on the land of Slovenia followed by five more comments on the land of Slovenia did vanish into the blackness of used-up cyberspace at The Slovenia Times.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2th86fAt8jE
And those among the people who were Charlie did wonder what all the fuss was about, and what exactly The Slovenia Times had achieved with its Orwellian tactics?
Whereas those who went among the sages of chicken were indeed wrathful and said, Behold what trouble just this one immigrant has caused with his announcements about the Insurance of the Elf, about Ptuj's bitchin' gossip and - as he dwelt amid the fat-tanks of Ptuj - about the Inane Aromas of The Ages - www.ptuj.co.uk which is still for sale by the way.
And this foreigner's not even black, they muttered, a bit confused that he was not on their SIDE. For he could understand why the refugees didn't want to hang around and get blown up by superpower arms salesmen, and thought the peoples of Gadaffiduck and the Bashar Street Kids were human too, if sometimes a bit underinformed about metaphysical developments in recent centuries, not unlike the Slo-ven-i-ites themselves.
So anyway this time the commenter, Mohammed Hamsandwich, did comment here
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/eu-proposes-slovenia-take-in-495-refugees-from-greece-and-italy#komentarji
as follows:
LOSS OF NATIONAL IDENTI-KU
Though Slovenia was feeling delighted
After forty-five years Yugo-nited
When at last they broke free
They grew melancholy
By self-government they feel benighted.
I'm sure once the locals see how the Arabs treat their bitches they will be welcomed and fit right in.
Slovenia did subscribe to the blowing up of these countries, in the hope of making a buck or two.
Perhaps if it hadn't, it could make some kind of case for reserving its part of the planet for people not affected by the outcomes of supplying religious people with guns, chemicals, and high explosives.
Sadly it was so desperate to get its own place Slovenia didn't read the EU's tenancy agreement.
And below this Mohammed Hamsandwich did reference the following foreign policy background.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GhHsDWegMsc
And once more there was consternation in sensitive, feely Slo-ven-i-a, and verily even as the comment crept through the PR servers of Slo-ven-i-a overnight his tablets were dispensed with and his comment did totally vanishethed from the PR archives of The Slovenia Times.
And 'twas as if the comment had never been. And yo, just as in times past, from this day forth, nor could be made any comment.
For all scribes were expunged equally due to the catastrophic comment of Hamsandwich.
And nor was it because of strings therein, or his name, or even blocked unto just his own IP. A few suggestions for the ST's supporters of village racism there.
And yea, all was peaceful once more in those columns and in the Kingdom of Miro, for the man on the Ptuj omnibus could speaketh not.
Thus began The Second Great Silence Of Miro I.
At least you could say Slovenia is a country where a single voice can still have an impact.
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POLI-TITS UPDATE --
WOMAN NOT SMARTER AFTER ALL SHOCK!
As mayfly education minister Klavdija Markež is stripped of her Master's degree for plagiarism, someone wants us to absorb the gossip that Ptuj's favourite school girl left her husband and two teenage children "to go and live in Ljubljana with some politicians".
http://www.publishwall.si/pozareport/post/121852/nove-skrivnosti-solske-ministrice-zapustila-moza-v-ljubljani-pa-zivi-s-politikom
Exactly how many in a bed is a statistic best left for cartoonists to conjure. Ugly rumours are a Ptuj speciality anyway www.maria.si but the ed-ex's ex and the ex-director of our university herself are keeping tight lipped about these viscous mudslinging stories as though it wasn't any business of ours what our municipal celebrities get up to in a hotel room with a baby octopus.
This rumour neither confirms nor refutes the suspicion that local politics has long festered around some kind of mirthless money-crazed new age swinger commune scene, here in the otherwise sexually somewhat less-than-liberated factory-farmlands.
Forget those other kind of exams. Just smear some mechanically recovered chicken sausage on your baps, dab on a few drops of Eau de Ptuj, run away a bit but not too much - and the job could be yours!
http://www.ptuj.co.uk/eau.htm
WOMAN NOT SMARTER AFTER ALL SHOCK!
As mayfly education minister Klavdija Markež is stripped of her Master's degree for plagiarism, someone wants us to absorb the gossip that Ptuj's favourite school girl left her husband and two teenage children "to go and live in Ljubljana with some politicians".
http://www.publishwall.si/pozareport/post/121852/nove-skrivnosti-solske-ministrice-zapustila-moza-v-ljubljani-pa-zivi-s-politikom
Exactly how many in a bed is a statistic best left for cartoonists to conjure. Ugly rumours are a Ptuj speciality anyway www.maria.si but the ed-ex's ex and the ex-director of our university herself are keeping tight lipped about these viscous mudslinging stories as though it wasn't any business of ours what our municipal celebrities get up to in a hotel room with a baby octopus.
This rumour neither confirms nor refutes the suspicion that local politics has long festered around some kind of mirthless money-crazed new age swinger commune scene, here in the otherwise sexually somewhat less-than-liberated factory-farmlands.
Forget those other kind of exams. Just smear some mechanically recovered chicken sausage on your baps, dab on a few drops of Eau de Ptuj, run away a bit but not too much - and the job could be yours!
http://www.ptuj.co.uk/eau.htm
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 3:
TELEFUNKEN U47
Shit-hot proper sing-ging of what turns out to be a quality, non-tinkling item which has skilfully wandered around the Tame Frontier.
We're somewhere in West Germany in 1970...and though it's early days for Hawkwind, I think we can hear a bit of them in Der Sommerwind...
While the Tame Frontier is part geospatial, part temporal, part experiential, and totally mental, at this particular space~time coordinate tameness was being held at bay by quality microphones - and meticulous care. Just look at the presence here. But as soon as you left the autobahn dense mats of tameness would envelop you from every direction.
With Do Long bridge by the Schtripper Orkester.
Elsewhere on the Tame Frontier...
www.television.si
TELEFUNKEN U47
Shit-hot proper sing-ging of what turns out to be a quality, non-tinkling item which has skilfully wandered around the Tame Frontier.
We're somewhere in West Germany in 1970...and though it's early days for Hawkwind, I think we can hear a bit of them in Der Sommerwind...
While the Tame Frontier is part geospatial, part temporal, part experiential, and totally mental, at this particular space~time coordinate tameness was being held at bay by quality microphones - and meticulous care. Just look at the presence here. But as soon as you left the autobahn dense mats of tameness would envelop you from every direction.
With Do Long bridge by the Schtripper Orkester.
Elsewhere on the Tame Frontier...
www.television.si
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SLO-BANG-A-BOOM TINKLING EXPENSESGANZA...
MUSICOCKTAIL SAUSAGE PARTY FOR RTV GREYTERATI
Like a non-cute pre-menstrual Esther Ofarim with the singing voice of Dudley Moore http://is.gd/JoCQ6U, apricot-flavoured Maraaya indicate their presence for us while the obligatory wind machine fails to produce the hoped-for shampoo advert effect, in Slovenia's bid for supreme mediocrity in the important competitive area of Euro-averageness.
Add a totally Tangoed contemporary prancer with one foot nailed to the stage, and Paul Young's mullet from the 80s on tinkling for bad measure, and this is Poli-buro pop play-doh extruded by a central cultural committee.
Not super bad, but why would anyone do this? Especially so many times. So over-rehearsed that you can guess she's kinda sick of the whole thing from the first bar, despite the frantic attempts to give this traditionally uncontroversial Eurovision message the nod.
Just weird.
MUSICOCKTAIL SAUSAGE PARTY FOR RTV GREYTERATI
Like a non-cute pre-menstrual Esther Ofarim with the singing voice of Dudley Moore http://is.gd/JoCQ6U, apricot-flavoured Maraaya indicate their presence for us while the obligatory wind machine fails to produce the hoped-for shampoo advert effect, in Slovenia's bid for supreme mediocrity in the important competitive area of Euro-averageness.
Add a totally Tangoed contemporary prancer with one foot nailed to the stage, and Paul Young's mullet from the 80s on tinkling for bad measure, and this is Poli-buro pop play-doh extruded by a central cultural committee.
Not super bad, but why would anyone do this? Especially so many times. So over-rehearsed that you can guess she's kinda sick of the whole thing from the first bar, despite the frantic attempts to give this traditionally uncontroversial Eurovision message the nod.
Just weird.
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from nposialpu's archive
PATENT REVIVED
Slovenia's saved! They appear
For once, to have done something first here:
With their royalty plan
Every train, truck and van
Will be charged by turns for our idea.
You were wondering, what was ever invented in Slovenia? The answer is - everything!
Suddenly the economics of archaeology make sense, as Slovenia discovers the ultimate in rentier-ism.
PATENT REVIVED
Slovenia's saved! They appear
For once, to have done something first here:
With their royalty plan
Every train, truck and van
Will be charged by turns for our idea.
You were wondering, what was ever invented in Slovenia? The answer is - everything!
Suddenly the economics of archaeology make sense, as Slovenia discovers the ultimate in rentier-ism.
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 2:
NOT TINKLING...
Post-Mr Bean item which does not feature in the Slovenian pantheon of the latest overseas comedy (Monty Python, Only Fools And Horses, Mr Bean).
The first tale...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/L84dMpGxBQZ
NOT TINKLING...
Post-Mr Bean item which does not feature in the Slovenian pantheon of the latest overseas comedy (Monty Python, Only Fools And Horses, Mr Bean).
The first tale...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/L84dMpGxBQZ
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FROM THE NPOSIALPU ARCHIVES:
EXTRAORDINARY NEPO-STATISTICS IN THE REIGN OF JANŠA II
Re-deleted along with all the Slovenia Times' other comments in the Second Great Hush of Miro I, so I'll just leave this one here...
FANTASTIC GASTATISTIC NEPO-ETRY
Two million Slovenes, of which one's
Janša's daughter, and one Tanko's son:
Pressurised spheres -
Plin, o vod vi got here?
Chance: two thirds of a million to one.
Well let me explain. There are 90 seats in National Assembly of which 26 belong to the SDS.
0.505143 Slovenians are women and 1.56 is the live birth rate in Slovenia (2011, SURS).
26 / 90 x 0.505143 x 1.56 must mean that there are 20.4886 children of SDS National Assembly members.
There were 169360 business entities in Slovenia (2011, SURS).
The chances of these offspring being employed by one business is 20.489 / 169360 = 0.000120976617855
The probability of TWO of the same type of offspring being employed by ANY single business is simply this number multiplied by itself.
...which is 0.000000014635342
or 0.0000015%
Have readers noticed any similar unusual coincidences?
Politicians may observe that my methodology has an uncomfortable relationship to real life. My calculation is about right in the same way that politicians' ideas are right about you. For more tips on anti-nepotistic poetry in Slovenia, pay a foreigner.
EXTRAORDINARY NEPO-STATISTICS IN THE REIGN OF JANŠA II
Re-deleted along with all the Slovenia Times' other comments in the Second Great Hush of Miro I, so I'll just leave this one here...
FANTASTIC GASTATISTIC NEPO-ETRY
Two million Slovenes, of which one's
Janša's daughter, and one Tanko's son:
Pressurised spheres -
Plin, o vod vi got here?
Chance: two thirds of a million to one.
Well let me explain. There are 90 seats in National Assembly of which 26 belong to the SDS.
0.505143 Slovenians are women and 1.56 is the live birth rate in Slovenia (2011, SURS).
26 / 90 x 0.505143 x 1.56 must mean that there are 20.4886 children of SDS National Assembly members.
There were 169360 business entities in Slovenia (2011, SURS).
The chances of these offspring being employed by one business is 20.489 / 169360 = 0.000120976617855
The probability of TWO of the same type of offspring being employed by ANY single business is simply this number multiplied by itself.
...which is 0.000000014635342
or 0.0000015%
Have readers noticed any similar unusual coincidences?
Politicians may observe that my methodology has an uncomfortable relationship to real life. My calculation is about right in the same way that politicians' ideas are right about you. For more tips on anti-nepotistic poetry in Slovenia, pay a foreigner.
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JOBCENTRE PLUS EXTRAS
Wanted: hands, to help ugly/retired -
Job unusual: where client gets fired.
Need to prove that you're looking?
If you're hooking we're booking -
(Junior school English required).
With this offer of employment shooting off to Jobcentres nationwide, Slovenia is now officially handling its own recovery.
M/Ž means this is an equal sexy opportunity. It is a 12-month position with a 3-month probationary period while you get your hand in.
Government statisticians have already afforded erotic massage a classification number and regular inspection visits have begun to aggregate data on median orgasm times and sperms per square metre of ceiling.
As in the UK, our economic detritus is obliged by civil service detritus to go applying for any job available, else it's no ker-ching.
This raises some interesting angles: what if wanking off wrinkly tourists, drunk boy racers, and government employees ends up being the only work available?
Morally speaking though, this work is best suited to foreigners, defending the reputations of our local peaches and protecting them from salty air. The prospect of diseased immigrants, with all the healthcare and insurance rights they face, coming over here and blowing out of all proportion, presents an economics conundrum containing enough heat to fuel a joint IDS/UKIP rocket to examine the ejecta blankets of Venus.
Anyway it'll be hard to find anyone local with enough experience. Fortunately, Ptuj has been spared its special embarrassment in Slovenske Novice's photo by use of the finger.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ACtGg784dfV
As ever, education is the key, and schools are preparing the way for Slovenia's future economy.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Db3Sj8oMHk8
Story:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/striptizeto-iscejo-kar-na-zavodu
Wanted: hands, to help ugly/retired -
Job unusual: where client gets fired.
Need to prove that you're looking?
If you're hooking we're booking -
(Junior school English required).
With this offer of employment shooting off to Jobcentres nationwide, Slovenia is now officially handling its own recovery.
M/Ž means this is an equal sexy opportunity. It is a 12-month position with a 3-month probationary period while you get your hand in.
Government statisticians have already afforded erotic massage a classification number and regular inspection visits have begun to aggregate data on median orgasm times and sperms per square metre of ceiling.
As in the UK, our economic detritus is obliged by civil service detritus to go applying for any job available, else it's no ker-ching.
This raises some interesting angles: what if wanking off wrinkly tourists, drunk boy racers, and government employees ends up being the only work available?
Morally speaking though, this work is best suited to foreigners, defending the reputations of our local peaches and protecting them from salty air. The prospect of diseased immigrants, with all the healthcare and insurance rights they face, coming over here and blowing out of all proportion, presents an economics conundrum containing enough heat to fuel a joint IDS/UKIP rocket to examine the ejecta blankets of Venus.
Anyway it'll be hard to find anyone local with enough experience. Fortunately, Ptuj has been spared its special embarrassment in Slovenske Novice's photo by use of the finger.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ACtGg784dfV
As ever, education is the key, and schools are preparing the way for Slovenia's future economy.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Db3Sj8oMHk8
Story:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/striptizeto-iscejo-kar-na-zavodu
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OHM I GOTT...The Slovenia Times has deleted all its readers' comments evvah! Including this historic item from this article...
RESISTANCE SET TO CONTINUE
The pre-inaugural meeting of the planned Društvo Lang Bang Fajn Imam met at NPOSIALPU headquarters in Ptuj yesterday evening.
Summarising events so far - all the non-Slovenians concurred on the core concept being an interesting phenomenon - that they made much faster progress and were much more comfortable speaking Slovenian when there were no Slovenians around.
The problems of low language self-esteem and the arrogant nationalistic cover story of those who imagine, contrary to all reality, that learning Slovene for foreigners is the mirror image of learning English for Slovenes received supporting evidence. A very drunk angry racist village boy in the pub was identified as the archetypal problem in emotive anti-educational pressures.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
Inputs from Quadri- and Quinti-lingual non-Slovenian speakers who were unable to attend the dinner were represented, while native speakers declared the situation somewhat tragicomic and themselves to varying degrees helpless in the absence of an agreed (method of imparting their) language.
Dinner was roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, sesame and onion rice, chick pea/pear/walnut/raisin/onion and pork stuffing with spicy gravy, followed by pear/pineapple/strawberry and ginger flan with no complaints except for one Slovenian who believes garlic is foreign and toxic to him. Among the lighter asides were a photo of a toilet roll display from Tuš which reads "Vikend BUM cena", and reminiscences of a Ljubljana prostitute.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/PmYa8TJaJTj
A fundamental schism between Slovenia and reality was generally accepted by all sides. Next action - form filling - is planned for midweek. Anyone interested in attending future meetings or hosting an informal dinner please contact the organisers on najskapati@gmail.com don't worry you're already reading those.
RESISTANCE SET TO CONTINUE
The pre-inaugural meeting of the planned Društvo Lang Bang Fajn Imam met at NPOSIALPU headquarters in Ptuj yesterday evening.
Summarising events so far - all the non-Slovenians concurred on the core concept being an interesting phenomenon - that they made much faster progress and were much more comfortable speaking Slovenian when there were no Slovenians around.
The problems of low language self-esteem and the arrogant nationalistic cover story of those who imagine, contrary to all reality, that learning Slovene for foreigners is the mirror image of learning English for Slovenes received supporting evidence. A very drunk angry racist village boy in the pub was identified as the archetypal problem in emotive anti-educational pressures.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
Inputs from Quadri- and Quinti-lingual non-Slovenian speakers who were unable to attend the dinner were represented, while native speakers declared the situation somewhat tragicomic and themselves to varying degrees helpless in the absence of an agreed (method of imparting their) language.
Dinner was roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, sesame and onion rice, chick pea/pear/walnut/raisin/onion and pork stuffing with spicy gravy, followed by pear/pineapple/strawberry and ginger flan with no complaints except for one Slovenian who believes garlic is foreign and toxic to him. Among the lighter asides were a photo of a toilet roll display from Tuš which reads "Vikend BUM cena", and reminiscences of a Ljubljana prostitute.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/PmYa8TJaJTj
A fundamental schism between Slovenia and reality was generally accepted by all sides. Next action - form filling - is planned for midweek. Anyone interested in attending future meetings or hosting an informal dinner please contact the organisers on najskapati@gmail.com don't worry you're already reading those.
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EDUCASHIN LATEST:
SMOOTH NEW GOVT. MARKETING APPROACH
CONTINUOUS TINKLING IS THE KEY
Following a disappointing run of disappearing Education Ministers - the last one copied her exams https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/eHEBacGJ5gs and the one before used her brains to make too much money https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/c6D4a2nKh9y - new nominee Maja Makovec Brenčič promises calmer waters.
The new Minister will be accompanied 24/7 by some of the most unobtrusive lounge jazz known to mankind.
To assist her in her educational duties, ga. Brenčič will be attended at all times by continuous tinkling.
Characterless, mostly-midrange speakers have been installed throughout the National Assembly building, while for her inaugural address an exceptionally bland chord progression has been specially supplied by the Otis Corporation.
In this milk-and-water land where vapid drivel holds sway, competition for insipidness is tame. Recent years have seen several musical upsets in Slovenian politics.
Gregor Virant's divisively vanilla rap sent his DL party into a tailspin...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/CFyw7E6SuDk
...while humdrum redski Partisan singalongs earned former PM Alenka The Legs few fashionable friends in what is now a free enterprise state for associates of the Slovenian government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBICe0nHy8
Vowing to act as a tonic to every part of the system, the marketing guru believes dispassionately that her thumb-twiddling musical backdrop can successfully deliver highly profitable morose staring at the ceiling to every classroom clockwatcher (see video).
Transforming the entire country into a hotel lobby will not be easy. It will be very easy - with the dissonance-free audio-loop equivalent of Valium addiction dripping into every school and sports facility, and round-the-clock muzak for beauty spots, hospitals, unemployment offices, police stations, courtrooms, and jails to follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5PvBzDlZGs
As a counter-revolutionary measure unusual keys, and edgy chords such as 7ths, will be forbidden on government property. To prevent offence all unsentimental lyrics and tunes over 60bpm will be banned.
Any teacher found attempting to explain in five minutes anything which could be stretched to 45 hours, or which everyone doesn't think is obvious already, will be struck off.
To guarantee the absence of boat- or any other kind of rocking, all playlists will have to be personally signed off by Miro The Muzak-Maker.
Commencing her bland-athon, ga. Brenčič struck up the mood-music with an astonishing disclosure: she thinks that knowledge is an extremely important value and it must be accessible to all as much as possible. "I think that this is something what [sic] we must believe in and strongly strive for," she ventured, according to that great organ of learning The Slovenia Times. http://is.gd/bLcZB4
SMOOTH NEW GOVT. MARKETING APPROACH
CONTINUOUS TINKLING IS THE KEY
Following a disappointing run of disappearing Education Ministers - the last one copied her exams https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/eHEBacGJ5gs and the one before used her brains to make too much money https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/c6D4a2nKh9y - new nominee Maja Makovec Brenčič promises calmer waters.
The new Minister will be accompanied 24/7 by some of the most unobtrusive lounge jazz known to mankind.
To assist her in her educational duties, ga. Brenčič will be attended at all times by continuous tinkling.
Characterless, mostly-midrange speakers have been installed throughout the National Assembly building, while for her inaugural address an exceptionally bland chord progression has been specially supplied by the Otis Corporation.
In this milk-and-water land where vapid drivel holds sway, competition for insipidness is tame. Recent years have seen several musical upsets in Slovenian politics.
Gregor Virant's divisively vanilla rap sent his DL party into a tailspin...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/CFyw7E6SuDk
...while humdrum redski Partisan singalongs earned former PM Alenka The Legs few fashionable friends in what is now a free enterprise state for associates of the Slovenian government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quBICe0nHy8
Vowing to act as a tonic to every part of the system, the marketing guru believes dispassionately that her thumb-twiddling musical backdrop can successfully deliver highly profitable morose staring at the ceiling to every classroom clockwatcher (see video).
Transforming the entire country into a hotel lobby will not be easy. It will be very easy - with the dissonance-free audio-loop equivalent of Valium addiction dripping into every school and sports facility, and round-the-clock muzak for beauty spots, hospitals, unemployment offices, police stations, courtrooms, and jails to follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5PvBzDlZGs
As a counter-revolutionary measure unusual keys, and edgy chords such as 7ths, will be forbidden on government property. To prevent offence all unsentimental lyrics and tunes over 60bpm will be banned.
Any teacher found attempting to explain in five minutes anything which could be stretched to 45 hours, or which everyone doesn't think is obvious already, will be struck off.
To guarantee the absence of boat- or any other kind of rocking, all playlists will have to be personally signed off by Miro The Muzak-Maker.
Commencing her bland-athon, ga. Brenčič struck up the mood-music with an astonishing disclosure: she thinks that knowledge is an extremely important value and it must be accessible to all as much as possible. "I think that this is something what [sic] we must believe in and strongly strive for," she ventured, according to that great organ of learning The Slovenia Times. http://is.gd/bLcZB4
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HII TAR KISS-MY-HEINEKU
But whoever takes
Over health insurance will
Be Only Fakin.
"Since 2006...Smoking has increased significantly only in Slovenia"
http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/eurobaro_attitudes_towards_tobacco_2012_en.pdf
Number of population per Al-Anon Group:
Slovenia: about 57000
UK + Ireland: about 85000
http://www.vecer.com/clanek2014092606061917
NPOSIALPU wonders if the head of the Ptuj ZZZS has learned how to copy and paste on a computer yet, and is STILL waiting for answers to the great Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire at www.aaa.si/q
But whoever takes
Over health insurance will
Be Only Fakin.
"Since 2006...Smoking has increased significantly only in Slovenia"
http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/eurobaro_attitudes_towards_tobacco_2012_en.pdf
Number of population per Al-Anon Group:
Slovenia: about 57000
UK + Ireland: about 85000
http://www.vecer.com/clanek2014092606061917
NPOSIALPU wonders if the head of the Ptuj ZZZS has learned how to copy and paste on a computer yet, and is STILL waiting for answers to the great Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire at www.aaa.si/q
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LAŠKO POSITIVE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE DAY
Fiat Punto vs. Alfa Romeo, 2 a.m. near Nova Gorica
Beer helps to keep economies like Slovenia's running and creates employment!
The gainers:
Beer personnel
Emergency service workers and equipment providers
Tow truck guys
Car manufacturers and auto repair shops
Doctors
Lawyers
Journalists
Economists
Priests
Funeral directors
Keep this up and the crisis will soon be over.
Fiat Punto vs. Alfa Romeo, 2 a.m. near Nova Gorica
Beer helps to keep economies like Slovenia's running and creates employment!
The gainers:
Beer personnel
Emergency service workers and equipment providers
Tow truck guys
Car manufacturers and auto repair shops
Doctors
Lawyers
Journalists
Economists
Priests
Funeral directors
Keep this up and the crisis will soon be over.
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HIGH NICKIN' COUP
Laško in pill form -
A Jewish conspiracy?
The future's E-brew.
National interest numero uno goes Dutch as Heineken buys 51% of Slovenian brewer Pivovarno Laško, where the story of alco-tycoonery has ended, say managers.
http://www.zurnal24.si/pivovarno-lasko-kupil-heineken-clanek-248463
Former Director Boško Šrot's missus is to receive €873,000 from the sale. She has at least the remainder of his five year eight month sentence to spend it, and possibly longer if he gets extra jail time for alco-tycoonery at Slovenian brewer Pivovarno Laško, where the story of alco-tycoonery has ended.
Laško in pill form -
A Jewish conspiracy?
The future's E-brew.
National interest numero uno goes Dutch as Heineken buys 51% of Slovenian brewer Pivovarno Laško, where the story of alco-tycoonery has ended, say managers.
http://www.zurnal24.si/pivovarno-lasko-kupil-heineken-clanek-248463
Former Director Boško Šrot's missus is to receive €873,000 from the sale. She has at least the remainder of his five year eight month sentence to spend it, and possibly longer if he gets extra jail time for alco-tycoonery at Slovenian brewer Pivovarno Laško, where the story of alco-tycoonery has ended.
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Oglaševanje posebej uglašen za Ptuj.
Prvi Slovenec, ki je videl bil zelo laskav o majcenih pisni obliki.
Je to bi vsekakor bilo zanimivo, da Slovenci, je dejal, preden zapustijo in pozabijo vse o tem.
www.a2z.si/board
Oglaševanje posebej uglašen za Ptuj.
Prvi Slovenec, ki je videl bil zelo laskav o majcenih pisni obliki.
Je to bi vsekakor bilo zanimivo, da Slovenci, je dejal, preden zapustijo in pozabijo vse o tem.
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A GORDIAN...NOT
Some English perhaps? But they blew me
Off, Ljudske univerze Ptuj.
Couldn't speak the lingo -
Which you can't learn there, though:
No speak English. Just Serb-o, or HU-ey.
The People's University of Ptuj seemed a bit worried by the idea of being flooded by a real English immigrant in town.
I couldn't get any money out of them. They were too busy starting a pub-grumble, about the English not even speaking Slovene.
Slovene lessons were available at PUP - for speakers of Hungarian, Bosnian, or Serbo-Croat, they said - but Slovene lessons were not available for the English...
"English - verified 90 hours - 470 euros"
- PUP prices 2014-2015
"The [Gordian] knot may have been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordian/Midas's priests and priestesses."
- Wikipedia
PUP's ex-Director went on to become Slovenia's champion downhill fastest-ever Slovenian in the ministerial ladies' resignation. Klavdija passed the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport resigning post in only three days, during which it was miraculously discovered that she had copied another pupil's essay.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/eHEBacGJ5gs
For her three day engagement she will receive six months' ex-ministerial pay, which will weigh against the extra she will have been overpaid if her degree is annulled. In Slovenia, proving your brains can be tough on your knees.
Failed secondary school? Don't fret. You can get a special Matura at these places, something involving economics.
The whole thing's only five grand and you don't have to worry about plagiarism or cheating as you don't have to do any classes or exams. It is an Alexandrian solution. Or perhaps more of a tincture.
Since PUP couldn't help me, I designed my own free Slovene lesson in English:
www.a2z.si/dear
Some English perhaps? But they blew me
Off, Ljudske univerze Ptuj.
Couldn't speak the lingo -
Which you can't learn there, though:
No speak English. Just Serb-o, or HU-ey.
The People's University of Ptuj seemed a bit worried by the idea of being flooded by a real English immigrant in town.
I couldn't get any money out of them. They were too busy starting a pub-grumble, about the English not even speaking Slovene.
Slovene lessons were available at PUP - for speakers of Hungarian, Bosnian, or Serbo-Croat, they said - but Slovene lessons were not available for the English...
"English - verified 90 hours - 470 euros"
- PUP prices 2014-2015
"The [Gordian] knot may have been a religious knot-cipher guarded by Gordian/Midas's priests and priestesses."
- Wikipedia
PUP's ex-Director went on to become Slovenia's champion downhill fastest-ever Slovenian in the ministerial ladies' resignation. Klavdija passed the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport resigning post in only three days, during which it was miraculously discovered that she had copied another pupil's essay.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/eHEBacGJ5gs
For her three day engagement she will receive six months' ex-ministerial pay, which will weigh against the extra she will have been overpaid if her degree is annulled. In Slovenia, proving your brains can be tough on your knees.
Failed secondary school? Don't fret. You can get a special Matura at these places, something involving economics.
The whole thing's only five grand and you don't have to worry about plagiarism or cheating as you don't have to do any classes or exams. It is an Alexandrian solution. Or perhaps more of a tincture.
Since PUP couldn't help me, I designed my own free Slovene lesson in English:
www.a2z.si/dear
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A long enough article in the Slovenian academic style
EDUCASHIN NEWS: BAD MARKEŽ AT SCHOOL
To ensure the future of democracy in Slovenia, the first thing any opposition party does immediately upon the appointment of a new minister is to check to see if they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis.
Rather too often, they did. So much so, that you might think the first thing any government party would do before appointing a new minister is check to see if they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis.
Both former Maribor Mayor Franc Kangler and MP Borut Ambrožič cut-and-pasted their degree thesis and were caught. SDS leader Janša plagiarised Tony Blair in a speech.
Locally the Director of the Ptuj Hospital was accused. However our previous SDS MP Branko Marinič did not plagiarise anything...as someone else took his German exam for him.
He had not been there and done that. Instead he was done. There. Er beendet.
Leaders such as former PM Alenka The Legs immediately upon appointment looked like they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, but the government's credibility was so low it was decided immediately upon appointment that any suggestion about a Prime Minister, that they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, in her case about sweaty clothing, would be incompatible with the future of democracy in Slovenia and it was quickly proved she hadn't.
A common problem with a degree thesis is filling the required amount of space as if the space required to be filled is not filled in the required manner it may appear that you have not studied hard enough or done enough studying, as shown by the amount of space filled or, in the case of space left empty, not.
I remember at school it was important to fill two sides of paper with your essay even if there wasn't really that much to say, and that was a special burden on me as I had really small thin handwriting. That is, by using really big fat handwriting, and bigger fatter spaces between the words, some others could write longer essays even though they wrote less.
Nowadays, those whose ministerial career may only last a few hours before their opponents claim they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis will have typed it, and so it is typed, and the words can be counted by word-counting software which enumerates the number of words typed, by the student typing the thesis, so it is harder than ever, in terms of difficulty, to produce enough bloat, which leads to a lot of argumentum ad verbosum, especially in asswipe subjects like economics, whose foggy notions will be ever welcomed by a bloated education sector, and those who have somehow made it in Slovenia who cut-and-pasted their degree thesis but say things in their degree thesis cut-and-pasted in different orders often nowadays find themselves arguing with the findings of plagiarism software, designed to detect plagiarism on computers, that although the result may give the impression they cut-and-pasted great swathes of text down to the last punctuation mark, and 95% of their references, it is all just an astronomical coincidence.
Our new Education Minister's first task should be to rewrite the law on plagiarism-detecting software to make it clear that 37% plagiarism is not plagiarism when done in such a fashion that it merely repeats known facts which have already been explained perfectly well by whoever's thesis you are copying.
It's good that software exists to read these things though as the contents are mostly too boring for humans to do it. Our new Education Minister's 2005 plagiarism of Jernej Ladinik's 2002 thesis concerns "the impact of European Union Structural Funds in the development of the region of the Drava region".
It is a subject on which unique thinking is hard to conceive. I've lived in the region of that region since 2005. What has been the impact of these Structural Funds? How do these academics differ on that?
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/foto-skromnost-je-lepa-cednost-nekateri-zupani-imajo-raje-luksuz
Faced with a problem of there not being enough to say, how about finding something more complicated to write about?
No. Educapitalism can only get richer by dividing the mysteries of life into smaller portions, and charging more and more to divulge the secrets of less and less. Big, oldfashioned subjects with real facts in them tend to spoil the teachers' game: on some confined topic, you must write more than is necessary, and of course in a different way, but without changing the meaning of what you've been advised to say. Too similar, and you're a plagiarist. But to express yourself in too original a way means you have got it wrong ...teacher will be displeased and you will have to buy some more education.
Bloating text in Slovene meets a mixture of natural accident and physical challenge, with its economical inflective acrobatics, rude, abrupt manner, and panoply of wordlets making for high word counts but low page counts on the one hand, and its quaint Victorian syntax and endless rambling sub-clauses spawning impossible-to-follow bloat on the other.
For those approaching middle-age who have finally cut-and-pasted their degree thesis and passed, it is time to visit prospective employers who cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, who will want to know if you are good enough to make money for them. When you go for your interview, remember that your interviewer is in a better position to hide the fact that they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis than you. Remember that they have worked hard to acquire the special assessment skills needed, such as glaring at you over their spectacles, and sitting behind a big desk in a better chair than yours. Just relax. As long as you are related or can do the sexual favours (or both) your paper qualifications will suffice even though you're both fairly average morons.
Having spent so long in education you are completely obedient to authority and just as wary of original thinking as you are of the copying. Your behavioural processing - into a conflicted rat lured through a maze of mixed administrative punishments and dubious future rewards - is complete. Just don't get cheeky and threaten to challenge the interviewer's own actual knowledge, or you could be out of the door.
Consequently in Slovenia, experts in mediocrity are in charge of just about everything. In employment, as in education, what they do not want is people WHO THINK WITH THEIR EYES - only with their EARS.
To excel at mediocrity grow an extra one. While you interact normally with your main ear, your auxiliary ear listens out for backstabbers.
http://www.politikis.si/2015/04/nova-sramota-cerarjeve-ekipe-ministrica-markezeva-dokazano-lazna-magistra/
EDUCASHIN NEWS: BAD MARKEŽ AT SCHOOL
To ensure the future of democracy in Slovenia, the first thing any opposition party does immediately upon the appointment of a new minister is to check to see if they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis.
Rather too often, they did. So much so, that you might think the first thing any government party would do before appointing a new minister is check to see if they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis.
Both former Maribor Mayor Franc Kangler and MP Borut Ambrožič cut-and-pasted their degree thesis and were caught. SDS leader Janša plagiarised Tony Blair in a speech.
Locally the Director of the Ptuj Hospital was accused. However our previous SDS MP Branko Marinič did not plagiarise anything...as someone else took his German exam for him.
He had not been there and done that. Instead he was done. There. Er beendet.
Leaders such as former PM Alenka The Legs immediately upon appointment looked like they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, but the government's credibility was so low it was decided immediately upon appointment that any suggestion about a Prime Minister, that they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, in her case about sweaty clothing, would be incompatible with the future of democracy in Slovenia and it was quickly proved she hadn't.
A common problem with a degree thesis is filling the required amount of space as if the space required to be filled is not filled in the required manner it may appear that you have not studied hard enough or done enough studying, as shown by the amount of space filled or, in the case of space left empty, not.
I remember at school it was important to fill two sides of paper with your essay even if there wasn't really that much to say, and that was a special burden on me as I had really small thin handwriting. That is, by using really big fat handwriting, and bigger fatter spaces between the words, some others could write longer essays even though they wrote less.
Nowadays, those whose ministerial career may only last a few hours before their opponents claim they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis will have typed it, and so it is typed, and the words can be counted by word-counting software which enumerates the number of words typed, by the student typing the thesis, so it is harder than ever, in terms of difficulty, to produce enough bloat, which leads to a lot of argumentum ad verbosum, especially in asswipe subjects like economics, whose foggy notions will be ever welcomed by a bloated education sector, and those who have somehow made it in Slovenia who cut-and-pasted their degree thesis but say things in their degree thesis cut-and-pasted in different orders often nowadays find themselves arguing with the findings of plagiarism software, designed to detect plagiarism on computers, that although the result may give the impression they cut-and-pasted great swathes of text down to the last punctuation mark, and 95% of their references, it is all just an astronomical coincidence.
Our new Education Minister's first task should be to rewrite the law on plagiarism-detecting software to make it clear that 37% plagiarism is not plagiarism when done in such a fashion that it merely repeats known facts which have already been explained perfectly well by whoever's thesis you are copying.
It's good that software exists to read these things though as the contents are mostly too boring for humans to do it. Our new Education Minister's 2005 plagiarism of Jernej Ladinik's 2002 thesis concerns "the impact of European Union Structural Funds in the development of the region of the Drava region".
It is a subject on which unique thinking is hard to conceive. I've lived in the region of that region since 2005. What has been the impact of these Structural Funds? How do these academics differ on that?
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/foto-skromnost-je-lepa-cednost-nekateri-zupani-imajo-raje-luksuz
Faced with a problem of there not being enough to say, how about finding something more complicated to write about?
No. Educapitalism can only get richer by dividing the mysteries of life into smaller portions, and charging more and more to divulge the secrets of less and less. Big, oldfashioned subjects with real facts in them tend to spoil the teachers' game: on some confined topic, you must write more than is necessary, and of course in a different way, but without changing the meaning of what you've been advised to say. Too similar, and you're a plagiarist. But to express yourself in too original a way means you have got it wrong ...teacher will be displeased and you will have to buy some more education.
Bloating text in Slovene meets a mixture of natural accident and physical challenge, with its economical inflective acrobatics, rude, abrupt manner, and panoply of wordlets making for high word counts but low page counts on the one hand, and its quaint Victorian syntax and endless rambling sub-clauses spawning impossible-to-follow bloat on the other.
For those approaching middle-age who have finally cut-and-pasted their degree thesis and passed, it is time to visit prospective employers who cut-and-pasted their degree thesis, who will want to know if you are good enough to make money for them. When you go for your interview, remember that your interviewer is in a better position to hide the fact that they cut-and-pasted their degree thesis than you. Remember that they have worked hard to acquire the special assessment skills needed, such as glaring at you over their spectacles, and sitting behind a big desk in a better chair than yours. Just relax. As long as you are related or can do the sexual favours (or both) your paper qualifications will suffice even though you're both fairly average morons.
Having spent so long in education you are completely obedient to authority and just as wary of original thinking as you are of the copying. Your behavioural processing - into a conflicted rat lured through a maze of mixed administrative punishments and dubious future rewards - is complete. Just don't get cheeky and threaten to challenge the interviewer's own actual knowledge, or you could be out of the door.
Consequently in Slovenia, experts in mediocrity are in charge of just about everything. In employment, as in education, what they do not want is people WHO THINK WITH THEIR EYES - only with their EARS.
To excel at mediocrity grow an extra one. While you interact normally with your main ear, your auxiliary ear listens out for backstabbers.
http://www.politikis.si/2015/04/nova-sramota-cerarjeve-ekipe-ministrica-markezeva-dokazano-lazna-magistra/
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In memoriam:
DAVEK OBČINA KORISTI 1993-2013
CTB je del zapravljanje časa bitke, v katerih se ne bogati v Veliki Britaniji so bili prisiljeni s vojsk birokratskih muppets do samoorganiziranja v kategorije glede na filozofijami IDS in njegovih ideoloških prehodnikih pri kaznovanju ne bogati, Michael Howard in Norman Tebbit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml
Bil sem v bitki za Koristi proti silam IDS ... Bilo je pekel.
Iz mojega bunkerja v Sloveniji vidim, da je nacionalni ravni nadzorovanih standardna neprebojna nesmisel izročili posameznik neprebojna nesmisel od 433 lokalnih oblasti, ki so že sedaj povabljeni na twiddle svoja lastna pravila za nošenje navzdol revnih je slo za denar.
Moraš najti razloga, da ne bi plačali. To je njihova igra.
Prepričajte se sami.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Exemptions
DAVEK OBČINA KORISTI 1993-2013
CTB je del zapravljanje časa bitke, v katerih se ne bogati v Veliki Britaniji so bili prisiljeni s vojsk birokratskih muppets do samoorganiziranja v kategorije glede na filozofijami IDS in njegovih ideoloških prehodnikih pri kaznovanju ne bogati, Michael Howard in Norman Tebbit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml
Bil sem v bitki za Koristi proti silam IDS ... Bilo je pekel.
Iz mojega bunkerja v Sloveniji vidim, da je nacionalni ravni nadzorovanih standardna neprebojna nesmisel izročili posameznik neprebojna nesmisel od 433 lokalnih oblasti, ki so že sedaj povabljeni na twiddle svoja lastna pravila za nošenje navzdol revnih je slo za denar.
Moraš najti razloga, da ne bi plačali. To je njihova igra.
Prepričajte se sami.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_Tax#Exemptions
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SLOVENIA ERASED
Way back in 2014 NPOSIALPU welcomed the AB Fab Party with some...
MIDDLING ENGLISH
I syng of a midden
one þat alle mynges
barbecuwed fictere -
here be just chyckenes.
þrill of beswíc bille
swych neuer beon gesíenene -
féower billion due,
by twéntigsixtíene.
Rignaþ Gabriel, dún
mid úrean virgyn's hud -
níedes wundres preg:
nancy cnihtas, ne gud.
ágénstende stylle
scréadunga folcwóh
ðu must flogge Telekom,
ellesj we'll be on the floor.
Moder & mayden
ciósan alle cronys –
so wytch gets þe flour,
and hwa cuts þe cýse?
It's amazing what you can do without with a few prepositions. Modern English does without the instrumental case, which had virtually vanished by the time any surviving texts came into existence.
Slovene, as well as Russian, Sanskrit, Greek, Czech, Armenian, Hungarian, Finnish and Nahuatl, among others, still enjoy an instrumental case. So there's no need to feel lonely.
With what, then, could it be better to serenade Slovenia's Renaissance and the now fatherless and therefore somewhat miraculous gestation of the AB Fab Party than my (I'm sure truly awful) Old-to-Middle-English-om?
It's based on the 15th century pop hit "I syng of a mayden", about an archangel's famous involvement in (and it has to be said, subsequent abandonment of) a well-known single-parent family.
Honestly, some people will believe anything! But hey, pop lyrics are usually nonsense so little has changed.
Slovenian bond yields are getting a good press at the moment: perhaps it is time to expand and complicate Slovene grammar yet further with a financial instrumental case.
Old English had a base-12 numerical system which makes billions rather difficult. "Twelve" comes from the Proto-Germanic "twa-lif" = "two left", something else Slovenian political parties might consider taking a look at.
Meanwhile, Slovenia's pushing on with yet another sort of cult-of-personality party.
How will this one go, I wonder?
Other Renaissance popular heroes included Hamlet, Romeo, Don Quixote, and Doctor Faustus. Hmmm...
The above national poetry was deleted under the reign of Miro I from:
Way back in 2014 NPOSIALPU welcomed the AB Fab Party with some...
MIDDLING ENGLISH
I syng of a midden
one þat alle mynges
barbecuwed fictere -
here be just chyckenes.
þrill of beswíc bille
swych neuer beon gesíenene -
féower billion due,
by twéntigsixtíene.
Rignaþ Gabriel, dún
mid úrean virgyn's hud -
níedes wundres preg:
nancy cnihtas, ne gud.
ágénstende stylle
scréadunga folcwóh
ðu must flogge Telekom,
ellesj we'll be on the floor.
Moder & mayden
ciósan alle cronys –
so wytch gets þe flour,
and hwa cuts þe cýse?
It's amazing what you can do without with a few prepositions. Modern English does without the instrumental case, which had virtually vanished by the time any surviving texts came into existence.
Slovene, as well as Russian, Sanskrit, Greek, Czech, Armenian, Hungarian, Finnish and Nahuatl, among others, still enjoy an instrumental case. So there's no need to feel lonely.
With what, then, could it be better to serenade Slovenia's Renaissance and the now fatherless and therefore somewhat miraculous gestation of the AB Fab Party than my (I'm sure truly awful) Old-to-Middle-English-om?
It's based on the 15th century pop hit "I syng of a mayden", about an archangel's famous involvement in (and it has to be said, subsequent abandonment of) a well-known single-parent family.
Honestly, some people will believe anything! But hey, pop lyrics are usually nonsense so little has changed.
Slovenian bond yields are getting a good press at the moment: perhaps it is time to expand and complicate Slovene grammar yet further with a financial instrumental case.
Old English had a base-12 numerical system which makes billions rather difficult. "Twelve" comes from the Proto-Germanic "twa-lif" = "two left", something else Slovenian political parties might consider taking a look at.
Meanwhile, Slovenia's pushing on with yet another sort of cult-of-personality party.
How will this one go, I wonder?
Other Renaissance popular heroes included Hamlet, Romeo, Don Quixote, and Doctor Faustus. Hmmm...
The above national poetry was deleted under the reign of Miro I from:
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FORMER PM TO BE BURNED AT THE STAKE
Heresy was proven although detail is somewhat lacking - following the police probe into her unsuccessful attempt to promote herself the hell out of Slovenia as the EU's Energy Commissioner.
It is understood Bratušek broke down and confessed to ambition after being shown articles about her being Prime Minister. She will be publicly incinerated in front of an invited audience of grindcore fans. Baked potatoes.
Experiments with sound systems
(1973).
Heresy was proven although detail is somewhat lacking - following the police probe into her unsuccessful attempt to promote herself the hell out of Slovenia as the EU's Energy Commissioner.
It is understood Bratušek broke down and confessed to ambition after being shown articles about her being Prime Minister. She will be publicly incinerated in front of an invited audience of grindcore fans. Baked potatoes.
Experiments with sound systems
(1973).
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REVIVED WITH CPR AT THE NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE
And joj verily, in the end-marches of Alenka The Legs, even as the Slovenian electorate stampeded towards the Anointed Emperor-in-Waiting Cerar The Peacebringer in a desperate-for-any-novelty kind of a way, of policies the voters heard no thing.
For his enthronement owed much to his silence. And a peaceful silence fell upon the comments columns of The Slovenia Times by the next full moon. NPOSIALPU among others foresaw The Plague of The Vague, in this political don't-be-a-ho-hymn from July 2014, dedicated to Miro I.
KRAMBERGER'S-BELIEF CROCKED-JEALOUSY THEORY
Quintessential new broom remains shtum,
Wouldn't stick out in unfurnished room.
Don't protrude - else the voter
Turns on you like a Rotar -
Jealous of the attention - kaboom.
In Slovenia whom you vote for is determined by (1) Whom the polls say you will vote for, and (2) Which of those whom the polls say you will vote for is the most utterly faceless and least dissonant with the narrow-minded prejudices you possess.
So for candidates, electioneering in Slovenia is a tricky one, something like trying to please Daily Mail readers on coke.
The dangers of being too interesting are all too real.
A glimpse at Slovenia's JFK moment shows why...with jealous drunk Slovenian perceptions in square brackets:
1992: in Jurovski Dol - population 361 - a drunk huntin-shootin-fishin-type living with his mother notices something unusual happening in the street [beady-eyed alert] involving someone not-from-around-here [instant suspicion].
Ivan Kramberger is from the distant village of Negova 17.9km away - population 329 - [this foreigner is attracting a crowd's attention for some reason].
Popular [if I stop him being popular I will be more popular] eccentric [look at him drawing attention to himself - we hate that] generous [puzzled rage?!] entrepreneur inventor [look at this rich smartass], back from Germany with long hair and wearing unusual attire [extrovert behaviour = gay = pedophile] makes popular speech [people are listening to him - something must be done about this] accompanied by a monkey [clearly a foreign plot to take over Slovenia].
For the sake of historical accuracy I should point out that the monkey was not present on this occasion, having herself been assassinated with a butcher's knife some months previously. A note attached to the monkey predicted Kramberger would suffer the same fate.
But this didn't happen. Instead the normal unsuccessful blind-drunk 42-year-old Slovenian villager who lived with his mother shot the abnormal attention-seeking unusual-looking philanthropist dead from the window of his mother's house.
That's it. No grand political divide. No conspiracy - although the Slovenian internet milks this for all it isn't worth. He simply got shot by some jealous narrow-minded drunk with rather more sophisticated weaponry than shooting rabbits/being drunk might deem sensible.
And now the important part of this story. For Slovenians, locked within their tiny conceptual, linguistic and media landscape, this means the assassination is "shrouded in mystery".
So you can sort of see why Mr Cerar kept his (perhaps armoured) cards close to his chest until he was safely elected...safe for 123 days anyway, as Maribor SMC has now left the SMC.
Shooter Peter Rotar got 12 years. 22 years later, attempts to erect a monument to Kramberger in Jurovski Dol were put on hold by the mayor after protests from a resident, who threatens to deal with any statue visible from the window of his mother's house - by blowing it up.
And the name of this politically involved citizen? Peter Rotar.
More about that:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/potrjeno-kramberger-ne-bo-dobil-spomenika-dokler-bo-morilec-ziv
Where the national poem was deleted from when commenting ended in The Slovenia Times:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/last-day-of-election-campaign-miro-cerar-and-sds-still-in-lead
And joj verily, in the end-marches of Alenka The Legs, even as the Slovenian electorate stampeded towards the Anointed Emperor-in-Waiting Cerar The Peacebringer in a desperate-for-any-novelty kind of a way, of policies the voters heard no thing.
For his enthronement owed much to his silence. And a peaceful silence fell upon the comments columns of The Slovenia Times by the next full moon. NPOSIALPU among others foresaw The Plague of The Vague, in this political don't-be-a-ho-hymn from July 2014, dedicated to Miro I.
KRAMBERGER'S-BELIEF CROCKED-JEALOUSY THEORY
Quintessential new broom remains shtum,
Wouldn't stick out in unfurnished room.
Don't protrude - else the voter
Turns on you like a Rotar -
Jealous of the attention - kaboom.
In Slovenia whom you vote for is determined by (1) Whom the polls say you will vote for, and (2) Which of those whom the polls say you will vote for is the most utterly faceless and least dissonant with the narrow-minded prejudices you possess.
So for candidates, electioneering in Slovenia is a tricky one, something like trying to please Daily Mail readers on coke.
The dangers of being too interesting are all too real.
A glimpse at Slovenia's JFK moment shows why...with jealous drunk Slovenian perceptions in square brackets:
1992: in Jurovski Dol - population 361 - a drunk huntin-shootin-fishin-type living with his mother notices something unusual happening in the street [beady-eyed alert] involving someone not-from-around-here [instant suspicion].
Ivan Kramberger is from the distant village of Negova 17.9km away - population 329 - [this foreigner is attracting a crowd's attention for some reason].
Popular [if I stop him being popular I will be more popular] eccentric [look at him drawing attention to himself - we hate that] generous [puzzled rage?!] entrepreneur inventor [look at this rich smartass], back from Germany with long hair and wearing unusual attire [extrovert behaviour = gay = pedophile] makes popular speech [people are listening to him - something must be done about this] accompanied by a monkey [clearly a foreign plot to take over Slovenia].
For the sake of historical accuracy I should point out that the monkey was not present on this occasion, having herself been assassinated with a butcher's knife some months previously. A note attached to the monkey predicted Kramberger would suffer the same fate.
But this didn't happen. Instead the normal unsuccessful blind-drunk 42-year-old Slovenian villager who lived with his mother shot the abnormal attention-seeking unusual-looking philanthropist dead from the window of his mother's house.
That's it. No grand political divide. No conspiracy - although the Slovenian internet milks this for all it isn't worth. He simply got shot by some jealous narrow-minded drunk with rather more sophisticated weaponry than shooting rabbits/being drunk might deem sensible.
And now the important part of this story. For Slovenians, locked within their tiny conceptual, linguistic and media landscape, this means the assassination is "shrouded in mystery".
So you can sort of see why Mr Cerar kept his (perhaps armoured) cards close to his chest until he was safely elected...safe for 123 days anyway, as Maribor SMC has now left the SMC.
Shooter Peter Rotar got 12 years. 22 years later, attempts to erect a monument to Kramberger in Jurovski Dol were put on hold by the mayor after protests from a resident, who threatens to deal with any statue visible from the window of his mother's house - by blowing it up.
And the name of this politically involved citizen? Peter Rotar.
More about that:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/potrjeno-kramberger-ne-bo-dobil-spomenika-dokler-bo-morilec-ziv
Where the national poem was deleted from when commenting ended in The Slovenia Times:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/last-day-of-election-campaign-miro-cerar-and-sds-still-in-lead
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SHOPPING IN SLOVENIA
...the surreal world of Slovenian prices
BARRATORS' PENULTIMATE FLEEING OLIGARCHS' CIRCUS OF HELL-KU
Lakeside of tar...mate....................................
De Mon stands guard. Locked display..................
...........................................| They've one square of L |
Slovenia has a point in not seeing any point in anyone competing over its domestic market.
The difference is not between the ripoff prices of state monopolies and those of the economically viably-sized near-monopolies which will inevitably follow, but between the real world as seen on the internet and the dreamlike world of Slovenian retail.
The Walls of Jericho here are the Slovene language, which doesn't seem to be planning a mass escape over the border any time soon (and is smugly resilient to outside probing) and western Europe's most extreme future shock.
Let's shop in Slovenia. Suppose we are learning to drive, and we want to buy some L-plates. You might think the first thing you need to do is translate "learner" and armed with the word "učenec" go looking for some U-plates.
But you would be wrong to assume anything. Walls can collapse in surprising ways. Learner drivers need L-plates in Slovenia, bearing the letter L - although no Slovene word for "learner" begins with L.
With a stiff drink local drivers can accept this Anglo-hegemony; luckily for their vendors, L-plates are compulsory as well as a good idea.
In that UK high street with its €8.91/hour minimum wage you might shell out as much as £5 (€6.86) for a set of fancy magnetic ones.
http://www.halfords.com/motoring/travel-accessories/learning-to-drive/halfords-magnetic-learner-driver-plates-x3
Or just go for the cheap sticky/tie-on learner plates for 85p (€1.17)...
http://www.wilko.com/car-accessories/wilko-l-plates-2pk/invt/0011545
But in Slovenia things are, inevitably, more concentrated and complicated. You might go looking for magnetno zeleno tablico L or something like that - you would not get many results, the first being the local online auction site with a price of €10.
http://www.bolha.com/iskanje?q=l-magnetna-tablica
Experienced hotel guests will recognise a certain uncertainty over whether this is the price for one or two. You really need to know your endings for six cases, three genders and five numbers to be reasonably sure - if the sellers themselves have got the endings right. The locals may get quite confused about -s meaning more than one in English - and offended if you arrive ready to pay less than twice what you expected.
In Slovenia, what you have to do in these situations is stop and study the endings used this time, and steer clear of any easy preconceptions about, for example, L-plates coming in pairs. Frustrating blithe expectations about normality is where Slovenia makes its money.
In this auction ad, we have -a and -o endings. Prodam magnetno tablico-L - I'm selling it/them, this says.
The -o suggests it/they are either the gender Slovene does not remember it has - neuter, or possibly male. From this you know it is definitely single, featureless, generic, and the same as all the others.
The problem is, someone is doing something (selling), while the L-plate(s) is/are having that done to it/them -all at the same time as we are trying to find out how many there are.
The L-plate(s) ought to be in the accusative, we might assume. On the other hand the heading L MAGNETNA TABLICA, which is verbless, points to a female thing, again singular.
A further possibility concerns the "ownership" of the magnetism by the plate or plates, with a genitive ending. Well I know it isn't this. But is it one, or two?
At this point you may ask a local. They will simply shrug and ask where you are from, how long you have been in Slovenia, and for any information you possess which might enable them to get money. I personally prefer to believe in -e or -i endings with pairs of things.
Remember, you WANT it to be two, but here Slovenia wants you to want that too. To me it looks certain there's only one L-plate here. This is strongly corroborated by the fact that this would be the biggest ripoff. You can always use this method to determine the truth when choices like this are presented. Maybe it blew off and the guy found it. Or his other one did, and this is what he has left.
Yes, readers, he's selling one L-plate. His idea of a second-hand price for it is between 2.92 and 32.26 times the price in Halfords and Wilkinsons respectively.
And he - the guy - has this L-plate, he in fact leads this particular market in Slovenia in his online presence, and he sees no damn reason not to capitalise on his advantage. And, I might add, this is a regular thing.
And we can see such sellers claim the same item is €14 at AMZS, a likely source for L-plates in Slovenia. That must mean AMZS U-plošč are 4.07 times safer than Halfords' - and 45.16 times more legally compliant than Wilkos' unmagnetic rubbish-coloured UK ones.
The UK uses red to try to warn other drivers; but Slovenia uses green, to try to calm them down.
With these prices you can see why.
You try to shop around. AMZS have no Google results for L-plates themselves - are they really selling them individually too, or is the seller being as disingenuous as his language will allow? To find out, I tried various expressions and endings...to no avail.
But then, AMZS probably figure, what Slovenian would need to search that?
One of many verses deemed unfit for public exposure by The Slovenia Times under the Great Hush of Miro, it previously dwelt at:
...the surreal world of Slovenian prices
BARRATORS' PENULTIMATE FLEEING OLIGARCHS' CIRCUS OF HELL-KU
Lakeside of tar...mate....................................
De Mon stands guard. Locked display..................
...........................................| They've one square of L |
Slovenia has a point in not seeing any point in anyone competing over its domestic market.
The difference is not between the ripoff prices of state monopolies and those of the economically viably-sized near-monopolies which will inevitably follow, but between the real world as seen on the internet and the dreamlike world of Slovenian retail.
The Walls of Jericho here are the Slovene language, which doesn't seem to be planning a mass escape over the border any time soon (and is smugly resilient to outside probing) and western Europe's most extreme future shock.
Let's shop in Slovenia. Suppose we are learning to drive, and we want to buy some L-plates. You might think the first thing you need to do is translate "learner" and armed with the word "učenec" go looking for some U-plates.
But you would be wrong to assume anything. Walls can collapse in surprising ways. Learner drivers need L-plates in Slovenia, bearing the letter L - although no Slovene word for "learner" begins with L.
With a stiff drink local drivers can accept this Anglo-hegemony; luckily for their vendors, L-plates are compulsory as well as a good idea.
In that UK high street with its €8.91/hour minimum wage you might shell out as much as £5 (€6.86) for a set of fancy magnetic ones.
http://www.halfords.com/motoring/travel-accessories/learning-to-drive/halfords-magnetic-learner-driver-plates-x3
Or just go for the cheap sticky/tie-on learner plates for 85p (€1.17)...
http://www.wilko.com/car-accessories/wilko-l-plates-2pk/invt/0011545
But in Slovenia things are, inevitably, more concentrated and complicated. You might go looking for magnetno zeleno tablico L or something like that - you would not get many results, the first being the local online auction site with a price of €10.
http://www.bolha.com/iskanje?q=l-magnetna-tablica
Experienced hotel guests will recognise a certain uncertainty over whether this is the price for one or two. You really need to know your endings for six cases, three genders and five numbers to be reasonably sure - if the sellers themselves have got the endings right. The locals may get quite confused about -s meaning more than one in English - and offended if you arrive ready to pay less than twice what you expected.
In Slovenia, what you have to do in these situations is stop and study the endings used this time, and steer clear of any easy preconceptions about, for example, L-plates coming in pairs. Frustrating blithe expectations about normality is where Slovenia makes its money.
In this auction ad, we have -a and -o endings. Prodam magnetno tablico-L - I'm selling it/them, this says.
The -o suggests it/they are either the gender Slovene does not remember it has - neuter, or possibly male. From this you know it is definitely single, featureless, generic, and the same as all the others.
The problem is, someone is doing something (selling), while the L-plate(s) is/are having that done to it/them -all at the same time as we are trying to find out how many there are.
The L-plate(s) ought to be in the accusative, we might assume. On the other hand the heading L MAGNETNA TABLICA, which is verbless, points to a female thing, again singular.
A further possibility concerns the "ownership" of the magnetism by the plate or plates, with a genitive ending. Well I know it isn't this. But is it one, or two?
At this point you may ask a local. They will simply shrug and ask where you are from, how long you have been in Slovenia, and for any information you possess which might enable them to get money. I personally prefer to believe in -e or -i endings with pairs of things.
Remember, you WANT it to be two, but here Slovenia wants you to want that too. To me it looks certain there's only one L-plate here. This is strongly corroborated by the fact that this would be the biggest ripoff. You can always use this method to determine the truth when choices like this are presented. Maybe it blew off and the guy found it. Or his other one did, and this is what he has left.
Yes, readers, he's selling one L-plate. His idea of a second-hand price for it is between 2.92 and 32.26 times the price in Halfords and Wilkinsons respectively.
And he - the guy - has this L-plate, he in fact leads this particular market in Slovenia in his online presence, and he sees no damn reason not to capitalise on his advantage. And, I might add, this is a regular thing.
And we can see such sellers claim the same item is €14 at AMZS, a likely source for L-plates in Slovenia. That must mean AMZS U-plošč are 4.07 times safer than Halfords' - and 45.16 times more legally compliant than Wilkos' unmagnetic rubbish-coloured UK ones.
The UK uses red to try to warn other drivers; but Slovenia uses green, to try to calm them down.
With these prices you can see why.
You try to shop around. AMZS have no Google results for L-plates themselves - are they really selling them individually too, or is the seller being as disingenuous as his language will allow? To find out, I tried various expressions and endings...to no avail.
But then, AMZS probably figure, what Slovenian would need to search that?
One of many verses deemed unfit for public exposure by The Slovenia Times under the Great Hush of Miro, it previously dwelt at:
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Well, about time. The shortage of beaver in Slovenia has been nothing short of scandalous.
The main problem is the fishy taste, but this is confined to the fish part of the animal, i.e. the tail. You can chop that off and sell it to the blind as ox tongue. Or fish. Hell, they'll never know. Skin and eviscerate the rodent bit, ram a stick through it, and it's ready for that barbeque. Substitute for expensive venison in golaž, or any dish where you usually use a squirrel.
Responding to the success of "Bober Kuharska knjiga", the Archbishop of Ljubljana warned against falling prey to the sin of "easy beaver" and is in emergency sessions with the Ministry of Chicken to remind you all about the moral hazards of the Slovenian beaver glut.
In the resulting intervention to save the economy, the retail value of bouillon cubes is jumping to €5 each from next full moon.
The official black market price will be €3, and €2,50 for the ones with the sawdust.
The Slovenian beaver will be nationalised - as soon as the right owners can be found.
The main problem is the fishy taste, but this is confined to the fish part of the animal, i.e. the tail. You can chop that off and sell it to the blind as ox tongue. Or fish. Hell, they'll never know. Skin and eviscerate the rodent bit, ram a stick through it, and it's ready for that barbeque. Substitute for expensive venison in golaž, or any dish where you usually use a squirrel.
Responding to the success of "Bober Kuharska knjiga", the Archbishop of Ljubljana warned against falling prey to the sin of "easy beaver" and is in emergency sessions with the Ministry of Chicken to remind you all about the moral hazards of the Slovenian beaver glut.
In the resulting intervention to save the economy, the retail value of bouillon cubes is jumping to €5 each from next full moon.
The official black market price will be €3, and €2,50 for the ones with the sawdust.
The Slovenian beaver will be nationalised - as soon as the right owners can be found.
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EMIGRATING DATING - Why not combine your UK trip with a love affair and escape Slovenia for good!
Maximise your luck in love by consulting the relevant data in advance!
Just type in your destination - Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, etc. If you are not just interested in royals you can put in West Bromwich Albion or Tottenham Hotspur.
Simply cross-check your target location against your other preferences at http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/britains-favourite-sex-positions-have-finally-been-revealed--lk4xA9LH2g - Happy hunting!
Maximise your luck in love by consulting the relevant data in advance!
Just type in your destination - Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, etc. If you are not just interested in royals you can put in West Bromwich Albion or Tottenham Hotspur.
Simply cross-check your target location against your other preferences at http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/britains-favourite-sex-positions-have-finally-been-revealed--lk4xA9LH2g - Happy hunting!
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HUGE PINUS EQUIPMENT SALE
An interesting looking collection of reactor vessels, tanks, pumps, instruments and other chemical gear for catalytic trans-esterification from Bio Goriva d.o.o., which shares an address, email and website with its co-founder the Pinus insecticide factory near Maribor Airport www.mariborairport.si
It all started innocently enough with lots of pictures of yellow fields. BG slid away from its Pinus developers in 2008. But inexplicably for a company 25% owned by a firm called Petrol it failed to spark a rapeseed revolution among Balkan boy racers. In hectare terms, Slovenia has four times more vineyards than rape. This reflects local priorities, and the intentions of Pinus flopped.
If recent auctions (see below) are anything to go by, hundreds of lots of mysterious Pinus equipment could be going nowhere, as is usually the case here. Bio Goriva (Bio Fuels) was bankrupted by its exasperated employees, who had demanded to get paid or they'd cause trouble.
Why did they demand special treatment? Is anyone in Slovenia really completely sure they'll get paid next month?
Pinus has a sort of English website: "Our basic principle - sound company relations, HR development, and employees' satisfaction - results in the successful company's performance today and as well in the future too."
In their employee satisfactions Bio Goriva and Pinus are like oil and water, separating out. I hope the unpaid workers get to snap up a toplotni izmenjevalec or a fazni ločevalnik for a song, and they should safely stow such items in their barns until the globe is completely fracked from the equator to the poles, in case they suddenly become valuable again.
The auction starts at 1430 on February 16, at Rače.
HUGE PINUS EQUIPMENT SALE
An interesting looking collection of reactor vessels, tanks, pumps, instruments and other chemical gear for catalytic trans-esterification from Bio Goriva d.o.o., which shares an address, email and website with its co-founder the Pinus insecticide factory near Maribor Airport www.mariborairport.si
It all started innocently enough with lots of pictures of yellow fields. BG slid away from its Pinus developers in 2008. But inexplicably for a company 25% owned by a firm called Petrol it failed to spark a rapeseed revolution among Balkan boy racers. In hectare terms, Slovenia has four times more vineyards than rape. This reflects local priorities, and the intentions of Pinus flopped.
If recent auctions (see below) are anything to go by, hundreds of lots of mysterious Pinus equipment could be going nowhere, as is usually the case here. Bio Goriva (Bio Fuels) was bankrupted by its exasperated employees, who had demanded to get paid or they'd cause trouble.
Why did they demand special treatment? Is anyone in Slovenia really completely sure they'll get paid next month?
Pinus has a sort of English website: "Our basic principle - sound company relations, HR development, and employees' satisfaction - results in the successful company's performance today and as well in the future too."
In their employee satisfactions Bio Goriva and Pinus are like oil and water, separating out. I hope the unpaid workers get to snap up a toplotni izmenjevalec or a fazni ločevalnik for a song, and they should safely stow such items in their barns until the globe is completely fracked from the equator to the poles, in case they suddenly become valuable again.
The auction starts at 1430 on February 16, at Rače.
News - PUBLIC AUCTION
OF BUSINESS ENTITY - DUTB
realestate.dutb.eu
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MORE SLOVENIA-NOT-QUITE-GRASPING-THE-AUCTION-CONCEPT NEWS
Another victim of Slovenistan's overborrowed, bankrupt casinos and family-friendly banks, this freshly vandalised hotel is believed to be among "the most beautiful in the country".
Could there be a British or American buyer willing to step in and save Slovenia's architectural heritage, perhaps by dismantling and re-erecting it in some out-of-the-way spot needing something to attract tourists, like Arizona's London Bridge?
http://www.legends1027.com/London-Bridge-Lake-Havisu-Arizona-/14567509?pid=427218
Just as Americans go a bit la-la about anything British, maybe somewhere in the steppes of Kazakhstan there are die-hard enthusiasts of the socialist realist style, for whom a repositioned Hotel Kanin would work magic. Whoever these might be, the building should match the beauty of its surroundings. So it really ought to be moved. And mind that asbestos.
A carefully chosen location will be needed to ensure the new blends with the slightly less new. It seems to me the M8 is very short of services and missing just such a contemporary facility
https://www.google.si/maps/@55.862726,-3.75766,3a,75y,278.18h,72.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSwXL9sdX5GQ30gBlopE0Eg!2e0
Or it could be easily adapted for a variety of 70s uses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKKVoR1X5lM
Related non-bidding: https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QckUAAvW5o8
Another victim of Slovenistan's overborrowed, bankrupt casinos and family-friendly banks, this freshly vandalised hotel is believed to be among "the most beautiful in the country".
Could there be a British or American buyer willing to step in and save Slovenia's architectural heritage, perhaps by dismantling and re-erecting it in some out-of-the-way spot needing something to attract tourists, like Arizona's London Bridge?
http://www.legends1027.com/London-Bridge-Lake-Havisu-Arizona-/14567509?pid=427218
Just as Americans go a bit la-la about anything British, maybe somewhere in the steppes of Kazakhstan there are die-hard enthusiasts of the socialist realist style, for whom a repositioned Hotel Kanin would work magic. Whoever these might be, the building should match the beauty of its surroundings. So it really ought to be moved. And mind that asbestos.
A carefully chosen location will be needed to ensure the new blends with the slightly less new. It seems to me the M8 is very short of services and missing just such a contemporary facility
https://www.google.si/maps/@55.862726,-3.75766,3a,75y,278.18h,72.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sSwXL9sdX5GQ30gBlopE0Eg!2e0
Or it could be easily adapted for a variety of 70s uses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKKVoR1X5lM
Related non-bidding: https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QckUAAvW5o8
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RAISED FROM THE DEPTHS:
PRET-A-PORTIER
Fulfilling his obligation to serenade management fiascos NPOSIALPU commemorated the outbreak of civil war in Ljubljana over this job opportunity with a new version of Walt Whitman's metaphorical sea-ode. http://is.gd/NncKfy
In the end political appointee Gašpar Gašpar Mišič lasted eight months. Luxuriant sideburns would have enhanced his authority, as would have a big top hat. For verse two read the last paragraph in the ST story: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/management-fiasco-in-port-of-koper
O KOPER! MY KOPER!
O Koper! my Koper! Mišič is what you've won;
Positively screwed from back, your engine stuck on 1;
No porty training, yet job gains, political tongues melting,
Politicising pier review by muscles, new hat wearing:
Split apart! port! port!
So EU pays instead
Sausage denies flies' squeaky cries
'Bout stuck-on cirriped.
O Koper! my Koper! this English is a thrill;
Cock up — this article's well-hung — you have the biggest balls;
Your huge clockweights, dangling between crowds of containers cubic;
We learned muscles ought to divide the public from the pubic;
Dear Koper! They'd rather
Go t'other way instead;
Land at Trieste, so they can get
Interesting food, soft bed.
It's Koper's Mišič showtime: star treads boards, karst and kruh,
Sat on the dock, in labour's pay, his plan is beautiful;
His ship is parked, basking like shark, politicking done gone;
His long strange partnership ahead with sausages and sun;
Result, I'm sure, on thing, oh well!
My advice, what to do,
Import all Trieste's cakes and pies -
And mind the seagull poo.
See the sequel:
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/K8hjyN3XnMM
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COMEDY QUICKSAND: Is this joke preserved in Slovene? The problem is Google Translate doesn't tell me if "narisal" would be applicable to non-artistic gunplay, or whether it should be "potegnil".
I won't get an answer if I ask around: the drunks will just start shouting at each other, while multinational information corporation Google leaves the issue equally unresolved.
My guess is it's another laugh missed for the melancholy locals.
I won't get an answer if I ask around: the drunks will just start shouting at each other, while multinational information corporation Google leaves the issue equally unresolved.
My guess is it's another laugh missed for the melancholy locals.
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SLOVÉNIE NE VEUT PAS ÊTRE UN CHARLIE
Avec leur humour faible et les craintes d'auto-limitation Slovènes n'ont pas besoin d'anti-satiriques fous extrémistes islamiques.
La Slovénie peut attaquer la liberté d'expression sans aide étrangère - prouvant une fois encore, elle peut faire rien sans aide ... sauf se rire de elle-même.
Nationaliste paranoïa et une langue rigide, trop directe, à court d'insinuations, sont soupçonnés, et il sont en fuite.
Un tas de poésie nationale - particulièrement dangereuse car elle n'était pas en slovène - à été effacé des commentaires de The Slovenia Times lorsque le gouvernement présente est arrivé au pouvoir.
Slovénie, alors, est un de ces pays européens qui est trop drôle pour des mots - pour miens, de toute façon. Depuis lors, le journal de langue anglaise de la Slovénie n'a été pas tellement intéressé par les commentaires des lecteurs.
Comme si ces dommages au patrimoine national de la poésie de la Slovénie ne suffisait pas (heureusement 95% a été préservée) les autorités de la presse ont également été étouffent les tentatives de leurs propres lecteurs à l'écriture.
Participation du publique sur le site du plus grand quotidien tabloïd de langue slovenienne Slovenske Novice était suspendu pour la durée de la crise des migrants.
C'est ma contribution majeure à l'écriture slovène - révélant (je crois) que la Slovénie est trop brumeux autour de son propre réalité, et trop vulnérables aux bathos, pour permettre la satire que l'on connaît. Voir les messages ci-dessous pour quelques-uns des arts officieux ressuscités, ou visitez www.maria.si
Avec leur humour faible et les craintes d'auto-limitation Slovènes n'ont pas besoin d'anti-satiriques fous extrémistes islamiques.
La Slovénie peut attaquer la liberté d'expression sans aide étrangère - prouvant une fois encore, elle peut faire rien sans aide ... sauf se rire de elle-même.
Nationaliste paranoïa et une langue rigide, trop directe, à court d'insinuations, sont soupçonnés, et il sont en fuite.
Un tas de poésie nationale - particulièrement dangereuse car elle n'était pas en slovène - à été effacé des commentaires de The Slovenia Times lorsque le gouvernement présente est arrivé au pouvoir.
Slovénie, alors, est un de ces pays européens qui est trop drôle pour des mots - pour miens, de toute façon. Depuis lors, le journal de langue anglaise de la Slovénie n'a été pas tellement intéressé par les commentaires des lecteurs.
Comme si ces dommages au patrimoine national de la poésie de la Slovénie ne suffisait pas (heureusement 95% a été préservée) les autorités de la presse ont également été étouffent les tentatives de leurs propres lecteurs à l'écriture.
Participation du publique sur le site du plus grand quotidien tabloïd de langue slovenienne Slovenske Novice était suspendu pour la durée de la crise des migrants.
C'est ma contribution majeure à l'écriture slovène - révélant (je crois) que la Slovénie est trop brumeux autour de son propre réalité, et trop vulnérables aux bathos, pour permettre la satire que l'on connaît. Voir les messages ci-dessous pour quelques-uns des arts officieux ressuscités, ou visitez www.maria.si
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from the nposialpu archive
This helpful advice to Slovenia's biggest bank on how they got their sums wrong when adding 6.5% to something was disappeared from the commentary of The Slovenia Times in the reign of Emperor Miro...
nlb's arithmetic...and some arithmetic
NICE LITTLE BONUS
Paid to pay, now the state will connive:
Pay to pay to pay, add six point five!
But this one point nine three
Mentioned proves actually
More than seven per cent will arrive.
Don't take a poet's word for it when it comes to the arithmetic of the great Slovenian bill-payment ripoff - you can work it out yourself using the formula:
New bank charge to you for them using your own money to make a profit for themselves overnight
----------------divided by------------------
Old bank charge to you for using your own money to make a profit for themselves overnight
or 1.93 / 1.8
= 1.07222
i.e. an increase of 7.222%
Based on the government's anticipated receipts from the government banks of 35m euros, if they all base their increases on NLB's "non-profit" calculation the banks should make another 237350 euros from not increasing the charge for using your own bill money to make a profit for themselves overnight, as 1.07222 / 1.065 x 35000000 = 35237350
More Slovenian tax proposals at http://is.gd/3QMFdr
This helpful advice to Slovenia's biggest bank on how they got their sums wrong when adding 6.5% to something was disappeared from the commentary of The Slovenia Times in the reign of Emperor Miro...
nlb's arithmetic...and some arithmetic
NICE LITTLE BONUS
Paid to pay, now the state will connive:
Pay to pay to pay, add six point five!
But this one point nine three
Mentioned proves actually
More than seven per cent will arrive.
Don't take a poet's word for it when it comes to the arithmetic of the great Slovenian bill-payment ripoff - you can work it out yourself using the formula:
New bank charge to you for them using your own money to make a profit for themselves overnight
----------------divided by------------------
Old bank charge to you for using your own money to make a profit for themselves overnight
or 1.93 / 1.8
= 1.07222
i.e. an increase of 7.222%
Based on the government's anticipated receipts from the government banks of 35m euros, if they all base their increases on NLB's "non-profit" calculation the banks should make another 237350 euros from not increasing the charge for using your own bill money to make a profit for themselves overnight, as 1.07222 / 1.065 x 35000000 = 35237350
More Slovenian tax proposals at http://is.gd/3QMFdr
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Humourless hucksters from Planet Hick exterminated this harmless haiku from http://www.sloveniatimes.com/meeting-agrees-sovereign-holding-supervisors-must-be-independent
B9 DICTATOR-KU
Humans usually
Like cheap real estate - robot
Would be the best choice.
What might the bad-bankobot say to the protestors?
B9 DICTATOR-KU
Humans usually
Like cheap real estate - robot
Would be the best choice.
What might the bad-bankobot say to the protestors?
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...And when they were down they were down.
When a local pub changed hands and auctioned off some of its bits and pieces for a few euros, several imbibers did gather in search of mementoes to a repeatedly forgotten era. On normal days they were always shouting and waving their arms about.
However come the auction, which was conducted in a slightly embarrassed, hushed mumble, it seemed every item - if sold at all - went for the maiden bid.
Revealingly, publicly valuing something more highly than your neighbour was clearly alien to the crowd's temperament.
Assertiveness, competition, confidence in one's own judgement, and being the first are all strictly sublimated into sporty categories, and do not feature in Slovenia's misbehavioural economics phenomenon.
Nobody tried to offer less than the first ask, the most reserved thing being the audience. It was obvious no-one had ever seen a live auction. If they did know what they were supposed to do, they were too shy to show it. Pretty weird.
No Slovenian attendees, then, for the attempted disposal of this crumbling ski resort. With only one non-bidder, had only the official receiver offered to accept rubles, and maybe the Russians (and the vendors) might have seen some point.
When a local pub changed hands and auctioned off some of its bits and pieces for a few euros, several imbibers did gather in search of mementoes to a repeatedly forgotten era. On normal days they were always shouting and waving their arms about.
However come the auction, which was conducted in a slightly embarrassed, hushed mumble, it seemed every item - if sold at all - went for the maiden bid.
Revealingly, publicly valuing something more highly than your neighbour was clearly alien to the crowd's temperament.
Assertiveness, competition, confidence in one's own judgement, and being the first are all strictly sublimated into sporty categories, and do not feature in Slovenia's misbehavioural economics phenomenon.
Nobody tried to offer less than the first ask, the most reserved thing being the audience. It was obvious no-one had ever seen a live auction. If they did know what they were supposed to do, they were too shy to show it. Pretty weird.
No Slovenian attendees, then, for the attempted disposal of this crumbling ski resort. With only one non-bidder, had only the official receiver offered to accept rubles, and maybe the Russians (and the vendors) might have seen some point.
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ALLAH RAM AND BLACK BAA-KU
Lamb - terrifying
To Slovenians. Mutn't
Address: is Islam.
More than 300 sheep have died in a traffic accident, caused by a drunk policeman.
For religious reasons, you never find lamb or mutton on Slovenian shelves.
It might attract Croatians or Bosnians.
Lamb - terrifying
To Slovenians. Mutn't
Address: is Islam.
More than 300 sheep have died in a traffic accident, caused by a drunk policeman.
For religious reasons, you never find lamb or mutton on Slovenian shelves.
It might attract Croatians or Bosnians.
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Ptuj weather 1900hrs:
To commemorate this historic day Perutnina Ptuj has released a Special Edition of the Town Smell. As befits such occasions, I am releasing the following national poem as part of the ongoing festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell.
Like both of today's releases, this poem is highly technical, and I advise you to study the rendering processes of the poultry industry if you want to become more deeply immersed in the topic, or alternatively you could just buy my house.
KIBBLER ŽAN
Mmm...wanna glue a kibbler, Žan?
No? State, try chicken dome decree...
100% Slovenian-made
That on a smelly murky day'd
Seal in morbid aroma.
Could I remind again thee:
Nerve it's gone on so long,
Too much! Even at night! Begin the
Hut with ducting for your pong.
Once you've filled that dome your air
Stays in! Those who smell only spice
And all their herd should stay in there,
And all should cry, It's just not fair!
Eyes in their tears, feet in their hair!
Weave with cyclone all smells thrice,
Enclose your bits of poultry dead -
Grand flunk your stink test: pay the price.
And the price during the festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell is of course one poem publication per smell experience (1 poem/day max.)
Slovenians are very intelligent. I bet they'd do anything to keep my poultry poetry paltry. The way I recommend is to stop Perutnina Ptuj's routine pollution. If you achieve "zeroma" I'll try not to be offended.
Of course no-one wants to go near it. That's the whole point about not sending it out here!
http://survivingthesheep.com/how-to-butcher-your-own-poultry/
Kibbler. Xian's. Probably.
http://hnkexing.en.alibaba.com/product/725650172-209692763/Bone_kibbler_machine.html
The origins of today's smell-po are mainly the last bit of
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - www.241.si
To commemorate this historic day Perutnina Ptuj has released a Special Edition of the Town Smell. As befits such occasions, I am releasing the following national poem as part of the ongoing festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell.
Like both of today's releases, this poem is highly technical, and I advise you to study the rendering processes of the poultry industry if you want to become more deeply immersed in the topic, or alternatively you could just buy my house.
KIBBLER ŽAN
Mmm...wanna glue a kibbler, Žan?
No? State, try chicken dome decree...
100% Slovenian-made
That on a smelly murky day'd
Seal in morbid aroma.
Could I remind again thee:
Nerve it's gone on so long,
Too much! Even at night! Begin the
Hut with ducting for your pong.
Once you've filled that dome your air
Stays in! Those who smell only spice
And all their herd should stay in there,
And all should cry, It's just not fair!
Eyes in their tears, feet in their hair!
Weave with cyclone all smells thrice,
Enclose your bits of poultry dead -
Grand flunk your stink test: pay the price.
And the price during the festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell is of course one poem publication per smell experience (1 poem/day max.)
Slovenians are very intelligent. I bet they'd do anything to keep my poultry poetry paltry. The way I recommend is to stop Perutnina Ptuj's routine pollution. If you achieve "zeroma" I'll try not to be offended.
Of course no-one wants to go near it. That's the whole point about not sending it out here!
http://survivingthesheep.com/how-to-butcher-your-own-poultry/
Kibbler. Xian's. Probably.
http://hnkexing.en.alibaba.com/product/725650172-209692763/Bone_kibbler_machine.html
The origins of today's smell-po are mainly the last bit of
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - www.241.si
Soglasni: Janša gre iz
zapora | Slovenskenovice.si
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FROM THE ARCHIVE:
ERASED NATIONAL POETRY OF SLOVENIA
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table.
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
ERASED NATIONAL POETRY OF SLOVENIA
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table.
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
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KAMENIK IS A WERTHER ORIGINAL. Note to other teachers unable to work out that they are likely to get filmed if they have sex at work, to smartphone-wielding students about to get blamed by Catholic-type people for suicidal sexy teachers, and to journalists who got their job at trashy papers by whatever means: IF YOU KILL YOURSELF YOU'LL BE DEAD.
Students and Slovenians in general are of course famously stereotypical, herd-like, channeled for political statistical purposes into unindividualistic roles and - to make sure - traditionally required to be pissed out their minds.
All of which factors combine with pop-journalism and the usual pondlife to present a high risk for the Werther Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
Students and Slovenians in general are of course famously stereotypical, herd-like, channeled for political statistical purposes into unindividualistic roles and - to make sure - traditionally required to be pissed out their minds.
All of which factors combine with pop-journalism and the usual pondlife to present a high risk for the Werther Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
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Slowenisch gesunden Mineralwasser Spaß Fakten, die zusammen mit den meisten meiner Gedichte ging den Bach runter während der Herrschaft von Miro I ...
QUACK-ER-HI-SODIUM-KU
Deutsch Krämpfe, Schwäche?
Bundesministerin für
Gesundheit sich sick?
"The aesthetic objective for sodium in drinking water is ≤200 mg/L. The taste of drinking water is generally considered offensive at sodium concentrations above the aesthetic objective."
Canadian tap water has "5.6 mg/L of sodium, as a national median"
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/sodium/index-eng.php
Luckily mineral waters are outside the scope of EU Directive 98/83/EC, so the limit of 200mg/L only applies to tap water
http://is.gd/q9ez1d
According to WHO, "Domestic water softeners can give levels of over 300 mg/litre, but much lower ones are usually found."
http://is.gd/0DTfl6
Do you have a crampy baby? Radenska has sodium 20 times the recommendation for baby formula (Committee on Nutrition of the German Society of Paediatrics) http://is.gd/Tu0RoM
Radenska's sodium concentration is two times German drinking water limits.
Sadly this was still not enough for Radenska founder Karl Henn who committed suicide at Rimske Toplice in 1877 after contracting kidney cancer.
Uranium content of Radenska: no data.
Meanwhile in the world of Slovenian advertising...
"Lack of sodium may result in weakness, illness, muscle cramps and in some cases even break down of vital body functions." (Radenska advert).
Before Slovenia goes purple-faced with indignation let me point out that locally, for safety reasons, Radenksa is usually diluted with pesticide-rich plonk.
So Radenska Classic is not for babies - or anyone, really. Except maybe ducks.
Caveat emptor...
QUACK-ER-HI-SODIUM-KU
Deutsch Krämpfe, Schwäche?
Bundesministerin für
Gesundheit sich sick?
"The aesthetic objective for sodium in drinking water is ≤200 mg/L. The taste of drinking water is generally considered offensive at sodium concentrations above the aesthetic objective."
Canadian tap water has "5.6 mg/L of sodium, as a national median"
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/sodium/index-eng.php
Luckily mineral waters are outside the scope of EU Directive 98/83/EC, so the limit of 200mg/L only applies to tap water
http://is.gd/q9ez1d
According to WHO, "Domestic water softeners can give levels of over 300 mg/litre, but much lower ones are usually found."
http://is.gd/0DTfl6
Do you have a crampy baby? Radenska has sodium 20 times the recommendation for baby formula (Committee on Nutrition of the German Society of Paediatrics) http://is.gd/Tu0RoM
Radenska's sodium concentration is two times German drinking water limits.
Sadly this was still not enough for Radenska founder Karl Henn who committed suicide at Rimske Toplice in 1877 after contracting kidney cancer.
Uranium content of Radenska: no data.
Meanwhile in the world of Slovenian advertising...
"Lack of sodium may result in weakness, illness, muscle cramps and in some cases even break down of vital body functions." (Radenska advert).
Before Slovenia goes purple-faced with indignation let me point out that locally, for safety reasons, Radenksa is usually diluted with pesticide-rich plonk.
So Radenska Classic is not for babies - or anyone, really. Except maybe ducks.
Caveat emptor...
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FAMILY HONOUR DESTROYED:
SHAMELESS HUSSY ASKS FOR IT ON NATIONAL TV
Sexual activity involving the former Data Protection Commissioner is featured live on RTV while she is interviewed by a cheap hypnotist.
Ptuj's male experts on sexual ideology assure me there are two types of women in Slovenia where naughtiness is concerned, and this public outrage leaves no doubt in which camp Pirc Musar belongs. What does she expect, hanging around in the streets barefaced and without a relative? RTV should also go to jail. If not for this, then for something.
If Slovenia's double standard is ever going to catch up with Afghanistan's she should obviously be banged up several years for this. The family's honour has been destroyed and this means shame to the end for every Slovenian as they are all related.
Today's re-erected haiku from a year ago vanished under The Great Deletion. It's about Slovenia's non-interest in data privacy matters. This year Slovenia did join in, with some street theatre. http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/ecsm-countries/slovenia - their show doesn't seem to have made it onto the internet so I guess it's secure.
DIOECETES DIOECESANUS, HAEC HOC-KU
Theo-Net-Hoover:
Cyber Security Month
Lost to Moldova.
Like some unpopular kid who doesn't get invited to parties, Slovenia alone among the 27 participating countries has no events in the EU's [2012] European Cyber Security Month.
Presumably the archbishops don't need any advice about staying ahead in the war on cyber crime, or faith in lesser authorities, what with His superior computing power and server load balancing. Even Moldova is more hip, with one conference.
I understand there is a special box connected to the telecoms backbone, where as the Internet leaves Slovenia it can unload all our sins at once in the sanctimony of the confessional. As penance the Internet is then told to say some popups and banner ads, and off it goes on its way, to civilisation.
http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/events
The sex part of the video starts at 3.15 and, in true Slovenian style, ends at 3.17. Perhaps he's a magician, not a hypnotist... Now you see it - now you don't!
SHAMELESS HUSSY ASKS FOR IT ON NATIONAL TV
Sexual activity involving the former Data Protection Commissioner is featured live on RTV while she is interviewed by a cheap hypnotist.
Ptuj's male experts on sexual ideology assure me there are two types of women in Slovenia where naughtiness is concerned, and this public outrage leaves no doubt in which camp Pirc Musar belongs. What does she expect, hanging around in the streets barefaced and without a relative? RTV should also go to jail. If not for this, then for something.
If Slovenia's double standard is ever going to catch up with Afghanistan's she should obviously be banged up several years for this. The family's honour has been destroyed and this means shame to the end for every Slovenian as they are all related.
Today's re-erected haiku from a year ago vanished under The Great Deletion. It's about Slovenia's non-interest in data privacy matters. This year Slovenia did join in, with some street theatre. http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/ecsm-countries/slovenia - their show doesn't seem to have made it onto the internet so I guess it's secure.
DIOECETES DIOECESANUS, HAEC HOC-KU
Theo-Net-Hoover:
Cyber Security Month
Lost to Moldova.
Like some unpopular kid who doesn't get invited to parties, Slovenia alone among the 27 participating countries has no events in the EU's [2012] European Cyber Security Month.
Presumably the archbishops don't need any advice about staying ahead in the war on cyber crime, or faith in lesser authorities, what with His superior computing power and server load balancing. Even Moldova is more hip, with one conference.
I understand there is a special box connected to the telecoms backbone, where as the Internet leaves Slovenia it can unload all our sins at once in the sanctimony of the confessional. As penance the Internet is then told to say some popups and banner ads, and off it goes on its way, to civilisation.
http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/events
The sex part of the video starts at 3.15 and, in true Slovenian style, ends at 3.17. Perhaps he's a magician, not a hypnotist... Now you see it - now you don't!
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As we all know from religion, the more centuries out of touch with reality laws are, and the narrower the group whose interests they serve, the better they must be.
Slovenia's previous Data Protection Commissioner has become fond of the media, where she states that school pupils are committing an offence by filming their teachers having sex at work.
In this she is not entering into moral judgements, merely stating the facts of the law. http://is.gd/l471PI
If Slovenia, like Afghanistan, leaves it to the clergy to stick its nose in everywhere and decide what is right or wrong, I'm sure inappropriate judgements will be avoided.
What Slovenia needs is a court where the maths teacher has to become the headmaster's wife No. 2, or do fifteen years for moral crimes.
To keep things in proportion per Pirc Musar's thinking, the pupils should be stoned to death for making graven images.
Slovenia's previous Data Protection Commissioner has become fond of the media, where she states that school pupils are committing an offence by filming their teachers having sex at work.
In this she is not entering into moral judgements, merely stating the facts of the law. http://is.gd/l471PI
If Slovenia, like Afghanistan, leaves it to the clergy to stick its nose in everywhere and decide what is right or wrong, I'm sure inappropriate judgements will be avoided.
What Slovenia needs is a court where the maths teacher has to become the headmaster's wife No. 2, or do fifteen years for moral crimes.
To keep things in proportion per Pirc Musar's thinking, the pupils should be stoned to death for making graven images.
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From Scargill To Štrukelj...
Went on strike with the Communists,
And I didn’t move up,
Because we weren't Communist.
Went on strike with the Jews,
And I didn’t move up,
Because there weren't any Jews.
Went on strike with the Catholics,
And I didn’t move up,
In fact I actually had to move into a smaller flat and share with my auntie.
Then I went on strike for the union
Thanks to which they got me
This place by the river. Which was nice.
Poem based on http://is.gd/HbhPHa Obviously.
Went on strike with the Communists,
And I didn’t move up,
Because we weren't Communist.
Went on strike with the Jews,
And I didn’t move up,
Because there weren't any Jews.
Went on strike with the Catholics,
And I didn’t move up,
In fact I actually had to move into a smaller flat and share with my auntie.
Then I went on strike for the union
Thanks to which they got me
This place by the river. Which was nice.
Poem based on http://is.gd/HbhPHa Obviously.
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DOMESTIC MURDER-SUICIDE OF THE DAY
What's going on, brothers and sisters? Hardly a week goes by without suicidal drunks - some quite elderly and some with guns - getting overprotective of their overdemanding bitches and not very chilled when they try to go for the freedom ting. The usual routine: if-you're-leaving-we're-all-leaving.
Has Slovenia made the top spot in domestic murder-suicides? International comparisons in this subcategory are hard to locate. But here we are — in second place out of 75 countries for male suicide.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Suicide-rates/Suicide-rate-%28males%29
Which includes most of the spousal murder-suicides.
However suicidal, readers of Slovenske Novice might be puzzled to learn that with its 32-times bigger population, in the UK:
"From the years 1997–2006, there were on average 12 cases each year of male-on-female homicides that ended in suicide. Official Home Office sources reveal that there are around 100 male-on-female homicides for each year .... this means that only a small percentage—around 10% of these intimate homicides ends in suicide in England and Wales."
http://is.gd/8qJAse
There can be no doubt Slovenia does not have the equivalent of 1/3rd of a domestic murder-suicide per year.
Forget about the murdering and Slovenia beats neighbour Hungary to the top of the charts in suicide for all:
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Suicide-rates/Suicide-rate-%28both-sexes%29
How to motivate enduring, tolerant partnerships? Invent a hellish alternative... https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/ACtGg784dfV
It's maybe better to end it all, after all.
What's going on, brothers and sisters? Hardly a week goes by without suicidal drunks - some quite elderly and some with guns - getting overprotective of their overdemanding bitches and not very chilled when they try to go for the freedom ting. The usual routine: if-you're-leaving-we're-all-leaving.
Has Slovenia made the top spot in domestic murder-suicides? International comparisons in this subcategory are hard to locate. But here we are — in second place out of 75 countries for male suicide.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Suicide-rates/Suicide-rate-%28males%29
Which includes most of the spousal murder-suicides.
However suicidal, readers of Slovenske Novice might be puzzled to learn that with its 32-times bigger population, in the UK:
"From the years 1997–2006, there were on average 12 cases each year of male-on-female homicides that ended in suicide. Official Home Office sources reveal that there are around 100 male-on-female homicides for each year .... this means that only a small percentage—around 10% of these intimate homicides ends in suicide in England and Wales."
http://is.gd/8qJAse
There can be no doubt Slovenia does not have the equivalent of 1/3rd of a domestic murder-suicide per year.
Forget about the murdering and Slovenia beats neighbour Hungary to the top of the charts in suicide for all:
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Suicide-rates/Suicide-rate-%28both-sexes%29
How to motivate enduring, tolerant partnerships? Invent a hellish alternative... https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/ACtGg784dfV
It's maybe better to end it all, after all.
Iz ljubosumja pokončal
24 let mlajšo partnerico |
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SLOVENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION OF THE DAY: COMING TO TERMS
Says popular rag Slovenske Novice:
"Kljub priznanju župnika očitno nekateri ne zmorejo sprejeti dejstva, da je bil priljubljeni župnik pedofil."
According to both Google Translate and Mymemory...
"Despite recognizing the priest obviously some are not able to accept the fact that he was popular priest pedophile."
Joj joj joj! Conflation rules!
Meanwhile a shower of off comments try to play it down, both here and in the somewhat more reliable http://is.gd/SIKfuO
There are other pedos who aren't Catholic priests, they helpfully point out, in the interest of balanced PR. How can we know it wasn't consensual with this 13-yo slut, and she is after compensation, while his terrible moment of weakness will be judged before god, it was the alcoholism that made him do it anyway...etc. etc. ...and you end with the extraordinary impression that the translation is indeed EXACTLY what SN meant to say.
To make sure we understand, in the very next sentence the no-longer-teenage victim is denounced and reported to the carabinieri ...for leaving a rude note on a clergyman's car. Don't touch the car!!
It's easy to visualise the whole town ganging up on her to protect Fr. Suard's good reputation, which must not be forgotten, apparently.
Another article prints a letter signed by students. You don't see 95 children rounded up to sing praise to a dead pedophile every day. Part of it comes out like this:
"We appreciate you because you were warm, courageous, sincere person who has always fought for the truth and legality as well, because we transmit the values of national consciousness and love for our language and culture. You are not stopped from obstacles and let it intimidate you by your superiors and always express what you mean. .... You are not a person who wanted broad support and you were not willing to compromise and reconciliation."
Well, yeeesssss... Not sure this is the traditional Slovenian culture they want to be advertising. And "always" is factually wrong, so I hope their educators pick them up on that. Those kids sure acted promptly to produce a good PR moment.
While remarkable for its barefaced sockpuppetry, the students' farewell lacks enough of the crude insensitivity various ideologies have spawned around here to be as funny as SN's own commercially warped angle.
And in fact "popular priest pedophile" agrees exactly with what the original says. Am I missing something here? Is it an adjectival irony deficiency? Isn't popularity's polarity barely obvious in the original? Is Slovene's burbling offhandedness merely in need of stiffer contrast? Or am I simply living among folks who cheer gung-ho for their worshipful local pedo?
Who, it must be added in this instance, has hung hisself a few days after proceedings for sexual assault were begun.
This was seventeen years late - a blink of an eye in the almost motionless Catholic world - when the victim realised her own niece was going to Suard to get a religious education.
She had to go, of course, or the whole damn fetid turned-inward world would crumble like a cheap church in an earthquake. Imagine what would happen to you if you didn't go!
Anyway, he was having problems with his resignation letter, and when the bishop walked in, had done a couple of suicide notes instead.
Probably carefully worded.
Says popular rag Slovenske Novice:
"Kljub priznanju župnika očitno nekateri ne zmorejo sprejeti dejstva, da je bil priljubljeni župnik pedofil."
According to both Google Translate and Mymemory...
"Despite recognizing the priest obviously some are not able to accept the fact that he was popular priest pedophile."
Joj joj joj! Conflation rules!
Meanwhile a shower of off comments try to play it down, both here and in the somewhat more reliable http://is.gd/SIKfuO
There are other pedos who aren't Catholic priests, they helpfully point out, in the interest of balanced PR. How can we know it wasn't consensual with this 13-yo slut, and she is after compensation, while his terrible moment of weakness will be judged before god, it was the alcoholism that made him do it anyway...etc. etc. ...and you end with the extraordinary impression that the translation is indeed EXACTLY what SN meant to say.
To make sure we understand, in the very next sentence the no-longer-teenage victim is denounced and reported to the carabinieri ...for leaving a rude note on a clergyman's car. Don't touch the car!!
It's easy to visualise the whole town ganging up on her to protect Fr. Suard's good reputation, which must not be forgotten, apparently.
Another article prints a letter signed by students. You don't see 95 children rounded up to sing praise to a dead pedophile every day. Part of it comes out like this:
"We appreciate you because you were warm, courageous, sincere person who has always fought for the truth and legality as well, because we transmit the values of national consciousness and love for our language and culture. You are not stopped from obstacles and let it intimidate you by your superiors and always express what you mean. .... You are not a person who wanted broad support and you were not willing to compromise and reconciliation."
Well, yeeesssss... Not sure this is the traditional Slovenian culture they want to be advertising. And "always" is factually wrong, so I hope their educators pick them up on that. Those kids sure acted promptly to produce a good PR moment.
While remarkable for its barefaced sockpuppetry, the students' farewell lacks enough of the crude insensitivity various ideologies have spawned around here to be as funny as SN's own commercially warped angle.
And in fact "popular priest pedophile" agrees exactly with what the original says. Am I missing something here? Is it an adjectival irony deficiency? Isn't popularity's polarity barely obvious in the original? Is Slovene's burbling offhandedness merely in need of stiffer contrast? Or am I simply living among folks who cheer gung-ho for their worshipful local pedo?
Who, it must be added in this instance, has hung hisself a few days after proceedings for sexual assault were begun.
This was seventeen years late - a blink of an eye in the almost motionless Catholic world - when the victim realised her own niece was going to Suard to get a religious education.
She had to go, of course, or the whole damn fetid turned-inward world would crumble like a cheap church in an earthquake. Imagine what would happen to you if you didn't go!
Anyway, he was having problems with his resignation letter, and when the bishop walked in, had done a couple of suicide notes instead.
Probably carefully worded.
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SPORTING THAIS
Celeb came to Slovenia, where,
Competitors who were not there
Up where (who cares) stats had sin winning -
Oh well, back to the violining.
Giant slalomisers slipped up at cheating! Igniting a marathon freestyle punfest in the comments at http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/nov/11/vanessa-mae-violinist-banned-skiing-four-years
Celeb came to Slovenia, where,
Competitors who were not there
Up where (who cares) stats had sin winning -
Oh well, back to the violining.
Giant slalomisers slipped up at cheating! Igniting a marathon freestyle punfest in the comments at http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/nov/11/vanessa-mae-violinist-banned-skiing-four-years
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The unions protest "aimless" privatisation, the civil service and police unions protest austerity and the latter also feel themselves sidelined by the former. We don't see anything the likes of Crapita on the horizon here in Slo-ven-i-a.
Out of fifteen companies slated for privatisation, four have been sold so far. The Archdiocese of Maribor itself is not one of them. And in the endtimes of Janša II, NPOSIALPU released this now deleted overview concerning unwinding and privatisation prophecies...
SEPTIC-DECIMAL JUVENAL DOGGEREL
Remember JJ and his "black hole" statistical fallacy? (Link 1 below)
Catholic values are super for where once were sixteen quite insolvent firms
A second list, of just fifteen, now exists in whom national interest has to go;
These ones, whacked from the back: Parliamentary Act wants them offed to bad bank on vague terms...
Their money has "gone" just like one sixteenth one: must the biggest loser - God - be saved
Humiliation at the hands of some bankers who don't understand local ways?
Though we must not assume, in a fire sale prelude, only empty shells will we include:
Zvon Ena and Dva are in court with Hilda, thus their sell-off's delayed - who'll be blamed?
What a shame Slovenia's so quiet about the Diocese of Maribor in regard to the straightening out of the country's finances.
With its great experience at spying on the population, its fight against liberalism both economic and personal, its centuries of lying - see http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis - its great experience in ill-treatment and suicide, and its collection of stolen fascist gold - http://is.gd/nex6T6 - the Vatican is ripe for privatisation.
Perhaps groups such as Corrections Corporation of America or Serco would be interested in bidding for this defunct business entity?
As JJ's sixteen insolvencies share some similarities with the fifteen squiffy companies the government is trying not very hard to sell off, I was aiming here for a verse in dactylic hexameters in the style of Homer.
I soon realised I could go one better, with seven trisyllables.
Dactyls proved elusive and right from the start you can see an amphibrach, many a mass of molossus, and the odd spondee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondee
With the great afterlife Catholic dinosaurs expect to enjoy, it's not a sin to smoke yourself and your kids to death.
Likewise with the poem: it's pretty hard to find an antibacchius anywhere.
Sixteen:
Number of economic basket-cases referred to in former PM's "red fascist" speech
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/KofeidCpTX7
Fifteen:
Number of companies Mr Barroso suggests Slovenia should sell to real business-people or else
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/parliament-endorses-first-privatisation-package
None:
Criteria published so far for the transfer of firms indebted to NLB, NKBM and the rest to BAMC.
Court report (in Slovene):
http://www.dnevnik.si/poslovni/novice/pricala-bosta-tudi-nekdanji-in-sedanji-nadskof
From The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
Out of fifteen companies slated for privatisation, four have been sold so far. The Archdiocese of Maribor itself is not one of them. And in the endtimes of Janša II, NPOSIALPU released this now deleted overview concerning unwinding and privatisation prophecies...
SEPTIC-DECIMAL JUVENAL DOGGEREL
Remember JJ and his "black hole" statistical fallacy? (Link 1 below)
Catholic values are super for where once were sixteen quite insolvent firms
A second list, of just fifteen, now exists in whom national interest has to go;
These ones, whacked from the back: Parliamentary Act wants them offed to bad bank on vague terms...
Their money has "gone" just like one sixteenth one: must the biggest loser - God - be saved
Humiliation at the hands of some bankers who don't understand local ways?
Though we must not assume, in a fire sale prelude, only empty shells will we include:
Zvon Ena and Dva are in court with Hilda, thus their sell-off's delayed - who'll be blamed?
What a shame Slovenia's so quiet about the Diocese of Maribor in regard to the straightening out of the country's finances.
With its great experience at spying on the population, its fight against liberalism both economic and personal, its centuries of lying - see http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis - its great experience in ill-treatment and suicide, and its collection of stolen fascist gold - http://is.gd/nex6T6 - the Vatican is ripe for privatisation.
Perhaps groups such as Corrections Corporation of America or Serco would be interested in bidding for this defunct business entity?
As JJ's sixteen insolvencies share some similarities with the fifteen squiffy companies the government is trying not very hard to sell off, I was aiming here for a verse in dactylic hexameters in the style of Homer.
I soon realised I could go one better, with seven trisyllables.
Dactyls proved elusive and right from the start you can see an amphibrach, many a mass of molossus, and the odd spondee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondee
With the great afterlife Catholic dinosaurs expect to enjoy, it's not a sin to smoke yourself and your kids to death.
Likewise with the poem: it's pretty hard to find an antibacchius anywhere.
Sixteen:
Number of economic basket-cases referred to in former PM's "red fascist" speech
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/KofeidCpTX7
Fifteen:
Number of companies Mr Barroso suggests Slovenia should sell to real business-people or else
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/parliament-endorses-first-privatisation-package
None:
Criteria published so far for the transfer of firms indebted to NLB, NKBM and the rest to BAMC.
Court report (in Slovene):
http://www.dnevnik.si/poslovni/novice/pricala-bosta-tudi-nekdanji-in-sedanji-nadskof
From The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
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FURTHER UN-ERASED SLOVENIAN UNHISTORY WITH AUTO-TUNE - And it came to pass, having smitten enough of the hordes of Janša to form a coalition, that Alenka The Legs proffered a sermon on the mount to the Yugo-Nostalgians.
And presently she did let forth a hearty Communist sing-song. And it seemed like the right and usual thing to do. And of its future detriment to her career and chances of getting out of Slo-ven-i-a to dwell in fabulous splendour among the EU-ites a mere year and a half later, zero was known in those times.
And the Yugo-Nostalgians went happily away and told it in the village of how she had associated with the relevant symbols, how things were going to be better again, that every worker would be a king, when once again you will be able to get 60 fags, a few beers and an untraceable-meat burek and still have change from fifty billion dinars. And Alenka The Legs became known there as Alenka The Red...
ALENKA'S DREAM
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live off its true leaning: towards greed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all bloodsuckers are created equally unable to accept their own redundancy.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Solčava the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a long table, eat protected-designation sausages, and get drunk, while an army of sausage-counters make 20% on everything. [Make that 22% now - Ed.]
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mussomeli, a despised state, smelling like the feet of self-interest and geopolitics, will be transformed into an orgy of free money and just about enough tourists...but not the really big ones as our toilets cannot cope.
I have a dream that Reinhart and Rogoff will one day get their spreadsheets right, so nations' bond yields will not be misjudged according to the character of their debt-to-GDP ratio, but by the colour of their imitation Chardonnay.
I have a dream today!
I don't have much need to read sovereign bond prospectuses, but I wouldn't follow Noonan or Osborne's examples at anything. http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn_12_04.pdf
And presently she did let forth a hearty Communist sing-song. And it seemed like the right and usual thing to do. And of its future detriment to her career and chances of getting out of Slo-ven-i-a to dwell in fabulous splendour among the EU-ites a mere year and a half later, zero was known in those times.
And the Yugo-Nostalgians went happily away and told it in the village of how she had associated with the relevant symbols, how things were going to be better again, that every worker would be a king, when once again you will be able to get 60 fags, a few beers and an untraceable-meat burek and still have change from fifty billion dinars. And Alenka The Legs became known there as Alenka The Red...
ALENKA'S DREAM
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live off its true leaning: towards greed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all bloodsuckers are created equally unable to accept their own redundancy.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Solčava the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a long table, eat protected-designation sausages, and get drunk, while an army of sausage-counters make 20% on everything. [Make that 22% now - Ed.]
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mussomeli, a despised state, smelling like the feet of self-interest and geopolitics, will be transformed into an orgy of free money and just about enough tourists...but not the really big ones as our toilets cannot cope.
I have a dream that Reinhart and Rogoff will one day get their spreadsheets right, so nations' bond yields will not be misjudged according to the character of their debt-to-GDP ratio, but by the colour of their imitation Chardonnay.
I have a dream today!
I don't have much need to read sovereign bond prospectuses, but I wouldn't follow Noonan or Osborne's examples at anything. http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/pn_12_04.pdf
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Intro to the intro: Yet more deleted National Poetry, dating from the time of the rising moon of Alenka The Legs. Like the degree plagiarism story which plagued her from the get-go, such verses as here below were exiled forthwith under her successor, in the Great Unfunny Silence amid the comments columns of The Slovenia Times characteristic of his reign. I dunno if that makes it better or anything. And now into the intro...
Maga habitu ad induendum: Lines on the Oath and Not-Quite Coronation of the PM-Designate from The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
New PM is, by qualification,
Perspicacious about perspiration.
Up to scratch entity
Oughtn't be sweaty - we
Risk bubonic plagiarisation.
Catholic plot #13f : put a woman in charge - when it goes wrong the politically informed in Slovenia can throw up their hands and say "Well what did you expect!?"
No court needs reminding of the deleterious effects of witchcraft on Slovenia's business activities, such as Welding-gate (TEŠ again): http://is.gd/Gf49Et - a master criminal and sorceress if ever I saw one.
The critics are wasting no time piling in. According to the sober view of Finance, Bratušek is a "public enemy", who as Director-General under Finance Ministers Bajuk and Križanič "bankrupted Slovenia"; she is "the Slovenian Berlusconi".
Such is the Torquemedan world of Slovenian politics, you are guilty of your dead ancestors' sins until forced, like Janša, to descend to the level of name-calling. The Slovenian PM's official residence consists mainly of windows from which you can hang by your fingertips, surrounded by a baying, stone-throwing mob.
How so many Slovenian politicians passed their exams using plagiarised text baffles me.
As far as I can see, no two people in this fine nation ever agreed on the same way of saying anything.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand offers a repertoire of poetry by the pool and immature pelvic gyrations for all your bunga bunga parties. www.maria.si
Maga habitu ad induendum: Lines on the Oath and Not-Quite Coronation of the PM-Designate from The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
New PM is, by qualification,
Perspicacious about perspiration.
Up to scratch entity
Oughtn't be sweaty - we
Risk bubonic plagiarisation.
Catholic plot #13f : put a woman in charge - when it goes wrong the politically informed in Slovenia can throw up their hands and say "Well what did you expect!?"
No court needs reminding of the deleterious effects of witchcraft on Slovenia's business activities, such as Welding-gate (TEŠ again): http://is.gd/Gf49Et - a master criminal and sorceress if ever I saw one.
The critics are wasting no time piling in. According to the sober view of Finance, Bratušek is a "public enemy", who as Director-General under Finance Ministers Bajuk and Križanič "bankrupted Slovenia"; she is "the Slovenian Berlusconi".
Such is the Torquemedan world of Slovenian politics, you are guilty of your dead ancestors' sins until forced, like Janša, to descend to the level of name-calling. The Slovenian PM's official residence consists mainly of windows from which you can hang by your fingertips, surrounded by a baying, stone-throwing mob.
How so many Slovenian politicians passed their exams using plagiarised text baffles me.
As far as I can see, no two people in this fine nation ever agreed on the same way of saying anything.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand offers a repertoire of poetry by the pool and immature pelvic gyrations for all your bunga bunga parties. www.maria.si
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Droning on...do drones now actually play this melodramatic music in real time as they fly around, like Lt Col. Kilgore's helicopter in Puckerlips Now?
It would be great if there were hundreds buzzing around constantly: "Oooh, there goes the Mahler Drone", "Look out! It's the Rimsky-Korsakov Drone", "Did you see my Doobie Brothers Drone shoot down the Jan Plestenjak Drone?" - these are the kind of things we would say.
This water is heading towards me! This particular water may have even arrived or gone past by now. Film-scored aerial views of impending disaster are rather a poor substitute for ARSO's broken flowmeter. Yes, ARSO. If you want a flood poem here's a perfectly good one from 2012 as these floods are basically all the same. http://www.maria.si/wet
It would be great if there were hundreds buzzing around constantly: "Oooh, there goes the Mahler Drone", "Look out! It's the Rimsky-Korsakov Drone", "Did you see my Doobie Brothers Drone shoot down the Jan Plestenjak Drone?" - these are the kind of things we would say.
This water is heading towards me! This particular water may have even arrived or gone past by now. Film-scored aerial views of impending disaster are rather a poor substitute for ARSO's broken flowmeter. Yes, ARSO. If you want a flood poem here's a perfectly good one from 2012 as these floods are basically all the same. http://www.maria.si/wet
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lost poetry of slovenia
As the sun sank upon the Janša II dynasty there was a visit from Environmental Health.
RACE COURSE
Fear not the Slovenian lasagne
No-one's selling shares in Lipizzaner -
The Liechtenstein horse is
Small - taxed in his sauce, easy
Cornering: shaped like banana.
http://is.gd/PLfMaO
As the sun sank upon the Janša II dynasty there was a visit from Environmental Health.
RACE COURSE
Fear not the Slovenian lasagne
No-one's selling shares in Lipizzaner -
The Liechtenstein horse is
Small - taxed in his sauce, easy
Cornering: shaped like banana.
http://is.gd/PLfMaO
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The months passed, and it was hot. What better way to spend those lazy afternoons than studying the economics that is going to fix the economy. You just put it together like an Ikea wardrobe...
A summer haiku deleted during the humourless reign of Miro I.
WOODLAND HIKE ECONOMI-KU
Not in the top ten
Economics summer camps:
Among the biggest.
A new dawn, the econo-mists are clearing, and it is clear the students can learn much from the rustic asceticism of Slovenia's hugely successful economic story.
Mealy-mouthed non-numerical descriptions are the way forward - our camp's "among the biggest" even if it is not in "the top ten".
http://is.gd/gjLvUP
At any rate, we offer an interquartile range of forest skills for economics summer camp students...
Start your campfire using just your glasses and some money
Survival: stay alive by doing nothing
Pond-fishing for positive statistics
Digging a liquidity trap and hoping a wild Pigou Effect will save your bacon
Un-undo-able knot-tying
Camouflage for fatties
Build your own log(x + y)n = log(xn + yn) cabin
Wild party with Bush and TARP
Make alcoholic regression analysis
Vomiteering
Holistic student dim sum bonding
Student p-test in horizontal channels, with heavy tailed distributions
Doing your duty by scouting for self-help books
Soft-rock climbing
Thatchering with Keynes
Clearing up your trash/The art of going light (students excused if too wet or suffer from Parkinson's Law)
A summer haiku deleted during the humourless reign of Miro I.
WOODLAND HIKE ECONOMI-KU
Not in the top ten
Economics summer camps:
Among the biggest.
A new dawn, the econo-mists are clearing, and it is clear the students can learn much from the rustic asceticism of Slovenia's hugely successful economic story.
Mealy-mouthed non-numerical descriptions are the way forward - our camp's "among the biggest" even if it is not in "the top ten".
http://is.gd/gjLvUP
At any rate, we offer an interquartile range of forest skills for economics summer camp students...
Start your campfire using just your glasses and some money
Survival: stay alive by doing nothing
Pond-fishing for positive statistics
Digging a liquidity trap and hoping a wild Pigou Effect will save your bacon
Un-undo-able knot-tying
Camouflage for fatties
Build your own log(x + y)n = log(xn + yn) cabin
Wild party with Bush and TARP
Make alcoholic regression analysis
Vomiteering
Holistic student dim sum bonding
Student p-test in horizontal channels, with heavy tailed distributions
Doing your duty by scouting for self-help books
Soft-rock climbing
Thatchering with Keynes
Clearing up your trash/The art of going light (students excused if too wet or suffer from Parkinson's Law)
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Halfway through the reign of Alenka The Legs, and seven months before The Great Deletion, the gods unplugged the land of the Slov-en-i-ites, and it was very, very cold...
KARMA CARRY-ON: NETWORKS PERUN DOWN
Finding nothing about local clergy cool
God responds with a strike, though not surgical -
With the price now of bolts
He don't waste volts on dolts:
Pylon major mishap metallurgical.
It was time for revenge from above, what with the hapless Slovenian citizenry - believers and atheists alike - now on the hook via the bad bank for half a billion euros of the money lost by wino-to-organ-to-porno conglomerate Archdiocese of Maribor plc (note: no business connection to Vatican City Titty Corp).
Church debt constitutes 10% of the bad bank's remit. Four fifths of that relates to their typically megalomaniac attempt to control the internet, via ISP/Telco T2.
As the Slovenian internet offered the only glimmer of hope that NLB, NKBM and Abanka might see some of your money again, T2 and its optical network project were spirited off under a traditional murky, media-proof cloud of Catholic shock and confusion to companies Gratel and Rešet.
With NLB in hot pursuit of these assets and trying to put T2's owners into bankruptcy, owner Jurij Krč - suddenly one of Slovenia's richest tycoons - has put them yet further out of reach by giving the Slovenian internet to his brother. As you do.
But of course you need electricity for an internet. The old gods know this and they're back - with this suitably anti-phallic expression of their displeasure.
Maybe these pylons would have benefitted from gromoviti znaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.solarpanel.si
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KARMA CARRY-ON: NETWORKS PERUN DOWN
Finding nothing about local clergy cool
God responds with a strike, though not surgical -
With the price now of bolts
He don't waste volts on dolts:
Pylon major mishap metallurgical.
It was time for revenge from above, what with the hapless Slovenian citizenry - believers and atheists alike - now on the hook via the bad bank for half a billion euros of the money lost by wino-to-organ-to-porno conglomerate Archdiocese of Maribor plc (note: no business connection to Vatican City Titty Corp).
Church debt constitutes 10% of the bad bank's remit. Four fifths of that relates to their typically megalomaniac attempt to control the internet, via ISP/Telco T2.
As the Slovenian internet offered the only glimmer of hope that NLB, NKBM and Abanka might see some of your money again, T2 and its optical network project were spirited off under a traditional murky, media-proof cloud of Catholic shock and confusion to companies Gratel and Rešet.
With NLB in hot pursuit of these assets and trying to put T2's owners into bankruptcy, owner Jurij Krč - suddenly one of Slovenia's richest tycoons - has put them yet further out of reach by giving the Slovenian internet to his brother. As you do.
But of course you need electricity for an internet. The old gods know this and they're back - with this suitably anti-phallic expression of their displeasure.
Maybe these pylons would have benefitted from gromoviti znaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.solarpanel.si
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Like many a national poem, this jolly parodic lump of lesnigarchy was eaten by beetles in the time of Miro I. Desperate Dejan remains our man of ag and fish...
COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
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COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
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Slovenian democracy marches forward - as it deletes another poem about a decision to definitely outlaw looking backwards from previously....
THEN AND NOW: A COMPARISON
Court's two cents: Tito title not titular
Tyrannulici wrecks - how versicular!
Constitutional feat -
No poll? Pot-hole banks cheat
Unenslaved with a trample testicular.
THEN AND NOW: A COMPARISON
Court's two cents: Tito title not titular
Tyrannulici wrecks - how versicular!
Constitutional feat -
No poll? Pot-hole banks cheat
Unenslaved with a trample testicular.
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With then-PM Janša now in jail, and with what we now know about the DL's rapping https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/CFyw7E6SuDk is the reign of Miro I really a good time to rebury the burying of the referendum on the bad bank by the SDS and DL with the deletion of this national poem?
Wasn't a constitutional change permitting no referendums on subjects of the national economy the result of this challenge to the government by the peeps (in a time of many zombies) - ?
Resurrecting the idea that the people having the money stolen by gov.si could have a say about it to gov.si - instead of gov.si passing a law saying they can't - seems to have a stronger basis than the SDS idea of declaring the 2014 election invalid if JJ gets free outta jail with a human rights card, because (they say) the legal system cocked up his election campaign by sentencing him to jail.
Of course the SDS knows better than most how dumb the electorate is. They still made second place.
Whereas if you changed the law and evaded the will of de people in a shady way, e.g. by ignoring the broad strokes and pouncing on technicalities, that would fit with a criminal pattern of behaviour, wouldn't it? Especially if you had previous, with the referendum on TEŠ6...
You can change history if you want to. The deleted limerick...
GEE, AS US DRIVES THE TEMPLE OUT OF THE MONEYLENDERS
Mountebank spanked, plans appeal to bunkum.
But who stank? Cops drew blank, though it stunk. Some
Pleas re constitution
Flunk? Try prostitution:
Church gains shared? No! Debts? Yes! Slam dunk 'em!
Wasn't a constitutional change permitting no referendums on subjects of the national economy the result of this challenge to the government by the peeps (in a time of many zombies) - ?
Resurrecting the idea that the people having the money stolen by gov.si could have a say about it to gov.si - instead of gov.si passing a law saying they can't - seems to have a stronger basis than the SDS idea of declaring the 2014 election invalid if JJ gets free outta jail with a human rights card, because (they say) the legal system cocked up his election campaign by sentencing him to jail.
Of course the SDS knows better than most how dumb the electorate is. They still made second place.
Whereas if you changed the law and evaded the will of de people in a shady way, e.g. by ignoring the broad strokes and pouncing on technicalities, that would fit with a criminal pattern of behaviour, wouldn't it? Especially if you had previous, with the referendum on TEŠ6...
You can change history if you want to. The deleted limerick...
GEE, AS US DRIVES THE TEMPLE OUT OF THE MONEYLENDERS
Mountebank spanked, plans appeal to bunkum.
But who stank? Cops drew blank, though it stunk. Some
Pleas re constitution
Flunk? Try prostitution:
Church gains shared? No! Debts? Yes! Slam dunk 'em!
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SLOVENIAN ERASED POETRY ARCHIVE:
HANKY BANKY 2
And it came to pass in the reign of Janša II that all the wise men who counselled said if Slovenia didn't get a bad bank everything would go tits up...
Anglo Irish Bank had Janša feeling
The "worst bank" could bring fiscal healing.
Such commissariats
Need Primorje's best flats
He's the government - it won't be stealing!
Today's limerick celebrates the PM's trip to Dublin, where he may have marvelled over the fact that the so-called National Asset Management Agency - Ireland's "bad bank" - has become one of the world's biggest property owners as a result of the collapse of AIB. Achievements of NAMA which will appeal to Slovenian ways include sending in the receivers to the property company which owns its own Headquarters (current rent EUR 1.75m/year).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/20/ireland-nama-banks-property-loans?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ugJUfLG9-dc
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/economist-mrak-slovenia-close-to-having-to-ask-for-help#komentarji
Another ST article covering the trip to Ireland has apparently become doubleplusunthink and has also vanished. It definitely happened though:
http://www.demotix.com/news/1440343/prime-minister-slovenia-arrives-ireland-meet-taoiseach#media-1440294
HANKY BANKY 2
And it came to pass in the reign of Janša II that all the wise men who counselled said if Slovenia didn't get a bad bank everything would go tits up...
Anglo Irish Bank had Janša feeling
The "worst bank" could bring fiscal healing.
Such commissariats
Need Primorje's best flats
He's the government - it won't be stealing!
Today's limerick celebrates the PM's trip to Dublin, where he may have marvelled over the fact that the so-called National Asset Management Agency - Ireland's "bad bank" - has become one of the world's biggest property owners as a result of the collapse of AIB. Achievements of NAMA which will appeal to Slovenian ways include sending in the receivers to the property company which owns its own Headquarters (current rent EUR 1.75m/year).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/20/ireland-nama-banks-property-loans?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ugJUfLG9-dc
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/economist-mrak-slovenia-close-to-having-to-ask-for-help#komentarji
Another ST article covering the trip to Ireland has apparently become doubleplusunthink and has also vanished. It definitely happened though:
http://www.demotix.com/news/1440343/prime-minister-slovenia-arrives-ireland-meet-taoiseach#media-1440294
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DELETED FINANCIAL ANALYSIS from the end of Janša II. I said...
Anchoring, in psychology: you already made your mind up something is true.
Maybe you have decided that the contents of your underwear drawer will look better on average if you move all the yellowing items with the holes and frayed edges into a separate drawer. You can label this "Bad Underwear" or, to fool snoopers try a more exotic title, e.g. "Sovereign Lingerie Holding".
One day there is a reduction in the amount Slovenia must pay to borrow other peoples' underwear, labelled "Boxer yields".
Events in international unmentionables appear to confirm your claim concerning the wisdom of starting a separate drawer. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy of the non sequiteur variety.
When boxers come down, the Finance Ministry can anchor its belief in its plan for the new undies drawer by saying this good news was partly due to the bad underwear idea.
It is not true and it is not actually possible to demonstrate a connection: it's just wishful thinking.
The drop has in fact been caused by Mr Obama attempting to deal with the fiscal crust situation in American underwear by permitting US citizens to go on wearing the same items for another couple of months, until their unspeakable laundry reaches the dirt ceiling.
Was the remainder of this boxer-lowering effect due to "general easing of tensions in the eurozone" as stated above - or Christmas/New year Holiday as it sometimes called?
Yields did not fall because of the Slovenian bad bank plan.
Yields on Polish bonds fell at the same time.
Poland is not planning a bad bank.
Poland is not in the eurozone.
http://is.gd/PdCHWL
http://is.gd/bA6sIa
Anchoring, in psychology: you already made your mind up something is true.
Maybe you have decided that the contents of your underwear drawer will look better on average if you move all the yellowing items with the holes and frayed edges into a separate drawer. You can label this "Bad Underwear" or, to fool snoopers try a more exotic title, e.g. "Sovereign Lingerie Holding".
One day there is a reduction in the amount Slovenia must pay to borrow other peoples' underwear, labelled "Boxer yields".
Events in international unmentionables appear to confirm your claim concerning the wisdom of starting a separate drawer. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a fallacy of the non sequiteur variety.
When boxers come down, the Finance Ministry can anchor its belief in its plan for the new undies drawer by saying this good news was partly due to the bad underwear idea.
It is not true and it is not actually possible to demonstrate a connection: it's just wishful thinking.
The drop has in fact been caused by Mr Obama attempting to deal with the fiscal crust situation in American underwear by permitting US citizens to go on wearing the same items for another couple of months, until their unspeakable laundry reaches the dirt ceiling.
Was the remainder of this boxer-lowering effect due to "general easing of tensions in the eurozone" as stated above - or Christmas/New year Holiday as it sometimes called?
Yields did not fall because of the Slovenian bad bank plan.
Yields on Polish bonds fell at the same time.
Poland is not planning a bad bank.
Poland is not in the eurozone.
http://is.gd/PdCHWL
http://is.gd/bA6sIa
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This fissure in the late-dynasty Janša II Finance Minister's timeline was deleted in the reign of Miro I...
FUTURE REVEALED! DR WHO ANTI-YOU JUJU VOODOO DOO-DOO
Referendum block fiscally healthy:
Enemy of your wealth is yourself. The
Bad bank bit's barefaced
As the bonds were purchased
Two months earlier. Ripe with gas...Delphi?
Ethylene is a gas with euphoric and anaesthetic properties and is used to ripen fruit. The Pythian ladies running Delphi's Oracle concession would have been fortune-telling above a confluence of geological faults.
By the time the bad bank referendum was proposed on 31 Oct 2012, the bonds were already sold. The Constipational Court's decision not to have a referendum which might have stopped the bad bank was just before Christmas, of course.
Maybe Slovenia would have had to give the bondholders their money back 9 years and 10 months early if the court's decision had gone the other way? Can you feel the mists starting to swirl around your head?
This is a mystery involving time and wisdom. The best way to explain how the sale of the bonds might have been screwed up by a referendum that hadn't even been proposed at the time is to look to the Ancients and their divinations.
Being on their knees sniffing Greek cracks and out of their heads may have assisted the Pythia with their prognostications, as ethylene vapours have been detected at Delphi.
Time travel is only tourism, after all. That could certainly increase the possibility of buying something whose "price does not reflect the real value".
http://is.gd/lX7vQm
http://is.gd/RDu8JB
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/finmin-national-interest-slovenia-s-biggest-stumbling-block#komentarji
FUTURE REVEALED! DR WHO ANTI-YOU JUJU VOODOO DOO-DOO
Referendum block fiscally healthy:
Enemy of your wealth is yourself. The
Bad bank bit's barefaced
As the bonds were purchased
Two months earlier. Ripe with gas...Delphi?
Ethylene is a gas with euphoric and anaesthetic properties and is used to ripen fruit. The Pythian ladies running Delphi's Oracle concession would have been fortune-telling above a confluence of geological faults.
By the time the bad bank referendum was proposed on 31 Oct 2012, the bonds were already sold. The Constipational Court's decision not to have a referendum which might have stopped the bad bank was just before Christmas, of course.
Maybe Slovenia would have had to give the bondholders their money back 9 years and 10 months early if the court's decision had gone the other way? Can you feel the mists starting to swirl around your head?
This is a mystery involving time and wisdom. The best way to explain how the sale of the bonds might have been screwed up by a referendum that hadn't even been proposed at the time is to look to the Ancients and their divinations.
Being on their knees sniffing Greek cracks and out of their heads may have assisted the Pythia with their prognostications, as ethylene vapours have been detected at Delphi.
Time travel is only tourism, after all. That could certainly increase the possibility of buying something whose "price does not reflect the real value".
http://is.gd/lX7vQm
http://is.gd/RDu8JB
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/finmin-national-interest-slovenia-s-biggest-stumbling-block#komentarji
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And in the time of Janša II the king of the Flemish Ban-ka-shoo-ras threw up his hands and said unto the Sloven-i-ites, OK I've had enough, just give me whatever you can. And even as he went on the road he was robbed.
And yo variously, NPOSIALPU blew his trumpet in warning, lest should appear in the land of the Sloven-i-ites any other stranger with gifts from the Otherlands.
And these notes he blew and the numbers therein were wicked in the eyes of the Sloven-i-ites, and they did smite them. There were musical differences. And his trumpet was sorely bent up.
See also:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/GgPV9ZbyaEb
A sad day if you are an overexpansive eurobanker of the early noughties.
But a great day if you are an impenetrable national culture with a huge chip on your shoulder about foreign invasions.
The 435m KBC paid for its 34% in 2002 is perhaps worth 557m in 2013 money - I used http://is.gd/o5gv36 for that
In diametrical opposition to the never-to-materialise asset sales posited under Jansa I, KBC let go of a third of that in 2006. In those four years the SBI20 quadrupled: by 2007 companies in the index were trading at 39 times estimated earnings. http://is.gd/yIaN4n
So the news is either good: Slovenia bilked millions out of johnny foreigner and stifled his plans to run NLB in a non-Slovenian way.
Or the news is bad: the whole 100% of NLB's shares (assuming there aren't more than this) based on the present knock-down price per Brussels' orders, are only worth 100 / 22 x 2.76m = 12.55m euros.
Which compared to NLB's supposed 2002 value of 100 / 34 x 557m = 1638m either means the bank was worth 130.58 times more back then...or is only worth 0.0076579 as much now.
Reality does not matter. The numbers are the main thing. EU rules have fixed it for Slovenia to make a cash showing at the expense of Belgium! Now all NLB has to do to look good in accountancy terms is move three times that amount in losses under a different heading - the bad bank.
KBC's share in NLB did not qualify as a "strategic investment", they said - and this is now proven.
Risk is what investment is all about. Slovenia should use its booty to invade Liechtenstein - before pushing on to occupy Monaco and Andorra in a pincer movement. Free move to Switzerland.
And yo variously, NPOSIALPU blew his trumpet in warning, lest should appear in the land of the Sloven-i-ites any other stranger with gifts from the Otherlands.
And these notes he blew and the numbers therein were wicked in the eyes of the Sloven-i-ites, and they did smite them. There were musical differences. And his trumpet was sorely bent up.
See also:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/GgPV9ZbyaEb
A sad day if you are an overexpansive eurobanker of the early noughties.
But a great day if you are an impenetrable national culture with a huge chip on your shoulder about foreign invasions.
The 435m KBC paid for its 34% in 2002 is perhaps worth 557m in 2013 money - I used http://is.gd/o5gv36 for that
In diametrical opposition to the never-to-materialise asset sales posited under Jansa I, KBC let go of a third of that in 2006. In those four years the SBI20 quadrupled: by 2007 companies in the index were trading at 39 times estimated earnings. http://is.gd/yIaN4n
So the news is either good: Slovenia bilked millions out of johnny foreigner and stifled his plans to run NLB in a non-Slovenian way.
Or the news is bad: the whole 100% of NLB's shares (assuming there aren't more than this) based on the present knock-down price per Brussels' orders, are only worth 100 / 22 x 2.76m = 12.55m euros.
Which compared to NLB's supposed 2002 value of 100 / 34 x 557m = 1638m either means the bank was worth 130.58 times more back then...or is only worth 0.0076579 as much now.
Reality does not matter. The numbers are the main thing. EU rules have fixed it for Slovenia to make a cash showing at the expense of Belgium! Now all NLB has to do to look good in accountancy terms is move three times that amount in losses under a different heading - the bad bank.
KBC's share in NLB did not qualify as a "strategic investment", they said - and this is now proven.
Risk is what investment is all about. Slovenia should use its booty to invade Liechtenstein - before pushing on to occupy Monaco and Andorra in a pincer movement. Free move to Switzerland.
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As Christmas 2012 drew near, the Gini was out of his coefficient bottle, nervous ministers faced zombies in the streets of LJ...my deleted unhistorical ode to dem independent celebrations.
CIVILISATION TO CONTINUE: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Hip hooray! Two days of national unities:
One for each of the Slovene communities -
Day one: Down with elites!
Independence completes
Day two - (various buffet opportunities).
Well what would YOU do?
CIVILISATION TO CONTINUE: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Hip hooray! Two days of national unities:
One for each of the Slovene communities -
Day one: Down with elites!
Independence completes
Day two - (various buffet opportunities).
Well what would YOU do?
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SLIPPERY CUSTOMERS - One thing you can't say any more in Slovenia in 2014 is...
In her latest victory the Slovenian ski champion overwhelmed the French by 35/100ths of a second.
Should a Slovenian bar owner's rivals manage to cause an official inspection, and his stock is found to differ more than five bottles from his stock record, he'll be fined 500 euros.
A driver can be fined for having more than a certain depth of snow on the roof of his car. I'm sorry, but I don't know the exact depth, or if the police go equipped with a special snow ruler.
No foreigner's social evening here is complete without the misapplied subjunctive mood question "How long are you in Slovenia?"
Some 18,000 people who, after independence, for one reason or another did not apply for citizenship or register as "foreign" became administrative non-entities. Several thousand such unpersons remained, with successive Slovenian governments happy to fund a pigs' trough of lawyers to put endless legal arguments against their existence, until finally being found in contravention of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in 2012 http://is.gd/Z2GL91
The defendants' award for their 21-year non-existence, with all that entails in a land of bureaucrats? Just EUR20,000-30,000 apiece.
Ironic indeed, then, that the country that is obsessed with counting everything today has the highest weekly, monthly, and annual increase in it's ten year sovereign bonds, and will have a 70% debt-to-GDP ratio by the time bank "restructuring" is factored in.
But still Slovenia wants to count for itself. There are many, many ways of counting: Elan is the company with the 2012 EUR 60.7m revenue and the EUR 86,000 profit - compare that to an EUR 80,000 "technical error" investigated by police. The Elan group to which it belongs is the one with the EUR 90m in revenue and a loss of EUR 1m. And this, mind, is a SUCCESSFUL Slovenian company. Yes indeedy.
Five bottles of beer?
Many scientific triumphs have emerged from measurement: it is the only way to get at the facts of the universe.
But any descendants of Jeremy Bentham, who somehow still believe more elaborate counting equates to increased honesty and sound business practice, or that a well-counted country is a well-run country, or that this is the road to human contentment, should look at Slovenia, drowning in its own accountancy, with its thousands of penpushers mired in its undersized statistical samplitude, and ask if the result has been a happy one for either the nation as a whole, or the people forced to run around endless tranquil offices meeting the demands of the counting classes.
Or if it is in fact the pet petty tyranny of various nobodies - useless parasites, vampires, and timewasters - making rules based on jealousy, denunciation, and greed. http://is.gd/Akx0rR
In her latest victory the Slovenian ski champion overwhelmed the French by 35/100ths of a second.
Should a Slovenian bar owner's rivals manage to cause an official inspection, and his stock is found to differ more than five bottles from his stock record, he'll be fined 500 euros.
A driver can be fined for having more than a certain depth of snow on the roof of his car. I'm sorry, but I don't know the exact depth, or if the police go equipped with a special snow ruler.
No foreigner's social evening here is complete without the misapplied subjunctive mood question "How long are you in Slovenia?"
Some 18,000 people who, after independence, for one reason or another did not apply for citizenship or register as "foreign" became administrative non-entities. Several thousand such unpersons remained, with successive Slovenian governments happy to fund a pigs' trough of lawyers to put endless legal arguments against their existence, until finally being found in contravention of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in 2012 http://is.gd/Z2GL91
The defendants' award for their 21-year non-existence, with all that entails in a land of bureaucrats? Just EUR20,000-30,000 apiece.
Ironic indeed, then, that the country that is obsessed with counting everything today has the highest weekly, monthly, and annual increase in it's ten year sovereign bonds, and will have a 70% debt-to-GDP ratio by the time bank "restructuring" is factored in.
But still Slovenia wants to count for itself. There are many, many ways of counting: Elan is the company with the 2012 EUR 60.7m revenue and the EUR 86,000 profit - compare that to an EUR 80,000 "technical error" investigated by police. The Elan group to which it belongs is the one with the EUR 90m in revenue and a loss of EUR 1m. And this, mind, is a SUCCESSFUL Slovenian company. Yes indeedy.
Five bottles of beer?
Many scientific triumphs have emerged from measurement: it is the only way to get at the facts of the universe.
But any descendants of Jeremy Bentham, who somehow still believe more elaborate counting equates to increased honesty and sound business practice, or that a well-counted country is a well-run country, or that this is the road to human contentment, should look at Slovenia, drowning in its own accountancy, with its thousands of penpushers mired in its undersized statistical samplitude, and ask if the result has been a happy one for either the nation as a whole, or the people forced to run around endless tranquil offices meeting the demands of the counting classes.
Or if it is in fact the pet petty tyranny of various nobodies - useless parasites, vampires, and timewasters - making rules based on jealousy, denunciation, and greed. http://is.gd/Akx0rR
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Yugobanking wrangles and meat-drying are compared in this untitled limerick, banished in the time of The Great Deletion.
Incomplete, Slovene meats dangle for a
Span less than LB - what a bora!
Frozen nest eggs Croatian
Make 'em overnight bacon -
Who would want dinner cooked by a lawyer?
Slovenia lose-ey? Not so news-ey: the ECHR Ljubljanska Banka verdict... http://is.gd/l32jMm
Incomplete, Slovene meats dangle for a
Span less than LB - what a bora!
Frozen nest eggs Croatian
Make 'em overnight bacon -
Who would want dinner cooked by a lawyer?
Slovenia lose-ey? Not so news-ey: the ECHR Ljubljanska Banka verdict... http://is.gd/l32jMm
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This health insurance policy from October 2012 was cancelled in the First Quarter Moon of the Reign of Miro I...
LOVE ACTUARY
Now Slovenian pensions post-Lehman,
Met longevity risk, what's the B-plan?
Until teachers and miners
Dig/die like 49ers
They'll be covered by black peoples - CEEMAN.
Slovenia has problems with its pension extension. The biggest one is that they were supposed to be going pay back the money their law said you had to give them. But you just kept on living longer and longer, threatening to ruin everything for those who, you believed, knew more about this than you. You were both wrong.
One thing Slovenia could imitate is South Africa's plan to discriminate against workshy minority groups: retirement age for university professors is to be raised from 60 to 80. http://is.gd/ozyTgV
The average life expectancy in the businessman's paradise of South Africa is about the age most people are finishing their exams in Slovenia - 49.
LOVE ACTUARY
Now Slovenian pensions post-Lehman,
Met longevity risk, what's the B-plan?
Until teachers and miners
Dig/die like 49ers
They'll be covered by black peoples - CEEMAN.
Slovenia has problems with its pension extension. The biggest one is that they were supposed to be going pay back the money their law said you had to give them. But you just kept on living longer and longer, threatening to ruin everything for those who, you believed, knew more about this than you. You were both wrong.
One thing Slovenia could imitate is South Africa's plan to discriminate against workshy minority groups: retirement age for university professors is to be raised from 60 to 80. http://is.gd/ozyTgV
The average life expectancy in the businessman's paradise of South Africa is about the age most people are finishing their exams in Slovenia - 49.
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BREXIT: BRITAIN POISED TO NOT REPEAL VAT
EU rules required the UK to introduce VAT to become a member, remember?
This European VAT comparison comment might have ruined everything if English-readers inside the feudal fiefdom had gotten hold of it.
The EU decided Žito was for sale and it's now 87% Croatian owned.
The profits mentioned in the article are just some accountant's joke, btw. Probably siphoned off to a holding company.
Deleted from The unknown-in-Slovenia Times in September 2014.
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GOODBYE TO ALL VAT
A most astonishing thing --
Nine and a half percent derived;
(Hurrah for the flours of Spring,
For Spring is here again.)
Nine and a half percent derived;
From each ragged beggar-man,
Nine and a half percent derived,
By state from a farmer boy,
And never have I danced for joy.
(after W B Yeats)
Ha ha if they want to make a third of a cent on every euro they turn over that's great! We don't want them profiting from hunger, or next thing you know the government will be expecting a cut every time somebody eats.
What's that...? Oh they do?
So the misunderstanding here is not about the amount of profit, but who profits, and when. Specifically it is the government, who don't grow, mix, bake, transport or sell us any food at all, who get 9.5% of what we spend on food...for some reason.
The UK and Malta charge 0% VAT on basic foods, Italy has 4% or 5% on staple foodstuffs, 10% on the rest, while Portugal has 6% on staples and 13% on some other foods, Poland 5%, 8% and 23%, Spain 4% and 10%, and Germany 7% and 19%.
Luxembourg, with the highest minimum wage in the EU, has 3% on everything edible, the Netherlands (second highest minimum wage) has 6%, as does Belgium (in shops, but 12% for catering, and also a 21% rate). The Cypriot government gets 5% or 19% from the gobbling habits of its citizenry while the full bureaucrazies are France with 2.1%, 5.5%, 10% and 20%, and Ireland with 0%, 4.8%, 9%, 13,5%, and 23% rates for various types of eating.
Among the flat rate food taxing governments Denmark, Finland, and Romania manage to get by with 25%, 14% and 9% respectively. Slovenia's northern neighbour Austria has 10% on all food.
Source: https://is.gd/dvfJEl
Minimum wages around Europe: http://is.gd/rE4Utp
So much for EU harmonisation. Here in Slovenia the arrangement is more a legacy of their political philosophy. You can kind of tell Žito is a communist company from their motto: "Determined and with no dissentions" http://www.zito.si/index.php?id=373
[ Yeah, don't diss their doughnuts or it's off to the gulag. Hope I win some marketing innovation prize for pointing that one out. It's gone, anyway - the red manifesto replaced by a shiny new mission statement, the equally hilarious Jamieoliveresque “To eat good, safe and modern” - http://www.zito.si/en/about-the-group/quality-policy/------------- Go on my son! Let them speak cake - hahahaha! ]
Where Slovenia seems to be lagging behind is in devising a huge and ridiculous bureaucracy to set various levels of VAT on food depending on which biscuits tax officials personally like.
Sadly Slovenian biscuits are all rubbish, and seldom elicit a contribution from yours truly.
A much better system, which could potentially employ hundreds of tax officials on such important tasks as counting the chocolate chips in cookies, could base the VAT rates for different foods on which political party the producers support - if you think I'm joking see http://is.gd/SLPWx4
(Rates as at 20/11/17)
a history of vat
http://www.marcusward.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-Brief-History-Of-VAT.pdf
tax alternatives from nposialpu
http://www.nyjets.si
BREXIT: BRITAIN POISED TO NOT REPEAL VAT
EU rules required the UK to introduce VAT to become a member, remember?
This European VAT comparison comment might have ruined everything if English-readers inside the feudal fiefdom had gotten hold of it.
The EU decided Žito was for sale and it's now 87% Croatian owned.
The profits mentioned in the article are just some accountant's joke, btw. Probably siphoned off to a holding company.
Deleted from The unknown-in-Slovenia Times in September 2014.
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GOODBYE TO ALL VAT
A most astonishing thing --
Nine and a half percent derived;
(Hurrah for the flours of Spring,
For Spring is here again.)
Nine and a half percent derived;
From each ragged beggar-man,
Nine and a half percent derived,
By state from a farmer boy,
And never have I danced for joy.
(after W B Yeats)
Ha ha if they want to make a third of a cent on every euro they turn over that's great! We don't want them profiting from hunger, or next thing you know the government will be expecting a cut every time somebody eats.
What's that...? Oh they do?
So the misunderstanding here is not about the amount of profit, but who profits, and when. Specifically it is the government, who don't grow, mix, bake, transport or sell us any food at all, who get 9.5% of what we spend on food...for some reason.
The UK and Malta charge 0% VAT on basic foods, Italy has 4% or 5% on staple foodstuffs, 10% on the rest, while Portugal has 6% on staples and 13% on some other foods, Poland 5%, 8% and 23%, Spain 4% and 10%, and Germany 7% and 19%.
Luxembourg, with the highest minimum wage in the EU, has 3% on everything edible, the Netherlands (second highest minimum wage) has 6%, as does Belgium (in shops, but 12% for catering, and also a 21% rate). The Cypriot government gets 5% or 19% from the gobbling habits of its citizenry while the full bureaucrazies are France with 2.1%, 5.5%, 10% and 20%, and Ireland with 0%, 4.8%, 9%, 13,5%, and 23% rates for various types of eating.
Among the flat rate food taxing governments Denmark, Finland, and Romania manage to get by with 25%, 14% and 9% respectively. Slovenia's northern neighbour Austria has 10% on all food.
Source: https://is.gd/dvfJEl
Minimum wages around Europe: http://is.gd/rE4Utp
So much for EU harmonisation. Here in Slovenia the arrangement is more a legacy of their political philosophy. You can kind of tell Žito is a communist company from their motto: "Determined and with no dissentions" http://www.zito.si/index.php?id=373
[ Yeah, don't diss their doughnuts or it's off to the gulag. Hope I win some marketing innovation prize for pointing that one out. It's gone, anyway - the red manifesto replaced by a shiny new mission statement, the equally hilarious Jamieoliveresque “To eat good, safe and modern” - http://www.zito.si/en/about-the-group/quality-policy/
Where Slovenia seems to be lagging behind is in devising a huge and ridiculous bureaucracy to set various levels of VAT on food depending on which biscuits tax officials personally like.
Sadly Slovenian biscuits are all rubbish, and seldom elicit a contribution from yours truly.
A much better system, which could potentially employ hundreds of tax officials on such important tasks as counting the chocolate chips in cookies, could base the VAT rates for different foods on which political party the producers support - if you think I'm joking see http://is.gd/SLPWx4
(Rates as at 20/11/17)
a history of vat
http://www.marcusward.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-Brief-History-Of-VAT.pdf
tax alternatives from nposialpu
http://www.nyjets.si
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This poem on the occasion of Alenka The Legs' first crusade to Brussels was written off during The Great Deletion of Miro I.
Från De Nationella Poet Slovenien På Ett Språk Människor Förstår
NATIONELLA BANK KÄNSLOMÄSSIG SKRÄP
Engelsk ord mot dålig bank, låt oss inse det
Kan göra många slovener att älska det
Idé Scandinavisk född
Irland, Spanien gödd
Välj nu som är den minsta främmande skit!
Originally appeared at http://www.sloveniatimes.com/pm-going-to-brussels-for-meetings-with-top-eu-officials#komentarji
Från De Nationella Poet Slovenien På Ett Språk Människor Förstår
NATIONELLA BANK KÄNSLOMÄSSIG SKRÄP
Engelsk ord mot dålig bank, låt oss inse det
Kan göra många slovener att älska det
Idé Scandinavisk född
Irland, Spanien gödd
Välj nu som är den minsta främmande skit!
Originally appeared at http://www.sloveniatimes.com/pm-going-to-brussels-for-meetings-with-top-eu-officials#komentarji
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Easter 2013 until deleted Sept 2014 national poetry
SHROVE GROVEL
Get your sacks, Türk family, sit on ashes,
Other Slovenes' big houses? Too flash, now please
Atone for erection:
Slo shoe-gazers expect an
Unfinished outside, more slapdash than his.
The prospect of the bungling bankers unleashing capital controls means a de facto multi-tier euro already exists. See why here: http://is.gd/2XB76G
Before the recent island bank robbery, Archbishop Chrysostomos was offering property previously handed to the Republic of Cyprus by 60s/70s President Archbishop Makarios, to help with the crisis caused by the sudden devaluation of the Cyprus euro. http://is.gd/9qxy5G
"It belongs to the people", he explained, concerning the EUR 80m worth he was offering up to securitize further Cypriot sovereign debt, to help rescue Cyprus from the problem caused by debt.
Now I do not pretend to understand the division of church and state in Cyprus. Not much of that, from the sounds of it. Presumably the actual ownership depends on whether you are collecting rent, mortgaging it, paying the mortgage, or paying for the bills and upkeep.
As a financial asset, property is neither particularly fungible or liquid. But it can keep the rain off.
As I understood the Slovenian situation (back in 2006) you did not need planning permission for a house if there was any kind of structure whatsoever on the parcel of land in question.
This often applied in the countryside, and many people had obviously taken advantage of that, building unfinished houses wherever they could before the government changed its mind.
Rethinking their parasitical rules, the ruling class (the clue's in the name) must now surely round upon these hapless go-getters, using whatever populist jealousies they can enliven, and attack whatever is available on whatever bureaucratic grounds can be magicked.
What must be understood internationally is that the political situation in Catholic Slovenia is totally the opposite of Greek Orthodox government.
The Türk family villa was constructed by an Eles (National Grid) contractor.
As this makes it public property it should be handed over to the Diocese of Koper immediately.
SHROVE GROVEL
Get your sacks, Türk family, sit on ashes,
Other Slovenes' big houses? Too flash, now please
Atone for erection:
Slo shoe-gazers expect an
Unfinished outside, more slapdash than his.
The prospect of the bungling bankers unleashing capital controls means a de facto multi-tier euro already exists. See why here: http://is.gd/2XB76G
Before the recent island bank robbery, Archbishop Chrysostomos was offering property previously handed to the Republic of Cyprus by 60s/70s President Archbishop Makarios, to help with the crisis caused by the sudden devaluation of the Cyprus euro. http://is.gd/9qxy5G
"It belongs to the people", he explained, concerning the EUR 80m worth he was offering up to securitize further Cypriot sovereign debt, to help rescue Cyprus from the problem caused by debt.
Now I do not pretend to understand the division of church and state in Cyprus. Not much of that, from the sounds of it. Presumably the actual ownership depends on whether you are collecting rent, mortgaging it, paying the mortgage, or paying for the bills and upkeep.
As a financial asset, property is neither particularly fungible or liquid. But it can keep the rain off.
As I understood the Slovenian situation (back in 2006) you did not need planning permission for a house if there was any kind of structure whatsoever on the parcel of land in question.
This often applied in the countryside, and many people had obviously taken advantage of that, building unfinished houses wherever they could before the government changed its mind.
Rethinking their parasitical rules, the ruling class (the clue's in the name) must now surely round upon these hapless go-getters, using whatever populist jealousies they can enliven, and attack whatever is available on whatever bureaucratic grounds can be magicked.
What must be understood internationally is that the political situation in Catholic Slovenia is totally the opposite of Greek Orthodox government.
The Türk family villa was constructed by an Eles (National Grid) contractor.
As this makes it public property it should be handed over to the Diocese of Koper immediately.
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from the riot archive
HAILYPAINFUL-KU
F / L / A / S / H / E / R
............. turns air > B >! L >! U >!! E >!!!
---cobbles --- < coppers > --- cobblers---
Hit : in :| his :|*%$!!| helmet...
Survived the Deletions of NPOSIALPU. Lost in The First Deletion of Miro I.
HAILYPAINFUL-KU
F / L / A / S / H / E / R
............. turns air > B >! L >! U >!! E >!!!
---cobbles --- < coppers > --- cobblers---
Hit : in :| his :|*%$!!| helmet...
Survived the Deletions of NPOSIALPU. Lost in The First Deletion of Miro I.
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I guess it shows what the problem is with democracy, when it's considered a success that half the people think their money is safe in the bank, while four out of ten think it isn't.
Hurrah for banks! What more could a population want?
At this time I was trying to discover Slovenia's secret formula for minimising the amount of money you can have snatched from your blocked bank account.
Further to [ waiting for link ] ...I hadn't got an answer from Unicredit about the attempted theft/financial fishing expedition by the court administrators and customs service CURS.
This next instalment will only interest people whose bank accounts have been blocked for not paying a bill they already paid years ago...
To Unicredit Bank, Ptuj
Any news on the block?
Do your lawyers plan to initiate a class action against CURS for all the accounts blocked due to the "accidental" reissuance of phantom bills from the past?
It would be wrong to speculate on CURS' motive. However, working for Customs is obviously a dream job - for racists and statists!
Now that we know that all Russians connected with Cyprus are criminals, and that a few minutes' TV coverage of this can certify a national bank robbery, a quick analysis of the ethnic background of the list of clients blocked due to phantom bills would reveal whether similar justifications are also credible in Slovenia in this day and age.
Perhaps in the end the authorities do not really care whose money they steal - or how much time Unicredit staff waste helping them. It would be far easier for Unicredit to just chicken out and let them do it again. And again.
But instead of freezing all the foreigners' accounts, wouldn't it make more sense to freeze the ones with the most money in?
Of course they probably have to freeze them first, under some pretence, to find out which ones contain any money to be stolen to begin with.
That would explain the whole episode very well, don't you agree?
However it does not pay to get too overconfident, as was discovered by your former shareholder, Colonel Gadaffi.
Using logic of a similar strength, who else might deserve to be blocked? Off the top of my head I can think of
Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block
and
New Kids On The Block - Crash (Official Lyric Video)
Probably your firewall stopped that. Technology gets it right sometimes
If your lawyers have nothing helpful to say please tell me so I can start on my own.
The way to not find out is to not find out.
What kind of a moron would trust his money to the banks of a theocracy anyway?
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/clampdown-on-illegal-buildings-planned#comment_2177
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Hurrah for banks! What more could a population want?
At this time I was trying to discover Slovenia's secret formula for minimising the amount of money you can have snatched from your blocked bank account.
Further to [ waiting for link ] ...I hadn't got an answer from Unicredit about the attempted theft/financial fishing expedition by the court administrators and customs service CURS.
This next instalment will only interest people whose bank accounts have been blocked for not paying a bill they already paid years ago...
To Unicredit Bank, Ptuj
Any news on the block?
Do your lawyers plan to initiate a class action against CURS for all the accounts blocked due to the "accidental" reissuance of phantom bills from the past?
It would be wrong to speculate on CURS' motive. However, working for Customs is obviously a dream job - for racists and statists!
Now that we know that all Russians connected with Cyprus are criminals, and that a few minutes' TV coverage of this can certify a national bank robbery, a quick analysis of the ethnic background of the list of clients blocked due to phantom bills would reveal whether similar justifications are also credible in Slovenia in this day and age.
Perhaps in the end the authorities do not really care whose money they steal - or how much time Unicredit staff waste helping them. It would be far easier for Unicredit to just chicken out and let them do it again. And again.
But instead of freezing all the foreigners' accounts, wouldn't it make more sense to freeze the ones with the most money in?
Of course they probably have to freeze them first, under some pretence, to find out which ones contain any money to be stolen to begin with.
That would explain the whole episode very well, don't you agree?
However it does not pay to get too overconfident, as was discovered by your former shareholder, Colonel Gadaffi.
Using logic of a similar strength, who else might deserve to be blocked? Off the top of my head I can think of
Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block
and
New Kids On The Block - Crash (Official Lyric Video)
Probably your firewall stopped that. Technology gets it right sometimes
If your lawyers have nothing helpful to say please tell me so I can start on my own.
The way to not find out is to not find out.
What kind of a moron would trust his money to the banks of a theocracy anyway?
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/clampdown-on-illegal-buildings-planned#comment_2177
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FROM THE DELETED NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE: POWER GAMES
Virant or Gorenak or both were involved in burying the TEŠ6 coal generating plant referendum...at this point the main thing was to get more money to add to the money already spent.
Here the company's PR was against "the Slovenian public, media and civil initiatives which have recently been attacking it with half-baked claims that are false". The EIB aren't stupid and so gov.si had to guarantee this loan.
A year and a half later eight Slovenians and two others are being arrested for nicking 284 million euros https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/jjt7nRNXzPB - or 20% of the (already doubled) project cost so far.
Sometimes a burglar leaves nothing but footprints. NPOSIALPU's accurate but deleted poetic prophecy from those times was untitled:
Lord Acton, Pitt, and Lamartine
Have in remarks forseen Slovene
Microstate run by some shower
End with absolute power
Pronounced - absaloootalee corrupateeeng.
I feel somewhat alone in failing to understand the referendum initiation process which results in "more than 2500 signatures" being collected as reported here http://is.gd/ifwVZW ending up being invalid because it was "only signed by 2151 people" as reported here http://is.gd/ZfC2bO without anyone in the country apparently commenting - despite signatures on a similar application re the bad bank being "lost" as reported here http://is.gd/PjkVtl
The well-known maxim, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," belongs to Catholic libertarian Lord Acton, but see http://is.gd/rCBcJ0
150 years ago, during the American Civil War, English toff Acton supported the Confederacy and afterwards wrote to General Robert E Lee in praise of the Confederate Constitution. http://is.gd/kTLmzj
This was identical to the original US Constitution in many ways, but differed in federalism, along with voting by persons "of foreign birth" and five further amendments aimed at the preservation of slavery.
Constitutional law? Slavery? Does any of this sound familiar? The American Civil War did not arise solely over the right to keep slaves, as simple and worthy as that sounds. Slavery was legal under both constitutions. In an early act of emancipation black people were allowed to get blown up and shot at to defend the Union, finishing the job.
And if it seems unlikely that a Catholic libertarian view of America in 1866 was that it had been a shame about the rule changes on slavery, that's because it is. Despite being a Catholic, Acton was almost sane, some of his views bringing him almost to the point of excommunication. http://is.gd/YgR8q7
It's more characteristically Catholic to go on supporting the side that has already lost, of course. http://is.gd/cwxOT6
Some argue that the roots of the Confederacy's attempt at secession lay in the unfair way taxes were raised (from the south) and spent (in the north, on projects with which members of the government were intimately involved). http://is.gd/gXmbUP
Elites? Slaves? Pet projects? Remote parasite-infested wildernesses left wallowing in corruption and bestiality? Does any of this sound familiar?
One confederate constitutional change opposed central spending for "general welfare" - as a deterrent to the type of pork-barrel spending which is of course rife everywhere.
For his troubles General Lee received a big smack on the Appomattox.
V teh okoliščinah prosim nasprotujejo škodljivo, nepotrebnih in dragih premog generacije s podpisom referendumsko pobudo, ki je iz neznanega razloga ne moraš najti na internetu.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand distributes low-voltage solutions to Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.12v.si
Virant or Gorenak or both were involved in burying the TEŠ6 coal generating plant referendum...at this point the main thing was to get more money to add to the money already spent.
Here the company's PR was against "the Slovenian public, media and civil initiatives which have recently been attacking it with half-baked claims that are false". The EIB aren't stupid and so gov.si had to guarantee this loan.
A year and a half later eight Slovenians and two others are being arrested for nicking 284 million euros https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/jjt7nRNXzPB - or 20% of the (already doubled) project cost so far.
Sometimes a burglar leaves nothing but footprints. NPOSIALPU's accurate but deleted poetic prophecy from those times was untitled:
Lord Acton, Pitt, and Lamartine
Have in remarks forseen Slovene
Microstate run by some shower
End with absolute power
Pronounced - absaloootalee corrupateeeng.
I feel somewhat alone in failing to understand the referendum initiation process which results in "more than 2500 signatures" being collected as reported here http://is.gd/ifwVZW ending up being invalid because it was "only signed by 2151 people" as reported here http://is.gd/ZfC2bO without anyone in the country apparently commenting - despite signatures on a similar application re the bad bank being "lost" as reported here http://is.gd/PjkVtl
The well-known maxim, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," belongs to Catholic libertarian Lord Acton, but see http://is.gd/rCBcJ0
150 years ago, during the American Civil War, English toff Acton supported the Confederacy and afterwards wrote to General Robert E Lee in praise of the Confederate Constitution. http://is.gd/kTLmzj
This was identical to the original US Constitution in many ways, but differed in federalism, along with voting by persons "of foreign birth" and five further amendments aimed at the preservation of slavery.
Constitutional law? Slavery? Does any of this sound familiar? The American Civil War did not arise solely over the right to keep slaves, as simple and worthy as that sounds. Slavery was legal under both constitutions. In an early act of emancipation black people were allowed to get blown up and shot at to defend the Union, finishing the job.
And if it seems unlikely that a Catholic libertarian view of America in 1866 was that it had been a shame about the rule changes on slavery, that's because it is. Despite being a Catholic, Acton was almost sane, some of his views bringing him almost to the point of excommunication. http://is.gd/YgR8q7
It's more characteristically Catholic to go on supporting the side that has already lost, of course. http://is.gd/cwxOT6
Some argue that the roots of the Confederacy's attempt at secession lay in the unfair way taxes were raised (from the south) and spent (in the north, on projects with which members of the government were intimately involved). http://is.gd/gXmbUP
Elites? Slaves? Pet projects? Remote parasite-infested wildernesses left wallowing in corruption and bestiality? Does any of this sound familiar?
One confederate constitutional change opposed central spending for "general welfare" - as a deterrent to the type of pork-barrel spending which is of course rife everywhere.
For his troubles General Lee received a big smack on the Appomattox.
V teh okoliščinah prosim nasprotujejo škodljivo, nepotrebnih in dragih premog generacije s podpisom referendumsko pobudo, ki je iz neznanega razloga ne moraš najti na internetu.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand distributes low-voltage solutions to Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.12v.si
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TWO YEARS' PATRIA & LABOUR
The window's neat, love those eight bendy wheels.
When roads have lumps, bumps, puddles, mud is hell,
And shooty things, how else can one propel
In rough terrain? Their sales guys had great deals.
I wish I'd Liechtensteined, though: Austria squeals.
I'll sue the media worldwide now as well.
I ought to earn a lot more than Štrukelj.
Don't blame me for the job's sideline appeals.
Turns on a dime. That Interpol request?
Illegible...after cops spilt some tea.
With room to lie down straight and sleep inside,
The gastight Ptuj model is the best -
With air-conditioned, whiff-free guarantee:
Helsinki to hell stinky, legal ride.
Well, it's based on "Patria", by American poet Henry Van Dyke, who in 1898 said "If we enter the course of foreign conquest, the day is not far distant when we must spend in annual preparation for wars more than the $180,000,000 that we now spend every year in the education of our children for peace."
Seems he was right as the US now spends $121,100,000,000 on education, without peace probably ever being mentioned, and $711,000,000,000 on the military, where it is probably mentioned a lot. http://is.gd/1crRnA
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The window's neat, love those eight bendy wheels.
When roads have lumps, bumps, puddles, mud is hell,
And shooty things, how else can one propel
In rough terrain? Their sales guys had great deals.
I wish I'd Liechtensteined, though: Austria squeals.
I'll sue the media worldwide now as well.
I ought to earn a lot more than Štrukelj.
Don't blame me for the job's sideline appeals.
Turns on a dime. That Interpol request?
Illegible...after cops spilt some tea.
With room to lie down straight and sleep inside,
The gastight Ptuj model is the best -
With air-conditioned, whiff-free guarantee:
Helsinki to hell stinky, legal ride.
Well, it's based on "Patria", by American poet Henry Van Dyke, who in 1898 said "If we enter the course of foreign conquest, the day is not far distant when we must spend in annual preparation for wars more than the $180,000,000 that we now spend every year in the education of our children for peace."
Seems he was right as the US now spends $121,100,000,000 on education, without peace probably ever being mentioned, and $711,000,000,000 on the military, where it is probably mentioned a lot. http://is.gd/1crRnA
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Communist Yugoslavia always loved stupid gamblers, as long as they were foreign. Along with the anti-drinking messages this type of comment was NEVER popular, even without the NPOSIALPU byline...
Tito may have despised gambling but gambling in Yugoslavia was a different sort of game.
Officially immoral, there were no gambling establishments in Yugoslavia - only 28 "Pavilions for Games of Chance". In theory operated by and for the proletariat, most were actually owned by rich foreign corporations, like Penthouse's mile-long complex on Krk. http://is.gd/zsMutw
To compensate for Yugoslavia's low exports and resulting low foreign currency earnings, exporting and tourist enterprises kept only a tiny fraction of their takings.
From 1967 the state took away 93%. In 1971 this dropped to 80% and the main producers of foreign currency, overseas workers and tourist money hoovers like this casino, were allowed to keep up to 55% of their hard currency incomes.
Despite this the foreign casino owners still came, built their pavilions, and suckered their decadent clients, corrupting the innocence of the poor Yugoslavs in the process.
The corporations took their winnings tax free. This was of course because whatever legalisation concerning this 100-year-old Portorož establishment took place in 1962, Yugoslav law did not class gambling houses as "economic entities". And this, of course, is because they "did not exist".
Meanwhile, Yugo gamblers without connections, who were not allowed in, were gambling away money earned in dinars across the borders in Austria and Italy.
The rest of the foreign currency coming in was siphoned off through a bureaucratic process whose length ensured that due to rampant inflation, your foreign earnings were worth plenty less by the time they had been converted into runaway dinars, and then back again.
In the true spirit of brotherhood and solidarity, the money you could actually spend disappeared into the hands of the elite. Ordinary citizens meanwhile received ever more impressive millions of dinars, worth less and less.
To puritanical communists the presence of foreign casinos - or any foreign enterprise - was high treason in theory.
In practice the locals were able to look both ways. Relieved of the tedious business of the day-to-day management of the accommodation because the casino owners would just pay the hotel bills for the high rollers to come and gamble their filthy capitalist lucre away.
Yugoslav management, in need of constant gambling research trips in the West, and tax inspectors and secret service agents appointed to jobs in the "Pavilions" were somehow able to cope with this, along with all the other opportunities involved. http://is.gd/OU7Tn0
Many of the ambivalent attitudes about foreigners which these propagandas and economic dependencies produced can still be seen in Slovenia today.
Tito may have despised gambling but gambling in Yugoslavia was a different sort of game.
Officially immoral, there were no gambling establishments in Yugoslavia - only 28 "Pavilions for Games of Chance". In theory operated by and for the proletariat, most were actually owned by rich foreign corporations, like Penthouse's mile-long complex on Krk. http://is.gd/zsMutw
To compensate for Yugoslavia's low exports and resulting low foreign currency earnings, exporting and tourist enterprises kept only a tiny fraction of their takings.
From 1967 the state took away 93%. In 1971 this dropped to 80% and the main producers of foreign currency, overseas workers and tourist money hoovers like this casino, were allowed to keep up to 55% of their hard currency incomes.
Despite this the foreign casino owners still came, built their pavilions, and suckered their decadent clients, corrupting the innocence of the poor Yugoslavs in the process.
The corporations took their winnings tax free. This was of course because whatever legalisation concerning this 100-year-old Portorož establishment took place in 1962, Yugoslav law did not class gambling houses as "economic entities". And this, of course, is because they "did not exist".
Meanwhile, Yugo gamblers without connections, who were not allowed in, were gambling away money earned in dinars across the borders in Austria and Italy.
The rest of the foreign currency coming in was siphoned off through a bureaucratic process whose length ensured that due to rampant inflation, your foreign earnings were worth plenty less by the time they had been converted into runaway dinars, and then back again.
In the true spirit of brotherhood and solidarity, the money you could actually spend disappeared into the hands of the elite. Ordinary citizens meanwhile received ever more impressive millions of dinars, worth less and less.
To puritanical communists the presence of foreign casinos - or any foreign enterprise - was high treason in theory.
In practice the locals were able to look both ways. Relieved of the tedious business of the day-to-day management of the accommodation because the casino owners would just pay the hotel bills for the high rollers to come and gamble their filthy capitalist lucre away.
Yugoslav management, in need of constant gambling research trips in the West, and tax inspectors and secret service agents appointed to jobs in the "Pavilions" were somehow able to cope with this, along with all the other opportunities involved. http://is.gd/OU7Tn0
Many of the ambivalent attitudes about foreigners which these propagandas and economic dependencies produced can still be seen in Slovenia today.
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LOST NATIONAL POETRY --- Sadly gone but not forgotten from The Slovenia Times under the new "no comment" regime, this tasty highland ditty in the Scots language...
LIES, DAMNED LYES, 'N' STATE STEARATES
Foghorn Leghorn in plasticware,
Ermintrude moos, Babe grunts nae mair;
Aw rendered dain tae candles thaur,
Nae mair min' fur them;
Hink ye Perutnina caur?
E'er mair fra' theyr lum.
To teel th' truth, cylinder volume -
That's radius, squared, times pi, times up him
4 x 10, say, if ye slightly crushed 'em -
Year's candles booght
Fit, when 'dozer (bull) o'ergangs 'em,
Wan tennis coort.
Bahookie fatty acids fizzle;
Help ma Boab! Enviro-swizzle
Burns theyr stearin in the drizzle
Fur stookie man -
They could be making bio-dizzle
Or pemmican.
Based upon Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux by Robert Burns (his own mock epitaph).
Th' Oor Country Bard O' Slovenia In A Leid Fowk Ken interprets important Slovenian speirins fur th' non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
LIES, DAMNED LYES, 'N' STATE STEARATES
Foghorn Leghorn in plasticware,
Ermintrude moos, Babe grunts nae mair;
Aw rendered dain tae candles thaur,
Nae mair min' fur them;
Hink ye Perutnina caur?
E'er mair fra' theyr lum.
To teel th' truth, cylinder volume -
That's radius, squared, times pi, times up him
4 x 10, say, if ye slightly crushed 'em -
Year's candles booght
Fit, when 'dozer (bull) o'ergangs 'em,
Wan tennis coort.
Bahookie fatty acids fizzle;
Help ma Boab! Enviro-swizzle
Burns theyr stearin in the drizzle
Fur stookie man -
They could be making bio-dizzle
Or pemmican.
Based upon Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux by Robert Burns (his own mock epitaph).
Th' Oor Country Bard O' Slovenia In A Leid Fowk Ken interprets important Slovenian speirins fur th' non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
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Another blast from the past. In contrast to Ptuj, where I only need to go about 50 metres to meet a melancholy ideologically-confused foreigner-blaming yoof, I bet no UK Pakistani ever met an angry jealous 20-something non-racist coked-up sporty UK Urdu-phobe who was "nostalgic" about Harold Wilson or Supermac.
This is what happens when you keep on living with (grand)parents who never really went anywhere. I really hope more people with a language people understand will come and help introduce Slovenia to the Present.
This is what happens when you keep on living with (grand)parents who never really went anywhere. I really hope more people with a language people understand will come and help introduce Slovenia to the Present.
Tito ni Rus ne Poljak,
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FROM THE VAULT - these ebolacious times remind me of another resurrected poem deleted from The Slovenia Times, in which...
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table,
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.jesus.si
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table,
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.jesus.si
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From amid the urine-soaked embers of the reign of Alenka The Legs came this horrible disposal of the bodies from the Battle of the Bankrupt Bishops...but soon after the coronation of Miro I NPOSIALPU's poem was banished to Google+...
RESCUE FROM RED DIGESTION
You have won!!! But Chinese brand unruly.
"High activity"...refunded fully.
Light the fire, Mom and Pop,
Mailbox filled to the top,
Chapter 11? - Don't worry on Dooley;
Yes, steer clear of phoneys and foreigners - only homespun Slovenian publishers such as Reader's Digestu* can deliver Slovenian writers from the clutches of the red devils. Its superb editing ensures Slovenia's national literature a seat in Heaven.
With RD every elderly racist is a guaranteed sweepstake winner - you only have to touch it once and you'll be on every competition scam and book club mailing list for ever. Hallejujah! And Begorrah!
*Not to be confused with the Reader's Digest Association, the American bankrupt religious right-wing/CIA mouthpiece which practically invented dumbing-down.
The Horror! Coming to a naive old lady near you...in 2008.
http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/press/digest.htm
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2008/9/The-Readers-Digest-Association-Ltd/TF_ADJ_44924.aspx
http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-settlement-readers-digest-association-provide
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/443/157
http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=8cacd5a9-af3b-4bc0-b553-665d486a33ba
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/readers-digest-c61628.html
http://www.consumercourt.in/books/10358-complaint-against-readers-digest-3.html
http://mythreecents.com/showReview.cgi?id=62048
etc. etc. etc....
http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/readers_digest/o_readers_digestu
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rA8cm8l7JXsC&lpg=PA75&ots=m7z0RMZX4b&dq=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&f=false
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RESCUE FROM RED DIGESTION
You have won!!! But Chinese brand unruly.
"High activity"...refunded fully.
Light the fire, Mom and Pop,
Mailbox filled to the top,
Chapter 11? - Don't worry on Dooley;
Yes, steer clear of phoneys and foreigners - only homespun Slovenian publishers such as Reader's Digestu* can deliver Slovenian writers from the clutches of the red devils. Its superb editing ensures Slovenia's national literature a seat in Heaven.
With RD every elderly racist is a guaranteed sweepstake winner - you only have to touch it once and you'll be on every competition scam and book club mailing list for ever. Hallejujah! And Begorrah!
*Not to be confused with the Reader's Digest Association, the American bankrupt religious right-wing/CIA mouthpiece which practically invented dumbing-down.
The Horror! Coming to a naive old lady near you...in 2008.
http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/press/digest.htm
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2008/9/The-Readers-Digest-Association-Ltd/TF_ADJ_44924.aspx
http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-settlement-readers-digest-association-provide
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/443/157
http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=8cacd5a9-af3b-4bc0-b553-665d486a33ba
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/readers-digest-c61628.html
http://www.consumercourt.in/books/10358-complaint-against-readers-digest-3.html
http://mythreecents.com/showReview.cgi?id=62048
etc. etc. etc....
http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/readers_digest/o_readers_digestu
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rA8cm8l7JXsC&lpg=PA75&ots=m7z0RMZX4b&dq=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&f=false
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From the NLB series...I haven't heard what happened about this but here's what they deleted anyway...
LE POUSSIN DE LA MAINTENANCE ÉLEVÉE (COMESQWERTY HOME TO ROOST)
Coq au vin: mettez
Bacon.............vin rouge...VITE!!!.........--č-č--č--č-č-č č-.........Ils chient
.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,.,,.,.,.,.,.,...Sur mon clavier.
A receiver has awarded NLB some pigs, incubators, bars and an old hotel, and 147,354 live Serbian roosters and chickens in respect of a 61.4m (27.4m admitted) bankruptcy. The corn has disappeared. NLB staff will need to bring their own garlic, onions and mushrooms.
http://is.gd/L2O9ku
LE POUSSIN DE LA MAINTENANCE ÉLEVÉE (COMESQWERTY HOME TO ROOST)
Coq au vin: mettez
Bacon.............vin rouge...VITE!!!.........
.,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,.,,.,.,.,.,.,...Sur mon clavier.
A receiver has awarded NLB some pigs, incubators, bars and an old hotel, and 147,354 live Serbian roosters and chickens in respect of a 61.4m (27.4m admitted) bankruptcy. The corn has disappeared. NLB staff will need to bring their own garlic, onions and mushrooms.
http://is.gd/L2O9ku
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UNTITLED WELCOMERICK
Welcome, NLB's new boss Janko:
Good to know that you chose the right stranko
With the time gained not shaving,
We'll all soon be saving;
Mah cat 'as 'ad nine lives...it can go.
Today's limerick celebrates George Michael-esque hirsutism in Slovenian finance, and recalls the wobbly bank's eight failed attempts so far to sell Slovenian not-so-supermarket Mercator to someone who knows what they're doing but - confusingly - isn't a foreigner.
Ptuj weather Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Normal air.
how the poem was lost
In the seventh moon of the reign of Janša II, the national poet was as unfertilised frogspawn, without official name or purpose, and it survived at the page below until the enthronement of Miro I and The Great Deletion.
Welcome, NLB's new boss Janko:
Good to know that you chose the right stranko
With the time gained not shaving,
We'll all soon be saving;
Mah cat 'as 'ad nine lives...it can go.
Today's limerick celebrates George Michael-esque hirsutism in Slovenian finance, and recalls the wobbly bank's eight failed attempts so far to sell Slovenian not-so-supermarket Mercator to someone who knows what they're doing but - confusingly - isn't a foreigner.
Ptuj weather Saturday Night/Sunday Morning: Normal air.
how the poem was lost
In the seventh moon of the reign of Janša II, the national poet was as unfertilised frogspawn, without official name or purpose, and it survived at the page below until the enthronement of Miro I and The Great Deletion.
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FROM THE VAULTS -
Day 17 of the reign of Emperor Miro I. Thou shalt not comment in The Slovenia Times unless you are selling loans or African witchcraft. All subversive comments relating to bad or just funny things about the PR-kingdom of Slovenia shall cease to exist. Among Slovenia's national poetic heritage lost in The Great Deletion was this one on its corruption ranking from 2012...
SLOVENIA'S FAVOURITE POSITION IS...
37th least corrupt, Slovenia lies between
Cape Verde and St Vincent, and the Grenadines
Both born slaves and poor farmers,
Republics, bananas -
Biffo bonked Marge, sis of the Queen's.
http://is.gd/1SIct3
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
Day 17 of the reign of Emperor Miro I. Thou shalt not comment in The Slovenia Times unless you are selling loans or African witchcraft. All subversive comments relating to bad or just funny things about the PR-kingdom of Slovenia shall cease to exist. Among Slovenia's national poetic heritage lost in The Great Deletion was this one on its corruption ranking from 2012...
SLOVENIA'S FAVOURITE POSITION IS...
37th least corrupt, Slovenia lies between
Cape Verde and St Vincent, and the Grenadines
Both born slaves and poor farmers,
Republics, bananas -
Biffo bonked Marge, sis of the Queen's.
http://is.gd/1SIct3
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Those SMC splits in full. A few colour combinations remain available for new political parties...
SMC timeline:
Stranka Miro Cerar formed 123 days ago, was elected with 34% of the seats 68 days ago, assumed office 16 days ago...the SMC party in second city Maribor announced they were gonna split yesterday...
SMC timeline:
Stranka Miro Cerar formed 123 days ago, was elected with 34% of the seats 68 days ago, assumed office 16 days ago...the SMC party in second city Maribor announced they were gonna split yesterday...
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ERASED OF SLOVENIA TIMES...SLOVENIA'S SECRET POETIC HISTORY
Slovenia's political parties, continued...
39. STRANKA EM-CEE - your local DJ on the mike. Forget those inauthentic big city mixmasters and party Maribor City style. Disco splits for all occasions - Reasonable rates.
ARCHIVE
Previous political parties 1-23...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Xz6yDnd5tVA
Previous political parties 24-27...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/2SpVvs2Pohy
28. Party of the present government (see Disco Dolly for timeline)...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/9Nv2mmaAygk
More recent parties 29-30...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/SLZpgVmqamC
More recent parties:
Political groupings as at Monday 9 June 2014
31. FINALLY IT'S THE WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (KJBSNDBUJ3S)
32. NO NO WE WILL BE THE ONES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (NNBTKBSNDBUJ3S)
33. HEY NO WE THOUGHT OF DOING ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III FIRST PARTY (HNSMDSNUJ3PS)
34. HEY EITHER YOU GANG UP WITH US TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WILL GANG UP WITH THEM TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (HASSZPNSNDUJ3ABZZNSNDUJ3S)
35. HEY DON'T TELL US WITH WHOM TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WON'T DO ANYTHING PARTY (HDNSKNPSNDUJ3APNBSNP)
36. LET'S SORT OF PRETEND TO GANG UP TO STOP JANŠA III AND SEE HOW IT GOES THEN MAYBE GANG UP WITH JANŠA III PARTY (NNPDZUJ3IVKTGINMZZJ3S)
37. THE EVERYBODY'S GANGING UP ON ME LIST OF SAMO KODELA (VSNMLSK)
38. LET'S HVAR BEACH PARTY (PHPS)
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world.
Slovenia's political parties, continued...
39. STRANKA EM-CEE - your local DJ on the mike. Forget those inauthentic big city mixmasters and party Maribor City style. Disco splits for all occasions - Reasonable rates.
ARCHIVE
Previous political parties 1-23...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Xz6yDnd5tVA
Previous political parties 24-27...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/2SpVvs2Pohy
28. Party of the present government (see Disco Dolly for timeline)...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/9Nv2mmaAygk
More recent parties 29-30...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/SLZpgVmqamC
More recent parties:
Political groupings as at Monday 9 June 2014
31. FINALLY IT'S THE WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (KJBSNDBUJ3S)
32. NO NO WE WILL BE THE ONES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (NNBTKBSNDBUJ3S)
33. HEY NO WE THOUGHT OF DOING ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III FIRST PARTY (HNSMDSNUJ3PS)
34. HEY EITHER YOU GANG UP WITH US TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WILL GANG UP WITH THEM TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (HASSZPNSNDUJ3ABZZNSNDUJ3S)
35. HEY DON'T TELL US WITH WHOM TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WON'T DO ANYTHING PARTY (HDNSKNPSNDUJ3APNBSNP)
36. LET'S SORT OF PRETEND TO GANG UP TO STOP JANŠA III AND SEE HOW IT GOES THEN MAYBE GANG UP WITH JANŠA III PARTY (NNPDZUJ3IVKTGINMZZJ3S)
37. THE EVERYBODY'S GANGING UP ON ME LIST OF SAMO KODELA (VSNMLSK)
38. LET'S HVAR BEACH PARTY (PHPS)
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world.
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DIAPARABOLICAL LIBITTY
Re judicial proceedings Croat
What was once this is latterly that.
Promenade in Opatija -
Menwith Hill will tape natter? Yeah:
Pick up chat down disco...back to flat.
It's all here in black and white http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/fy98/sigint.pdf
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand wishes to be filtered on the grounds of national insecurity. www.maria.si
(This observation was lost to Slovenia Times readers in The Great Deletion of September 2014)
Re judicial proceedings Croat
What was once this is latterly that.
Promenade in Opatija -
Menwith Hill will tape natter? Yeah:
Pick up chat down disco...back to flat.
It's all here in black and white http://www.fas.org/irp/nro/fy98/sigint.pdf
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand wishes to be filtered on the grounds of national insecurity. www.maria.si
(This observation was lost to Slovenia Times readers in The Great Deletion of September 2014)
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NPOSIALPU's poem and comment correcting Slovenia's official baby statistic was erased from The Slovenia Times in the Time Of The Great Deletion...
VIBAL STATISTICS
Here statistics and graph lines quite curvy
Have been spun into claims topsy-turvy.
They can count beers and change,
But these birth stats are strange:
Lovey-dovey stuff makes Slovenes nervy.
This positive-sounding article is very educational for anyone interested in misleading journalistic science nonsense.
According to the CIA World Factbook the 2012 population growth rate of Slovenia is -0.19.
The CIA will definitely know this as they have been listening to every creak.
The figure quoted in this article is in fact not the Population Growth Rate at all. It is the Total Fertility Rate.
A negative PGR such as -0.19 means the population is falling, as you might expect from a TFR less than the replacement rate of around 2.1.
(The replacement rate is not 2, because of the slightly higher sex ratio of boys to girls).
If the population growth rate was 1.3 per 1000, then the number of babies born in all of Slovenia would be 2053000 / 1000 x 1.3 ...that's 2669 babies.
No EU country is above the replacement rate and Slovenia is 209th out of 222 countries for which the TFR is available: http://is.gd/DawQb6
With bars choosing to close down rather than face the government's demands that they transmit their beer statistics directly to Laško government headquarters, this depressing trend is set to continue, as no respectable Slovenian girl can face live, non-battery-powered sex action - without first being rendered close to unconsciousness.
Let's hope HSE goes bankrupt and we have some power cuts.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand isn't surprised by any of this. www.maria.si
VIBAL STATISTICS
Here statistics and graph lines quite curvy
Have been spun into claims topsy-turvy.
They can count beers and change,
But these birth stats are strange:
Lovey-dovey stuff makes Slovenes nervy.
This positive-sounding article is very educational for anyone interested in misleading journalistic science nonsense.
According to the CIA World Factbook the 2012 population growth rate of Slovenia is -0.19.
The CIA will definitely know this as they have been listening to every creak.
The figure quoted in this article is in fact not the Population Growth Rate at all. It is the Total Fertility Rate.
A negative PGR such as -0.19 means the population is falling, as you might expect from a TFR less than the replacement rate of around 2.1.
(The replacement rate is not 2, because of the slightly higher sex ratio of boys to girls).
If the population growth rate was 1.3 per 1000, then the number of babies born in all of Slovenia would be 2053000 / 1000 x 1.3 ...that's 2669 babies.
No EU country is above the replacement rate and Slovenia is 209th out of 222 countries for which the TFR is available: http://is.gd/DawQb6
With bars choosing to close down rather than face the government's demands that they transmit their beer statistics directly to Laško government headquarters, this depressing trend is set to continue, as no respectable Slovenian girl can face live, non-battery-powered sex action - without first being rendered close to unconsciousness.
Let's hope HSE goes bankrupt and we have some power cuts.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand isn't surprised by any of this. www.maria.si
Nearly 22,000 Children
Born in Slovenia Last Year
sloveniatimes.com
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DNEVI POEZIJE IN PIŠČANČJE TOVARNE VONJ
Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell
PASSIVE CHICK-KU
Grainy bird sidestream.
Wet brown dog that jumps - onto
The layzee. They're foxed?
4pm Drava Stage: smell and weather conditions combine perfectly for the Ibsen-esque mood piece Wedding Meatball by internationally acclaimed Scandinavian aroma artist Per Utnina.
A wedding photographer worried about his camera cowers windswept on a bridge above an angry river locked in a struggle against the grim weather with a soggy bride, groom, and umbrellas, while amid the hopelessly sodden conditions a rotten meat flavour intersperses between the raindrops, and accentuates the helplessness of man against the wild uncontrollable heart of nature and Perutnina Ptuj's smelly poultry rendering emissions - with the existential angst underscored by the huge choppy Drava raging past beneath the party's feet. (Filmed in sepia).
Average flow up 60%-ish since September arrived.
Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell
PASSIVE CHICK-KU
Grainy bird sidestream.
Wet brown dog that jumps - onto
The layzee. They're foxed?
4pm Drava Stage: smell and weather conditions combine perfectly for the Ibsen-esque mood piece Wedding Meatball by internationally acclaimed Scandinavian aroma artist Per Utnina.
A wedding photographer worried about his camera cowers windswept on a bridge above an angry river locked in a struggle against the grim weather with a soggy bride, groom, and umbrellas, while amid the hopelessly sodden conditions a rotten meat flavour intersperses between the raindrops, and accentuates the helplessness of man against the wild uncontrollable heart of nature and Perutnina Ptuj's smelly poultry rendering emissions - with the existential angst underscored by the huge choppy Drava raging past beneath the party's feet. (Filmed in sepia).
Average flow up 60%-ish since September arrived.
Hidrološki podatki:
Ptuj - Drava, graf za 30 dni
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NPOSIALPU's deleted observations on the other half of the story...
HY-UND-DIE-KU
Presumably this
Explains why the entire board's
Been driven away.
Well this story is a lemon and only firing on two cylinders. It needs welding to this other article:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/blitzkrieg-na-darsu-na-jutranji-skupscini-menjali-nadzornike-0
...which explains that on this very same day the entire supervisory board was "dismissed due to lack of professionalism".
This tells us four things.
1. Nothing freaks out Slovenian state-controlled business persons like an official profit. It's just an abomination unto nature.
2. It's an auspuff-piece of journalism. If the ST's editorial balance was that of the wheels on your car you'd be in the river.
3. Transport in a rentier economy based on a parasitic monopoly is very expensive.
4. They'd better watch out at NLB.
As Mark Twain said, "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's I mean."
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - http://www.maria.si
HY-UND-DIE-KU
Presumably this
Explains why the entire board's
Been driven away.
Well this story is a lemon and only firing on two cylinders. It needs welding to this other article:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/blitzkrieg-na-darsu-na-jutranji-skupscini-menjali-nadzornike-0
...which explains that on this very same day the entire supervisory board was "dismissed due to lack of professionalism".
This tells us four things.
1. Nothing freaks out Slovenian state-controlled business persons like an official profit. It's just an abomination unto nature.
2. It's an auspuff-piece of journalism. If the ST's editorial balance was that of the wheels on your car you'd be in the river.
3. Transport in a rentier economy based on a parasitic monopoly is very expensive.
4. They'd better watch out at NLB.
As Mark Twain said, "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's I mean."
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - http://www.maria.si
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The deleted poem/comment here went:
TO HELL AND GOON
Secular business plan? Get your hat:
Magnificat, else you're hellcat.
Eminence grease our plate:
Thou shalt stay out of date -
We da Pope's! Conquer dis, concordat!
Once again Mary has gone to heaven. And this time don't come back! We have enough confused virgins already, still being left to their assumptions. One last time: babies don't come out of your bottom.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand notes that ignorant cults of virginity, torture, shame, war, and alcoholism seem to go hand in, er, pocket. Got my own love menu, don'tcha know... http://www.voy.si/love
TO HELL AND GOON
Secular business plan? Get your hat:
Magnificat, else you're hellcat.
Eminence grease our plate:
Thou shalt stay out of date -
We da Pope's! Conquer dis, concordat!
Once again Mary has gone to heaven. And this time don't come back! We have enough confused virgins already, still being left to their assumptions. One last time: babies don't come out of your bottom.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand notes that ignorant cults of virginity, torture, shame, war, and alcoholism seem to go hand in, er, pocket. Got my own love menu, don'tcha know... http://www.voy.si/love
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The deleted poem here went:
BEAUTIFUL-ALCOHOL-PEOPLE-TYPE-LIMERICK
Where would you like to be in your life?
Sozzled.
Beer goggles...
You are really enjoying being single.
Alright then.
BEAUTIFUL-ALCOHOL-PEOPLE-TYPE-LIMERICK
Where would you like to be in your life?
Sozzled.
Beer goggles...
You are really enjoying being single.
Alright then.
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Good news for Essex-Slovenia relations...Verse offering thanks in the approximate langwidge of Loughton. The deleted poem/comment here went:
DEPOSITORS AS FOOTBALLS: YEWMAN RIGHT NICE 1 4 ESSEX
Legalw tears, Slovenes' finalw recawse.
Laaaught'n's chips drenched in Balkan red sawce.
Rizzulwt! Bank wiv yer dough
Is the same place ya go
When ya wannit back. Fought sow! Of caawse...
Yes you heard right, you now officially have the human right to get back your money that Slovenia's Ljubljanska Banka decided it wasn't responsible for 23 years ago by renaming itself Nova Ljubljanska Bank.
The affected despositors will probably never be Slovenia's customers again. Victory!
"Every cow herder would know that this is a good deal," says Božo Dimnik, referring to Slovenia's rejection of an offer by late Croatian President Tudjman 20 years ago that would have brought the squabble to an end with a result identical to this one.
With only another year to wait, and with stimulus generalisation being the way it is in humans, it is possible the depositors are going to actually want to see their cash, rather than rely on some blithe electronic statement alleging they have it.
This makes the decision excellent news for this money factory next to the M11, where all of Slovenia's euros are made.
If your government needs some readies printing, badger them and they will do you them for next Friday!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.646995,0.090616,3a,75y,8.35h,93.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s2JmkCb3Evy_nhPtmjZPfxw!2e0?hl=en
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand loves a positive ending http://is.gd/GHD9sW
DEPOSITORS AS FOOTBALLS: YEWMAN RIGHT NICE 1 4 ESSEX
Legalw tears, Slovenes' finalw recawse.
Laaaught'n's chips drenched in Balkan red sawce.
Rizzulwt! Bank wiv yer dough
Is the same place ya go
When ya wannit back. Fought sow! Of caawse...
Yes you heard right, you now officially have the human right to get back your money that Slovenia's Ljubljanska Banka decided it wasn't responsible for 23 years ago by renaming itself Nova Ljubljanska Bank.
The affected despositors will probably never be Slovenia's customers again. Victory!
"Every cow herder would know that this is a good deal," says Božo Dimnik, referring to Slovenia's rejection of an offer by late Croatian President Tudjman 20 years ago that would have brought the squabble to an end with a result identical to this one.
With only another year to wait, and with stimulus generalisation being the way it is in humans, it is possible the depositors are going to actually want to see their cash, rather than rely on some blithe electronic statement alleging they have it.
This makes the decision excellent news for this money factory next to the M11, where all of Slovenia's euros are made.
If your government needs some readies printing, badger them and they will do you them for next Friday!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.646995,0.090616,3a,75y,8.35h,93.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s2JmkCb3Evy_nhPtmjZPfxw!2e0?hl=en
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand loves a positive ending http://is.gd/GHD9sW
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facelessness
Election Morning Ptuj Weather: Clear until 1 a.m., then intense sudden dimethyl sulphide descending into clouds of jealous drunk men. Retch-inducing stink lingering overnight.
Election Sunday: the face-off of the faceless. After Emperor Miro won, this poem, and opinion of the 1992 Kramberger murder's effects on his strategy in the Slovenian election of 2014, disappeared from The Slovenia Times comments on this page. Imagine this lot at the office party!
KRAMBERGER'S-BELIEF CROCKED-JEALOUSY THEORY
Quintessential new broom remains shtum,
Wouldn't stick out in unfurnished room.
Don't protrude - else the voter
Turns on you like a Rotar -
Jealous of the attention - kaboom.
In Slovenia whom you vote for is determined by (1) Whom the polls say you will vote for, and (2) Which of those whom the polls say you will vote for is the most utterly faceless and least dissonant with the narrow-minded prejudices you possess.
So for candidates, electioneering in Slovenia is a tricky one, something like trying to please Daily Mail readers on coke.
The dangers of being too interesting are all too real.
A glimpse at Slovenia's JFK moment shows why...with jealous drunk Slovenian perceptions in square brackets:
1992: in Jurovski Dol - population 361 - a normal unsuccessful drunk Slovenian huntin-shootin-fishin-type living with his mother notices something unusual happening in the street [beady-eyed alert] involving someone not-from-around-here [instant suspicion].
Ivan Kramberger is from the distant village of Negova 17.9km away - population 329 - [this foreigner is attracting a crowd's attention for some reason].
Popular [if I stop him being popular I will be more popular] eccentric [look at him drawing attention to himself - we hate that] generous [puzzled rage?!] entrepreneur inventor [look at this rich smartass], back from Germany with long hair and accompanied by a monkey [clearly a foreign plot to take over Slovenia] wearing unusual attire [extrovert behaviour = gay = pedophile] makes popular speech [people are listening to him - something must be done about this].
Normal unsuccessful blind-drunk 42-year-old Slovenian villager who lives with his mother shoots abnormal attention-seeking unusual-looking philanthropist dead from the window of his mother's house.
That's it. No grand political divide. No conspiracy - although the Slovenian internet milks this for all it isn't worth. He simply got shot by some jealous narrow-minded yokel with rather more sophisticated weaponry than shooting rabbits/being drunk might deem sensible.
And now the important part of this story. For Slovenians, locked within their tiny conceptual, linguistic and media landscape, this means the assassination is "shrouded in mystery".
So you can sort of see why Mr Cerar is keeping his (perhaps armoured) cards close to his chest.
Shooter Peter Rotar got 12 years. 22 years later, attempts to erect a monument to Kramberger in Jurovski Dol were put on hold by the mayor after protests from a resident, who threatens to deal with any statue visible from the window of his mother's house - by blowing it up.
And the name of this politically involved citizen? Peter Rotar.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/potrjeno-kramberger-ne-bo-dobil-spomenika-dokler-bo-morilec-ziv
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is only the piano player. www.a2z.si/h
Election Morning Ptuj Weather: Clear until 1 a.m., then intense sudden dimethyl sulphide descending into clouds of jealous drunk men. Retch-inducing stink lingering overnight.
Election Sunday: the face-off of the faceless. After Emperor Miro won, this poem, and opinion of the 1992 Kramberger murder's effects on his strategy in the Slovenian election of 2014, disappeared from The Slovenia Times comments on this page. Imagine this lot at the office party!
KRAMBERGER'S-BELIEF CROCKED-JEALOUSY THEORY
Quintessential new broom remains shtum,
Wouldn't stick out in unfurnished room.
Don't protrude - else the voter
Turns on you like a Rotar -
Jealous of the attention - kaboom.
In Slovenia whom you vote for is determined by (1) Whom the polls say you will vote for, and (2) Which of those whom the polls say you will vote for is the most utterly faceless and least dissonant with the narrow-minded prejudices you possess.
So for candidates, electioneering in Slovenia is a tricky one, something like trying to please Daily Mail readers on coke.
The dangers of being too interesting are all too real.
A glimpse at Slovenia's JFK moment shows why...with jealous drunk Slovenian perceptions in square brackets:
1992: in Jurovski Dol - population 361 - a normal unsuccessful drunk Slovenian huntin-shootin-fishin-type living with his mother notices something unusual happening in the street [beady-eyed alert] involving someone not-from-around-here [instant suspicion].
Ivan Kramberger is from the distant village of Negova 17.9km away - population 329 - [this foreigner is attracting a crowd's attention for some reason].
Popular [if I stop him being popular I will be more popular] eccentric [look at him drawing attention to himself - we hate that] generous [puzzled rage?!] entrepreneur inventor [look at this rich smartass], back from Germany with long hair and accompanied by a monkey [clearly a foreign plot to take over Slovenia] wearing unusual attire [extrovert behaviour = gay = pedophile] makes popular speech [people are listening to him - something must be done about this].
Normal unsuccessful blind-drunk 42-year-old Slovenian villager who lives with his mother shoots abnormal attention-seeking unusual-looking philanthropist dead from the window of his mother's house.
That's it. No grand political divide. No conspiracy - although the Slovenian internet milks this for all it isn't worth. He simply got shot by some jealous narrow-minded yokel with rather more sophisticated weaponry than shooting rabbits/being drunk might deem sensible.
And now the important part of this story. For Slovenians, locked within their tiny conceptual, linguistic and media landscape, this means the assassination is "shrouded in mystery".
So you can sort of see why Mr Cerar is keeping his (perhaps armoured) cards close to his chest.
Shooter Peter Rotar got 12 years. 22 years later, attempts to erect a monument to Kramberger in Jurovski Dol were put on hold by the mayor after protests from a resident, who threatens to deal with any statue visible from the window of his mother's house - by blowing it up.
And the name of this politically involved citizen? Peter Rotar.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/potrjeno-kramberger-ne-bo-dobil-spomenika-dokler-bo-morilec-ziv
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is only the piano player. www.a2z.si/h
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Ptuj weather 3.20 a.m.: Light breeze, cooler, with no chicken factory smell at the moment.
Arms dealer Nicholas Oman yearns to come back to his house in Bled. In return he will forget the 1990s. Let's face it, it's not that hard.
I think we should welcome him to his natural home. Let's not forget Slovenia ripped him off for 850,000 gas masks - more than enough for Ptuj's residents, tourists, drinkers, diners, and all their pets and livestock, who for an easy hire charge can be ready for the next poultry-related weather event.
The real shocker in this document is that something once actually happened at Maribor Airport, which is up the road.
www.mariborairport.si
It was a nice quiet place to transfer embargoed weapons, for that horrible war.
Arms dealer Nicholas Oman yearns to come back to his house in Bled. In return he will forget the 1990s. Let's face it, it's not that hard.
I think we should welcome him to his natural home. Let's not forget Slovenia ripped him off for 850,000 gas masks - more than enough for Ptuj's residents, tourists, drinkers, diners, and all their pets and livestock, who for an easy hire charge can be ready for the next poultry-related weather event.
The real shocker in this document is that something once actually happened at Maribor Airport, which is up the road.
www.mariborairport.si
It was a nice quiet place to transfer embargoed weapons, for that horrible war.
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Ptuj weather: Gusty with aldehydes.
This legal research just in from the Department of SDS Studies. Uses political weapons against the judiciary to complain about the judiciary being used as a weapon against political opponents.
How many lawyers does it take to interpret a human right? JJ's sentence will be over by the time they figure even one of those out at the Poli-buro.
Meantime it's just one more chance to over-intellectualise. What about us?
Look at them go!
This legal research just in from the Department of SDS Studies. Uses political weapons against the judiciary to complain about the judiciary being used as a weapon against political opponents.
How many lawyers does it take to interpret a human right? JJ's sentence will be over by the time they figure even one of those out at the Poli-buro.
Meantime it's just one more chance to over-intellectualise. What about us?
Look at them go!
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Suddenly DL is the Desperately Lame party.
It is some kind of achievement, even when your audience doesn't understand a word of your language, if you can still elicit that cringey feeling that begins in the inner thigh area. Try the video and see if it works for you!
A possibly really sincere vision lost to the sincerely impossibly unreal sight of strange bedfellows trying to look un-boring in their mean 'hood of whiteboards and box files. What is this country coming to?
Complete with the excruciating Minims in the Key of Reasonableness which our official impressarios have decreed all Department of Slovopop music must contain - I wonder who thought this would get who stampeding to the ballots? Jailbird Janša will surely be able to see off any threat of competition in the arena of political rapping.
All the parties share one problem: how to engage politically with the yoof, without giving them any money? They are relying on trance music over at the Pensioners' Party, while Ljudmila prepares to stun the NSi conference by being lowered naked onto stage from a cloud, poll-dancing (geddit?) with her body completely covered in tattoos of scenes from the Old Testament.
It is some kind of achievement, even when your audience doesn't understand a word of your language, if you can still elicit that cringey feeling that begins in the inner thigh area. Try the video and see if it works for you!
A possibly really sincere vision lost to the sincerely impossibly unreal sight of strange bedfellows trying to look un-boring in their mean 'hood of whiteboards and box files. What is this country coming to?
Complete with the excruciating Minims in the Key of Reasonableness which our official impressarios have decreed all Department of Slovopop music must contain - I wonder who thought this would get who stampeding to the ballots? Jailbird Janša will surely be able to see off any threat of competition in the arena of political rapping.
All the parties share one problem: how to engage politically with the yoof, without giving them any money? They are relying on trance music over at the Pensioners' Party, while Ljudmila prepares to stun the NSi conference by being lowered naked onto stage from a cloud, poll-dancing (geddit?) with her body completely covered in tattoos of scenes from the Old Testament.
28 Jun 2014
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from the archive
HAVING A BALLAD FEELING
As Slovenia's opposition leader reveals that he is refusing to pay his TV licence http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/jansi-zarubili-denar-zaracunali-se-obresti it seems a good time to remember that there are better ways to make your own entertainment, such as this jail tale, specially deleted by the Slovenia Times in October 2014..
nposialpu's JJ poetry archive
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/national%20poet%20jan%C5%A1a
THE BALLAD OF BAD READING IN JAIL
Reading in jail, Mladina? No...
Slovenske Novice,
Which then wipes ass of Muslim guy,
Ordinarily rendered there -
Guantanamo - no - no inferno,
Say hi to Koper's mayor!
No fruit there was, hiring Matoz:
Re Srpak's stir, oh poor.
Zagajski tosses - but not bombs
At Kresal and Pahor.
Square meter norm of student dorm,
It's hotter upstairs - phwooar!
JJ's not thrilled - the thing he loves,
Your body politic,
May send him shovelling biomass,
To heat Slovenia's nick,
A Finnish gig o'watts and joules -
That's kinda ironic!
The Warders? Mostly NSi.
Prison: Catholic mainstay.
Election slime heads, thanks to crime,
Towards a more purpler shade of gray:
Three and nine tenths percent could jump
To four - unhip hooray.
Solids, total, not dissolved,
Creep through old pipes that throb,
While gritty bread and titty mags
Surround Dob's stiffed nabob,
True hell: RTV-SLO in cell -
Stir flashbacks of old job.
Once made, he lies in his own bed,
Amid the smell of socks:
A buffet rough, no thermostat,
A barely humane box
Free!! Tourists pay for similar
To Sava...paradox.
"25 prisoners and 12 employees had not received their salaries for several months."
http://www.varuh-rs.si/media-centre/work-and-news/news/detajl/prisoners-may-be-asked-to-contribute-towards-accommodation/?L=6&cHash=e57339a3c877fe2a2c2c619933834b4b
So it's just the same as on the outside! It's like a holiday camp!
http://www.archive.org/stream/balladofreadingg00301gut/rgaol10.txt
HAVING A BALLAD FEELING
As Slovenia's opposition leader reveals that he is refusing to pay his TV licence http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/jansi-zarubili-denar-zaracunali-se-obresti it seems a good time to remember that there are better ways to make your own entertainment, such as this jail tale, specially deleted by the Slovenia Times in October 2014..
nposialpu's JJ poetry archive
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/national%20poet%20jan%C5%A1a
THE BALLAD OF BAD READING IN JAIL
Reading in jail, Mladina? No...
Slovenske Novice,
Which then wipes ass of Muslim guy,
Ordinarily rendered there -
Guantanamo - no - no inferno,
Say hi to Koper's mayor!
No fruit there was, hiring Matoz:
Re Srpak's stir, oh poor.
Zagajski tosses - but not bombs
At Kresal and Pahor.
Square meter norm of student dorm,
It's hotter upstairs - phwooar!
JJ's not thrilled - the thing he loves,
Your body politic,
May send him shovelling biomass,
To heat Slovenia's nick,
A Finnish gig o'watts and joules -
That's kinda ironic!
The Warders? Mostly NSi.
Prison: Catholic mainstay.
Election slime heads, thanks to crime,
Towards a more purpler shade of gray:
Three and nine tenths percent could jump
To four - unhip hooray.
Solids, total, not dissolved,
Creep through old pipes that throb,
While gritty bread and titty mags
Surround Dob's stiffed nabob,
True hell: RTV-SLO in cell -
Stir flashbacks of old job.
Once made, he lies in his own bed,
Amid the smell of socks:
A buffet rough, no thermostat,
A barely humane box
Free!! Tourists pay for similar
To Sava...paradox.
"25 prisoners and 12 employees had not received their salaries for several months."
http://www.varuh-rs.si/media-centre/work-and-news/news/detajl/prisoners-may-be-asked-to-contribute-towards-accommodation/?L=6&cHash=e57339a3c877fe2a2c2c619933834b4b
So it's just the same as on the outside! It's like a holiday camp!
http://www.archive.org/stream/balladofreadingg00301gut/rgaol10.txt
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New political parties - continued from http://is.gd/N9YzM4
29. ROBOT PARTY (RS)
Just let the machines take over...
25 Million Pounds 1/6 Adam Curtis (1996)
30. JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME PARTY (VZHPS)
Will seek to undo Slovenia's management buyouts using currently impossible physics-based solutions.
Will also reinvent potica as a world food staple.
See video for manifesto:
The Time Tunnel - "Journey Back"
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ptuj weather
Ptuj: aroma of ammonia, it's June in Sub-Pannonia - and apart from the smell of deceased poultry gluck-reduction, there is still very little flesh on display.
As go-ahead Ljubljana welcomes the penile architectural millions of the Muslimen, is there any other paradise on earth like Ptuj in this day and some other age?
Why yes! Mormonic Wasatch County - aka "Utah's Switzerland" - which enjoys "a culture that shames girls and women" with a school district ban on "'extreme clothing'"...and where they'll fix you up if you get it wrong.
Face-reddening included!
Ptuj: aroma of ammonia, it's June in Sub-Pannonia - and apart from the smell of deceased poultry gluck-reduction, there is still very little flesh on display.
As go-ahead Ljubljana welcomes the penile architectural millions of the Muslimen, is there any other paradise on earth like Ptuj in this day and some other age?
Why yes! Mormonic Wasatch County - aka "Utah's Switzerland" - which enjoys "a culture that shames girls and women" with a school district ban on "'extreme clothing'"...and where they'll fix you up if you get it wrong.
Face-reddening included!
Utah high school's
yearbook photo editing angers female
students
edition.cnn.com
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nposialpu 100,000th view party
COMMEMORATIVE REPOST
This poem was one of the ones considered so upsetting that it was deleted at the time, twice in fact, before being reposted and finally erased again in The Great Deletion of September 2014.
It commemorates the second record European lottery jackpot win in Slovenia in just five months and suggests a better way to play. In Slovenia 15% of your jackpot win goes to your local council.
TURN OF THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP CARDS
The Slovenian gambler's red hot? Or he
Spends every last cent on the lottery?
Hope of winning back loot
Is the poor's substitute
For short straw in economy tottery.
Again?! Damn this free market exploitation of the irrationality of the masses! Once again 85% of the winnings have gone to some loser! https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/bPWjzo6www6
What this shows is that all the other millions of losing entrants with their badly chosen numbers clearly didn't know what they were doing. They should be protected, somehow.
Luckily we have volunteers like Peter Turner selflessly devoting their lives to helping others to find their lucky numbers, with reminders in comments sections everywhere from Brattleboro to Basingstoke.
But the Slovenian government has the resources to try all the combinations, ensuring that the public would always win.
Surely they could just pass a law making gambling illegal in Yugoslovenia, and let only local government bureaucracies safely purchase lottery tickets in bulk on behalf of the workers.
Then whichever občina won, the public would win every time, getting back 100% of the 50% of the money not kept by the organisers, instead of this puny 15% of a fraction of the 50% that we have at the moment.
I'm sure the government would be more organised, and not keep betting on 25 and 6 - I guess 91 isn't an option.
Actually you don't even need a lottery, as I am willing to offer my own free service.
I will guarantee lucky participants 50 cents for every 1 euro they give me, just as good as the lottery, and what's more I will repeat this offer endlessly as fast as Pete Turner can cut-and-paste on his computer unlike Mr Zamuda of the Ptuj ZZZS: http://www.aaa.si/q
As for the other 50 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM
I feel sure that, barring obvious polenta shortages, the servants of the Yugoslovenian state would be much happier trusting either myself or the authorities to roll the public dice on the public behalf, and spend the winnings wisely...and would not mind being left in the dark about the sordid details of these complex mathematical issues - just like the old days!
http://basementgeographer.com/the-haludovo-palace-hotel-where-tito-met-penthouse/
And, er, now.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - jealously gamble your way to better health. http://is.gd/5m0oaq
COMMEMORATIVE REPOST
This poem was one of the ones considered so upsetting that it was deleted at the time, twice in fact, before being reposted and finally erased again in The Great Deletion of September 2014.
It commemorates the second record European lottery jackpot win in Slovenia in just five months and suggests a better way to play. In Slovenia 15% of your jackpot win goes to your local council.
TURN OF THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP CARDS
The Slovenian gambler's red hot? Or he
Spends every last cent on the lottery?
Hope of winning back loot
Is the poor's substitute
For short straw in economy tottery.
Again?! Damn this free market exploitation of the irrationality of the masses! Once again 85% of the winnings have gone to some loser! https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/bPWjzo6www6
What this shows is that all the other millions of losing entrants with their badly chosen numbers clearly didn't know what they were doing. They should be protected, somehow.
Luckily we have volunteers like Peter Turner selflessly devoting their lives to helping others to find their lucky numbers, with reminders in comments sections everywhere from Brattleboro to Basingstoke.
But the Slovenian government has the resources to try all the combinations, ensuring that the public would always win.
Surely they could just pass a law making gambling illegal in Yugoslovenia, and let only local government bureaucracies safely purchase lottery tickets in bulk on behalf of the workers.
Then whichever občina won, the public would win every time, getting back 100% of the 50% of the money not kept by the organisers, instead of this puny 15% of a fraction of the 50% that we have at the moment.
I'm sure the government would be more organised, and not keep betting on 25 and 6 - I guess 91 isn't an option.
Actually you don't even need a lottery, as I am willing to offer my own free service.
I will guarantee lucky participants 50 cents for every 1 euro they give me, just as good as the lottery, and what's more I will repeat this offer endlessly as fast as Pete Turner can cut-and-paste on his computer unlike Mr Zamuda of the Ptuj ZZZS: http://www.aaa.si/q
As for the other 50 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR4yQFZK9YM
I feel sure that, barring obvious polenta shortages, the servants of the Yugoslovenian state would be much happier trusting either myself or the authorities to roll the public dice on the public behalf, and spend the winnings wisely...and would not mind being left in the dark about the sordid details of these complex mathematical issues - just like the old days!
http://basementgeographer.com/the-haludovo-palace-hotel-where-tito-met-penthouse/
And, er, now.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - jealously gamble your way to better health. http://is.gd/5m0oaq
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If only Rev Rowan wasn't trying to herd us back into church on the quiet he would be teetering on the verge of rationality here, with his review of an essay that should, from the looks of things, be required reading for all of Slovenia's accounting-crazed two-million-and-one political candidates.
He doesn't say anything about the "Protestant" work ethic which has been used to propel all this pillage to its logical but unhappy conclusion, or the godless hipsters who pointed out it was all rubbish decades ago - NPOSIALPU is for a fair, but fairly lazy, atheist ethic.
He doesn't say anything about the "Protestant" work ethic which has been used to propel all this pillage to its logical but unhappy conclusion, or the godless hipsters who pointed out it was all rubbish decades ago - NPOSIALPU is for a fair, but fairly lazy, atheist ethic.
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Here's the deleted song/comment. Get up on the dance floor!
MAD ON A CONSUMER COMPLAINTS BLOG
Can't make it through to Interles
Creditors can't get through
Double glazing cost? He was
Representing you?
He was beat to the tweet
Some felt had, at the cash they blew
No-one made him steal
Here's a PM akril
Shiny and new
Like a Vogrin
Crutched, thinks Radonjič is fine
Like a Vogrin
Econom - eeks!
Next to mine
...etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkYxH8LZrM
Those who can, do - those who can't, teach - and following the same logic Maribor University's least popular Chancellorial candidates should become PM, apparently.
His mate had some problem with the bill payments, and the building work not getting done, apparently. He doesn't just stalk horses, either.
http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/poslanec-virantove-liste-dolguje-vec-10-tisoc-evrov.html
Here she is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - also looking for a feature-length snatch. http://www.maria.si
MAD ON A CONSUMER COMPLAINTS BLOG
Can't make it through to Interles
Creditors can't get through
Double glazing cost? He was
Representing you?
He was beat to the tweet
Some felt had, at the cash they blew
No-one made him steal
Here's a PM akril
Shiny and new
Like a Vogrin
Crutched, thinks Radonjič is fine
Like a Vogrin
Econom - eeks!
Next to mine
...etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkYxH8LZrM
Those who can, do - those who can't, teach - and following the same logic Maribor University's least popular Chancellorial candidates should become PM, apparently.
His mate had some problem with the bill payments, and the building work not getting done, apparently. He doesn't just stalk horses, either.
http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/poslanec-virantove-liste-dolguje-vec-10-tisoc-evrov.html
Here she is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__rX_WL100
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - also looking for a feature-length snatch. http://www.maria.si
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Party on regardless...more deleted electoral heritage...
Those new Slovenian political parties ...continued from http://is.gd/WmvHr4
24. RESIGNED PARTY LEADERS PARTY (OSVS)
All your resigned party leaders together in one handy party.
25. 100% TOO SMALL PARTY (SOPS)
Tightly-knit, loosely affiliated cross-party grouping, for non-affiliated, anti-affiliation, unelectable-alone, and unsuccessful politicians, and otherwise political enemies, with emphasis on winning elections. Will remain opponent-less and opinion-less until they are returned to power for lack of any alternative.
26. SEVEN MAGIC COMMAND MIDGET PARTY (SCUMS)
Heptophiliac electoral reform group which will make it compulsory to vote for at least seven parties. More democratic than ever - seven is the world's favourite number! http://is.gd/BfEruw
27. NOT ROBERT THE BRUCE PARTY (NRBS)
If at first you don't succeed....nyahhhh, fuckit.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - Slovenia's leading poet at leading nowhere. http://www.maria.si
Those new Slovenian political parties ...continued from http://is.gd/WmvHr4
24. RESIGNED PARTY LEADERS PARTY (OSVS)
All your resigned party leaders together in one handy party.
25. 100% TOO SMALL PARTY (SOPS)
Tightly-knit, loosely affiliated cross-party grouping, for non-affiliated, anti-affiliation, unelectable-alone, and unsuccessful politicians, and otherwise political enemies, with emphasis on winning elections. Will remain opponent-less and opinion-less until they are returned to power for lack of any alternative.
26. SEVEN MAGIC COMMAND MIDGET PARTY (SCUMS)
Heptophiliac electoral reform group which will make it compulsory to vote for at least seven parties. More democratic than ever - seven is the world's favourite number! http://is.gd/BfEruw
27. NOT ROBERT THE BRUCE PARTY (NRBS)
If at first you don't succeed....nyahhhh, fuckit.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - Slovenia's leading poet at leading nowhere. http://www.maria.si
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archy-sexual engineering
Like some Godzilla-styled Disaster-on-Tyne movie, this is the latest bridge-on-bridge action from Bosnia.
This is some of the hottest interracial porn from that area. A young wooden bridge fell for an older, concrete bridge. But it seemed as though they could never be together. Until overcome by wetness her spindly little legs gave in and the flow swept her into a submissive position.
For a wood town in a river basin, this bridge looked a tad lightweight from its historic beginnings in 2009.
See how effortlessly she cruises like a Mississippi paddle-steamer, skulks like a Slovenian U-boat, with the light fittings among the sturdier components.
It's just one more disaster down to Ptuj and its urinating drunks. It's H2Slov-eau going down there.
Meanwhile the Slovenians will blame Bosnia and Croatia, for taking the national piss.
A round or two later, they will all join in brotherhood and unity to blame the English for writing about it...that's what they call "progress" round these parts. Then they'll shake their heads, wonder what the world is coming to, high-five - and have another drink.
Yes, it's all Kid Charlemagne's fault. Damn Lovelace and his eco-hippies for waiting until the 1960s to predict this - wasn't it clear those Balkans were busy reinforcing ethnic rivalries from 1389 and playing Pokemon?
Global warming? What global? Like Somerset, those Balkans aren't ready for any global stuff - what about a decent advance warning next time? They're like their women, those Balkans: first they're not ready yet...and then it's too late.
Seriously, though - and if the man is so wise - I'd get those solar panels up if I were you.
Like some Godzilla-styled Disaster-on-Tyne movie, this is the latest bridge-on-bridge action from Bosnia.
This is some of the hottest interracial porn from that area. A young wooden bridge fell for an older, concrete bridge. But it seemed as though they could never be together. Until overcome by wetness her spindly little legs gave in and the flow swept her into a submissive position.
For a wood town in a river basin, this bridge looked a tad lightweight from its historic beginnings in 2009.
See how effortlessly she cruises like a Mississippi paddle-steamer, skulks like a Slovenian U-boat, with the light fittings among the sturdier components.
It's just one more disaster down to Ptuj and its urinating drunks. It's H2Slov-eau going down there.
Meanwhile the Slovenians will blame Bosnia and Croatia, for taking the national piss.
A round or two later, they will all join in brotherhood and unity to blame the English for writing about it...that's what they call "progress" round these parts. Then they'll shake their heads, wonder what the world is coming to, high-five - and have another drink.
Yes, it's all Kid Charlemagne's fault. Damn Lovelace and his eco-hippies for waiting until the 1960s to predict this - wasn't it clear those Balkans were busy reinforcing ethnic rivalries from 1389 and playing Pokemon?
Global warming? What global? Like Somerset, those Balkans aren't ready for any global stuff - what about a decent advance warning next time? They're like their women, those Balkans: first they're not ready yet...and then it's too late.
Seriously, though - and if the man is so wise - I'd get those solar panels up if I were you.
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Gone from the ST is this megacomment on Slovenia's sticky end.
STATE-IS-CERVICAL MUCUS-CYCLE SHARES
Swiss clocked second, themselves prepostor -
Us? Tuned semi toned rich Singapore:
Both few minors, in flats
Stuck - at least the Croats
Lower still - could Slovenes ask for more?
Are you trying to be more competitive?
As Slovenia isn't ever really going to be like the USA or Switzerland we might look to third-placed Singapore, which competes at a rate of 90.966, compared to our lowly 46.245.
What jumps out straight away is that the key to their competitiveness is living like battery chickens.
Battery chickens do not live in family groups or roam freely around large henhouses.
For farmers this makes sense. How can anyone compete when they are trying to vacuum a huge floor space with the world total fertility rate of 2.5 babies clinging to our legs?
Smaller homes require less energy to build and run. To out-compete their neighbours, Slovenians should aspire to live in the smallest space possible, and paying the most they can.
In highly competitive Singapore a square meter will cost you $17,709, compared to a paltry $2,503 in Slovenia.
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/
Ideally, then, you should live in something about the size of a refrigerator box or coffin.
Having zero children will also help Slovenia reach the apex of the IMD management institute's competitiveness league.
Another way to help Slovenia, then, would be to keep an eye on everyone in your village and make sure they do not get involved in any kind of sexual activity.
Slovenia already has a TFR (1.28) nearly as low as Singapore's (1.26).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate
Another country Slovenia could seek to emulate is sporty Belarus - OK it isn't in the IMD's table, but its president is not only a poultry expert but also always wins at ice hockey!
2010 presidential candidate Mikola Statkevich lost and is instead serving a second term - six years in jail - now that's what I call competitive!
http://www.channel4.com/news/undercover-in-europes-last-dictatorship-belarus
Slovenia, then, is certainly heading the right way for more competitiveness.
To fine tune it, this is where monitoring of cervical mucus from school-age onwards fits into my competitiveness plan.
Thick, dense, sticky, flaky or tacky infertile mucus will aid our competitiveness, and this may explain why a video of Milan Zver appeared on this page when I looked at it:
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/conception/cervical-mucus-can-indicate-ovulation-fertile#.U3-WHnZ9lEI
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - you too can become a statistic. http://www.solarpanel.si
STATE-IS-CERVICAL MUCUS-CYCLE SHARES
Swiss clocked second, themselves prepostor -
Us? Tuned semi toned rich Singapore:
Both few minors, in flats
Stuck - at least the Croats
Lower still - could Slovenes ask for more?
Are you trying to be more competitive?
As Slovenia isn't ever really going to be like the USA or Switzerland we might look to third-placed Singapore, which competes at a rate of 90.966, compared to our lowly 46.245.
What jumps out straight away is that the key to their competitiveness is living like battery chickens.
Battery chickens do not live in family groups or roam freely around large henhouses.
For farmers this makes sense. How can anyone compete when they are trying to vacuum a huge floor space with the world total fertility rate of 2.5 babies clinging to our legs?
Smaller homes require less energy to build and run. To out-compete their neighbours, Slovenians should aspire to live in the smallest space possible, and paying the most they can.
In highly competitive Singapore a square meter will cost you $17,709, compared to a paltry $2,503 in Slovenia.
http://www.globalpropertyguide.com/
Ideally, then, you should live in something about the size of a refrigerator box or coffin.
Having zero children will also help Slovenia reach the apex of the IMD management institute's competitiveness league.
Another way to help Slovenia, then, would be to keep an eye on everyone in your village and make sure they do not get involved in any kind of sexual activity.
Slovenia already has a TFR (1.28) nearly as low as Singapore's (1.26).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate
Another country Slovenia could seek to emulate is sporty Belarus - OK it isn't in the IMD's table, but its president is not only a poultry expert but also always wins at ice hockey!
2010 presidential candidate Mikola Statkevich lost and is instead serving a second term - six years in jail - now that's what I call competitive!
http://www.channel4.com/news/undercover-in-europes-last-dictatorship-belarus
Slovenia, then, is certainly heading the right way for more competitiveness.
To fine tune it, this is where monitoring of cervical mucus from school-age onwards fits into my competitiveness plan.
Thick, dense, sticky, flaky or tacky infertile mucus will aid our competitiveness, and this may explain why a video of Milan Zver appeared on this page when I looked at it:
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/conception/cervical-mucus-can-indicate-ovulation-fertile#.U3-WHnZ9lEI
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - you too can become a statistic. http://www.solarpanel.si
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Green destitution...
The deleted poem went:
NAKED GREEN
Eco-plan: not quite seventies yet.
Environmentally friendly roulette.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Recommends chicken smog.
Green-tourism-wash? Place your bet.
Besides hydro-powered roulette we offer green poker, greenjack, and green craps.
You won't find environmentally damaging intensively farmed oranges and lemons on our slot machines - only zucchini, mung beans, and a wholewheat sausage.
After a night of squinting across the green baize and nibbling squashed poultry products why not help a green prostitute to get through college?
HIT casinos and envirohippies have much in common - a tendency to yearn for an imaginary idyllic past, and an aversion to profit.
The past they revere was full of myopic, irrational idiots whose tourist expeditions were mostly wars and flights from famine.
Of course Slovenia does however have some beautiful sights - just stay away from anything the tourism industry has touched and you'll be quids in.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - all you have to do is believe your rabbit's foot can save the planet. http://www.maria.si
The deleted poem went:
NAKED GREEN
Eco-plan: not quite seventies yet.
Environmentally friendly roulette.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Recommends chicken smog.
Green-tourism-wash? Place your bet.
Besides hydro-powered roulette we offer green poker, greenjack, and green craps.
You won't find environmentally damaging intensively farmed oranges and lemons on our slot machines - only zucchini, mung beans, and a wholewheat sausage.
After a night of squinting across the green baize and nibbling squashed poultry products why not help a green prostitute to get through college?
HIT casinos and envirohippies have much in common - a tendency to yearn for an imaginary idyllic past, and an aversion to profit.
The past they revere was full of myopic, irrational idiots whose tourist expeditions were mostly wars and flights from famine.
Of course Slovenia does however have some beautiful sights - just stay away from anything the tourism industry has touched and you'll be quids in.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - all you have to do is believe your rabbit's foot can save the planet. http://www.maria.si
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greens to blame for slovenia's stuttering economy
The following subversive message was whitewashed from history:
VAT CHANCE: HAIKU TO A FLOPPY VEG
Come on vegetables!
You are holding back progress
For Slovenia.
The last thing Slovenia's economy needs is falling increases in the price of necessities such as vegetables.
Without more income from taxes on eating, Slovenia will struggle to develop new taxes to make up for the 0.01% of offshore registered people who don't pay any. And all the others.
We are therefore increasing Vegetable Added Tax on exotic foreign species not entirely trusted in Slovenia, such as the potato, the brussels sprout, and petits pois.
Each item of fairly pointlessly retailed alien produce such as starfruit and lychees will now require a visa to enter Slovenia.
Indian and Chinese takeaways will have to report to a detention centre until their taxes can be calculated.
As a permananent emergency measure, May 1 will see a Soup Kitchen Tax, with the proceeds going to support luxury kitchen factories.
Meanwhile under new Hotness Regulations, cocoa served above room temperature will be subject to a Dangerous Drink Valuation at 40% per each additional degree Celsius. Thermo-inspectors will be patrolling to check for violations.
Vinjeta will be required for supermarket trolleys.
More Slovenian tax fun at www.nyjets.si
The following subversive message was whitewashed from history:
VAT CHANCE: HAIKU TO A FLOPPY VEG
Come on vegetables!
You are holding back progress
For Slovenia.
The last thing Slovenia's economy needs is falling increases in the price of necessities such as vegetables.
Without more income from taxes on eating, Slovenia will struggle to develop new taxes to make up for the 0.01% of offshore registered people who don't pay any. And all the others.
We are therefore increasing Vegetable Added Tax on exotic foreign species not entirely trusted in Slovenia, such as the potato, the brussels sprout, and petits pois.
Each item of fairly pointlessly retailed alien produce such as starfruit and lychees will now require a visa to enter Slovenia.
Indian and Chinese takeaways will have to report to a detention centre until their taxes can be calculated.
As a permananent emergency measure, May 1 will see a Soup Kitchen Tax, with the proceeds going to support luxury kitchen factories.
Meanwhile under new Hotness Regulations, cocoa served above room temperature will be subject to a Dangerous Drink Valuation at 40% per each additional degree Celsius. Thermo-inspectors will be patrolling to check for violations.
Vinjeta will be required for supermarket trolleys.
More Slovenian tax fun at www.nyjets.si
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In this post threatening the stability of Slovenia's sofa economy, deleted both at the time and again finally banished for eternity during the reign of Miro I, NPOSIALPU stood up for freedom of expression in Slovenia on the hot topic of furniture...
CLOD SUPPOSES, ČISTO MESTO BOD DISPOSES
Sofatable ergonomic -
Getting in is rather comic.
Slide in the side, fits like a sheath,
Or else crawl in from underneath...
Big and square - not for the friendly,
But customers both slim and bendy.
Though unwise to eat oysters in -
You might never get out again.
No table, sex hotter man section
Enables combined sit/erection.
Priority's, though, not manhood -
Židan's Divan soaks up brushwood.
But should you, following your tea,
Escape this romance-proof settee,
There's night-time furniture as well,
To turn your love life into hell.
With Catholic beds the church fights back -
Two mattresses, divorced by crack:
Slovenia plots for marriage troubles -
Hates western things, like full-size doubles.
We are nearing the endgame in furnitural competence in a market dominated by apartments which are smaller than most furniture.
Combining not only sofa, dining room, office, and sleeping area, what you cannot see in the photo is that it also incorporates a dishwasher, central heating system, shower, drawers for up to eight relatives, and a complete forest regeneration system involving the non-glut of woodchips the government of Slovenia is selling at a 100% markup.
The ideal customer (liquidity no problem!) shows how it all works here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48F1UEpOXRo
I wonder how this one's doing? http://www.sloveniatimes.com/state-aid-for-kitchen-maker-svea
There are economists everywhere nowadays. I guess the traditional Slovenian bed-crevice I mentioned is designed to help the motor industry and lawyers, engendering (or ungendering) yet more sex in cars and more divorces. New Beamers all round!
related erased Slovenian national poetry
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QBZiAfS3H7a
CLOD SUPPOSES, ČISTO MESTO BOD DISPOSES
Sofatable ergonomic -
Getting in is rather comic.
Slide in the side, fits like a sheath,
Or else crawl in from underneath...
Big and square - not for the friendly,
But customers both slim and bendy.
Though unwise to eat oysters in -
You might never get out again.
No table, sex hotter man section
Enables combined sit/erection.
Priority's, though, not manhood -
Židan's Divan soaks up brushwood.
But should you, following your tea,
Escape this romance-proof settee,
There's night-time furniture as well,
To turn your love life into hell.
With Catholic beds the church fights back -
Two mattresses, divorced by crack:
Slovenia plots for marriage troubles -
Hates western things, like full-size doubles.
We are nearing the endgame in furnitural competence in a market dominated by apartments which are smaller than most furniture.
Combining not only sofa, dining room, office, and sleeping area, what you cannot see in the photo is that it also incorporates a dishwasher, central heating system, shower, drawers for up to eight relatives, and a complete forest regeneration system involving the non-glut of woodchips the government of Slovenia is selling at a 100% markup.
The ideal customer (liquidity no problem!) shows how it all works here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48F1UEpOXRo
I wonder how this one's doing? http://www.sloveniatimes.com/state-aid-for-kitchen-maker-svea
There are economists everywhere nowadays. I guess the traditional Slovenian bed-crevice I mentioned is designed to help the motor industry and lawyers, engendering (or ungendering) yet more sex in cars and more divorces. New Beamers all round!
related erased Slovenian national poetry
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QBZiAfS3H7a
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New tricks...
this lengthy historic perspective received short shrift from the deleters of The Slovenia Times...
KOMBI, JA
Come buy here, milord
Come buy, ja
Come buy here, milord
Come buy a...
Come buy here, milord
Cum, bye, ja.
Unloads kombi. Yar!
Us you can afford
Come buy here
Holidays abroad
Go on buy ja
London shopping - hoard!
Kombi - dva!
Imagine! Les artes-naives souvenirs of your traditional Christian Easter holiday paddleboarding in Papagayo still litter the hallway at Number Ten - the next thing you know you're meeting the crusading PM of Slovenia, followed by a lackey laden with bags from Harvey Nicks and a hamper from Fortnums!
Given his experience directing "Titanic" I'm sure g. Cameron will have plenty of useful advice for the fledgling privateer.
Couple of things, firstly would the David Cameron Football Factory be interested in investing in Slovenian football? Slovenia does pretty well compared to England and could surely beat them if only it had much more money.
And it is true about Slovenia's stabilisation. My income for fixing the Slovenians' English stabilised at 10 euros last month, and they took 25% of that back for running such a good system.
Meanwhile AB will have used her time in London to find out more about its poor's rich capitalist heritage.
Such as the intriguing Dog-Makers http://is.gd/pPgYRh
Dog-Makers were able to satisfy rich Victorians' insatiable demand for posh dogs by cleverly fitting a cheap mongrel with the recycled skin of one of a demised but sought-after breed, a King Charles spaniel maybe, cementing the old dog onto the outside of the new one so well that the join was invisible to even the closest inspection.
EU partners UK and France recently collaborated in a very similar story of economic resourcefulness, which should remind us that we can pull through using our knowledge of the market, and our artisan skills, together with whatever raw materials are to hand.
I am thinking of ATOS of course, a sort of modern day dog-maker for dealing with the workshy sick and satisfying the need for pedigree welfare statistics.
Downing Street needed plenty of political polyfilla for the cracks in Dave's dogma - about Britain being a Christian country: he didn't mean having another faith – or none - is wrong, they explained for him while he was off, sunning himself.
Compared to everyday life in Slovenia, his was but a shallow paddle into national metaphysics, not drowning in difficulties over the sacred beliefs, of some, in a violent premature death for wrong-believers.
These recall an early Slovenian tourist boom, based around stopovers in Velika Nedelja for keen holidaymakers on their way to lay siege to Antioch and Jerusalem.
The Christians won - and the party's still going on!
Velika nedelja
But the riddle of how "Mahommed" got mixed up with "Baphomet" remains.
Last time I was in Velika Nedelja our driver got randomly breathalysed. "Have you been drinking?" asked the cop, somewhat pointlessly. Driver: "No." Cop: "Why not?"
Like Dr Cameron's theo-illogical Mobius strip of tolerance, presumably the pseudo-dogs must have had a poop hatch of some kind, or the consequences don't bear thinking about.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is the Chicken-Maker. www.maria.si
this lengthy historic perspective received short shrift from the deleters of The Slovenia Times...
KOMBI, JA
Come buy here, milord
Come buy, ja
Come buy here, milord
Come buy a...
Come buy here, milord
Cum, bye, ja.
Unloads kombi. Yar!
Us you can afford
Come buy here
Holidays abroad
Go on buy ja
London shopping - hoard!
Kombi - dva!
Imagine! Les artes-naives souvenirs of your traditional Christian Easter holiday paddleboarding in Papagayo still litter the hallway at Number Ten - the next thing you know you're meeting the crusading PM of Slovenia, followed by a lackey laden with bags from Harvey Nicks and a hamper from Fortnums!
Given his experience directing "Titanic" I'm sure g. Cameron will have plenty of useful advice for the fledgling privateer.
Couple of things, firstly would the David Cameron Football Factory be interested in investing in Slovenian football? Slovenia does pretty well compared to England and could surely beat them if only it had much more money.
And it is true about Slovenia's stabilisation. My income for fixing the Slovenians' English stabilised at 10 euros last month, and they took 25% of that back for running such a good system.
Meanwhile AB will have used her time in London to find out more about its poor's rich capitalist heritage.
Such as the intriguing Dog-Makers http://is.gd/pPgYRh
Dog-Makers were able to satisfy rich Victorians' insatiable demand for posh dogs by cleverly fitting a cheap mongrel with the recycled skin of one of a demised but sought-after breed, a King Charles spaniel maybe, cementing the old dog onto the outside of the new one so well that the join was invisible to even the closest inspection.
EU partners UK and France recently collaborated in a very similar story of economic resourcefulness, which should remind us that we can pull through using our knowledge of the market, and our artisan skills, together with whatever raw materials are to hand.
I am thinking of ATOS of course, a sort of modern day dog-maker for dealing with the workshy sick and satisfying the need for pedigree welfare statistics.
Downing Street needed plenty of political polyfilla for the cracks in Dave's dogma - about Britain being a Christian country: he didn't mean having another faith – or none - is wrong, they explained for him while he was off, sunning himself.
Compared to everyday life in Slovenia, his was but a shallow paddle into national metaphysics, not drowning in difficulties over the sacred beliefs, of some, in a violent premature death for wrong-believers.
These recall an early Slovenian tourist boom, based around stopovers in Velika Nedelja for keen holidaymakers on their way to lay siege to Antioch and Jerusalem.
The Christians won - and the party's still going on!
Velika nedelja
But the riddle of how "Mahommed" got mixed up with "Baphomet" remains.
Last time I was in Velika Nedelja our driver got randomly breathalysed. "Have you been drinking?" asked the cop, somewhat pointlessly. Driver: "No." Cop: "Why not?"
Like Dr Cameron's theo-illogical Mobius strip of tolerance, presumably the pseudo-dogs must have had a poop hatch of some kind, or the consequences don't bear thinking about.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is the Chicken-Maker. www.maria.si
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A few more taxes for Slovenia...could Britain follow?
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Every 20 minutes or so Slovenian officials finish at their computers and return to their smokestations. Their lives are dominated by the challenges of IT.
Imperial Tobacco, that is. Draw your own conclusions as to why this of all comments should be deleted by the Slovenia Times again... and again.
FAGFACTS BUDGET SPECIAL
- What does smoking mean for the Slovenian government deficit?
USA (1994)
By dying ten years prematurely, American smokers are saving society $1.19 cents for every pack they smoke.
Smokers live long enough to pay taxes, but not long enough to draw pensions. Smoking reduces geriatic expenditures.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/W._Kip_Viscusi#Economic_arguments_involving_smoking
Rhode Island, USA (1997)
Mean age of 90 children who ingested cigarettes or cigarette butts: 11.7 months
Odds ratio that smoking in the presence of the children as a risk factor for the ingestion, after controlling for the location of cigarettes: 7.8 - and ashtrays: 5.9 within the household.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046181.htm
Slovenia (2002-2004)
Combined cost of fire fighting organisations, fire insurance administration, plus direct and indirect losses due to fire: 0.156% of GDP
https://www.genevaassociation.org/media/186703/GA2012-FIRE28.pdf
USA (2004)
$157 billion in annual health-related economic losses
For each of the approximately 22 billion packs sold in the U.S. in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care attributable to smoking, and $3.73 in productivity losses were incurred, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm5114.pdf
Slovenia (2004)
Fires per 1000 inhabitants: 3.2
www.verbraucherrat.at/download/firesafetyconsumer.pdf
USA (2006-2008)
Smoking caused $303 million in (residential only) property loss each year
www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/tfrs/v11i4.pdf
Russia (2009) 35.8 billion rubles (0.1% of GDP)
http://www.rpcardio.com/upload/archive/pdf_articles/2011/3/RPC_2011_3_art5.pdf
UK (2009) The direct impact of smoking on the NHS came to £5.2 billion for 2005/6, which equates to 5.5% of the total NHS budget for that year – a proportion that has not changed since the early 1990s.
This annual cost is still likely to be an underestimate because it does not include indirect costs, such as lost of productivity and informal care; the costs of treating disease caused by passive smoking, or the full range of conditions associated with smoking.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090609_1.html
USA (2013)
Taxpayers' yearly fed/state tax burden from smoking-caused government spending: $70.7 billion ($616 per household)
Smoking-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack sold in USA (low estimate): $10.47 per pack
Average retail price per pack in the USA (including sales tax): $5.29
www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0072.pdf
Slovenia (2014)
Smoking increases confidence. If you are having a confidence vote make sure you pass out plenty of fags beforehand.
...make sure these are English fags, not American ones, though.
Deleted from:
Imperial Tobacco, that is. Draw your own conclusions as to why this of all comments should be deleted by the Slovenia Times again... and again.
FAGFACTS BUDGET SPECIAL
- What does smoking mean for the Slovenian government deficit?
USA (1994)
By dying ten years prematurely, American smokers are saving society $1.19 cents for every pack they smoke.
Smokers live long enough to pay taxes, but not long enough to draw pensions. Smoking reduces geriatic expenditures.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/W._Kip_Viscusi#Economic_arguments_involving_smoking
Rhode Island, USA (1997)
Mean age of 90 children who ingested cigarettes or cigarette butts: 11.7 months
Odds ratio that smoking in the presence of the children as a risk factor for the ingestion, after controlling for the location of cigarettes: 7.8 - and ashtrays: 5.9 within the household.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046181.htm
Slovenia (2002-2004)
Combined cost of fire fighting organisations, fire insurance administration, plus direct and indirect losses due to fire: 0.156% of GDP
https://www.genevaassociation.org/media/186703/GA2012-FIRE28.pdf
USA (2004)
$157 billion in annual health-related economic losses
For each of the approximately 22 billion packs sold in the U.S. in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care attributable to smoking, and $3.73 in productivity losses were incurred, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm5114.pdf
Slovenia (2004)
Fires per 1000 inhabitants: 3.2
www.verbraucherrat.at/download/firesafetyconsumer.pdf
USA (2006-2008)
Smoking caused $303 million in (residential only) property loss each year
www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/tfrs/v11i4.pdf
Russia (2009) 35.8 billion rubles (0.1% of GDP)
http://www.rpcardio.com/upload/archive/pdf_articles/2011/3/RPC_2011_3_art5.pdf
UK (2009) The direct impact of smoking on the NHS came to £5.2 billion for 2005/6, which equates to 5.5% of the total NHS budget for that year – a proportion that has not changed since the early 1990s.
This annual cost is still likely to be an underestimate because it does not include indirect costs, such as lost of productivity and informal care; the costs of treating disease caused by passive smoking, or the full range of conditions associated with smoking.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090609_1.html
USA (2013)
Taxpayers' yearly fed/state tax burden from smoking-caused government spending: $70.7 billion ($616 per household)
Smoking-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack sold in USA (low estimate): $10.47 per pack
Average retail price per pack in the USA (including sales tax): $5.29
www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0072.pdf
Slovenia (2014)
Smoking increases confidence. If you are having a confidence vote make sure you pass out plenty of fags beforehand.
...make sure these are English fags, not American ones, though.
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Ideas for new Slovenian taxes...Deleted. If you want to see all the Not Yet Judicially Enacted Taxes of Slovenia please visit www.nyjets.si
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Sodding hell! Fanatical media get it wrong for a day. Probably the final straw for Capt Zaharie was seeing a waypoint called VAMPI. (Warning: contains Daily Mail)
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Hi from Switzerland, in this American view of Europe. This way lies hope.
From http://www.eyeopening.info/2014/03/12/americans-asked-place-european-countries-map-heres-wrote/#.UyHkUs5j5kV
From http://www.eyeopening.info/2014/03/12/americans-asked-place-european-countries-map-heres-wrote/#.UyHkUs5j5kV
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In Slovenia your mood is determined according to a Soviet-style statistic.
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Blame those Balkans again!
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These people want to be more European...
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dutb creeps in
Sorry saga continues with this deleted, I think pretty groovy, ABBA spoof.
In this ethereal Scandinavian saga Mansson is envisaged during a site investigation, cowering sheepishly in his final hiding place, like Saddam Hussein.
PORTALOO
Bad bank! - i Portaloo Torbjörn gömde, fick ge sig:
"Oh ve, kan inte jag hänga på det är 60 / timme?
Effekt detta har på min hälsa -
Sitter här och tänker på mig själv ...
Portaloo
Jag bajsat, rökning bakom en blå plast dörr
Portaloo
Varför har mitt kontrakt i soporna?
Portaloo
Du mig att bor i en husvagn alltför?
Portaloo
Vad i helvete vad var jag för?
Portaloo
Slutligen degraderad i Portaloo.
Därför! här det luktar men utanför är starkare
Åh ja, du vill att krämen men erbjuder pris på späck
Sitta här tills du ringa min bluff -
Min uppdraget ganska off the cuff
Portaloo
Svensk porr utspridda ut över golvet
Portaloo
Bortskaffande, med inget fäst vid det
Portaloo
Dova inuti det men jag hör
Portaloo
Tio k en månads bästa du kan gör?
Portaloo
Alla vi gömmer sig i här för...
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Sorry saga continues with this deleted, I think pretty groovy, ABBA spoof.
In this ethereal Scandinavian saga Mansson is envisaged during a site investigation, cowering sheepishly in his final hiding place, like Saddam Hussein.
PORTALOO
Bad bank! - i Portaloo Torbjörn gömde, fick ge sig:
"Oh ve, kan inte jag hänga på det är 60 / timme?
Effekt detta har på min hälsa -
Sitter här och tänker på mig själv ...
Portaloo
Jag bajsat, rökning bakom en blå plast dörr
Portaloo
Varför har mitt kontrakt i soporna?
Portaloo
Du mig att bor i en husvagn alltför?
Portaloo
Vad i helvete vad var jag för?
Portaloo
Slutligen degraderad i Portaloo.
Därför! här det luktar men utanför är starkare
Åh ja, du vill att krämen men erbjuder pris på späck
Sitta här tills du ringa min bluff -
Min uppdraget ganska off the cuff
Portaloo
Svensk porr utspridda ut över golvet
Portaloo
Bortskaffande, med inget fäst vid det
Portaloo
Dova inuti det men jag hör
Portaloo
Tio k en månads bästa du kan gör?
Portaloo
Alla vi gömmer sig i här för...
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Now is our winter of conned descent.
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Meanwhile, in the UK...it's a bit shit. But these particular cars are definitely not responsible for this particular flood which is definitely not a result of carbon emissions. Where's the proof, huh?? I'm sure you all agree that our politicians have done a great job on the environment, and that without their constant efforts to collect our money this water would be much deeper. Please stay calm and keep driving - until someone does something about this.
See, fossil fuel fans, what happens when you diss your hippies?
Staines is probably best known as the home of Ali G.
See, fossil fuel fans, what happens when you diss your hippies?
Staines is probably best known as the home of Ali G.
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KARMA CARRY-ON: NETWORKS PERUN DOWN
Finding nothing about local clergy cool
God responds with a strike, though not surgical -
With the price now of bolts
He don't waste volts on dolts:
Pylon major mishap metallurgical.
It was time for revenge from above, what with the hapless Slovenian citizenry - believers and atheists alike - now on the hook via the bad bank for half a billion euros of the money lost by wino-to-organ-to-porno conglomerate Archdiocese of Maribor plc (note: no business connection to Vatican City Titty Corp).
Church debt constitutes 10% of the bad bank's remit. Four fifths of that relates to their typically megalomaniac attempt to control the internet, via ISP/Telco T2.
As the Slovenian internet offered the only glimmer of hope that NLB, NKBM and Abanka might see some of your money again, T2 and its optical network project were spirited off under a traditional murky, media-proof cloud of Catholic shock and confusion to companies Gratel and Rešet.
With NLB in hot pursuit of these assets and trying to put T2's owners into bankruptcy, owner Jurij Krč - suddenly one of Slovenia's richest tycoons - has put them yet further out of reach by giving the Slovenian internet to his brother. As you do.
But of course you need electricity for an internet. The old gods know this and they're back - with this suitably anti-phallic expression of their displeasure.
Maybe these pylons would have benefitted from gromoviti znaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.solarpanel.si
KARMA CARRY-ON: NETWORKS PERUN DOWN
Finding nothing about local clergy cool
God responds with a strike, though not surgical -
With the price now of bolts
He don't waste volts on dolts:
Pylon major mishap metallurgical.
It was time for revenge from above, what with the hapless Slovenian citizenry - believers and atheists alike - now on the hook via the bad bank for half a billion euros of the money lost by wino-to-organ-to-porno conglomerate Archdiocese of Maribor plc (note: no business connection to Vatican City Titty Corp).
Church debt constitutes 10% of the bad bank's remit. Four fifths of that relates to their typically megalomaniac attempt to control the internet, via ISP/Telco T2.
As the Slovenian internet offered the only glimmer of hope that NLB, NKBM and Abanka might see some of your money again, T2 and its optical network project were spirited off under a traditional murky, media-proof cloud of Catholic shock and confusion to companies Gratel and Rešet.
With NLB in hot pursuit of these assets and trying to put T2's owners into bankruptcy, owner Jurij Krč - suddenly one of Slovenia's richest tycoons - has put them yet further out of reach by giving the Slovenian internet to his brother. As you do.
But of course you need electricity for an internet. The old gods know this and they're back - with this suitably anti-phallic expression of their displeasure.
Maybe these pylons would have benefitted from gromoviti znaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.solarpanel.si
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RESCUE FROM RED DIGESTION
You have won!!! But Chinese brand unruly.
"High activity"...refunded fully.
Light the fire, Mom and Pop,
Mailbox filled to the top,
Chapter 11? - Don't worry on Dooley;
Yes, steer clear of phoneys and foreigners - only homespun Slovenian publishers such as Reader's Digestu* can deliver Slovenian writers from the clutches of the red devils. Its superb editing ensures Slovenia's national literature a seat in Heaven.
With RD every elderly racist is a guaranteed sweepstake winner - you only have to touch it once and you'll be on every competition scam and book club mailing list for ever. Hallejujah! And Begorrah!
*Not to be confused with the Reader's Digest Association, the American bankrupt religious right-wing/CIA mouthpiece which practically invented dumbing-down.
The Horror! Coming to a naive old lady near you...in 2008.
http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/press/digest.htm
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2008/9/The-Readers-Digest-Association-Ltd/TF_ADJ_44924.aspx
http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-settlement-readers-digest-association-provide
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/443/157
http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=8cacd5a9-af3b-4bc0-b553-665d486a33ba
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/readers-digest-c61628.html
http://www.consumercourt.in/books/10358-complaint-against-readers-digest-3.html
http://mythreecents.com/showReview.cgi?id=62048
etc. etc. etc....
http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/readers_digest/o_readers_digestu
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rA8cm8l7JXsC&lpg=PA75&ots=m7z0RMZX4b&dq=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&f=false
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RESCUE FROM RED DIGESTION
You have won!!! But Chinese brand unruly.
"High activity"...refunded fully.
Light the fire, Mom and Pop,
Mailbox filled to the top,
Chapter 11? - Don't worry on Dooley;
Yes, steer clear of phoneys and foreigners - only homespun Slovenian publishers such as Reader's Digestu* can deliver Slovenian writers from the clutches of the red devils. Its superb editing ensures Slovenia's national literature a seat in Heaven.
With RD every elderly racist is a guaranteed sweepstake winner - you only have to touch it once and you'll be on every competition scam and book club mailing list for ever. Hallejujah! And Begorrah!
*Not to be confused with the Reader's Digest Association, the American bankrupt religious right-wing/CIA mouthpiece which practically invented dumbing-down.
The Horror! Coming to a naive old lady near you...in 2008.
http://www.nj.gov/oag/ca/press/digest.htm
http://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/2008/9/The-Readers-Digest-Association-Ltd/TF_ADJ_44924.aspx
http://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-settlement-readers-digest-association-provide
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/443/157
http://www.iam-magazine.com/reports/Detail.aspx?g=8cacd5a9-af3b-4bc0-b553-665d486a33ba
http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/readers-digest-c61628.html
http://www.consumercourt.in/books/10358-complaint-against-readers-digest-3.html
http://mythreecents.com/showReview.cgi?id=62048
etc. etc. etc....
http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/readers_digest/o_readers_digestu
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rA8cm8l7JXsC&lpg=PA75&ots=m7z0RMZX4b&dq=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=reader%27s%20digest%20cia&f=false
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This Happy End-Of-Year Haiku was erased from Slovenia's cultural heritage:
A Happy End-Of-Year Message from nposialpu
HIGHLY EASY TO MISCONSTRU-KU
Quick! Start losing! - Just
Three hundred and sixty five
Accounting days left.
Yes it is that time of year when you can put all your previous bank recapitalisations behind you and start afresh with more bank recapitalisations.
Of NLB's recapitalisation in the last minutes of 2013, he says it's important that this "outlay will be on the budget balances this year, which will reduce the burden next year".
But regular readers of recapitalisation news will recall how the 2013Q1 deficit "sky-rocketed" mainly due to NLB's EUR 320m December 2012 recapitalisation".
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/deficit-hits-10-4-in-q1#komentarji
What a party that was!
How relieved we would have been, if only he had listened to his own advice and not still carried on counting it in 2013Q1. The outlay in 2012 must have reduced the burden in the next. What a pessimist! Slovenia must have been EUR 320m richer in 2013 than it thought it was.
But frankly, nowadays a year is a long time for banks and governments to wait for hundreds of millions of euros to disappear. Here's an idea.
I'm sure g. Flajs and his staff recall how the Wall Street Crash eventually ended and the US economy suddenly returned to normal at midnight on December 31st 1929. Let us learn from these past mistakes.
Slovenia's statisticians could improve national finances by counting recapitalisations and similar disasters on a weekly or monthly basis, instead of annually.
Had they had monthly accounts, the Recession of 1958 would be known today as the Recession of August 1957.
Instead of waiting 25 years for the Dow to recover, with weekly accounting 1929's Black Monday would have been all forgiven and forgotten by Jolly Friday of the same week.
The economy would go even better with daily reckonings - instead of it dragging on until November - financial technicians could have finalised 2001's boom-and-bust in internet businesses, begun by the Y2K scare, by January 2nd 2001.
But with minute-by-minute accounting the government's inside traders in NLB will need to be nimble.
For like one well-known one in 1720, it seems to be "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is".
Festive accounting wishes from The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand www.maria.si
A Happy End-Of-Year Message from nposialpu
HIGHLY EASY TO MISCONSTRU-KU
Quick! Start losing! - Just
Three hundred and sixty five
Accounting days left.
Yes it is that time of year when you can put all your previous bank recapitalisations behind you and start afresh with more bank recapitalisations.
Of NLB's recapitalisation in the last minutes of 2013, he says it's important that this "outlay will be on the budget balances this year, which will reduce the burden next year".
But regular readers of recapitalisation news will recall how the 2013Q1 deficit "sky-rocketed" mainly due to NLB's EUR 320m December 2012 recapitalisation".
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/deficit-hits-10-4-in-q1#komentarji
What a party that was!
How relieved we would have been, if only he had listened to his own advice and not still carried on counting it in 2013Q1. The outlay in 2012 must have reduced the burden in the next. What a pessimist! Slovenia must have been EUR 320m richer in 2013 than it thought it was.
But frankly, nowadays a year is a long time for banks and governments to wait for hundreds of millions of euros to disappear. Here's an idea.
I'm sure g. Flajs and his staff recall how the Wall Street Crash eventually ended and the US economy suddenly returned to normal at midnight on December 31st 1929. Let us learn from these past mistakes.
Slovenia's statisticians could improve national finances by counting recapitalisations and similar disasters on a weekly or monthly basis, instead of annually.
Had they had monthly accounts, the Recession of 1958 would be known today as the Recession of August 1957.
Instead of waiting 25 years for the Dow to recover, with weekly accounting 1929's Black Monday would have been all forgiven and forgotten by Jolly Friday of the same week.
The economy would go even better with daily reckonings - instead of it dragging on until November - financial technicians could have finalised 2001's boom-and-bust in internet businesses, begun by the Y2K scare, by January 2nd 2001.
But with minute-by-minute accounting the government's inside traders in NLB will need to be nimble.
For like one well-known one in 1720, it seems to be "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is".
Festive accounting wishes from The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand www.maria.si
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Scaring The Children
"Loose Lucy" | TRI Studios
tristudios.com
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vino negative
CHRISTIAN POLITICS AND THE HALOŽDOUS MATERIALS
I'm afraid my comment went down the drain...
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table,
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.jesus.si
CHRISTIAN POLITICS AND THE HALOŽDOUS MATERIALS
I'm afraid my comment went down the drain...
nposialpu notes the latest non-division between Church and State...
EXTRA! EXCISE XMAS: TRIAL OF THE BALLOON NUN
NSi on the alcohol scene: - "Whoa!
One more thing we can't count is the vino.
Hell! Blood group?? - we're unable
To put this on the label,
Or comply with Instruction 650."
Christian winos! Are you breaking man's law with wine labelling, or are you potentially denying the existence of God by not labelling correctly?
According to the doctrine of transubstantiation, the ingredients of bread and wine used in the Eucharist are prone to changes when they become the body and blood of Christ the Saviour.
Please don't forget that a lot of people have fought and died in pan-European schisms about this one. NSi supporters, please avoid heresy: the wine becomes blood not merely symbolically - but in reality!
EU regulations on the packaging and transport of biological samples will therefore apply.
Like Slovenia's candles, much home produced wine is a religious black market item, often supplied to believers under the table,
The correct labelling, when handling potentially hazardous post-Eucharistic blood-containing wines, must contain the texts “Biological Material, Category B”, and the identification number “UN 3373”.
The Dangerous Goods “YES” box must be ticked. You should forget the idea of selling religious wines in duty-free airport stores unless wrapped in compliance with ICAO/IATA Packing Instruction 650.
Sufficient absorbent packing must be used to contain any leakage of dangerous blood-contaminated wine specimens - which if released into the environment could give rise to infectious optimism, philosophical laziness, and liver disease.
Do not end up getting prosecuted for tax evasion like Jesus. The name and telephone number of a “responsible person” must be written on the consignment note or on the package.
Let purveyors of wines - any of which might be transformed - render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's and adhere to international biohazard regulations.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.jesus.si
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How they brought the good news - from cakes to gents. Sadly my French poem for this seems lost forever.
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Hanky Banky: signed, sealed, and stand and deliver! This edgy rhyme was clipped in The Great Deletion of 2014.
See also www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
BAH! BAR BLOCK SHEEPLE
BAMC, will you sell me shares?
No sir, no sir,
There's none there.
One for the minister,
My brother in law,
And one for the company
That lives offshore.
Shares in BAMC are the hottest ticket in town! The participants will be first in line to pick up some bankrupt bargains, and then they will carry on as before, selling these suddenly valuable entities back and forth, around and around, between themselves, using increasingly fictitious money.
A deafening silence, rather than clamour for BAMC to be a quoted company, simply shows that the ordinary Slovene is too simply too kindhearted and generous to worry about paying for his Master's rightful share. He knows his place.
The shares' actual non-existence is especially odd if you consider that the business entities BAMC will supposedly administer are those which have been crippled by overgearing and directorial lavishness.
Obviously the cure for this is to protect them from the things which go with public companies, things such as stakeholder capital, transparency, and oversight.
Baa Baa Black Sheep may be about a medieval wool tax. The phrase "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" has been used to describe any obsequious or craven subordinate. The nursery rhyme is an important exhibit in computer music history. I recommend the 1024-bit programmable Ferranti Mark 1 to BAMC and let's hear the music play!
http://is.gd/SfRnyn
See also www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
BAH! BAR BLOCK SHEEPLE
BAMC, will you sell me shares?
No sir, no sir,
There's none there.
One for the minister,
My brother in law,
And one for the company
That lives offshore.
Shares in BAMC are the hottest ticket in town! The participants will be first in line to pick up some bankrupt bargains, and then they will carry on as before, selling these suddenly valuable entities back and forth, around and around, between themselves, using increasingly fictitious money.
A deafening silence, rather than clamour for BAMC to be a quoted company, simply shows that the ordinary Slovene is too simply too kindhearted and generous to worry about paying for his Master's rightful share. He knows his place.
The shares' actual non-existence is especially odd if you consider that the business entities BAMC will supposedly administer are those which have been crippled by overgearing and directorial lavishness.
Obviously the cure for this is to protect them from the things which go with public companies, things such as stakeholder capital, transparency, and oversight.
Baa Baa Black Sheep may be about a medieval wool tax. The phrase "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" has been used to describe any obsequious or craven subordinate. The nursery rhyme is an important exhibit in computer music history. I recommend the 1024-bit programmable Ferranti Mark 1 to BAMC and let's hear the music play!
http://is.gd/SfRnyn
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Watchdog runs off...
The deleted haiku...
nposialpu considers a disappointing
LEGAL HAIKU
Too few/many laws:
One for them, the rest for us.
Canute can't commute.
This exodus shows Slovenia is "a fake democracy," suggests former KPK member Urban Vehovar. The National Assembly is just a facade, behind which hides an extremely powerful network of organized crime, involving all major parties, both left and right-wing factions.
All I can say is, if this is the organised crime...
For Slovenia to find its place in the civilised world we need a better facade. To hide it better.
The deleted haiku...
nposialpu considers a disappointing
LEGAL HAIKU
Too few/many laws:
One for them, the rest for us.
Canute can't commute.
This exodus shows Slovenia is "a fake democracy," suggests former KPK member Urban Vehovar. The National Assembly is just a facade, behind which hides an extremely powerful network of organized crime, involving all major parties, both left and right-wing factions.
All I can say is, if this is the organised crime...
For Slovenia to find its place in the civilised world we need a better facade. To hide it better.
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Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire: the theo-oligarchic economics of Slovenian native rituals...
www.aaa.si/q
www.aaa.si/q
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Slovenian health unsurance...top doc quits
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Naomi Klein: How
science is telling us all to revolt
newstatesman.com
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OMG they changed their name! The wrong bit though...
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President agrees to do anything to get back the money Tito lost, and receives a second piercing...
The following was deleted in the first week of the reign of Miro I...
IT'S HURTIN', BERTIN: HIGH-RISK PRINCE ALBERT 2-KU
Pertuzâ zóbbo
Con metàllo unn'âtra
Vòtta - màtto dô!
A double piercing of the Monégasque crown jewels would explain their need for the letter Æ...
The following was deleted in the first week of the reign of Miro I...
IT'S HURTIN', BERTIN: HIGH-RISK PRINCE ALBERT 2-KU
Pertuzâ zóbbo
Con metàllo unn'âtra
Vòtta - màtto dô!
A double piercing of the Monégasque crown jewels would explain their need for the letter Æ...
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Various plunges...
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Death and denial. Survey on nationalist discrimination in the spooky Slovenian health insurance system
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Beating Hlapcitibank
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mmmmmm...Priesto!!! Gratuitum prandium as Slovenian Catholic Church gravy train continues
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Inhibitory taxes...
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When blowing a shedload of money by Slovenian standards, to see what Britain is all about, many a local adventurer has displayed great insight, resourcefulness and individuality, pursuing an odd fixation on Buckingham Palace, Oxford Street, and the London Eye. For those with some sort of notion of reality here's a short architectural tour of Derby, in living colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU
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Cuban healing
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NLB Boss Denies Insider Trading Charges
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Business as Usual: Slovenia after 22 years
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Baloncesto: Spain up to scratch
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It's pret-a-portier! Gašpar Gašpar Muscles muscles in
...a super poem nearly lost for all time but actually not...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand commemorates the outbreak of civil war in Ljubljana over this job opportunity with a new version of Walt Whitman's metaphorical sea-ode.
O KOPER! MY KOPER!
O Koper! my Koper! Mišič is what you've won;
Positively screwed from back, your engine stuck on 1;
No porty training, yet job gains, political tongues melting,
Politicising pier review by muscles, new hat wearing:
Split apart! port! port!
So EU pays instead
Sausage denies flies' squeaky cries
'Bout stuck-on cirriped.
O Koper! my Koper! this English is a thrill;
Cock up — this article's well-hung — you have the biggest balls;
Your huge clockweights, dangling between crowds of containers cubic;
We learned muscles ought to divide the public from the pubic;
Dear Koper! They'd rather
Go t'other way instead;
Land at Trieste, so they can get
Interesting food, soft bed.
It's Koper's Mišič showtime: star treads boards, karst and kruh,
Sat on the dock, in labour's pay, his plan is beautiful;
His ship is parked, basking like shark, politicking done gone;
His long strange partnership ahead with sausages and sun;
Result, I'm sure, on thing, oh well!
My advice, what to do,
Import all Trieste's cakes and pies -
And mind the seagull poo.
Wishing a safe journey to all hauliers of string beans to Lviv.
http://is.gd/NncKfy
...a super poem nearly lost for all time but actually not...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand commemorates the outbreak of civil war in Ljubljana over this job opportunity with a new version of Walt Whitman's metaphorical sea-ode.
O KOPER! MY KOPER!
O Koper! my Koper! Mišič is what you've won;
Positively screwed from back, your engine stuck on 1;
No porty training, yet job gains, political tongues melting,
Politicising pier review by muscles, new hat wearing:
Split apart! port! port!
So EU pays instead
Sausage denies flies' squeaky cries
'Bout stuck-on cirriped.
O Koper! my Koper! this English is a thrill;
Cock up — this article's well-hung — you have the biggest balls;
Your huge clockweights, dangling between crowds of containers cubic;
We learned muscles ought to divide the public from the pubic;
Dear Koper! They'd rather
Go t'other way instead;
Land at Trieste, so they can get
Interesting food, soft bed.
It's Koper's Mišič showtime: star treads boards, karst and kruh,
Sat on the dock, in labour's pay, his plan is beautiful;
His ship is parked, basking like shark, politicking done gone;
His long strange partnership ahead with sausages and sun;
Result, I'm sure, on thing, oh well!
My advice, what to do,
Import all Trieste's cakes and pies -
And mind the seagull poo.
Wishing a safe journey to all hauliers of string beans to Lviv.
http://is.gd/NncKfy
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Ptuj Po-Down and annual plonkathon begins. They had a Kosovel theme and this is the deleted one...
CONS IVRES
Fumier signifie laiton
Collez-le dans ton cul
Yug eu ...
Eau =
= EU
Une abeille
Suspendue dans l'arbre
'Ung to tree, sans nez
Ne sera pas attraper la grippe aviaire
Attendant le Soul Train
Requis dans Ptuj.
In celebration of Kosovel's Kons. 5
Slovenia's fourth greatest poet (after NPOSIALPU, Preseren, and Cankar) Kosovel is in many ways the most Slovenian.
Really miserable, he has been compared to Rimbaud because both stopped writing poetry at about the same age (22). However, in Kosovel's case this was simply because he waited so long for a train he died of pneumonia. Probably it was a Saturday and the train drivers were busy listening to football on the telegraph.
And he died before he was able to finish college. You can't get more Slovenian than that.
Merci beaucoup EU: if Ptuj's vinegar barons and BBQ chicken farmers had got their pesticidal way, bees would = 0: http://is.gd/EK0GlT
Yet to arrive on their platforms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nnRp7LuY8
CONS IVRES
Fumier signifie laiton
Collez-le dans ton cul
Yug eu ...
Eau =
= EU
Une abeille
Suspendue dans l'arbre
'Ung to tree, sans nez
Ne sera pas attraper la grippe aviaire
Attendant le Soul Train
Requis dans Ptuj.
In celebration of Kosovel's Kons. 5
Slovenia's fourth greatest poet (after NPOSIALPU, Preseren, and Cankar) Kosovel is in many ways the most Slovenian.
Really miserable, he has been compared to Rimbaud because both stopped writing poetry at about the same age (22). However, in Kosovel's case this was simply because he waited so long for a train he died of pneumonia. Probably it was a Saturday and the train drivers were busy listening to football on the telegraph.
And he died before he was able to finish college. You can't get more Slovenian than that.
Merci beaucoup EU: if Ptuj's vinegar barons and BBQ chicken farmers had got their pesticidal way, bees would = 0: http://is.gd/EK0GlT
Yet to arrive on their platforms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nnRp7LuY8
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The hazards of a belief in soothing public relations, over irritating chemistry...
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Slovenia latest: Communism is down to its bra and panties, but suddenly remembers it has exams tomorrow and a bus to catch...
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What a fantastic country Slovenia is! I actually have more money than the government!
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CENTRAL BANK: BADGER TAKES OVER
BEG, STEAL OR BURROW
Village pillage and city mismanaging,
Cadgers and frontagers ravaging:
Bank deploying huge dredgers
To recover the ledgers,
Bank balancing act needs some badgering.
Lost in the wintry, wild wood, poor half-blind Mole and the slightly more resourceful Rat seek refuge with the rich set.
Cosy inside, they discuss the recklessly speeding Mr Toad's constant crashes with Mr Badger, who agrees that next year something must be done.
While he takes a nap, Otter arrives and wonders why moles don't make use of existing rabbit holes.
Emerging from Mr Badger's safe underground chamber into the bleak, lifeless woodland economy, Mole realises the hard wild wood is not for him - he prefers earth which somebody else has already dug over.
Deleted in the Reign of Miro I from:
BEG, STEAL OR BURROW
Village pillage and city mismanaging,
Cadgers and frontagers ravaging:
Bank deploying huge dredgers
To recover the ledgers,
Bank balancing act needs some badgering.
Lost in the wintry, wild wood, poor half-blind Mole and the slightly more resourceful Rat seek refuge with the rich set.
Cosy inside, they discuss the recklessly speeding Mr Toad's constant crashes with Mr Badger, who agrees that next year something must be done.
While he takes a nap, Otter arrives and wonders why moles don't make use of existing rabbit holes.
Emerging from Mr Badger's safe underground chamber into the bleak, lifeless woodland economy, Mole realises the hard wild wood is not for him - he prefers earth which somebody else has already dug over.
Deleted in the Reign of Miro I from:
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Hubble bubble....
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SDS says no go to logo. Slovenia celebrates independence from Yugoslavia with Yugoslavian red star
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NSA snoops on as Slovenia and Croatia go on talking Balkans http://is.gd/RKA1nu Bring back the Cone of Silence! Get Smart cone of silence 1
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Haiku on Slovenian coal tragedy en francais, with cross-Channel homophony
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Slavic English user? Read my masterpiece of linguistic philosophy, in which I really start picking through the darkened roots of white-on-white racism, why westerners sometimes perceive Slavic east Europeans as shifty and evasive, and why these in turn may think westerners are egotistical and impatient. (Despite this, some are, obviously). Aimed at our very own Bananistan but may apply to other Slavic languages too.
ALREADY for Slovenes
a2z.si
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WANTED / NOT WANTED - Shake it Tovšak baby! This one on corruption and public spending from our Slovenian Fiasco Correspondent was vamoosed from the Slovenia Times article below in The Great Deletion of September 2014...
Limerick and cementick brick on St Hilda's relics' whereabouts, wherewithal, and the general weariness of it all.
NO FEE FLY FLO-FUMBLE
Gumboot dance for skedaddling Hilda?
Flamencos? Sings Waltzing Matilda?
TEŠ itself an infraction -
Goat caught...'scaped: twice, distraction.
And you know how it is, finding builders.
The flight of St Hilda completes the triptych of iconic construction bosses whose decapitated firms are lined up for treatment for their Slovenian banking difficulties. The holey trinity are now either in jail or on the run.
Interpol should hire a good psychic, or perhaps a dowser with a bomb-detecting Radio Shack antenna, to locate her.
Her 7th century namesake, when the pagan ways of Kent and Essex were giving godly doctrines a bit of a kicking, bunked off to run a remote seaside mixed-sex monastery. St Hilda's was in Whitby, home of many vampires and people in plastic clothes. Get Anthony LaPaglia and start dangling your pendulum over places like that.
Hilda's last words to Slovenia (English/Slovene versions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28RgiZSUaM&list=PLzEvUVCV2zpxmQL3oFdBT_puoqZAA_H7o
Hylda discusses strategies with her lawyer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kRNMyvkAw
That's enough Hildas - Ed.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
There are some 20 cases involving her, but the timing of her arrest, as is often the case in Slovenia, happily coincided with the political requirements of the survivors.
As Hilda went into the cuffs, a KPK report indicating that the contract for TEŠ6 had been awarded to Alstom due to their having been improperly informed of the offer of the competition, Siemens, via the corrupt actions of the company in charge of the tender appraisal process, was sitting on the desk at OLAF.
As the rather belated news emerged that the contract had been won illegally - and in the face of rather damning evidence concluding the project was environmentally and economically unsound - the government found itself unable to pay Alstom anyway. Everything would come grinding to a halt unless money from the EIB could be obtained.
The EIB clearly needed some reassurance that corruption "in connection" with TEŠ was being rooted out - and this was the moment the prosecutors decided to concern themselves with the "exploitation" of foreign workers who had come - presumably not in chains - to work on the construction.
The EIB came up with 440m, and the state guaranteed the repayment of this, along with interest of "up to" 130% of the principal, so "not more than EUR 572m". The government doesn't care about that amount as it´ll just be going on your electricity bill.
The problem, as KPK chief Klemenčič himself pointed out, is that when everyone is corrupt, no-one is corrupt. Rather, when everyone is up to their necks in it, it is rather easy to pick your opportunities for trials on a Stalinist basis. Consider for example the arrest of then opposition leader Janković in the week the bad bank proposals were being cooked up in Parliament.
Three construction companies - SCT, Primorje and Hilda's Vegrad - are among a number, bankrupted by banks, their own mismanagement, or that of the government - who own the banks anyway - upon whose assets the bad bank's beady eye might be expected to alight.
The timing of Hilda's arrest is a happy coincidence on two fronts - in the case of the power station, because it is the largest pork barrel project under way at the moment and has gone, overspending as it went, too far to stop now. In fact it would cost nearly as much to break the contract with Alstom as it would cost to finish - although I would venture to suggest that this might be a red herring since it has been shown they shouldn't have got the contract in the first place.
If you want to pursue it you could always go here (and I'm still waiting for my puny 750 euros for proofreading this by the way):
http://is.gd/9QL8R8
Secondly the bad bank created to handle the assets of bankrupt companies such as these will surely have rather more freedom and leverage if the directors are in jail, on the run, blackened in their reputation or at least driven by lawyers into a nervous breakdown in being judged by standards not normative to the culture in which they were first elevated, then buried.
http://is.gd/KQ7hFR
In the end there is always wastage and overspend in public projects - and to hope for an end to insider deals in Slovenia is asking for the moon, I think.
What happened about the way Alstom got the deal?
Er, nothing. This is a different kind of corruption to Hilda's, the sort that needs to be completely forgotten. The government knows the mob's appetites, and it would rather feed on the schadenfreude of Hilda's downfall and, as the soap opera continues, her presumed embunkerment.
Meanwhile the mob is deterred from sticking a solar panel up by as many bureaucrats as it is possible to need to change a lightbulb, and the cost. Of course, if the 1.3bn euro cost of TEŠ were spent intelligently, there would be 1600 euros to spend on clean renewables for each of its 813872 households.
TEŠ is a coal plant! Today 1600 euros will buy you 31 tonnes of thermal coal. But if you include all the externalities, then you need to add another 170% to that cost. This doesn't matter to the project designers as somebody else will be paying...guess who that is.
http://is.gd/ZENQs8
Much is made of carbon capture and sequestration but according to a 2011 Harvard study:
"...it would almost double the cost of electricity at [coal] plants and pose dangers such as leaching heavy metals into ground water and the unintended release of highly-concentrated carbon dioxide into the air that can harm plants, animals, and humans."
http://is.gd/JwwEeo
But that is a kind of counting in which the government is uninterested.
About the other cases against Hilda I know little. But only more openness and public accountability could reduce the infrastructure feeding trough to a manageable scale, and change a culture which seems to combine the worst of the command economy and oligarchic capitalism.
As they tell me, the majority of Slovenians see themselves as slaves. They are not uppity like me, and just want to leave it to their masters to sort out. And this is what you got.
Hilda should negotiate an amnesty, or at least a plea bargain, in return for what she knows.
Limerick and cementick brick on St Hilda's relics' whereabouts, wherewithal, and the general weariness of it all.
NO FEE FLY FLO-FUMBLE
Gumboot dance for skedaddling Hilda?
Flamencos? Sings Waltzing Matilda?
TEŠ itself an infraction -
Goat caught...'scaped: twice, distraction.
And you know how it is, finding builders.
The flight of St Hilda completes the triptych of iconic construction bosses whose decapitated firms are lined up for treatment for their Slovenian banking difficulties. The holey trinity are now either in jail or on the run.
Interpol should hire a good psychic, or perhaps a dowser with a bomb-detecting Radio Shack antenna, to locate her.
Her 7th century namesake, when the pagan ways of Kent and Essex were giving godly doctrines a bit of a kicking, bunked off to run a remote seaside mixed-sex monastery. St Hilda's was in Whitby, home of many vampires and people in plastic clothes. Get Anthony LaPaglia and start dangling your pendulum over places like that.
Hilda's last words to Slovenia (English/Slovene versions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28RgiZSUaM&list=PLzEvUVCV2zpxmQL3oFdBT_puoqZAA_H7o
Hylda discusses strategies with her lawyer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kRNMyvkAw
That's enough Hildas - Ed.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
There are some 20 cases involving her, but the timing of her arrest, as is often the case in Slovenia, happily coincided with the political requirements of the survivors.
As Hilda went into the cuffs, a KPK report indicating that the contract for TEŠ6 had been awarded to Alstom due to their having been improperly informed of the offer of the competition, Siemens, via the corrupt actions of the company in charge of the tender appraisal process, was sitting on the desk at OLAF.
As the rather belated news emerged that the contract had been won illegally - and in the face of rather damning evidence concluding the project was environmentally and economically unsound - the government found itself unable to pay Alstom anyway. Everything would come grinding to a halt unless money from the EIB could be obtained.
The EIB clearly needed some reassurance that corruption "in connection" with TEŠ was being rooted out - and this was the moment the prosecutors decided to concern themselves with the "exploitation" of foreign workers who had come - presumably not in chains - to work on the construction.
The EIB came up with 440m, and the state guaranteed the repayment of this, along with interest of "up to" 130% of the principal, so "not more than EUR 572m". The government doesn't care about that amount as it´ll just be going on your electricity bill.
The problem, as KPK chief Klemenčič himself pointed out, is that when everyone is corrupt, no-one is corrupt. Rather, when everyone is up to their necks in it, it is rather easy to pick your opportunities for trials on a Stalinist basis. Consider for example the arrest of then opposition leader Janković in the week the bad bank proposals were being cooked up in Parliament.
Three construction companies - SCT, Primorje and Hilda's Vegrad - are among a number, bankrupted by banks, their own mismanagement, or that of the government - who own the banks anyway - upon whose assets the bad bank's beady eye might be expected to alight.
The timing of Hilda's arrest is a happy coincidence on two fronts - in the case of the power station, because it is the largest pork barrel project under way at the moment and has gone, overspending as it went, too far to stop now. In fact it would cost nearly as much to break the contract with Alstom as it would cost to finish - although I would venture to suggest that this might be a red herring since it has been shown they shouldn't have got the contract in the first place.
If you want to pursue it you could always go here (and I'm still waiting for my puny 750 euros for proofreading this by the way):
http://is.gd/9QL8R8
Secondly the bad bank created to handle the assets of bankrupt companies such as these will surely have rather more freedom and leverage if the directors are in jail, on the run, blackened in their reputation or at least driven by lawyers into a nervous breakdown in being judged by standards not normative to the culture in which they were first elevated, then buried.
http://is.gd/KQ7hFR
In the end there is always wastage and overspend in public projects - and to hope for an end to insider deals in Slovenia is asking for the moon, I think.
What happened about the way Alstom got the deal?
Er, nothing. This is a different kind of corruption to Hilda's, the sort that needs to be completely forgotten. The government knows the mob's appetites, and it would rather feed on the schadenfreude of Hilda's downfall and, as the soap opera continues, her presumed embunkerment.
Meanwhile the mob is deterred from sticking a solar panel up by as many bureaucrats as it is possible to need to change a lightbulb, and the cost. Of course, if the 1.3bn euro cost of TEŠ were spent intelligently, there would be 1600 euros to spend on clean renewables for each of its 813872 households.
TEŠ is a coal plant! Today 1600 euros will buy you 31 tonnes of thermal coal. But if you include all the externalities, then you need to add another 170% to that cost. This doesn't matter to the project designers as somebody else will be paying...guess who that is.
http://is.gd/ZENQs8
Much is made of carbon capture and sequestration but according to a 2011 Harvard study:
"...it would almost double the cost of electricity at [coal] plants and pose dangers such as leaching heavy metals into ground water and the unintended release of highly-concentrated carbon dioxide into the air that can harm plants, animals, and humans."
http://is.gd/JwwEeo
But that is a kind of counting in which the government is uninterested.
About the other cases against Hilda I know little. But only more openness and public accountability could reduce the infrastructure feeding trough to a manageable scale, and change a culture which seems to combine the worst of the command economy and oligarchic capitalism.
As they tell me, the majority of Slovenians see themselves as slaves. They are not uppity like me, and just want to leave it to their masters to sort out. And this is what you got.
Hilda should negotiate an amnesty, or at least a plea bargain, in return for what she knows.
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Thursday night is muckspreading night in Ptuj. Classic. By 'eck.
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If this was a proper banana republic the managers of Mercator would be put up against the wall and offered a last wish, which would be unavailable as we don't have that here. Meet the banana refusenik....
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Slovenia is Number One again!
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in celebration of the
NEW SLOGAN FOR SLOVENIA
#nposialpu presents a
HA-HA-HAIKU
HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA!
http://www.total-slovenia-news.com/travel/2249-slovenian-tourist-board-announces-new-slogan-while-tourism-association-names-most-beautiful-towns-places
NEW SLOGAN FOR SLOVENIA
#nposialpu presents a
HA-HA-HAIKU
HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA!
http://www.total-slovenia-news.com/travel/2249-slovenian-tourist-board-announces-new-slogan-while-tourism-association-names-most-beautiful-towns-places
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cheap architecture of slovenia
BOG COVERED
Is that Ratzinger? While the rest of the design is as nice as any panty pad with wings, one wonders how God could have let Skorba down so badly, that despite the centuries of praying and donations and so on, it could arrive in the 21st century having built a sports centre with showers and changing rooms yet still lack a village centre.
The villagers helped the architects do it to themselves. And as long as Skorba residents remain 100% behind St Augustine of Hippo, burdened by concupiscence and ancestral sin, the structure can be considered their panjandrums' very own success story.
It is not just an origami spectacular covering over the original village spring - which God previously saw fit to make unusable - but with its intended overlap of believing in Him, and having somewhere to smoke a fag, Enota and its clients have created a sort of municipal Klein Bottle, an inside-out irony by which all who pass (not many) should be reminded that for the catholic in a village like this especially, there really is no outside.
Gone are the gloomy churches of yesteryear. Sinners can now squirm about uncomfortably on bus shelter seats and fry their noted Štajerskan hams in the 40 degree heat, a fine scourge for today's deep municiphysical thinker.
Just accept the obvious: you don't have a better explanation of how the universe was created than we have, so you should send your kids off with an organisation that hates sex and women and has paid out billions in damages, with billions more claims in the pipeline.
Because what else are you going to do with them? There is no outside.
So however appropriate this may appear to the villagers and their architects, culturally the result is more of a dangerous vortex than a centre, and probably an unkind daily reminder to some of what naughty boys they have been. And don't tell anyone or you know what will happen.
On the Twitter timeline, the Skorba architecture story changed, after things got competitive https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/985157843597905921 Then the unimaginable happened: it rained. https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/992846035725807623
What began in architectural storyland as a generic triangular village meeting point turned out on closer examination to be a chapel. Later versions make it clear that a chapel is what no one in the village decided they could resist.
What happened next:
https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/992913475256115201
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 21
BOG COVERED
Is that Ratzinger? While the rest of the design is as nice as any panty pad with wings, one wonders how God could have let Skorba down so badly, that despite the centuries of praying and donations and so on, it could arrive in the 21st century having built a sports centre with showers and changing rooms yet still lack a village centre.
The villagers helped the architects do it to themselves. And as long as Skorba residents remain 100% behind St Augustine of Hippo, burdened by concupiscence and ancestral sin, the structure can be considered their panjandrums' very own success story.
It is not just an origami spectacular covering over the original village spring - which God previously saw fit to make unusable - but with its intended overlap of believing in Him, and having somewhere to smoke a fag, Enota and its clients have created a sort of municipal Klein Bottle, an inside-out irony by which all who pass (not many) should be reminded that for the catholic in a village like this especially, there really is no outside.
Gone are the gloomy churches of yesteryear. Sinners can now squirm about uncomfortably on bus shelter seats and fry their noted Štajerskan hams in the 40 degree heat, a fine scourge for today's deep municiphysical thinker.
Just accept the obvious: you don't have a better explanation of how the universe was created than we have, so you should send your kids off with an organisation that hates sex and women and has paid out billions in damages, with billions more claims in the pipeline.
Because what else are you going to do with them? There is no outside.
So however appropriate this may appear to the villagers and their architects, culturally the result is more of a dangerous vortex than a centre, and probably an unkind daily reminder to some of what naughty boys they have been. And don't tell anyone or you know what will happen.
On the Twitter timeline, the Skorba architecture story changed, after things got competitive https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/985157843597905921 Then the unimaginable happened: it rained. https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/992846035725807623
What began in architectural storyland as a generic triangular village meeting point turned out on closer examination to be a chapel. Later versions make it clear that a chapel is what no one in the village decided they could resist.
What happened next:
https://twitter.com/turizemptuj/status/992913475256115201
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 21
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fatal harvest
TILTING TRACTOR ACCIDENTS OF SLOVENIA
Older, more experienced tractor users are more likely to come a cropper as this new-fangled 2014 study shows: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24417527
Getting squished by your own tractor is almost as popular as early-morning drinking in Slovenia. Whether it is your birthday, or you have just bought a new tractor, remember that you can easily calculate the highest tilt angle using the formula:
arctan (0.5 x rear wheel track/centre of gravity height)
Remember using a lifting bucket will raise your centre of gravity.
Use 80% of the formula result, as Slovenia is actually quite bumpy.
autumn tractor fatality reports from Slovenia (pop. 2 million)
Podgorje pri Pišecah, 23 Nov
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/previdno-v-nekaj-urah-ze-dve-nesreci-pri-delu-s-traktorjem
Drenovec pri Leskovcu, 13 Oct
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-v-torek-ga-je-kupil-v-sredo-je-pod-njim-oblezal-mrtev
Hrušico pri Jesenice, 18 Sept
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/pod-traktorjem-umrl-za-rojstni-dan
Vintarji, 14 Sept
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-joze-umrl-pod-traktorjem
TILTING TRACTOR ACCIDENTS OF SLOVENIA
Older, more experienced tractor users are more likely to come a cropper as this new-fangled 2014 study shows: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24417527
Getting squished by your own tractor is almost as popular as early-morning drinking in Slovenia. Whether it is your birthday, or you have just bought a new tractor, remember that you can easily calculate the highest tilt angle using the formula:
arctan (0.5 x rear wheel track/centre of gravity height)
Remember using a lifting bucket will raise your centre of gravity.
Use 80% of the formula result, as Slovenia is actually quite bumpy.
autumn tractor fatality reports from Slovenia (pop. 2 million)
Podgorje pri Pišecah, 23 Nov
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/previdno-v-nekaj-urah-ze-dve-nesreci-pri-delu-s-traktorjem
Drenovec pri Leskovcu, 13 Oct
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-v-torek-ga-je-kupil-v-sredo-je-pod-njim-oblezal-mrtev
Hrušico pri Jesenice, 18 Sept
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/pod-traktorjem-umrl-za-rojstni-dan
Vintarji, 14 Sept
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-joze-umrl-pod-traktorjem
FOTO: V torek ga je
kupil, v sredo je pod njim obležal mrtev
slovenskenovice.si
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presidential race
WOMAN FROM PTUJ SPEAKS
By living in a house pretty much like everyone else's, and saying the least controversial things from the least politically-involved place in Slovenia, Suzana Lara Krause (Krausehaus in Ptuj pictured) hopes to slip unnoticed into the job of President of the whole of Slovenia.
She is in with a good chance as nobody has ever heard of her.
But surely it is time for Ptuj to declare independence from Slovenian rule and then it could have its own Presidential race.
Just as Slovenia is not really interested in anything that exists outside of Slovenia, it is the same for Ptuj, as the last presidential election and the recent railway referendum showed. What could the reason possibly be?
A DECLARATION OF VIN DEPENDENCE BY PTUJ
Its melancholy drunks are glum: no sex, another year,
There's squeaky flagpoles, soggy snow, but plenty wine, and beer.
Heaped in the bedclothes, staying home, the unemployed in bed;
The recipe for egg on toast has not reached Ptuj yet;
The voting people's apathy was quite clearly on display,
Ptuj declared independence on election day.
Thirty-eight percent remained hell bent on Slovenian nationhood,
Where went the other sixty-two? They thought: "We're leaving! Good!" -
Agreed: we'll flee corruptive state, shun debt-encumbered nation,
And not voting at all declare Ptujmancipation.
Top apathetes soon picked a bar, to discuss the new milieu:
Arguing how Ptuj will keep the millis - but not join the EU.
As euronotes fuelled barbecues, the Ptuj national tank
Escorted lorries full of beverages to the vaults of the new state's bank.
The citizens had a week or two to get their euros turned
To stable alcoholic money, which is wet and can't be burned.
And many queued at banks for hours, but at the front were wrathful -
No-one told them that to exchange their cash they were supposed to bring a bottle.
Meanwhile the borders round the town were by drunk soldiers sealed,
As economists' vague, blurry plans for pricing were revealed;
Eight Pivos or twelve Vodkas make a Vino, that's the system -
Transactions to be monitored, with waitresses to list 'em.
For petrol, cigarettes and drinks, prices will be negotiable
Depending where your relatives work, and which are the most social.
Bus drivers, clerks, butchers, and priests had fridges installed near
Where man's any necessity might be purchased for beer;
Gas, water, electricity, socks, underwear and wool,
Train tickets, calls, all quantified in vodka and Red Bull.
Virtual vino banking uncorked Pie-Eyed-Phone pay-apps;
Loans in jeroboams ensued, large withdrawals from the bankotaps.
Note well this tiny state's collapse, this alcohol-kingdom:
Where squirrelling much away is hard - I mean, you can't save some.
A twinkle in the banker's eye showed things were much worse still;
To foreign factories non-Ptuj, no-one could pay a bill.
Left with nothing to eat but chicken, Ptujčani ceased to cope,
When, to their discontent, the bank/government "lent" all their Vinos...to the Pope.
Very loosely based on http://is.gd/aeze2U - the author's my best mate. Or a real bastard. Depending on my mood.
According to Wackopedia, William Cullen Bryant "was an early advocate of American literary nationalism...and his own poetry focusing on nature as a metaphor for truth established a central pattern in the American literary tradition."
WOMAN FROM PTUJ SPEAKS
By living in a house pretty much like everyone else's, and saying the least controversial things from the least politically-involved place in Slovenia, Suzana Lara Krause (Krausehaus in Ptuj pictured) hopes to slip unnoticed into the job of President of the whole of Slovenia.
She is in with a good chance as nobody has ever heard of her.
But surely it is time for Ptuj to declare independence from Slovenian rule and then it could have its own Presidential race.
Just as Slovenia is not really interested in anything that exists outside of Slovenia, it is the same for Ptuj, as the last presidential election and the recent railway referendum showed. What could the reason possibly be?
A DECLARATION OF VIN DEPENDENCE BY PTUJ
Its melancholy drunks are glum: no sex, another year,
There's squeaky flagpoles, soggy snow, but plenty wine, and beer.
Heaped in the bedclothes, staying home, the unemployed in bed;
The recipe for egg on toast has not reached Ptuj yet;
The voting people's apathy was quite clearly on display,
Ptuj declared independence on election day.
Thirty-eight percent remained hell bent on Slovenian nationhood,
Where went the other sixty-two? They thought: "We're leaving! Good!" -
Agreed: we'll flee corruptive state, shun debt-encumbered nation,
And not voting at all declare Ptujmancipation.
Top apathetes soon picked a bar, to discuss the new milieu:
Arguing how Ptuj will keep the millis - but not join the EU.
As euronotes fuelled barbecues, the Ptuj national tank
Escorted lorries full of beverages to the vaults of the new state's bank.
The citizens had a week or two to get their euros turned
To stable alcoholic money, which is wet and can't be burned.
And many queued at banks for hours, but at the front were wrathful -
No-one told them that to exchange their cash they were supposed to bring a bottle.
Meanwhile the borders round the town were by drunk soldiers sealed,
As economists' vague, blurry plans for pricing were revealed;
Eight Pivos or twelve Vodkas make a Vino, that's the system -
Transactions to be monitored, with waitresses to list 'em.
For petrol, cigarettes and drinks, prices will be negotiable
Depending where your relatives work, and which are the most social.
Bus drivers, clerks, butchers, and priests had fridges installed near
Where man's any necessity might be purchased for beer;
Gas, water, electricity, socks, underwear and wool,
Train tickets, calls, all quantified in vodka and Red Bull.
Virtual vino banking uncorked Pie-Eyed-Phone pay-apps;
Loans in jeroboams ensued, large withdrawals from the bankotaps.
Note well this tiny state's collapse, this alcohol-kingdom:
Where squirrelling much away is hard - I mean, you can't save some.
A twinkle in the banker's eye showed things were much worse still;
To foreign factories non-Ptuj, no-one could pay a bill.
Left with nothing to eat but chicken, Ptujčani ceased to cope,
When, to their discontent, the bank/government "lent" all their Vinos...to the Pope.
Very loosely based on http://is.gd/aeze2U - the author's my best mate. Or a real bastard. Depending on my mood.
According to Wackopedia, William Cullen Bryant "was an early advocate of American literary nationalism...and his own poetry focusing on nature as a metaphor for truth established a central pattern in the American literary tradition."
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THOMPSONG
Thompsong Slovenia, something went wrong,
Diddley bong, diddley bong.
He's a national Croatian, not nazi, no
But it don't matter now, 'cause they cancelled his show.
Austria, Netherlands, got it wrong too -
Thompson thinks Hitler won. How about you?
Germany, Switzerland, won't let him play,
And then even Slovenia said "Go away!"
Germans and Swiss will not smile at his heil, he
Likes it Ustaša, military-stylee.
Down in Croatia, they cheer any pleb
Who says Europe's capital should be Zagreb.
Their next plan to insult and humiliate Serbs
Is a nationalist knees-up, out in the 'burbs.
Ten percent of the townsfolk in Slunj won't be swaying
Celebrating their slaying. The government's paying.
Thompsong Slovenia, something went wrong,
Diddley bong, diddley bong.
He's a national Croatian, not nazi, no
But it don't matter now, 'cause they cancelled his show.
Austria, Netherlands, got it wrong too -
Thompson thinks Hitler won. How about you?
Germany, Switzerland, won't let him play,
And then even Slovenia said "Go away!"
Germans and Swiss will not smile at his heil, he
Likes it Ustaša, military-stylee.
Down in Croatia, they cheer any pleb
Who says Europe's capital should be Zagreb.
Their next plan to insult and humiliate Serbs
Is a nationalist knees-up, out in the 'burbs.
Ten percent of the townsfolk in Slunj won't be swaying
Celebrating their slaying. The government's paying.
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power words
In the as yet unwon battle against the hegemony of money - which ought really to be called hegemoney - only one word will make any difference to high-rise building safety - uninsurable.
http://www.stoparsonuk.org/documents/resources/Fire%20Safety%20of%20Exterior%20Wall%20Claddings.pdf
https://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/Fire%20and%20Security/FI---External-Fire-Spread-Part-2.pdf
http://www.frocc.org/pdf/regulation/Regulatory_guide_Rockwool.pdf
In the as yet unwon battle against the hegemony of money - which ought really to be called hegemoney - only one word will make any difference to high-rise building safety - uninsurable.
http://www.stoparsonuk.org/documents/resources/Fire%20Safety%20of%20Exterior%20Wall%20Claddings.pdf
https://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/Fire%20and%20Security/FI---External-Fire-Spread-Part-2.pdf
http://www.frocc.org/pdf/regulation/Regulatory_guide_Rockwool.pdf
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road safety
SPRING ARRIVES
(FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS OTHER ENGINE PARTS)
A 50-year old motorcyclist died instantly in a violent collision with a speeding 26-year-old in an Audi A6, who lost control, hitting the hard shoulder before veering into the opposite carriageway.
Such accidents often involve Balkan disco music.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-lovil-enega-motorista-do-smrti-zbil-drugega
SPRING ARRIVES
(FOLLOWED BY VARIOUS OTHER ENGINE PARTS)
A 50-year old motorcyclist died instantly in a violent collision with a speeding 26-year-old in an Audi A6, who lost control, hitting the hard shoulder before veering into the opposite carriageway.
Such accidents often involve Balkan disco music.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/foto-lovil-enega-motorista-do-smrti-zbil-drugega
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middle class mayhem
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 19:
ANNELID THREAT TO JUDGE
Murder trial judge Špela Koleta will be eaten by worms even before she dies, according to yelling from the public gallery by folks cranked up on SDS anti-communist propaganda.
So say supporters of Milko Novič, as he was sentenced to 25 years for shooting dead his former boss at Slovenia's Chemistry Institute in the street in central Ljubljana.
Institute Director Janko Jamnik was a scientist of international stature with a Hirsch Index of 34.
Far from being the witch hunt these observers believe, the trial hinged on a rational assessment of forensic evidence and motivation (Novič had a grudge with the Institute and Jamnik).
Gunpowder residue analysis is not discussed in the Bible and therefore does not count for superstitious country bumpkins, who neither comprehend nor value scientific method, and probably see legal process as a poor substitute for tried and tested methods such as village gossip, economic marginalisation of minorities and non-believers, and lynching.
For some time now, easily manipulated ideological nutfucks have been convinced that major trials in Slovenia have been skewed by a communist-infested judiciary, notably that of SDS party leader and two time former PM Janez Janša, who after a spell in prison finally slithered free from bribery charges in an arms deal with Finland, after the statute of limitations preempted his appeal.
His constituency is swelled with pitchfork-waving Catholic rednecks still angry that their Nazi-supporting antecedents were somewhat extrajudicially wiped out by Tito and his partisans "after" the war.
Having nothing better to offer than blaming their enemy Slovenians, generalising the alleged judicial bias remains in the interests of those who depend on their vote.
Due to their limited mental capacity and short attention span (they can't remember what happened before last weekend but historical resentments are baked in due to being forced by the alcohol economy to live with their grandparents) Slovenia's squares have arranged for elections and referendums to take place on Sunday so that the priest can remind them of their duty.
Indeed factions both left and right in Slovenia are beyond the reach of reason, and share a common victimhood of future shock. For a British equivalent the nearest you could probably find are Dambusters types. It does not serve political propaganda purposes to recall that 65% of those killed in that bombing raid were foreign slave labourers, and the Guy Gibson story need not dwell on the fact that industrial production in the Ruhr recovered in four months.
And so it is too for the inheritors of the equally unproductive fascist and communist regimes of yesteryear. For the Lincolnshire Echo and Slovenia, WW2 must not be allowed to conclude.
http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/we-re-devastated-opening-of-international-bomber-command-centre-delayed/story-30266770-detail/story.html
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 19:
ANNELID THREAT TO JUDGE
Murder trial judge Špela Koleta will be eaten by worms even before she dies, according to yelling from the public gallery by folks cranked up on SDS anti-communist propaganda.
So say supporters of Milko Novič, as he was sentenced to 25 years for shooting dead his former boss at Slovenia's Chemistry Institute in the street in central Ljubljana.
Institute Director Janko Jamnik was a scientist of international stature with a Hirsch Index of 34.
Far from being the witch hunt these observers believe, the trial hinged on a rational assessment of forensic evidence and motivation (Novič had a grudge with the Institute and Jamnik).
Gunpowder residue analysis is not discussed in the Bible and therefore does not count for superstitious country bumpkins, who neither comprehend nor value scientific method, and probably see legal process as a poor substitute for tried and tested methods such as village gossip, economic marginalisation of minorities and non-believers, and lynching.
For some time now, easily manipulated ideological nutfucks have been convinced that major trials in Slovenia have been skewed by a communist-infested judiciary, notably that of SDS party leader and two time former PM Janez Janša, who after a spell in prison finally slithered free from bribery charges in an arms deal with Finland, after the statute of limitations preempted his appeal.
His constituency is swelled with pitchfork-waving Catholic rednecks still angry that their Nazi-supporting antecedents were somewhat extrajudicially wiped out by Tito and his partisans "after" the war.
Having nothing better to offer than blaming their enemy Slovenians, generalising the alleged judicial bias remains in the interests of those who depend on their vote.
Due to their limited mental capacity and short attention span (they can't remember what happened before last weekend but historical resentments are baked in due to being forced by the alcohol economy to live with their grandparents) Slovenia's squares have arranged for elections and referendums to take place on Sunday so that the priest can remind them of their duty.
Indeed factions both left and right in Slovenia are beyond the reach of reason, and share a common victimhood of future shock. For a British equivalent the nearest you could probably find are Dambusters types. It does not serve political propaganda purposes to recall that 65% of those killed in that bombing raid were foreign slave labourers, and the Guy Gibson story need not dwell on the fact that industrial production in the Ruhr recovered in four months.
And so it is too for the inheritors of the equally unproductive fascist and communist regimes of yesteryear. For the Lincolnshire Echo and Slovenia, WW2 must not be allowed to conclude.
http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/we-re-devastated-opening-of-international-bomber-command-centre-delayed/story-30266770-detail/story.html
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amusing uses of english
TRUMP RECOGNISES WIFE
Melania Trump "smiles as she is recognized by President Donald Trump", as the Daily Mail apologises through gritted teeth.
America's First Litigator takes home less than 1% of the $300m she originally claimed she was damaged.
previous trumpery
https://is.gd/R0fVJ5
TRUMP RECOGNISES WIFE
Melania Trump "smiles as she is recognized by President Donald Trump", as the Daily Mail apologises through gritted teeth.
America's First Litigator takes home less than 1% of the $300m she originally claimed she was damaged.
previous trumpery
https://is.gd/R0fVJ5
Melania Trump wins
damages from Daily Mail publisher
dailymail.co.uk
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ptuj weather
Still warm, still, smell combined with unusually low river smell.
Man carrying a live rooster ejected from shopping centre.
something in my way tonight mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77sB197ODc
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
To recreate tonight's aroma simply start these two simultaneously
more ptuj weather mashups from ppm labs
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
Still warm, still, smell combined with unusually low river smell.
Man carrying a live rooster ejected from shopping centre.
something in my way tonight mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77sB197ODc
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
To recreate tonight's aroma simply start these two simultaneously
more ptuj weather mashups from ppm labs
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
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winomelaniamania
WINEMAKERS WALKING ON EGGSHELLS
As though their local girl had somehow made good with the Pussygrabber-in-Chief, vintners in her birthplace quite rightly stuck new labels on their wine and doubled the price to honour the First Lady.
Someone even said it should be 500 euros a bottle.
They are "undeterred" by reports Melania has appointed lawyers Pirc Musar and Partners to deal with any Slovenian attempts to profit from her misfortune by "cashing in on her name".
If her name was indeed Melania First Lady I suppose a suit might stick. But it isn't, as the wine branders undoubtedly know. Queen Melanitito has further decreed that exploiting her golden-ivory-towered misery by way of images is verboten.
If I was her I'd go and chase them round their barn and poke them in the nuts with a pitchfork until they emptied their pockets. It's not as if she's traded off the Slovenia thing.
twitter
https://twitter.com/queenmelanitito
more free melania publicity
https://is.gd/5eZDya
WINEMAKERS WALKING ON EGGSHELLS
As though their local girl had somehow made good with the Pussygrabber-in-Chief, vintners in her birthplace quite rightly stuck new labels on their wine and doubled the price to honour the First Lady.
Someone even said it should be 500 euros a bottle.
They are "undeterred" by reports Melania has appointed lawyers Pirc Musar and Partners to deal with any Slovenian attempts to profit from her misfortune by "cashing in on her name".
If her name was indeed Melania First Lady I suppose a suit might stick. But it isn't, as the wine branders undoubtedly know. Queen Melanitito has further decreed that exploiting her golden-ivory-towered misery by way of images is verboten.
If I was her I'd go and chase them round their barn and poke them in the nuts with a pitchfork until they emptied their pockets. It's not as if she's traded off the Slovenia thing.
https://twitter.com/queenmelanitito
more free melania publicity
https://is.gd/5eZDya
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satellite of love
SLOVENIA NEEDS SPACE RIGHT NOW
In Monogamous Mode, as a subscriber to new Slovenian relationship satellite Šagsat I you will be able to download a detailed log of your partner's partners to your phone, with times, locations, and pictures of bums going up and down.
Alternatively, in Open Relationship Mode, Šagsat will download a list of your partners' partners to your phone with times, locations, and pictures of bums going up and down.
SLOVENIA NEEDS SPACE RIGHT NOW
In Monogamous Mode, as a subscriber to new Slovenian relationship satellite Šagsat I you will be able to download a detailed log of your partner's partners to your phone, with times, locations, and pictures of bums going up and down.
Alternatively, in Open Relationship Mode, Šagsat will download a list of your partners' partners to your phone with times, locations, and pictures of bums going up and down.
24liveblog - live
blogging platform
24liveblog.com
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letter to america
UK WINS THE BEST ELECTIONS IN THE WORLD
Recent stories have suggested that Russia told the Americans what to think and made them crown foreign king MacDonald.
Untrue. The Brits won the US election for the king fair and square.
We found out what pies you eat and were able to predict with superb accuracy what the easily-predictable Americans were going to believe and then told them they would only get it if they voted for the Slovenian First Husband. https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/fvjwgRkuKpp
For instance eaters of apple pies would be concerned if they were not allowed to have a gun to defend Mom. Pumpkin pie eaters would be worried about not being able to celebrate Thanksgiving if the government took their guns away, and so on with pecan pies, creampies etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVvIjtY31s
guns and nutter
Our success at winning democratic elections around the world is unrivalled (obviously). https://sclgroup.cc/elections/projects
It was the Brits who worked out the Americans and galvanised them into the greatness they are now enjoying, and no darned Russkies are going to take that away from us. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/trump-campaign-pays-millions-overseas-big-data-firm-n677321
As the data shows, the foreign king MacDonald was bigly successful with the "low information voters" and "low need for cognition" voters.
“Stupid people disproportionately support Trump”, it says. Trump's appeal to the thick is statistically significant. http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~schram/trumplowinformationvotersfinal.pdf
Pundits and flacks were easily able to take aim at these folks' emotional axis to get their candidate's support, e.g. by delivering a picture of Obama eating a kitten to their Facebook.
Whatever it takes to evoke enough rage to prise them from their armchairs to go do their duty and vote - as unbelievably their votes count the same as yours.
last chance to see your role in the next election before brexit
https://is.gd/VDeY0J
other places to look for your data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_government_data_losses
UK WINS THE BEST ELECTIONS IN THE WORLD
Recent stories have suggested that Russia told the Americans what to think and made them crown foreign king MacDonald.
Untrue. The Brits won the US election for the king fair and square.
We found out what pies you eat and were able to predict with superb accuracy what the easily-predictable Americans were going to believe and then told them they would only get it if they voted for the Slovenian First Husband. https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/fvjwgRkuKpp
For instance eaters of apple pies would be concerned if they were not allowed to have a gun to defend Mom. Pumpkin pie eaters would be worried about not being able to celebrate Thanksgiving if the government took their guns away, and so on with pecan pies, creampies etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVvIjtY31s
guns and nutter
Our success at winning democratic elections around the world is unrivalled (obviously). https://sclgroup.cc/elections/projects
It was the Brits who worked out the Americans and galvanised them into the greatness they are now enjoying, and no darned Russkies are going to take that away from us. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/trump-campaign-pays-millions-overseas-big-data-firm-n677321
As the data shows, the foreign king MacDonald was bigly successful with the "low information voters" and "low need for cognition" voters.
“Stupid people disproportionately support Trump”, it says. Trump's appeal to the thick is statistically significant. http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~schram/trumplowinformationvotersfinal.pdf
Pundits and flacks were easily able to take aim at these folks' emotional axis to get their candidate's support, e.g. by delivering a picture of Obama eating a kitten to their Facebook.
Whatever it takes to evoke enough rage to prise them from their armchairs to go do their duty and vote - as unbelievably their votes count the same as yours.
last chance to see your role in the next election before brexit
https://is.gd/VDeY0J
other places to look for your data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_government_data_losses
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russia toady
AI-SPEED 24-HOUR SPIN
Rush of Sessions, regime has a gremlin
- McCarthyist liberals, say Kremlin.
Communist Klu-Klux-Klan
Won't now shock any wan.
A dividing-with-spin-system win-win.
Phase One has begun with foreign king MacDonald's decree on Guns and Nutters. When the slovenian First Husband announces his Five Year Plan we will know for sure...
previous witches
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/MbujSZSosGx
AI-SPEED 24-HOUR SPIN
Rush of Sessions, regime has a gremlin
- McCarthyist liberals, say Kremlin.
Communist Klu-Klux-Klan
Won't now shock any wan.
A dividing-with-spin-system win-win.
Phase One has begun with foreign king MacDonald's decree on Guns and Nutters. When the slovenian First Husband announces his Five Year Plan we will know for sure...
previous witches
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/MbujSZSosGx
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free flight
Slovenia's tourism honchos cannot arrange a meeting with Ryanair - which wants to make flights free to passengers to smaller airports such as the touristically-dormant http://www.mariborairport.si
The reason? Slovenia has no word for "arrange". They would just say "Let's have a meeting!"
How can Slovenia not pay Ryanair the piddling sums necessary to make the 75-minute air journey to Edvard Rusjan a reality?
For example, Maribor Airport has a wide range of sweet and salty snacks. Tea and coffee is also available. Start by slapping a 100% price increase on these, and see how many free passengers Mr O'Leary is prepared to bring if you give him all that money you raised that you didn't have before.
Instead of just keeping it.
Another idea would be a double-duty (as opposed to duty-free) bar where local drinkers could earn points towards free flights. Combining the possibilities of alcohol and escape would make a powerful psychological marketing tool and could save having to send the planes back empty as foreigners come over here to buy all the houses, steal all the best women, and not even arrange Slovene lessons etc.
nposialpu's maribor airport archive
https://is.gd/TIlKgR
in slovene elections cannot be organised without being rigged
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/fvjwgRkuKpp
free slovene lesson arranged not by slovenia
http://www.a2z.si/dear
Slovenia's tourism honchos cannot arrange a meeting with Ryanair - which wants to make flights free to passengers to smaller airports such as the touristically-dormant http://www.mariborairport.si
The reason? Slovenia has no word for "arrange". They would just say "Let's have a meeting!"
How can Slovenia not pay Ryanair the piddling sums necessary to make the 75-minute air journey to Edvard Rusjan a reality?
For example, Maribor Airport has a wide range of sweet and salty snacks. Tea and coffee is also available. Start by slapping a 100% price increase on these, and see how many free passengers Mr O'Leary is prepared to bring if you give him all that money you raised that you didn't have before.
Instead of just keeping it.
Another idea would be a double-duty (as opposed to duty-free) bar where local drinkers could earn points towards free flights. Combining the possibilities of alcohol and escape would make a powerful psychological marketing tool and could save having to send the planes back empty as foreigners come over here to buy all the houses, steal all the best women, and not even arrange Slovene lessons etc.
nposialpu's maribor airport archive
https://is.gd/TIlKgR
in slovene elections cannot be organised without being rigged
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/fvjwgRkuKpp
free slovene lesson arranged not by slovenia
http://www.a2z.si/dear
OPINION: Can Ryanair's
O'Leary continue to play the outsider?
flightglobal.com
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bear down
EYE OF THE SPICER
Prez Borut has his eye on the road, after gaily inviting foreign king MacDonald, Queen Melanitito and Mr V. Putin of Rush Hour Scrap Uranium & Gas Corp to come and whoop it up on the world stage in one of our technically insolvent hotels.
These celebrities want to be seen with each other right now in a country Americans believe is near Russia. RT might come, the NYT, CNN, BBC and many others might not get in - and will have to go to the pub. Slovenia's advantage is obvious.
The presence of bears in Slovenia does not prove it is near Russia. What are you, some kinda stupid schmuck who just thinks in cliches? You can come here and hunt them in your armoured vehicles without even leaving the highway.
Traditionally the motorway bear hunting season begins with a Chas'n'Dave hunter's singsong. He's got his bear, on the roadside, yeah. Five bleedin' hundredweight of it.
Or if you're American, 5.5 hundredweight --- those Americans with the small hundredweights are always trying to make themselves look bigger.
Not sure if the driver gets to legally keep the bear. These emergency guys know a Chinese doctor. Emperor Miro's men shot 93 bears and 10 wolves in the 2016/17 season.
Mummy Bear and Baby Bear were said to be devastated and asked for privacy at their cave, saying they did not want to grieve while Mr Putin sat topless on their bed with a hunting rifle smoking a cheroot.
is slovenia near russia?
https://is.gd/ECbspN
EYE OF THE SPICER
Prez Borut has his eye on the road, after gaily inviting foreign king MacDonald, Queen Melanitito and Mr V. Putin of Rush Hour Scrap Uranium & Gas Corp to come and whoop it up on the world stage in one of our technically insolvent hotels.
These celebrities want to be seen with each other right now in a country Americans believe is near Russia. RT might come, the NYT, CNN, BBC and many others might not get in - and will have to go to the pub. Slovenia's advantage is obvious.
The presence of bears in Slovenia does not prove it is near Russia. What are you, some kinda stupid schmuck who just thinks in cliches? You can come here and hunt them in your armoured vehicles without even leaving the highway.
Traditionally the motorway bear hunting season begins with a Chas'n'Dave hunter's singsong. He's got his bear, on the roadside, yeah. Five bleedin' hundredweight of it.
Or if you're American, 5.5 hundredweight --- those Americans with the small hundredweights are always trying to make themselves look bigger.
Not sure if the driver gets to legally keep the bear. These emergency guys know a Chinese doctor. Emperor Miro's men shot 93 bears and 10 wolves in the 2016/17 season.
Mummy Bear and Baby Bear were said to be devastated and asked for privacy at their cave, saying they did not want to grieve while Mr Putin sat topless on their bed with a hunting rifle smoking a cheroot.
is slovenia near russia?
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HUMAN ZOO: IS IT CRUEL??
Carnival creatures of all shapes and hues gathered in Ptuj to see famous ex-ruler Alenka The Legs, who is not just a tourist attraction but a real life former public enemy, Slovenian PM and popular anglophone raconteuse.
After the traditional golden handshake, radical red queen Alenka continued her work in international diplomacy by affixing the Ljub City Janky Hanky of Panky to the Haložan Bone of Intention, signifying she agrees to hook up later with the Trump supporters.
alenka the legs' legends
https://is.gd/5KKu03
HUMAN ZOO: IS IT CRUEL??
Carnival creatures of all shapes and hues gathered in Ptuj to see famous ex-ruler Alenka The Legs, who is not just a tourist attraction but a real life former public enemy, Slovenian PM and popular anglophone raconteuse.
After the traditional golden handshake, radical red queen Alenka continued her work in international diplomacy by affixing the Ljub City Janky Hanky of Panky to the Haložan Bone of Intention, signifying she agrees to hook up later with the Trump supporters.
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RED ARMY FLIES IN
With a standing force of 1.6m soldiers, the People's Liberation Army Ground Force is the largest army in the world.
So it can surely be no coincidence that the new Chinese lessees of Slovenia's second airport near Ptuj have agreed to raise passenger numbers to 1,540,000 over the next five years - for which they are to pay the government the princely sum of 95,000 euros/month.
wingless drag on
Union-owned Delavska hranilnica bank paid 3m for the depressed aerodrome in late 2014, and sold it in December 2016 for 7m, with a further 3m added now it is settled that the foreigners will pay Slovenia to show its landlord how to use it to land planes and stuff.
During its tenure the bank - which charges 63 cents to pay even a 1 euro bill - managed to halve annual passenger numbers to 11,000, down from 85,000 in the 1990s.
So the arrival of the PLAGF will represent a 28-fold increase on 2015's underachievement, which the airport concessionaire blames on foreign migrants and terrorism for some unspecified reason. http://www.sloveniatimes.com/maribor-airport-hoping-to-take-off-despite-another-bad-year
i ker-ching
SHS Aviation have also agreed to invest 139m euros in something or other. Possibly a tram heading away from Ptuj, or some similar infrastructure. Orehova vas station is about a mile from the terminal. The last train to Maribor leaves at 2312 seven days a week.
The last for Ptuj leaves at 2218 weekdays, but 1540 on weekends to leave time for football and referendums. So you want your planes to land on those days, after twenty to four. https://is.gd/tQKwlS
Ptuj's deadly rival the so-called Catholic State of Maribor and its mayor remain vaguer than a horoscope in Mandarin, despite being ready to take credit for the latest deal. The plans will be revealed when the 15-year lease is signed "next month".
Above all Edvard Rusjan airport is a place of peace and tranquility, as successive owners have shied away from the difficult and dangerous business of aviation.
čaj tea
As the official website explains, the best way to get to and from the airport is by car or taxi. Their offer consists of tea, coffee, cold drinks, and a wide range of salty and sweet snacks. You can see the current range of destinations at http://www.maribor-airport.si/en/Passengersandvisitors/Destinations.aspx
In 2015 national airline Adria briefly conducted flights to Southend. When http://www.television.si gets going with its sitcoms, Na Letališču is likely to feature about as much transport as On The Buses.
Otherwise the airport's feng shui has been largely undisturbed since the locals triumphantly drove away foreign foes Ryanair a decade ago by trying to bump up the landing fees, when it became clear things were becoming too successful.
nposialpu's maribor airport archive
https://is.gd/TIlKgR
dodo doo-doo
http://www.mariborairport.si/buy
how the chinese army will be accommodated in ptuj
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/gRNej2SRGsS
RED ARMY FLIES IN
With a standing force of 1.6m soldiers, the People's Liberation Army Ground Force is the largest army in the world.
So it can surely be no coincidence that the new Chinese lessees of Slovenia's second airport near Ptuj have agreed to raise passenger numbers to 1,540,000 over the next five years - for which they are to pay the government the princely sum of 95,000 euros/month.
wingless drag on
Union-owned Delavska hranilnica bank paid 3m for the depressed aerodrome in late 2014, and sold it in December 2016 for 7m, with a further 3m added now it is settled that the foreigners will pay Slovenia to show its landlord how to use it to land planes and stuff.
During its tenure the bank - which charges 63 cents to pay even a 1 euro bill - managed to halve annual passenger numbers to 11,000, down from 85,000 in the 1990s.
So the arrival of the PLAGF will represent a 28-fold increase on 2015's underachievement, which the airport concessionaire blames on foreign migrants and terrorism for some unspecified reason. http://www.sloveniatimes.com/maribor-airport-hoping-to-take-off-despite-another-bad-year
i ker-ching
SHS Aviation have also agreed to invest 139m euros in something or other. Possibly a tram heading away from Ptuj, or some similar infrastructure. Orehova vas station is about a mile from the terminal. The last train to Maribor leaves at 2312 seven days a week.
The last for Ptuj leaves at 2218 weekdays, but 1540 on weekends to leave time for football and referendums. So you want your planes to land on those days, after twenty to four. https://is.gd/tQKwlS
Ptuj's deadly rival the so-called Catholic State of Maribor and its mayor remain vaguer than a horoscope in Mandarin, despite being ready to take credit for the latest deal. The plans will be revealed when the 15-year lease is signed "next month".
Above all Edvard Rusjan airport is a place of peace and tranquility, as successive owners have shied away from the difficult and dangerous business of aviation.
čaj tea
As the official website explains, the best way to get to and from the airport is by car or taxi. Their offer consists of tea, coffee, cold drinks, and a wide range of salty and sweet snacks. You can see the current range of destinations at http://www.maribor-airport.si/en/Passengersandvisitors/Destinations.aspx
In 2015 national airline Adria briefly conducted flights to Southend. When http://www.television.si gets going with its sitcoms, Na Letališču is likely to feature about as much transport as On The Buses.
Otherwise the airport's feng shui has been largely undisturbed since the locals triumphantly drove away foreign foes Ryanair a decade ago by trying to bump up the landing fees, when it became clear things were becoming too successful.
nposialpu's maribor airport archive
https://is.gd/TIlKgR
dodo doo-doo
http://www.mariborairport.si/buy
how the chinese army will be accommodated in ptuj
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/+SolarpanelSi/posts/gRNej2SRGsS
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COLLECT TIBBLES
Like the 1631 bible with the misprint "Thou shalt commit adultery" and the upside down aeroplane stamp, these prints (and perhaps the jpgs too) are going to be so valuable and sought-after in the coming years.
See them trading for thousands on tomorrow's Bargain Hunt.
COLLECT TIBBLES
Like the 1631 bible with the misprint "Thou shalt commit adultery" and the upside down aeroplane stamp, these prints (and perhaps the jpgs too) are going to be so valuable and sought-after in the coming years.
See them trading for thousands on tomorrow's Bargain Hunt.
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MELANIA CLEARLY WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY
There is no word for "gold digger" deep down inside Melania's Slovene-language-based superior temporal gyrus. The language of her birth doesn't have an equivalent term.
Except in the literal sense. But that would be crazy. Those precious metal miners could never be women. Not in Slovenia.
Otherwise, financially-uninterested females don't exactly jump out here. Why would you need a word like that?
Anyway, Slovenians simply have not chosen to use that particular word picture for whatever lifestyle it describes, be it marrying multi-millionaires your dad's age or having your non-official-position cake and eating it, in the courts of the land.
How can an action for loss of sales succeed? How can she prove any actual loss, let alone causation?
We the people understand how upsetting it must be when people pity Mel T for being a fake-faced fashion fan fused to a friendless fruitcake.
Some find her fabulous lifestyle cosy and endearing; extroverts may even channel the natural hatred and envy we all experience from time to time when considering the undeserving super-rich, into an aspirational desire to imitate. Let's all get an unlimited amount of money for legal fees and sue each other!
But for most, her compensation in any amount for imaginary damages she plans to suffer, by not selling things, in a future which it cannot be demonstrated will exist under her husband's presidency, will not enhance our sympathy.
Her legal approach - it's all been a failure! - suggests that with her melancholic Slavic genes Melania lacks the idiot optimism without which the USA dream is as volatile and fleeting as a Disneyworld smell. A big relaunch and comeback is off the cards, then. I call zees fraygrents...The Law. Because I'm worth it. No?
designer libel
Well then. Any damages in the case will have to evaluate her prognosed failure to beautify and accessorise the rustbelt voters of America, forcing her to throw all her effort into courtroom battles to make up for a broken future. So sad.
When it's time to crack up on the stand on TV she will shed tears of liquid diamonds and make Sen. Schumer look like amdram.
But the tortious interference is troublingly intangible: it feels real to Mel, but how much is that rep truly worth? That's a heisenbooger only showbiz lawyers can hyperbolize.
Who, specifically, has changed their mind about buying a Melania Trump product because they were told by the press that she was once an "escort"? Wouldn't its Warholesque appeal to edgy increase your units in New York?
Reputation? Melania thinks she is still in Sevnica, ducking the epithets of catholic villagers so insular and perjorative that they make Donald look like Chomsky. http://www.maria.si
And she wants payback. At New York rates.
Contemporaneously, hubby has blatantly wrecked his brand by himself, by becoming president. Trump & Co. is going to stink for the rest of history. Publicity in the rotten media over Melania's lavish demand will play above its weight in putting the boot in.
If you want a Slovenian style linguistic metaphor like "gold digger", how about sramne dlake - that's your pubes - but literally "shame hair".
OK, that's not really a metaphor. But in Slovenia it is a metaphor, in the same way that custard has been a pudding, ever since the first packet of custard powder in Slovenia was labelled "puding".
Then there are those breast warts. And yes, other, more familiar-sounding words reveal yet more conceptual boundaries the expanding language met on its road to world domination: biznis, marketing, turizem, filozofija, inženiring, parket, pelikan, plastika and penis, to name but a few. And of course no ladies' coffee morning can go without a lovely spread of keks...which in this case are both had and eaten.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/49707270@N00/pool/luqi
Mel's La-La-lawyer might be rejoicing that the defendants apologised, but should beware of conflating his client's sense of entitlement with a just case.
After a video revealed Hulk Hogan bonking Mrs Bubba the Love Sponge, Rodeo Drive attorney Chares Harder represented him in the case that took down Gawker, with his costs all the while secretly guaranteed by Trump major donor and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel. Gawker said Thiel was gay once.
But Thiel didn't sue them for saying he was gay. That would be gay. Instead he waited for an (obviously) non-gay guy with a handlebar moustache, who oils up and wrestles with other men mostly naked, whom a video proves is not gay, to sue Gawker for showing this video showing Hogan not being gay.
Allegedly. It's the shame hair again. Will Thiel bankroll Melania's case too? Trump vs. the Daily Mail? It's a win-win, whoever loses.
Melania has also deployed Harder to threaten suits against anyone suggesting caviar-smeared son Barron looks autistic - this is FLOTUS' idea of a people's cause, a campaign against cyberbullying, i.e. taking a random example and reaching for your celeb lawyer. Think Harder...might make a good motto.
Hogan has so far collected $31m, handy as the former reality TV star's star faded in Hollywood when recordings including the sex vid revealed anti-black and, ironically, anti-gay rants. But the actual award to Hogan, which propelled Gawker into bankruptcy and its sale to Univision, was $140m. Hola a nuestros amigos en http://www.television.si
Melania - who values her reputation for sexlessness at $10m more, i.e. $150m - grew up in a country where criminal litigation is taken seriously as a political tool, and destroying your opponent's reputation is always more important than actually achieving something of your own. Language problems are the stock-in-trade of many a legal quagmire In Slovenia.
Consequently Melania's language should be taken literally, but not seriously.
no compensation for slovenian chicken factory smell
https://is.gd/ruOFMr
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/business/revenge-and-the-future-of-media-finances.html?action=click&contentCollection=Media&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
MELANIA CLEARLY WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY
There is no word for "gold digger" deep down inside Melania's Slovene-language-based superior temporal gyrus. The language of her birth doesn't have an equivalent term.
Except in the literal sense. But that would be crazy. Those precious metal miners could never be women. Not in Slovenia.
Otherwise, financially-uninterested females don't exactly jump out here. Why would you need a word like that?
Anyway, Slovenians simply have not chosen to use that particular word picture for whatever lifestyle it describes, be it marrying multi-millionaires your dad's age or having your non-official-position cake and eating it, in the courts of the land.
How can an action for loss of sales succeed? How can she prove any actual loss, let alone causation?
We the people understand how upsetting it must be when people pity Mel T for being a fake-faced fashion fan fused to a friendless fruitcake.
Some find her fabulous lifestyle cosy and endearing; extroverts may even channel the natural hatred and envy we all experience from time to time when considering the undeserving super-rich, into an aspirational desire to imitate. Let's all get an unlimited amount of money for legal fees and sue each other!
But for most, her compensation in any amount for imaginary damages she plans to suffer, by not selling things, in a future which it cannot be demonstrated will exist under her husband's presidency, will not enhance our sympathy.
Her legal approach - it's all been a failure! - suggests that with her melancholic Slavic genes Melania lacks the idiot optimism without which the USA dream is as volatile and fleeting as a Disneyworld smell. A big relaunch and comeback is off the cards, then. I call zees fraygrents...The Law. Because I'm worth it. No?
designer libel
Well then. Any damages in the case will have to evaluate her prognosed failure to beautify and accessorise the rustbelt voters of America, forcing her to throw all her effort into courtroom battles to make up for a broken future. So sad.
When it's time to crack up on the stand on TV she will shed tears of liquid diamonds and make Sen. Schumer look like amdram.
But the tortious interference is troublingly intangible: it feels real to Mel, but how much is that rep truly worth? That's a heisenbooger only showbiz lawyers can hyperbolize.
Who, specifically, has changed their mind about buying a Melania Trump product because they were told by the press that she was once an "escort"? Wouldn't its Warholesque appeal to edgy increase your units in New York?
Reputation? Melania thinks she is still in Sevnica, ducking the epithets of catholic villagers so insular and perjorative that they make Donald look like Chomsky. http://www.maria.si
And she wants payback. At New York rates.
Contemporaneously, hubby has blatantly wrecked his brand by himself, by becoming president. Trump & Co. is going to stink for the rest of history. Publicity in the rotten media over Melania's lavish demand will play above its weight in putting the boot in.
If you want a Slovenian style linguistic metaphor like "gold digger", how about sramne dlake - that's your pubes - but literally "shame hair".
OK, that's not really a metaphor. But in Slovenia it is a metaphor, in the same way that custard has been a pudding, ever since the first packet of custard powder in Slovenia was labelled "puding".
Then there are those breast warts. And yes, other, more familiar-sounding words reveal yet more conceptual boundaries the expanding language met on its road to world domination: biznis, marketing, turizem, filozofija, inženiring, parket, pelikan, plastika and penis, to name but a few. And of course no ladies' coffee morning can go without a lovely spread of keks...which in this case are both had and eaten.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/49707270@N00/pool/luqi
Mel's La-La-lawyer might be rejoicing that the defendants apologised, but should beware of conflating his client's sense of entitlement with a just case.
After a video revealed Hulk Hogan bonking Mrs Bubba the Love Sponge, Rodeo Drive attorney Chares Harder represented him in the case that took down Gawker, with his costs all the while secretly guaranteed by Trump major donor and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel. Gawker said Thiel was gay once.
But Thiel didn't sue them for saying he was gay. That would be gay. Instead he waited for an (obviously) non-gay guy with a handlebar moustache, who oils up and wrestles with other men mostly naked, whom a video proves is not gay, to sue Gawker for showing this video showing Hogan not being gay.
Allegedly. It's the shame hair again. Will Thiel bankroll Melania's case too? Trump vs. the Daily Mail? It's a win-win, whoever loses.
Melania has also deployed Harder to threaten suits against anyone suggesting caviar-smeared son Barron looks autistic - this is FLOTUS' idea of a people's cause, a campaign against cyberbullying, i.e. taking a random example and reaching for your celeb lawyer. Think Harder...might make a good motto.
Hogan has so far collected $31m, handy as the former reality TV star's star faded in Hollywood when recordings including the sex vid revealed anti-black and, ironically, anti-gay rants. But the actual award to Hogan, which propelled Gawker into bankruptcy and its sale to Univision, was $140m. Hola a nuestros amigos en http://www.television.si
Melania - who values her reputation for sexlessness at $10m more, i.e. $150m - grew up in a country where criminal litigation is taken seriously as a political tool, and destroying your opponent's reputation is always more important than actually achieving something of your own. Language problems are the stock-in-trade of many a legal quagmire In Slovenia.
Consequently Melania's language should be taken literally, but not seriously.
no compensation for slovenian chicken factory smell
https://is.gd/ruOFMr
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/business/revenge-and-the-future-of-media-finances.html?action=click&contentCollection=Media&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
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icono-drastic measures
When I looked at this petition to stop foreign king MacDonald having social media accounts, it had only been signed by one person - presumably the petitioner.
Yet it seems a more germane topic than whether he should meet a Queen, against which 1,851,356 have signed right now. And much funnier.
I'm sure people have had their Twitter or Facebook removed for less peace-disturbing sentiments than some of king MacDonald's.
Comes down to a free speech thing, I guess. Should crazy superpower presidents have it? See what they say at http://www.television.si
When I looked at this petition to stop foreign king MacDonald having social media accounts, it had only been signed by one person - presumably the petitioner.
Yet it seems a more germane topic than whether he should meet a Queen, against which 1,851,356 have signed right now. And much funnier.
I'm sure people have had their Twitter or Facebook removed for less peace-disturbing sentiments than some of king MacDonald's.
Comes down to a free speech thing, I guess. Should crazy superpower presidents have it? See what they say at http://www.television.si
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FEAR AND CLOTHING: A JUMBLE OF OPINIONS
People do some interesting things, don't they? Six hours freezing to death with broken bones, wedged in a clothes bank, while her Hummer hummed out of reach - the public jury is out on why Judith Permar died.
Some - readers of a more environmental stripe - no doubt wondered if her Hummer ownership renders her death, sad though it is, slightly more deserved, karmically speaking.
But if you have democratically made up your mind as a nation that you don't believe in climate change or nice air quality, you can't use that one.
The fact that, even if well maintained, her vehicle was barely capable of double figures miles per gallon cannot form part of your judgement against the deceased if that greenhouse gas fact "does not exist".
(Note: In Slovenia even miles per gallon don't exist - just another of our democratic freedoms).
Nor could Americans criticise her for the disparity between the Hummer and the clothes-fishing.
That would not only drag their military through the dirt but also attack the rags-to-riches entrepreneurial spirit which lies at the very core of their national Dream, as exemplified by recently enthroned Slovenian first husband, the American king MacDonald.
down in the dumpster
This leaves the king and his supporters' rage with nowhere else to go but for a vague Judaeo-Christian morality tale angle, and as Ms Permar sowed and sewed, she reaped, was reaped herself, and departed for the great recycling centre in the sky.
Amid all this, the question of whether death was the appropriate recompense for petty theft goes relatively unnoticed in the comments of the Americans.
But it now looks as if these so-called charity boxes with spring-loaded doors are designed like mousetraps to kill would-be anti-capitalist terrorists, with the Washington Post referencing three similar incidents in recent times.
Relax! It's all thanks to one of wise king MacDonald's Executive Orders. It's part of a Homeland Security mission in which a new breed of robot-zombie flesh-eating clothes banks and dumpsters will chomp down on bad environmentalists who are just weak losers trying to beat our successful corporations at their own game, and who are like foreign saboteurs undermining US manufacturing by trying to find stuff to sell at car boot sales.
Here in Ptuj we have a few old people touring the town's litter bins for dog-ends. They are hurting third world farmers and trillionaire tobacco companies by reducing sales of brand new cigarettes. Surely some contraption could be installed so we could have their fingers off at least?
foreign king macdonald's latest orders
11th Commandment: Thou shalt not sell stuff twice.
12th Commandment: If you want clothes you do not get them from there...go to a recognised outlet for Ivanka-wear or Melania-wear instead.
melania where?
http://www.fuelly.com/car/hummer/h2
melaniawareness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trump-missed-out-on-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-make-millions-lawsuit-says/2017/02/06/3654f070-ecd0-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
melaniarchive for which nposialpu has not yet been sued
https://is.gd/OTa12R
FEAR AND CLOTHING: A JUMBLE OF OPINIONS
People do some interesting things, don't they? Six hours freezing to death with broken bones, wedged in a clothes bank, while her Hummer hummed out of reach - the public jury is out on why Judith Permar died.
Some - readers of a more environmental stripe - no doubt wondered if her Hummer ownership renders her death, sad though it is, slightly more deserved, karmically speaking.
But if you have democratically made up your mind as a nation that you don't believe in climate change or nice air quality, you can't use that one.
The fact that, even if well maintained, her vehicle was barely capable of double figures miles per gallon cannot form part of your judgement against the deceased if that greenhouse gas fact "does not exist".
(Note: In Slovenia even miles per gallon don't exist - just another of our democratic freedoms).
Nor could Americans criticise her for the disparity between the Hummer and the clothes-fishing.
That would not only drag their military through the dirt but also attack the rags-to-riches entrepreneurial spirit which lies at the very core of their national Dream, as exemplified by recently enthroned Slovenian first husband, the American king MacDonald.
down in the dumpster
This leaves the king and his supporters' rage with nowhere else to go but for a vague Judaeo-Christian morality tale angle, and as Ms Permar sowed and sewed, she reaped, was reaped herself, and departed for the great recycling centre in the sky.
Amid all this, the question of whether death was the appropriate recompense for petty theft goes relatively unnoticed in the comments of the Americans.
But it now looks as if these so-called charity boxes with spring-loaded doors are designed like mousetraps to kill would-be anti-capitalist terrorists, with the Washington Post referencing three similar incidents in recent times.
Relax! It's all thanks to one of wise king MacDonald's Executive Orders. It's part of a Homeland Security mission in which a new breed of robot-zombie flesh-eating clothes banks and dumpsters will chomp down on bad environmentalists who are just weak losers trying to beat our successful corporations at their own game, and who are like foreign saboteurs undermining US manufacturing by trying to find stuff to sell at car boot sales.
Here in Ptuj we have a few old people touring the town's litter bins for dog-ends. They are hurting third world farmers and trillionaire tobacco companies by reducing sales of brand new cigarettes. Surely some contraption could be installed so we could have their fingers off at least?
foreign king macdonald's latest orders
11th Commandment: Thou shalt not sell stuff twice.
12th Commandment: If you want clothes you do not get them from there...go to a recognised outlet for Ivanka-wear or Melania-wear instead.
melania where?
http://www.fuelly.com/car/hummer/h2
melaniawareness
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trump-missed-out-on-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-make-millions-lawsuit-says/2017/02/06/3654f070-ecd0-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop
melaniarchive for which nposialpu has not yet been sued
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PERFECT CONDITIONS GOING FORWARD
We are no strangers to alternative facts here in Ptuj, Slovenia's wellness capital. Let us guide you, our dear ally America, up the arts of positivist communicationetiks.
This year in deference to Mrs foreign king MacDonald's homeland we are taking a milder line on Ptuj's weather reports, and today's chicken factory aroma did not exist in the sense of any important news item.
This is amply confirmed by the absence of reports in any major newsfeeds alleging any factory fog. There wasn't any and it is not true. Any hypothetical smell detected this afternoon by unofficial weather sources would have done little to worsen Ptuj's fetid gloom overall. No smell has been confirmed, say sources.
One thing our new alternative-facts-style weather reporting does encourage is remembering the bad old days...in reports here: https://is.gd/9BGuzd
PERFECT CONDITIONS GOING FORWARD
We are no strangers to alternative facts here in Ptuj, Slovenia's wellness capital. Let us guide you, our dear ally America, up the arts of positivist communicationetiks.
This year in deference to Mrs foreign king MacDonald's homeland we are taking a milder line on Ptuj's weather reports, and today's chicken factory aroma did not exist in the sense of any important news item.
This is amply confirmed by the absence of reports in any major newsfeeds alleging any factory fog. There wasn't any and it is not true. Any hypothetical smell detected this afternoon by unofficial weather sources would have done little to worsen Ptuj's fetid gloom overall. No smell has been confirmed, say sources.
One thing our new alternative-facts-style weather reporting does encourage is remembering the bad old days...in reports here: https://is.gd/9BGuzd
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 14:
EUROUTCOMES.
Apparently it will take 47 years for British bureaucrats to deal with all of these but you can get it done in a week if you're in the Guardian.
update
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/06/brexit-dutch-woman-told-leave-uk-monique-hawkins-stay
EUROUTCOMES.
Apparently it will take 47 years for British bureaucrats to deal with all of these but you can get it done in a week if you're in the Guardian.
update
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/06/brexit-dutch-woman-told-leave-uk-monique-hawkins-stay
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SLOVENIANS NOT TO BE ALLOWED
NOT TO HAVE WATER WITH WATER IN IT
Slovenia has gone further than any other EU country by enshrining in law its citizenry's constitutional right not to be thirsty, and get a wash now and then.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/18/slovenia-adds-water-to-constitution-as-fundamental-right-for-all
The only negatives that spring to mind (geddit??) are that this leaves the definition of "water" as cloudy as ever - and plops any decisions about what exactly water is - and what it is for - straight into the mouths of one conveniently out-of-touch, planet-for-sale, easily lobbied industry-friendly body: parliament.
www.nfl.si/merron
Nobody has yet suggested that the water Slovenians contain should not include too much or too little of this or that ideologically-fashionable miracle solute.
Let's hope they learn from others not to believe every simpleminded American story they hear.
http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?search=hyperactivity&fulltext=&fantranslation=
SLOVENIANS NOT TO BE ALLOWED
NOT TO HAVE WATER WITH WATER IN IT
Slovenia has gone further than any other EU country by enshrining in law its citizenry's constitutional right not to be thirsty, and get a wash now and then.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/18/slovenia-adds-water-to-constitution-as-fundamental-right-for-all
The only negatives that spring to mind (geddit??) are that this leaves the definition of "water" as cloudy as ever - and plops any decisions about what exactly water is - and what it is for - straight into the mouths of one conveniently out-of-touch, planet-for-sale, easily lobbied industry-friendly body: parliament.
www.nfl.si/merron
Nobody has yet suggested that the water Slovenians contain should not include too much or too little of this or that ideologically-fashionable miracle solute.
Let's hope they learn from others not to believe every simpleminded American story they hear.
http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?search=hyperactivity&fulltext=&fantranslation=
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competitive tourism in an age of terror
SEXY DESTINATIONS: A COMPARISON
Everyone in the tourist industry knows British tourists of the 18-30 variety are the worst available.
They travel in large, raucous herds, spend every penny getting wasted, listen to cut-price remixes 24 hours a day, and their ideal sexual partner is anyone on the verge of unconsciousness.
So there should be some opportunities for Slovenia there. But what manner of lost, out-of-the-way location would be the right choice for such a venture?
Alcohol is the religion of Ptuj. Its uneconomic historic architecture, dedicated by earlier occupiers, is either left to crumble away or disfigured via various financial wheezes.
So you would think Slovenia's oldest town would pick up on this exciting tourism market opportunity - instead of continually insisting on some unlikely compromise between extreme drunkenness and cultured behaviour.
Problem 1: the type of tourist interested in poetry, theatre in Slovene, and Mithraism is neither sufficiently wild nor numerous to quaff all the surplus local wine available.
Problem 2: the large number of wild 18-30 tourists potentially available aren't looking for "high" culture. Chavs don't choose wine, unless nothing else is available.
Problem 3: like Ptuj could be, many popular 18-30 destinations are in fact islands of foreign debauchery surrounded by a wasteland of retarded sexual chauvinism. From the customer's viewpoint.
In fact if it wasn't for the money, the locals wouldn't tolerate 1% of the necessary ingredients for a lads/lasses swingathon.
Even Slovenians who go a-clubbing in Bulgaria know that beyond the perimeter fence lies an impoverished land of grizzly old maids and animal-powered transport, who fear and detest the tourist yoof with their banging tunes and rape on the beach.
And a similar contrast pertains between the UK's shirtless hooligan holidaymaker and the elders of our very own Dravska Obala.
Let us examine the dynamics of cut-price drunken shag-tourism with a look at a couple of comparable resorts.
ayia napa
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g262055-d313727-Reviews-or30-Anthea_Hotel_Apts-Ayia_Napa_Famagusta_District.html
These extremely funny reviews seem to either praise the main Cypriot rave-up hotel to the stars - or pan it completely. Mostly the latter.
Their polarity is indeed extreme. Is the Anthea Hotel "clean and spacious", "perfect", and "exactly what you are looking for" (five stars)?
Or is it a hotel you "would recommend to someone you hate"? With "used condoms and legal high dispensers around the pool", "screaming all night", "quite simply filthy" rooms, from whose "disgusting mattresses with numerous bodily fluids" and sheets with "massive black stains" you will "wake up covered in ants", needing to "sell a kidney to pay for the air conditioning" which "oozes black sludge all over the floor", with flooding and theft from rooms ignored by a "rude and obnoxious manager" who will blame you if you complain, amid incessant church bells disturbing your hangover at 5 a.m., and where every insecure door has a "fist-sized peephole punched through it", plus the possibility of a "decorative menstrual trail" or "black fur" on the wall, and where the rooms are never swept but you are "happy with that so [your ant] powder not disturbed lol", while the best thing is the "total lack of security" which means you can invite up room guests aplenty!
Cyprus enjoyed a record 550,000 visitors up to August 2016, mostly British and Russian. About a quarter headed for Napa.
Once lured in with low room and flight prices, the Anthea Hotel's victims are hit with €2/hour wifi and €16/day air conditioning surcharges, services without which they are unlikely to do, or get done.
Finally there is a MacDonalds nearby, and the chance for passing girls to "get slapped and have their top ripped off" by local yoof.
For those involved in the hospitality industry there are periodic shootouts, and Nicosia's branch of Interpol will even ring visiting hitmen to warn them about police surveillance http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/08/nicolaou-pledges-police-clean-defies-resignation-calls/
All this on top of routine confrontations between rival types of Cypriot.
Come on Ptuj! This sounds more like your kind of style than poetry and wine, and something you could easily achieve on the wages you are offering!
kütahya
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g1413798-Kutahya-Vacations.html#photos;geo=1413798&detail=1413798
More famous for its porcelain than pill-popping, Kütahya in western Turkey has four hotels listed on Tripadvisor - despite its population ten times that of Ptuj, which has a dozen or so hotels listed.
Shagwise though, Ptuj perhaps more closely resembles Kütahya than Ayia Napa in its backwardness, being a destination few have heard of, where pretty much nothing of consequence has happened since 492 A.D., apppealing more to those who prefer esoteric archaeological topics than having it large on the dancefloor with a nitrous oxide balloon.
Although present-day Slovenia and Turkey have remained on opposite sides in religious matters, they are equivalent in the sense that they are linguistically insulated from reality by them, and have some weird ideas hanging around.
Who knew, after all, that talking during sex could lead to your child being born with a stutter? Or that a wife should immediately apologise if her husband gets angry with her?
This advice, distributed to young couples in the area in a booklet by the local council, goes on to warn that ballet and theatre are centres for demons, that women should not exercise in sports centres and parks, and reveals in black and white what can only be hinted at in Ptuj: namely that beating one or more of your wives just makes them want you all the more.
Finally, according to these same municipal authorities, children aged between 10 and 12 can be married to each other, presumably with a reception at the Kütahya Hilton Garden Inn (current deal only 39 euros per night).
Apparently the breakfast is only average and they can't even speak French, so it resembles Ptuj in other ways too.
So come on Ptuj! You successfully repelled the Turk with your castle. Don't give in now!
love and marriage kütahya style
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kutahya-municipalitys-controversial-sex-advice-book-triggers-reaction-from-govt-and-opposition-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=107401&NewsCatID=341
love and marriage ptuj style
http://www.maria.si
ptuj turizem, volunteer stylee
https://twitter.com/turizemptuj
http://www.television.si/bollocks
SEXY DESTINATIONS: A COMPARISON
Everyone in the tourist industry knows British tourists of the 18-30 variety are the worst available.
They travel in large, raucous herds, spend every penny getting wasted, listen to cut-price remixes 24 hours a day, and their ideal sexual partner is anyone on the verge of unconsciousness.
So there should be some opportunities for Slovenia there. But what manner of lost, out-of-the-way location would be the right choice for such a venture?
Alcohol is the religion of Ptuj. Its uneconomic historic architecture, dedicated by earlier occupiers, is either left to crumble away or disfigured via various financial wheezes.
So you would think Slovenia's oldest town would pick up on this exciting tourism market opportunity - instead of continually insisting on some unlikely compromise between extreme drunkenness and cultured behaviour.
Problem 1: the type of tourist interested in poetry, theatre in Slovene, and Mithraism is neither sufficiently wild nor numerous to quaff all the surplus local wine available.
Problem 2: the large number of wild 18-30 tourists potentially available aren't looking for "high" culture. Chavs don't choose wine, unless nothing else is available.
Problem 3: like Ptuj could be, many popular 18-30 destinations are in fact islands of foreign debauchery surrounded by a wasteland of retarded sexual chauvinism. From the customer's viewpoint.
In fact if it wasn't for the money, the locals wouldn't tolerate 1% of the necessary ingredients for a lads/lasses swingathon.
Even Slovenians who go a-clubbing in Bulgaria know that beyond the perimeter fence lies an impoverished land of grizzly old maids and animal-powered transport, who fear and detest the tourist yoof with their banging tunes and rape on the beach.
And a similar contrast pertains between the UK's shirtless hooligan holidaymaker and the elders of our very own Dravska Obala.
Let us examine the dynamics of cut-price drunken shag-tourism with a look at a couple of comparable resorts.
ayia napa
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g262055-d313727-Reviews-or30-Anthea_Hotel_Apts-Ayia_Napa_Famagusta_District.html
These extremely funny reviews seem to either praise the main Cypriot rave-up hotel to the stars - or pan it completely. Mostly the latter.
Their polarity is indeed extreme. Is the Anthea Hotel "clean and spacious", "perfect", and "exactly what you are looking for" (five stars)?
Or is it a hotel you "would recommend to someone you hate"? With "used condoms and legal high dispensers around the pool", "screaming all night", "quite simply filthy" rooms, from whose "disgusting mattresses with numerous bodily fluids" and sheets with "massive black stains" you will "wake up covered in ants", needing to "sell a kidney to pay for the air conditioning" which "oozes black sludge all over the floor", with flooding and theft from rooms ignored by a "rude and obnoxious manager" who will blame you if you complain, amid incessant church bells disturbing your hangover at 5 a.m., and where every insecure door has a "fist-sized peephole punched through it", plus the possibility of a "decorative menstrual trail" or "black fur" on the wall, and where the rooms are never swept but you are "happy with that so [your ant] powder not disturbed lol", while the best thing is the "total lack of security" which means you can invite up room guests aplenty!
Cyprus enjoyed a record 550,000 visitors up to August 2016, mostly British and Russian. About a quarter headed for Napa.
Once lured in with low room and flight prices, the Anthea Hotel's victims are hit with €2/hour wifi and €16/day air conditioning surcharges, services without which they are unlikely to do, or get done.
Finally there is a MacDonalds nearby, and the chance for passing girls to "get slapped and have their top ripped off" by local yoof.
For those involved in the hospitality industry there are periodic shootouts, and Nicosia's branch of Interpol will even ring visiting hitmen to warn them about police surveillance http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/08/08/nicolaou-pledges-police-clean-defies-resignation-calls/
All this on top of routine confrontations between rival types of Cypriot.
Come on Ptuj! This sounds more like your kind of style than poetry and wine, and something you could easily achieve on the wages you are offering!
kütahya
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g1413798-Kutahya-Vacations.html#photos;geo=1413798&detail=1413798
More famous for its porcelain than pill-popping, Kütahya in western Turkey has four hotels listed on Tripadvisor - despite its population ten times that of Ptuj, which has a dozen or so hotels listed.
Shagwise though, Ptuj perhaps more closely resembles Kütahya than Ayia Napa in its backwardness, being a destination few have heard of, where pretty much nothing of consequence has happened since 492 A.D., apppealing more to those who prefer esoteric archaeological topics than having it large on the dancefloor with a nitrous oxide balloon.
Although present-day Slovenia and Turkey have remained on opposite sides in religious matters, they are equivalent in the sense that they are linguistically insulated from reality by them, and have some weird ideas hanging around.
Who knew, after all, that talking during sex could lead to your child being born with a stutter? Or that a wife should immediately apologise if her husband gets angry with her?
This advice, distributed to young couples in the area in a booklet by the local council, goes on to warn that ballet and theatre are centres for demons, that women should not exercise in sports centres and parks, and reveals in black and white what can only be hinted at in Ptuj: namely that beating one or more of your wives just makes them want you all the more.
Finally, according to these same municipal authorities, children aged between 10 and 12 can be married to each other, presumably with a reception at the Kütahya Hilton Garden Inn (current deal only 39 euros per night).
Apparently the breakfast is only average and they can't even speak French, so it resembles Ptuj in other ways too.
So come on Ptuj! You successfully repelled the Turk with your castle. Don't give in now!
love and marriage kütahya style
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kutahya-municipalitys-controversial-sex-advice-book-triggers-reaction-from-govt-and-opposition-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=107401&NewsCatID=341
love and marriage ptuj style
http://www.maria.si
ptuj turizem, volunteer stylee
https://twitter.com/turizemptuj
http://www.television.si/bollocks
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intelligent design
EDUPLOYMENT: HOW IT WORKS
Like its Communist-style vehicle fuel pricing, Slovenia's "student work" status is a beloved - and well-entrenched - oddity of the national economic get-up.
As a student worker all your pay and deductions are organised by student work agencies, which means you don't have to wrangle directly with potentially unreliable or exploitative employers.
In return for this the students are strangely happy to net the legal minimum of €4.53/hour. That costs employers the grand total of €6.39/hour, according to figures provided by one agency.
Deductions are: 8.85% retirement/invalidity pension; 6.36% health insurance; 0.53% work injury insurance; an 8.4% gangland tribute to the government; and 3.8% to the agency for handling it all.
In fact (100-(8.85+6.36+0.53+8.4+3.8))/100 x €6.39 = €4.60 - meaning seven cents per student per hour just disappears somewhere.
No-one should be surprised at this discrepancy - this is education we're talking about! This page http://data.si/studentsko-delo/?stn=1 offers a calculator - enter your minimum wage and see where that seven cents goes.
On top of this unique system, students are alone in Slovenia, in enjoying an income tax-free threshold, of €400/month. Everyone else pays at least 25% from the get-go.
Employers are ecstatic about not dealing with any government agencies, just the "Student Service". In this respect it is some kind of unnatural but pragmatic limitation upon Parkinson's Law.
So everyone is very happy to remain a student, or wants to hire a student rather than a regular employee.
It is not clear why administrative things cannot be this cheap, safe, and simple for all employees, or self-employed pseudo-employees - https://is.gd/1XX5lE
On the other hand, you can spend a lot of time becoming very stressed or unhappy over losing your student status: unless nepotism intervenes, it is a ticket straight to the shit-heap. The reason? Nobody will employ you...as you would be legally and bureaucratically troublesome - and more expensive - compared to a student.
This drives demand to remain in the educational system studying something or other. If you have a real thirst for knowledge, a rock-solid fear of originality, and a rigid anti-entrepreneurial mindset, you can keep this up until you're 37.
Yet readers at a jobsearch website were shocked to discover a post available requiring at least a VI./1st, VI./2nd or VII. level of education, Bachelor or Master's Degree in Architecture, a professional examination pass in architecture and spatial planning, at least five years work experience in organisational, technical, and financial architectural project management, excellent knowledge of Auto Cad, Revita, knowledge of BIM philosophy, the ability to communicate in English or German at scientific meetings and in writing, a sense of team leadership, planning, organisation, accuracy, consistency, and a driving licence.
It is a bargain neither a cost-conscious architectural business, nor the right graduate, could refuse. As the ad explains...
"Form of employment: student work."
more student reports from nposialpu
https://is.gd/BTBUH8
problems with the censor
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4XXYK5vKuXs
EDUPLOYMENT: HOW IT WORKS
Like its Communist-style vehicle fuel pricing, Slovenia's "student work" status is a beloved - and well-entrenched - oddity of the national economic get-up.
As a student worker all your pay and deductions are organised by student work agencies, which means you don't have to wrangle directly with potentially unreliable or exploitative employers.
In return for this the students are strangely happy to net the legal minimum of €4.53/hour. That costs employers the grand total of €6.39/hour, according to figures provided by one agency.
Deductions are: 8.85% retirement/invalidity pension; 6.36% health insurance; 0.53% work injury insurance; an 8.4% gangland tribute to the government; and 3.8% to the agency for handling it all.
In fact (100-(8.85+6.36+0.53+8.4+3.8))/100 x €6.39 = €4.60 - meaning seven cents per student per hour just disappears somewhere.
No-one should be surprised at this discrepancy - this is education we're talking about! This page http://data.si/studentsko-delo/?stn=1 offers a calculator - enter your minimum wage and see where that seven cents goes.
On top of this unique system, students are alone in Slovenia, in enjoying an income tax-free threshold, of €400/month. Everyone else pays at least 25% from the get-go.
Employers are ecstatic about not dealing with any government agencies, just the "Student Service". In this respect it is some kind of unnatural but pragmatic limitation upon Parkinson's Law.
So everyone is very happy to remain a student, or wants to hire a student rather than a regular employee.
It is not clear why administrative things cannot be this cheap, safe, and simple for all employees, or self-employed pseudo-employees - https://is.gd/1XX5lE
On the other hand, you can spend a lot of time becoming very stressed or unhappy over losing your student status: unless nepotism intervenes, it is a ticket straight to the shit-heap. The reason? Nobody will employ you...as you would be legally and bureaucratically troublesome - and more expensive - compared to a student.
This drives demand to remain in the educational system studying something or other. If you have a real thirst for knowledge, a rock-solid fear of originality, and a rigid anti-entrepreneurial mindset, you can keep this up until you're 37.
Yet readers at a jobsearch website were shocked to discover a post available requiring at least a VI./1st, VI./2nd or VII. level of education, Bachelor or Master's Degree in Architecture, a professional examination pass in architecture and spatial planning, at least five years work experience in organisational, technical, and financial architectural project management, excellent knowledge of Auto Cad, Revita, knowledge of BIM philosophy, the ability to communicate in English or German at scientific meetings and in writing, a sense of team leadership, planning, organisation, accuracy, consistency, and a driving licence.
It is a bargain neither a cost-conscious architectural business, nor the right graduate, could refuse. As the ad explains...
"Form of employment: student work."
more student reports from nposialpu
https://is.gd/BTBUH8
problems with the censor
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/4XXYK5vKuXs
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chickening out with the bad bank
THE SONG OF THE HIRED WASHER
Homeward now came Perutnina
To its factories of the chickens,
It was not much good at banking,
In its oligarchic venture
By the Drava's laughing water,
Where the cash went down the river.
With his smelly gift we fought him
Back before a Russian bought him,
Back when first he wooed Romana,
Sat beside her in a toga,
And with mediocre logo
Lent the cronies too much ass-dough.
When annulled Probanka scrammed off
To the new bad bank's bigwigwam;
Perutnina shrugged: "Probanka?
Pocahontas? Minnehaha?"
Help the police with their enquiries?
You might as well send Miley Cyrus!
PMP-eed off, shares worth nothin',
Unsuitable for chicken stuffing;
Massive funnel to their big pants
Blocked by Ministry of Finance.
While Probanka's disappearing,
With the chicken un-DUT-aBle,
Foreign buyers, Russian strangers,
Eye the fragrant chicken factories'
Ground-up bones and fatty acids,
Sniff the aldehydes, mercaptans,
Vapours ripe from chicken mashin'
Dangling in an airborne fashion
Round the national tourist assets,
Spot the clue, dead obvious he,
Glaser, Supervisor's sloppy.
Didn't purchase bank in '13;
Chicken, they seem less uncertain.
Don't blame Vito, mini-Lah. Ha!
Save their houses from the dražba.
Blame recession, blame each other,
Blame the Big Chief? - Can't remember -
Without noticing, Romana
Lent a few mil to her brother.
Breach of lending regulations:
Years more court hearings await them
Borrowers gone bankrupt join them,
Knitted octopus between them
On the Board in every wigwam.
Today's Smell-poem is based on
The Song of Hiawatha XIX. The Ghosts
ptuj weather
Smell of you-didn't-dry-your-socks-quickly-enough. Outlook: crapital inadequacy.
more ptuj weather mixups
https://is.gd/68NpXT
previously on bad bank poetry
https://is.gd/oYSAk4
THE SONG OF THE HIRED WASHER
Homeward now came Perutnina
To its factories of the chickens,
It was not much good at banking,
In its oligarchic venture
By the Drava's laughing water,
Where the cash went down the river.
With his smelly gift we fought him
Back before a Russian bought him,
Back when first he wooed Romana,
Sat beside her in a toga,
And with mediocre logo
Lent the cronies too much ass-dough.
When annulled Probanka scrammed off
To the new bad bank's bigwigwam;
Perutnina shrugged: "Probanka?
Pocahontas? Minnehaha?"
Help the police with their enquiries?
You might as well send Miley Cyrus!
PMP-eed off, shares worth nothin',
Unsuitable for chicken stuffing;
Massive funnel to their big pants
Blocked by Ministry of Finance.
While Probanka's disappearing,
With the chicken un-DUT-aBle,
Foreign buyers, Russian strangers,
Eye the fragrant chicken factories'
Ground-up bones and fatty acids,
Sniff the aldehydes, mercaptans,
Vapours ripe from chicken mashin'
Dangling in an airborne fashion
Round the national tourist assets,
Spot the clue, dead obvious he,
Glaser, Supervisor's sloppy.
Didn't purchase bank in '13;
Chicken, they seem less uncertain.
Don't blame Vito, mini-Lah. Ha!
Save their houses from the dražba.
Blame recession, blame each other,
Blame the Big Chief? - Can't remember -
Without noticing, Romana
Lent a few mil to her brother.
Breach of lending regulations:
Years more court hearings await them
Borrowers gone bankrupt join them,
Knitted octopus between them
On the Board in every wigwam.
Today's Smell-poem is based on
The Song of Hiawatha XIX. The Ghosts
ptuj weather
Smell of you-didn't-dry-your-socks-quickly-enough. Outlook: crapital inadequacy.
more ptuj weather mixups
https://is.gd/68NpXT
previously on bad bank poetry
https://is.gd/oYSAk4
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hairy bats
ISLAND RECORDS
When Captain Cook appeared in Hawaii the natives mistook him for their god of fertility, music, and food, arriving in a giant canoe. But they grew disenchanted and finally killed him.
Scientists reckon that since Europeans arrived in Hawaii in 1778, new species have been introduced onto the islands at an average rate of one per month.
Before this, only one new species took hold every 35,000 to 70,000 years. Hawaii has no native ants, conifers or reptiles.
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Hawaii's only indigenous land mammal.
ISLAND RECORDS
When Captain Cook appeared in Hawaii the natives mistook him for their god of fertility, music, and food, arriving in a giant canoe. But they grew disenchanted and finally killed him.
Scientists reckon that since Europeans arrived in Hawaii in 1778, new species have been introduced onto the islands at an average rate of one per month.
Before this, only one new species took hold every 35,000 to 70,000 years. Hawaii has no native ants, conifers or reptiles.
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Hawaii's only indigenous land mammal.
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uber mention
TAXI RETURN
Once when pay was a couple of bob
Demand used to result in a job:
Now we're all self-employed.
Resulting in a huge void
Unless you still work for the Mob.
Tired of being "self-employed" so your employer can evade the unprofitable nightmare of dealing with the Ptuj ZZZS national insurance office, run by Mr Zamuda, who does not know how to copy and paste on a computer?
You're hardly alone, except in practice. But for some reason Mr Z and his ZZZS colleagues themselves still dwell in the unfashionable pre-neoliberal era.
Among the non-neoliberal disadvantages to the economy are his job security regardless of his lack of copying and pasting skills, non-performance-based rewards, inability to sell health insurance to foreigners, paid holidays and sick leave, and workers' rights of all kinds.
He doesn't even have to buy his own basic health insurance. It is all done through the agency of a so-called "employer".
ZZZS need not worry if people are queueing out of the door, down the stairs and into the street with their health insurance problems. Customer satisfaction interests them only insofar that, if they can perform badly and lazily without fear of consequences, then they will.
If their Catholic-church-supplied paperclips are too flimsy to keep your shit together, their rules unhelpful, or their computer says no, that will surely be the fault of other non-neoliberal employees - not theirs.
Theirs is not a democracy of market forces, which is what the miracle of neoliberalism is supposed to be all about.
No, that applies only to the thousands in the queue. Where once upon an un-neoliberal time all your problems were handled en masse by your employer or his accountants, now it is part of your democratic freedom for each of you to do battle over the intricate staggering deficiencies of Slovenian health insurance law one at a time, unaided except by the inept Mr Zamuda (translation: Mr Delay) and his co-conspirators against health and efficiency.
Neoliberalism's high priests Hayek and von Mises - both Austrian exiles - found favour with the superwealthy at a time when it seemed reasonable to believe that Communism and Nazism alike were all about crushing individualism and its enterprising spirit.
But what could be more crushing than forcing every citizen to waste time becoming a dirty mirror to these unenterprising bureaucrats' antics?
Back when it seemed like economists had all the answers, the neolibs' millionaire backers created the Mont Pelerin Society, the American Enterprise Institute, the Tavistock Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Adam Smith Institute.
Jobs in academia followed, spreading the new social engineering gospel/gossip, particularly at the universities of Chicago and Virginia. Jobs? So these folks weren't self-employed either, then?
And so began the Animal Farm of neoliberalism, with a cosy elite foisting on governments its theory of human beings as struggling consumers, while the rich pigs sucked up ever greater proportions of the world's money.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic/04reich-graphic-popup.jpg
rank bureaucracy
Skip forward eight decades to the benign oligarchies of today, and you can't see Donald Trump's tax returns. The beauty is, he's probably never seen them either.
Here in Slovenia, where old-style turgid government bureaucracy persists and largely resists the likes of Capita for the sake of its own highly-unionised members' jobs-for-life, your minimum monthly health insurance as a self-employed person is reckoned at 93 euros, excluding sophisticated medicine.
This does not sound like a lot until you see that most stuff is actually the same or greater in price than in France, Germany or Ireland.
But the minimum wage is less than half than in these countries.
The ratio of minimum wage earners to average earners is the highest in Europe. And of course if you are self-employed that's a minimum you can forget, thanks to the Milton Friedmans of the world.
even-more-local neoliberalism
https://is.gd/UoIcIR
TAXI RETURN
Once when pay was a couple of bob
Demand used to result in a job:
Now we're all self-employed.
Resulting in a huge void
Unless you still work for the Mob.
Tired of being "self-employed" so your employer can evade the unprofitable nightmare of dealing with the Ptuj ZZZS national insurance office, run by Mr Zamuda, who does not know how to copy and paste on a computer?
You're hardly alone, except in practice. But for some reason Mr Z and his ZZZS colleagues themselves still dwell in the unfashionable pre-neoliberal era.
Among the non-neoliberal disadvantages to the economy are his job security regardless of his lack of copying and pasting skills, non-performance-based rewards, inability to sell health insurance to foreigners, paid holidays and sick leave, and workers' rights of all kinds.
He doesn't even have to buy his own basic health insurance. It is all done through the agency of a so-called "employer".
ZZZS need not worry if people are queueing out of the door, down the stairs and into the street with their health insurance problems. Customer satisfaction interests them only insofar that, if they can perform badly and lazily without fear of consequences, then they will.
If their Catholic-church-supplied paperclips are too flimsy to keep your shit together, their rules unhelpful, or their computer says no, that will surely be the fault of other non-neoliberal employees - not theirs.
Theirs is not a democracy of market forces, which is what the miracle of neoliberalism is supposed to be all about.
No, that applies only to the thousands in the queue. Where once upon an un-neoliberal time all your problems were handled en masse by your employer or his accountants, now it is part of your democratic freedom for each of you to do battle over the intricate staggering deficiencies of Slovenian health insurance law one at a time, unaided except by the inept Mr Zamuda (translation: Mr Delay) and his co-conspirators against health and efficiency.
Neoliberalism's high priests Hayek and von Mises - both Austrian exiles - found favour with the superwealthy at a time when it seemed reasonable to believe that Communism and Nazism alike were all about crushing individualism and its enterprising spirit.
But what could be more crushing than forcing every citizen to waste time becoming a dirty mirror to these unenterprising bureaucrats' antics?
Back when it seemed like economists had all the answers, the neolibs' millionaire backers created the Mont Pelerin Society, the American Enterprise Institute, the Tavistock Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Adam Smith Institute.
Jobs in academia followed, spreading the new social engineering gospel/gossip, particularly at the universities of Chicago and Virginia. Jobs? So these folks weren't self-employed either, then?
And so began the Animal Farm of neoliberalism, with a cosy elite foisting on governments its theory of human beings as struggling consumers, while the rich pigs sucked up ever greater proportions of the world's money.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic/04reich-graphic-popup.jpg
rank bureaucracy
Skip forward eight decades to the benign oligarchies of today, and you can't see Donald Trump's tax returns. The beauty is, he's probably never seen them either.
Here in Slovenia, where old-style turgid government bureaucracy persists and largely resists the likes of Capita for the sake of its own highly-unionised members' jobs-for-life, your minimum monthly health insurance as a self-employed person is reckoned at 93 euros, excluding sophisticated medicine.
This does not sound like a lot until you see that most stuff is actually the same or greater in price than in France, Germany or Ireland.
But the minimum wage is less than half than in these countries.
The ratio of minimum wage earners to average earners is the highest in Europe. And of course if you are self-employed that's a minimum you can forget, thanks to the Milton Friedmans of the world.
even-more-local neoliberalism
https://is.gd/UoIcIR
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ptuj wetter 1700 stunden
KONTINUIERLICHER VORWEIHNACHTLICH RENDERABFALL
Heutig synästhetische Wettermischung von PPM Labs. Kerbe auf T-Shirts gezeigt. Wahrscheinlichkeit der intelligenten Touristen: niedrig.
luftgetragenes material perutnina blies mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CPxF-ha-dk
und
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_U4Z-WBcg
Spielen zusammen für eine synästhetische Erholung der heutigen Bedingungen
Wie üblich gibt es keine Jobs zur Festsetzung der Luft von Ptuj.
Aber selbst wenn es eine solche Post, würden wir nur zahlen Sie ein Viertel so viel, und mittlerweile berechnen Sie mehr für die meisten Dinge, als Sie in Deutschland bezahlen.
Wir sind buchstäblich fantastisch. Vergessen Sie nicht, unsere nahrhafte Luft zu erwähnen!
vorheriges ptuj wetter/previous ptuj weather
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
KONTINUIERLICHER VORWEIHNACHTLICH RENDERABFALL
Heutig synästhetische Wettermischung von PPM Labs. Kerbe auf T-Shirts gezeigt. Wahrscheinlichkeit der intelligenten Touristen: niedrig.
luftgetragenes material perutnina blies mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CPxF-ha-dk
und
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_U4Z-WBcg
Spielen zusammen für eine synästhetische Erholung der heutigen Bedingungen
Wie üblich gibt es keine Jobs zur Festsetzung der Luft von Ptuj.
Aber selbst wenn es eine solche Post, würden wir nur zahlen Sie ein Viertel so viel, und mittlerweile berechnen Sie mehr für die meisten Dinge, als Sie in Deutschland bezahlen.
Wir sind buchstäblich fantastisch. Vergessen Sie nicht, unsere nahrhafte Luft zu erwähnen!
vorheriges ptuj wetter/previous ptuj weather
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
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INTRUSIVE FOREIGNERS TO BLAME
As Finance (Slovenia's FT) suggests a government program to invite expatriate millionaires to lend it some money, an American describes her tourism experience:
http://holeinthedonut.com/2015/10/10/slovenia-tourism-conundrum/
...a sneering woman in the Slovenia tourism office, who might as well have thrown brochures at me...
...disturbed by the unwelcoming attitude and indifference...from most of the tourism offices...
“'Life here used to be different,” he explained. “We did not have a lot, but we had enough. And we enjoyed life. Now we are a tourist destination and we must work much harder. We have less free time, less time to be with friends and enjoy life.”
...I’d chosen Ptuj rather than nearby Maribor...after more than three weeks of waiting, unsuccessfully, for a reply from any of three tourism officials I’d emailed...
My email was forwarded around to different agencies, and replies trickled in with apologies that this or that person had been on vacation, but I received no answers to my question.
...thoroughly disgusted...
I was conflicted about Slovenia. Did I like it or didn’t I? Would I come back?
Slovenia asks a foreigner to help it with its tourism
http://forum.finance.si/?m=2621608#2621608
nposialpu's tourism archive
https://is.gd/6kdbP0
INTRUSIVE FOREIGNERS TO BLAME
As Finance (Slovenia's FT) suggests a government program to invite expatriate millionaires to lend it some money, an American describes her tourism experience:
http://holeinthedonut.com/2015/10/10/slovenia-tourism-conundrum/
...a sneering woman in the Slovenia tourism office, who might as well have thrown brochures at me...
...disturbed by the unwelcoming attitude and indifference...from most of the tourism offices...
“'Life here used to be different,” he explained. “We did not have a lot, but we had enough. And we enjoyed life. Now we are a tourist destination and we must work much harder. We have less free time, less time to be with friends and enjoy life.”
...I’d chosen Ptuj rather than nearby Maribor...after more than three weeks of waiting, unsuccessfully, for a reply from any of three tourism officials I’d emailed...
My email was forwarded around to different agencies, and replies trickled in with apologies that this or that person had been on vacation, but I received no answers to my question.
...thoroughly disgusted...
I was conflicted about Slovenia. Did I like it or didn’t I? Would I come back?
Slovenia asks a foreigner to help it with its tourism
http://forum.finance.si/?m=2621608#2621608
nposialpu's tourism archive
https://is.gd/6kdbP0
Finance Forum: Bi
posodili denar Sloveniji?
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NATIONAL PSYCHOS
When Thomas Mair appeared in court accused of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox, he would only shout "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain!" - https://is.gd/FQaTQF
Here in Slovenia things are done a little differently. When former Mayoral candidate for Škofja Loka Blaž Kujundžič was brought before a judge, accused of laying in wait to kill the current Mayor, his battle cry was "Long live freedom for Slovenia! Death to transition irregularities!"
It is alleged Mayor Miha Ješe, 62, was ambushed as he rode his bicycle to work along his usual route, when Kujundžič, 60, drove at him deliberately, fracturing his collarbone.
Describing the suspected politically-motivated assassination attempt, Gorenjska police said it was not a "classic car accident...but a deliberate collision by the driver with the rider."
Kujundžič has been in the past a member of both left- and right-wing parties, but currently belongs to ruling centre-middle-muddle SMC. He has worked at the Ministry of Defence, Škofja Loka council, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, as a member of the national Commission investigating hidden graves, and President of the Škofja Loka Red Cross.
Besides Mayoring and transition irregularities, g. Ješe is connected with spinning and chipboard. We wish him a full recovery.
tales of slovenian mayors
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
driving in slovenia
https://is.gd/qRRuO2
nposialpu's wood archive
https://is.gd/gfzbs7
NATIONAL PSYCHOS
When Thomas Mair appeared in court accused of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox, he would only shout "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain!" - https://is.gd/FQaTQF
Here in Slovenia things are done a little differently. When former Mayoral candidate for Škofja Loka Blaž Kujundžič was brought before a judge, accused of laying in wait to kill the current Mayor, his battle cry was "Long live freedom for Slovenia! Death to transition irregularities!"
It is alleged Mayor Miha Ješe, 62, was ambushed as he rode his bicycle to work along his usual route, when Kujundžič, 60, drove at him deliberately, fracturing his collarbone.
Describing the suspected politically-motivated assassination attempt, Gorenjska police said it was not a "classic car accident...but a deliberate collision by the driver with the rider."
Kujundžič has been in the past a member of both left- and right-wing parties, but currently belongs to ruling centre-middle-muddle SMC. He has worked at the Ministry of Defence, Škofja Loka council, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, as a member of the national Commission investigating hidden graves, and President of the Škofja Loka Red Cross.
Besides Mayoring and transition irregularities, g. Ješe is connected with spinning and chipboard. We wish him a full recovery.
tales of slovenian mayors
https://is.gd/Fb4rE0
driving in slovenia
https://is.gd/qRRuO2
nposialpu's wood archive
https://is.gd/gfzbs7
Mag. Miha Ješe, župan
občine Škofja Loka
varensvet.si
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1730 Thursday: thick slick of sick
For today's synesthetic weather recreation from PPM Labs play the kodela and tennille sex will keep us together mix
navodila:
play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXqGybRUhY
together
ppm labs' greatest hits
https://is.gd/68NpXT
a history of kodelaism and other social phenomena
www.rum.si
1730 Thursday: thick slick of sick
For today's synesthetic weather recreation from PPM Labs play the kodela and tennille sex will keep us together mix
navodila:
play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QNEf9oGw8o
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFXqGybRUhY
together
ppm labs' greatest hits
https://is.gd/68NpXT
a history of kodelaism and other social phenomena
www.rum.si
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car boot news
TORTURED OVER NUMBER PLATE
Uros Andrejc was lured to a garage by the promise of a tow, then given several hits with a baseball bat, tied up and abducted in the boot of a car to a remote spot, physically and psychologically intimidated with a knife.
The topic at issue? The defendants had discovered he owned a number plate, and wanted him to admit to stealing it. And apparently after being terrified out of his wits he did.
Whereas - and this might have a bearing on the amount of torture which might be reasonable, m'lud - the victim now says he'd found it by the road some three years previously. Boy, things can get dull in those villages. www.a2z.si
Slovenians change their plates more often than their socks sometimes, so they are always falling off. I found one just the other day, which is a bit worrying.
To avoid any repercussions I turned it over to the proper authorities, without identifying myself of course. Maybe they can use it on one of their vehicles for a while.
The supposed vigilante escapade earned a jail term of fourteen months for the ringleader, with seven and three months' suspended for the other two.
TORTURED OVER NUMBER PLATE
Uros Andrejc was lured to a garage by the promise of a tow, then given several hits with a baseball bat, tied up and abducted in the boot of a car to a remote spot, physically and psychologically intimidated with a knife.
The topic at issue? The defendants had discovered he owned a number plate, and wanted him to admit to stealing it. And apparently after being terrified out of his wits he did.
Whereas - and this might have a bearing on the amount of torture which might be reasonable, m'lud - the victim now says he'd found it by the road some three years previously. Boy, things can get dull in those villages. www.a2z.si
Slovenians change their plates more often than their socks sometimes, so they are always falling off. I found one just the other day, which is a bit worrying.
To avoid any repercussions I turned it over to the proper authorities, without identifying myself of course. Maybe they can use it on one of their vehicles for a while.
The supposed vigilante escapade earned a jail term of fourteen months for the ringleader, with seven and three months' suspended for the other two.
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SLOVENIAN WOMAN "HAD IT OFF FOR FREE" SHOCK!
Daily Mail retracts colourful story
Painting Mel Trump as high-class and whorey.
Can you prove that she did?
You can make a few quid!
They especially like photographwoooahry.
Slovenia is a hot country with "Men are crazy about anal sex" the subject of its Daily Mail equivalent's most read article of 2014 http://www.slovenskenovice.si/lifestyle/seksi/najbolj-brano-moski-so-nori-na-analni-seks with "Signs of sexual abstinence" coming in at number two.
Six of the top ten were sexy stories. By 2015 sex was completely absent in Slovenske Novice's ten most read stories, which now concerned threats from foreigners and the weather.
But that doesn't mean it's over. Slovenia's 2010 craze for experimental European transsexual dog sex orgies is still inspiring www.cinema.si six years later.
With "Night Life" director Damjan Kozole is following on from his 2009 hit "Call Girl" - alternatively titled "Slovenian Girl" - about working your way through university in Ljub City...
http://nightlifefilm.si/interview
As a Slovenian Melania will be particularly sensitive to "fear of character assassination greater than the fear of death itself" - the theme of the film.
I think it's fab that Melania has struck out on her own, spurning the titty bar economy and becoming the first Slovenian woman ever to break the link between true luv and cold hard cash - even if she underestimates the reach of the Mail's muckraking abilities. Please keep me posted of any developments at www.television.si
Indeed the photographic record appears to chart the poser's progress from vaguely feely youth to the definitely touchy litigant of today. By analysing the number of Melania's children in conjunction with standardised statistical formulae, Slovenian sex experts calculate that Melania and King McDonald have exchanged bodily fluids a total of once.
more love poetry:
slovenia's strained relations with down there
https://is.gd/ZvG0zo
uptight, jealous, and weird:
various slovenian bedtime tales
https://is.gd/N3tWZE
SLOVENIAN WOMAN "HAD IT OFF FOR FREE" SHOCK!
Daily Mail retracts colourful story
Painting Mel Trump as high-class and whorey.
Can you prove that she did?
You can make a few quid!
They especially like photographwoooahry.
Slovenia is a hot country with "Men are crazy about anal sex" the subject of its Daily Mail equivalent's most read article of 2014 http://www.slovenskenovice.si/lifestyle/seksi/najbolj-brano-moski-so-nori-na-analni-seks with "Signs of sexual abstinence" coming in at number two.
Six of the top ten were sexy stories. By 2015 sex was completely absent in Slovenske Novice's ten most read stories, which now concerned threats from foreigners and the weather.
But that doesn't mean it's over. Slovenia's 2010 craze for experimental European transsexual dog sex orgies is still inspiring www.cinema.si six years later.
With "Night Life" director Damjan Kozole is following on from his 2009 hit "Call Girl" - alternatively titled "Slovenian Girl" - about working your way through university in Ljub City...
http://nightlifefilm.si/interview
As a Slovenian Melania will be particularly sensitive to "fear of character assassination greater than the fear of death itself" - the theme of the film.
I think it's fab that Melania has struck out on her own, spurning the titty bar economy and becoming the first Slovenian woman ever to break the link between true luv and cold hard cash - even if she underestimates the reach of the Mail's muckraking abilities. Please keep me posted of any developments at www.television.si
Indeed the photographic record appears to chart the poser's progress from vaguely feely youth to the definitely touchy litigant of today. By analysing the number of Melania's children in conjunction with standardised statistical formulae, Slovenian sex experts calculate that Melania and King McDonald have exchanged bodily fluids a total of once.
more love poetry:
slovenia's strained relations with down there
https://is.gd/ZvG0zo
uptight, jealous, and weird:
various slovenian bedtime tales
https://is.gd/N3tWZE
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LONGEST STRETCH OF 2015 CONFIRMED
IN YEAR'S MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD CASE
Slovenia's longest prison sentence of 2015, confirmed in April 2016, followed the savage murder of Jasmine Trčko, who took a lonely two hours to die from her wounds in an empty bar 10km outside Ptuj.
For stabbing the university student waitress an estimated 41 times at her workplace Matjaž Debeljak, 31, received 26 years. The maximum is 30.
It is believed unrequited love culminated in a rage attack on the eve of an otherwise unremarkable assailant's 31st birthday. As he readily admitted the crime, the public don't need to know his thinking. He is pictured pleading guilty, Slovenian-style.
NPOSIALPU's focus following the Debeljak arrest (nine hours later; his name translates as "the beefy/thick guy") was drawn to reader comments in people's tabloid Slovenske Novice.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/PSpXKDvRerb
From the slow trickle of facts emerging it now seems the weapon was a knife obtained from the bar, which was owned by friend of the attacker, and that it was a backstabbing - all features typical of the asexual tensions of this region. Like you, I am also still available!
So birthday or no birthday, local sexpectations remain far from satisfied on both sides, with histrionically disproportionate, but dispassionate, crimes of passion something of a neighbourhood risk.
related cold stories
https://is.gd/PylUxL
LONGEST STRETCH OF 2015 CONFIRMED
IN YEAR'S MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD CASE
Slovenia's longest prison sentence of 2015, confirmed in April 2016, followed the savage murder of Jasmine Trčko, who took a lonely two hours to die from her wounds in an empty bar 10km outside Ptuj.
For stabbing the university student waitress an estimated 41 times at her workplace Matjaž Debeljak, 31, received 26 years. The maximum is 30.
It is believed unrequited love culminated in a rage attack on the eve of an otherwise unremarkable assailant's 31st birthday. As he readily admitted the crime, the public don't need to know his thinking. He is pictured pleading guilty, Slovenian-style.
NPOSIALPU's focus following the Debeljak arrest (nine hours later; his name translates as "the beefy/thick guy") was drawn to reader comments in people's tabloid Slovenske Novice.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/PSpXKDvRerb
From the slow trickle of facts emerging it now seems the weapon was a knife obtained from the bar, which was owned by friend of the attacker, and that it was a backstabbing - all features typical of the asexual tensions of this region. Like you, I am also still available!
So birthday or no birthday, local sexpectations remain far from satisfied on both sides, with histrionically disproportionate, but dispassionate, crimes of passion something of a neighbourhood risk.
related cold stories
https://is.gd/PylUxL
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PAYOFF TO MECCA?
As the media is pursued for millions in damages by a pissed off Mrs Trump, she should be grateful at least that she wasn't pissed on in her bed by a tramp.
Are you perhaps a naive airhead with a pushy parent and no cellulite yet? Things have come along a ways since Eric Morley rounded up his first bathing beauties. Using your charms to inflate the marketing appeal of the superwealthy could cost you an arm and a leg.
PAYOFF TO MECCA?
As the media is pursued for millions in damages by a pissed off Mrs Trump, she should be grateful at least that she wasn't pissed on in her bed by a tramp.
Are you perhaps a naive airhead with a pushy parent and no cellulite yet? Things have come along a ways since Eric Morley rounded up his first bathing beauties. Using your charms to inflate the marketing appeal of the superwealthy could cost you an arm and a leg.
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SYNESTHETIC AIR ON A G-SPOT
This evening's Avant Garde Mix celebrates chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj's creation of an olfactory interpretation of the casual elegance of Slovenia's most out-of-date town, with a streamlined, masculine and decidedly unique composition.
Filthy fatty fragrances fascinate me. Chic and comfortable, their warm, sensual stench accelerates to the vertex with the sovereignty of a dynamically dominant smell system. It can brutally attack but never loses focus as the insanely racy Dino of our modern age. It easily captured my heart by storm.
The world that the chicken factory has created for Ptuj's residents and visitors combines locally sourced air with noble raw materials like cloaca vapours plus other surprise ingredients such as halal mercaptan, butt acid, and hens' toenails.
Let your chicken soul fly free with Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratories' Recently-Angelic Kodelaism Avant Garde Mix, reflecting this evening's distribution of a consistently detailed and finely textured municipal ming, satisfyingly wide and deep with a hint of sweetness.
Forget the big picture and throw all your cares to the rendering-enhanced 2 m/s northeasterly wind. The image conjured is a godfearing, hungover small-town feel, with little respect, dignity or common sense.
Recreate our Town Smell synesthetically over the internet! To enjoy the recently-angelic kodelaism avant garde mix from PPM Labs, just set these two going...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomRd8kfGVg
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E
ptuj weather of the past
https://is.gd/68NpXT
the ptuj of 2005 and now
www.ptuj.co.uk
the mystery of kodelaism
www.rum.si
SYNESTHETIC AIR ON A G-SPOT
This evening's Avant Garde Mix celebrates chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj's creation of an olfactory interpretation of the casual elegance of Slovenia's most out-of-date town, with a streamlined, masculine and decidedly unique composition.
Filthy fatty fragrances fascinate me. Chic and comfortable, their warm, sensual stench accelerates to the vertex with the sovereignty of a dynamically dominant smell system. It can brutally attack but never loses focus as the insanely racy Dino of our modern age. It easily captured my heart by storm.
The world that the chicken factory has created for Ptuj's residents and visitors combines locally sourced air with noble raw materials like cloaca vapours plus other surprise ingredients such as halal mercaptan, butt acid, and hens' toenails.
Let your chicken soul fly free with Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratories' Recently-Angelic Kodelaism Avant Garde Mix, reflecting this evening's distribution of a consistently detailed and finely textured municipal ming, satisfyingly wide and deep with a hint of sweetness.
Forget the big picture and throw all your cares to the rendering-enhanced 2 m/s northeasterly wind. The image conjured is a godfearing, hungover small-town feel, with little respect, dignity or common sense.
Recreate our Town Smell synesthetically over the internet! To enjoy the recently-angelic kodelaism avant garde mix from PPM Labs, just set these two going...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomRd8kfGVg
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40kIC8qa4E
ptuj weather of the past
https://is.gd/68NpXT
the ptuj of 2005 and now
www.ptuj.co.uk
the mystery of kodelaism
www.rum.si
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CAR
Today we proudly present you about cars of Slovenia. Cars are way invented, to get to different places where we want to go out of here. Car will also have the different colours, styles, models, names. As well marks. Briefly, car takes a form of a rectangular box, it is with wheels on corners. After this interesting machine has been fed, you jump inside the box as it rolls away. As you glide along it is enabled look out from a window and give the cheery wave.
Now we are proceeding to look at how we are driving car in the framework of transportation system. Culture, strategy, strength, tactics, and knowledge all contribute to our rich heritage driving in Slovenia. Then add blind luck. Use hand on steering wheel and handbrake to stop and turn.
Go in car! Most Slovenian journeys on car end without damage. Cars are a real priority, the only question is, whose car has the most? Probably is http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/styles/s_1280_1024/public/2012/09/19/franc_rode-igor_genrecer.jpg?itok=awVqTTfs
Lesser mortals are being always reminded of this if we go against a zebra crossing. It is enough, let us say this is not black and white. Apart from that, Slovenia is very bicycle-friendly. Every car has a tablet with its name, unique to no other!
And so we came to the rear end. The popular Slovenian car is both the paradigm and paradox - very attractive on the one hand, but thing we want to finish using as quickly as possible.
nposialpu's car archive
https://is.gd/qRRuO2
CAR
Today we proudly present you about cars of Slovenia. Cars are way invented, to get to different places where we want to go out of here. Car will also have the different colours, styles, models, names. As well marks. Briefly, car takes a form of a rectangular box, it is with wheels on corners. After this interesting machine has been fed, you jump inside the box as it rolls away. As you glide along it is enabled look out from a window and give the cheery wave.
Now we are proceeding to look at how we are driving car in the framework of transportation system. Culture, strategy, strength, tactics, and knowledge all contribute to our rich heritage driving in Slovenia. Then add blind luck. Use hand on steering wheel and handbrake to stop and turn.
Go in car! Most Slovenian journeys on car end without damage. Cars are a real priority, the only question is, whose car has the most? Probably is http://www.slovenskenovice.si/sites/slovenskenovice.si/files/styles/s_1280_1024/public/2012/09/19/franc_rode-igor_genrecer.jpg?itok=awVqTTfs
Lesser mortals are being always reminded of this if we go against a zebra crossing. It is enough, let us say this is not black and white. Apart from that, Slovenia is very bicycle-friendly. Every car has a tablet with its name, unique to no other!
And so we came to the rear end. The popular Slovenian car is both the paradigm and paradox - very attractive on the one hand, but thing we want to finish using as quickly as possible.
nposialpu's car archive
https://is.gd/qRRuO2
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arts review
ODE TO E.R.
Borders are durrr.
Nations are too.
Not every neighbour
Is a twat. But a few...
In a idea which could spiral across Europe, Slovenia could be introducing language exams at its frontier entry points.
Anyone entering Slovenia - citizens included - will have to sit a three-hour written grammar test surveilled and secured against cheating by heavily armed border cops drinking high strength coffee.
Special bureaucratic currency measures or a tenfold increase in petrol prices could be used to panic everyone into exiting the country at least once, for some short-term advantage.
Would-be Slovenians could then be required to re-enter by a deadline or lose the right to take the compulsory re-entry exam. Meaning Slovenia-II can be restarted fresh over, with a linguistically pure population, according to project organisers SloveniEmpty2020.
nposialpu's fence archive
https://is.gd/2mE7IP
ODE TO E.R.
Borders are durrr.
Nations are too.
Not every neighbour
Is a twat. But a few...
In a idea which could spiral across Europe, Slovenia could be introducing language exams at its frontier entry points.
Anyone entering Slovenia - citizens included - will have to sit a three-hour written grammar test surveilled and secured against cheating by heavily armed border cops drinking high strength coffee.
Special bureaucratic currency measures or a tenfold increase in petrol prices could be used to panic everyone into exiting the country at least once, for some short-term advantage.
Would-be Slovenians could then be required to re-enter by a deadline or lose the right to take the compulsory re-entry exam. Meaning Slovenia-II can be restarted fresh over, with a linguistically pure population, according to project organisers SloveniEmpty2020.
nposialpu's fence archive
https://is.gd/2mE7IP
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FINANCE MINISTER IS A QUITTER
Emperor Miro's right hand man has scuttled himself, as on the 3366th day of its completely smooth non-operation www.bank.si - which doesn't even speak Ptujščina - was unaffected again!
Experts on dealing with all the out-groups in Slovenia's oldest and therefore least inexperienced town know very well that German tourists are easily led like a herd with a raised arm movement.
They are therefore different to the chickens, which are kicked or frightened into compliance.
You can't have sex with either of those, and neither German tourists nor chickens can qualify to run NLB as they can't speak Ljubcityščina.
But Ptuj has no third plan for any other out-groups - such as the one to which www.bank.si belongs. It exists in a realm outwith all expert comprehension, being non-EU-funded and non-Slovenian-speaking, and so belongs neither to the art of the nation nor its economics.
For simplicity's sake these out-groups remain classified by the tobalcoholocal economy as gay, woman-chasing, nigger-loving, devil-worshipping, gypsy junkie jewish pedophile foreign spies who inexplicably live in a house; a resource to be exploited as slaves by Slovenians for the national gain, mainly for their ability to not speak any of the above languages.
Small wonder boys and girls are leaving the Podlehnikščina-speaking and Gerečja Vaščina-speaking areas and their traditional drunken accidents with agricultural machinery behind ...for a safer and profitable career in university economics.
slovenia's economics miracles
https://is.gd/TR2OMA
FINANCE MINISTER IS A QUITTER
Emperor Miro's right hand man has scuttled himself, as on the 3366th day of its completely smooth non-operation www.bank.si - which doesn't even speak Ptujščina - was unaffected again!
Experts on dealing with all the out-groups in Slovenia's oldest and therefore least inexperienced town know very well that German tourists are easily led like a herd with a raised arm movement.
They are therefore different to the chickens, which are kicked or frightened into compliance.
You can't have sex with either of those, and neither German tourists nor chickens can qualify to run NLB as they can't speak Ljubcityščina.
But Ptuj has no third plan for any other out-groups - such as the one to which www.bank.si belongs. It exists in a realm outwith all expert comprehension, being non-EU-funded and non-Slovenian-speaking, and so belongs neither to the art of the nation nor its economics.
For simplicity's sake these out-groups remain classified by the tobalcoholocal economy as gay, woman-chasing, nigger-loving, devil-worshipping, gypsy junkie jewish pedophile foreign spies who inexplicably live in a house; a resource to be exploited as slaves by Slovenians for the national gain, mainly for their ability to not speak any of the above languages.
Small wonder boys and girls are leaving the Podlehnikščina-speaking and Gerečja Vaščina-speaking areas and their traditional drunken accidents with agricultural machinery behind ...for a safer and profitable career in university economics.
slovenia's economics miracles
https://is.gd/TR2OMA
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smell shareholders strike back
FEDS RAID CENTRAL BANK!
Offices of the Governor of Slovenia's Central Bank, and of the largest commercial bank NLB were amongst those raided on the legal initiatives of the Panslovenian Shareholders' Association.
The association points to changes to the banking act under the reign of Alenka the Legs, reporting that the EU wanted NLB to look rubbish enough to trigger a wipeout of subordinated bondholders.
As they toured the fleshpots of Belgium, PM Bratušek and FinMin Čufer were persuaded by Brussels - and in turn prodded the central bank governor and auditors - to keep refining their accounting methodologies until NLB looked crap enough.
The result, says VZMD, was a deliberate undervaluation of NLB amounting to over $1bn euros: "just enough" to trigger a swathe of junior bondholders getting ripped off under otherwise unnecessary new legislation, in a parade of dodgy manoeuvres which was supposed to save six of Slovenia's wonky banks after some builders and the Vatican did a flit.
According to the writ, NLB had surplus capital of €835 million as of 30 September 2013, the same day that governor Jazbec’s central bank said NLB was €318 million in the red.
Among the quantitatively-eased was Ptuj's chicken factory man's symbiotic banking spawn Probanka. https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/CuzZqLvGaB2
Many of the stricken bondholders invested in Probanka because of previous connections with Perutnina Ptuj, the branding genius behind our Town Smell.
By 2005 Slovenian advertising agencies had dropped the ball when it came to telling the world about the health and relaxation benefits of Ptuj's Smell.
Then, almost overnight, Ptuj's image was transformed with the birth of www.ptuj.co.uk - and the new look for our municipal ming has now celebrated over ten years at the top of English language searches with words like PP, Perutnina Ptuj, pišcanci, pišcancje, puranje meso, mesni izdelki, trajne klobase, šunke, hrenovke, paštete, Poli, Jata, klobasni izdelki, perutninarstvo, prosta reja, piknik, poli maraton, quinoline, rendering, arsenic, Perutnina, Ptuj, vino, Pepe, Poli, Poli s sirom, perutninarstvo, vinarstvo, vinska, ptujska klet, ocenjevane mesa, Farma Draženci, panirani, peceni izdelki, recepti, gostinstvo, konzerve, laški rizling, zeleni silvanec, traminec, narezki wellness, veterinarska ambulanta, genetsko nespremenjene surovine, and kolesarski klub.
As part owners of the aroma, the nearest any of the junior bondholders live is on a suburban hill outside Ptuj - and so they do not have to worry about any dense plume of molecules enveloping Slovenia's oldest town, which is named after its successful chicken factory.
Faced with a Greece-style bailout, the Bratušek government believed the victims' 257m euro sacrifice was worthwhile, to avoid Slovenia's darkest fear - being shown what to do by foreigners.
www.bank.si was unaffected by the dispute.
ptuj weather
1800 July 7 2016 - hot and sunny with poultry factory waste hangin' raand in the air.
ptuj weather archive
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20weather
nposialpu's banking records
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20nlb
creative accounting of 2013
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/P4csz8QcN3V
tales from the reign of alenka the legs
https://is.gd/9F7Vw4
FEDS RAID CENTRAL BANK!
Offices of the Governor of Slovenia's Central Bank, and of the largest commercial bank NLB were amongst those raided on the legal initiatives of the Panslovenian Shareholders' Association.
The association points to changes to the banking act under the reign of Alenka the Legs, reporting that the EU wanted NLB to look rubbish enough to trigger a wipeout of subordinated bondholders.
As they toured the fleshpots of Belgium, PM Bratušek and FinMin Čufer were persuaded by Brussels - and in turn prodded the central bank governor and auditors - to keep refining their accounting methodologies until NLB looked crap enough.
The result, says VZMD, was a deliberate undervaluation of NLB amounting to over $1bn euros: "just enough" to trigger a swathe of junior bondholders getting ripped off under otherwise unnecessary new legislation, in a parade of dodgy manoeuvres which was supposed to save six of Slovenia's wonky banks after some builders and the Vatican did a flit.
According to the writ, NLB had surplus capital of €835 million as of 30 September 2013, the same day that governor Jazbec’s central bank said NLB was €318 million in the red.
Among the quantitatively-eased was Ptuj's chicken factory man's symbiotic banking spawn Probanka. https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/CuzZqLvGaB2
Many of the stricken bondholders invested in Probanka because of previous connections with Perutnina Ptuj, the branding genius behind our Town Smell.
By 2005 Slovenian advertising agencies had dropped the ball when it came to telling the world about the health and relaxation benefits of Ptuj's Smell.
Then, almost overnight, Ptuj's image was transformed with the birth of www.ptuj.co.uk - and the new look for our municipal ming has now celebrated over ten years at the top of English language searches with words like PP, Perutnina Ptuj, pišcanci, pišcancje, puranje meso, mesni izdelki, trajne klobase, šunke, hrenovke, paštete, Poli, Jata, klobasni izdelki, perutninarstvo, prosta reja, piknik, poli maraton, quinoline, rendering, arsenic, Perutnina, Ptuj, vino, Pepe, Poli, Poli s sirom, perutninarstvo, vinarstvo, vinska, ptujska klet, ocenjevane mesa, Farma Draženci, panirani, peceni izdelki, recepti, gostinstvo, konzerve, laški rizling, zeleni silvanec, traminec, narezki wellness, veterinarska ambulanta, genetsko nespremenjene surovine, and kolesarski klub.
As part owners of the aroma, the nearest any of the junior bondholders live is on a suburban hill outside Ptuj - and so they do not have to worry about any dense plume of molecules enveloping Slovenia's oldest town, which is named after its successful chicken factory.
Faced with a Greece-style bailout, the Bratušek government believed the victims' 257m euro sacrifice was worthwhile, to avoid Slovenia's darkest fear - being shown what to do by foreigners.
www.bank.si was unaffected by the dispute.
ptuj weather
1800 July 7 2016 - hot and sunny with poultry factory waste hangin' raand in the air.
ptuj weather archive
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20weather
nposialpu's banking records
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20nlb
creative accounting of 2013
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/P4csz8QcN3V
tales from the reign of alenka the legs
https://is.gd/9F7Vw4
- Invest to Slovenija
investo.si
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ptuj weather
SUMMEROMA
Ptuj is like BHS
Green takeover?
It failed smell test.
Result in each:
One does too well,
The rest dumped on
With tricky smell.
Air as sour
As Brexit vote,
Across the water
Trump doth float.
Across the land,
Weather weird:
Think Miliband
With a ginger beard.
PLUS! special release from ppm labs
Ptuj Poultry Mashup Laboratories is pleased to present another funkysoulful virtual Ptuj weather representation.
Tonight's Shola Ama Black Kodela Dogging Mix requires you to go wild and start these two Youtubes simultaneously so that you can get a synesthesic approximation of current atmospheric conditions in Ptuj.
Play in tab one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OPQGIl_Jzs
Play in tab two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYnJvE1uIg
Enjoy!
ptuj weather archive
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
SUMMEROMA
Ptuj is like BHS
Green takeover?
It failed smell test.
Result in each:
One does too well,
The rest dumped on
With tricky smell.
Air as sour
As Brexit vote,
Across the water
Trump doth float.
Across the land,
Weather weird:
Think Miliband
With a ginger beard.
PLUS! special release from ppm labs
Ptuj Poultry Mashup Laboratories is pleased to present another funkysoulful virtual Ptuj weather representation.
Tonight's Shola Ama Black Kodela Dogging Mix requires you to go wild and start these two Youtubes simultaneously so that you can get a synesthesic approximation of current atmospheric conditions in Ptuj.
Play in tab one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OPQGIl_Jzs
Play in tab two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knYnJvE1uIg
Enjoy!
ptuj weather archive
https://is.gd/9BGuzd
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torches of free dumb
DOWT OVER EUROPE
How many voted for the Brexit on the basis that the EU was coming between them and menthol cigarettes?
This page from the leave campaign's site really shines with sophisticated arguments intended more for the slaves of Superkings than those of St Moritz.
Living amidst the confident carcinogenicity of Slovenia I can certify that these are the type of rights those inclined to die of ignorance for their country can easily generalise to non-menthol cigarettes.
But this EU referendum's not in Slovenia. Where, in these enlightened days, would you go trawling for votes with denominators of commonness as low as smoking?
Well, among UKIP voters of course. But that's no help. Voters where? The answer seemed to be Scotland.
Farage brazenly tried to bribe the Scots with promises of allowing smoking in pubs and raising the drink-driving limit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/nigel-farage-ill-use-holyrood-election-as-springboard-for-brexit/ Your racial profilers forgot to add in the subsidised deep fried Mars Bar and curly chips every day at school too, Nigel.
So in the PR non-war on non-drugs, exploiting the psychological vectors of addiction for political purposes can be a weapon in your mass-manipulatory armoury.
It didn't work, or not enough, as the canny Scots - who invented life insurance besides the telephone and www.television.si - voted to remain in the EU in every single counting area.
With foaming nationalists and a disintegrating muddle to the south, and a guttural, hard to comprehend language suitable for windy conditions, Scotland's is in some ways a 1991 Yugo-to-Slovenia-style situation, with less smoking.
auld lung sign
Scotland's cigarette consumption per head may be the highest in the UK, but is less than 1000/year, while team Slovenia is puffing ahead with between 2000 and 3500 tabs per capita for 2014, the highest on the map.
http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/topic/cigarette-use-globally/#map-popup-consumption-4
With the deteriorating weather scenario, freedom is becoming ever-more important for the disadvantaged, and of course having a quarter of your deaths from something avoidable is better for the economy than those people having to die of something anyway. And what more disadvantaged and EU-dependent person is there than the tobacco habituee?
So let's have a new Auld Alliance, with cheap tabs shared freely between the two nations.
Scots can learn how to sustain a national health insurance system with fags at 3 euros a pack, while Slovenia pumps CO2 into Scotland's empty oil wells.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/V8HKmb2p95G
Ms Sturgeon shall be crowned Queen of Slovenia, while the Trump dynasty takes over the shogunate at Edinburgh Castle.
glossary
A dowt, apparently, is a Scottish dog-end
DOWT OVER EUROPE
How many voted for the Brexit on the basis that the EU was coming between them and menthol cigarettes?
This page from the leave campaign's site really shines with sophisticated arguments intended more for the slaves of Superkings than those of St Moritz.
Living amidst the confident carcinogenicity of Slovenia I can certify that these are the type of rights those inclined to die of ignorance for their country can easily generalise to non-menthol cigarettes.
But this EU referendum's not in Slovenia. Where, in these enlightened days, would you go trawling for votes with denominators of commonness as low as smoking?
Well, among UKIP voters of course. But that's no help. Voters where? The answer seemed to be Scotland.
Farage brazenly tried to bribe the Scots with promises of allowing smoking in pubs and raising the drink-driving limit http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/nigel-farage-ill-use-holyrood-election-as-springboard-for-brexit/ Your racial profilers forgot to add in the subsidised deep fried Mars Bar and curly chips every day at school too, Nigel.
So in the PR non-war on non-drugs, exploiting the psychological vectors of addiction for political purposes can be a weapon in your mass-manipulatory armoury.
It didn't work, or not enough, as the canny Scots - who invented life insurance besides the telephone and www.television.si - voted to remain in the EU in every single counting area.
With foaming nationalists and a disintegrating muddle to the south, and a guttural, hard to comprehend language suitable for windy conditions, Scotland's is in some ways a 1991 Yugo-to-Slovenia-style situation, with less smoking.
auld lung sign
Scotland's cigarette consumption per head may be the highest in the UK, but is less than 1000/year, while team Slovenia is puffing ahead with between 2000 and 3500 tabs per capita for 2014, the highest on the map.
http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/topic/cigarette-use-globally/#map-popup-consumption-4
With the deteriorating weather scenario, freedom is becoming ever-more important for the disadvantaged, and of course having a quarter of your deaths from something avoidable is better for the economy than those people having to die of something anyway. And what more disadvantaged and EU-dependent person is there than the tobacco habituee?
So let's have a new Auld Alliance, with cheap tabs shared freely between the two nations.
Scots can learn how to sustain a national health insurance system with fags at 3 euros a pack, while Slovenia pumps CO2 into Scotland's empty oil wells.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/V8HKmb2p95G
Ms Sturgeon shall be crowned Queen of Slovenia, while the Trump dynasty takes over the shogunate at Edinburgh Castle.
glossary
A dowt, apparently, is a Scottish dog-end
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foot-shooting country folk
Na referendumu o tem, ali naj zapustijo EU, najvišji glas v korist pustiti prihaja iz območij, ki dobi večino sredstev iz EU. https://next.ft.com/content/9b881406-1b46-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122
previously in Cornwall
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XVLGkdhKekr
Na referendumu o tem, ali naj zapustijo EU, najvišji glas v korist pustiti prihaja iz območij, ki dobi večino sredstev iz EU. https://next.ft.com/content/9b881406-1b46-11e6-b286-cddde55ca122
previously in Cornwall
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XVLGkdhKekr
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"We noted that recognition of the risks of industrial chemicals to brain development has historically needed decades of research and scrutiny, as shown in the cases of lead and methylmercury. In most cases, discovery began with clinical diagnosis of poisoning in workers and episodes of high-dose exposure. More sophisticated epidemiological studies typically began only much later. Results from such studies documented developmental neurotoxicity at much lower exposure levels than had previously been thought to be safe. Thus, recognition of widespread subclinical toxicity often did not occur until decades after the initial evidence of neurotoxicity. A recurring theme was that early warnings of subclinical neurotoxicity were often ignored or even dismissed."
Dr Philippe Grandjean, MD and Philip J Landrigan, MD
Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity
Lancet Volume 13, No. 3, p330–338, March 2014
Dr Philippe Grandjean, MD and Philip J Landrigan, MD
Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity
Lancet Volume 13, No. 3, p330–338, March 2014
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 12:
ENORMOUS GROWTH IN PAN EUROPEAN UNITY
Bosnian sex god Šeki Princ has lived in Germany and not released much material other than sperm for the last few years, as according to him there is no money in music - which he still does for love.
Satisfying rich but lonely Germans with his 11.023622047244094488188976377953-inch penis is his true vocation and his main means of support, according to an imminent autobiography...according to people's tabloid Slovenske Novice and similar people's tabloids all over the Balkans.
Šeki is shown here in an advermusical for the apartment he bought.
Not sure about that garden fence. But now he's got this fancy kitchen, PG Tips should snap up this catchy toon for an ad campaign - and bring relief to these lands of terrible tea.
It's hard to see how showbiz acumen like this has foundered, but he is a hero in his home village of Fis.
Otherwise Bosnia is not a member in the European Union.
all the tales of the tame frontier
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
ENORMOUS GROWTH IN PAN EUROPEAN UNITY
Bosnian sex god Šeki Princ has lived in Germany and not released much material other than sperm for the last few years, as according to him there is no money in music - which he still does for love.
Satisfying rich but lonely Germans with his 11.023622047244094488188976377953-inch penis is his true vocation and his main means of support, according to an imminent autobiography...according to people's tabloid Slovenske Novice and similar people's tabloids all over the Balkans.
Šeki is shown here in an advermusical for the apartment he bought.
Not sure about that garden fence. But now he's got this fancy kitchen, PG Tips should snap up this catchy toon for an ad campaign - and bring relief to these lands of terrible tea.
It's hard to see how showbiz acumen like this has foundered, but he is a hero in his home village of Fis.
Otherwise Bosnia is not a member in the European Union.
all the tales of the tame frontier
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
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branding news
MARKETS, STERLING, RISE, AFTER RACIST MURDER
The lone wolf formerly known as Thomas Mair relaunched himself at his first court appearance, giving his name as Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.
The picture that is emerging is of a brainwashed immigrant terrorist sleeper originally from Scotland. Many Scots in England are economic migrants and not real refugees from the remote, desolate, once oil-rich, lawless nation.
There is "not a chance" he is racist - he is "non-political", according to Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's brother, while his half-brother, who is of mixed race, says they get on fine, and the man accused of repeatedly stabbing and shooting the defenceless, petite MP mother of two Jo Cox in a town centre in broad daylight "wouldn't hurt a fly".
He is, by all accounts, a nice quiet chap who fetches his mum's shopping and does people's gardens for free.
Family friend Rose Surman, 61, described the knife, bomb, and gun afficionado as a "mild-mannered man". Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's policies are less xenophobic and right-wing than Slovenia's national policies - as he spent some of his time volunteering teaching his language to Asian and east European immigrants. "He's never been racist, I never had a racist comment, I've never seen him angry, never seen him swear," said Rose.
Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain was described to an FBI informant by his ally the former BNP leader as a "loser on the dole", who came to a meeting in London where the Simon Cowells of Aryan supremacy discussed plans to hoover up more money for death and freedom from foreigners - from international sales to foreigners all over Europe of the type of sounds people who like death and freedom from foreigners like.
Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain was on the radar, in the US at least. One theory is that he became radicalised by being Scottish, growing up living with his grandmother, and not having a girlfriend.
Psychologists will want to consider whether Death to traitors, freedom for Britain gradually lost the will to resist after being conditioned into an willing assassin by constant exposure to Nigel Farage on tv.
It is not known if Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's father was a Sassenach-hating abusive alcoholic or a nurturing, peace-loving hippy. Death's opinions on whether Scotland should remain in Britain if Britain remains in Europe or whether Scotland could remain in Europe if Britain leaves, and which traitors it would be necessary to kill in each scenario, remain under construction.
After recent uncertainty, stocks and sterling rallied on reaction to the outrage, as markets saw the public remembering which brands people like Death prefer, and perhaps querying the ornamental hermit-like allure of a UK all hidden away, a mysterious law unto itself like Slovenia or somewhere. www.aaa.si And Slovenia's in the EU...!
nposialpu's eu archive
https://is.gd/1bggSC
MARKETS, STERLING, RISE, AFTER RACIST MURDER
The lone wolf formerly known as Thomas Mair relaunched himself at his first court appearance, giving his name as Death to traitors, freedom for Britain.
The picture that is emerging is of a brainwashed immigrant terrorist sleeper originally from Scotland. Many Scots in England are economic migrants and not real refugees from the remote, desolate, once oil-rich, lawless nation.
There is "not a chance" he is racist - he is "non-political", according to Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's brother, while his half-brother, who is of mixed race, says they get on fine, and the man accused of repeatedly stabbing and shooting the defenceless, petite MP mother of two Jo Cox in a town centre in broad daylight "wouldn't hurt a fly".
He is, by all accounts, a nice quiet chap who fetches his mum's shopping and does people's gardens for free.
Family friend Rose Surman, 61, described the knife, bomb, and gun afficionado as a "mild-mannered man". Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's policies are less xenophobic and right-wing than Slovenia's national policies - as he spent some of his time volunteering teaching his language to Asian and east European immigrants. "He's never been racist, I never had a racist comment, I've never seen him angry, never seen him swear," said Rose.
Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain was described to an FBI informant by his ally the former BNP leader as a "loser on the dole", who came to a meeting in London where the Simon Cowells of Aryan supremacy discussed plans to hoover up more money for death and freedom from foreigners - from international sales to foreigners all over Europe of the type of sounds people who like death and freedom from foreigners like.
Mr Death to traitors, freedom for Britain was on the radar, in the US at least. One theory is that he became radicalised by being Scottish, growing up living with his grandmother, and not having a girlfriend.
Psychologists will want to consider whether Death to traitors, freedom for Britain gradually lost the will to resist after being conditioned into an willing assassin by constant exposure to Nigel Farage on tv.
It is not known if Death to traitors, freedom for Britain's father was a Sassenach-hating abusive alcoholic or a nurturing, peace-loving hippy. Death's opinions on whether Scotland should remain in Britain if Britain remains in Europe or whether Scotland could remain in Europe if Britain leaves, and which traitors it would be necessary to kill in each scenario, remain under construction.
After recent uncertainty, stocks and sterling rallied on reaction to the outrage, as markets saw the public remembering which brands people like Death prefer, and perhaps querying the ornamental hermit-like allure of a UK all hidden away, a mysterious law unto itself like Slovenia or somewhere. www.aaa.si And Slovenia's in the EU...!
nposialpu's eu archive
https://is.gd/1bggSC
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state monopolies
SOLO POWER
Five kilowatts' worth of photovoltaic panels on the roof of a Greensboro church cost an environmental group $60,000 in fines for competing with the state energy monopolist, worth $54.4 billion.
Duke Energy responds by whining that people paying third parties for energy makes the grid more expensive for everyone else. But of course most people can never expect to generate enough to leave the grid, unless the price of the cells falls through the floor.
The Greensboro panels were installed by NC WARN, a non-profit environmental group, to provoke a test case over Duke's monopoly.
In their support for an obviously tired economic model Duke's PR department may have succeeded in frightening some customers.
But in their fearmongering over increased costs for the left-behinds, Duke forgot to explain why folks who leave the grid should go on paying for something they don't have or need.
And presumably the church, which still relies on Duke's nukes and fossil fools for most of their electricity, pays a full fixed charge "for the network" like everyone else. Meanwhile customers of third-party solar enjoy the same consumer protections as anyone else.
So Duke's arguments can be safely ignored by unbiased legislators. What's needed is law to prevent any unpleasant situations which might arise with solar contracts when property changes hands.
SOLO POWER
Five kilowatts' worth of photovoltaic panels on the roof of a Greensboro church cost an environmental group $60,000 in fines for competing with the state energy monopolist, worth $54.4 billion.
Duke Energy responds by whining that people paying third parties for energy makes the grid more expensive for everyone else. But of course most people can never expect to generate enough to leave the grid, unless the price of the cells falls through the floor.
The Greensboro panels were installed by NC WARN, a non-profit environmental group, to provoke a test case over Duke's monopoly.
In their support for an obviously tired economic model Duke's PR department may have succeeded in frightening some customers.
But in their fearmongering over increased costs for the left-behinds, Duke forgot to explain why folks who leave the grid should go on paying for something they don't have or need.
And presumably the church, which still relies on Duke's nukes and fossil fools for most of their electricity, pays a full fixed charge "for the network" like everyone else. Meanwhile customers of third-party solar enjoy the same consumer protections as anyone else.
So Duke's arguments can be safely ignored by unbiased legislators. What's needed is law to prevent any unpleasant situations which might arise with solar contracts when property changes hands.
Solar Battle Continues
In North Carolina As Nonprofit Fights
Duke Energy
theenergycollective.com
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status anxiety
This is a very neat article. So, well-educated girls, is this the kind of rich older guy you would like to marry?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2850043/Schnackenberg.pdf
nposialpu's educashin archive
https://is.gd/EPDoSv
This is a very neat article. So, well-educated girls, is this the kind of rich older guy you would like to marry?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2850043/Schnackenberg.pdf
nposialpu's educashin archive
https://is.gd/EPDoSv
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as unconcentrated solar efficiency record jumps 44%
SUNNY SIDE OF ALPS INSISTS:
WE'RE GONNA BURN THIS COAL ANYWAY
With almost five times Slovenia's area and population and a similar population density, Portugal ran entirely without fossil fuel generation for four days.
Slovenia didn't.
But it did have a sausage on a paper plate.
new solar record
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/unsw-researchers-break-solar-efficiency-record-for-unfocused-sunlight-20160517-gowsgx.html
nposialpu's TEŠ6 archive
https://is.gd/EPDoSv
nposialpu's sausage on a paper plate archive
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112569714916753901063/s/sausage%20on%20a%20paper%20plate%20slovenia
SUNNY SIDE OF ALPS INSISTS:
WE'RE GONNA BURN THIS COAL ANYWAY
With almost five times Slovenia's area and population and a similar population density, Portugal ran entirely without fossil fuel generation for four days.
Slovenia didn't.
But it did have a sausage on a paper plate.
new solar record
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/unsw-researchers-break-solar-efficiency-record-for-unfocused-sunlight-20160517-gowsgx.html
nposialpu's TEŠ6 archive
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nposialpu's sausage on a paper plate archive
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regional power
Only 36% of the area of Croatia, and half as populous, Slovenia has 7.5 times Croatia's installed solar capacity.
Slovenia ranks 9th in the EU for solar power production per capita.
https://www.solarpanel.guide/countries-use-solar-panels/
http://morelesscompare.com/countries/croatia-vs-slovenia/
http://one-europe.info/eurographics/solar-power-in-a-proportional-map
Only 36% of the area of Croatia, and half as populous, Slovenia has 7.5 times Croatia's installed solar capacity.
Slovenia ranks 9th in the EU for solar power production per capita.
https://www.solarpanel.guide/countries-use-solar-panels/
http://morelesscompare.com/countries/croatia-vs-slovenia/
http://one-europe.info/eurographics/solar-power-in-a-proportional-map
Which countries have
the most solar panels in 2016?
solarpanel.guide
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ptuj weather
CANNED KODELAPHONE GOES INTO ACTION
1930hrs - broth of breath of death.
After a good run of clear days of low or no Town Smell, Ptuj was tonight hit by a slowly swirling stewphoon of disembowelled and dismantled dregs.
In its continuing quest for aural simulation, Ptuj Poultry Mashup Laboratories has another trans-synthetic Kodela weather mashup standing ready on the pad.
To initiate launch simply start these two Youtubes in separate tabs or windows as simultaneously as possible.
fancy groovy frizzy airy kodela ft. iggy azalea mix
add
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w
to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrF5XS3iS9o
As with previous mashuppery from PPM Labs, Kodela represents the additional weather burden of poultry producer Perutnina Ptuj, with the town's background activities (everything except making chicken) assuming a receptive, female role.
more finger-lickin' good mashups from ppm labs
https://plus.google.com/b/112569714916753901063/s/%22PPM%20LABS%22
contact ppm labs
http://www.afl.si/art
CANNED KODELAPHONE GOES INTO ACTION
1930hrs - broth of breath of death.
After a good run of clear days of low or no Town Smell, Ptuj was tonight hit by a slowly swirling stewphoon of disembowelled and dismantled dregs.
In its continuing quest for aural simulation, Ptuj Poultry Mashup Laboratories has another trans-synthetic Kodela weather mashup standing ready on the pad.
To initiate launch simply start these two Youtubes in separate tabs or windows as simultaneously as possible.
fancy groovy frizzy airy kodela ft. iggy azalea mix
add
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w
to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrF5XS3iS9o
As with previous mashuppery from PPM Labs, Kodela represents the additional weather burden of poultry producer Perutnina Ptuj, with the town's background activities (everything except making chicken) assuming a receptive, female role.
more finger-lickin' good mashups from ppm labs
https://plus.google.com/b/112569714916753901063/s/%22PPM%20LABS%22
contact ppm labs
http://www.afl.si/art
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lunacy
TWO WELL-KNOWN FACTS IN SLOVENIA
ABOUT THE MOON LANDINGS
1. The USA manned moon landings never really happened.
2. Without the help of the Yugoslav space program the USA would never have landed men on the moon.
Now, in a recently declassified and totally tawdry tale, these two nostrums for a wounded ego have been scrutinised via a single narrative, and found wanting. And we learn why national pride was the main reason for the story's secrecy in the first place.
The result is this lighthearted but also shocking and genuinely enlightening documentary. In nposialpu's book it's the best Slovenian film so far.
These two previous well-known facts have been distilled into a single well-known fact, and we can now declare with equal certainty that fake rocketry achievements and the non-moon landings not arising therefrom were to blame for the breakup of Yugoslavia.
cinema competition
www.cinema.si
TWO WELL-KNOWN FACTS IN SLOVENIA
ABOUT THE MOON LANDINGS
1. The USA manned moon landings never really happened.
2. Without the help of the Yugoslav space program the USA would never have landed men on the moon.
Now, in a recently declassified and totally tawdry tale, these two nostrums for a wounded ego have been scrutinised via a single narrative, and found wanting. And we learn why national pride was the main reason for the story's secrecy in the first place.
The result is this lighthearted but also shocking and genuinely enlightening documentary. In nposialpu's book it's the best Slovenian film so far.
These two previous well-known facts have been distilled into a single well-known fact, and we can now declare with equal certainty that fake rocketry achievements and the non-moon landings not arising therefrom were to blame for the breakup of Yugoslavia.
cinema competition
www.cinema.si
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anyone for tennyson
WOLD ENGLISH
Alcoholism seems to be the only solution as a highly lettered famous poet finds himself abless, surrounded on all sides by uncosmopolitan country foäk speaking a barely intelligible rural dialect.
History does not record whether posh-speaking Lord Alfred Tennyson was by turns welcomed effusively, flattered, interrogated, marginalised, milked, expected in the guise of friendship and true luv to administer free remedial English to everyone at the drop of a hat, shunned, ripped off, intimidated, assaulted, accused of being too hifalutin' and refusing to employ the farmers' dialect, and finally grudgingly allowed to be himself by sullen, resentful, jealous, scheming or pugilistic Lincolnsheer-speaking agriculturalists of an anti-educational stripe - or whether these muttered pointlessly into their beer about the awkwardness of foreigners every time he showed his face, meanwhile wondering if Tennyson's fancy language can be plowed into a dog-territory type of excuse for a barney. No.
Interestingly, nposialpu's only Lincolnshire dialect poem lives on Slovenian intellectual property at www.nfl.si/poacher and it's a rooty-tudi velika zahvala Lord Alfom tukaj: www.nfl.si/DNK
Tennyson's "wishy-washy" C of E philosophical bent biased him into blowing the bulk of his inheritance in a religious wood-carving enterprise at a time when the smart Trump-type money was going into sooty railways, child labour, and industrial slums.
and the agricultural storyline was by...
http://is.gd/FLLfls
WOLD ENGLISH
Alcoholism seems to be the only solution as a highly lettered famous poet finds himself abless, surrounded on all sides by uncosmopolitan country foäk speaking a barely intelligible rural dialect.
History does not record whether posh-speaking Lord Alfred Tennyson was by turns welcomed effusively, flattered, interrogated, marginalised, milked, expected in the guise of friendship and true luv to administer free remedial English to everyone at the drop of a hat, shunned, ripped off, intimidated, assaulted, accused of being too hifalutin' and refusing to employ the farmers' dialect, and finally grudgingly allowed to be himself by sullen, resentful, jealous, scheming or pugilistic Lincolnsheer-speaking agriculturalists of an anti-educational stripe - or whether these muttered pointlessly into their beer about the awkwardness of foreigners every time he showed his face, meanwhile wondering if Tennyson's fancy language can be plowed into a dog-territory type of excuse for a barney. No.
Interestingly, nposialpu's only Lincolnshire dialect poem lives on Slovenian intellectual property at www.nfl.si/poacher and it's a rooty-tudi velika zahvala Lord Alfom tukaj: www.nfl.si/DNK
Tennyson's "wishy-washy" C of E philosophical bent biased him into blowing the bulk of his inheritance in a religious wood-carving enterprise at a time when the smart Trump-type money was going into sooty railways, child labour, and industrial slums.
and the agricultural storyline was by...
http://is.gd/FLLfls
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 9:
LITTLE BIRDIES
Glenn Greenwald's article on the timidification of the herd superego could easily serve as a blueprint for living in Slovenia.
Slovenia's national bird is the tell-tale tit.
Don't want to tell all? You must have something to hide.
You'll find a concerned citizen reporting on every block. It's not just traffic wardens, postmen, pizza delivery guys. Any of them could be at it - ostensibly in the interests of the public good, yes.
But the mass of the people's army consists of outright uptight nobodies, jealous narks acting out of peabrained schadenfreude and generalised resentment. And bar owners trying to keep their licence.
After WW2 the communists took over concern about public morality from the Catholics' spy networks, who of course never let go of the rope, and continue from the safety of their hilltop hidey-holes to this day.
Remarkably, this surveillance does not require some massive state apparatus, for over the generations The Fear has been ironed into the population's stuffed shirts to such an extent that almost any kind of activity (except getting paralytically drunk) is prone to perjorative categorisation.
For the ladies it is pretty much the usual slut-shaming, the 1950s version. We chaps paint a more complex picture depending on the shade of green involved.
The worry in Slovenia that somebody else might have something is so severe it has resulted in the complete atomisation of Slovenian sexuality, and its replacement with a torrent of bile.
Ironically this deluge is too expensive for the authorities to keep up with, and so it ends up just circulating around the general population in a race for damage maximisation.
It is also easier to ignore if you don't speak Slovene. Slovenians find this especially annoying, as it takes more effort to invent gossip than to exaggerate it.
As one such difficult case, I have defaulted in the Ptuj pansophy to gay, woman-chasing, nigger-loving, devil-worshipping, gypsy junkie jewish pedophile...and foreign spy! www.maria.si How exciting!
For native linguists, breast warts and shame hair continue to inform local discourse to this day.
linguistic problems with obedience
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RAg1eV67eh9
more tales from the tame frontier
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
LITTLE BIRDIES
Glenn Greenwald's article on the timidification of the herd superego could easily serve as a blueprint for living in Slovenia.
Slovenia's national bird is the tell-tale tit.
Don't want to tell all? You must have something to hide.
You'll find a concerned citizen reporting on every block. It's not just traffic wardens, postmen, pizza delivery guys. Any of them could be at it - ostensibly in the interests of the public good, yes.
But the mass of the people's army consists of outright uptight nobodies, jealous narks acting out of peabrained schadenfreude and generalised resentment. And bar owners trying to keep their licence.
After WW2 the communists took over concern about public morality from the Catholics' spy networks, who of course never let go of the rope, and continue from the safety of their hilltop hidey-holes to this day.
Remarkably, this surveillance does not require some massive state apparatus, for over the generations The Fear has been ironed into the population's stuffed shirts to such an extent that almost any kind of activity (except getting paralytically drunk) is prone to perjorative categorisation.
For the ladies it is pretty much the usual slut-shaming, the 1950s version. We chaps paint a more complex picture depending on the shade of green involved.
The worry in Slovenia that somebody else might have something is so severe it has resulted in the complete atomisation of Slovenian sexuality, and its replacement with a torrent of bile.
Ironically this deluge is too expensive for the authorities to keep up with, and so it ends up just circulating around the general population in a race for damage maximisation.
It is also easier to ignore if you don't speak Slovene. Slovenians find this especially annoying, as it takes more effort to invent gossip than to exaggerate it.
As one such difficult case, I have defaulted in the Ptuj pansophy to gay, woman-chasing, nigger-loving, devil-worshipping, gypsy junkie jewish pedophile...and foreign spy! www.maria.si How exciting!
For native linguists, breast warts and shame hair continue to inform local discourse to this day.
linguistic problems with obedience
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RAg1eV67eh9
more tales from the tame frontier
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
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tinkling
25th INHIBITION EXHIBITION SLIGHTLY OPENS TODAY
Featuring over 900 stands featuring stands against things.
See not the latest inhibitions understatedly demonstrated in so-you-think-you're-special ways.
full tinkling archive here
http://is.gd/pclelM
25th INHIBITION EXHIBITION SLIGHTLY OPENS TODAY
Featuring over 900 stands featuring stands against things.
See not the latest inhibitions understatedly demonstrated in so-you-think-you're-special ways.
full tinkling archive here
http://is.gd/pclelM
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turizem odbije nazaj
BREZPLAČNE POČITNICE REŠITVE ZA SLOVENCE
Samo še sem opazil neverjetno ugodne v slovenski trgovina Mercatorju.
Trije gobice, običajna cena €2,80, je bilo le €1,40.
Medtem v vsakem Tesco Superstoru, kot je 13 minut vožnje od letališča Stansted lahko kupiš 20 gobic za dva evra.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/poundland-price-comparison/Cleaning_Accessories/Spontex_Sponge_Scourers_20.html?TrackingCode=152.T30LyLG3LkqdKmMc8N_uzA
Zvišanje cen zahvala nagrajeni slovenski finančni minister Mramor...
(Najboljši možen primer): 467%
(Redna cena): 934%
Torej, za kritje €130 povratno letalsko prevoznino v Združeno kraljestvu, morate le, da bi nazaj (proti znižano prodajne cene) €130/(€0,47-€0,10) = 351 gobic.
Primerjava Tesco na redni slovenski ceni (in prepričan sem, da lahko plačate več) morate le, da bi nazaj 156 gobic.
Zato imeli slovenski ekonomiste tako dobro fiksne stvari za slovenski počitnikarjem, da dopustnike bodo rabil le je osem paketov gobice, da poplačale njihove prevoznino v Anglijo in nazaj.
Teža ne bo težava, in bi morali biti nesrečno tip, gobice morda celo prišel prav na način, kot je Eddie Izzard tukaj nekak dokazuje.
L-tablice, visoko cenjene na otokih slovenije, je druga možnost.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2PN9sRZquNs
Vse, kar nakazuje na dekliščine z tematiko gospodinjska dela.
BREZPLAČNE POČITNICE REŠITVE ZA SLOVENCE
Samo še sem opazil neverjetno ugodne v slovenski trgovina Mercatorju.
Trije gobice, običajna cena €2,80, je bilo le €1,40.
Medtem v vsakem Tesco Superstoru, kot je 13 minut vožnje od letališča Stansted lahko kupiš 20 gobic za dva evra.
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/poundland-price-comparison/Cleaning_Accessories/Spontex_Sponge_Scourers_20.html?TrackingCode=152.T30LyLG3LkqdKmMc8N_uzA
Zvišanje cen zahvala nagrajeni slovenski finančni minister Mramor...
(Najboljši možen primer): 467%
(Redna cena): 934%
Torej, za kritje €130 povratno letalsko prevoznino v Združeno kraljestvu, morate le, da bi nazaj (proti znižano prodajne cene) €130/(€0,47-€0,10) = 351 gobic.
Primerjava Tesco na redni slovenski ceni (in prepričan sem, da lahko plačate več) morate le, da bi nazaj 156 gobic.
Zato imeli slovenski ekonomiste tako dobro fiksne stvari za slovenski počitnikarjem, da dopustnike bodo rabil le je osem paketov gobice, da poplačale njihove prevoznino v Anglijo in nazaj.
Teža ne bo težava, in bi morali biti nesrečno tip, gobice morda celo prišel prav na način, kot je Eddie Izzard tukaj nekak dokazuje.
L-tablice, visoko cenjene na otokih slovenije, je druga možnost.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/2PN9sRZquNs
Vse, kar nakazuje na dekliščine z tematiko gospodinjska dela.
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 8:
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT OF SLOVENIA
What if a band called Srce had tried this sort of thing in 1977 Slovenia? Would they have been executed or just sent indefinitely to a prison island or nunnery?
In fact nobody would have tried anything.
more tales
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT OF SLOVENIA
What if a band called Srce had tried this sort of thing in 1977 Slovenia? Would they have been executed or just sent indefinitely to a prison island or nunnery?
In fact nobody would have tried anything.
more tales
http://is.gd/lVRfb4
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grammatical sciences and shopping
Really bored readers will recall my shocking expose of the price of L-plates in Slovenia...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/gtKc4zK5pBx
Grammatical problems prevented a clear understanding of whether a guy on auction site Bolha was selling a pair of them or - as I concluded after some guesswork - just the one L-plate, at the ludicrously exorbitant price Slovenians pay for their stuff.
Now I've been vindicated in this heroic quest thanks to
http://besana.amebis.si/pregibanje/
Just type in the noun - in this case it's "tablica" and hey presto, all 18 possible endings for this gender are presented.
You can see there are only two reasons why it could end in -o, the accusative reason and the instrumental reason.
And it would defo have to be singular in either case.
Slovene grammatically-based ripoffs just got a bit harder against anyone with a browser in front of them.
Really bored readers will recall my shocking expose of the price of L-plates in Slovenia...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/gtKc4zK5pBx
Grammatical problems prevented a clear understanding of whether a guy on auction site Bolha was selling a pair of them or - as I concluded after some guesswork - just the one L-plate, at the ludicrously exorbitant price Slovenians pay for their stuff.
Now I've been vindicated in this heroic quest thanks to
http://besana.amebis.si/pregibanje/
Just type in the noun - in this case it's "tablica" and hey presto, all 18 possible endings for this gender are presented.
You can see there are only two reasons why it could end in -o, the accusative reason and the instrumental reason.
And it would defo have to be singular in either case.
Slovene grammatically-based ripoffs just got a bit harder against anyone with a browser in front of them.
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watts not going down at velenje
TEŠ DU VAUDEVILLE
À centrales electriques ils bricolent...
Grévistes vers chambres de controle.
Verrouillé. Nouveauté:
Rien tripatouillé.
S'échouait bigorner profit-à-hole.
Management of the big horny profiterole locked the striking electricity workers out of the control room, and told them "unofficially" that if they succeeded at their stated aim of reducing electricity output from 8 to 10 am - well, they'd be fired.
It's just like the old days! Not those Yug-old days - the really old old days. Fortunately, according to official news agency STA, "the workers of Unit 6 succumbed to psychological pressure" and abandoned their planned activities.
Try to remain positive. Although the strikers are complaining about redundancy, don't forget that's the whole reason for the plant in the first place.
And not to worry, the company is hiring security guards so the dispute is actually creating jobs. Each job created by TEŠ6 will only cost 0.4m euros.
http://www.banktrack.org/show/dodgydeals/tes_6_coal_power_plant#tab_dodgydeals_issues
the teš 6 project and a big horny profiterole:
a comparison
both French
both very rich and fattening
both are puffed up balls
both depend on cream
both have aphrodisiac qualities
both take ages to make, for a brief existence
if things go wrong it can get very messy
it wouldn't be wise to try to live on it
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/LPTbzw6EESe
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Xi1TNUUsmdA
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5H5bPDdvZ2F
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/jjt7nRNXzPB
TEŠ DU VAUDEVILLE
À centrales electriques ils bricolent...
Grévistes vers chambres de controle.
Verrouillé. Nouveauté:
Rien tripatouillé.
S'échouait bigorner profit-à-hole.
Management of the big horny profiterole locked the striking electricity workers out of the control room, and told them "unofficially" that if they succeeded at their stated aim of reducing electricity output from 8 to 10 am - well, they'd be fired.
It's just like the old days! Not those Yug-old days - the really old old days. Fortunately, according to official news agency STA, "the workers of Unit 6 succumbed to psychological pressure" and abandoned their planned activities.
Try to remain positive. Although the strikers are complaining about redundancy, don't forget that's the whole reason for the plant in the first place.
And not to worry, the company is hiring security guards so the dispute is actually creating jobs. Each job created by TEŠ6 will only cost 0.4m euros.
http://www.banktrack.org/show/dodgydeals/tes_6_coal_power_plant#tab_dodgydeals_issues
the teš 6 project and a big horny profiterole:
a comparison
both French
both very rich and fattening
both are puffed up balls
both depend on cream
both have aphrodisiac qualities
both take ages to make, for a brief existence
if things go wrong it can get very messy
it wouldn't be wise to try to live on it
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/LPTbzw6EESe
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Xi1TNUUsmdA
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5H5bPDdvZ2F
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/jjt7nRNXzPB
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energy saving
BRATJE BROWNED-OFFNOST: BODO BROWNOUT
And yea baby, even as Emperor Miro tried to live a private life, Count Walter The Water Drinker did issue a final decree, that whereas nobody in the government has thought electricity is sexy since 2010, and whereas the police on go-slow said it was ok with them, the Electric Serfs may join in a plot against the court of Miro, whereby they may dim the Discussion Dungeons of Dz, fail to fan the Zenana Za Zapisnica, fry the Fabled Fax of Fank, or use the latest hacking technology to interfere with some of the functions of Emperor Miro's jacuzzi.
Like a sine wave, meanwhile, the popularity of Emperor Miro's clan was declared to have plunged in A Great Poll.
And he suffered much abuzzment amongst the scribes, and a new magazine was launched, that the Slovenske Novic-ites might consider his tight-lippedness: for his common-law-Queen Vesna of Nuklearna Potovanja (2013 profit 325 euros) disagrees with him that her reign is over.
And as he was the top man in the country, nobody could advise Miro what to do about his troublesome consort. Sayeth Suzy, Miro could not get his palace key back, so after two months he summoned Kevin, Keeper Of The Keys, to change his lock. And there wath a great sorting of the Plastiki of the Plestenjaks - you do need lekky for that though. www.12v.si
coronation stric
And lo! there was an opposite phase, and lol local broadly similar people agreed to despise each other slightly less for the day, in order that they may join in unity to despise somewhat different people, and verily like jelly setting did stand among themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mrmp7Y8eZb4
And somehow they agreed what were things coming to, and something must be done, and made praise even unto the legendary foreign King McDonald of Omari-Co, to whose supporters they are related by their fashion sense, ability to smell foreigners and burgerji but very little else. Zeugma intended.
famous king mcdonald and the farmers:
how they are related
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Kf5KwMrTSGB
BRATJE BROWNED-OFFNOST: BODO BROWNOUT
And yea baby, even as Emperor Miro tried to live a private life, Count Walter The Water Drinker did issue a final decree, that whereas nobody in the government has thought electricity is sexy since 2010, and whereas the police on go-slow said it was ok with them, the Electric Serfs may join in a plot against the court of Miro, whereby they may dim the Discussion Dungeons of Dz, fail to fan the Zenana Za Zapisnica, fry the Fabled Fax of Fank, or use the latest hacking technology to interfere with some of the functions of Emperor Miro's jacuzzi.
Like a sine wave, meanwhile, the popularity of Emperor Miro's clan was declared to have plunged in A Great Poll.
And he suffered much abuzzment amongst the scribes, and a new magazine was launched, that the Slovenske Novic-ites might consider his tight-lippedness: for his common-law-Queen Vesna of Nuklearna Potovanja (2013 profit 325 euros) disagrees with him that her reign is over.
And as he was the top man in the country, nobody could advise Miro what to do about his troublesome consort. Sayeth Suzy, Miro could not get his palace key back, so after two months he summoned Kevin, Keeper Of The Keys, to change his lock. And there wath a great sorting of the Plastiki of the Plestenjaks - you do need lekky for that though. www.12v.si
coronation stric
And lo! there was an opposite phase, and lol local broadly similar people agreed to despise each other slightly less for the day, in order that they may join in unity to despise somewhat different people, and verily like jelly setting did stand among themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mrmp7Y8eZb4
And somehow they agreed what were things coming to, and something must be done, and made praise even unto the legendary foreign King McDonald of Omari-Co, to whose supporters they are related by their fashion sense, ability to smell foreigners and burgerji but very little else. Zeugma intended.
famous king mcdonald and the farmers:
how they are related
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Kf5KwMrTSGB
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anglešironičino
Impressive.
But which is the only sentence in the first two paragraphs of this Slonnect/rtvslo piece with no errors?
As for the rest, maybe you can guess which parts of the story have been cut-and-pasted from "the English" - just from the English?
All is forgiven - for English-speaking students of Slovene can at least recall from this how Slavic languages get by with no articles - and this cute but clodhopping specimen is yet another article Slovenia can do without.
Impressive.
But which is the only sentence in the first two paragraphs of this Slonnect/rtvslo piece with no errors?
As for the rest, maybe you can guess which parts of the story have been cut-and-pasted from "the English" - just from the English?
All is forgiven - for English-speaking students of Slovene can at least recall from this how Slavic languages get by with no articles - and this cute but clodhopping specimen is yet another article Slovenia can do without.
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slovenia erased, from the archives
GROSUPLJE'S SEVENTH HEAVEN:
HI-PROBABILITY-LUCKY-NUMBER-KU
So of their winnings
They won eighty-five percent.
Architects lucky.
There goes Slovenia with that Counter-Reformation again. In the UK lottery they sprinkle a little money for the "good causes" - taken from the huge pot of money from the very numerous poor LOSERS, allowing them to reduce dissonance with the rubbish belief that their desperate optimism helped SOMEBODY.
But here for some reason it is the winner's birthday, children's and dog's ages, or other lucky number, which determines which town's health centre gets an extension and which does not.
Luckily there was an architectural visualisation ready http://is.gd/KluOad [not any more - ed.]
This proves Slovenia's economic luck has turned. We'll soon see winners in other places in need of facilities too.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/jYpNDBxG9p2
But is this fair to you? Here are a number of things wrong with this way of sharing out everyone's money.
1. Some areas are bound contain more poor people - who are less able to grasp the basics of probability - and so more likely to enter lotteries - and therefore win - than the populations of less mathematically challenged middle-class areas.
2. Most Europeans are unlikely to hear about a Slovenian winner, and will be unable to derive any petty satisfaction from the reduction of his fortune.
3. The winner can afford it. This is completely inimical to the principles of regressive taxation, austerity, rich bankers, and such things as hiring lawyers to argue that the Grosuplje council didn't contribute to the selection of the numbers or the cost of the ticket - everything you would expect in Slovenia.
4. Not all unhealthy people around Europe who bought the losing tickets will be able to travel to the Grosuplje health centre.
5. It is a wasteful way to fund public services. 6/7ths of the potential spending power is going to some gambler. Grosuplje's town council hardly had a sporting chance!
What changes should be made?
If we are really seeking development in Slovenia we should just cut out the sad loser as a middle-man and co-funder of public projects - and let health, pensions, infrastructure and the other ministries battle it out for their budgets...at partypoker.com or similar national finance establishments.
more slovenia erased
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20erased
GROSUPLJE'S SEVENTH HEAVEN:
HI-PROBABILITY-LUCKY-NUMBER-KU
So of their winnings
They won eighty-five percent.
Architects lucky.
There goes Slovenia with that Counter-Reformation again. In the UK lottery they sprinkle a little money for the "good causes" - taken from the huge pot of money from the very numerous poor LOSERS, allowing them to reduce dissonance with the rubbish belief that their desperate optimism helped SOMEBODY.
But here for some reason it is the winner's birthday, children's and dog's ages, or other lucky number, which determines which town's health centre gets an extension and which does not.
Luckily there was an architectural visualisation ready http://is.gd/KluOad [not any more - ed.]
This proves Slovenia's economic luck has turned. We'll soon see winners in other places in need of facilities too.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/jYpNDBxG9p2
But is this fair to you? Here are a number of things wrong with this way of sharing out everyone's money.
1. Some areas are bound contain more poor people - who are less able to grasp the basics of probability - and so more likely to enter lotteries - and therefore win - than the populations of less mathematically challenged middle-class areas.
2. Most Europeans are unlikely to hear about a Slovenian winner, and will be unable to derive any petty satisfaction from the reduction of his fortune.
3. The winner can afford it. This is completely inimical to the principles of regressive taxation, austerity, rich bankers, and such things as hiring lawyers to argue that the Grosuplje council didn't contribute to the selection of the numbers or the cost of the ticket - everything you would expect in Slovenia.
4. Not all unhealthy people around Europe who bought the losing tickets will be able to travel to the Grosuplje health centre.
5. It is a wasteful way to fund public services. 6/7ths of the potential spending power is going to some gambler. Grosuplje's town council hardly had a sporting chance!
What changes should be made?
If we are really seeking development in Slovenia we should just cut out the sad loser as a middle-man and co-funder of public projects - and let health, pensions, infrastructure and the other ministries battle it out for their budgets...at partypoker.com or similar national finance establishments.
more slovenia erased
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metaphysically important jewellery auction
UK AND FRANCE DO IT BALKAN-STYLE
Here the UK is playing the Slovenian oligarch role, first selling Joan of Arc's ring to the French for thirty times the auctioneers' guide price then asking for it back because of an export licence.
The British auctioneers are blameless because they have it in their contract's T&C...nor did they do any exporting themselves.
The French, meanwhile, are the brigands of the south and east - swiping (what may be) Joan's ring and manhandling it off to their country without due regard for our very important national paperwork.
So the same way that it got to England in the first place, then. Apart from the paying part. But that was after a fair trial. One of the issues at the hearings at Rouen, the English HQ in France, had been whether JoA had tried to heal anyone with her rings. Joan also reputedly stared at her ring for pre-battle motivational pep.
In those triple-Poped times, the plague was often going around. The latest medical innovations such as charmed rings were witchcraft in the hands of the voice-hearing, tower-leaping, man-dressing French peasant soldier girl.
But they would have been as good as money in the bank for whichever faction possessed the ju-ju. And some French still believe this, apparently.
Slovenia auction archive:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20auction
UK AND FRANCE DO IT BALKAN-STYLE
Here the UK is playing the Slovenian oligarch role, first selling Joan of Arc's ring to the French for thirty times the auctioneers' guide price then asking for it back because of an export licence.
The British auctioneers are blameless because they have it in their contract's T&C...nor did they do any exporting themselves.
The French, meanwhile, are the brigands of the south and east - swiping (what may be) Joan's ring and manhandling it off to their country without due regard for our very important national paperwork.
So the same way that it got to England in the first place, then. Apart from the paying part. But that was after a fair trial. One of the issues at the hearings at Rouen, the English HQ in France, had been whether JoA had tried to heal anyone with her rings. Joan also reputedly stared at her ring for pre-battle motivational pep.
In those triple-Poped times, the plague was often going around. The latest medical innovations such as charmed rings were witchcraft in the hands of the voice-hearing, tower-leaping, man-dressing French peasant soldier girl.
But they would have been as good as money in the bank for whichever faction possessed the ju-ju. And some French still believe this, apparently.
Slovenia auction archive:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/slovenia%20auction
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international aviation
SLOVENIA'S AIR WAR WITH ITSELF TO CONTINUE
Express Airways is a Slovenian registered airline with a base at Maribor Airport, the second city's hub-ette becoming increasingly famous for its oddball selection of destinations.
It is really only one airway, as can be seen from the following details of its fleet:
https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Express-Airways-%28Slovenia%29
According to Express Airways:
"As the only Germany airline (sic) we fly you comfortably and nonstop to your vacation to (sic) the Croation (sic) Adriatic Coast."
"With our head office in Düsseldorf our airline assures since 1999 by (sic) reliable and customer service oriented operations."
But according to Wikipedia:
"Express Airways d.o.o. is a Slovenian airline headquartered in Maribor and based at Maribor Airport with a German branch, Express Airways GmbH, located in Düsseldorf."
Interestingly Wiki's reference for this is another page belonging to a certain Express Airways, showing the head office is at Orehova Vas, the village down the lane from MBX. You can also meet the Board and, for the avoidance of doubt, study the company's pilot training certificate:
http://www.express-airways.com/contact.htm
Lost in translation? Similarly Teutonic claims leap from its German and Slovenian page versions - except that in Slovene "s sedezem v Düsseldorfu" could, conveniently blurrily, mean they are based in, established in, or headquartered there.
Meanwhile the German version says something like "Since 1999, our airline has been convinced it is headquartered in Dusseldorf for its reliability and customer-oriented service."
http://www.express-airways.de/services.htm
So there we have it. With its one 737-300, EA is pretending to be German to make itself look more credible and reliable, while they contradict themselves on their own website.
In fact it's obvious EA aren't German-owned.
No German company would ever publish English like that. The good news is that both Germany and Slovenia use the metric system.
So there is no danger of either one mistaking kilos for pints or fluid ounces when filling up the tanks.
po misfly
Attempts to get this airport off the ground have not failed for want of trying. They have failed because politicians have been busy living in the capital and they're using their airport there.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/EswuoYtLrsj
And also because the squabbling locals are too ignorant to stop habitually shooting themselves in the foot, at least according to the airport's former Director.
They really haven't got it through their stubborn, linguistically-fossilised heads that all they ever had to do was give Ryanair the money and wait for the payback.
People will fly virtually anywhere to blow money if the flying bit costs virtually nothing. There's nothing really stopping EA or anyone else imitating Ryanair's destination-pays model.
And maybe, finally, it would have gone better if the airport's anglo-keyboard-friendly domain name - the one without the po-mišlaj - hadn't fallen into the hands of some damned immigrant.
Who despite all gov.si's guff, bumpf, and balloonsful of hot air about FDI, cannot be connected to Slovenia's runaway success story in any way.
Those uneconomic migrants, they come over here, doing up all the intellectual properties and picking up the saga more or less where Express Airways' own Aerodrom Maribor history page leaves off in 2008.
Those migrants should go home and adopt airport domain names in their own countries, such as Germany.
SLOVENIA'S AIR WAR WITH ITSELF TO CONTINUE
Express Airways is a Slovenian registered airline with a base at Maribor Airport, the second city's hub-ette becoming increasingly famous for its oddball selection of destinations.
It is really only one airway, as can be seen from the following details of its fleet:
https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Express-Airways-%28Slovenia%29
According to Express Airways:
"As the only Germany airline (sic) we fly you comfortably and nonstop to your vacation to (sic) the Croation (sic) Adriatic Coast."
"With our head office in Düsseldorf our airline assures since 1999 by (sic) reliable and customer service oriented operations."
But according to Wikipedia:
"Express Airways d.o.o. is a Slovenian airline headquartered in Maribor and based at Maribor Airport with a German branch, Express Airways GmbH, located in Düsseldorf."
Interestingly Wiki's reference for this is another page belonging to a certain Express Airways, showing the head office is at Orehova Vas, the village down the lane from MBX. You can also meet the Board and, for the avoidance of doubt, study the company's pilot training certificate:
http://www.express-airways.com/contact.htm
Lost in translation? Similarly Teutonic claims leap from its German and Slovenian page versions - except that in Slovene "s sedezem v Düsseldorfu" could, conveniently blurrily, mean they are based in, established in, or headquartered there.
Meanwhile the German version says something like "Since 1999, our airline has been convinced it is headquartered in Dusseldorf for its reliability and customer-oriented service."
http://www.express-airways.de/services.htm
So there we have it. With its one 737-300, EA is pretending to be German to make itself look more credible and reliable, while they contradict themselves on their own website.
In fact it's obvious EA aren't German-owned.
No German company would ever publish English like that. The good news is that both Germany and Slovenia use the metric system.
So there is no danger of either one mistaking kilos for pints or fluid ounces when filling up the tanks.
po misfly
Attempts to get this airport off the ground have not failed for want of trying. They have failed because politicians have been busy living in the capital and they're using their airport there.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/EswuoYtLrsj
And also because the squabbling locals are too ignorant to stop habitually shooting themselves in the foot, at least according to the airport's former Director.
They really haven't got it through their stubborn, linguistically-fossilised heads that all they ever had to do was give Ryanair the money and wait for the payback.
People will fly virtually anywhere to blow money if the flying bit costs virtually nothing. There's nothing really stopping EA or anyone else imitating Ryanair's destination-pays model.
And maybe, finally, it would have gone better if the airport's anglo-keyboard-friendly domain name - the one without the po-mišlaj - hadn't fallen into the hands of some damned immigrant.
Who despite all gov.si's guff, bumpf, and balloonsful of hot air about FDI, cannot be connected to Slovenia's runaway success story in any way.
Those uneconomic migrants, they come over here, doing up all the intellectual properties and picking up the saga more or less where Express Airways' own Aerodrom Maribor history page leaves off in 2008.
Those migrants should go home and adopt airport domain names in their own countries, such as Germany.
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EMPEROR MIRO'S APPROVAL RATING
This cartoon refers to the recent dismissal of seven cops, who colluded in breathalysing the Minister of Public Administration.
Besides the ordinary cop and lady cop who actually performed the stop, the policemen caught up in the plot happened to be the President of the Trade Union of Police of Slovenia Zoran Petrovič, Ljubljana regional union representative Vojko Marguč, Kranj representative Denis Kadirić, Miha Sakač, its deputy regional representative in Koper, and Dusan Raj, Novo Mesto's regional representative.
It depicts the tycoons, corrupt ministries, and drunk mayors of the "Slovenian Association of Big Thieves" declaring that for the rest of his mandate they can rely on Cerar to fire this brood of police and detectives, that they may have peace.
As usual in this land of lame comedy, the "joke" sits uncomfortably between sarcasm and dull reality.
The People's Tabloid spells out very slowly and simply the facts of the matter, in what becomes a punchparagraph, if you will. This must be what Latin stand-up was like back in the Colosseum days.
Without forgetting these are daily cartoons, compare its wodge of turgid verbiage with the elegance of https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/social-issues-cry_for_help-police_officer-social_apathy-cops-coppers-tcrn1748_low.jpg and http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1YQUpIDVxZs/UyYb7rry2dI/AAAAAAAAFEw/c8mPq9Abahk/s1600/holmes+cartoon.jpg for instance
previously on police union drama
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GWF1SEFkHrk
chronic ills of emperor miro
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/%22emperor%20miro%22%20slovenia
nposialpu's slovenske novice cartoon archive
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/L9rP91qsB1K
EMPEROR MIRO'S APPROVAL RATING
This cartoon refers to the recent dismissal of seven cops, who colluded in breathalysing the Minister of Public Administration.
Besides the ordinary cop and lady cop who actually performed the stop, the policemen caught up in the plot happened to be the President of the Trade Union of Police of Slovenia Zoran Petrovič, Ljubljana regional union representative Vojko Marguč, Kranj representative Denis Kadirić, Miha Sakač, its deputy regional representative in Koper, and Dusan Raj, Novo Mesto's regional representative.
It depicts the tycoons, corrupt ministries, and drunk mayors of the "Slovenian Association of Big Thieves" declaring that for the rest of his mandate they can rely on Cerar to fire this brood of police and detectives, that they may have peace.
As usual in this land of lame comedy, the "joke" sits uncomfortably between sarcasm and dull reality.
The People's Tabloid spells out very slowly and simply the facts of the matter, in what becomes a punchparagraph, if you will. This must be what Latin stand-up was like back in the Colosseum days.
Without forgetting these are daily cartoons, compare its wodge of turgid verbiage with the elegance of https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/social-issues-cry_for_help-police_officer-social_apathy-cops-coppers-tcrn1748_low.jpg and http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1YQUpIDVxZs/UyYb7rry2dI/AAAAAAAAFEw/c8mPq9Abahk/s1600/holmes+cartoon.jpg for instance
previously on police union drama
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/GWF1SEFkHrk
chronic ills of emperor miro
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/%22emperor%20miro%22%20slovenia
nposialpu's slovenske novice cartoon archive
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/L9rP91qsB1K
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slovenglish film
KIDS TODAY...
"The remaining two are Children of the Transition by Matija Vukšić, who depicts contemporary reality via the stories of four youths, and Sonita, a film about an 18-year-old Afghani female raper, made by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami."
Today's Slovenglish stab at cinema promotion is out of Wednesday's Slovenia Times:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/programme-of-documentary-film-festival-in-ljubljana-revealed#comment_427
slovenglish jungle music at www.a2z.si/jungle
KIDS TODAY...
"The remaining two are Children of the Transition by Matija Vukšić, who depicts contemporary reality via the stories of four youths, and Sonita, a film about an 18-year-old Afghani female raper, made by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami."
Today's Slovenglish stab at cinema promotion is out of Wednesday's Slovenia Times:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/programme-of-documentary-film-festival-in-ljubljana-revealed#comment_427
slovenglish jungle music at www.a2z.si/jungle
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gravitational research
FORMER DIRECTORS OF BANK HOLE
SUCKED INTO NLB TOP JOBS
New country invented...check
Steal former fellow-Yugo-nations' deposits by renaming Ljubljanska Banka to Nova Ljubljanska Banka...check
Reckless crony loan-ism leads to banking imbalances...check
Authors of bad loans unpunished...check
Builders sent to jail, Catholic hierarchy and chicken guy let off...check
Bad loans transferred to bad bank...NLB books look ok now...check
Foreigners threaten to run hotels like a proper business instead of a government department on endless tick...check
Foreigners chased away from bad bank...check
Bad bank put in hands of local oligarchy that created the need for it in the first place...check
Creators of bank hole invited back to run NLB again...check...
According to Google Translate...
The imminent formation David Benedek new President of the Management Board should lead SDH zakamufliralo in the so-called international tender, which it should be carried out within three to six months, while foreign candidates in advance is usually impossible with a single insurmountable tender conditions, this is an active knowledge of Slovenian language.
bank on web running smoothly
Meanwhile everything at www.bank.si is running smoothly. "We are nothing to do with the local banking system and there are no problems," said a spokesman.
FORMER DIRECTORS OF BANK HOLE
SUCKED INTO NLB TOP JOBS
New country invented...check
Steal former fellow-Yugo-nations' deposits by renaming Ljubljanska Banka to Nova Ljubljanska Banka...check
Reckless crony loan-ism leads to banking imbalances...check
Authors of bad loans unpunished...check
Builders sent to jail, Catholic hierarchy and chicken guy let off...check
Bad loans transferred to bad bank...NLB books look ok now...check
Foreigners threaten to run hotels like a proper business instead of a government department on endless tick...check
Foreigners chased away from bad bank...check
Bad bank put in hands of local oligarchy that created the need for it in the first place...check
Creators of bank hole invited back to run NLB again...check...
According to Google Translate...
The imminent formation David Benedek new President of the Management Board should lead SDH zakamufliralo in the so-called international tender, which it should be carried out within three to six months, while foreign candidates in advance is usually impossible with a single insurmountable tender conditions, this is an active knowledge of Slovenian language.
bank on web running smoothly
Meanwhile everything at www.bank.si is running smoothly. "We are nothing to do with the local banking system and there are no problems," said a spokesman.
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relations with iran
Iran is a big country and when it used to be Persia it came as near to here as Macedonia.
But Slovenian territory was never in the Achaemenid Empire.
In the same way, Scotland never fell to the Romans.
This news is being greeted with some surprise in Slovenia.
Iran is a big country and when it used to be Persia it came as near to here as Macedonia.
But Slovenian territory was never in the Achaemenid Empire.
In the same way, Scotland never fell to the Romans.
This news is being greeted with some surprise in Slovenia.
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suicidal bmw club
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSEWAY
Was it the immigrants? Road tolls? Nobody knows.
In the latest BMW inferno death resulting from high-speed controlled impact with civic facilities, Brežičan A.Z. died on the spot.
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RUjar5Vec3t
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSEWAY
Was it the immigrants? Road tolls? Nobody knows.
In the latest BMW inferno death resulting from high-speed controlled impact with civic facilities, Brežičan A.Z. died on the spot.
previously
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/RUjar5Vec3t
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what's going down in kidričevo
NO POGRAPSCHEN PLEASE, WE'RE SLOVENIAN
A government plan to accommodate up to 4000 queer, child-molesting terrorist gropers sent back by Austria in Kidričevo's old army barracks has been met with dismay by locals and glee from political capitalisers, who have come out in force and on Facebook to protest against Ali's marriage to their daughter.
Apart from rape and occasional exploits with animals, in traditional societies there is no sex before marriage.
When the time comes to look for a partner, the obvious first place to look is the village where you live, and hopefully just next door.
NO POGRAPSCHEN PLEASE, WE'RE SLOVENIAN
A government plan to accommodate up to 4000 queer, child-molesting terrorist gropers sent back by Austria in Kidričevo's old army barracks has been met with dismay by locals and glee from political capitalisers, who have come out in force and on Facebook to protest against Ali's marriage to their daughter.
Apart from rape and occasional exploits with animals, in traditional societies there is no sex before marriage.
When the time comes to look for a partner, the obvious first place to look is the village where you live, and hopefully just next door.
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what's on in kidričevo
RE-ENACTMENT OF THE GREAT BATTLE OF TYRES
In 2012 there came an order from the god Eu. And Eu ordereth unto the Sloveni-ites "Shift those tyres, stupid, or you will pollute the fragile groundwater, destabilise the ground around a high-voltage system, and cause huge fires that burn for weeks."
And lo, Albin the Keeper of the Tyres shrugged and said it was nothing to do with him, since his permit was cancelled and therefore with it any responsibility - and the tyres were now no man's goods and "part of Slovenia".
Whereas the Mayor and the Monastery of the Environment said in those times, that cleaning up the buried tyres wath verily all Albin's problem now.
He probably doesn't have four million euros though.
And verily did they twatteth about. And in 2015 RTV did another report and everything was basically the same.
http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/prispevki-in-izjave-odmevi/174327268
RE-ENACTMENT OF THE GREAT BATTLE OF TYRES
In 2012 there came an order from the god Eu. And Eu ordereth unto the Sloveni-ites "Shift those tyres, stupid, or you will pollute the fragile groundwater, destabilise the ground around a high-voltage system, and cause huge fires that burn for weeks."
And lo, Albin the Keeper of the Tyres shrugged and said it was nothing to do with him, since his permit was cancelled and therefore with it any responsibility - and the tyres were now no man's goods and "part of Slovenia".
Whereas the Mayor and the Monastery of the Environment said in those times, that cleaning up the buried tyres wath verily all Albin's problem now.
He probably doesn't have four million euros though.
And verily did they twatteth about. And in 2015 RTV did another report and everything was basically the same.
http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/prispevki-in-izjave-odmevi/174327268
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unintended consequences
MIDAS TOUCH AND GO
Receivers' agents working at a site in the centre of our capital Ljub City opened the door at 10 a.m. for the Slovenian goivamment's second attempt to auction a bunch of luxury clothing.
But no-one came.
A few minutes later some people began to arrive. But by then the door was locked and the auctioneers had fucked off for a cup of tea. And with that the day ended.
The reason is, there are always three rounds in Slovenia's unpopular public auctions, with the reserve going down each time.
The bureaucratically-designed result is that nobody ever goes to the first two, because everyone knows it will be cheapest at the third.
This time, when somebody actually did, the non-auctioneers had already gone through their official motions.
Clearly bidders need to be unnaturally punctual, especially if no-one else is there to keep the clerks occupied.
Of course instead of these two non-auctions and an auction, they could just have an auction.
But they can't do that. It's the law.
MIDAS TOUCH AND GO
Receivers' agents working at a site in the centre of our capital Ljub City opened the door at 10 a.m. for the Slovenian goivamment's second attempt to auction a bunch of luxury clothing.
But no-one came.
A few minutes later some people began to arrive. But by then the door was locked and the auctioneers had fucked off for a cup of tea. And with that the day ended.
The reason is, there are always three rounds in Slovenia's unpopular public auctions, with the reserve going down each time.
The bureaucratically-designed result is that nobody ever goes to the first two, because everyone knows it will be cheapest at the third.
This time, when somebody actually did, the non-auctioneers had already gone through their official motions.
Clearly bidders need to be unnaturally punctual, especially if no-one else is there to keep the clerks occupied.
Of course instead of these two non-auctions and an auction, they could just have an auction.
But they can't do that. It's the law.
Dražba v Midasu: kupci
pred zaklenjenimi vrati, izvršitelja je
zeblo
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anal probity
HOW TO DO THE PROTI VOTEY
This helpful poster from the Election Commission was displayed at polling stations, showing how to vote no, according to the losers, who complained about the positioning of the pencil.
Half of the illustrations were not the pink that might have been expected, and a phallocentric male chauvinist rapist portrait document format has been chosen to stand up against willyweddings and mingemarriage - rather than a more supine, receptive, rolling earth-mother landscape layout.
HOW TO DO THE PROTI VOTEY
This helpful poster from the Election Commission was displayed at polling stations, showing how to vote no, according to the losers, who complained about the positioning of the pencil.
Half of the illustrations were not the pink that might have been expected, and a phallocentric male chauvinist rapist portrait document format has been chosen to stand up against willyweddings and mingemarriage - rather than a more supine, receptive, rolling earth-mother landscape layout.
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universal fungustanding
DISCOUNT FOOD ITEM MYSTERY SOLVED
Rožiček is carob flour, and may not be "ergot", as stated by Google Translate.
It would also be a bit weird to find a packet of the religious frenzy-inducing rye fungus in a Ptuj supermarket, especially for only 23 cents. Maybe in California.
Meanwhile, something resembling rožiček has been spotted on the surface of Pluto, the dwarf planet named by an 11-year-old English girl. How they know dwarves live on it I do not kno...
Probably humanity will know the exact chemical constituents of Pluto's rožiček-like substrates well before we will be able to refer definitively to every earthly item using Slovene substantives.
Meanwhile I officially propose naming this Pluto stuff rožičekite. It is a cool rocky-choccy sort of a name, and easier to for Slovenians to pronounce than tholins.
Remember, the locals won't buy carob flour if they know it's from Pluto or the plutino 28978 Ixion. But if they know it's from a different part of Slovenia they may. If we can settle down with this name here in town, then we'll take it from there on a village-by-village basis.
DISCOUNT FOOD ITEM MYSTERY SOLVED
Rožiček is carob flour, and may not be "ergot", as stated by Google Translate.
It would also be a bit weird to find a packet of the religious frenzy-inducing rye fungus in a Ptuj supermarket, especially for only 23 cents. Maybe in California.
Meanwhile, something resembling rožiček has been spotted on the surface of Pluto, the dwarf planet named by an 11-year-old English girl. How they know dwarves live on it I do not kno...
Probably humanity will know the exact chemical constituents of Pluto's rožiček-like substrates well before we will be able to refer definitively to every earthly item using Slovene substantives.
Meanwhile I officially propose naming this Pluto stuff rožičekite. It is a cool rocky-choccy sort of a name, and easier to for Slovenians to pronounce than tholins.
Remember, the locals won't buy carob flour if they know it's from Pluto or the plutino 28978 Ixion. But if they know it's from a different part of Slovenia they may. If we can settle down with this name here in town, then we'll take it from there on a village-by-village basis.
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police art
GOVERNMENT CONTINUITY TO...ER,
...JUST ONE MOMENT PLEASE
Our colourless PM is outlined as 3000 police march in a demo around Ljub City, trying to find out who is in charge.
For during the age of Alenka The Legs, did negotiations between the police unions and the government not successfully conclude?
And lo, in those times, were cops not promised a 35% pay rise, excessive hours payments, and equipment upgrades for safe and efficient working, such as bullet-proofer bullet-proof vests, computerier new computers, and everything else down to the orange and grey felt tips that could have completed this portrait of our Cheap Leader?
Yea. It was so.
And verily, and solemly, some did favour commencing negotiations all over again. They are mostly negotiators.
And there came to pass a more traditionally police-like approach: keep your negotiator outside, trying to give the besieged criminal inside enough reasons to step out with his hands showing, and face the music.
The primary mission is to release the hostage. The money, in this case.
http://www.rtvslo.si/news-in-english/3-000-policemen-waited-in-vain-for-government-they-were-received-by-the-president-of-parliament/380811
GOVERNMENT CONTINUITY TO...ER,
...JUST ONE MOMENT PLEASE
Our colourless PM is outlined as 3000 police march in a demo around Ljub City, trying to find out who is in charge.
For during the age of Alenka The Legs, did negotiations between the police unions and the government not successfully conclude?
And lo, in those times, were cops not promised a 35% pay rise, excessive hours payments, and equipment upgrades for safe and efficient working, such as bullet-proofer bullet-proof vests, computerier new computers, and everything else down to the orange and grey felt tips that could have completed this portrait of our Cheap Leader?
Yea. It was so.
And verily, and solemly, some did favour commencing negotiations all over again. They are mostly negotiators.
And there came to pass a more traditionally police-like approach: keep your negotiator outside, trying to give the besieged criminal inside enough reasons to step out with his hands showing, and face the music.
The primary mission is to release the hostage. The money, in this case.
http://www.rtvslo.si/news-in-english/3-000-policemen-waited-in-vain-for-government-they-were-received-by-the-president-of-parliament/380811
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auctions
ART SALE TAKES PLACE NEAR SLOVENIA
As though Slovenia were to professional auctioneering what vancomycin is to a petri dish full of snot, an auction of Slovenian art took place as near as it was practicably possible for Slovenians to go and buy it, i.e. in Italy.
Mainly private buyers spent 800,000 euros at the sale by Stadion Casa d'Aste in Trieste, including 91,000 euros for Grohar's Hay Racks, with an opening price of 50k.
After Catholic training in Zagreb, draft-dodging in Venice, and studying in Graz, Vienna, and Munich, ful dobro but routinely destitute impressionist Ivan Grohar eventually had to return to his homeland where he participated in the first Slovene Artists’ Exhibition.
This was organised in 1900 by the Slovene Artistic Association. Grohar was elected treasurer. He illegally borrowed money from the Društvo, and went to jail for three months. It all started there.
Slovenia auction archive:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/auction%20slovenia
ART SALE TAKES PLACE NEAR SLOVENIA
As though Slovenia were to professional auctioneering what vancomycin is to a petri dish full of snot, an auction of Slovenian art took place as near as it was practicably possible for Slovenians to go and buy it, i.e. in Italy.
Mainly private buyers spent 800,000 euros at the sale by Stadion Casa d'Aste in Trieste, including 91,000 euros for Grohar's Hay Racks, with an opening price of 50k.
After Catholic training in Zagreb, draft-dodging in Venice, and studying in Graz, Vienna, and Munich, ful dobro but routinely destitute impressionist Ivan Grohar eventually had to return to his homeland where he participated in the first Slovene Artists’ Exhibition.
This was organised in 1900 by the Slovene Artistic Association. Grohar was elected treasurer. He illegally borrowed money from the Društvo, and went to jail for three months. It all started there.
Slovenia auction archive:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/auction%20slovenia
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on this day in history
December 4 771 - Carloman I, Charlemagne's kid brother and co-ruler dies of a nasty nosebleed.
December 4 1110 - the Syrian harbour city of Saida (Sidon) surrenders to the Crusaders, who were really economic migrants.
December 4 1154 - beer-brewer Adrian IV - the Hertfordshire pope - becomes the only English pontiff ever. He crushes a democratic takeover in Rome and executes critics of worldliness and papal greed.
December 4 1872 - a small British brig spots the Mary Celeste at full sail near the Azores. The ship is seaworthy, its stores and supplies untouched, but not a soul is found aboard.
December 4 1905 - rich toff Prime Minister Arthur Balfour resigns.
December 4 1952 - a deadly smog of smoke, soot, and sulfur dioxide from factories, cars and coal fires begins to hover over London, England, continuing for four days, killing at least 4,000 people.
December 4 1954 - the first Burger King opens, in Miami.
December 4 1961 - birth control pills become available in the UK on the NHS.
December 4 2015 - both Slovenia's Ministers of Economy and Agriculture excuse themselves from smelly chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj's 110th anniversary celebrations.
December 4 771 - Carloman I, Charlemagne's kid brother and co-ruler dies of a nasty nosebleed.
December 4 1110 - the Syrian harbour city of Saida (Sidon) surrenders to the Crusaders, who were really economic migrants.
December 4 1154 - beer-brewer Adrian IV - the Hertfordshire pope - becomes the only English pontiff ever. He crushes a democratic takeover in Rome and executes critics of worldliness and papal greed.
December 4 1872 - a small British brig spots the Mary Celeste at full sail near the Azores. The ship is seaworthy, its stores and supplies untouched, but not a soul is found aboard.
December 4 1905 - rich toff Prime Minister Arthur Balfour resigns.
December 4 1952 - a deadly smog of smoke, soot, and sulfur dioxide from factories, cars and coal fires begins to hover over London, England, continuing for four days, killing at least 4,000 people.
December 4 1954 - the first Burger King opens, in Miami.
December 4 1961 - birth control pills become available in the UK on the NHS.
December 4 2015 - both Slovenia's Ministers of Economy and Agriculture excuse themselves from smelly chicken factory Perutnina Ptuj's 110th anniversary celebrations.
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chicken factory management shocked,
hung upside down,
demands for decapitation
RUSSIAN KOKS GRAB FOR PTUJ COCKS
The chicken-fat torches sizzled late into the night at Ptuj's poultry company offices, after National Police Investigation units descended on thirteen business and residential premises connected with Perutnina Ptuj and detained the members of the Management Board, after some misunderstanding over the 62%-higher payments per share received by them, in a 40m euro recapitalisation-to-takeover-bid by the SIJ group.
Although visited, investigators emphasise SIJ are not implicated in any wrongdoing, which adds to their potential usefulness at rescuing the company's town from this chicken factory's tawdry stench in a really fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime PR opportunity for steelmakers SIJ and their owners.
Besides the group's obvious access to wide technical expertise in pollution control systems, let's hope they really know what they're doing with branding, these Russians from the former Kemerovski Koksokhimicheski Kombinat, nowadays blessed with the dynamic moniker OAO Koks.
It certainly looks like they do. OAO Koks is not only an eye-catching, stand-out name-change. It is a loud, unashamed brand that employees can be encouraged to reinforce by being allowed to yell it out every time they bash a finger.
OAO Koks suits modern attitudes better than KKK, and this is a pointer that once Koks achieve a sizeable holding they will probably have a crack team with their eye on the ball when it comes to the traditionally cheesy aromas of our PP.
Source:
http://www.rtvslo.si/crna-kronika/sij-od-uprave-perutnine-pricakuje-odstop-roman-glaser-se-ne-cuti-odgovornega/380176
ptuj weather
Freezing chog, X-rated-mass in the air. Overnight turning to atomised isaw ng manok.
See the complete Ptuj weather archive at:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20weather
hung upside down,
demands for decapitation
RUSSIAN KOKS GRAB FOR PTUJ COCKS
The chicken-fat torches sizzled late into the night at Ptuj's poultry company offices, after National Police Investigation units descended on thirteen business and residential premises connected with Perutnina Ptuj and detained the members of the Management Board, after some misunderstanding over the 62%-higher payments per share received by them, in a 40m euro recapitalisation-to-takeover-bid by the SIJ group.
Although visited, investigators emphasise SIJ are not implicated in any wrongdoing, which adds to their potential usefulness at rescuing the company's town from this chicken factory's tawdry stench in a really fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime PR opportunity for steelmakers SIJ and their owners.
Besides the group's obvious access to wide technical expertise in pollution control systems, let's hope they really know what they're doing with branding, these Russians from the former Kemerovski Koksokhimicheski Kombinat, nowadays blessed with the dynamic moniker OAO Koks.
It certainly looks like they do. OAO Koks is not only an eye-catching, stand-out name-change. It is a loud, unashamed brand that employees can be encouraged to reinforce by being allowed to yell it out every time they bash a finger.
OAO Koks suits modern attitudes better than KKK, and this is a pointer that once Koks achieve a sizeable holding they will probably have a crack team with their eye on the ball when it comes to the traditionally cheesy aromas of our PP.
Source:
http://www.rtvslo.si/crna-kronika/sij-od-uprave-perutnine-pricakuje-odstop-roman-glaser-se-ne-cuti-odgovornega/380176
ptuj weather
Freezing chog, X-rated-mass in the air. Overnight turning to atomised isaw ng manok.
See the complete Ptuj weather archive at:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/ptuj%20weather
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doom and gloom and spume
SLOVENIA'S MARITIME ALTER-EGO
With its marauding sharks, lost treasure, resentment of everybody towards everyone else, sudden violent outbursts, endless isolation, and dolorous, menacing atmosphere, our feudin' homeland seems to have more in common with this other Palmyra than with the Palmyra near Homs that's been demolished and looted by the Sunni boys.
SLOVENIA'S MARITIME ALTER-EGO
With its marauding sharks, lost treasure, resentment of everybody towards everyone else, sudden violent outbursts, endless isolation, and dolorous, menacing atmosphere, our feudin' homeland seems to have more in common with this other Palmyra than with the Palmyra near Homs that's been demolished and looted by the Sunni boys.
The Cursed Paradise of
Palmyra Atoll | Mysterious Universe
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problems with neighbours
ASININE NATION - BUT KODELA SURVIVES
More dangerous than Paris is Videm:
The SWAT team took their Kevlar wi' dem.
Kalashnikov panic
Not nuttin' Islamic,
We've crazies enough - we don't need 'em.
After a boring afternoon watching refugees not exploding at the Austrian border, a special forces unit took off to the hamlet of Dolena in the Videm administrative area, where a well-known local nutcase was threatening to bomb his neighbours and scaring them into hiding in the cellar by shooting at them with a military rifle which, police explained, "he wasn't supposed to have".
After a four hour siege our chap came staggering out of his house with his AK47, shooting one cop through his bulletproof vest and also a police dog. Both survived. Showing great restraint, the cops shot him dead.
It was all thanks to refugee mania that they were able to deploy so quickly. But which is actually more dangerous to Slovenian security? Is it the (so far) 237,021 fleeing, teetotal darkies...or your 120%-white jealous alcoholic neighbours in the scenic winegrowing hills of Haloze?
A quick statistical comparison of recent events shows it is the latter.
Paris is 424 times more populous than Videm Pri Ptuju.
Population of Paris 2240621 - deaths 130 - odds of a violent death at weekends around 10pm involving military weaponry = 0.0058%
Population of Videm 5283 - deaths: 1 - odds of the same thing there = 0.019%
Population of Dolena 182 - deaths: 1 = 0.55% ...at these kind of odds it starts to get real.
Therefore Videm Pri Ptuju is 3.27 times more deadly than Paris. And Dolena is 95 times deadlier than the French capital on a bad night, putting it up there with the likes of Ciudad Juárez and Bogota - if this fanatical counting thing they do here in Slovenia is to be believed in. But please do not cancel your holiday.
The police are on strike.
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/pretresljivo-policista-je-zadel-v-prsni-kos-resil-ga-je-neprebojni-jopic
ASININE NATION - BUT KODELA SURVIVES
More dangerous than Paris is Videm:
The SWAT team took their Kevlar wi' dem.
Kalashnikov panic
Not nuttin' Islamic,
We've crazies enough - we don't need 'em.
After a boring afternoon watching refugees not exploding at the Austrian border, a special forces unit took off to the hamlet of Dolena in the Videm administrative area, where a well-known local nutcase was threatening to bomb his neighbours and scaring them into hiding in the cellar by shooting at them with a military rifle which, police explained, "he wasn't supposed to have".
After a four hour siege our chap came staggering out of his house with his AK47, shooting one cop through his bulletproof vest and also a police dog. Both survived. Showing great restraint, the cops shot him dead.
It was all thanks to refugee mania that they were able to deploy so quickly. But which is actually more dangerous to Slovenian security? Is it the (so far) 237,021 fleeing, teetotal darkies...or your 120%-white jealous alcoholic neighbours in the scenic winegrowing hills of Haloze?
A quick statistical comparison of recent events shows it is the latter.
Paris is 424 times more populous than Videm Pri Ptuju.
Population of Paris 2240621 - deaths 130 - odds of a violent death at weekends around 10pm involving military weaponry = 0.0058%
Population of Videm 5283 - deaths: 1 - odds of the same thing there = 0.019%
Population of Dolena 182 - deaths: 1 = 0.55% ...at these kind of odds it starts to get real.
Therefore Videm Pri Ptuju is 3.27 times more deadly than Paris. And Dolena is 95 times deadlier than the French capital on a bad night, putting it up there with the likes of Ciudad Juárez and Bogota - if this fanatical counting thing they do here in Slovenia is to be believed in. But please do not cancel your holiday.
The police are on strike.
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/pretresljivo-policista-je-zadel-v-prsni-kos-resil-ga-je-neprebojni-jopic
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apocalypse sow
FOREIGNERS COULD BE BLAMED
FOR FARM OUTBREAKS
Warning on germs pathogenic,
Etiology Syriafghanic.
Anthrax, or a sandwich,
Vet don't say. In his language:
Don't mix stock and refugees, innit.
Yes, lock up your kittens, as according to the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection (UVHVVR) owners of animals should be alert to the occurrence of any signs of disease that might result from migrants in their pastures.
According to an unofficial report, mixed into the middle of this Slovenske Novice article, a farmer's barn was infected via straw touched by migrants.
If you observe symptoms, tell the vet. Keep dogs, cats and poultry inside the yard, UVHVVR advises farmers. "For now, animals should not graze in pastures where migrants have been sitting," warned the administration.
FOREIGNERS COULD BE BLAMED
FOR FARM OUTBREAKS
Warning on germs pathogenic,
Etiology Syriafghanic.
Anthrax, or a sandwich,
Vet don't say. In his language:
Don't mix stock and refugees, innit.
Yes, lock up your kittens, as according to the Administration for Food Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection (UVHVVR) owners of animals should be alert to the occurrence of any signs of disease that might result from migrants in their pastures.
According to an unofficial report, mixed into the middle of this Slovenske Novice article, a farmer's barn was infected via straw touched by migrants.
If you observe symptoms, tell the vet. Keep dogs, cats and poultry inside the yard, UVHVVR advises farmers. "For now, animals should not graze in pastures where migrants have been sitting," warned the administration.
»Živali ne pasite na
pašnikih, kjer so se zadrževali
migranti«
slovenskenovice.si
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fancy that
FOREIGNERS COULD BE BLAMED FOR FOREIGNERS
Quote 1:
Cerar was also asked to comment on a statement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who suggested there was a risk of armed conflict in the Balkans due to the ongoing refugee crisis.
"I do not know what exactly she meant...I assume she is worried by the escalation of the refugee crisis," he said.
---- PM Cerar, as reported by Slovenian PR mouthpiece The Slovenia Times on Wednesday 4 November
Quote 2:
The migrant crisis engulfing Europe threatens to reignite conflicts between former Yugoslav republics which fought each other during the 1990s, Slovenia's prime minister said on Tuesday. (Reuters, 3 November)
FOREIGNERS COULD BE BLAMED FOR FOREIGNERS
Quote 1:
Cerar was also asked to comment on a statement by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who suggested there was a risk of armed conflict in the Balkans due to the ongoing refugee crisis.
"I do not know what exactly she meant...I assume she is worried by the escalation of the refugee crisis," he said.
---- PM Cerar, as reported by Slovenian PR mouthpiece The Slovenia Times on Wednesday 4 November
Quote 2:
The migrant crisis engulfing Europe threatens to reignite conflicts between former Yugoslav republics which fought each other during the 1990s, Slovenia's prime minister said on Tuesday. (Reuters, 3 November)
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late statistic
MAKE UP: THE NUMBERS
Al-Entero-Stampedo 130,661 : 303,948 GA Fanatiki
All the way from Memphis, nobody was counting migrants.
But in Slovenia, refugee counting continues doggedly on. This is the stuff Slovenia was born for. Counting everything about foreigners is like catnip for Slovenians - www.a2z.si/arses - and someone is having a kind of bureaucratic multiple orgasm.
Since its inception on 16 October the count has now reached almost 43% of the number of tickets Girls Aloud sold on the whole Out Of Control tour - 32 dates.
Beguncintensivnostmetrik After adjusting for days (refugeeing) and dates (Girls Aloud OOC tour) we can see that even under today's total emergency conditions - when crowds are forced into it like sausagemeat - Slovenia is still only 76.42% as popular in terms of crowd dynamics as the girly quintet in 2009.
Girls Aloud attendance vs. Migrant volume data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Control_Tour
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-dobovi-cakajo-ze-sesti-vlak-danes
MAKE UP: THE NUMBERS
Al-Entero-Stampedo 130,661 : 303,948 GA Fanatiki
All the way from Memphis, nobody was counting migrants.
But in Slovenia, refugee counting continues doggedly on. This is the stuff Slovenia was born for. Counting everything about foreigners is like catnip for Slovenians - www.a2z.si/arses - and someone is having a kind of bureaucratic multiple orgasm.
Since its inception on 16 October the count has now reached almost 43% of the number of tickets Girls Aloud sold on the whole Out Of Control tour - 32 dates.
Beguncintensivnostmetrik After adjusting for days (refugeeing) and dates (Girls Aloud OOC tour) we can see that even under today's total emergency conditions - when crowds are forced into it like sausagemeat - Slovenia is still only 76.42% as popular in terms of crowd dynamics as the girly quintet in 2009.
Girls Aloud attendance vs. Migrant volume data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Control_Tour
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-dobovi-cakajo-ze-sesti-vlak-danes
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village antis
GOOGLE TRANSLATE OF THE WEEK
Ali kdo ljudem, ki so se znašli na Zloveniji, brani izražati misli in želje? Ne.
Does anyone people who find themselves in lovenia, defending express thoughts and desires? Yes.
Googletranslated from:
http://paterson.blog.siol.net/2015/10/27/pogled-vstran/
GOOGLE TRANSLATE OF THE WEEK
Ali kdo ljudem, ki so se znašli na Zloveniji, brani izražati misli in želje? Ne.
Does anyone people who find themselves in lovenia, defending express thoughts and desires? Yes.
Googletranslated from:
http://paterson.blog.siol.net/2015/10/27/pogled-vstran/
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cnn sports
CROSS COUNTRY GEES-UP:
TIPSTERS WRONG AGAIN
NK Predikta Histerija 15 : 89,789 Blackbum Rovers
English Premier Division:
MC Lingoeuriborough Utd 5 : 2 Anglo Alenko Pathetico
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwim7J5eEsM
CROSS COUNTRY GEES-UP:
TIPSTERS WRONG AGAIN
NK Predikta Histerija 15 : 89,789 Blackbum Rovers
English Premier Division:
MC Lingoeuriborough Utd 5 : 2 Anglo Alenko Pathetico
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwim7J5eEsM
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slovenia ficts and foggers
Shares in holding company Sava d.d. fell 60% to 0.069 euros today, giving it an equity value of 138,000 euros.
At 210,000 euros the salary of its Management Board President Matej Narat is over one-and-a-half times this.
Sava d.d. has 17 employees. The otherwise pointless Sava d.d. administers Sava Turizem, which owns most of the hotels in Bled, Primus Hotel in Ptuj, and some Slovenian spas including Terme Ptuj.
Half a mile from that (and me) is the Perutnina Ptuj chicken factory, whose supremo Roman Glaser owns the weird poultry waste rendering smells that have traditionally been one of Ptuj's biggest tourist draws.
Perutnina Ptuj is reckoned to be the best chicken factory in Europe, as chicken factories go. Conveniently, dr. Glaser became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Probanka - now in liquidation after lending millions to PP plus a swathe of other, now-bellyflopped, Slovenian oligarchs.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XUKmdEcKphE
For all of which in 2012 he received 226,000 and 51,000 euros gross respectively.
Roman's hobbies include fighting off small shareholders and special audits, and heading the regional Chamber of Commerce.
In traditional style, the largest creditors of Perutnina were its shareholder Probanka, along with Abanka, and Sava-owned Gorenjska Banka. But it hardly ends there.
However, a couple of things do stand out about Perutnina Ptuj among Slovenian enterprises. It makes a profit. It isn't at its core a mere exercise in accountancy acrobatics.
It makes chickens. And so it isn't pointless.
In common with the Ouroboros of Sava and Gorenjska Banka, Probanka is part-owner of Perutnina Ptuj, and Perutnina Ptuj a part-owner of Probanka.
Imre Balogh - who was appointed to wind up Probanka in 2013 - now replaces Torbjörn Mansson as CEO of bad bank BAMC. He gets 20,500 a month for squatting amid this tangle of octopi.
In contrast to these wonderful firms, my website www.ptuj.co.uk generates a net loss of no more than 30 euros a year.
My attempts to get the locals to use it to generate an income always result in a po-faced xenophobic silence, and hit a dead end in every direction.
You see, this .uk domain-based site, named after Slovenia's oldest town and ought-to-be tourist magnet, is not even in Slovene. www.ptuj.co.uk has hardly changed in ten years, and remains as vital, relevant, and up-to-the-minute as ever.
In economics, Ptuj is an important model of the trickle-down economy. It is not money trickling down, though. In truth, a decade of massive bank loans, share issues, deals, and recapitalisations has left unchanged what is more of a lurk-around economy - with Roman seeing no profit for him in the provision of so much as an Airwick, as PP's rather unromantic carnivorous cocktail of odours trickles down over an otherwise stunning Venetian Baroque town centre, with its commanding castle overlooking the Drava plain.
For Roman's aroma is nuisance indeed, and if not enough to actually stop tourists, enough to stop them coming twice.
There is no shortage of more fragrant destinations. The proximality of industrial meat slaughter waste cookers does not probably figure high on the list of tourism attractants for which the entorhinal cortex evolved. One way or another, these things stick in your hippocampus.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2008/381243/
BAMC's top tier Mansson and Chairman Lars Nyberg were dismissed, and fellow foreign bad banker Janne Harjunpää is also planning to go, saying his efforts to recoup at least something on behalf of the Slovenian taxpayers, and against the interests of the owners of Sava d.d. and Slovenia's biggest bankrupt ever - insolvent Catholic Diocese-owned incense-to-ISP/telco T-2 and its holding companies - do not seem to be appreciated.
This puts the reins of the bad bank - which is tasked with normalising things - back in the tainted hands of the local tinkling classes, with most of the trickled-down-on classes seemingly left stuck on around 300 euros a month.
Does this type of normalising really seem like a good idea?
Shares in holding company Sava d.d. fell 60% to 0.069 euros today, giving it an equity value of 138,000 euros.
At 210,000 euros the salary of its Management Board President Matej Narat is over one-and-a-half times this.
Sava d.d. has 17 employees. The otherwise pointless Sava d.d. administers Sava Turizem, which owns most of the hotels in Bled, Primus Hotel in Ptuj, and some Slovenian spas including Terme Ptuj.
Half a mile from that (and me) is the Perutnina Ptuj chicken factory, whose supremo Roman Glaser owns the weird poultry waste rendering smells that have traditionally been one of Ptuj's biggest tourist draws.
Perutnina Ptuj is reckoned to be the best chicken factory in Europe, as chicken factories go. Conveniently, dr. Glaser became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Probanka - now in liquidation after lending millions to PP plus a swathe of other, now-bellyflopped, Slovenian oligarchs.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/XUKmdEcKphE
For all of which in 2012 he received 226,000 and 51,000 euros gross respectively.
Roman's hobbies include fighting off small shareholders and special audits, and heading the regional Chamber of Commerce.
In traditional style, the largest creditors of Perutnina were its shareholder Probanka, along with Abanka, and Sava-owned Gorenjska Banka. But it hardly ends there.
However, a couple of things do stand out about Perutnina Ptuj among Slovenian enterprises. It makes a profit. It isn't at its core a mere exercise in accountancy acrobatics.
It makes chickens. And so it isn't pointless.
In common with the Ouroboros of Sava and Gorenjska Banka, Probanka is part-owner of Perutnina Ptuj, and Perutnina Ptuj a part-owner of Probanka.
Imre Balogh - who was appointed to wind up Probanka in 2013 - now replaces Torbjörn Mansson as CEO of bad bank BAMC. He gets 20,500 a month for squatting amid this tangle of octopi.
In contrast to these wonderful firms, my website www.ptuj.co.uk generates a net loss of no more than 30 euros a year.
My attempts to get the locals to use it to generate an income always result in a po-faced xenophobic silence, and hit a dead end in every direction.
You see, this .uk domain-based site, named after Slovenia's oldest town and ought-to-be tourist magnet, is not even in Slovene. www.ptuj.co.uk has hardly changed in ten years, and remains as vital, relevant, and up-to-the-minute as ever.
In economics, Ptuj is an important model of the trickle-down economy. It is not money trickling down, though. In truth, a decade of massive bank loans, share issues, deals, and recapitalisations has left unchanged what is more of a lurk-around economy - with Roman seeing no profit for him in the provision of so much as an Airwick, as PP's rather unromantic carnivorous cocktail of odours trickles down over an otherwise stunning Venetian Baroque town centre, with its commanding castle overlooking the Drava plain.
For Roman's aroma is nuisance indeed, and if not enough to actually stop tourists, enough to stop them coming twice.
There is no shortage of more fragrant destinations. The proximality of industrial meat slaughter waste cookers does not probably figure high on the list of tourism attractants for which the entorhinal cortex evolved. One way or another, these things stick in your hippocampus.
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2008/381243/
BAMC's top tier Mansson and Chairman Lars Nyberg were dismissed, and fellow foreign bad banker Janne Harjunpää is also planning to go, saying his efforts to recoup at least something on behalf of the Slovenian taxpayers, and against the interests of the owners of Sava d.d. and Slovenia's biggest bankrupt ever - insolvent Catholic Diocese-owned incense-to-ISP/telco T-2 and its holding companies - do not seem to be appreciated.
This puts the reins of the bad bank - which is tasked with normalising things - back in the tainted hands of the local tinkling classes, with most of the trickled-down-on classes seemingly left stuck on around 300 euros a month.
Does this type of normalising really seem like a good idea?
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COPS SWARM BAD BANK AT 7 a.m.
Yet another timely coincidence involving politico-financial face-offs and cops. It's just a routine enquiry, to create chaos, as part of Slovenia's traditional repurchasing circle.
This time it's a good-sized chunk of its government's country's nine million overnight stays-per-year hotel industry that's up for grabs.
Investigators found some inadequate paperwork. There were no actual arrests, only cardiac ones.
NPOSIALPU's bad bank anthology
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COPS SWARM BAD BANK AT 7 a.m.
Yet another timely coincidence involving politico-financial face-offs and cops. It's just a routine enquiry, to create chaos, as part of Slovenia's traditional repurchasing circle.
This time it's a good-sized chunk of its government's country's nine million overnight stays-per-year hotel industry that's up for grabs.
Investigators found some inadequate paperwork. There were no actual arrests, only cardiac ones.
NPOSIALPU's bad bank anthology
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112569714916753901063/s/%22bad%20bank%22%20slovenia
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wordplay
NE, UM NO, NI ZA BARVA
There are few puns in Slovene. The above attempt is as near as I think you are ever likely to get. Slovenians won't even see it and I don't care.
It isn't too funny anyway. It reminds me of that pointless feeling I sometimes experience when I hear one of their jokes.
Slovenians show little sign of spotting openings to bung a pun in. If two words sounded the same they would be spelled the same.
Because Slovene is a phonetic language.
And if one word means two different things in Slovene, this is an opportunity for a village feud. Not a joke.
Well, you might get a serious academic debate, I suppose. It must be a dull old grind and that's a fact.
It seems in Slovenia weeks and months can go by with no comedy innuendo. Mrs Slocombe's pussy does not have a cat in hell's chance when it comes to tongues this local. This means there can never be a Slovene version of Innuendo Bingo.
NE, UM NO, NI ZA BARVA
There are few puns in Slovene. The above attempt is as near as I think you are ever likely to get. Slovenians won't even see it and I don't care.
It isn't too funny anyway. It reminds me of that pointless feeling I sometimes experience when I hear one of their jokes.
Slovenians show little sign of spotting openings to bung a pun in. If two words sounded the same they would be spelled the same.
Because Slovene is a phonetic language.
And if one word means two different things in Slovene, this is an opportunity for a village feud. Not a joke.
Well, you might get a serious academic debate, I suppose. It must be a dull old grind and that's a fact.
It seems in Slovenia weeks and months can go by with no comedy innuendo. Mrs Slocombe's pussy does not have a cat in hell's chance when it comes to tongues this local. This means there can never be a Slovene version of Innuendo Bingo.
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HOME SWEDE HOME
And lo, it came to pass that Emperor Miro and his princes finally found a way to rid themselves of the irritatingly efficient Torbjörn Månsson and Lars Nyberg, they whom the EU-ites had cast into Slovenia to sort out all the negative numbers owned by his unruly banks.
How could these Swedes possibly countenance the selling off of the assets of our simple businessfolk, who had simply wanted to borrow billions in over-optimistic loans from friendly banks before simply buying a big house with a jacuzzi and simply huge Beamers for all their family members, only to tell their employees and creditors to wait because there simply wasn't any money?
When even cancelling his bonus and halving Månsson's income to a mere 20,500 a month (and inviting the readership of commoners' tabloid Slovenske Novice to express their feelings about his remuneration) didn't work, Miro The Peaceful and his henchlings beset him with nitpicking lawyers, suggesting that he was still being overpaid for dealing with billions in assets.
NPOSIALPU is no evangelist for neoliberalism, but Slovenia doesn't even get the old one yet. The icons of market value or fair reward do not seem to be sorting themselves out in terms of prices and wages. Sweden is of course famously expensive but rich. Slovenia is expensive but famously cheap.
An aspirin costs 6.72 times more than in the UK, and 32% more than in Sweden. Slovenia is the only country in Europe whose government sets the price of petrol, just as it did in Yugoslavia. The result is a price twice that of some garages in Austria.
The other result is a headache for the drivers among the 25% of all Slovenians who live and stay in the most densely populated Central Statistical Region who are, by any logistic imaginable, at an absurd economic disadvantage compared to those nearer the borders.
Petrol is cheaper in all four adjoining countries. So Slovenia has actually fixed things so that the further into it you are, the poorer you get! How many nations can make that claim?
Neither the Berlin Wall or Yugoslavia fell last week. We are not on an island. Finance Minister Mramor doesn't think fuel rigging should be changed "yet".
Surely even the communists would rather pay half. Let's just get all the oil finished and have done with it.
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http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/razkrivamo-kje-lahko-tocite-gorivo-za-sanjskih-060-evra-na-liter
Conversely the idea of exchanging high pay and high performance has yet to take hold. One is alright, but both would just be showing off.
With Slovenia at the mercy of the EU, and probably sensing their rather lukewarm reception, the bad bank's foreign bosses have duly recorded their achievements and published ripostes to the incessant needling from the government in a rather public fashion from the get-go:
http://www.dutb.eu/en/about-us/important-milestones
In April 2013 Slovenia demonstrated its determination to sort out its banks' minus signs by giving the three directors and one assistant one office with one telephone and no internet.
Nevertheless, by December 2013 BAMC had received 3.21 billion gross value in assets of bad debtors from the two biggest banks.
As the office party was replaced with a bad hangover, it became clear this approaching storm of meatballs was bad news for the oligarchs, who could no longer rely on their relatives and cronies to keep on extending the loans.
What was the point of this capitalism thing if they actually had to give the money back, or lose all their stuff?
This seemingly congenital local dodginess, besides Sweden's own successful recoveries from other people's wars and its own bubbles, is why the EU made Slovenia hire these outsiders in the first place.
The bad bank became Slovenia's biggest hotel owner, ruffling feathers by calling time on Sava Turizem, which thought it was being restructured (read "business as usual") but instead found it had been sold.
In declaring their "loss of trust" in Månsson and Nyberg, Slovenia's non-interfering politicians have been joined in xenophobic-looking unity against these particular bad bankers, using as ammunition nothing more substantial than some legalistic niggle over Månsson's pay packet for a few months. Perhaps there were translation problems.
Clumsily, the PM (he earns less than them) went out of his way to assure journos his triumph in this long-running pay-jealousy-fest was nothing to do with nationality, adding as proof that there was "still one foreigner" on the Board.
Strangely, gain does not seem to register as a human motivation, in the Slovenian boss psyche. Performance-related bonuses are the work of Beelzebub, says our Minister for Wood, knowing that locally appointed woodsmen would cut extra trees just to please their lord and master, or out of fear of replacement, eviction, perhaps a trial...
What BAMC wants is homeys who will work for normal wages and not sell off the assets for a quick buck, he says, despite the fact that few in Slovenia could be trusted near such sums even if they had a clue, or possess half the knowledge or contacts of the departing chiefs.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/dAG99ikcpfj
Well (resorting to national stereotypes) what do the Swedes know about money anyway?
http://www.ekonomifakta.se/en/Swedish-economic-history/
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developments outside slovenia 1970 to 2010
LEFT AND RIGHT...
...fish and chips on acid...Blair's men in skirts...political crossdressing... neuroendocrinological baselines and the solaces of consumerism... how it all went wrong...how it all went right in the world - beginning two decades before Slovenia stumbled out of the Yugoslavian sunshine into the darkness caused by foreigners not understanding the joys of totalitarian semi-capitalism.
A useful history very compactly laid out in one car journey from some quintessentially English village into Oxford, covering various now dog-eared UK sociopolitical movements from the pre-Girls Aloud era.
Many are probably still being manipulatively laid on the people in Slovenian universities, as if the intellectual and behavioural deficits of both left and right weren't now comprehended plainly enough.
Rob Llewellyn off that comedy sci-fi show that we've all heard of and that well-known psychologist we've all heard of ponder the atomisation of some of the kind of daft economics, equality, and ecology ideologies which might make Brits desperate enough to flee to a place few have heard of, to escape things you have never heard of.
Slovenian subtitles are not available.
LEFT AND RIGHT...
...fish and chips on acid...Blair's men in skirts...political crossdressing... neuroendocrinological baselines and the solaces of consumerism... how it all went wrong...how it all went right in the world - beginning two decades before Slovenia stumbled out of the Yugoslavian sunshine into the darkness caused by foreigners not understanding the joys of totalitarian semi-capitalism.
A useful history very compactly laid out in one car journey from some quintessentially English village into Oxford, covering various now dog-eared UK sociopolitical movements from the pre-Girls Aloud era.
Many are probably still being manipulatively laid on the people in Slovenian universities, as if the intellectual and behavioural deficits of both left and right weren't now comprehended plainly enough.
Rob Llewellyn off that comedy sci-fi show that we've all heard of and that well-known psychologist we've all heard of ponder the atomisation of some of the kind of daft economics, equality, and ecology ideologies which might make Brits desperate enough to flee to a place few have heard of, to escape things you have never heard of.
Slovenian subtitles are not available.
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STUDENT FLAT
Sex with a businessman three or four times a month is enough to get you somewhere to live in Ljub City, in these difficult times for students.
So one flat hunter learned, from a gentleman's response to her "apartment wanted" ad.
Can you envisage that contract?
He helpfully points out he isn't a psycho...but what if he is and he just doesn't feel guilty about lying about it?
Or what if the rent goes up? This could happen if she likes him more than she thought she would, and asks him round to stay at his place more than is strictly necessary - or if he somehow turns out to be controlling.
Her rent could rocket.
Or what if she becomes fat and ugly? Or wants to sleep with her boyfriend when the rent is due? Or the landlord gets emotionally involved? He could end up not profiting from his asset, even losing it.
The problems seem endless. Is there a chess clock for the sexual performances? To what extent can she do like Lysistrata if the shower needs fixing? If he leaves the loo seat up will she be able to sue?
If advertised, would this have to be an equal sex opportunity?
The lawyers will have a field day with this one, that's for sure. When they finish their exams and grow up.
He claims to be capable of pulling - but just too busy.
Did she fix to meet him and have a look? No. She went to the people's tabloid Slovenske Novice instead.
Both tell us everything we need to know about the situation vis-à-vis parlez-vous in S*love*nia.
STUDENT FLAT
Sex with a businessman three or four times a month is enough to get you somewhere to live in Ljub City, in these difficult times for students.
So one flat hunter learned, from a gentleman's response to her "apartment wanted" ad.
Can you envisage that contract?
He helpfully points out he isn't a psycho...but what if he is and he just doesn't feel guilty about lying about it?
Or what if the rent goes up? This could happen if she likes him more than she thought she would, and asks him round to stay at his place more than is strictly necessary - or if he somehow turns out to be controlling.
Her rent could rocket.
Or what if she becomes fat and ugly? Or wants to sleep with her boyfriend when the rent is due? Or the landlord gets emotionally involved? He could end up not profiting from his asset, even losing it.
The problems seem endless. Is there a chess clock for the sexual performances? To what extent can she do like Lysistrata if the shower needs fixing? If he leaves the loo seat up will she be able to sue?
If advertised, would this have to be an equal sex opportunity?
The lawyers will have a field day with this one, that's for sure. When they finish their exams and grow up.
He claims to be capable of pulling - but just too busy.
Did she fix to meet him and have a look? No. She went to the people's tabloid Slovenske Novice instead.
Both tell us everything we need to know about the situation vis-à-vis parlez-vous in S*love*nia.
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HUNGARY PUTS UP ITS STUPID FENCE AND TAKES IT DOWN AGAIN
Those mad zarkjers have been at it again, trying to turn their stupid-shaped country into a concentration camp with their razor wire.
It was another historic first for Slovenia that it wasn't consulted about, as it briefly faced the only Hungarian fence between Schengen countries so far.
Folks up there still remember the last one.
Finally they worked out nobody was trying to escape into Hungary. Not even from Slovenia.
Those mad zarkjers have been at it again, trying to turn their stupid-shaped country into a concentration camp with their razor wire.
It was another historic first for Slovenia that it wasn't consulted about, as it briefly faced the only Hungarian fence between Schengen countries so far.
Folks up there still remember the last one.
Finally they worked out nobody was trying to escape into Hungary. Not even from Slovenia.
Na meji z Madžarsko
bodeče žice ni več
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BIKERS CLUB TOGETHER TO FEED POLICE FORCE
After learning in the media that police sent to control refugees at the border had been given only two sandwiches and some water in 26 hours, motorcyclist Jure Jurko Jurenec launched a Facebook campaign.
Police were initially taken aback, then became teary-eyed when Jure and his fellow grebos appeared out of a cloud of dry ice in slomo with all the pizza and Red Bull their bikes could carry.
Meanwhile refugees have thanked the police for their civilised treatment, according to the people's tabloid Slovenske Novice, where all reader comments have been halted since the migrants began arriving here from/with this crisis.
Slovenians can easily identify with the Islamic schism of AD 632 which of course concerns whether command should just pass down the family line (Shia, T-2, Plinovod, etc.) or whether the boss should be chosen from/by a group of elites (e.g. Sunni, AUKN, Mercator).
In Serbia, it reports, those fleeing arms consumerism were charged five euros for water, 10 euros for a kilo of bananas, and 800 euros for a taxi to the Croatian border.
Comparing these reactions proves that Slovenians are driven by ideology, not financial gain - and that in our free market economy the money value of goods and services will always find its own level.
BIKERS CLUB TOGETHER TO FEED POLICE FORCE
After learning in the media that police sent to control refugees at the border had been given only two sandwiches and some water in 26 hours, motorcyclist Jure Jurko Jurenec launched a Facebook campaign.
Police were initially taken aback, then became teary-eyed when Jure and his fellow grebos appeared out of a cloud of dry ice in slomo with all the pizza and Red Bull their bikes could carry.
Meanwhile refugees have thanked the police for their civilised treatment, according to the people's tabloid Slovenske Novice, where all reader comments have been halted since the migrants began arriving here from/with this crisis.
Slovenians can easily identify with the Islamic schism of AD 632 which of course concerns whether command should just pass down the family line (Shia, T-2, Plinovod, etc.) or whether the boss should be chosen from/by a group of elites (e.g. Sunni, AUKN, Mercator).
In Serbia, it reports, those fleeing arms consumerism were charged five euros for water, 10 euros for a kilo of bananas, and 800 euros for a taxi to the Croatian border.
Comparing these reactions proves that Slovenians are driven by ideology, not financial gain - and that in our free market economy the money value of goods and services will always find its own level.
Država hrani migrante,
motoristi pa policiste
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NK Sunny Slovenia vs Sunnis Reunited: latest score
Refugees arrived so far: 1650. Refugees asking to leave: 1649.
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-zivo-begunci-prestopili-mejo-v-sloveniji-so
الأجانب في سلوفينيا - ماذا نتوقع
Refugees arrived so far: 1650. Refugees asking to leave: 1649.
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-zivo-begunci-prestopili-mejo-v-sloveniji-so
الأجانب في سلوفينيا - ماذا نتوقع
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HIGH OCTANE ADIEU-KU
Slovenian-est
Ever: BMW +
Frontier + suicide.
Featuring once-problematic borders, a fast car they probably couldn't afford, and self-inflicted death within a horn's toot of some of our most unsuccessful casinos, this could be the most Slovenian story ever.
After leaving their farewell note, this Slovene drove an Italian registered German car at 125mph into a defunct customs building, incinerating whatever was left of themself.
As a result of the inferno, according to multi-billion dollar software giant Google's translation, the driver was "tanned". Probably an understatement: depends on your reference skin tone, I suppose.
Slovenian-est
Ever: BMW +
Frontier + suicide.
Featuring once-problematic borders, a fast car they probably couldn't afford, and self-inflicted death within a horn's toot of some of our most unsuccessful casinos, this could be the most Slovenian story ever.
After leaving their farewell note, this Slovene drove an Italian registered German car at 125mph into a defunct customs building, incinerating whatever was left of themself.
As a result of the inferno, according to multi-billion dollar software giant Google's translation, the driver was "tanned". Probably an understatement: depends on your reference skin tone, I suppose.
Tragično: po silovitem
trčenju avto z voznikom zgorel |
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I am pleased to report that funding has been granted in the EU for my nobgenic research project Assimilation of Girls Aloud in the Balkan Space.
Noting the vital role that general theoretical symbolism plays in perception, we ask if the introduction of Girls Aloud in a post-Yugoslavian environment will evoke narratives around the role of collective surrender of a phantasmagoric nature.
What was once a whole lot of historiographic drama of trauma and triumph in which we were all actors - moved not just by the music, but by the very allegory of ordinariness made splendiferous through technical agility, aesthetic delicacy, accuracy and coordinated motor control - is belatedly available in the Yugospace, converted from banquet into TV dinner, dumped and flattened into an emotionless short-term attention zone by the oft-repeated rotation of clock stomachs.
We determined no EU funding was used to keep Girls Aloud out of Slovenia. Slovenia did it by itself. But now they are here anyway. Is Girls Aloud in Slovenia an awakening or a burning? We would argue against a simplistic, reductionist autochthonous explanation of the cultural role of a fragmented, exploded Girls Aloud narrative, lest it be doomed to repeat an unintended wounding - fated like Tancred and Clorinda to a shallow, self-referential refraction through the former Yugo-nationhoods.
I am pleased to report that funding has been granted in the EU for my nobgenic research project Assimilation of Girls Aloud in the Balkan Space.
Noting the vital role that general theoretical symbolism plays in perception, we ask if the introduction of Girls Aloud in a post-Yugoslavian environment will evoke narratives around the role of collective surrender of a phantasmagoric nature.
What was once a whole lot of historiographic drama of trauma and triumph in which we were all actors - moved not just by the music, but by the very allegory of ordinariness made splendiferous through technical agility, aesthetic delicacy, accuracy and coordinated motor control - is belatedly available in the Yugospace, converted from banquet into TV dinner, dumped and flattened into an emotionless short-term attention zone by the oft-repeated rotation of clock stomachs.
We determined no EU funding was used to keep Girls Aloud out of Slovenia. Slovenia did it by itself. But now they are here anyway. Is Girls Aloud in Slovenia an awakening or a burning? We would argue against a simplistic, reductionist autochthonous explanation of the cultural role of a fragmented, exploded Girls Aloud narrative, lest it be doomed to repeat an unintended wounding - fated like Tancred and Clorinda to a shallow, self-referential refraction through the former Yugo-nationhoods.
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 7:
THE PROMISCUOUS LAND
I left my home in Al-Zabadani
Lincoln city on my mind,
I squeezed into that pickup
Headed for Reyhanlı
And got across Turkey fine.
Left parking lot to bypass Istanbul,
Concealed behind some packing crates.
Floated ninety kilometers of Aegean in a rundown
Vessel somewhere near the Bosphorous Strait.
We felt a bit more jolly hitting Alexandroupoli
Start our European trip,
Then the man that had the plan left us all stranded
In downtown Probishtip.
Paperwork prevented a through train ticket -
Biked through Macedonia to flee,
And I was underneath that wire out of Serbia
Crawling into Hungary.
Somebody help me get out of Budapest coz
Lincolnshire is where I'm bound -
Where military contracts make the electronics
That blow up Arabs and their towns.
Soon as you're born you gonna be a Muslim,
Or a Druze existing on the sand -
You don't think "Fine, I'll just move to Turkey"
Coz GB's the promiscuous land.
Working with my cousins, goin' to the dumpster,
Frying, mopping, Arab shakes,
For brazen girls we make a prayer to Allah
While stirring mix for their pancakes.
Post traumatic stress, estate sleazy,
Taxi driver, take drunks home,
Bangladeshi mutters that you took his job,
Immigration: condescending tone.
Yusuf in Lincoln calling give me Al-Zabadani
Hezbollah fort ten o nine,
Tell the guards this is the promiscuous land calling
And goodbye to the Levantine.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/QNTp9GxTZ8z
TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 7:
THE PROMISCUOUS LAND
I left my home in Al-Zabadani
Lincoln city on my mind,
I squeezed into that pickup
Headed for Reyhanlı
And got across Turkey fine.
Left parking lot to bypass Istanbul,
Concealed behind some packing crates.
Floated ninety kilometers of Aegean in a rundown
Vessel somewhere near the Bosphorous Strait.
We felt a bit more jolly hitting Alexandroupoli
Start our European trip,
Then the man that had the plan left us all stranded
In downtown Probishtip.
Paperwork prevented a through train ticket -
Biked through Macedonia to flee,
And I was underneath that wire out of Serbia
Crawling into Hungary.
Somebody help me get out of Budapest coz
Lincolnshire is where I'm bound -
Where military contracts make the electronics
That blow up Arabs and their towns.
Soon as you're born you gonna be a Muslim,
Or a Druze existing on the sand -
You don't think "Fine, I'll just move to Turkey"
Coz GB's the promiscuous land.
Working with my cousins, goin' to the dumpster,
Frying, mopping, Arab shakes,
For brazen girls we make a prayer to Allah
While stirring mix for their pancakes.
Post traumatic stress, estate sleazy,
Taxi driver, take drunks home,
Bangladeshi mutters that you took his job,
Immigration: condescending tone.
Yusuf in Lincoln calling give me Al-Zabadani
Hezbollah fort ten o nine,
Tell the guards this is the promiscuous land calling
And goodbye to the Levantine.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/QNTp9GxTZ8z
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Slovenia's 2015 road death toll reaches 84, compared to 68 up to this time last year, and four times the deaths for Lincolnshire this year, with only three times its population and area.
However Slovenia is 70% alps and over 50% forest, with 26000km of waterways. Lincolnshire by contrast is predominantly arable land and has a maximum elevation of 168m.
Back in the 90s, Lincolnshire was the UK's most dangerous county to drive in, though, and the annual death toll topped the 100 mark.
However Lincolnshire doesn't have a rule that every business decision, job application, or other prospect of personal advancement has to take place in a bar. Excitement on its roads has declined, while Slovenia has forged ahead with this statistic, as I predicted six years ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luqi/3708354873/
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/10-dangerous-Lincolnshire-roads-revealed-latest/story-26716978-detail/story.html
Slovenia's 2015 road death toll reaches 84, compared to 68 up to this time last year, and four times the deaths for Lincolnshire this year, with only three times its population and area.
However Slovenia is 70% alps and over 50% forest, with 26000km of waterways. Lincolnshire by contrast is predominantly arable land and has a maximum elevation of 168m.
Back in the 90s, Lincolnshire was the UK's most dangerous county to drive in, though, and the annual death toll topped the 100 mark.
However Lincolnshire doesn't have a rule that every business decision, job application, or other prospect of personal advancement has to take place in a bar. Excitement on its roads has declined, while Slovenia has forged ahead with this statistic, as I predicted six years ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/luqi/3708354873/
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/10-dangerous-Lincolnshire-roads-revealed-latest/story-26716978-detail/story.html
Ugasnila štiri
življenja, najmlajši je bil star 24 let
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Refugees couldn't buy a train or coach ticket in Macedonia without papers. But they could buy a bike, ride up the country and dump it at Kumanovo near the Serbian border, from where they are collected and sent back to Demir Kapija to be made available to the next rich refugee.
Despite its twin loves of temporary foreigners and selling the same thing over and over again, Slovenia seems to have missed a bureaucra-trick by not forcing war-torn cyclists onto our toll roads, which by the looks of things are a little busier than Macedonia's.
Faced with mountains, rivers, motorways, plus the Karawanken tunnel, there would be every reason to abandon your Slovenian ride once you approached Austria or Italy. In exceptions where foreigners try to hang on to the bike I'm sure we could come up with a requirement for a bicycle licence costing more than the bike which you wouldn't be able to buy without papers anyway, or an Act for Retaining Bicycles in the National Interest.
Then we could have these bikes away from our departing migrants, for recycling through our economy.
I hope someone tries this idea. Such a scheme would be good news for police auctions too.
Refugees couldn't buy a train or coach ticket in Macedonia without papers. But they could buy a bike, ride up the country and dump it at Kumanovo near the Serbian border, from where they are collected and sent back to Demir Kapija to be made available to the next rich refugee.
Despite its twin loves of temporary foreigners and selling the same thing over and over again, Slovenia seems to have missed a bureaucra-trick by not forcing war-torn cyclists onto our toll roads, which by the looks of things are a little busier than Macedonia's.
Faced with mountains, rivers, motorways, plus the Karawanken tunnel, there would be every reason to abandon your Slovenian ride once you approached Austria or Italy. In exceptions where foreigners try to hang on to the bike I'm sure we could come up with a requirement for a bicycle licence costing more than the bike which you wouldn't be able to buy without papers anyway, or an Act for Retaining Bicycles in the National Interest.
Then we could have these bikes away from our departing migrants, for recycling through our economy.
I hope someone tries this idea. Such a scheme would be good news for police auctions too.
Cycling to a better
life - Correspondent
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PTUJ WEATHER August 24 evening - mixed smells - in the centre a tinge of boiled gizzard greets guests arriving for the start of rival festival Days of Poetry and Wine, while those passing Avto Poetovio can also experience the 1960s petshop cage smell.
Our ongoing festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell is obliged to respond with a poem and here it is...
ADD SMIRNOFF AND BURN OFF
Our chicken's god-like: it's surprisin'
The residual parts don't keep risin'
Lol, they loll in our air -
PP farm has no flare
Unlike BP Deepwater Horizon.
Most Slovenians are content to bend their beliefs in order to make inhaling Ptuj's predictable plumes seem acceptable, which they are by Victorian mill-owner standards.
And protesting about having your life shat upon is not only verboten for all practical purposes but completely alien to the Slovenian character.
Even back in the Blighty of the 90s some folks were more in the future than others.
Here's one who had a prescient feeling about that Blair bloke.
Why didn't you warn us, Damon??
PTUJ WEATHER August 24 evening - mixed smells - in the centre a tinge of boiled gizzard greets guests arriving for the start of rival festival Days of Poetry and Wine, while those passing Avto Poetovio can also experience the 1960s petshop cage smell.
Our ongoing festival Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell is obliged to respond with a poem and here it is...
ADD SMIRNOFF AND BURN OFF
Our chicken's god-like: it's surprisin'
The residual parts don't keep risin'
Lol, they loll in our air -
PP farm has no flare
Unlike BP Deepwater Horizon.
Most Slovenians are content to bend their beliefs in order to make inhaling Ptuj's predictable plumes seem acceptable, which they are by Victorian mill-owner standards.
And protesting about having your life shat upon is not only verboten for all practical purposes but completely alien to the Slovenian character.
Even back in the Blighty of the 90s some folks were more in the future than others.
Here's one who had a prescient feeling about that Blair bloke.
Why didn't you warn us, Damon??
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meatyhorrological mashups
PTUJ - SATURDAY NIGHT WEATHER - damp dog, turning sour.
Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell festival organisers revealed exciting findings from Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratories, where city promoters have long been trying to overcome the limitations of the internet by discovering non-olfactory representations of Ptuj's famously contrasted and remixed environment.
After careful analysis and re-remixing, PPM-Labs is proud to announce the creation of a fully-functional musical model of Ptuj's sultry atmosphere, complementing nposialpu's offer http://www.ptuj.co.uk/ljubljana
experience Ptuj's weather as never before, in synesthesic formats
This free multi-audiovisual musical weather installation can be played on any browser. Can be used locally on village radio to warn of pongs on the prowl, or to keep in touch with Ptuj weather from anywhere in the world.
To play your mashup simply load
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOJUpdlspij272CFt9aVYVEGLBE17Aqs
in one tab or window, and
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOJUpdlspigIlfZzKtLKJL9C2OsQrKf4
in a second one. Press "Play All" on both to start your pair of lists as simultaneously as possible, and let the mashup rollers roll.
Ptuj's industrial resources and natural background weather are modelled on a Girls Aloud axis; while unpredictably wild lurches into noisome perceptive events are modelled on the Kodelaism axis.
From the experimental art point of view, within this audiovisual concrete abstraction of the Yin and Yang of Ptuj, the natural rhythms of its cross-cultural pop fun seasons on the one hand are juxtaposed with drifting, incongruous spectres of chaotic chicken factory weather on the rest of you. If your one hand was in your pocket, for example.
the Overture
Tweak your grim and glam volumes while this Ptuj Can't Speak French Mix delivers a cackophonic pattern of aldehyde arpeggios with a funky religious factory thrum.
We then stride into the magnum opus. The Something Kinda Ooooh Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Kodela-Stars Mix emits fully heated up local vocals, as samples of industrially popped aromas behave flirtily an' run aboot screamin' all oohver toon.
The third movement sees full industrial pressure cooker atmospheric density recreated as a Björk-Beefheart-esque Samo solo interweaves with high fidelity hardcore crossover in the Kodela Will Stand By You With The Hots On From Nowhere Headbanger Mix.
Advanced mashuppers give Kodela a ten second head start for the Even Funkier Saturday Night Remix.
Having A Party??? For non-stop sliding, colliding, riffs you'll instantly forget add repeat playlist to both to mash it proper.
The difference in length between the playlists is 69 seconds - also remarkable because 69 looks the same upside down, its greatest factor is a prime number, its smallest factor is also divisible into both its digits with integer results, and is also the difference between the digits as subtrahend and minuend .
the magic number's in front of me
The magic number 69 is also the year Led Zeppelin I and II were released. 69 was once considered the rudest position possible. Is this difference in the playlist lengths perhaps a luciferan omen from the grave of Aleister Crowley?
No. It's not. That would be mad. This art project shows how perceptions of societal priorities can be over-optimistically rationalised (irrationally) via various reductions of cognitive dissonance.
In the case of the number 69, I simply chose some facts which happened to relate to that number, to suggest that this value was no accident. I ignored non-facts, and facts about other numbers, to build the idea something weird's going on.
In the case of the more complex math and myth of the musical model, a Ptuj listener - who is pretty much 100% guaranteed to be a tabula rasa where GA are concerned and shall remain unaware of the mashup - will believe in a single musical item, and do their best to make it all fit together, somehow. And then when in the know, mashup-wise, will continue to make musical connections. GA fans will make them the other way around.
In the case of Ptuj's meat rendering odour, Ptuj drinkers' and smokers' attitudes have changed to accommodate breathing the stink of mashed up chicken gluck because it's Ptuj, Ptuj smells, and they're in Ptuj.
But a place isn't a reason, however proud you became of your idiocy.
If you would like to assist in commercialising the sound of Ptuj's weather, please contact Ptuj's Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratory at
http://www.afl.si/art
PTUJ - SATURDAY NIGHT WEATHER - damp dog, turning sour.
Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell festival organisers revealed exciting findings from Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratories, where city promoters have long been trying to overcome the limitations of the internet by discovering non-olfactory representations of Ptuj's famously contrasted and remixed environment.
After careful analysis and re-remixing, PPM-Labs is proud to announce the creation of a fully-functional musical model of Ptuj's sultry atmosphere, complementing nposialpu's offer http://www.ptuj.co.uk/ljubljana
experience Ptuj's weather as never before, in synesthesic formats
This free multi-audiovisual musical weather installation can be played on any browser. Can be used locally on village radio to warn of pongs on the prowl, or to keep in touch with Ptuj weather from anywhere in the world.
To play your mashup simply load
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOJUpdlspij272CFt9aVYVEGLBE17Aqs
in one tab or window, and
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmOJUpdlspigIlfZzKtLKJL9C2OsQrKf4
in a second one. Press "Play All" on both to start your pair of lists as simultaneously as possible, and let the mashup rollers roll.
Ptuj's industrial resources and natural background weather are modelled on a Girls Aloud axis; while unpredictably wild lurches into noisome perceptive events are modelled on the Kodelaism axis.
From the experimental art point of view, within this audiovisual concrete abstraction of the Yin and Yang of Ptuj, the natural rhythms of its cross-cultural pop fun seasons on the one hand are juxtaposed with drifting, incongruous spectres of chaotic chicken factory weather on the rest of you. If your one hand was in your pocket, for example.
the Overture
Tweak your grim and glam volumes while this Ptuj Can't Speak French Mix delivers a cackophonic pattern of aldehyde arpeggios with a funky religious factory thrum.
We then stride into the magnum opus. The Something Kinda Ooooh Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Kodela-Stars Mix emits fully heated up local vocals, as samples of industrially popped aromas behave flirtily an' run aboot screamin' all oohver toon.
The third movement sees full industrial pressure cooker atmospheric density recreated as a Björk-Beefheart-esque Samo solo interweaves with high fidelity hardcore crossover in the Kodela Will Stand By You With The Hots On From Nowhere Headbanger Mix.
Advanced mashuppers give Kodela a ten second head start for the Even Funkier Saturday Night Remix.
Having A Party??? For non-stop sliding, colliding, riffs you'll instantly forget add repeat playlist to both to mash it proper.
The difference in length between the playlists is 69 seconds - also remarkable because 69 looks the same upside down, its greatest factor is a prime number, its smallest factor is also divisible into both its digits with integer results, and is also the difference between the digits as subtrahend and minuend .
the magic number's in front of me
The magic number 69 is also the year Led Zeppelin I and II were released. 69 was once considered the rudest position possible. Is this difference in the playlist lengths perhaps a luciferan omen from the grave of Aleister Crowley?
No. It's not. That would be mad. This art project shows how perceptions of societal priorities can be over-optimistically rationalised (irrationally) via various reductions of cognitive dissonance.
In the case of the number 69, I simply chose some facts which happened to relate to that number, to suggest that this value was no accident. I ignored non-facts, and facts about other numbers, to build the idea something weird's going on.
In the case of the more complex math and myth of the musical model, a Ptuj listener - who is pretty much 100% guaranteed to be a tabula rasa where GA are concerned and shall remain unaware of the mashup - will believe in a single musical item, and do their best to make it all fit together, somehow. And then when in the know, mashup-wise, will continue to make musical connections. GA fans will make them the other way around.
In the case of Ptuj's meat rendering odour, Ptuj drinkers' and smokers' attitudes have changed to accommodate breathing the stink of mashed up chicken gluck because it's Ptuj, Ptuj smells, and they're in Ptuj.
But a place isn't a reason, however proud you became of your idiocy.
If you would like to assist in commercialising the sound of Ptuj's weather, please contact Ptuj's Poultry Poetry Mashup Laboratory at
http://www.afl.si/art
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auctions
HIGH-TEMP LOW-PRICE-COUP
Hotel fixated
On skiing. Geology's
Too complicated.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/once-proud-hotel-in-alpine-resort-auctioned-off-for-eur-1-3m
https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/96303064
HIGH-TEMP LOW-PRICE-COUP
Hotel fixated
On skiing. Geology's
Too complicated.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/once-proud-hotel-in-alpine-resort-auctioned-off-for-eur-1-3m
https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/96303064
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balkan wars
I visit Ptuj's famous Orfej bar, which I have avoided for some years as it always presents a difficult mix of sophisticated conversation and angry men, many with red faces.
A sophisticated older man arrives and shortly afterwards as he is sitting beside me is whacked very hard around the head from behind in a typical unprovoked attack by a typical unsophisticated alcoholic older man with a red face, who then makes a low-speed escape on a mountain bike. There was no conversational preamble.
Before and after this unwanted excitement, the evening's discussion revolves around the 90s Balkan wars and Yugo-divorce. Various sophisticated analyses conveniently ignore the rather obvious psychopharmalogical factor of drunk old men with red faces, full of hatred for really rather similar drunk old men with somewhat different shades of face.
I am speaking to someone whose uncles were killed in Bosnia. Certain tribal sentiments are expressed, which are as meaningless to me as gang battles between Glaswegian ice cream vendors.
I ask if any man from that village chose not to go to war. No, she said proudly. They all went.
Statistically, every unprovoked violent event involving alcoholics with red faces is a discrete event, unrelated to the others, and we should not resort to stereotypes about them, or try to anticipate the future from the past.
On the other hand nobody is going to forget what the Serbs/Croats/Bosnians/UN peace-rapists/KLA did to their relatives. So why were these not discrete events? Balkan intellectuals must of course continue to celebrate the great neurotoxic gods CH3CH2OH and C10H14N2 as the mediums around which their model of reality turns.
Yet as the police depart with their notes, the big ethical question for us hippies is, should we go armed, pumped up, and ready to defend our table, if we are heading to Orfej? Would only a coward or a traitor just give up and remove to a different Balkan?
Perhaps I'm just unlucky in my timing of visits to this bar. Whatever is the answer to dealing with Balkan aggression, the solution must be equally applicable in both cases.
Later we removed to the hotel across the road, where nobody, including rather worryingly yours truly, could dance.
Morfej... https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/cZNg1FQHMSV
I visit Ptuj's famous Orfej bar, which I have avoided for some years as it always presents a difficult mix of sophisticated conversation and angry men, many with red faces.
A sophisticated older man arrives and shortly afterwards as he is sitting beside me is whacked very hard around the head from behind in a typical unprovoked attack by a typical unsophisticated alcoholic older man with a red face, who then makes a low-speed escape on a mountain bike. There was no conversational preamble.
Before and after this unwanted excitement, the evening's discussion revolves around the 90s Balkan wars and Yugo-divorce. Various sophisticated analyses conveniently ignore the rather obvious psychopharmalogical factor of drunk old men with red faces, full of hatred for really rather similar drunk old men with somewhat different shades of face.
I am speaking to someone whose uncles were killed in Bosnia. Certain tribal sentiments are expressed, which are as meaningless to me as gang battles between Glaswegian ice cream vendors.
I ask if any man from that village chose not to go to war. No, she said proudly. They all went.
Statistically, every unprovoked violent event involving alcoholics with red faces is a discrete event, unrelated to the others, and we should not resort to stereotypes about them, or try to anticipate the future from the past.
On the other hand nobody is going to forget what the Serbs/Croats/Bosnians/UN peace-rapists/KLA did to their relatives. So why were these not discrete events? Balkan intellectuals must of course continue to celebrate the great neurotoxic gods CH3CH2OH and C10H14N2 as the mediums around which their model of reality turns.
Yet as the police depart with their notes, the big ethical question for us hippies is, should we go armed, pumped up, and ready to defend our table, if we are heading to Orfej? Would only a coward or a traitor just give up and remove to a different Balkan?
Perhaps I'm just unlucky in my timing of visits to this bar. Whatever is the answer to dealing with Balkan aggression, the solution must be equally applicable in both cases.
Later we removed to the hotel across the road, where nobody, including rather worryingly yours truly, could dance.
Morfej... https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/cZNg1FQHMSV
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summer fusty-vals
DAYS OF POETRY AND PTUJ'S CHICKEN FACTORY SMELL
One chicken factory smell = one poem (1 poem/day max.).
All this week Perutnina Ptuj will be assisting local tourism by releasing denser-than-air giblet molecules into the lower strata of the town's pongosphere, driving tourists uphill to the castle, where they can enjoy a great view of the chicken factory, which does so much for the community...as well as making chicken...and Ptuj's Town Smell.
MIDSUMMER BUMMER
With adolescent spite of bad breath town,
Mood swings and whispers, air very unclean
Employing moans, slovensko experts said
You've been local how long? This home of mine
In town that stinks forever, scheeze! at each step
Chickenny stink blows right into our faces,
Meat waste mush in ears, with fishing bait tone.
Ptuj's chicken business sends it. We're in the park
And fearfully wait his steamy crank therefrom,
Bet Pasquill F-class meets hippocamp-arse
Being a bore. On sunny days 'ere dawn
Musky shite messes flutter, creeping past
Before our bed time then throughout the day,
Forgets our reflex arc; sticks it, right in the bar…
Farter land smeared in sullen airborne slime
Goes on all summer. We're in a land alien
Made in a tourist school and, wow, they're taught
That Perutnina's cash is worth the pain,
He who hesitates, complains, the sponsorship is off.
To visitors in gas masks wheeze not sayin'
Your RS concludes RS production line.
The first major smell-po of this year's fusty fiesta is based on
DAYS OF POETRY AND PTUJ'S CHICKEN FACTORY SMELL
One chicken factory smell = one poem (1 poem/day max.).
All this week Perutnina Ptuj will be assisting local tourism by releasing denser-than-air giblet molecules into the lower strata of the town's pongosphere, driving tourists uphill to the castle, where they can enjoy a great view of the chicken factory, which does so much for the community...as well as making chicken...and Ptuj's Town Smell.
MIDSUMMER BUMMER
With adolescent spite of bad breath town,
Mood swings and whispers, air very unclean
Employing moans, slovensko experts said
You've been local how long? This home of mine
In town that stinks forever, scheeze! at each step
Chickenny stink blows right into our faces,
Meat waste mush in ears, with fishing bait tone.
Ptuj's chicken business sends it. We're in the park
And fearfully wait his steamy crank therefrom,
Bet Pasquill F-class meets hippocamp-arse
Being a bore. On sunny days 'ere dawn
Musky shite messes flutter, creeping past
Before our bed time then throughout the day,
Forgets our reflex arc; sticks it, right in the bar…
Farter land smeared in sullen airborne slime
Goes on all summer. We're in a land alien
Made in a tourist school and, wow, they're taught
That Perutnina's cash is worth the pain,
He who hesitates, complains, the sponsorship is off.
To visitors in gas masks wheeze not sayin'
Your RS concludes RS production line.
The first major smell-po of this year's fusty fiesta is based on
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bourgeois pursuits: association forming
WHAT'S IN AN AIM?
THE CASE OF LANG BANG FAJN IMAM
We are trying to form a new Association. All the richest people in town have a non-profit association. They - but mainly Slovene - make it very difficult for us foreign folk to have one too.
Which is super-ironic in a circular fashion: it's a group about human language communications. To help ordinary people in Slovenia come to terms over this bloody slovensko issue. For speakers of English, and similar low-status non-Slovenian types.
Although we had hoped for a token Slovenian member. Someone to help with the paperwork haha. You can see the draft aims of the Association at the link.
The first, long, aim is very badly translated. I don't know about the rest. When you get something translated into Slovenian the results can be very imprecise, especially when you're saying what a mess things are, which is usually itself because of communications failures.
Lucky for Slovenes, then, that they are anti-profit. Slovene is poorly adapted to the realities of capitalism: it's too polite. Grammatically, advertising in Slovene resembles trying to build yourself an airworthy steam-powered jumbo jet out of Lego. With advertisers desperate to get their money's worth, the result is high-velocity radio/TV spots with jabber rates that hit Slovene's maximum of around 600wpm, and billboards in fields proclaiming inept, clumsy slogans worthy of the Politburo.
Frequently, you run up against language problems when trying to challenge The Way Things Are. If you try to question Slovenian authority with Slovenian help the vocabulary, usually so various and random in its assignations, suddenly shrivels to an invisible point...there is no such expression...you can't say that...it would be better if you said a completely different thing, in this boring way...the language must, if for no better reason than Slovenians believe it to be so, be a one of slaves, and remain unequipped for an unthinkable confrontation with The Man about his dozy crap; all such efforts at doubleplusuntranslateablethink collide and slide upon the thick brick walls of Slovenian's language fortress. This is the kind of conceptual block that would have Whorfians whooping wildly.
The more trenchant the complaint, the more compelling the presentation, the more it will be reduced to a mushy, wishy-washy ghost of the original. This is a very curious kind of translation error.
Unlike slo/eng machine translation errors - in which is becomes is not and vice versa, or we are not reliably informed who or what did what to what or whom - in these human translations into Slovene, black-and-white facts become vague rumours, and all significant arguments are watered down, or nullified.
Angry or funny stuff gets left out, or flattened. Where once stood emotional tone, by the time some way of saying it in Slovene can be agreed,.words - those unique windows to understanding and sharing - have been somehow limewashed over, resulting in some bland, dull, semi-factual sort of begging letter.
Is this a translation effect, or the language itself? Slovene definitely is a language of poetry and prose, but also one of self-aggrandising officialdom.
How often have we been told that "it cannot be translated directly" only to discover when it's too late that the person simply did not know how to translate it directly? Or didn't want to.
Using as a starting point the exotic art of shoving Slovenian machine translations around a bit until their English outputs make sense, our first, long, aim is supposed to say the Association...
examines the extent to which indigenous Slovenians believe that the addition of interoperability with Slovenia for non-Slovenian speakers - in signage, labelling, government communications, advertising, and social interaction, etc. - would reduce their rights; why they consider that their rights would be reduced to interoperate with non-Slovenian speakers, and gives Slovenians the opportunity to say to what extent and how their rights are reduced, what they would do about the damage to their position due to the communication errors of foreigners, and also discusses the effects of non-interoperability on the economies of non-Slovenian speakers, and asks autochthons if it would be easier for the protection and safety of their language and culture, if the non-Slovenian speakers who are not covered by specific provisions for minorities were to be excluded from the territory of the Republic of Slovenia, or were exempted from the rights given to citizens of Slovenia, Europe, or if they have any other solution; therefore it hopes to stimulate debate about what that solution is, and to reveal who gains or loses from the implementation or non-implementation of interoperability, and to whom the cost of their proposed solutions would fall - in the pursuit of concrete decisions towards interoperability in Slovenia.
Well, these and a few other ideas have proved impossible to translate: "dana" is not a word, I am told by a lettered lady of languages, and yet the machine translator is quite happy to report that it means "given".
And that, you can bet your bottom euro, is because some cheekyfun expert on Slovene told Google that - for top dollar. And all Slovenians can join together in roundly condemning their machine translation, shoved around a bit by me, at the link. And I agree with them that this is a tragedy. And like them, that I cannot do anything about it, as this is The Way Things Are. Just as, for a portion of the Irish demographic, Dana will always be a given.
jezično tekmovanje
It's your language (I assume you're Slovenian, reading this, trying to find out what's going on). So can you translate Lang Bang Fajn Imam's bold primary aim? Or is it just too bold?
So why not test your skills: take advantage of Lang Bang's free English comprehension test, while you help to set up a medicine tent for Slovene-Germanic symbioses. And we'll see how you do.
And I can't get a reliable translation around here. Their number one hobby is fucking up the other guy's non-profit association so they can get the money instead of him. It's like pigeons round chips in a bus station.
If you are somewhere out there in the wide open expanses of Slovenia, can write in Slovene, and you think a significant number of your fellow nationals will be able to understand your Slovenian version, do please let's see your version in the comments here.
But hey guys and gals, don't cheat by looking at the others before you have your go!
I know you Slovenians will be just queueing up for this - and I would like people to see just how many different spineless, servile versions of the above sentence Slovenia can produce!
Non-profit is good and therefore the more people that translate this for nothing the more profit won't have been made and the better it will be.
And it's no secret that I will be translating each one back to see what it says by then. And to do that I'll be using that smarter-than-average multi-billion-dollar software corporation Google's Translate, that people in Ptuj need to think I am smarter than, if foreigners can continue to be attacked by the jealous drunk coked-up sporty boys, for not speaking Slovene, despite being in their town for a certain period of time. www.a2z.si/h
The winner with the best translation of our number one aim will see it enshrined in Lang Bang Fajn Imam's Articles of Association.
All entrants will also be entitled to a free @ptuj email forwarding address! See http://www.afl.si/know for how email is changing.
As many in Ptuj will be embarrassed to be seen consorting with the enemy, you can also send your translation to translation@ptuj.co.uk in the strictest confidence.
Let's not forget Slovenia was once part of Yugoslavia. Sometimes the most secretive and anonymous translations are the best.
Obviously it is a fair old quibble to get Slovene to say it the way I've said it in English, and equally clearly an Association about linguistics for foreigners which begins with a feeble translation of its aims penned by nervous native xenophobes wouldn't be getting off to a very good start.
If you are still interested in communications in Slovenia please remember to consider the aims of Lang Bang Fajn Imam.
WHAT'S IN AN AIM?
THE CASE OF LANG BANG FAJN IMAM
We are trying to form a new Association. All the richest people in town have a non-profit association. They - but mainly Slovene - make it very difficult for us foreign folk to have one too.
Which is super-ironic in a circular fashion: it's a group about human language communications. To help ordinary people in Slovenia come to terms over this bloody slovensko issue. For speakers of English, and similar low-status non-Slovenian types.
Although we had hoped for a token Slovenian member. Someone to help with the paperwork haha. You can see the draft aims of the Association at the link.
The first, long, aim is very badly translated. I don't know about the rest. When you get something translated into Slovenian the results can be very imprecise, especially when you're saying what a mess things are, which is usually itself because of communications failures.
Lucky for Slovenes, then, that they are anti-profit. Slovene is poorly adapted to the realities of capitalism: it's too polite. Grammatically, advertising in Slovene resembles trying to build yourself an airworthy steam-powered jumbo jet out of Lego. With advertisers desperate to get their money's worth, the result is high-velocity radio/TV spots with jabber rates that hit Slovene's maximum of around 600wpm, and billboards in fields proclaiming inept, clumsy slogans worthy of the Politburo.
Frequently, you run up against language problems when trying to challenge The Way Things Are. If you try to question Slovenian authority with Slovenian help the vocabulary, usually so various and random in its assignations, suddenly shrivels to an invisible point...there is no such expression...you can't say that...it would be better if you said a completely different thing, in this boring way...the language must, if for no better reason than Slovenians believe it to be so, be a one of slaves, and remain unequipped for an unthinkable confrontation with The Man about his dozy crap; all such efforts at doubleplusuntranslateablethink collide and slide upon the thick brick walls of Slovenian's language fortress. This is the kind of conceptual block that would have Whorfians whooping wildly.
The more trenchant the complaint, the more compelling the presentation, the more it will be reduced to a mushy, wishy-washy ghost of the original. This is a very curious kind of translation error.
Unlike slo/eng machine translation errors - in which is becomes is not and vice versa, or we are not reliably informed who or what did what to what or whom - in these human translations into Slovene, black-and-white facts become vague rumours, and all significant arguments are watered down, or nullified.
Angry or funny stuff gets left out, or flattened. Where once stood emotional tone, by the time some way of saying it in Slovene can be agreed,.words - those unique windows to understanding and sharing - have been somehow limewashed over, resulting in some bland, dull, semi-factual sort of begging letter.
Is this a translation effect, or the language itself? Slovene definitely is a language of poetry and prose, but also one of self-aggrandising officialdom.
How often have we been told that "it cannot be translated directly" only to discover when it's too late that the person simply did not know how to translate it directly? Or didn't want to.
Using as a starting point the exotic art of shoving Slovenian machine translations around a bit until their English outputs make sense, our first, long, aim is supposed to say the Association...
examines the extent to which indigenous Slovenians believe that the addition of interoperability with Slovenia for non-Slovenian speakers - in signage, labelling, government communications, advertising, and social interaction, etc. - would reduce their rights; why they consider that their rights would be reduced to interoperate with non-Slovenian speakers, and gives Slovenians the opportunity to say to what extent and how their rights are reduced, what they would do about the damage to their position due to the communication errors of foreigners, and also discusses the effects of non-interoperability on the economies of non-Slovenian speakers, and asks autochthons if it would be easier for the protection and safety of their language and culture, if the non-Slovenian speakers who are not covered by specific provisions for minorities were to be excluded from the territory of the Republic of Slovenia, or were exempted from the rights given to citizens of Slovenia, Europe, or if they have any other solution; therefore it hopes to stimulate debate about what that solution is, and to reveal who gains or loses from the implementation or non-implementation of interoperability, and to whom the cost of their proposed solutions would fall - in the pursuit of concrete decisions towards interoperability in Slovenia.
Well, these and a few other ideas have proved impossible to translate: "dana" is not a word, I am told by a lettered lady of languages, and yet the machine translator is quite happy to report that it means "given".
And that, you can bet your bottom euro, is because some cheekyfun expert on Slovene told Google that - for top dollar. And all Slovenians can join together in roundly condemning their machine translation, shoved around a bit by me, at the link. And I agree with them that this is a tragedy. And like them, that I cannot do anything about it, as this is The Way Things Are. Just as, for a portion of the Irish demographic, Dana will always be a given.
jezično tekmovanje
It's your language (I assume you're Slovenian, reading this, trying to find out what's going on). So can you translate Lang Bang Fajn Imam's bold primary aim? Or is it just too bold?
So why not test your skills: take advantage of Lang Bang's free English comprehension test, while you help to set up a medicine tent for Slovene-Germanic symbioses. And we'll see how you do.
And I can't get a reliable translation around here. Their number one hobby is fucking up the other guy's non-profit association so they can get the money instead of him. It's like pigeons round chips in a bus station.
If you are somewhere out there in the wide open expanses of Slovenia, can write in Slovene, and you think a significant number of your fellow nationals will be able to understand your Slovenian version, do please let's see your version in the comments here.
But hey guys and gals, don't cheat by looking at the others before you have your go!
I know you Slovenians will be just queueing up for this - and I would like people to see just how many different spineless, servile versions of the above sentence Slovenia can produce!
Non-profit is good and therefore the more people that translate this for nothing the more profit won't have been made and the better it will be.
And it's no secret that I will be translating each one back to see what it says by then. And to do that I'll be using that smarter-than-average multi-billion-dollar software corporation Google's Translate, that people in Ptuj need to think I am smarter than, if foreigners can continue to be attacked by the jealous drunk coked-up sporty boys, for not speaking Slovene, despite being in their town for a certain period of time. www.a2z.si/h
The winner with the best translation of our number one aim will see it enshrined in Lang Bang Fajn Imam's Articles of Association.
All entrants will also be entitled to a free @ptuj email forwarding address! See http://www.afl.si/know for how email is changing.
As many in Ptuj will be embarrassed to be seen consorting with the enemy, you can also send your translation to translation@ptuj.co.uk in the strictest confidence.
Let's not forget Slovenia was once part of Yugoslavia. Sometimes the most secretive and anonymous translations are the best.
Obviously it is a fair old quibble to get Slovene to say it the way I've said it in English, and equally clearly an Association about linguistics for foreigners which begins with a feeble translation of its aims penned by nervous native xenophobes wouldn't be getting off to a very good start.
If you are still interested in communications in Slovenia please remember to consider the aims of Lang Bang Fajn Imam.
Cilji Lang Bang Fajn
Imam
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sober atheist unable to provide cigarettes already has kitchen, now wants personal 10km radius slovene language ban in jew društvo shock
SNEAKY PUB CHRISTIANS IN DULL SECRET CONCLAVE
PTUJ, not the weekend hours --- Have you heard of the sin of pre-pube-pubbing? This is an old tradition where our theoideological nutfucks cycle through various tried-and-tested outgroup labels hoping to inspire one of our many worryingly intense, territorial barflies to beat me up, using the idea that the English nigger is a Something. This week is the turn of Jewish. Now I am Jewish.
Whether it is a res- erection of the totemicisms of Tito or a Mary-be-wary scary fairy story, casting neslovenskih govorcev satans into the wilderness and circulating the kind of stories only redneck nutters believe, to keep the peasantry united in their fear and hatred, are important perks of employment at three euros an hour in the catho-communist alcohol network, and if I was the Muzikafe I'd sack those guys and see how they fare at preaching and moral guidance without the free use of my premises and customers to ooze their poison and accidentally incite murder in the Name Of The Lord.
But remember what happened when Azazel from the Book of Enoch met one of the goats sent to the left in Matthew 25:31-46 and who is on his way to the Lake of Fire, largely it seems due to goats' devious behaviour: butting you in the butt when you aren't looking, getting in your bed, sticking their heads through fences, and...look you can read all the wisdom to be had from the evil that is goats here: http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/ARTC/k/574/Goats-on-Left.htm
Down with electricity! www.jesus.si
SNEAKY PUB CHRISTIANS IN DULL SECRET CONCLAVE
PTUJ, not the weekend hours --- Have you heard of the sin of pre-pube-pubbing? This is an old tradition where our theoideological nutfucks cycle through various tried-and-tested outgroup labels hoping to inspire one of our many worryingly intense, territorial barflies to beat me up, using the idea that the English nigger is a Something. This week is the turn of Jewish. Now I am Jewish.
Whether it is a res- erection of the totemicisms of Tito or a Mary-be-wary scary fairy story, casting neslovenskih govorcev satans into the wilderness and circulating the kind of stories only redneck nutters believe, to keep the peasantry united in their fear and hatred, are important perks of employment at three euros an hour in the catho-communist alcohol network, and if I was the Muzikafe I'd sack those guys and see how they fare at preaching and moral guidance without the free use of my premises and customers to ooze their poison and accidentally incite murder in the Name Of The Lord.
But remember what happened when Azazel from the Book of Enoch met one of the goats sent to the left in Matthew 25:31-46 and who is on his way to the Lake of Fire, largely it seems due to goats' devious behaviour: butting you in the butt when you aren't looking, getting in your bed, sticking their heads through fences, and...look you can read all the wisdom to be had from the evil that is goats here: http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/ARTC/k/574/Goats-on-Left.htm
Down with electricity! www.jesus.si
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UNHAPPY ENDING AT THE HAPPY SCOT BAR
FAT FOOTBALL REFEREE STABS BARMAID 14 TIMES ALLEGEDLY
ZLATOLIČJE - She worked in a bar. He liked to whistle at men running around in shorts. Every ingredient necessary for the ideal Slovenian relationship was in place.
But it was not to be. Evidently she tried to mess it up somehow, and the next morning the bar owner found her stabbed to death.
Well, you know women. Lacking concrete information, Slovenske Novice readers are grappling with their language and summoning every known fact about the enemy, to figure out why this seemingly pleasant 24-year-old girl was just asking for a grisly death when all she wanted to do was earn a crust by filling meat-headed village jocks with alcohol into the wee hours, in a Scottish-themed honky pub with a huge sword on the wall.
One theme not being replicated in Slovenia's version of Buckfast country is Glasgow's plastic-only policy in nightclubs after 9pm, where scientists have long been observing jolly drunks in their natural habitats.
http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/1/111
It is quite hard to make out exactly what the Slovenske Novic-ites are saying via Google Translate...and sometimes not. And here they are, in reverse weird Google translation order, with some comments on their comments...
"Most killings in Slovenia are due to refusal, jealousy, possessiveness."
"I still think that it all starts in childhood and in their own education. Such actions are also a result of the excessive holding mothers' skirt. All their lives men like this killer are accustomed to their mothers cooking, washing, serving, then there is one that says, "NO". Their ego suffers a nervous breakdown and what follows is an act that a normal person would never do."
"I would not judge so lightly in this and similar cases as some people do. What has provoked this sad event is still known primarily only by the living person from the pair."
[Nice chauvinist muddying work here - notice how when "provoke" is used in a positive sense it usually refers to innate behavioural viewpoints, abstractions of ourselves:
motivating
prompting
driving
encouraging
incentivising
...well what type of positive provocation leads to a murder? So the provocation defaults to some human agent. In other words it's all about Eve. That the survivor's is possibly a somewhat biased version goes unremarked - NPOSIALPU]
"I agree with you malomorgen if it was really so, but otherwise does not know what gave rise to the man so upset. Could that have already been a couple, but left him one possibility is that it often happens that a woman deceives a man by the first "peca", then from barbecues to make the coats of arms. So that men are not always the whole blame."
[Great pro-catholic argument using the barbecues and coats of arms and ending in a hypnotically widening affirmation of uxoricide - NPOSIALPU]
"Yeah guys, what are you complicating matters? You offer her interpreter ... if you understand it immediately tolerant in his mouth; but if this is not done immediately, it is best to go as soon as possible onwards; because after such a means that is not crazy for you, and that in the long term are not promising. If you have half an hour to climb it and nacukavat with its rags, then you're like a man with her more Bogi. ... Yeah, that such a woman must be due to its ubožnosti fentat is really a loser."
[Er, look, ok, um, I just have to nip out the back. Back in five... - NPOSIALPU]
"Many women I was first launched either slandering or conquer, by the way, all men are not so naive that we can not distinguish what is politeness and when a woman wants to approach the man and conquering, to get to know him first, etc. I never gave a first initiative, but this was one, and I thought it was one or one that is right and I responded back, I was over a fixed period immediately seduced thirsty across the water. Here and there, it is what compelled me, perhaps želala cell phone number, but later always followed kicking. One of them is me at the end, when I landed on its conquests, even life humiliated, perhaps inadvertently, but should ask in spite of what he said, before he uttered those ponižajočih five words that I will falsely marked for life, even if they were just empty words. Apparently, I was accepted as a good friend, but why such force by it and at the end of a knife in the back. Do not defend fairer sex to such hypocrisy."
[He wrote all that with a knife in his back? - NPOSIALPU]
"Eeeeeh, Oils, worn on the shoe, the scene is the new gardener; classic. From this man can once again learn that it is necessary to build confidence in themselves and not to foreign creature; women: it applies to men still somewhat cautious trading."
[More fine rhetoric which leads from the top. Join our campaign MASLOWOT!... Make All Slovenian Ladies Or Women Only Tourists! - NPOSIALPU]
"They take care of me comments on other portals, when writing, it is perhaps provoked."
[Yeah. It isn't Google Translate's fault that Slovene syntax is a bit Mr Darcy - NPOSIALPU]
My neighbour has just been fighting. He also hysterically rushes. Let's say I: "Kill her by Slovenian." At least one term peace.
[A tasteless joke or an incitement to murder? Only Google can decide - NPOSIALPU]
UNHAPPY ENDING AT THE HAPPY SCOT BAR
FAT FOOTBALL REFEREE STABS BARMAID 14 TIMES ALLEGEDLY
ZLATOLIČJE - She worked in a bar. He liked to whistle at men running around in shorts. Every ingredient necessary for the ideal Slovenian relationship was in place.
But it was not to be. Evidently she tried to mess it up somehow, and the next morning the bar owner found her stabbed to death.
Well, you know women. Lacking concrete information, Slovenske Novice readers are grappling with their language and summoning every known fact about the enemy, to figure out why this seemingly pleasant 24-year-old girl was just asking for a grisly death when all she wanted to do was earn a crust by filling meat-headed village jocks with alcohol into the wee hours, in a Scottish-themed honky pub with a huge sword on the wall.
One theme not being replicated in Slovenia's version of Buckfast country is Glasgow's plastic-only policy in nightclubs after 9pm, where scientists have long been observing jolly drunks in their natural habitats.
http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/1/111
It is quite hard to make out exactly what the Slovenske Novic-ites are saying via Google Translate...and sometimes not. And here they are, in reverse weird Google translation order, with some comments on their comments...
"Most killings in Slovenia are due to refusal, jealousy, possessiveness."
"I still think that it all starts in childhood and in their own education. Such actions are also a result of the excessive holding mothers' skirt. All their lives men like this killer are accustomed to their mothers cooking, washing, serving, then there is one that says, "NO". Their ego suffers a nervous breakdown and what follows is an act that a normal person would never do."
"I would not judge so lightly in this and similar cases as some people do. What has provoked this sad event is still known primarily only by the living person from the pair."
[Nice chauvinist muddying work here - notice how when "provoke" is used in a positive sense it usually refers to innate behavioural viewpoints, abstractions of ourselves:
motivating
prompting
driving
encouraging
incentivising
...well what type of positive provocation leads to a murder? So the provocation defaults to some human agent. In other words it's all about Eve. That the survivor's is possibly a somewhat biased version goes unremarked - NPOSIALPU]
"I agree with you malomorgen if it was really so, but otherwise does not know what gave rise to the man so upset. Could that have already been a couple, but left him one possibility is that it often happens that a woman deceives a man by the first "peca", then from barbecues to make the coats of arms. So that men are not always the whole blame."
[Great pro-catholic argument using the barbecues and coats of arms and ending in a hypnotically widening affirmation of uxoricide - NPOSIALPU]
"Yeah guys, what are you complicating matters? You offer her interpreter ... if you understand it immediately tolerant in his mouth; but if this is not done immediately, it is best to go as soon as possible onwards; because after such a means that is not crazy for you, and that in the long term are not promising. If you have half an hour to climb it and nacukavat with its rags, then you're like a man with her more Bogi. ... Yeah, that such a woman must be due to its ubožnosti fentat is really a loser."
[Er, look, ok, um, I just have to nip out the back. Back in five... - NPOSIALPU]
"Many women I was first launched either slandering or conquer, by the way, all men are not so naive that we can not distinguish what is politeness and when a woman wants to approach the man and conquering, to get to know him first, etc. I never gave a first initiative, but this was one, and I thought it was one or one that is right and I responded back, I was over a fixed period immediately seduced thirsty across the water. Here and there, it is what compelled me, perhaps želala cell phone number, but later always followed kicking. One of them is me at the end, when I landed on its conquests, even life humiliated, perhaps inadvertently, but should ask in spite of what he said, before he uttered those ponižajočih five words that I will falsely marked for life, even if they were just empty words. Apparently, I was accepted as a good friend, but why such force by it and at the end of a knife in the back. Do not defend fairer sex to such hypocrisy."
[He wrote all that with a knife in his back? - NPOSIALPU]
"Eeeeeh, Oils, worn on the shoe, the scene is the new gardener; classic. From this man can once again learn that it is necessary to build confidence in themselves and not to foreign creature; women: it applies to men still somewhat cautious trading."
[More fine rhetoric which leads from the top. Join our campaign MASLOWOT!... Make All Slovenian Ladies Or Women Only Tourists! - NPOSIALPU]
"They take care of me comments on other portals, when writing, it is perhaps provoked."
[Yeah. It isn't Google Translate's fault that Slovene syntax is a bit Mr Darcy - NPOSIALPU]
My neighbour has just been fighting. He also hysterically rushes. Let's say I: "Kill her by Slovenian." At least one term peace.
[A tasteless joke or an incitement to murder? Only Google can decide - NPOSIALPU]
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HYPOTHETICAL ELECTION MISTAKE LATEST:
PM AND PRESIDENT REPLY TO JJ
BACK AT THE CASTLE, CHILLIN'
Dragi SDS-ites -
Apologies we had you beat
And took away your MP's seat.
We want to give you all a break:
Sorry for our legal mishtake.
We thought political survival
Grew as worse became our rival:
Best tactic, we all now agree,
Is to let you run around quite free!
With right-wing top hat on the make
We look less communistic/fake.
Though tales of bribery and treason
May later lack all rhyme or reason,
We will accept imprisonment
Should you return to government.
Those mix-ups in election season -
Presumably the judge was teasin'
When he sent hero opposition
Leader no-one likes to prison.
You can practice your Slovenian vowel sounds with this.
If a Slovenian ever invites you for feasting, it's probably wise to double-check.
PM AND PRESIDENT REPLY TO JJ
BACK AT THE CASTLE, CHILLIN'
Dragi SDS-ites -
Apologies we had you beat
And took away your MP's seat.
We want to give you all a break:
Sorry for our legal mishtake.
We thought political survival
Grew as worse became our rival:
Best tactic, we all now agree,
Is to let you run around quite free!
With right-wing top hat on the make
We look less communistic/fake.
Though tales of bribery and treason
May later lack all rhyme or reason,
We will accept imprisonment
Should you return to government.
Those mix-ups in election season -
Presumably the judge was teasin'
When he sent hero opposition
Leader no-one likes to prison.
You can practice your Slovenian vowel sounds with this.
If a Slovenian ever invites you for feasting, it's probably wise to double-check.
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MUSIC BIZ NEWS:
MARKET FORTES
Slovenia's musicians differ on the extent to which radio airplay in Slovenia should be rigged in favour of music from Slovenia.
This ought not to be necessary as Slovenia makes more than its fair share of it. But wherever there is a Slovenian-ness metric, the grey hand of bureaucratically-defined national culture cannot be off-handed.
It seems stations have been cheating, using the night-time hours to fulfil their ministry-mandated 20% quota of the often unnecessary Slovenian autotuned sausage-pop that farmers like, and the other excruciating, tinkling bourgeois soul-searching type, beloved of stressed out civil service desk-murdering metrosexual romantics, that they also do a lot of.
Now this statistical skullduggery is to stop. And don't go thinking just because you're Slovenian you can sing in any language and it will count! Oh no.
Bids on the amount of Slovenian-ness that ought to be demanded from music between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. vary:
Tinkara Kovač: 51% - "or we are a minority in our own country". Mimed with a flute and sang in Slovene for 45 seconds in Eurovision 2014, before switching to English for the next 1m 50s, then back to Slovene, making this performance only 44% Slovenian, and the artiste a minority in her own song.
Interestingly the flute was invented in Slovenia 45,000 years ago. But if you think about it, it wasn't called Slovenia then, and so legally and ethnographically speaking the flute counts as a foreign instrument. Came 10th in a semi-final.
Severa Gjurin: 51% - her brother made 16th place in the 2010 Eurovision semi-final with six points - five of them from Croatia - in a year they tried making Slovene lyrics compulsory. Slovenia gave Croatia 12 points, the maximum. The bastards! In future musical laws should be passed to ensure maximum points are awarded both ways, between these two.
Bojan Cvetrežnik: 20% - plays further unwelcome foreign (Italian) instruments such as the violin and mandolin - and so is at least an infiltrator, and probably somehow responsible for Slovenia's loss of Trst (now Trieste, with vowel sounds). According to a man in a bar.
Musicians' Union Conference: 40% - but thinks the quota might be illegal, something to do with a Slovenian Constitution which currently claims that
"In Slovenia everyone shall be guaranteed equal human rights and fundamental freedoms irrespective of national origin, race, sex, language, religion, political or other conviction, material standing, birth, education, social status, disability or any other personal circumstance."
So I guess they need to change that, to say everybody equal except Slovenian musicians, whose rights should be enhanced by this quota. And except the ones who hope to get somewhere, by singing in a different language, whose human right to get piped into factory workshops is diminished by it.
2015 Eurovision entrants Maraaya: 0% Slovene lyrics - the only potential losers from enforced Slovenian-ness among these musical gladiators, Maraaya total about 65% English, 35% chipmunk. Professor Higgins and Doctor Doolittle to the emergency room please. After corrections for voting irregularities ended up 26th.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/CctYCfL9H8x
MARKET FORTES
Slovenia's musicians differ on the extent to which radio airplay in Slovenia should be rigged in favour of music from Slovenia.
This ought not to be necessary as Slovenia makes more than its fair share of it. But wherever there is a Slovenian-ness metric, the grey hand of bureaucratically-defined national culture cannot be off-handed.
It seems stations have been cheating, using the night-time hours to fulfil their ministry-mandated 20% quota of the often unnecessary Slovenian autotuned sausage-pop that farmers like, and the other excruciating, tinkling bourgeois soul-searching type, beloved of stressed out civil service desk-murdering metrosexual romantics, that they also do a lot of.
Now this statistical skullduggery is to stop. And don't go thinking just because you're Slovenian you can sing in any language and it will count! Oh no.
Bids on the amount of Slovenian-ness that ought to be demanded from music between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. vary:
Tinkara Kovač: 51% - "or we are a minority in our own country". Mimed with a flute and sang in Slovene for 45 seconds in Eurovision 2014, before switching to English for the next 1m 50s, then back to Slovene, making this performance only 44% Slovenian, and the artiste a minority in her own song.
Interestingly the flute was invented in Slovenia 45,000 years ago. But if you think about it, it wasn't called Slovenia then, and so legally and ethnographically speaking the flute counts as a foreign instrument. Came 10th in a semi-final.
Severa Gjurin: 51% - her brother made 16th place in the 2010 Eurovision semi-final with six points - five of them from Croatia - in a year they tried making Slovene lyrics compulsory. Slovenia gave Croatia 12 points, the maximum. The bastards! In future musical laws should be passed to ensure maximum points are awarded both ways, between these two.
Bojan Cvetrežnik: 20% - plays further unwelcome foreign (Italian) instruments such as the violin and mandolin - and so is at least an infiltrator, and probably somehow responsible for Slovenia's loss of Trst (now Trieste, with vowel sounds). According to a man in a bar.
Musicians' Union Conference: 40% - but thinks the quota might be illegal, something to do with a Slovenian Constitution which currently claims that
"In Slovenia everyone shall be guaranteed equal human rights and fundamental freedoms irrespective of national origin, race, sex, language, religion, political or other conviction, material standing, birth, education, social status, disability or any other personal circumstance."
So I guess they need to change that, to say everybody equal except Slovenian musicians, whose rights should be enhanced by this quota. And except the ones who hope to get somewhere, by singing in a different language, whose human right to get piped into factory workshops is diminished by it.
2015 Eurovision entrants Maraaya: 0% Slovene lyrics - the only potential losers from enforced Slovenian-ness among these musical gladiators, Maraaya total about 65% English, 35% chipmunk. Professor Higgins and Doctor Doolittle to the emergency room please. After corrections for voting irregularities ended up 26th.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/CctYCfL9H8x
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BEGIN THE BEGUNCI
Shock horror for Slovenske Novice readers as the EU announces Slovenia will be swamped with 33 times more than the previously suggested flood of at least 15 refugees causing outrage.
This will have them pining more than ever for the Yugoodolddays in bars up and down the lanes. Such a catastrophic threat to Slovenia's National Identity (aged 24, hobbies: embezzling from state-owned companies, nepotism, feeling superior, bourgeois tinkling, blaming foreigners, nostalgia for communism, anti-Westernism, Facebook, cars, hiphop, football) is a mistake that could never have happened under Serbo-Croatian rule. Or Austrian rule. Or Hungarian rule. Or Ottoman rule. Or Italian rule. Or German rule.
Farewell, then, racial purity. But we'll get these misguided economic migrants with the economic marginalisation until it is proven they are all criminal types, and with the bureaucratic rules in a language that foreigners can't (unless they are very rich) be taught, that's what we'll do. www.aaa.si
Shock horror for Slovenske Novice readers as the EU announces Slovenia will be swamped with 33 times more than the previously suggested flood of at least 15 refugees causing outrage.
This will have them pining more than ever for the Yugoodolddays in bars up and down the lanes. Such a catastrophic threat to Slovenia's National Identity (aged 24, hobbies: embezzling from state-owned companies, nepotism, feeling superior, bourgeois tinkling, blaming foreigners, nostalgia for communism, anti-Westernism, Facebook, cars, hiphop, football) is a mistake that could never have happened under Serbo-Croatian rule. Or Austrian rule. Or Hungarian rule. Or Ottoman rule. Or Italian rule. Or German rule.
Farewell, then, racial purity. But we'll get these misguided economic migrants with the economic marginalisation until it is proven they are all criminal types, and with the bureaucratic rules in a language that foreigners can't (unless they are very rich) be taught, that's what we'll do. www.aaa.si
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 5:
WET SCHOOL DISCO
The President of The National Nation of Students shouts into a mike as students across Slovenia celebrate finishing the Matura - their baccalaureat (and university entrance) exams.
Students play an important role in Slovenia's economy: by not counting as unemployed they make a much better unemployment statistic; meanwhile they are forced to obtain supplies, supporting our hiked-price stationery cartels, mobile phone and cheap alcohol industries, and thus are able to shelter as far as possible from the actual Frankenfuckwitted outcomes of Slovenia's academic economics theorists so far.
To show that you have taken the first step into adulthood - avoiding a career in hiphop - by remaining in educashin until the menopause or impotence supervenes - you are allowed to let your hair down and enjoy the Prez MC-ing to this traditionally over-optimistic autotune-style skipping music that we have, locally...
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
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WET SCHOOL DISCO
The President of The National Nation of Students shouts into a mike as students across Slovenia celebrate finishing the Matura - their baccalaureat (and university entrance) exams.
Students play an important role in Slovenia's economy: by not counting as unemployed they make a much better unemployment statistic; meanwhile they are forced to obtain supplies, supporting our hiked-price stationery cartels, mobile phone and cheap alcohol industries, and thus are able to shelter as far as possible from the actual Frankenfuckwitted outcomes of Slovenia's academic economics theorists so far.
To show that you have taken the first step into adulthood - avoiding a career in hiphop - by remaining in educashin until the menopause or impotence supervenes - you are allowed to let your hair down and enjoy the Prez MC-ing to this traditionally over-optimistic autotune-style skipping music that we have, locally...
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/X4rMPcrscaH
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TALES OF THE TAME FRONTIER 4:
THE SEVENTIES
Continental Europe's last Hawkwind fan is dealt with by the authorities.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
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THE SEVENTIES
Continental Europe's last Hawkwind fan is dealt with by the authorities.
Previously on the Tame Frontier...
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ExUGu3wsB3b
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CULTURAL RELATIVISM
AND YOUR RELATIVES' CULTURAL ISMS
I decided to find out what they were tripping to here in Slovenia in 1973 while I was going to Hawkwind concerts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0PLPwQM1Q
I went to seven before I got bored with it. Or they did, I can't remember which.
Inevitably this research led back to Kodelaism and this golden oldie which was of course penned by acclaimed jazz-funky-big-bandster Jože Privšek who is our homey from right here in Dravska banovina.
Kodela pronounces Oto Pestner's hit a bit pathetic. There's nothing I can add to that really. You can check out Oto's Hawkwind-era go at it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5clcGX4zoI
No sign of any orange sunshine, then. Oto's machine was probably well greased - likely with goose fat - but more grey than silver.
However there is some experimental-looking geometric furniture: it appears the proletariata pohistvo was in search of a single revolutionary design that could be used as a stage, table, sofa, tipi, and stairs.
I notice Oto's got 18 Youtube views, while the one of Hawkwind's TOTP appearance is slightly ahead with 241,926.
In four or five years he's bound to catch up. By 2013 his band had chicks dancing openly on stage, and triangular scenery had reached an advanced phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_eB20i-E4
The title uses an optative form of dvojina, the (agglutinated) dual person form without which most the rest of the world struggles with romance, according to the local view. "Mother, Let's Be Friends" it's called.
Her response is unrecorded. Apart from crying every time he tries to leave her hearth and table to go and get some vaguely-alluded-to hot massage action down at the Tito Bar. Would she strip off and dance at his gigs?
I'm sure Hawkwind can be safely shunted into some wet and dry, humourless intellectual category here, and in return I am happy to file their contemporary Pestner in the brain cell I keep handy for party-approved Val Doonican-oid sub-Eurovision curiosities.
For a full discussion of the Anglo-Slovene space-time anomaly see www.rum.si - Kodelaism remains the dominant cultural force in Slovenia and while I wouldn't currently welcome a return to the mud and adventure of the 70s I am deeply grateful never to have been trapped in this parallel but Hawkwindless universe. Until now, I mean.
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
AND YOUR RELATIVES' CULTURAL ISMS
I decided to find out what they were tripping to here in Slovenia in 1973 while I was going to Hawkwind concerts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0PLPwQM1Q
I went to seven before I got bored with it. Or they did, I can't remember which.
Inevitably this research led back to Kodelaism and this golden oldie which was of course penned by acclaimed jazz-funky-big-bandster Jože Privšek who is our homey from right here in Dravska banovina.
Kodela pronounces Oto Pestner's hit a bit pathetic. There's nothing I can add to that really. You can check out Oto's Hawkwind-era go at it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5clcGX4zoI
No sign of any orange sunshine, then. Oto's machine was probably well greased - likely with goose fat - but more grey than silver.
However there is some experimental-looking geometric furniture: it appears the proletariata pohistvo was in search of a single revolutionary design that could be used as a stage, table, sofa, tipi, and stairs.
I notice Oto's got 18 Youtube views, while the one of Hawkwind's TOTP appearance is slightly ahead with 241,926.
In four or five years he's bound to catch up. By 2013 his band had chicks dancing openly on stage, and triangular scenery had reached an advanced phase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb_eB20i-E4
The title uses an optative form of dvojina, the (agglutinated) dual person form without which most the rest of the world struggles with romance, according to the local view. "Mother, Let's Be Friends" it's called.
Her response is unrecorded. Apart from crying every time he tries to leave her hearth and table to go and get some vaguely-alluded-to hot massage action down at the Tito Bar. Would she strip off and dance at his gigs?
I'm sure Hawkwind can be safely shunted into some wet and dry, humourless intellectual category here, and in return I am happy to file their contemporary Pestner in the brain cell I keep handy for party-approved Val Doonican-oid sub-Eurovision curiosities.
For a full discussion of the Anglo-Slovene space-time anomaly see www.rum.si - Kodelaism remains the dominant cultural force in Slovenia and while I wouldn't currently welcome a return to the mud and adventure of the 70s I am deeply grateful never to have been trapped in this parallel but Hawkwindless universe. Until now, I mean.
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YOU CAN SEE IT'S A VERY SMALL COUNTRY DEPT.:
LESSONS IN LOVE TO BEGIN
After concerns are expressed in Slovenske Novice that Slovenians have become slaves in their own country, the government launches a campaign to boost the indigenous population with these helpful strategically placed reminders.
Related:
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https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/WKEbUSEdEHH
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https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/FiqgaChMYFw
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/9ComHeDoFt7
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/AR7c1Sa5iAo
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ZEvNF2PFNRz
LESSONS IN LOVE TO BEGIN
After concerns are expressed in Slovenske Novice that Slovenians have become slaves in their own country, the government launches a campaign to boost the indigenous population with these helpful strategically placed reminders.
Related:
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/7bpkFRJBfoT
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ioJWRQkJhs6
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/WKEbUSEdEHH
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/WF2tTdGj3Qf
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/FiqgaChMYFw
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/9ComHeDoFt7
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/AR7c1Sa5iAo
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/ZEvNF2PFNRz
Local cola
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BEER PRANG OF THE DAY
Monday 20.44 near Lendava
PRIHAJI DREVI DRIVE-INKU
Friends, Roma, country bends.
Lendava beers. Arrgh...comes to
Bar i' trees/sore nuts...
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Monday 20.44 near Lendava
PRIHAJI DREVI DRIVE-INKU
Friends, Roma, country bends.
Lendava beers. Arrgh...comes to
Bar i' trees/sore nuts...
....................................................(this haiku ran out of road)
FOTO: Z avtom obvisela
na drevesu, dva poškodovana
slovenskenovice.si
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ethnographic news
STAMPEDE ORGANISER IN HIDING
After promising 150 victims of his night out 40 euros apiece, the organiser of this year's best drunken stampede so far - at Markovci on the outskirts of Ptuj - has taken NPOSIALPU's advice...and vanished, leaving his wife to fend off agitated claimants with empty promises about "next week".
Whistleblowers have cast doubt on his version, that the chaos was set off by an unknown thief in the cloakroom. Instead, they say, it was caused by 100 unruly ethnographers who stormed in and nicked whatever they could carry - probably hordes of a rival ethnicity, such as the Stojinci-ites.
An insurance company is believed to be involved. Or maybe not any more.
Organiser Marjan Breznik may have disappeared into a conclave of expert ethnographic witnesses - Slovenia has many unable to find bar jobs - hoping to define the evening's outcome as a result of Markovcian genetic inheritance; whereas other academics in the field may see it as more indicative of a desire to sell as much cheap beer and hard liquor as village teenagers can possibly consume, fitting more closely the model of environmentally-mediated ethnogenesis of the barbarian tribes postulated by Herwig Wolfram.
Further support for the interpretation of an ethnography based on societal conditions can be derived from the Markovci Ethnographic Society's response. Inebriates who could not produce their cloakroom slip were quickly eliminated from the no-compensation scheme, as in Slovenia, everything must be reduced to a paper chase in which only the most anally retentive can succeed.
When I ate toxic mussels from Ptuj's Interspar and woke up naked on the bathroom floor after a near-death double-ended all-nite barfing/shits session, I selflessly crawled to the supermarket, despite my weak and very anally unretentive state, to warn them in case any old people or children ate them and actually died. For as the supplier later admitted to the fish lady, they were indeed very bad.
As I explained - sunken-eyed and pale as an early Goth and with more than the usual language difficulties - what had happened, the Slovenian reaction was less about love, more Anthony Chuzzlewit:
"Have you got your receipt?"
Needless to say, that was the last thing on my mind.
My case was dismissed.
See
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/aDV4YwKDjk5
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5yMH9memQyx
STAMPEDE ORGANISER IN HIDING
After promising 150 victims of his night out 40 euros apiece, the organiser of this year's best drunken stampede so far - at Markovci on the outskirts of Ptuj - has taken NPOSIALPU's advice...and vanished, leaving his wife to fend off agitated claimants with empty promises about "next week".
Whistleblowers have cast doubt on his version, that the chaos was set off by an unknown thief in the cloakroom. Instead, they say, it was caused by 100 unruly ethnographers who stormed in and nicked whatever they could carry - probably hordes of a rival ethnicity, such as the Stojinci-ites.
An insurance company is believed to be involved. Or maybe not any more.
Organiser Marjan Breznik may have disappeared into a conclave of expert ethnographic witnesses - Slovenia has many unable to find bar jobs - hoping to define the evening's outcome as a result of Markovcian genetic inheritance; whereas other academics in the field may see it as more indicative of a desire to sell as much cheap beer and hard liquor as village teenagers can possibly consume, fitting more closely the model of environmentally-mediated ethnogenesis of the barbarian tribes postulated by Herwig Wolfram.
Further support for the interpretation of an ethnography based on societal conditions can be derived from the Markovci Ethnographic Society's response. Inebriates who could not produce their cloakroom slip were quickly eliminated from the no-compensation scheme, as in Slovenia, everything must be reduced to a paper chase in which only the most anally retentive can succeed.
When I ate toxic mussels from Ptuj's Interspar and woke up naked on the bathroom floor after a near-death double-ended all-nite barfing/shits session, I selflessly crawled to the supermarket, despite my weak and very anally unretentive state, to warn them in case any old people or children ate them and actually died. For as the supplier later admitted to the fish lady, they were indeed very bad.
As I explained - sunken-eyed and pale as an early Goth and with more than the usual language difficulties - what had happened, the Slovenian reaction was less about love, more Anthony Chuzzlewit:
"Have you got your receipt?"
Needless to say, that was the last thing on my mind.
My case was dismissed.
See
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/aDV4YwKDjk5
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/5yMH9memQyx
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PRIVATE DOUGHNUT: ENTER BUY ORDER
Remember the 90s?
As the Slovenian Sovereign Holding, manager of state capital assets, fat insurers Modra zavarovalnica and Adriatic Slovenica, and assorted mutual funds flog off one of Slovenia's biggest food companies Žito, my message to the new owners is put LOTS more jam in the bloody doughnuts.
These communist insurance-accountant flavoured doughnuts are like the ones we used to have in the 70s: monotonous, chewy affairs with a tiny, unpredictably-located speck of uninspiringly-flavoured "jam" somewhere inside. Always of floury apricot here, probably for some murky political family reason.
Where are the apple and cinnamon ones? Can the new Croatian owners persuade the Slovenians to enjoy food, or are things about to get even more Catholic?
The secular, Marxist ideology-free British doughnut has grown wetter and stickier over the years, which is good for everybody. And of course sunny, dusty Europe cannot so easily grow the stand-up flour we enjoy from our northern dominions.
I fear we're heading for doughnuts with no jam whatsoever, like the odd, aberrant specimens which occasionally used to disappoint NPOSIALPU in his youth, likely due to some industrial jam-pumping problem. No-nuts, we used to call those.
Eventually those smug, old-time food producers realised that if something was nice, people used to buy more. Catholics, we know, are repelled by pleasure. The communist idea is to pack any doughnut dissidents off to Goli Otok, of course.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/podravka-acquires-majority-stake-in-zito
Remember the 90s?
As the Slovenian Sovereign Holding, manager of state capital assets, fat insurers Modra zavarovalnica and Adriatic Slovenica, and assorted mutual funds flog off one of Slovenia's biggest food companies Žito, my message to the new owners is put LOTS more jam in the bloody doughnuts.
These communist insurance-accountant flavoured doughnuts are like the ones we used to have in the 70s: monotonous, chewy affairs with a tiny, unpredictably-located speck of uninspiringly-flavoured "jam" somewhere inside. Always of floury apricot here, probably for some murky political family reason.
Where are the apple and cinnamon ones? Can the new Croatian owners persuade the Slovenians to enjoy food, or are things about to get even more Catholic?
The secular, Marxist ideology-free British doughnut has grown wetter and stickier over the years, which is good for everybody. And of course sunny, dusty Europe cannot so easily grow the stand-up flour we enjoy from our northern dominions.
I fear we're heading for doughnuts with no jam whatsoever, like the odd, aberrant specimens which occasionally used to disappoint NPOSIALPU in his youth, likely due to some industrial jam-pumping problem. No-nuts, we used to call those.
Eventually those smug, old-time food producers realised that if something was nice, people used to buy more. Catholics, we know, are repelled by pleasure. The communist idea is to pack any doughnut dissidents off to Goli Otok, of course.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/podravka-acquires-majority-stake-in-zito
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IS THIS LOVE?
SLOVENIA'S LOVE OF SMALLNESS ON DISPLAY
As a sensational dancer, heterosexual, atheist, non-racist, rational drugs policy-supporting answerer of boringly repetitive questions so the locals can practice their English, who has not lived in one place his entire life, my reputation as a gay, woman-chasing, devil-worshipping, nigger-loving, jewish gypsy junkie foreign spy who doesn't even speak Slovene is well-known in Ptuj. www.maria.si
So you may imagine the hellfire being unleashed in the comments columns of Slovenske Novice reacting to the forthcoming flood of 15-20 refugees:
"Slovenia is too small for asylum seekers"
"These aliens among us have all the privileges and propagate like rabbits, and it is impossible to stop...We are slaves in our own country."
"Dear sir, the introduction of niggers in Slovenia is not helping."
"I've been living abroad for many years and I can tell you that immigrants do so with great difficulty. Also, many of them bring with them a variety of diseases."
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-pricakovanju-azilantov
And in the times of Miro I, every comment of the Slovenske-Novic-ites did vanish, in The Third Great Deletion of Miro.
IS THIS LOVE?
SLOVENIA'S LOVE OF SMALLNESS ON DISPLAY
As a sensational dancer, heterosexual, atheist, non-racist, rational drugs policy-supporting answerer of boringly repetitive questions so the locals can practice their English, who has not lived in one place his entire life, my reputation as a gay, woman-chasing, devil-worshipping, nigger-loving, jewish gypsy junkie foreign spy who doesn't even speak Slovene is well-known in Ptuj. www.maria.si
So you may imagine the hellfire being unleashed in the comments columns of Slovenske Novice reacting to the forthcoming flood of 15-20 refugees:
"Slovenia is too small for asylum seekers"
"These aliens among us have all the privileges and propagate like rabbits, and it is impossible to stop...We are slaves in our own country."
"Dear sir, the introduction of niggers in Slovenia is not helping."
"I've been living abroad for many years and I can tell you that immigrants do so with great difficulty. Also, many of them bring with them a variety of diseases."
Source:
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/v-pricakovanju-azilantov
And in the times of Miro I, every comment of the Slovenske-Novic-ites did vanish, in The Third Great Deletion of Miro.
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SLOVENIMICROSTATISTIC OF THE WEEK
Phew! Steady on!
"...according to initial rough estimates..."
Slovenia would be some kind of paradise for Nigel Farage - with its argument over whether it should allow in 17 immigrants or 18.
Meanwhile everyone expresses amazement over my decision to migrate to Slovenia - as here, thanks to the dead hand of theo-oligarchy, everyone wants to economically migrate somewhere else as quick as you can say "fancy-sounding useless diploma"! Which isn't very soon.
Slovenians love to count, but not the spaces left by their own departures and infecundity, apparently.
And the smaller the thing being counted is, the better they like it. Just the other day I was complimented on how small the writing was on my advertising https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Z1xnV4zTRD8
Ignoring the real, completely banal, and unmanipulative reason, which was to save paper, the reader held this A6-size item up to the wall like a poster, and complimented me on the shrewdness of my psychology.
If it had been a secret, I could have just not printed the information at all, or at least written it in my village dialect.
He, on the other hand, assumed the smallness was a trick, to get them interested.
"Really tiny. Slovenians will love that," he said.
www.aaa.si
Phew! Steady on!
"...according to initial rough estimates..."
Slovenia would be some kind of paradise for Nigel Farage - with its argument over whether it should allow in 17 immigrants or 18.
Meanwhile everyone expresses amazement over my decision to migrate to Slovenia - as here, thanks to the dead hand of theo-oligarchy, everyone wants to economically migrate somewhere else as quick as you can say "fancy-sounding useless diploma"! Which isn't very soon.
Slovenians love to count, but not the spaces left by their own departures and infecundity, apparently.
And the smaller the thing being counted is, the better they like it. Just the other day I was complimented on how small the writing was on my advertising https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/Z1xnV4zTRD8
Ignoring the real, completely banal, and unmanipulative reason, which was to save paper, the reader held this A6-size item up to the wall like a poster, and complimented me on the shrewdness of my psychology.
If it had been a secret, I could have just not printed the information at all, or at least written it in my village dialect.
He, on the other hand, assumed the smallness was a trick, to get them interested.
"Really tiny. Slovenians will love that," he said.
www.aaa.si
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FLASH CRASH: CFTC RESPONSE IS PRETTY RUM
So, I am invited to believe, I suddenly ran out of margin and lost all that money because a guy with a normal PC, who lives in his mum's basement in a semi in high-latency Hounslow, allegedly spoofed the Chicago futures market into crashing, not genuinely intending to sell anything.
Of course people who have lost all their money to the HFT tycoons cannot afford an action to recover their money, even if wrongdoing or neglect of some kind has been proven in the courts.
In true Slovenian style, I can only hope that whoever has my ex-money at the moment is thoroughly miserable in his wealth, segregated from true human values and mother earth, and constantly looking over his shoulder and wondering if his friends are genuine...
www.rum.si
So, I am invited to believe, I suddenly ran out of margin and lost all that money because a guy with a normal PC, who lives in his mum's basement in a semi in high-latency Hounslow, allegedly spoofed the Chicago futures market into crashing, not genuinely intending to sell anything.
Of course people who have lost all their money to the HFT tycoons cannot afford an action to recover their money, even if wrongdoing or neglect of some kind has been proven in the courts.
In true Slovenian style, I can only hope that whoever has my ex-money at the moment is thoroughly miserable in his wealth, segregated from true human values and mother earth, and constantly looking over his shoulder and wondering if his friends are genuine...
www.rum.si
If one man can wipe
billions off the markets, what does the
future hold?
independent.co.uk
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Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell continues...As you wish.
ZRAKBETH - THE WITCHES' CANT
1st Witch:
Thrice the chicken splodge hath brewed.
2nd Witch:
Nice! Sulphides and aldehydes.
3rd Witch:
Roman cries:—it's stinky-time!
1st Witch:
Ground bird smell from cauldron flows:
Heads, eyes, blood, beaks, guts and toes.
Pay no heed, people moan,
Days and nights this dirt is blown,
Sweated poultry remnants, plop,
Let fly the Perutninan glop!
All:
Gallus gallus town's smell troubles;
Pressure cooker cauldron bubbles.
2nd Witch:
As every bird a penny makes
A stench descends around our lake;
Town is cute, but if there's smog,
Aliphatic pong meets blog,
What the fork, this Glaser's bling?
Zbornica's pro zrak stinking.
For a farm smell powerful, trouble:
Inhospitabubble.
Study Notes for Investors in Slovenia and Business Experts:
Zrak = air
Zbornica = Chamber of Commerce
Their website:
http://www.stajerskagz.si/en/About_CCIS/President/
Ptuj's English language website:
http://www.ptuj.co.uk
Ptuj's Festival, Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell runs all year round. One smell = one poem (max 1 poem/day)
ZRAKBETH - THE WITCHES' CANT
1st Witch:
Thrice the chicken splodge hath brewed.
2nd Witch:
Nice! Sulphides and aldehydes.
3rd Witch:
Roman cries:—it's stinky-time!
1st Witch:
Ground bird smell from cauldron flows:
Heads, eyes, blood, beaks, guts and toes.
Pay no heed, people moan,
Days and nights this dirt is blown,
Sweated poultry remnants, plop,
Let fly the Perutninan glop!
All:
Gallus gallus town's smell troubles;
Pressure cooker cauldron bubbles.
2nd Witch:
As every bird a penny makes
A stench descends around our lake;
Town is cute, but if there's smog,
Aliphatic pong meets blog,
What the fork, this Glaser's bling?
Zbornica's pro zrak stinking.
For a farm smell powerful, trouble:
Inhospitabubble.
Study Notes for Investors in Slovenia and Business Experts:
Zrak = air
Zbornica = Chamber of Commerce
Their website:
http://www.stajerskagz.si/en/About_CCIS/President/
Ptuj's English language website:
http://www.ptuj.co.uk
Ptuj's Festival, Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell runs all year round. One smell = one poem (max 1 poem/day)
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BRIBING A LIVING IN A MEDIOCRACY-OCRACY
Aaaaaaajaaa! I get it now. Slovenians look at the words "earn 20% commission" ...and they see the words "demand someone pays a 20% bribe".
Thanks to my medical student friend for revealing this, albeit accidentally. Considering their desperate finances, I asked him why Slovenians all reacted to the 20% commission part with suspicion.
He looked worried, like a man out of his league, treading carefully around shady business. "What's the difference between a commission and a bribe?" he asked.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/EsMdmGdcaiX
BRIBING A LIVING IN A MEDIOCRACY-OCRACY
Aaaaaaajaaa! I get it now. Slovenians look at the words "earn 20% commission" ...and they see the words "demand someone pays a 20% bribe".
Thanks to my medical student friend for revealing this, albeit accidentally. Considering their desperate finances, I asked him why Slovenians all reacted to the 20% commission part with suspicion.
He looked worried, like a man out of his league, treading carefully around shady business. "What's the difference between a commission and a bribe?" he asked.
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/EsMdmGdcaiX
STYLE ADVICE
Oglaševanje posebej uglašen za Ptuj.
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SUPERVISORY OUIJA BOARD
Doctor Ibadin please go to NLB,
Where the staff will sign quickly: no kiddin' he
Can cut price operations
And thus save future patients -
All will surely donate organs widdly.
NPOSIALPU thinks Dr Ibadin's offer is an excellent plan to raise funds for the next time Slovenia's banks' money gets stolen by the Pope.
If you are looking to sell kidneys the Slovenia Times website is the place for you. We really must be ready to rescue those banks again next time, so I hope all Slovenia's bank employees will sign up with Doctor Micheal Ibadin and donate at least one apiece.
Don't be put off by the fact that he can't spell his own name. This has never been shown scientifically to impair transplant surgery skills.
[Update: Dr Ibadin's offer to buy kidneys in the comments on this article was felled in the Second Great Deletion of Miro I]
Doctor Ibadin please go to NLB,
Where the staff will sign quickly: no kiddin' he
Can cut price operations
And thus save future patients -
All will surely donate organs widdly.
NPOSIALPU thinks Dr Ibadin's offer is an excellent plan to raise funds for the next time Slovenia's banks' money gets stolen by the Pope.
If you are looking to sell kidneys the Slovenia Times website is the place for you. We really must be ready to rescue those banks again next time, so I hope all Slovenia's bank employees will sign up with Doctor Micheal Ibadin and donate at least one apiece.
Don't be put off by the fact that he can't spell his own name. This has never been shown scientifically to impair transplant surgery skills.
[Update: Dr Ibadin's offer to buy kidneys in the comments on this article was felled in the Second Great Deletion of Miro I]
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GREAT PREGNANT PAW-PAWS SORT OF ENDS
And in the Sixth Big Moon of Miro I a decree was issued to LET IT BE KNOWN IN THE OUTLANDS that www.sloveniatimes.com hath forthwith ceasethed its block on all reader comments.
Except for comments under the name NPOSIALPU....are you pulling my pork?
If you have any input on Slovenia's doings please do go there and comment, as it is a bit too cosy with just the four of us and the African witchcraft spam.
If you've never been to Slovenia or don't even know where it is don't worry, this isn't a reason not to comment.
A statistically high quantity of non-Slovenian opinions from the Outlands are exactly what's needed - from anybody with any ideas - just for Darwinian reasons, for the sake of some variety: it doesn't matter if they are mutant ideas, or whether they make sense or not.
Visit www.sloveniatimes.com right now and have your say about it.
HOW THE GREAT PEACE OF THE PEOPLE OF MIRO BEGAN - See NPOSIALPU's pendulous posts at http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/kaj-je-na-brezjah-o-voditeljih-ljudskih-mnozic-govoril-metropolit-zore
And in the Sixth Big Moon of Miro I a decree was issued to LET IT BE KNOWN IN THE OUTLANDS that www.sloveniatimes.com hath forthwith ceasethed its block on all reader comments.
Except for comments under the name NPOSIALPU....are you pulling my pork?
If you have any input on Slovenia's doings please do go there and comment, as it is a bit too cosy with just the four of us and the African witchcraft spam.
If you've never been to Slovenia or don't even know where it is don't worry, this isn't a reason not to comment.
A statistically high quantity of non-Slovenian opinions from the Outlands are exactly what's needed - from anybody with any ideas - just for Darwinian reasons, for the sake of some variety: it doesn't matter if they are mutant ideas, or whether they make sense or not.
Visit www.sloveniatimes.com right now and have your say about it.
HOW THE GREAT PEACE OF THE PEOPLE OF MIRO BEGAN - See NPOSIALPU's pendulous posts at http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/kaj-je-na-brezjah-o-voditeljih-ljudskih-mnozic-govoril-metropolit-zore
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Sporty Slovenia Cloakroom Security News
GO BACK HIJACK PUCK-KU
In Slovenia
It's not your goals which count. It's
Who steals everything.
41 Ukrainian children aged around eight who came 1900 kilometers from Kharkiv to Maribor to do ice hockey have had their passports stolen from the changing room.
Slovenia is very competitive, and our opponents should realise what they are up against. Our kits sport plenty of pockets these days, while Slovenian hockey rackets are hollowed out, to prevent thefts of rice, teabags, etc.
Any kids who think they can come over here and humiliate Slovenia had better not expect any mercy from our jealous drunk coked-up sporty boys.
Let this be a lesson to the little tykes. Sports are for tough guys.
Previous contests:
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/aDV4YwKDjk5
GO BACK HIJACK PUCK-KU
In Slovenia
It's not your goals which count. It's
Who steals everything.
41 Ukrainian children aged around eight who came 1900 kilometers from Kharkiv to Maribor to do ice hockey have had their passports stolen from the changing room.
Slovenia is very competitive, and our opponents should realise what they are up against. Our kits sport plenty of pockets these days, while Slovenian hockey rackets are hollowed out, to prevent thefts of rice, teabags, etc.
Any kids who think they can come over here and humiliate Slovenia had better not expect any mercy from our jealous drunk coked-up sporty boys.
Let this be a lesson to the little tykes. Sports are for tough guys.
Previous contests:
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/aDV4YwKDjk5
Ukradli potne liste 41
otrokom! | Slovenskenovice.si
slovenskenovice.si
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ABBA DOBAR...? NOO
Former Kočevje Mayor J Veber,
Did not want gypsy tribe as his neighbour.
Looking over defence
Views in similar sense
German takeover, seeks a big aber.
Yes, humourless continental Europeans, I do know that's not the correct pronounciation.
Roma-allergic national activist Janko Veber has been using military intelligence to scratch around trying to find rational, or at least non-xenophobic-looking excuses to oppose Deutsche Telekom's alleged plan to take over Slovenija Telekom.
For instance, what about disaster and emergency services? Do we really want the Germans listening in to our floods and forest fires and guessing what equipment Slovenia is going to order from them, even before we call?
The MP raises an important point regarding Slovenian sovereignty.
Give me one good reason why Slovenia would even want its telephones connected to foreign countries? Slovenia is perfectly capable of doing everything itself, and has plenty of messenger boys (mostly rappers).
Continued connection to alien phones can only lead to the destruction of our unique culture of drinking, sausages, and accordion music. To see what sort of natural disasters will be avoided by severing all the cables at our borders, you only have to look at the euro.
Former Kočevje Mayor J Veber,
Did not want gypsy tribe as his neighbour.
Looking over defence
Views in similar sense
German takeover, seeks a big aber.
Yes, humourless continental Europeans, I do know that's not the correct pronounciation.
Roma-allergic national activist Janko Veber has been using military intelligence to scratch around trying to find rational, or at least non-xenophobic-looking excuses to oppose Deutsche Telekom's alleged plan to take over Slovenija Telekom.
For instance, what about disaster and emergency services? Do we really want the Germans listening in to our floods and forest fires and guessing what equipment Slovenia is going to order from them, even before we call?
The MP raises an important point regarding Slovenian sovereignty.
Give me one good reason why Slovenia would even want its telephones connected to foreign countries? Slovenia is perfectly capable of doing everything itself, and has plenty of messenger boys (mostly rappers).
Continued connection to alien phones can only lead to the destruction of our unique culture of drinking, sausages, and accordion music. To see what sort of natural disasters will be avoided by severing all the cables at our borders, you only have to look at the euro.
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BIKINI: A TOLL
Summertime...the EU and its ire
Moves no mountain: gets hot, over tyre;
Don't say tyre piles must go!
That tells Kidričevo
That it's time to go set them on fire...
LOVRENC NA DRAVSKEM POLJU - There was a time when it seemed like the yearly tyre dump fire would become a permanent new tradition.
But the annual infernos have waned on the flat wide Drava polje in recent years. Now those Brussels Eurohippies are stirring things up about Slovenia's tyre mountain, and this could mean a challenge to Ptuj's Town Smell from our rivals in nearby Camp Kidričevo.
Tyre fires are difficult, and may go on for years. Demand for worn-out tyres failed to grow as expected, and locals began burying some five million close to the water table, to make them harder for their relatives to light.
Now the EU has told Slovenia to stop dithering around and lay its gume bare - i.e. dig them up again or it could get fined 600 to 36000 euros per day. But they haven't done it very quickly as the Eurocrats haven't given them the money to do it yet. Tyre-burying magnate Albin Brencl of Albin Promotion says the tyres became part of Slovenia when his licence was revoked for illegally (nudge nudge wink wink know what I mean) burying tyres in landfill.
The ignition of the 40,000 tonnes of them under Lovrenc na Dravskem Polju could win sporty Slovenia a place alongside historic world record-holding tyre fires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_fire
But our neighbours' massive black plumes, while dramatic and impressive, lack the subtle aromatic bouquet of Ptuj's chicken factory, with its mingled notes of pressure-cooked eyeballs and degraded feathers in a sports-sock-gravy, .
Melting synthetic rubber is by contrast monotonous and blazingly obvious and frankly the air over there is for cissy vegetarians.
Ptuj's smell is invisible, indivisible, individual, somewhat refined, and so reliable, not just a flash in the plain. Despite this EU attempt to make tyre fires more predictable, I do not think we will be losing any tourists to Kidričevo and its cousin villages.
Ptuj's is a mature town smell with a well-jellied pedigree and its own bankrupt bank, not some 40 euro teenage arson job.
Unlike a rubber smut it isn't black and it won't get stuck in your bikini. No Eurocrat has placed a time limit on it.
But the customer knows best what he wants, and whichever smell you choose, our tourist information office will be happy to assist you.
RIOT SPECIAL!!! 20,486 Dunlop D01J, ideal for general purpose or tactical rioting. No reasonable offer refused. Delivery anywhere in Europe - Abingdon to Albania! Quick cash deal. [Back in 15 minutes]
great tyre fires of history
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/the-great-everett-tire-fire-25-years-later/#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6tdYDZgSe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWsXSi6lVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvozIIKqn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvrntMh-eCw
BIKINI: A TOLL
Summertime...the EU and its ire
Moves no mountain: gets hot, over tyre;
Don't say tyre piles must go!
That tells Kidričevo
That it's time to go set them on fire...
LOVRENC NA DRAVSKEM POLJU - There was a time when it seemed like the yearly tyre dump fire would become a permanent new tradition.
But the annual infernos have waned on the flat wide Drava polje in recent years. Now those Brussels Eurohippies are stirring things up about Slovenia's tyre mountain, and this could mean a challenge to Ptuj's Town Smell from our rivals in nearby Camp Kidričevo.
Tyre fires are difficult, and may go on for years. Demand for worn-out tyres failed to grow as expected, and locals began burying some five million close to the water table, to make them harder for their relatives to light.
Now the EU has told Slovenia to stop dithering around and lay its gume bare - i.e. dig them up again or it could get fined 600 to 36000 euros per day. But they haven't done it very quickly as the Eurocrats haven't given them the money to do it yet. Tyre-burying magnate Albin Brencl of Albin Promotion says the tyres became part of Slovenia when his licence was revoked for illegally (nudge nudge wink wink know what I mean) burying tyres in landfill.
The ignition of the 40,000 tonnes of them under Lovrenc na Dravskem Polju could win sporty Slovenia a place alongside historic world record-holding tyre fires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_fire
But our neighbours' massive black plumes, while dramatic and impressive, lack the subtle aromatic bouquet of Ptuj's chicken factory, with its mingled notes of pressure-cooked eyeballs and degraded feathers in a sports-sock-gravy, .
Melting synthetic rubber is by contrast monotonous and blazingly obvious and frankly the air over there is for cissy vegetarians.
Ptuj's smell is invisible, indivisible, individual, somewhat refined, and so reliable, not just a flash in the plain. Despite this EU attempt to make tyre fires more predictable, I do not think we will be losing any tourists to Kidričevo and its cousin villages.
Ptuj's is a mature town smell with a well-jellied pedigree and its own bankrupt bank, not some 40 euro teenage arson job.
Unlike a rubber smut it isn't black and it won't get stuck in your bikini. No Eurocrat has placed a time limit on it.
But the customer knows best what he wants, and whichever smell you choose, our tourist information office will be happy to assist you.
RIOT SPECIAL!!! 20,486 Dunlop D01J, ideal for general purpose or tactical rioting. No reasonable offer refused. Delivery anywhere in Europe - Abingdon to Albania! Quick cash deal. [Back in 15 minutes]
great tyre fires of history
http://www.heraldnet.com/news/the-great-everett-tire-fire-25-years-later/#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6tdYDZgSe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjWsXSi6lVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvozIIKqn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvrntMh-eCw
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IN TUKAJ SO REZULTATI
Ste neumna slovenska vlada, išče plani, da kopira iz prihodnost? Ali želite, manj srečni sodržavljani, da vas sovražijo? Boste potrebovali zelo veseli policisti.
Tipičen dan v Anglija.
In ja, so vedno laže.
https://endpropaganda.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/dwp-related-deaths-2010-onwards/
Ste neumna slovenska vlada, išče plani, da kopira iz prihodnost? Ali želite, manj srečni sodržavljani, da vas sovražijo? Boste potrebovali zelo veseli policisti.
Tipičen dan v Anglija.
In ja, so vedno laže.
https://endpropaganda.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/dwp-related-deaths-2010-onwards/
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As I swamp Ptuj and don't even speak Slovene...
TEN YEARS, TEN STEPS:
HOW EASTERN EUROPE + IDS
CREATED FOOD BANKS IN THE UK
1. 2004 - ten former communist and other flaky countries with rubbish wages join the EU. Many of the inhabitants are religious and therefore habituated to the notion that misery is good for the soul. Which is just as well as their ruling theo-oligarchs are pocketing all the cash from privatisation, while their taxes and lumbering bureaucracies make successful small businesses as likely as fresh air in Ptuj on a Friday evening.
2. Getting paid six times more than in Poland proves popular, and ten times the anticipated number of EU migrants enter the UK.
3. Everybody begins to realise British workers are fat, illiterate, lazy and useless.
4. Capitalism's race to the bottom intensifies. Politicians, the Bank of England and capitalists are pleased as wage inflation is held down by the migrant goldrush.
5. Landlords take advantage of the resulting accommodation shortage and the ex-communist religious peoples' low expectations regarding living space. 19 people can now share a house instead of three or four. And if you need more, there are plenty of cheap Polish builders.
6. Wages slump. Rents rocket. A buy-to-let bonanza stokes a house price boom, especially in shitty neighbourhoods where capitalism has located the low pay jobs that foreigners must have, coz they're foreign.
7. BNP, EDL, and UKIP types blame foreigners for being better value, taking all the jobs, houses, and women. All of them. And for not integrating with the people that hate them. It's just like Ptuj! Daily Mail readers lap it up. Nobody blames technology, for machines which do the work which formerly took hundreds of people.
8. Upper-class disciplinarians crank up the never-ending dogma to shame the more laid-back among us, and foil attempts by the poor to eat, by messing up their lives running around benefit offices and stopping their money with lumbering bureaucracies, tests and targets. IDS (see link) particularly enjoys devising new ways to disrupt the lives of poor scum - who (unfortunately, as he would see it) can't be forced to join the army and take a cold shower at 4 a.m. due to the 1960s that we had in Britain (in the 1960s, unlike eastern Europe).
9. 2014 - Half of the hungry are now victims of government bureaucrats. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/almost-50-of-referrals-to-food-banks-in-the-uk-are-due-to-issues-with-the-welfare-system-9910973.html Christians, who've been losing their War on Reality, see an opportunity to create their own "moral money" system using food vouchers to prevent any of it going on booze, cigs, and other drugs, instead making the supplicants sing for their supper like their Victorian salvationist soup-kitchen antecedents, boosting their godbothering quota by driving the desperate UK hungry into...
10. ...a network of food banks founded to save Roma street children in Bulgaria. http://www.trusselltrust.org/how-we-started
TEN YEARS, TEN STEPS:
HOW EASTERN EUROPE + IDS
CREATED FOOD BANKS IN THE UK
1. 2004 - ten former communist and other flaky countries with rubbish wages join the EU. Many of the inhabitants are religious and therefore habituated to the notion that misery is good for the soul. Which is just as well as their ruling theo-oligarchs are pocketing all the cash from privatisation, while their taxes and lumbering bureaucracies make successful small businesses as likely as fresh air in Ptuj on a Friday evening.
2. Getting paid six times more than in Poland proves popular, and ten times the anticipated number of EU migrants enter the UK.
3. Everybody begins to realise British workers are fat, illiterate, lazy and useless.
4. Capitalism's race to the bottom intensifies. Politicians, the Bank of England and capitalists are pleased as wage inflation is held down by the migrant goldrush.
5. Landlords take advantage of the resulting accommodation shortage and the ex-communist religious peoples' low expectations regarding living space. 19 people can now share a house instead of three or four. And if you need more, there are plenty of cheap Polish builders.
6. Wages slump. Rents rocket. A buy-to-let bonanza stokes a house price boom, especially in shitty neighbourhoods where capitalism has located the low pay jobs that foreigners must have, coz they're foreign.
7. BNP, EDL, and UKIP types blame foreigners for being better value, taking all the jobs, houses, and women. All of them. And for not integrating with the people that hate them. It's just like Ptuj! Daily Mail readers lap it up. Nobody blames technology, for machines which do the work which formerly took hundreds of people.
8. Upper-class disciplinarians crank up the never-ending dogma to shame the more laid-back among us, and foil attempts by the poor to eat, by messing up their lives running around benefit offices and stopping their money with lumbering bureaucracies, tests and targets. IDS (see link) particularly enjoys devising new ways to disrupt the lives of poor scum - who (unfortunately, as he would see it) can't be forced to join the army and take a cold shower at 4 a.m. due to the 1960s that we had in Britain (in the 1960s, unlike eastern Europe).
9. 2014 - Half of the hungry are now victims of government bureaucrats. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/almost-50-of-referrals-to-food-banks-in-the-uk-are-due-to-issues-with-the-welfare-system-9910973.html Christians, who've been losing their War on Reality, see an opportunity to create their own "moral money" system using food vouchers to prevent any of it going on booze, cigs, and other drugs, instead making the supplicants sing for their supper like their Victorian salvationist soup-kitchen antecedents, boosting their godbothering quota by driving the desperate UK hungry into...
10. ...a network of food banks founded to save Roma street children in Bulgaria. http://www.trusselltrust.org/how-we-started
4 Aug 2015
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AB'S BUSINESS LEGGY-SEE
Bit of a slow day at Slovenske Novice, so we are taking a look at entrepreneurs' legs. This was objectively the best pair, up with which our business ladies could come.
Now this might seem frivolous.
But in Slovenia all female employment, fantastic once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, awards of contracts etc., depend on "sexual favours", as they would see it. Girls like these are fighting off the job offers everywhere they go.
So it's a proper business story and no mistake. To be fair, they started this. Procure away!
See also:
Political arses
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/K65b7Bjma1a
Bit of a slow day at Slovenske Novice, so we are taking a look at entrepreneurs' legs. This was objectively the best pair, up with which our business ladies could come.
Now this might seem frivolous.
But in Slovenia all female employment, fantastic once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, awards of contracts etc., depend on "sexual favours", as they would see it. Girls like these are fighting off the job offers everywhere they go.
So it's a proper business story and no mistake. To be fair, they started this. Procure away!
See also:
Political arses
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/K65b7Bjma1a
FOTO: To so slovenske
podjetnice | Slovenskenovice.si
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Southend Special
TOURISM SCHEDULE CONSULTANTS ADVISE HACK-KU
Kursaal flyers...on
Thirtieth of March...or is
It the first of June?
According to this unimportant announcement to the soulless, ignorant, English-speaking planet, both.
A good start, dear hoteliers of Slovenia, and anyone getting their buckets and spades ready for paddle at the seaside.
This is basically typical of what you're dealing with.
TOURISM SCHEDULE CONSULTANTS ADVISE HACK-KU
Kursaal flyers...on
Thirtieth of March...or is
It the first of June?
According to this unimportant announcement to the soulless, ignorant, English-speaking planet, both.
A good start, dear hoteliers of Slovenia, and anyone getting their buckets and spades ready for paddle at the seaside.
This is basically typical of what you're dealing with.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
IN THE SECOND AGE OF ALENKA THE LEGS
He left Positive Slovenia but continued to test positive.
This...
HOLE IN ONE - 3 POINTS
Conspiracy theory: Vilfan
Topples ancient pedestrian man -
Was his drive not quite Pozi?
Drugo strankamikaze?
Anyway - in the back of the van!
In some places in Slovenia the pedestrian has to walk out onto the crossing and then it is the drunk drivers' job to stop.
And sometimes they will stop when they see you waiting to cross, like in the UK.
I'm talking about crossings without lights.
I say "in some places" but actually one I go over quite often, they sometimes drive on when I'm going one way, and stop when I'm coming back.
Or vice versa. It is another of Slovenia's dual cases.
...was deleted from :
IN THE SECOND AGE OF ALENKA THE LEGS
He left Positive Slovenia but continued to test positive.
This...
HOLE IN ONE - 3 POINTS
Conspiracy theory: Vilfan
Topples ancient pedestrian man -
Was his drive not quite Pozi?
Drugo strankamikaze?
Anyway - in the back of the van!
In some places in Slovenia the pedestrian has to walk out onto the crossing and then it is the drunk drivers' job to stop.
And sometimes they will stop when they see you waiting to cross, like in the UK.
I'm talking about crossings without lights.
I say "in some places" but actually one I go over quite often, they sometimes drive on when I'm going one way, and stop when I'm coming back.
Or vice versa. It is another of Slovenia's dual cases.
...was deleted from :
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during the third age of alenka the legs
A CONTINUOUS RAISING OF THE POLITICAL UNDEAD
FROM THE NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE
today's prophecy from the past
WALTZ, TREAT, SHUFFLE
Fine, particulate fallout from schism
Party on!? Create alternate ism?!
Poll results all surprise - a
Poli-liquidiser -
Winners' rule: losers end up in prison.
2014: And in the spring of Alenka The Legs there was a squawking of public address systems. And lo, the seas of positivity parted and there was negativity in the positivity of Positive Slovenia between Alenka The Legs and Prince Zoki of Ljub. And in a great pow-wow the Ljub City Mayor and inventor of positivity in Slovenia triumphantly put her party leadership to the sword.
In party deliberations 422 PS members declared themselves convinced by Zoki's message: a sausage on a paper plate.
Only 338 agreed with Alenka's political message: a paper plate with a sausage on it.
And there came forth a cleavage as, using her famous legs, AB gave herself the heave-ho taking the elected members with her. Thus ended the First Age of Alenka. Which left Zoki guarding the Brand of the Ancients of Ljub City, namely the Slovenian Positivity that had existed since October 22, 2011.
And the people likedethed this name no more not, and the Positive Slovenians were totally smote in the vote at the general election that is nearly always taking place in Slovenia - by the new parties that are always forming, even unto the one named by Alenka after herself. As they do.
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Nbi7PTMzJnr
And in the Second Age of Alenka The Legs the sages said that a shining crystal began to form in the mind of Alenka, which grew and grew with her every success on the economic policy battlefield, until it was as large and dark as an emerald, and she thought, fuck this for a game of soldiers, I'm not hanging around here waiting for them to find something else to investigate me for. For am I not AB and therefore fab? For does not King Juncker pay much better? And has he not invited me to the land of the EU-ites, there to be crowned as Queen Gigawatt of All The Joules?
And it came to pass that criminal investigations were routinely applied as a weapon in political life, which just made the whole government thing look even shabbier than it did already.
For, in the times of Janša II, did not Prince Zoki get his gaff searched and have to go down the nick for questioning, slap bang in the crucial week of the bad bank debate?
And in the Age of Alenka, did not the Wagon Trials of Generalissimo JJ get super busy around election time? To name but a couple. Not that Alenka has anything special to do at the moment.
And yo, many national verses relating to such things were deleted early in the reign of Miro The Shaddapadaface, including the above not-very-good one from: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-again-in-political-crisis#comment_9669
A CONTINUOUS RAISING OF THE POLITICAL UNDEAD
FROM THE NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE
today's prophecy from the past
WALTZ, TREAT, SHUFFLE
Fine, particulate fallout from schism
Party on!? Create alternate ism?!
Poll results all surprise - a
Poli-liquidiser -
Winners' rule: losers end up in prison.
2014: And in the spring of Alenka The Legs there was a squawking of public address systems. And lo, the seas of positivity parted and there was negativity in the positivity of Positive Slovenia between Alenka The Legs and Prince Zoki of Ljub. And in a great pow-wow the Ljub City Mayor and inventor of positivity in Slovenia triumphantly put her party leadership to the sword.
In party deliberations 422 PS members declared themselves convinced by Zoki's message: a sausage on a paper plate.
Only 338 agreed with Alenka's political message: a paper plate with a sausage on it.
And there came forth a cleavage as, using her famous legs, AB gave herself the heave-ho taking the elected members with her. Thus ended the First Age of Alenka. Which left Zoki guarding the Brand of the Ancients of Ljub City, namely the Slovenian Positivity that had existed since October 22, 2011.
And the people likedethed this name no more not, and the Positive Slovenians were totally smote in the vote at the general election that is nearly always taking place in Slovenia - by the new parties that are always forming, even unto the one named by Alenka after herself. As they do.
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Nbi7PTMzJnr
And in the Second Age of Alenka The Legs the sages said that a shining crystal began to form in the mind of Alenka, which grew and grew with her every success on the economic policy battlefield, until it was as large and dark as an emerald, and she thought, fuck this for a game of soldiers, I'm not hanging around here waiting for them to find something else to investigate me for. For am I not AB and therefore fab? For does not King Juncker pay much better? And has he not invited me to the land of the EU-ites, there to be crowned as Queen Gigawatt of All The Joules?
And it came to pass that criminal investigations were routinely applied as a weapon in political life, which just made the whole government thing look even shabbier than it did already.
For, in the times of Janša II, did not Prince Zoki get his gaff searched and have to go down the nick for questioning, slap bang in the crucial week of the bad bank debate?
And in the Age of Alenka, did not the Wagon Trials of Generalissimo JJ get super busy around election time? To name but a couple. Not that Alenka has anything special to do at the moment.
And yo, many national verses relating to such things were deleted early in the reign of Miro The Shaddapadaface, including the above not-very-good one from: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-again-in-political-crisis#comment_9669
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HIGH LEVEL LO-FI TAKE-THE-PISKU
Shutter *beep* up!
Adijo, audio - it
Was some hippie thing.
SNAP CRACKLE POP
- experimental soundscape
Slovenian Parliamentary Press Corps
(2015)
Shutter *beep* up!
Adijo, audio - it
Was some hippie thing.
SNAP CRACKLE POP
- experimental soundscape
Slovenian Parliamentary Press Corps
(2015)
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POLITICAL DUTBALL
Slovenia's Court of Audit finds many things wrong with the bad bank (DUTB).
Top of the list is Družbo za Upravljanje Terjatev Bank's decision that its official language is English,"which is contrary to the law about Slovenian" according to CoA President Vesel.
Some agreements on the transfer of receivables from Slovenia's top two zombie banks were done in English, and later translated into Slovene.
But in some parts the Slovenian and English versions differ in content. This could cause awkward disputes which might employ lawyers. Astonishing!
Besides calling the cops on the issue of DUTB's consultancy deals, the CoA complains the bad bank mixed up, in the transfers, the unspecified types of company with bank debts that the government now says it specified, with other types of company not specified by the government (I must have missed that, actually I don't think that ever really happened) - and that DUTB forgot to put a value on assets transferred from the balance sheets of NKBM and NLB.
Meanwhile an International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) has chimed in with the claim that the whole thing is pointless.
DUTB, we agree then, is a puff of smoke, part economic dogma, part creative accountancy, part repurchasing circle, and part pointless layer of bureaucracy, and all of it had been written in prophecies by NPOSIALPU way back in the time of Šušteršič the Shrewd:
http://www.maria.si/counts
IFIMES report on DUTB highlights (in Slovenglish):
Slovenia's Court of Audit finds many things wrong with the bad bank (DUTB).
Top of the list is Družbo za Upravljanje Terjatev Bank's decision that its official language is English,"which is contrary to the law about Slovenian" according to CoA President Vesel.
Some agreements on the transfer of receivables from Slovenia's top two zombie banks were done in English, and later translated into Slovene.
But in some parts the Slovenian and English versions differ in content. This could cause awkward disputes which might employ lawyers. Astonishing!
Besides calling the cops on the issue of DUTB's consultancy deals, the CoA complains the bad bank mixed up, in the transfers, the unspecified types of company with bank debts that the government now says it specified, with other types of company not specified by the government (I must have missed that, actually I don't think that ever really happened) - and that DUTB forgot to put a value on assets transferred from the balance sheets of NKBM and NLB.
Meanwhile an International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) has chimed in with the claim that the whole thing is pointless.
DUTB, we agree then, is a puff of smoke, part economic dogma, part creative accountancy, part repurchasing circle, and part pointless layer of bureaucracy, and all of it had been written in prophecies by NPOSIALPU way back in the time of Šušteršič the Shrewd:
http://www.maria.si/counts
IFIMES report on DUTB highlights (in Slovenglish):
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LAMENT FOR THE TWO BOTHERS SLAIN BY EACH OTHER'S BANK
by Atchoo-Less Ease
our Pay Up Or Else We Won't Either Correspondent
Greeks riot, now they've polled,
EU-wide eyes are rolled:
We're panicking, threw perishers a bone:
Slovenia did Greek
Some possibly done-for loans.
They say end of next week -
Due by tomorrow, pay, for borrowed sum
Some sunny islands - hmm?
We won't pay guys to smash your store,
You already did it yourselves before...
Escape from molotov and streaming eye -
Slovenisland!
Lined in plimsolls, it's dark
We observe, eating bark,
Mass disturbance on the mainland every year,
Riot on the money, with testicular gland.
Greek rioting 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frfu2xXP91g
Greek rioting 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtMBRTbYCo
Greek rioting 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcV42gFmi4w
Greek rioting 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iplD3xIDgGs
Greek rioting 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-4QOOoVKsI
Greek rioting 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s-Onx7cdAU
Greek rioting 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mkuwRIqCM
Greek rioting 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYo-vld6-ss
Greek rioting 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rFC9FxBM8E
Greek rioting 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpZc7dkuock
Greek rioting 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIckyCDhKU
Greek rioting 2016
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/greek-farmers-and-riot-police-clash-in-athens
Today's national poem based on
http://www.poetry-archive.com/a/lament_for_the_two_brothers.html
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GENERAL PURPOSE BALKAN-STYLE DOMESTIC MURDER-SUICI-KU
She wants to leave him
He doesn't want her to - He
Kills her, then himself.
Stopped for not wearing a seatbelt, 32-year-old Silvo Temnik admitted killing his wife, who was in the rear footwell.
Could these exes possibly be just a teeny-weeny bit jealous and possessive? For summarising Slovenske Novice stories ploughing this routine pattern here's a time-saving haiku.
Ah, the passion of the Slovene lover! Or is he just melodramatically desperate? Angry, impulsive. Evidently suicide easily trumps a return to the Slovenian singles scene, or a (probably shorter) stretch in prison.
She wants to leave him
He doesn't want her to - He
Kills her, then himself.
Stopped for not wearing a seatbelt, 32-year-old Silvo Temnik admitted killing his wife, who was in the rear footwell.
Could these exes possibly be just a teeny-weeny bit jealous and possessive? For summarising Slovenske Novice stories ploughing this routine pattern here's a time-saving haiku.
Ah, the passion of the Slovene lover! Or is he just melodramatically desperate? Angry, impulsive. Evidently suicide easily trumps a return to the Slovenian singles scene, or a (probably shorter) stretch in prison.
V Laškem zverinsko
zadavil ženo, zdaj si je sodil sam |
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LEGAL LOOPHOLE NEWS
Three teenage girls died after being trampled over by up to 500 Christmas revellers in the 2005 Lipa nightclub entrance stampede. The owner was sentenced to five years in 2009.
Drunken crushes are an important part of Slovenia's ethnological mission and values, as they combine rare physical intimacy with a vivid reminder that you've no privacy whatsoever, so forget it. It's who we are.
In case you wake up to discover you are somehow legally responsible for a Slovene-teen-trampling, check out defendant Zavašnik's Top Tips.
DON'T TURN UP AT JAIL! On the appointed day, Zavašnik was nowhere to be seen at Dob, the prison which is a sometime home to some of our favourite politicians and businessmen.
SKIP THE COUNTRY! Zavašnik demonstrates the friendly tininess of Slovenia for business managers - when things fall flat on their face, managing not to be there is easy. Like Zavašnik, you'll be scot-free when the five year statute of limitations does like your teeny customers - and expires!
FIND A REMOTE HIDEAWAY - Umag is in Croatia, a faraway country of which we know little in Slovenia, over 12km and 14 minutes of driving time from our border. Ocean views, tennis.
LET YOUR MUM GO TO JAIL FIRST - In December 2014, nine years after the tragedy, "wherein the plurality of youth trampled to death two girls and a third has died due to injuries" (Google Translate) he finally got 20 months in jail for not paying for some machinery, and tragically, damaging Hypo Leasing.
LEGAL LOOPHOLE NEWS
Three teenage girls died after being trampled over by up to 500 Christmas revellers in the 2005 Lipa nightclub entrance stampede. The owner was sentenced to five years in 2009.
Drunken crushes are an important part of Slovenia's ethnological mission and values, as they combine rare physical intimacy with a vivid reminder that you've no privacy whatsoever, so forget it. It's who we are.
In case you wake up to discover you are somehow legally responsible for a Slovene-teen-trampling, check out defendant Zavašnik's Top Tips.
DON'T TURN UP AT JAIL! On the appointed day, Zavašnik was nowhere to be seen at Dob, the prison which is a sometime home to some of our favourite politicians and businessmen.
SKIP THE COUNTRY! Zavašnik demonstrates the friendly tininess of Slovenia for business managers - when things fall flat on their face, managing not to be there is easy. Like Zavašnik, you'll be scot-free when the five year statute of limitations does like your teeny customers - and expires!
FIND A REMOTE HIDEAWAY - Umag is in Croatia, a faraway country of which we know little in Slovenia, over 12km and 14 minutes of driving time from our border. Ocean views, tennis.
LET YOUR MUM GO TO JAIL FIRST - In December 2014, nine years after the tragedy, "wherein the plurality of youth trampled to death two girls and a third has died due to injuries" (Google Translate) he finally got 20 months in jail for not paying for some machinery, and tragically, damaging Hypo Leasing.
Zavašnik ostaja v
priporu
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A WELCOME IN THE HILLSIDES
...Sloveni-factoids of the day:
Ptuj carnival: "Over 100,000 people are expected"
"That is not all they chase away. At the border in Slovenia which I go through twice a year are the most abrupt grumpy bad mannered people in Europe. We often thought of staying in Slovenia but on this show we give it a miss and head to Croatia."
- morpethian, Krakow, Poland, commenting on
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2943816/Slovenia-gets-ready-chase-away-winter-locals-hills-sheepskin-costumes-bizarre-designs-100-000-people-expected-visit-carnival-celebrations.html
Maribor residents respond to a stabbing by a Senegalese man - by causing 6000 euros' worth of racist graffiti damage to (Slovenian-owned) property:
"The intrusiveness of foreigners is one of their characteristics"
- Štalmajster, commenting on
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/senegalec-ovaden-zaradi-poskusa-umora-mariborcana-z-rasisticnimi-grafiti
Population of Ptuj (450 A.D.): 40,000
Population of Ptuj (2013): 17,972
Total number of hotel rooms in the Ptuj area on www.booking.com: 230
If all 100000 visitors arrive the night before the main procession there would obviously be an average of 100000/230 = 664.783 persons in each of these rooms.
If this doesn't happen, if we can get 1% of them to stay overnight that's six-and-a-half to a room, then... https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Q4FUATD67fR
A WELCOME IN THE HILLSIDES
...Sloveni-factoids of the day:
Ptuj carnival: "Over 100,000 people are expected"
"That is not all they chase away. At the border in Slovenia which I go through twice a year are the most abrupt grumpy bad mannered people in Europe. We often thought of staying in Slovenia but on this show we give it a miss and head to Croatia."
- morpethian, Krakow, Poland, commenting on
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2943816/Slovenia-gets-ready-chase-away-winter-locals-hills-sheepskin-costumes-bizarre-designs-100-000-people-expected-visit-carnival-celebrations.html
Maribor residents respond to a stabbing by a Senegalese man - by causing 6000 euros' worth of racist graffiti damage to (Slovenian-owned) property:
"The intrusiveness of foreigners is one of their characteristics"
- Štalmajster, commenting on
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/senegalec-ovaden-zaradi-poskusa-umora-mariborcana-z-rasisticnimi-grafiti
Population of Ptuj (450 A.D.): 40,000
Population of Ptuj (2013): 17,972
Total number of hotel rooms in the Ptuj area on www.booking.com: 230
If all 100000 visitors arrive the night before the main procession there would obviously be an average of 100000/230 = 664.783 persons in each of these rooms.
If this doesn't happen, if we can get 1% of them to stay overnight that's six-and-a-half to a room, then... https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Q4FUATD67fR
Slovenians 'chase away
the winter' in furry costumes
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BAD BANK STRATEGY UNLEASHES SLOVENIAN SNITCH WARS
As an appraiser working for DUTB is accused of asking the owner for 40,000 euros to bump up his valuation of the Grand Hotel Ocean in Maribor, for now it's a...
WIN TO OCEAN
Treacherous boss thumps hot tubs
as guest wails, air con worn out, he snubs,
hides behind student, slave,
Tripadvisor review: a knave!
Based on "Winter Ocean" by John Updike:
http://fromsarahwithjoy.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html
...and this wannabe-swanky hotel's somewhat patchy Tripadvisor reviews. Its struggles are evident from the fact that their website doesn't exist and its bank accounts are blocked...neither too helpful, or particularly unusual, in parasitical Slovenia. Their email, in case you have trouble finding it, and want to help them out in their battle against their own country's moneysucking system, is info@hotelocean.si
Take your pick...
Dishonest hotel?
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g274874-d1222947-r206298745-Grand_Hotel_Ocean-Maribor_Styria_Region.html#UR206298745
Dishonest valuer?
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/policija-cenilec-dutb-je-zahteval-40000-evrov-podkupnine
Dishonest overleveraging in the first place?
I told you this wouldn't work! http://www.maria.si/counts
It's 30 seconds from Maribor railway station.
As an appraiser working for DUTB is accused of asking the owner for 40,000 euros to bump up his valuation of the Grand Hotel Ocean in Maribor, for now it's a...
WIN TO OCEAN
Treacherous boss thumps hot tubs
as guest wails, air con worn out, he snubs,
hides behind student, slave,
Tripadvisor review: a knave!
Based on "Winter Ocean" by John Updike:
http://fromsarahwithjoy.blogspot.com/2011_08_01_archive.html
...and this wannabe-swanky hotel's somewhat patchy Tripadvisor reviews. Its struggles are evident from the fact that their website doesn't exist and its bank accounts are blocked...neither too helpful, or particularly unusual, in parasitical Slovenia. Their email, in case you have trouble finding it, and want to help them out in their battle against their own country's moneysucking system, is info@hotelocean.si
Take your pick...
Dishonest hotel?
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g274874-d1222947-r206298745-Grand_Hotel_Ocean-Maribor_Styria_Region.html#UR206298745
Dishonest valuer?
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/crni-scenarij/doma/policija-cenilec-dutb-je-zahteval-40000-evrov-podkupnine
Dishonest overleveraging in the first place?
I told you this wouldn't work! http://www.maria.si/counts
It's 30 seconds from Maribor railway station.
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100% NO PROOF
Crash! Knocked off road, with baby ickle,
By drunk police in marked VW vehicle.
Tot's lot not happy one -
To report hit and run
Might put you in worse kind of pickle.
In Slovenia, drunk cops on their way home from the special undercover unit commander's farewell booze-up (during afternoon working hours, so described as "special training") hit an oncoming car carrying an adult and a baby.
There was no time for the officers to stop as they had to rush to Lenart police station to hide their damaged Touareg which had just been involved in a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident.
Meanwhile everyone at the station had found out what had happened, as the driver of the other car had rung them about it on 113. Everyone agreed the drunk cops should be allowed to go home and be unreachable for 24 hours.
The leadership dispatched a car to collect any bits, and another to the troublemaker's home the next day to "convince" him to remain silent.
Source: Požareport
Legal and constitutional rights (most important first):
1. Your right as alcohol to receive special treatment
2. Your right as a cop to get away with stuff
3. Your right to drink as much as you like
4. Your right to drive if you think it'll be ok
5. Other road users' rights (babies, sober drivers, etc.)
Crash! Knocked off road, with baby ickle,
By drunk police in marked VW vehicle.
Tot's lot not happy one -
To report hit and run
Might put you in worse kind of pickle.
In Slovenia, drunk cops on their way home from the special undercover unit commander's farewell booze-up (during afternoon working hours, so described as "special training") hit an oncoming car carrying an adult and a baby.
There was no time for the officers to stop as they had to rush to Lenart police station to hide their damaged Touareg which had just been involved in a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident.
Meanwhile everyone at the station had found out what had happened, as the driver of the other car had rung them about it on 113. Everyone agreed the drunk cops should be allowed to go home and be unreachable for 24 hours.
The leadership dispatched a car to collect any bits, and another to the troublemaker's home the next day to "convince" him to remain silent.
Source: Požareport
Legal and constitutional rights (most important first):
1. Your right as alcohol to receive special treatment
2. Your right as a cop to get away with stuff
3. Your right to drink as much as you like
4. Your right to drive if you think it'll be ok
5. Other road users' rights (babies, sober drivers, etc.)
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AN UNWANTED COMMENT IN THE SLOVENIA TIMES
Tito may have despised gambling but gambling in Yugoslavia was a different sort of game.
Officially immoral, there were no gambling establishments in Yugoslavia - only 28 "Pavilions for Games of Chance". In theory operated by and for the proletariat, most were actually owned by rich foreign corporations, like Penthouse's mile-long complex on Krk. http://is.gd/zsMutw
To compensate for Yugoslavia's low exports and resulting low foreign currency earnings, exporting and tourist enterprises kept only a tiny fraction of their takings.
From 1967 the state took away 93%. In 1971 this dropped to 80% and the main producers of foreign currency, overseas workers and tourist money hoovers like this casino, were later allowed to keep up to 55% of their hard currency incomes.
Despite this the foreign casino owners still came, built their pavilions, and suckered their decadent clients, corrupting the innocence of the poor Yugoslavs in the process.
The corporations took their winnings tax free. This was of course because whatever legalisation concerning this 100-year-old Portorož establishment took place in 1962, Yugoslav law did not class gambling houses as "economic entities". And this, of course, is because they "did not exist".
Meanwhile, Yugo gamblers without connections, who were not allowed in, were gambling away money earned in dinars across the borders in Austria and Italy.
The rest of the foreign currency coming in was siphoned off through a bureaucratic process whose length ensured that due to rampant inflation, your foreign earnings were worth plenty less by the time they had been converted into runaway dinars, and then back again.
In the true spirit of brotherhood and solidarity, the money you could actually spend disappeared into the hands of the elite. Ordinary citizens meanwhile received ever more impressive millions of dinars, worth less and less.
To puritanical communists the presence of foreign casinos - or any foreign enterprise - was high treason in theory.
In practice the locals were able to look both ways. Relieved of the tedious business of the day-to-day management of the accommodation because the casino owners would just pay the hotel bills for the high rollers to come and gamble their filthy capitalist lucre away.
Yugoslav management, in need of constant gambling research trips in the West, and tax inspectors and secret service agents appointed to jobs in the "Pavilions" were somehow able to cope with this, along with all the other opportunities involved. http://is.gd/OU7Tn0
Many of the ambivalent attitudes about foreigners which these propagandas and economic dependencies produced can still be seen in Slovenia today.
Tito may have despised gambling but gambling in Yugoslavia was a different sort of game.
Officially immoral, there were no gambling establishments in Yugoslavia - only 28 "Pavilions for Games of Chance". In theory operated by and for the proletariat, most were actually owned by rich foreign corporations, like Penthouse's mile-long complex on Krk. http://is.gd/zsMutw
To compensate for Yugoslavia's low exports and resulting low foreign currency earnings, exporting and tourist enterprises kept only a tiny fraction of their takings.
From 1967 the state took away 93%. In 1971 this dropped to 80% and the main producers of foreign currency, overseas workers and tourist money hoovers like this casino, were later allowed to keep up to 55% of their hard currency incomes.
Despite this the foreign casino owners still came, built their pavilions, and suckered their decadent clients, corrupting the innocence of the poor Yugoslavs in the process.
The corporations took their winnings tax free. This was of course because whatever legalisation concerning this 100-year-old Portorož establishment took place in 1962, Yugoslav law did not class gambling houses as "economic entities". And this, of course, is because they "did not exist".
Meanwhile, Yugo gamblers without connections, who were not allowed in, were gambling away money earned in dinars across the borders in Austria and Italy.
The rest of the foreign currency coming in was siphoned off through a bureaucratic process whose length ensured that due to rampant inflation, your foreign earnings were worth plenty less by the time they had been converted into runaway dinars, and then back again.
In the true spirit of brotherhood and solidarity, the money you could actually spend disappeared into the hands of the elite. Ordinary citizens meanwhile received ever more impressive millions of dinars, worth less and less.
To puritanical communists the presence of foreign casinos - or any foreign enterprise - was high treason in theory.
In practice the locals were able to look both ways. Relieved of the tedious business of the day-to-day management of the accommodation because the casino owners would just pay the hotel bills for the high rollers to come and gamble their filthy capitalist lucre away.
Yugoslav management, in need of constant gambling research trips in the West, and tax inspectors and secret service agents appointed to jobs in the "Pavilions" were somehow able to cope with this, along with all the other opportunities involved. http://is.gd/OU7Tn0
Many of the ambivalent attitudes about foreigners which these propagandas and economic dependencies produced can still be seen in Slovenia today.
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SATIRE OF SLOVENIA: CAREFUL NOW
“If the show is good, the audience will laugh, regardless of where they come from,” says Artac out of Godler and Artac, adding that Slovenians are fond of political satire. http://is.gd/jWZO4F
Slovene, remember, doesn't have a word for "hilarity". http://is.gd/ReQtkb
This, on top of the problem of a jealous heart, leaves Slovenian satire grappling with a politely amused but uptight and wonkily-informed audience. You won't get shot, but the risks of offending any faction with hands on the levers make for a self-censoring zeitgeist.
As we all know, nice people are amused by adroit comic offensiveness, but there are always some nasty ones who just want to get offended. Slovenians feel safer in the middle.
Film-maker Damjan Kozole expected a bad home reaction to his satirical movie Slovenka (U.S.: "A Call Girl") - at home the critics slammed it but the public found it interesting. Wisely it premiered at film festivals outside Slovenia, where it was well received, before facing the shitstorm that inevitably accompanies any kind of success in the village.
Godler hints at the real difficulty: “The problem in Slovenia is that we don’t like some things because they are produced by people we don’t like. That’s not the case abroad.”
The play-it-safe, not particularly satirical outcome is neither fish nor fowl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ieexj4jLyg
“If the show is good, the audience will laugh, regardless of where they come from,” says Artac out of Godler and Artac, adding that Slovenians are fond of political satire. http://is.gd/jWZO4F
Slovene, remember, doesn't have a word for "hilarity". http://is.gd/ReQtkb
This, on top of the problem of a jealous heart, leaves Slovenian satire grappling with a politely amused but uptight and wonkily-informed audience. You won't get shot, but the risks of offending any faction with hands on the levers make for a self-censoring zeitgeist.
As we all know, nice people are amused by adroit comic offensiveness, but there are always some nasty ones who just want to get offended. Slovenians feel safer in the middle.
Film-maker Damjan Kozole expected a bad home reaction to his satirical movie Slovenka (U.S.: "A Call Girl") - at home the critics slammed it but the public found it interesting. Wisely it premiered at film festivals outside Slovenia, where it was well received, before facing the shitstorm that inevitably accompanies any kind of success in the village.
Godler hints at the real difficulty: “The problem in Slovenia is that we don’t like some things because they are produced by people we don’t like. That’s not the case abroad.”
The play-it-safe, not particularly satirical outcome is neither fish nor fowl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ieexj4jLyg
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featured archive
And yo, another verse which vanished from the now-commentless Slovenia Times during the inaugural times of Miro the Muffler, compares Slovenian hotel booking ambiguities with the topic of carbon imprisonment - and Slovenia's whitest elephant.
Where the CO2 will go if it is ever, finally, captured, has been less clear from media reports...if the building phase ever ends...1.5 billion has now changed hands...evidently there is a big hole in the plan...police are looking into it.
NORTH SEA SAG
TEŠ6 gas on North Sea-bed venue:
"Agent lied! No fresh air! And no view!
When we rang, price for shore -
Windowless, it's now more
Per night (plus breakfast) per CO2."
I keep wondering if this carbon capture gizmo they must, under EU emissions laws, include in a plant of this size has been invented yet?
said http://bellona.org/ccs/technology/capture/post-combustion.html before it disappeared:
"CO2 capture has been demonstrated in the laboratory and in pilot plants for many years, and it has been proved that the technology works. But there are no large CO2 capture plants today at the scale of a commercial coal power plant."
and
"When the first CO2 capture plant based on amine absorption is put into operation around 2015, it is estimated that 10 percent of the energy produced by the power plant will be consumed in the CCS process. Most of this energy will be consumed in the regeneration unit where energy is needed to heat the mixture of amine and CO2."
Conceding that a plan to to pipe Šoštanj's CO2 150km to Koper and then ship it 6200km to Scottish and Norwegian holes in the North Sea was probably not "feasible" this, someone nevertheless took the trouble to calculate, would still be cheaper than a pipeline all the way there across Europe.
At least the source of this has disappeared:
http://bellona.org/ccs/uploads/media/Ticking_boxes_or_preparing_for_the_future.pdf
As if our own British CO2 wouldn't deserve priority access to the nearest available holes.
If Slovenia thinks it can come pumping its foreign Eurocarbons into our national cavities it can think again! Hands off our holes! Protect our racial gaseous purity etc.
North Sea, indeed.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583613000868
And yo, another verse which vanished from the now-commentless Slovenia Times during the inaugural times of Miro the Muffler, compares Slovenian hotel booking ambiguities with the topic of carbon imprisonment - and Slovenia's whitest elephant.
Where the CO2 will go if it is ever, finally, captured, has been less clear from media reports...if the building phase ever ends...1.5 billion has now changed hands...evidently there is a big hole in the plan...police are looking into it.
NORTH SEA SAG
TEŠ6 gas on North Sea-bed venue:
"Agent lied! No fresh air! And no view!
When we rang, price for shore -
Windowless, it's now more
Per night (plus breakfast) per CO2."
I keep wondering if this carbon capture gizmo they must, under EU emissions laws, include in a plant of this size has been invented yet?
said http://bellona.org/ccs/technology/capture/post-combustion.html before it disappeared:
"CO2 capture has been demonstrated in the laboratory and in pilot plants for many years, and it has been proved that the technology works. But there are no large CO2 capture plants today at the scale of a commercial coal power plant."
and
"When the first CO2 capture plant based on amine absorption is put into operation around 2015, it is estimated that 10 percent of the energy produced by the power plant will be consumed in the CCS process. Most of this energy will be consumed in the regeneration unit where energy is needed to heat the mixture of amine and CO2."
Conceding that a plan to to pipe Šoštanj's CO2 150km to Koper and then ship it 6200km to Scottish and Norwegian holes in the North Sea was probably not "feasible" this, someone nevertheless took the trouble to calculate, would still be cheaper than a pipeline all the way there across Europe.
At least the source of this has disappeared:
http://bellona.org/ccs/uploads/media/Ticking_boxes_or_preparing_for_the_future.pdf
As if our own British CO2 wouldn't deserve priority access to the nearest available holes.
If Slovenia thinks it can come pumping its foreign Eurocarbons into our national cavities it can think again! Hands off our holes! Protect our racial gaseous purity etc.
North Sea, indeed.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583613000868
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A YEAR IN THE SLOVENIAN STATISTICAL SPIN CYCLE. Episode 1 - November 2013.
Unemployment rate hits 12.2%, causing the following, naturally now deleted, comment...
Efficiency up in production:
Mechanised labour forced interruption.
Want a pro-job manoeuvre?
Pass a law - ban the hoover
Worklessness is engendered by suction.
If you ever find yourself wondering why your creative output has no market value - and does not convert into even the most basic means of survival, this video series offers an interesting perspective on the tragedy of the commons, the intellectual enclosures, and how cultural participation became irrelevant to our lives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZDjPnzoge0
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LANGUAGE DISCOVERY OF THE DAY
Slovene does not have a word for "hilarity".
The KPK (Corruption Prevention Commission) and DUTB Slovenia's bad bank company cannot agree whether that smoke and mirrors outfit has spent 12 million on consultants or a mere 5.2 million.
In Ourobouros-like professional activities involving getting paid for doing something or other, a web war-of-words is raging between the pair.
According to Slovenian law whoever shouts the loudest will be right.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/kpk-demantira-slabo-banko-porabili-ste-sedem-milijonov-vec
One of the previous governments actually blagged a Constitutional Court ruling, to prevent the type of referendum which might have stopped the bad bank being set up. The non-bankers loudly assert their independence and right to do what they do.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/one-time-church-holdings-largest-toxic-asset-at-bad-bank
And the previous board of the KPK resigned en masse.
If you are a rich foreign devil you probably couldn't care less - you are just wondering when you can get your hands on all the cheap stuff for sale!
The answer is, DUTB were shocked at how overvalued the collateral for the debts they took over was, however they are not ready for a free-for-all-free-fall-free-market yet...so, er, if you're interested send in your non-binding offer right now!
DUTB has only been going a couple of years. As the saviour of the nation's banks the bad bank is solely responsible for Slovenia not having been sold for a quid to a gypsy.
DUTB's foreign bosses' experiences at the hands of the locals can be found in their own frank, if slightly clumsy and badly punctuated words, here:
http://www.dutb.eu/en/8-novice/54-odbor-za-finance-in-monetarno-politiko [NB: not now those foreign bosses have been driven away - Ed]
"Setting up an asset management company usually takes 9-12 months," reports the chairman of the management board. DUTB is, forever it seems, going to have been running since "late March last year".
While, with just 30 or 40 staff, they kitty-box away over whether it was 12m or 5.2m, DUTB's English real estate pages are going to remain "under construction". Is this a misprint, maybe??
So you can only read about this delightful turistični objekt, če se boste učili slovenščino najprej...which they won't be expecting you to do until you have bought it and run out of money...so what if you are interested in getting into such a situation, in inns?
I suggest you deduct from your offer the cost of learning this language (which is infinite, I imagine) and of all the difficulties, financial harm and time you will expend in subsequent years on penetrating its hilarity-free zone.
Estateagentese aplenty is what DUTB's going to need. I'm happy to demonstrate, using for my example a sample attraction from their offerings (pictured)...
AN EXCITING SEVENTIES RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITY with riverside views situated in the bustling tourist gastronomy phenomenon of Novo Mesto. The exterior is finished in Slovenian Silver. Access is by a road, or in your yacht.
Above is Slovenia's idea of a large flat with, according to Google Translate, "two rooms with toilets, which are suitable for submission." They could probably be used as facesitting-rooms. The microwindows provide privacy and protection from all but the smallest and most agile burglars and neighbours, unless they have your keys. Stairs to dungeon, etc.
What better way to invest a third of a million euros which, unfortunately, the bank will be unable to lend you else they'll just end up with the bloody place all over again. As with all the properties available in Slovenia everything can be carried through smoothly in English - until you've bought it and run out of money.
After that, a rather thick curtain descends. Although you will be responsible for much hilarity after a fashion, hilarity is neither the zabava nor the veselje which your bar will be expected to provide, to a narrow and decidedly fixed specification.
And I'd forget about fancy foods, such as poached egg on toast, or custard.
Slovene does not have a word for "hilarity".
The KPK (Corruption Prevention Commission) and DUTB Slovenia's bad bank company cannot agree whether that smoke and mirrors outfit has spent 12 million on consultants or a mere 5.2 million.
In Ourobouros-like professional activities involving getting paid for doing something or other, a web war-of-words is raging between the pair.
According to Slovenian law whoever shouts the loudest will be right.
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/kpk-demantira-slabo-banko-porabili-ste-sedem-milijonov-vec
One of the previous governments actually blagged a Constitutional Court ruling, to prevent the type of referendum which might have stopped the bad bank being set up. The non-bankers loudly assert their independence and right to do what they do.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/one-time-church-holdings-largest-toxic-asset-at-bad-bank
And the previous board of the KPK resigned en masse.
If you are a rich foreign devil you probably couldn't care less - you are just wondering when you can get your hands on all the cheap stuff for sale!
The answer is, DUTB were shocked at how overvalued the collateral for the debts they took over was, however they are not ready for a free-for-all-free-fall-free-market yet...so, er, if you're interested send in your non-binding offer right now!
DUTB has only been going a couple of years. As the saviour of the nation's banks the bad bank is solely responsible for Slovenia not having been sold for a quid to a gypsy.
DUTB's foreign bosses' experiences at the hands of the locals can be found in their own frank, if slightly clumsy and badly punctuated words, here:
http://www.dutb.eu/en/8-novice/54-odbor-za-finance-in-monetarno-politiko [NB: not now those foreign bosses have been driven away - Ed]
"Setting up an asset management company usually takes 9-12 months," reports the chairman of the management board. DUTB is, forever it seems, going to have been running since "late March last year".
While, with just 30 or 40 staff, they kitty-box away over whether it was 12m or 5.2m, DUTB's English real estate pages are going to remain "under construction". Is this a misprint, maybe??
So you can only read about this delightful turistični objekt, če se boste učili slovenščino najprej...which they won't be expecting you to do until you have bought it and run out of money...so what if you are interested in getting into such a situation, in inns?
I suggest you deduct from your offer the cost of learning this language (which is infinite, I imagine) and of all the difficulties, financial harm and time you will expend in subsequent years on penetrating its hilarity-free zone.
Estateagentese aplenty is what DUTB's going to need. I'm happy to demonstrate, using for my example a sample attraction from their offerings (pictured)...
AN EXCITING SEVENTIES RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITY with riverside views situated in the bustling tourist gastronomy phenomenon of Novo Mesto. The exterior is finished in Slovenian Silver. Access is by a road, or in your yacht.
Above is Slovenia's idea of a large flat with, according to Google Translate, "two rooms with toilets, which are suitable for submission." They could probably be used as facesitting-rooms. The microwindows provide privacy and protection from all but the smallest and most agile burglars and neighbours, unless they have your keys. Stairs to dungeon, etc.
What better way to invest a third of a million euros which, unfortunately, the bank will be unable to lend you else they'll just end up with the bloody place all over again. As with all the properties available in Slovenia everything can be carried through smoothly in English - until you've bought it and run out of money.
After that, a rather thick curtain descends. Although you will be responsible for much hilarity after a fashion, hilarity is neither the zabava nor the veselje which your bar will be expected to provide, to a narrow and decidedly fixed specification.
And I'd forget about fancy foods, such as poached egg on toast, or custard.
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VOLGEMUT, THE DICK SLAYER
PTUJ: Meanwhile here in town it's an ex-cop doing the murdering: 20 years for shooting veteran club owner Franc Klinc - whose surname means, or meant, "dick" - right after Senior Citizens' night.
So four times longer for not employing a psychiatrist, then. Volgemut displayed a short fuse at court. Family members testified the victim was too frightened of him to go to the police.
Here Slovenia's dark knight has shot the big dick "out of convenience and for revenge"...vort vill zer provessors zey about zat?
Despite his 30+ years experience in detection, modded ammo, attempted phone alibis, and no direct evidence, the main problem with his defence was that he obviously did it. The defence seeks acquittal.
PTUJ: Meanwhile here in town it's an ex-cop doing the murdering: 20 years for shooting veteran club owner Franc Klinc - whose surname means, or meant, "dick" - right after Senior Citizens' night.
So four times longer for not employing a psychiatrist, then. Volgemut displayed a short fuse at court. Family members testified the victim was too frightened of him to go to the police.
Here Slovenia's dark knight has shot the big dick "out of convenience and for revenge"...vort vill zer provessors zey about zat?
Despite his 30+ years experience in detection, modded ammo, attempted phone alibis, and no direct evidence, the main problem with his defence was that he obviously did it. The defence seeks acquittal.
Morilec: Riti sem
brisal policistom!
slovenskenovice.si
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OEDIPO-PSY-5-HAI-KARATE-KU
Slovenia, where
Five years is the most you can
Count as a psycho.
Half an hour up the highway from here, this one murdered his mother.
He only got five years: the maximum possible, it turns out, in cases of psychiatric detention here in Slovenarnia.
The "very dangerous" martial arts master served his sentence for being a parenticidal nutter...and is now once again on the run ...this time for beheading his father.
PS. they picked him up...I'm elated not to be related but if you are, e.g. uncle/aunt/cousin, please make a note in your diary for 2019.
Slovenia, where
Five years is the most you can
Count as a psycho.
Half an hour up the highway from here, this one murdered his mother.
He only got five years: the maximum possible, it turns out, in cases of psychiatric detention here in Slovenarnia.
The "very dangerous" martial arts master served his sentence for being a parenticidal nutter...and is now once again on the run ...this time for beheading his father.
PS. they picked him up...I'm elated not to be related but if you are, e.g. uncle/aunt/cousin, please make a note in your diary for 2019.
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DELETED UNDER THE REIGN OF MIRO I
And Alenka The Legs journeyed far across the great water, to consult with King Dave...
KOMBI, JA
Come buy here, milord
Come buy, ja
Come buy here, milord
Come buy a...
Come buy here, milord
Cum, bye, ja.
Unloads kombi. Yar!
Us you can afford
Come buy here
Holidays abroad
Go on buy ja
London shopping - hoard!
Kombi - dva!
Imagine! Les artes-naives souvenirs of your traditional Christian Easter holiday paddleboarding in Papagayo still litter the hallway at Number Ten - the next thing you know you're meeting the crusading PM of Slovenia, followed by a lackey laden with bags from Harvey Nicks and a hamper from Fortnums!
Given his experience directing "Titanic" I'm sure g. Cameron will have plenty of useful advice for the fledgling privateer.
Couple of things, firstly would the David Cameron Football Factory be interested in investing in Slovenian football? Slovenia does pretty well compared to England and could surely beat them if only it had much more money.
And it is true about Slovenia's stabilisation. My income for fixing the Slovenians' English stabilised at 10 euros last month, and they took 25% of that back for running such a good system.
Meanwhile AB will have used her time in London to find out more about its poor's rich capitalist heritage.
Such as the intriguing Dog-Makers http://is.gd/pPgYRh
Dog-Makers were able to satisfy rich Victorians' insatiable demand for posh dogs by cleverly fitting a cheap mongrel with the recycled skin of one of a demised but sought-after breed, a King Charles spaniel maybe, cementing the old dog onto the outside of the new one so well that the join was invisible to even the closest inspection.
EU partners UK and France recently collaborated in a very similar story of economic resourcefulness, which should remind us that we can pull through using our knowledge of the market, and our artisan skills, together with whatever raw materials are to hand.
I am thinking of ATOS of course, a sort of modern day dog-maker for dealing with the workshy sick and satisfying the need for pedigree welfare statistics.
Downing Street needed plenty of political polyfilla for the cracks in Dave's dogma - about Britain being a Christian country: he didn't mean having another faith – or none - is wrong, they explained for him while he was off, sunning himself.
Compared to everyday life in Slovenia, his was but a shallow paddle into national metaphysics, not drowning in difficulties over the sacred beliefs, of some, in a violent premature death for wrong-believers.
These recall an early Slovenian tourist boom, based around stopovers in Velika Nedelja for keen holidaymakers on their way to lay siege to Antioch and Jerusalem.
The Christians won - and the party's still going on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXORj4IX3E
But the riddle of how "Mahommed" got mixed up with "Baphomet" remains.
Last time I was in Velika Nedelja our driver got randomly breathalysed. "Have you been drinking?" asked the cop, somewhat pointlessly. Driver: "No." Cop: "Why not?"
Like Dr Cameron's theo-illogical Mobius strip of tolerance, presumably the pseudo-dogs must have had a poop hatch of some kind, or the consequences don't bear thinking about.
And Alenka The Legs journeyed far across the great water, to consult with King Dave...
KOMBI, JA
Come buy here, milord
Come buy, ja
Come buy here, milord
Come buy a...
Come buy here, milord
Cum, bye, ja.
Unloads kombi. Yar!
Us you can afford
Come buy here
Holidays abroad
Go on buy ja
London shopping - hoard!
Kombi - dva!
Imagine! Les artes-naives souvenirs of your traditional Christian Easter holiday paddleboarding in Papagayo still litter the hallway at Number Ten - the next thing you know you're meeting the crusading PM of Slovenia, followed by a lackey laden with bags from Harvey Nicks and a hamper from Fortnums!
Given his experience directing "Titanic" I'm sure g. Cameron will have plenty of useful advice for the fledgling privateer.
Couple of things, firstly would the David Cameron Football Factory be interested in investing in Slovenian football? Slovenia does pretty well compared to England and could surely beat them if only it had much more money.
And it is true about Slovenia's stabilisation. My income for fixing the Slovenians' English stabilised at 10 euros last month, and they took 25% of that back for running such a good system.
Meanwhile AB will have used her time in London to find out more about its poor's rich capitalist heritage.
Such as the intriguing Dog-Makers http://is.gd/pPgYRh
Dog-Makers were able to satisfy rich Victorians' insatiable demand for posh dogs by cleverly fitting a cheap mongrel with the recycled skin of one of a demised but sought-after breed, a King Charles spaniel maybe, cementing the old dog onto the outside of the new one so well that the join was invisible to even the closest inspection.
EU partners UK and France recently collaborated in a very similar story of economic resourcefulness, which should remind us that we can pull through using our knowledge of the market, and our artisan skills, together with whatever raw materials are to hand.
I am thinking of ATOS of course, a sort of modern day dog-maker for dealing with the workshy sick and satisfying the need for pedigree welfare statistics.
Downing Street needed plenty of political polyfilla for the cracks in Dave's dogma - about Britain being a Christian country: he didn't mean having another faith – or none - is wrong, they explained for him while he was off, sunning himself.
Compared to everyday life in Slovenia, his was but a shallow paddle into national metaphysics, not drowning in difficulties over the sacred beliefs, of some, in a violent premature death for wrong-believers.
These recall an early Slovenian tourist boom, based around stopovers in Velika Nedelja for keen holidaymakers on their way to lay siege to Antioch and Jerusalem.
The Christians won - and the party's still going on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXORj4IX3E
But the riddle of how "Mahommed" got mixed up with "Baphomet" remains.
Last time I was in Velika Nedelja our driver got randomly breathalysed. "Have you been drinking?" asked the cop, somewhat pointlessly. Driver: "No." Cop: "Why not?"
Like Dr Cameron's theo-illogical Mobius strip of tolerance, presumably the pseudo-dogs must have had a poop hatch of some kind, or the consequences don't bear thinking about.
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Ce poème a initialement survécu à La Grande Suppression Poétique du règne de Miro I, en raison de son non NPOSIALPU nom de plume. Plus tard, quand cela noté ici qu'il n'a pas été retiré, il a été.. Ensuite, il a été reliberé par Mohammed Hamsandwich en référence à ces événements ultérieurs ici:
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/UcSCPmFfDj4
Tout suite il a été retiré à nouveau dans le Deuxième Grand Silence de Miro I.
Le gars dans les chaussures de sport tennis pense cette photo-op est assez drôle.
PESEM POCENI PESKA
Dans conflit acrimonieux
Sûr Syrie seront très heureux
Pour contributions au paix
D'experts sur les nouveaux pays.
Au revoir, vous Alaouite,
'Allo 'Allo faut introduite.
Slovènes surtout fou sur djihad
Contre President Assad.
Les antigouvernementales
Aurait plutôt les femmes fatales -
Mais peut-être ils va prendre
Quelques-uns chimiques, et les scaphandres.
Aide pour Mohammed est le prétendre
Mais quoi essayons-nous de vendre?
Sur troubadours et petits-fours
L'étude de marché est en cours;
Nous pourrions vendre un grille-pain,
Saucisse de porc, un peu de vin.
Et toutes l'aventures militaires
Fait stimuler demande pour bières.
Motifs slovènes habituels:
Pour arracher commerciales.
Pense-tu missiles ballistiques
Fera d'eux des catholiques?
https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/UcSCPmFfDj4
Tout suite il a été retiré à nouveau dans le Deuxième Grand Silence de Miro I.
Le gars dans les chaussures de sport tennis pense cette photo-op est assez drôle.
PESEM POCENI PESKA
Dans conflit acrimonieux
Sûr Syrie seront très heureux
Pour contributions au paix
D'experts sur les nouveaux pays.
Au revoir, vous Alaouite,
'Allo 'Allo faut introduite.
Slovènes surtout fou sur djihad
Contre President Assad.
Les antigouvernementales
Aurait plutôt les femmes fatales -
Mais peut-être ils va prendre
Quelques-uns chimiques, et les scaphandres.
Aide pour Mohammed est le prétendre
Mais quoi essayons-nous de vendre?
Sur troubadours et petits-fours
L'étude de marché est en cours;
Nous pourrions vendre un grille-pain,
Saucisse de porc, un peu de vin.
Et toutes l'aventures militaires
Fait stimuler demande pour bières.
Motifs slovènes habituels:
Pour arracher commerciales.
Pense-tu missiles ballistiques
Fera d'eux des catholiques?
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SLOVENIAN SEX SUICIDE OF THE DAY
Recent posts discussed Slovenia's top marks at suicide and domestic murder-suicide.
These alco-melancholic melodramas are often connected with sex which continues to grow in popularity although you can see it's a very small country...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/ZEvNF2PFNRz
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Ee2s3Nwgi6F
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/FNEihTVR5Jt
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/zakaj-se-je-mariborski-ravnatelj-z-jezikom-lotil-profesorice#comment-1919981
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/pornic-z-ravnateljem-uciteljico-pri-forenzikih#comment-1902261
What is Slovenia really like? The man in this picture committed suicide today. No-one was surprised. Except him, maybe.
Oddly, my post containing the following song also disappeared from Google+ today. That never happened before, although 300 items of national poetry and other posts of mine were suddenly trashed by The Slovenia Times comments columns in September.
The ST - which steers clear of sex stories and anything inimical to Slovenia's touristic, business-tastic self-portrait - also decided no further reactions from readers about local affairs would be required.
You see, Slovenia has a very fragile ego, dependent on an official version. I am not paid to stick to it.
Perhaps this latest invasion of my cyberprivacy was because I had gotten hold of the unpixellated picture, featuring the lady teacher's upper thigh area. We will never know.
The way Slovenia sees it, very likely, is that foreigners are responsible for this poor guy's demise. That means me, London's Metro, and sundry worldwide media.
Neither the Slovenian media, Slovenia's extraordinary prurience, nor the head himself/itself, had anything to do with it. Slovenia's image as a safe and therefore completely sexless country, consisting entirely of jolly drunks with accordions, must be protected.
As a mark of self-respect and to show that "news filtering" is not the answer, I am putting my song back. A bitter taste, I know...
EDUCATIONAL BODIES NEWS
THE MODEL OF OUR SECONDARY MODERN: MAJOR GENERAL STUDIES
I am head teacher at a school in Maribor, Slovenia,
Ate pussy mathematical: relax, it wasn't teeny, ja,
Smart phones in school ought to be banned, protect us from the scandalous -
The only ring I'm interested in, professor's piece of annulus;
Erotic, asymptotic, conjugating with her cooter - woooo!
I am not square, my angle there was trying to find the root of two;
Though not discrete this function of our interest's become famous - how
Slopes of a curve can satisfy equations simultaneous - wow!
My segment was rotational symmetric round the origin;
Degenerate, her triangle's antipodal to discipline:
Integral to a leading term expected from experienced head
A one-to-one function atop oblong parallelepiped.
Eeeeee!! London's Metro readers are stunned to learn for the first time that Slovenia is not a sports collective, http://metro.co.uk/tag/slovenia/ but an actual country where a headmaster and a maths prof had sex. This subject is usually glossed over in Slovenian education, so the students made a helpful Youtube.
Hence all the fuss. Not because they were teachers. Not because they were on school premises, or because it was during teaching hours. But just because they're having sex, instead of normal activities.
Namely watching sport and trying to stop other Slovenians having sex. www.maria.si
What does this even have to do with football? Trying to have some kind of "relationship" were they? Why did no-one intervene to prevent this, as usually happens?
Sex between teachers is the exactly the abnormal behaviour Slovenia should expect when the moral guardianship of our Church is taken out of schooling - as the children appear to have been completely ignored and did not take part.
Readers of Slovenske Novice are demanding a return to their traditional moral values.
Another educational G&S parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
Recent posts discussed Slovenia's top marks at suicide and domestic murder-suicide.
These alco-melancholic melodramas are often connected with sex which continues to grow in popularity although you can see it's a very small country...
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/ZEvNF2PFNRz
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/Ee2s3Nwgi6F
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/FNEihTVR5Jt
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/zakaj-se-je-mariborski-ravnatelj-z-jezikom-lotil-profesorice#comment-1919981
http://www.slovenskenovice.si/novice/slovenija/pornic-z-ravnateljem-uciteljico-pri-forenzikih#comment-1902261
What is Slovenia really like? The man in this picture committed suicide today. No-one was surprised. Except him, maybe.
Oddly, my post containing the following song also disappeared from Google+ today. That never happened before, although 300 items of national poetry and other posts of mine were suddenly trashed by The Slovenia Times comments columns in September.
The ST - which steers clear of sex stories and anything inimical to Slovenia's touristic, business-tastic self-portrait - also decided no further reactions from readers about local affairs would be required.
You see, Slovenia has a very fragile ego, dependent on an official version. I am not paid to stick to it.
Perhaps this latest invasion of my cyberprivacy was because I had gotten hold of the unpixellated picture, featuring the lady teacher's upper thigh area. We will never know.
The way Slovenia sees it, very likely, is that foreigners are responsible for this poor guy's demise. That means me, London's Metro, and sundry worldwide media.
Neither the Slovenian media, Slovenia's extraordinary prurience, nor the head himself/itself, had anything to do with it. Slovenia's image as a safe and therefore completely sexless country, consisting entirely of jolly drunks with accordions, must be protected.
As a mark of self-respect and to show that "news filtering" is not the answer, I am putting my song back. A bitter taste, I know...
EDUCATIONAL BODIES NEWS
THE MODEL OF OUR SECONDARY MODERN: MAJOR GENERAL STUDIES
I am head teacher at a school in Maribor, Slovenia,
Ate pussy mathematical: relax, it wasn't teeny, ja,
Smart phones in school ought to be banned, protect us from the scandalous -
The only ring I'm interested in, professor's piece of annulus;
Erotic, asymptotic, conjugating with her cooter - woooo!
I am not square, my angle there was trying to find the root of two;
Though not discrete this function of our interest's become famous - how
Slopes of a curve can satisfy equations simultaneous - wow!
My segment was rotational symmetric round the origin;
Degenerate, her triangle's antipodal to discipline:
Integral to a leading term expected from experienced head
A one-to-one function atop oblong parallelepiped.
Eeeeee!! London's Metro readers are stunned to learn for the first time that Slovenia is not a sports collective, http://metro.co.uk/tag/slovenia/ but an actual country where a headmaster and a maths prof had sex. This subject is usually glossed over in Slovenian education, so the students made a helpful Youtube.
Hence all the fuss. Not because they were teachers. Not because they were on school premises, or because it was during teaching hours. But just because they're having sex, instead of normal activities.
Namely watching sport and trying to stop other Slovenians having sex. www.maria.si
What does this even have to do with football? Trying to have some kind of "relationship" were they? Why did no-one intervene to prevent this, as usually happens?
Sex between teachers is the exactly the abnormal behaviour Slovenia should expect when the moral guardianship of our Church is taken out of schooling - as the children appear to have been completely ignored and did not take part.
Readers of Slovenske Novice are demanding a return to their traditional moral values.
Another educational G&S parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM
Slovenia
metro.co.uk
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Surprised? To be honest, this wasn't one of the most difficult prophecies your National Poet ever undertook.
Previous bad bank poetry from a couple of years ago...
http://www.maria.si/counts
http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
See also: https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/H5C7b3L9h6D
Previous bad bank poetry from a couple of years ago...
http://www.maria.si/counts
http://www.maria.si/cathocatharsis
See also: https://plus.google.com/+SolarpanelSi/posts/H5C7b3L9h6D
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SUPPRIMÉ POÉSIE nationale de Slovénie. Les lecteurs réguliers sauront tout de la liberté d'information dans Slovénie, à savoir qu'il est libre de supprimer toute information qui n'a pas l'air si bon. Comme cette poème non controversable en l'honneur de la visite au président sexy, mais impopulaire, de France de l'année dernière, par Ab Fab...
BIENVENU DANS MON EURO GENIUS ZONE
Quel fromage! Divisé pue le monde.
Grèce français, commandé par Hollande.
Nous faisons Marseillaises -
"Sauce!" dirons Hollandaises;
Portugaises eu Allemands.
QE, or more QE? That is not a question.
BIENVENU DANS MON EURO GENIUS ZONE
Quel fromage! Divisé pue le monde.
Grèce français, commandé par Hollande.
Nous faisons Marseillaises -
"Sauce!" dirons Hollandaises;
Portugaises eu Allemands.
QE, or more QE? That is not a question.
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isolationism
PUTTING CORNWALL FIRST
25% of the world's internet goes under this beach? I lived in Cornwall for a few months. I was harassed. A creepy caretaker guy listened through the wall, took my door off and sprayed mould on my prized Altec Lansing speakers, to try to force me to leave.
Yet now I yearn for such simple, straightforward Cornish invasiveness and mistrust of foreigners as his - all before the development of the interweb or mobile phones - so tame compared to the industrial-scale intrusions of today.
In their smugglers' hearts true Cornishmen dream of secession from the UK, and a ruritanian kingdom of their own on a par with the completely independent Welsh, free from the English hegemony.
Unlike Slovenia, the Cornish Nationalists did not succeed at persuading local shop-owners to exchange the invaders' currency for the local banknotes they had printed.
But unlike the zloty and koruna the tolar did not hang around to poke fun at the eurozone. I wondered why...before remembering that in Slovenia, money must be someone else's.
PUTTING CORNWALL FIRST
25% of the world's internet goes under this beach? I lived in Cornwall for a few months. I was harassed. A creepy caretaker guy listened through the wall, took my door off and sprayed mould on my prized Altec Lansing speakers, to try to force me to leave.
Yet now I yearn for such simple, straightforward Cornish invasiveness and mistrust of foreigners as his - all before the development of the interweb or mobile phones - so tame compared to the industrial-scale intrusions of today.
In their smugglers' hearts true Cornishmen dream of secession from the UK, and a ruritanian kingdom of their own on a par with the completely independent Welsh, free from the English hegemony.
Unlike Slovenia, the Cornish Nationalists did not succeed at persuading local shop-owners to exchange the invaders' currency for the local banknotes they had printed.
But unlike the zloty and koruna the tolar did not hang around to poke fun at the eurozone. I wondered why...before remembering that in Slovenia, money must be someone else's.
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A Slovenian has discovered the Slovenians are ripping each other off! This occasionally happens, when someone manages to escape, and sees things from the outside.
The excitement this time is over petrol, a universal price for which is decided in Slovenia by the Ministry of Clarkson. Here, a reader has attempted to upset public equilibrium by pointing out it's 19.8% more here than up the road in Austria. 1000km worth of Austrian gas would be only 835km worth in Slovenia, according to this blatant anti-Slavic propaganda.
Slovenia will not tolerate this sort of dissention. Our price has not simply been hiked - but scientifically elevated using complex formulae by logistics experts to make it just about not quite worth it for 98% of Slovenians to drive - appropriately enough to Wien Simmering - for nothing except to fill up.
Miloš, the suspected German agent behind this bad talk, has been located with the help of our loyal journalists and arrangements have been made for him to be interviewed and then shunned by his entire village.
See also:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/6LqDAg4tTPL
The excitement this time is over petrol, a universal price for which is decided in Slovenia by the Ministry of Clarkson. Here, a reader has attempted to upset public equilibrium by pointing out it's 19.8% more here than up the road in Austria. 1000km worth of Austrian gas would be only 835km worth in Slovenia, according to this blatant anti-Slavic propaganda.
Slovenia will not tolerate this sort of dissention. Our price has not simply been hiked - but scientifically elevated using complex formulae by logistics experts to make it just about not quite worth it for 98% of Slovenians to drive - appropriately enough to Wien Simmering - for nothing except to fill up.
Miloš, the suspected German agent behind this bad talk, has been located with the help of our loyal journalists and arrangements have been made for him to be interviewed and then shunned by his entire village.
See also:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/6LqDAg4tTPL
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WORKERS' HAI-RISE-PARKU
Gold-boom-fly union:
Runway [ P A R K I N G ] meters - as
Comrade sticks ticket.
At first you wonder why he's buying an airport if he doesn't like foreigners. Then I remembered with air travel you can count the numbers in and out, and the different types...
Slovenia was grappling with its anti-foreigner tourism model last time, so Ryanair stopped coming after Slovenia tried to charge them more to land, after Ryanair charged what it said it was going to charge Slovenia for passing target occupancy. But they were bringing planes full of them! They didn't even speak Slovene.
An A-to-Z of services for English speakers would not work here, as no Slovenian could bear to pay, only to see his name listed alongside those of his rivals - and of other Slovenians he does not agree with, whether this is over what they or vaguely-related people did in 1919, 1946, or 1991.
www.a2z.si
It is too expensive for jets to refuel at Maribor so they taxi across the nearby border to Austria to fill up more cheaply.
Maribor is not as big as, say, http://is.gd/PdGQrj - but pretty cool as these pics show... http://www.maribor-airport.si/en/Interactiveairport/Gallery.aspx
Gold-boom-fly union:
Runway [ P A R K I N G ] meters - as
Comrade sticks ticket.
At first you wonder why he's buying an airport if he doesn't like foreigners. Then I remembered with air travel you can count the numbers in and out, and the different types...
Slovenia was grappling with its anti-foreigner tourism model last time, so Ryanair stopped coming after Slovenia tried to charge them more to land, after Ryanair charged what it said it was going to charge Slovenia for passing target occupancy. But they were bringing planes full of them! They didn't even speak Slovene.
An A-to-Z of services for English speakers would not work here, as no Slovenian could bear to pay, only to see his name listed alongside those of his rivals - and of other Slovenians he does not agree with, whether this is over what they or vaguely-related people did in 1919, 1946, or 1991.
www.a2z.si
It is too expensive for jets to refuel at Maribor so they taxi across the nearby border to Austria to fill up more cheaply.
Maribor is not as big as, say, http://is.gd/PdGQrj - but pretty cool as these pics show... http://www.maribor-airport.si/en/Interactiveairport/Gallery.aspx
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LOST PLOTS OF SLOVENIA:
RESURRECTIONS TO CONTINUE.
This poem about when the Pope quit did not survive the reign of Miro The Peaceful...
EXIT EX FACTA
Nazi Joey's last great revelation:
"Hey - I'm boss of a crime organisation!
I don't get: women, wanking,
Birth control, queers or banking -
But attended mass pedofication."
"The VCS has an established Gendarmerie whose responsibilities now include the investigation of financial crime and money laundering offences, though there does not appear to have been enough training provided to them in financial investigation."
"Gendarmerie officers are recruited, selected and trained on the basis of the relevant criteria and professional standards (including moral and religious criteria)"
"There does not appear to be enough training provided to the Gendarmerie staff in the financial investigation field"
"The Gendarmerie Corps has a budgeted headcount of 197, which leaves 60 vacancies unfilled."
Number of criminal investigations conducted by the Criminal Police Department of the Corps of Gendarmerie
2008 38
2009 58
2010 66
2011 92
"The Gendarmerie statistics give no indication of any experience in serious financial crimes (petty theft and attempted illegal entry into Vatican City State seem to be predominant crimes). The reported financial loss due to crime was €5,200 in 2011, €8,600 in 2010, and €4,900 in 2009."
Source: Moneyval report 2012. Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism - The Holy See (Including Vatican City State)
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/moneyval/Evaluations/round4/MONEYVAL(2012)17_MER_HS_en.pdf
RESURRECTIONS TO CONTINUE.
This poem about when the Pope quit did not survive the reign of Miro The Peaceful...
EXIT EX FACTA
Nazi Joey's last great revelation:
"Hey - I'm boss of a crime organisation!
I don't get: women, wanking,
Birth control, queers or banking -
But attended mass pedofication."
"The VCS has an established Gendarmerie whose responsibilities now include the investigation of financial crime and money laundering offences, though there does not appear to have been enough training provided to them in financial investigation."
"Gendarmerie officers are recruited, selected and trained on the basis of the relevant criteria and professional standards (including moral and religious criteria)"
"There does not appear to be enough training provided to the Gendarmerie staff in the financial investigation field"
"The Gendarmerie Corps has a budgeted headcount of 197, which leaves 60 vacancies unfilled."
Number of criminal investigations conducted by the Criminal Police Department of the Corps of Gendarmerie
2008 38
2009 58
2010 66
2011 92
"The Gendarmerie statistics give no indication of any experience in serious financial crimes (petty theft and attempted illegal entry into Vatican City State seem to be predominant crimes). The reported financial loss due to crime was €5,200 in 2011, €8,600 in 2010, and €4,900 in 2009."
Source: Moneyval report 2012. Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism - The Holy See (Including Vatican City State)
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/moneyval/Evaluations/round4/MONEYVAL(2012)17_MER_HS_en.pdf
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RELEASED FROM THE NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE. And yea, even unto the dying embers of the last fingernail clinging to his crown, Janša II did unleasheth a holy arithmetical spin, aimed at minimising the role in economics of the god-next-door Italopoppalaptop (while still acknowledging the official version that Italopoppalaptop created all of everything, which would include economics).
For woe, Janša's subjects did not multiply, whereas lo, they do verily count themselves backward...and yo, NPOSIALPU's nameless stat-po and accompanying maths tips on you Slovenians' own supposed responsibility for stumping up for the "bankrupt" Church of Rome in an estimated 0%-100%-secular unlisted bad bank scenario was lost from the public screeds in the Great Peace of Miro, that the reputation of the Slo-ven-i-ites might be recovered.
Janšanalysis: don't Pope(s) besmirch:
Debtors sixteen - just one's the Church.
Weasel numbered portrayal
To conceal a great whale
Among sharks, piranhas, and a perch.
PM: "This black hole is mostly composed of bad loans that were given to sixteen affiliated companies or conglomerates...Only one conglomerate belonged to the Church holding company."
A very simple statistical fallacy that would only fool naive religious dimwits. Here the number of debtors (16) is related to the number of sacred debtors (1) giving an apparent proportion of sacred debt equal to 0.0625.
Such a proportion which might be relevant is of course the proportion of the total MONEY owed by the Church, not the number of CHURCHES among the debtors.
Mr Janša is of course quite right to point out Slovenia's other oligoflops. However, for the fallacy to stand up in any rational sense, the total admitted debts of the sixteen would have to exceed 16 x 876m = 14.016 billion euros. I doubt even Slovenian businessmanship could manage that.
No reason for ordinary Slovenians to worry - the government will find a way for you to pay for "one of the biggest bankruptcies in Slovenian corporate history" (some fierce competition there, I imagine) http://is.gd/FkXtns
Bum deals https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/BJL18aAGhWw
Emotional blackmail https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/hLUVGaCnNcg
Constitutional matters "There was something which the psychologists would refer to as a 'rationalisation process' - that it could all be very well for them to say 'Oh yes, we're trying to save your immortal soul; we're trying to keep you out of Hell; we're trying to prevent the Devil from getting you'...and what they really mean is 'We rather fancy your farm.'" - http://is.gd/TjCybm
Government 1st Anniversary Anthem http://is.gd/CUyxU6
For woe, Janša's subjects did not multiply, whereas lo, they do verily count themselves backward...and yo, NPOSIALPU's nameless stat-po and accompanying maths tips on you Slovenians' own supposed responsibility for stumping up for the "bankrupt" Church of Rome in an estimated 0%-100%-secular unlisted bad bank scenario was lost from the public screeds in the Great Peace of Miro, that the reputation of the Slo-ven-i-ites might be recovered.
Janšanalysis: don't Pope(s) besmirch:
Debtors sixteen - just one's the Church.
Weasel numbered portrayal
To conceal a great whale
Among sharks, piranhas, and a perch.
PM: "This black hole is mostly composed of bad loans that were given to sixteen affiliated companies or conglomerates...Only one conglomerate belonged to the Church holding company."
A very simple statistical fallacy that would only fool naive religious dimwits. Here the number of debtors (16) is related to the number of sacred debtors (1) giving an apparent proportion of sacred debt equal to 0.0625.
Such a proportion which might be relevant is of course the proportion of the total MONEY owed by the Church, not the number of CHURCHES among the debtors.
Mr Janša is of course quite right to point out Slovenia's other oligoflops. However, for the fallacy to stand up in any rational sense, the total admitted debts of the sixteen would have to exceed 16 x 876m = 14.016 billion euros. I doubt even Slovenian businessmanship could manage that.
No reason for ordinary Slovenians to worry - the government will find a way for you to pay for "one of the biggest bankruptcies in Slovenian corporate history" (some fierce competition there, I imagine) http://is.gd/FkXtns
Bum deals https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/BJL18aAGhWw
Emotional blackmail https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/hLUVGaCnNcg
Constitutional matters "There was something which the psychologists would refer to as a 'rationalisation process' - that it could all be very well for them to say 'Oh yes, we're trying to save your immortal soul; we're trying to keep you out of Hell; we're trying to prevent the Devil from getting you'...and what they really mean is 'We rather fancy your farm.'" - http://is.gd/TjCybm
Government 1st Anniversary Anthem http://is.gd/CUyxU6
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When first encountered by NPOSIALPU Žito's miserable, mildly menacing Stalinist-style motto had long been:
"Determined and with no dissentions".
Since my warning (fee: 0 euros) on the danger this might be causing Trotskyite revisionists to reject their stern, monolithic doughnuts, Žito got themselves a new mockney motto:
“To eat good, safe and modern”
http://www.zito.si/en/about-the-group/quality-policy/
Get in there Jamie my son! Methinks these local communist advertising gurus have been systematically targeting our language sector with their cognitive dissonance. It's the old verb-and-three-adjectives trick!
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QNa25hsvkpn
"Determined and with no dissentions".
Since my warning (fee: 0 euros) on the danger this might be causing Trotskyite revisionists to reject their stern, monolithic doughnuts, Žito got themselves a new mockney motto:
“To eat good, safe and modern”
http://www.zito.si/en/about-the-group/quality-policy/
Get in there Jamie my son! Methinks these local communist advertising gurus have been systematically targeting our language sector with their cognitive dissonance. It's the old verb-and-three-adjectives trick!
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/QNa25hsvkpn
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FAGFACTS BUDGET SPECIAL
Deleted health insurance confidence trick info from the spring of Alenka The Legs.
- What does smoking mean for the Slovenian government deficit?
USA (1994)
By dying ten years prematurely, American smokers are saving society $1.19 cents for every pack they smoke.
Smokers live long enough to pay taxes, but not long enough to draw pensions. Smoking reduces geriatic expenditures.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/W._Kip_Viscusi#Economic_arguments_involving_smoking
Rhode Island, USA (1997)
Mean age of 90 children who ingested cigarettes or cigarette butts: 11.7 months
Odds ratio that smoking in the presence of the children as a risk factor for the ingestion, after controlling for the location of cigarettes: 7.8 - and ashtrays: 5.9 within the household.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046181.htm
Slovenia (2002-2004)
Combined cost of fire fighting organisations, fire insurance administration, plus direct and indirect losses due to fire: 0.156% of GDP
https://www.genevaassociation.org/media/186703/GA2012-FIRE28.pdf
USA (2004)
$157 billion in annual health-related economic losses
For each of the approximately 22 billion packs sold in the U.S. in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care attributable to smoking, and $3.73 in productivity losses were incurred, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm5114.pdf
Slovenia (2004)
Fires per 1000 inhabitants: 3.2
www.verbraucherrat.at/download/firesafetyconsumer.pdf
USA (2006-2008)
Smoking caused $303 million in (residential only) property loss each year
www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/tfrs/v11i4.pdf
Russia (2009) 35.8 billion rubles (0.1% of GDP)
http://www.rpcardio.com/upload/archive/pdf_articles/2011/3/RPC_2011_3_art5.pdf
UK (2009) The direct impact of smoking on the NHS came to £5.2 billion for 2005/6, which equates to 5.5% of the total NHS budget for that year – a proportion that has not changed since the early 1990s.
This annual cost is still likely to be an underestimate because it does not include indirect costs, such as lost of productivity and informal care; the costs of treating disease caused by passive smoking, or the full range of conditions associated with smoking.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090609_1.html
USA (2013)
Taxpayers' yearly fed/state tax burden from smoking-caused government spending: $70.7 billion ($616 per household)
Smoking-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack sold in USA (low estimate): $10.47 per pack
Average retail price per pack in the USA (including sales tax): $5.29
www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0072.pdf
Slovenia (2014)
Smoking increases confidence. If you are having a confidence vote make sure you pass out plenty of fags beforehand.
...make sure these are English fags, not American ones, though.
Deleted at
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/pm-seeks-confidence-vote
Deleted health insurance confidence trick info from the spring of Alenka The Legs.
- What does smoking mean for the Slovenian government deficit?
USA (1994)
By dying ten years prematurely, American smokers are saving society $1.19 cents for every pack they smoke.
Smokers live long enough to pay taxes, but not long enough to draw pensions. Smoking reduces geriatic expenditures.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/W._Kip_Viscusi#Economic_arguments_involving_smoking
Rhode Island, USA (1997)
Mean age of 90 children who ingested cigarettes or cigarette butts: 11.7 months
Odds ratio that smoking in the presence of the children as a risk factor for the ingestion, after controlling for the location of cigarettes: 7.8 - and ashtrays: 5.9 within the household.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046181.htm
Slovenia (2002-2004)
Combined cost of fire fighting organisations, fire insurance administration, plus direct and indirect losses due to fire: 0.156% of GDP
https://www.genevaassociation.org/media/186703/GA2012-FIRE28.pdf
USA (2004)
$157 billion in annual health-related economic losses
For each of the approximately 22 billion packs sold in the U.S. in 1999, $3.45 was spent on medical care attributable to smoking, and $3.73 in productivity losses were incurred, for a total cost of $7.18 per pack.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm5114.pdf
Slovenia (2004)
Fires per 1000 inhabitants: 3.2
www.verbraucherrat.at/download/firesafetyconsumer.pdf
USA (2006-2008)
Smoking caused $303 million in (residential only) property loss each year
www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/tfrs/v11i4.pdf
Russia (2009) 35.8 billion rubles (0.1% of GDP)
http://www.rpcardio.com/upload/archive/pdf_articles/2011/3/RPC_2011_3_art5.pdf
UK (2009) The direct impact of smoking on the NHS came to £5.2 billion for 2005/6, which equates to 5.5% of the total NHS budget for that year – a proportion that has not changed since the early 1990s.
This annual cost is still likely to be an underestimate because it does not include indirect costs, such as lost of productivity and informal care; the costs of treating disease caused by passive smoking, or the full range of conditions associated with smoking.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090609_1.html
USA (2013)
Taxpayers' yearly fed/state tax burden from smoking-caused government spending: $70.7 billion ($616 per household)
Smoking-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack sold in USA (low estimate): $10.47 per pack
Average retail price per pack in the USA (including sales tax): $5.29
www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0072.pdf
Slovenia (2014)
Smoking increases confidence. If you are having a confidence vote make sure you pass out plenty of fags beforehand.
...make sure these are English fags, not American ones, though.
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/pm-seeks-confidence-vote
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You thought struggling with bad winters was what skiing was all about? Pa ne! Deleted sports misery from the Big Freeze of Alenka The Legs...
HIGH PEAKU
N0 sn0w - n0 n___e___e___d to s____k____i.
When the weather is i___c___y,
Better to stay [in].
In Lincolnshire I never encountered any skiing. Here are a few facts for anyone who is interested, from Wikipedia.
From 5000 BC until 1860 skiing was some kind of transportation for people who lived a long way up hills from the shops.
People found they could get to them much more quickly by sliding down the hills on some firewood, like Sonny Bono or Michael Schumacher.
From 1860 onwards they built aerial tramways, chairlifts, detachable chairlifts, funifors, funitels, gondola lifts, telemixes, J-bars, T-bars, magic carpets, platter/button/Poma lifts, rope tows, handle tows and funicular railways so these folks could get home with their heavy bags of groceries.
Then, in the 20th century, it was discovered that you could trap people at the top and sell them alcohol and french fries at exorbitant prices.
Eventually there were helicopters, insurance salesmen, ski instructors, rescue crews, and hospitals, for all the city people with broken legs, who didn't really need to go up there.
0.2% to 0.4% of alpine skiers require medical attention every day for injuries caused by skiing.
If you suspect you are one of these - perhaps you have noticed yourself being injured skiing every day - try giving it a miss tomorrow and see if that helps.
Only 92% of snowboarding injuries occur while snowboarding - 8% happen while getting on or off a ski lift.
Winter sports cause more head injuries than horseback riding, but less than joining a health club.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/30/is-skiing-the-worlds-most-dangerous-sport
Conversely, not skiing almost never results in any skiing injuries, the rare exceptions being people who are not there for skiing but who somehow get in the way of people skiing.
Skiing requires snow, which worldwide is being melted by people flying to ski resorts, driving 4x4s, wearing oil-based clothing, and burning coal at Velenje.
Some ski sports don't require skis, or even snow, are safer, and could be fun for the tourists. As usual the Japanese are ahead of Europe on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f62Z8Ev9OXA
When it isn't cloudy you can get a great view from the tops of mountains. Tourists might like this, if they could be persuaded to forget about the hurry to get back to the bottom.
One idea would be to operate the lifts in both directions, perhaps going round and round the mountain instead of just straight up and down, and forget about the bit with the sticks and all that other stuff.
One way Slovenia could make a profit out of the British skiers is by selling them really expensive insurance - when they hurt themselves just tell them the hospital isn't any good, and pack them off back where they came from.
Just trying to alp.
HIGH PEAKU
N0 sn0w - n0 n___e___e___d to s____k____i.
When the weather is i___c___y,
Better to stay [in].
In Lincolnshire I never encountered any skiing. Here are a few facts for anyone who is interested, from Wikipedia.
From 5000 BC until 1860 skiing was some kind of transportation for people who lived a long way up hills from the shops.
People found they could get to them much more quickly by sliding down the hills on some firewood, like Sonny Bono or Michael Schumacher.
From 1860 onwards they built aerial tramways, chairlifts, detachable chairlifts, funifors, funitels, gondola lifts, telemixes, J-bars, T-bars, magic carpets, platter/button/Poma lifts, rope tows, handle tows and funicular railways so these folks could get home with their heavy bags of groceries.
Then, in the 20th century, it was discovered that you could trap people at the top and sell them alcohol and french fries at exorbitant prices.
Eventually there were helicopters, insurance salesmen, ski instructors, rescue crews, and hospitals, for all the city people with broken legs, who didn't really need to go up there.
0.2% to 0.4% of alpine skiers require medical attention every day for injuries caused by skiing.
If you suspect you are one of these - perhaps you have noticed yourself being injured skiing every day - try giving it a miss tomorrow and see if that helps.
Only 92% of snowboarding injuries occur while snowboarding - 8% happen while getting on or off a ski lift.
Winter sports cause more head injuries than horseback riding, but less than joining a health club.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/30/is-skiing-the-worlds-most-dangerous-sport
Conversely, not skiing almost never results in any skiing injuries, the rare exceptions being people who are not there for skiing but who somehow get in the way of people skiing.
Skiing requires snow, which worldwide is being melted by people flying to ski resorts, driving 4x4s, wearing oil-based clothing, and burning coal at Velenje.
Some ski sports don't require skis, or even snow, are safer, and could be fun for the tourists. As usual the Japanese are ahead of Europe on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f62Z8Ev9OXA
When it isn't cloudy you can get a great view from the tops of mountains. Tourists might like this, if they could be persuaded to forget about the hurry to get back to the bottom.
One idea would be to operate the lifts in both directions, perhaps going round and round the mountain instead of just straight up and down, and forget about the bit with the sticks and all that other stuff.
One way Slovenia could make a profit out of the British skiers is by selling them really expensive insurance - when they hurt themselves just tell them the hospital isn't any good, and pack them off back where they came from.
Just trying to alp.
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Brrrr!! It was the winter of Alenka The Legs. The forests were as frozen as Slovenia's bank accounts. Melancholy urban alcoholic value theorists bemoaned a glut of free heating fuel, resulting in some...
SLOVENIAN ECONOMISTS' DISASTROUS LOGI-KU:
Fluffed it. Too much wood.
Frankly not usually a
Big hard problem here.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any wood. What now, a Twig Tax?
Deleted September 2014.
SLOVENIAN ECONOMISTS' DISASTROUS LOGI-KU:
Fluffed it. Too much wood.
Frankly not usually a
Big hard problem here.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any wood. What now, a Twig Tax?
Deleted September 2014.
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You can't help the Slovenians with their past. They just won't let it go. Woody Woodcensor felled this mighty oak of a poem for the second time during the reign of Miro I...
CLOD SUPPOSES, ČISTO MESTO BOD DISPOSES
Sofatable ergonomic -
Getting in is rather comic.
Slide in the side, fits like a sheath,
Or else crawl in from underneath...
Big and square - not for the friendly,
But customers both slim and bendy.
Though unwise to eat oysters in -
You might never get out again.
No table, sex hotter man section
Enables combined sit/erection.
Priority's, though, not manhood -
Židan's Divan soaks up brushwood.
But should you, following your tea,
Escape this romance-proof settee,
There's night-time furniture as well,
To turn your love life into hell.
With Catholic beds the church fights back -
Two mattresses, divorced by crack:
Slovenia plots for marriage troubles -
Hates western things, like full-size doubles.
We are nearing the endgame in furnitural competence in a market dominated by apartments which are smaller than most furniture.
Combining not only sofa, dining room, office, and sleeping area, what you cannot see in the photo is that it also incorporates a dishwasher, central heating system, shower, drawers for up to eight relatives, and a complete forest regeneration system involving the non-glut of woodchips the government of Slovenia is selling at a 100% markup.
The ideal customer (liquidity no problem!) shows how it all works here:
your shoes are untied
I wonder how this one's doing? https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/dZeWUuyXkn6
There are economists everywhere nowadays. I guess the traditional Slovenian bed-crevice I mentioned is designed to help the motor industry and lawyers, engendering (or ungendering) yet more sex in cars and more divorces. New Beamers all round!
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http://www.sloveniatimes.com/state-aid-for-two-furniture-makers
CLOD SUPPOSES, ČISTO MESTO BOD DISPOSES
Sofatable ergonomic -
Getting in is rather comic.
Slide in the side, fits like a sheath,
Or else crawl in from underneath...
Big and square - not for the friendly,
But customers both slim and bendy.
Though unwise to eat oysters in -
You might never get out again.
No table, sex hotter man section
Enables combined sit/erection.
Priority's, though, not manhood -
Židan's Divan soaks up brushwood.
But should you, following your tea,
Escape this romance-proof settee,
There's night-time furniture as well,
To turn your love life into hell.
With Catholic beds the church fights back -
Two mattresses, divorced by crack:
Slovenia plots for marriage troubles -
Hates western things, like full-size doubles.
We are nearing the endgame in furnitural competence in a market dominated by apartments which are smaller than most furniture.
Combining not only sofa, dining room, office, and sleeping area, what you cannot see in the photo is that it also incorporates a dishwasher, central heating system, shower, drawers for up to eight relatives, and a complete forest regeneration system involving the non-glut of woodchips the government of Slovenia is selling at a 100% markup.
The ideal customer (liquidity no problem!) shows how it all works here:
your shoes are untied
I wonder how this one's doing? https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/dZeWUuyXkn6
There are economists everywhere nowadays. I guess the traditional Slovenian bed-crevice I mentioned is designed to help the motor industry and lawyers, engendering (or ungendering) yet more sex in cars and more divorces. New Beamers all round!
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Another deleted view of the reign of Janša II.
THE TRICK DOLOSE
Slovesickness abounds in
Corruptable firm,
Cash flies through the night
Like an unwanted sperm:
Only 4% not into
Rackets - fetch scribes:
Ban the honest instead -
Legalise business bribes.
Yes it's time for Slovenia's unfeasibly large lawyer-to-human ratio to finish what has been begun - and legalise all forms of corruption immediately.
Otherwise these attacks on business by the KPK and suchlike threaten to destroy the lapdancing and brown envelope industries.
This is obviously yet another foreign plot to undermine our society. For years Slovenians have stuck with the tried and tested system of selling the same companies backwards and forwards to each other - with all the good fortunes for shareholders that result.
They don't even change the company names like they do in other countries, probably to save money on signs, printing and suchlike. Maybe on that we need to get our ducks in a row and bluesky some tangibles to monetize our deliverables on rebranding these evolving goalposts going forward. http://is.gd/yCibfY
How are your children ever going to get a job if firms start trying to raise capital by insidious methods, such as making things and selling them - when everyone knows that the correct way is to borrow money from NLB and then go bankrupt?
Or, if you want to keep it going, to get your accountants to make any accidental profits disappear in a perfectly legal way?
It's just a few good apples spoiling things, believe me. So how about some amusing punishments for repeat honesty? Let's see some goody-goodies chained and publicly starved in the town square, while lawyers feast upon mountains of oysters and champagne just yards (0.9144 metres) away.
Legislators are usually the last to come to grips with reality but this time could be the exception. http://is.gd/JkOmX3
Blake's original poem: http://is.gd/z8ztfM
THE TRICK DOLOSE
Slovesickness abounds in
Corruptable firm,
Cash flies through the night
Like an unwanted sperm:
Only 4% not into
Rackets - fetch scribes:
Ban the honest instead -
Legalise business bribes.
Yes it's time for Slovenia's unfeasibly large lawyer-to-human ratio to finish what has been begun - and legalise all forms of corruption immediately.
Otherwise these attacks on business by the KPK and suchlike threaten to destroy the lapdancing and brown envelope industries.
This is obviously yet another foreign plot to undermine our society. For years Slovenians have stuck with the tried and tested system of selling the same companies backwards and forwards to each other - with all the good fortunes for shareholders that result.
They don't even change the company names like they do in other countries, probably to save money on signs, printing and suchlike. Maybe on that we need to get our ducks in a row and bluesky some tangibles to monetize our deliverables on rebranding these evolving goalposts going forward. http://is.gd/yCibfY
How are your children ever going to get a job if firms start trying to raise capital by insidious methods, such as making things and selling them - when everyone knows that the correct way is to borrow money from NLB and then go bankrupt?
Or, if you want to keep it going, to get your accountants to make any accidental profits disappear in a perfectly legal way?
It's just a few good apples spoiling things, believe me. So how about some amusing punishments for repeat honesty? Let's see some goody-goodies chained and publicly starved in the town square, while lawyers feast upon mountains of oysters and champagne just yards (0.9144 metres) away.
Legislators are usually the last to come to grips with reality but this time could be the exception. http://is.gd/JkOmX3
Blake's original poem: http://is.gd/z8ztfM
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DON'T PAN-HAIK-U235
Isolation -- Or
Insulation? ...These are the
Same in Slovenia.
You can get these valves on the internet.
Lost haiku from the close of the dynasty of Janša II.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/n-plant-back-online-in-a-week#komentarji
Isolation -- Or
Insulation? ...These are the
Same in Slovenia.
You can get these valves on the internet.
Lost haiku from the close of the dynasty of Janša II.
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/n-plant-back-online-in-a-week#komentarji
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LOST POETRY OF SLOVENIA...continued.
A Dil Ildə Sloveniya Xalq Şairi Insanlar Anlayın
Olmasına baxmayaraq Neft kanserogen,
Acil Durum - lazımdır sürtküsünün
Avroviziya bala,
Tanışın la Mafiya
Şahzadə Andrew həmçinin!
http://is.gd/dOho0u
A verse known in the time of
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/boosting-cooperation-with-azerbaijan
until lost in the time of The Great Deletion...Sept 2014
A Dil Ildə Sloveniya Xalq Şairi Insanlar Anlayın
Olmasına baxmayaraq Neft kanserogen,
Acil Durum - lazımdır sürtküsünün
Avroviziya bala,
Tanışın la Mafiya
Şahzadə Andrew həmçinin!
http://is.gd/dOho0u
A verse known in the time of
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/boosting-cooperation-with-azerbaijan
until lost in the time of The Great Deletion...Sept 2014
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And it has been written that in the ancient reign of Andrej The Gaucho, Kay Bee-Cee a harlot of the Ban-ka-shoo-ras did come bearing gifts of gold and Belgian incense, for one third of the debts and assets of the swashbuckling Enn-al-bee-ites. And there was a great rejoicing and happiness at all their money.
And the Sloven-i-ites and all the provinces of Enn-al-bee did mutter and grumble and ask among themselves what wantethed this stranger among them, and did verily stall the majority acquisition that everyone expected from the reign of Anton the Smooth, unto that of Janša I, but less and less so thereafter.
And yea, let it be known among the scribes that it was not until later, in the time of Miro I, that The Slovenia Times did smite NPOSIALPU's comments about zis stuff viz ze Belgians, after they had survived through a time of many zombies, even unto turmoil, riot gas, and rocks on helmets at selected venues across Slo-ven-i-a, and even unto the editorial preferences of Alenka The Legs...
All I said was...
YAWN OF THE BLED SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Merde! You don't, Belgian bank KBC
Want to own NLB? Why do we?
Communism's resumed:
Let's have Tito exhumed,
Installed head of your bank - a zombie.
Slovenia Times 31 May 2011:
"...the proposals would see the government greatly reduce its stakes in these firms [NLB, Zavarovalnica Maribor, Zavarovalnica Tilia, Sava Re, Zavarovalnica Triglav] – back to 25 percent plus one share in all instances. But the fact remains that this is only on the condition that the state remains the single-largest owner. Critics therefore believe the strategy is nothing but an entirely unsatisfactory compromise – a way to formally reduce state involvement in finance without really losing any influence."
Government stake in NLB after KBC sale: 81%
That'll be just 1% less than the Peoples' Republic of Disunited Kingdoms' share in the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Don't worry, dear citizens. You're not getting anything.
http://is.gd/jHNBDX
See also: https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/1t9tf3Ni2gE
And the Sloven-i-ites and all the provinces of Enn-al-bee did mutter and grumble and ask among themselves what wantethed this stranger among them, and did verily stall the majority acquisition that everyone expected from the reign of Anton the Smooth, unto that of Janša I, but less and less so thereafter.
And yea, let it be known among the scribes that it was not until later, in the time of Miro I, that The Slovenia Times did smite NPOSIALPU's comments about zis stuff viz ze Belgians, after they had survived through a time of many zombies, even unto turmoil, riot gas, and rocks on helmets at selected venues across Slo-ven-i-a, and even unto the editorial preferences of Alenka The Legs...
All I said was...
YAWN OF THE BLED SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Merde! You don't, Belgian bank KBC
Want to own NLB? Why do we?
Communism's resumed:
Let's have Tito exhumed,
Installed head of your bank - a zombie.
Slovenia Times 31 May 2011:
"...the proposals would see the government greatly reduce its stakes in these firms [NLB, Zavarovalnica Maribor, Zavarovalnica Tilia, Sava Re, Zavarovalnica Triglav] – back to 25 percent plus one share in all instances. But the fact remains that this is only on the condition that the state remains the single-largest owner. Critics therefore believe the strategy is nothing but an entirely unsatisfactory compromise – a way to formally reduce state involvement in finance without really losing any influence."
Government stake in NLB after KBC sale: 81%
That'll be just 1% less than the Peoples' Republic of Disunited Kingdoms' share in the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Don't worry, dear citizens. You're not getting anything.
http://is.gd/jHNBDX
See also: https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/1t9tf3Ni2gE
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Here's another one which didn't make it. Past and Janša II dynasties are compared. The financial rewards of the European Capital of Culture are compared with those of the capital. Vaporised 2014.
SHODDY BOHEMIAN RAP
To find administrations seamier
Check King Sigismund's Bohemia;
Almost too poor to fight the Turk,
Baronial loans made Hungary work.
The difference between them and Hus
Was who consumes what of Jesus -
Ostensible dispute: rethinking
Saviour snacks / Who does blood-drinking.
Prior to Mary's death by Prior,
Hot invite for Hus - who caught fire.
At Zadar somehow Sigi wangled,
For his wife to watch her mum get strangled.
King Sigi, I need hardly tell ya,
Wife dead, wed Barbara of Celje,
She had her head screwed on, with that
Empire of his, and stylish hat.
Unlike today's royals, on ski slopes,
Their troubles concerned rival popes;
Then, pre-infallibility,
There wasn't just one pope - but three.
That sorted, Sigismund was dead
And Hapsburg Albrecht came instead.
Barbara, "the German Messalina"
Sent daughter Liz to tempt the Wiener.
Pragmatic Barbie's Hus conversion
Accompanied this royal diversion;
Albrecht married, as well he might,
Damsel of cunning wee Hussite.
When Albrecht died, in-law Slovene
Was denounced: vampire lesbo queen;
Her non-beliefs were advertised -
Obscene, said Wien, all scandalised.
Liz nicked Saint Stephen's crown and had
It placed on head of baby lad.
He's not Albrecht's, was then the play -
Enough proof then, pre-DNA.
So even dragon ladies fail,
God's party can delete he-male -
Save Hussite influence on Frankfurters:
Spiritual Suzy, girl of Goethe's.
What have we learned from lives Bohemian
Of use to Parliaments Slovenian?
To reign - with fewer buts or ifs -
Kill / marry / lock up relatives.
Your anti-unity technique
Depends on thinking on your feet;
To oust claimants to your estate
Inflate their sins; manipulate.
Slovene cliques, protect politics -
Marry your cousins when you're six.
The Holy Roman crucible
Can both forge sword, and catch the dribble.
What hope for your quaint situation?
A Deli-Counter-Counter-Reformation?
There must be someone else to sing to -
Predictably...that's what you'll cling to.
Well I'll give him 7 out of 10 for trying. This poem cost nothing more than a few cents' worth of electricity and internet to produce - and is dedicated to the DSP of Ljubljana, who may have received 88,500 euros for their contribution to the European Capital of Culture, even though LJ isn't in it, and which is more than may have been received by either the whole of Slovenj Gradec or Velenje, which were. And to all unfashionable non-middle-class writers without cravats, everywhere.
http://is.gd/ICLw7z
http://is.gd/gFmidN
http://is.gd/TkKurb
SHODDY BOHEMIAN RAP
To find administrations seamier
Check King Sigismund's Bohemia;
Almost too poor to fight the Turk,
Baronial loans made Hungary work.
The difference between them and Hus
Was who consumes what of Jesus -
Ostensible dispute: rethinking
Saviour snacks / Who does blood-drinking.
Prior to Mary's death by Prior,
Hot invite for Hus - who caught fire.
At Zadar somehow Sigi wangled,
For his wife to watch her mum get strangled.
King Sigi, I need hardly tell ya,
Wife dead, wed Barbara of Celje,
She had her head screwed on, with that
Empire of his, and stylish hat.
Unlike today's royals, on ski slopes,
Their troubles concerned rival popes;
Then, pre-infallibility,
There wasn't just one pope - but three.
That sorted, Sigismund was dead
And Hapsburg Albrecht came instead.
Barbara, "the German Messalina"
Sent daughter Liz to tempt the Wiener.
Pragmatic Barbie's Hus conversion
Accompanied this royal diversion;
Albrecht married, as well he might,
Damsel of cunning wee Hussite.
When Albrecht died, in-law Slovene
Was denounced: vampire lesbo queen;
Her non-beliefs were advertised -
Obscene, said Wien, all scandalised.
Liz nicked Saint Stephen's crown and had
It placed on head of baby lad.
He's not Albrecht's, was then the play -
Enough proof then, pre-DNA.
So even dragon ladies fail,
God's party can delete he-male -
Save Hussite influence on Frankfurters:
Spiritual Suzy, girl of Goethe's.
What have we learned from lives Bohemian
Of use to Parliaments Slovenian?
To reign - with fewer buts or ifs -
Kill / marry / lock up relatives.
Your anti-unity technique
Depends on thinking on your feet;
To oust claimants to your estate
Inflate their sins; manipulate.
Slovene cliques, protect politics -
Marry your cousins when you're six.
The Holy Roman crucible
Can both forge sword, and catch the dribble.
What hope for your quaint situation?
A Deli-Counter-Counter-Reformation?
There must be someone else to sing to -
Predictably...that's what you'll cling to.
Well I'll give him 7 out of 10 for trying. This poem cost nothing more than a few cents' worth of electricity and internet to produce - and is dedicated to the DSP of Ljubljana, who may have received 88,500 euros for their contribution to the European Capital of Culture, even though LJ isn't in it, and which is more than may have been received by either the whole of Slovenj Gradec or Velenje, which were. And to all unfashionable non-middle-class writers without cravats, everywhere.
http://is.gd/ICLw7z
http://is.gd/gFmidN
http://is.gd/TkKurb
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It later turned out under FOI that the church companies were indeed the bad bank's biggest hole-ding.
TO SANTA
Dear Slovenia (is it that one?)
I am a Pope, with several bankrupt businesses in an obscure south-east European country.
Please this Christmas could you get me a Bad Bank and let me off paying the money I say I lost.
My bad luck with the real estate, education, publishing, and socio-cultural investments has left me with just EUR6.3bn in assets in the bank, according to me, plus various useless jewels and metals, and a few things that wouldn't fit in the bank e.g. the Philippines.
Please Mr Santa, ignore any lies contradicting this from that Sr. Gotti Tedeschi: my shrink friend says he is a loony!
When you have let me off, I will be continuing whining for donations - from people scared of dying, and desperate small business folk hoping for favours.
Times are hard for us Popes. Just today, in a wicked and unfair ruling, 170 dirty boys from one children's home in Yorkshire - who have been making a nuisance of themselves in the British courts since they became possessed by the Devil between 1965 and 1992 - are demanding £8 million, although we managed to make some of our religious employees legally responsible for part of it.
Altogether I have had to pay out $3.3 billion to naughty boys and girls during the last 15 years but mostly boys.
I promise to employ lots of Slovenian lawyers to continue twisting things around, and spin any future cases out for years until as many of the victims as possible are dead and in hell, which is of course where they belong for saying these bad things about me and the members of my gang in the first place.
Many Slovenians know nothing of the alleged problems with the bummings and the photos as the information tends not to get published in a language they understand.
When you don't know something exists it is the same as when it doesn't exist. So in Slovenian there is no proof that any of these bad things happened.
Even if they did it was somewhere else and a long time ago, and not done by real Catholics but by repressed, uptight sex weirdos and inbred village pervs yuk!
Please please PLEASE Mr Santa, I love Coca-Cola and gibanica and I promise to be a good Pope from now on if I can just have this Bad Bank just this one time.
All the other backward countries either have one already, or are getting one this Christmas and I really really REALLY want it, thank you ever so!!!
The Pope
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2012/11/supreme-court-rules-on-compensation-to-catholic-child-abuse-victims
http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_detail.php?2118
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/97dee988-b312-11e1-83a9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Ct6JtR3I
It later turned out under FOI that the church companies were indeed the bad bank's biggest hole-ding.
TO SANTA
Dear Slovenia (is it that one?)
I am a Pope, with several bankrupt businesses in an obscure south-east European country.
Please this Christmas could you get me a Bad Bank and let me off paying the money I say I lost.
My bad luck with the real estate, education, publishing, and socio-cultural investments has left me with just EUR6.3bn in assets in the bank, according to me, plus various useless jewels and metals, and a few things that wouldn't fit in the bank e.g. the Philippines.
Please Mr Santa, ignore any lies contradicting this from that Sr. Gotti Tedeschi: my shrink friend says he is a loony!
When you have let me off, I will be continuing whining for donations - from people scared of dying, and desperate small business folk hoping for favours.
Times are hard for us Popes. Just today, in a wicked and unfair ruling, 170 dirty boys from one children's home in Yorkshire - who have been making a nuisance of themselves in the British courts since they became possessed by the Devil between 1965 and 1992 - are demanding £8 million, although we managed to make some of our religious employees legally responsible for part of it.
Altogether I have had to pay out $3.3 billion to naughty boys and girls during the last 15 years but mostly boys.
I promise to employ lots of Slovenian lawyers to continue twisting things around, and spin any future cases out for years until as many of the victims as possible are dead and in hell, which is of course where they belong for saying these bad things about me and the members of my gang in the first place.
Many Slovenians know nothing of the alleged problems with the bummings and the photos as the information tends not to get published in a language they understand.
When you don't know something exists it is the same as when it doesn't exist. So in Slovenian there is no proof that any of these bad things happened.
Even if they did it was somewhere else and a long time ago, and not done by real Catholics but by repressed, uptight sex weirdos and inbred village pervs yuk!
Please please PLEASE Mr Santa, I love Coca-Cola and gibanica and I promise to be a good Pope from now on if I can just have this Bad Bank just this one time.
All the other backward countries either have one already, or are getting one this Christmas and I really really REALLY want it, thank you ever so!!!
The Pope
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2012/11/supreme-court-rules-on-compensation-to-catholic-child-abuse-victims
http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_detail.php?2118
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/97dee988-b312-11e1-83a9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Ct6JtR3I
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End of 2012 - A new anti-speeding radar system in second city Maribor leads to anti-mayor demos. National poetry quietly run off the road in September 2014. No demos.
RUDE SAFETY
Do not come 'twixt Slo-man and fast cars!
Citizens will burn speed cameras -
Gotof obelisks angular,
We must speed, Mr Kangler
Else we won't make it round all the bars.
RUDE SAFETY
Do not come 'twixt Slo-man and fast cars!
Citizens will burn speed cameras -
Gotof obelisks angular,
We must speed, Mr Kangler
Else we won't make it round all the bars.
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This little haiku on Slovenia's special ideas about data protection was deleted from The ST and Google without me even having to ask!
PUBLIKU ENEMY NUMBER 1234
Put passwords / logins /
Birthday / PIN ...below...Or have
You something to hide?
Besides informing your authorities, please list any people you know who do not have enough money on this page.
You should also use this page to record the personal information of any people annoying or upsetting the public (government officials, banksters, neighbours, etc.)
If Mr Igor Bavčar could start the ball rolling by putting all his personal account access information below I would be quite happy to swap identities with him.
Then I will owe DURS more than EUR 1m but less than 10m. I can't see how that will hurt anyone.
He in turn will be able to merge silently into the great mass of the public not inclined to hire a lawyer to deal with their enemies. It's a win-win!
"More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about....The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg — until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels."
---Kierkegaard, "The Present Age"
PUBLIKU ENEMY NUMBER 1234
Put passwords / logins /
Birthday / PIN ...below...Or have
You something to hide?
Besides informing your authorities, please list any people you know who do not have enough money on this page.
You should also use this page to record the personal information of any people annoying or upsetting the public (government officials, banksters, neighbours, etc.)
If Mr Igor Bavčar could start the ball rolling by putting all his personal account access information below I would be quite happy to swap identities with him.
Then I will owe DURS more than EUR 1m but less than 10m. I can't see how that will hurt anyone.
He in turn will be able to merge silently into the great mass of the public not inclined to hire a lawyer to deal with their enemies. It's a win-win!
"More and more individuals will, because of their indolent bloodlessness, aspire to become nothing, in order to become the public, this abstract whole, which forms in this ridiculous manner: the public comes into existence because all its participants become third parties. This lazy mass, which understands nothing and does nothing, this public gallery seeks some distraction, and soon gives itself over to the idea that everything which someone does, or achieves, has been done to provide the public something to gossip about....The public has a dog for its amusement. That dog is the Media. If there is someone better than the public, someone who distinguishes himself, the public sets the dog on him and all the amusement begins. This biting dog tears up his coat-tails, and takes all sort of vulgar liberties with his leg — until the public bores of it all and calls the dog off. That is how the public levels."
---Kierkegaard, "The Present Age"
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This comment, revealing that a Slovenian aspirin costs 6.72 times more than a British one, mentions an outside world of no concern. It might have disturbed Slovenians' peace and satisfaction with their superior economic system.
SLOVENIA 23rd BEST COUNTRY FOR BUSINESS
I should say! Slovenia is one of the most business-friendly countries in Europe - take the cost of an aspirin, for instance.
The very unbusinesslike British approach to medicine means that you can buy aspirin in all sorts of strange places, such as hardware and garden stores, and supermarkets.
http://is.gd/lX2zoG
As you can see they aren't even trying to compete! Both stores will sell you a total of 4800mg for 21p, which is 26 cents.
Meanwhile in go-getter Slovenia you'll have to go to a respectable pharmacy, where you can get a much bigger packet from a properly qualified person in a white coat, containing a total of 25000mg, no less.
Business people, Slovenia is the place to sell your monopoly products! The population here is utterly devoted to helping to boost the Slovenian economy with their sporting injuries, headaches, cardiovascular regimen, etc. for the princely sum of EUR9.15.
http://is.gd/uuRD1I
As you are probably too busy making money I have done, just for you, the sums needed to produce a meaningful unit price comparison.
I can tell you that your smart Slovenian businesses are asking for 3.66 cents for a 100mg dose.
But these crazy English capitalists are letting 100mg of highly technical aspirin go for less than 0.55 cents! Stupid or what!?
Oddly enough, though, UK folks are not 6.72 times poorer than the much more highly educated Slovenians, even though their aspirins are this much cheaper.
I'm afraid I can't explain this strange mystery, as I am not one of the hundreds of unemployed economists Slovenia produces every year.
It's a wonder people aren't flocking to Slovenia from all over to participate in this retail revolution. It's definitely time British pharmaceutical retailers upped their game and helped to get the UK economy into better shape, like what we have here in Slovenia. Go oligarchs!
SLOVENIA 23rd BEST COUNTRY FOR BUSINESS
I should say! Slovenia is one of the most business-friendly countries in Europe - take the cost of an aspirin, for instance.
The very unbusinesslike British approach to medicine means that you can buy aspirin in all sorts of strange places, such as hardware and garden stores, and supermarkets.
http://is.gd/lX2zoG
As you can see they aren't even trying to compete! Both stores will sell you a total of 4800mg for 21p, which is 26 cents.
Meanwhile in go-getter Slovenia you'll have to go to a respectable pharmacy, where you can get a much bigger packet from a properly qualified person in a white coat, containing a total of 25000mg, no less.
Business people, Slovenia is the place to sell your monopoly products! The population here is utterly devoted to helping to boost the Slovenian economy with their sporting injuries, headaches, cardiovascular regimen, etc. for the princely sum of EUR9.15.
http://is.gd/uuRD1I
As you are probably too busy making money I have done, just for you, the sums needed to produce a meaningful unit price comparison.
I can tell you that your smart Slovenian businesses are asking for 3.66 cents for a 100mg dose.
But these crazy English capitalists are letting 100mg of highly technical aspirin go for less than 0.55 cents! Stupid or what!?
Oddly enough, though, UK folks are not 6.72 times poorer than the much more highly educated Slovenians, even though their aspirins are this much cheaper.
I'm afraid I can't explain this strange mystery, as I am not one of the hundreds of unemployed economists Slovenia produces every year.
It's a wonder people aren't flocking to Slovenia from all over to participate in this retail revolution. It's definitely time British pharmaceutical retailers upped their game and helped to get the UK economy into better shape, like what we have here in Slovenia. Go oligarchs!
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One of the most ancient inscriptions trashed under the reign of Miro I was this comparison of food prices between the UK and Slovenia... you'll have to do your own up-to-date comparisons.
Ever wondered why Slovenians are so thin compared to the rest of the world?
Now the story can finally be told.
To find foods as equivalent as possible I have started from the current Mercator special offers book.
There turned out to be no point trying to do it the other way around, as most of the things I wanted to compare are simply not Slovenian enough to exist in supermarkets here. Although it is equally true that many of your more bizarre ripoff concoctions can't be found in Britain either. Who, after all, would pay a couple of quid for some soggy red pepper of uncertain vintage, in a jam jar?
Of course it would be very difficult to live on the things listed here, or indeed out of Mercator generally.
The UK prices come from a comparison of its top five supermarkets, which can be found everywhere in the country.
Although the descriptions are the same the Slovenian versions may contain less protein, more chemicals, improvers, sugar, salt and padding because, well, because that's not important yet.
Asda UK Smartprice Chicken Legs £1.78/kg (EUR 2,24)
Mercator Chicken Legs EUR 2,99/kg
Slovenian country-shaped food adds 33%
Philadelphia cheese spread 200g Asda UK £1.00 (EUR 1,26)
Philadelphia cheese spread 175g Mercator Slovenia: EUR 1,47 (normal price 1,84)
Slovenian logistics genius adds 33%
Hellman's Extra Light Mayonnaise 600g Asda/Tesco UK £2.00 (EUR 2,53)
Hellman's Delicatessen Mayonnaise 210g Mercator Slovenia EUR 1,44 (normal price 1,69)
Slovenian marketing expertise adds 62%
ASDA white bloomer 800g £1.20 (EUR 0,95)
Kruh Istrski white unsliced bread 600g EUR 1,69 (normal price 2,06)
Slovenian love of the earth adds 137%
Asda UK Wholefoods Cous Cous 500g £0,68 (EUR 0,86)
Mercator kus kus 250g EUR 1,19 (normal price EUR 1,43)
Slovenian xenophobia adds 232%
Asda UK Smartprice Tomato Ketchup 550g £0.20 (EUR 0,25)
Felix Tomato Ketchup 700g EUR 2,39 (normal price 3,14)
Slovenian love of children and the working man adds 838%
Minimum wage Slovenia (after tax): EUR 748,10
Minimum wage UK (which is tax free up to £675.41 / EUR 851,02): £1053.00 (EUR 1326,78)
Sources:
Mercator prices:
http://www.mercator.si/si/akcije/aktualni-katalogi/
UK prices:
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk
Minimum wages:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/it.htm
Currency conversion rate:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURGBP%3DX
So you can see how clever this is. You're so marvellous, just like always. What kind of wide-eyed sucker is going to buy this strategic business?
Dober tek!
Ever wondered why Slovenians are so thin compared to the rest of the world?
Now the story can finally be told.
To find foods as equivalent as possible I have started from the current Mercator special offers book.
There turned out to be no point trying to do it the other way around, as most of the things I wanted to compare are simply not Slovenian enough to exist in supermarkets here. Although it is equally true that many of your more bizarre ripoff concoctions can't be found in Britain either. Who, after all, would pay a couple of quid for some soggy red pepper of uncertain vintage, in a jam jar?
Of course it would be very difficult to live on the things listed here, or indeed out of Mercator generally.
The UK prices come from a comparison of its top five supermarkets, which can be found everywhere in the country.
Although the descriptions are the same the Slovenian versions may contain less protein, more chemicals, improvers, sugar, salt and padding because, well, because that's not important yet.
Asda UK Smartprice Chicken Legs £1.78/kg (EUR 2,24)
Mercator Chicken Legs EUR 2,99/kg
Slovenian country-shaped food adds 33%
Philadelphia cheese spread 200g Asda UK £1.00 (EUR 1,26)
Philadelphia cheese spread 175g Mercator Slovenia: EUR 1,47 (normal price 1,84)
Slovenian logistics genius adds 33%
Hellman's Extra Light Mayonnaise 600g Asda/Tesco UK £2.00 (EUR 2,53)
Hellman's Delicatessen Mayonnaise 210g Mercator Slovenia EUR 1,44 (normal price 1,69)
Slovenian marketing expertise adds 62%
ASDA white bloomer 800g £1.20 (EUR 0,95)
Kruh Istrski white unsliced bread 600g EUR 1,69 (normal price 2,06)
Slovenian love of the earth adds 137%
Asda UK Wholefoods Cous Cous 500g £0,68 (EUR 0,86)
Mercator kus kus 250g EUR 1,19 (normal price EUR 1,43)
Slovenian xenophobia adds 232%
Asda UK Smartprice Tomato Ketchup 550g £0.20 (EUR 0,25)
Felix Tomato Ketchup 700g EUR 2,39 (normal price 3,14)
Slovenian love of children and the working man adds 838%
Minimum wage Slovenia (after tax): EUR 748,10
Minimum wage UK (which is tax free up to £675.41 / EUR 851,02): £1053.00 (EUR 1326,78)
Sources:
Mercator prices:
http://www.mercator.si/si/akcije/aktualni-katalogi/
UK prices:
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk
Minimum wages:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/it.htm
Currency conversion rate:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EURGBP%3DX
So you can see how clever this is. You're so marvellous, just like always. What kind of wide-eyed sucker is going to buy this strategic business?
Dober tek!
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from the nposialpu archive
BANK RAID SPECIAL
This hobo of a poem began life at this article about the collapse of the chicken man's bank,
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/almost-business-as-usual-as-probanka-factor-banka-reopen#comment_3000
then after The Great Deletion it crept back in here and hung around a while
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/wish-list-of-slovenian-voters.
Now it is homeless again.
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THAT SLOVENIAN TRANSITION PERIOD IN FULL
Too much leverage:
Bine Kordež;
Bank in red, she's in pink:
Romana Pajenk.
Great big blank cheque
Vito Verstovšek;
Alpos pohištvo:
Payment plan is "No no no."
Luxury car,
Boss of Avtotehna;
Logistical wreck:
Zdenko Pavček.
Business crepuscular:
Vladimir Voduška;
Money? Darko Horvat
He'd no chance to save that.
Holders of Finetol
Shares might get nowt at all.
Big mansion, Florida,
Small cell, Thomas Lovše.
Rasta Tomažiča,
Patrick Ceglarja:
20 mil will not likely a
Fast net get Serbia.
Meanwhile Igor Bavčar
Is not going far;
Transferred shares were ha ha
For Milana Lah.
Sports stadium in aspic:
Burned fingers Pečečnik;
Mouldy toast makes you sick:
Handiwork of Ročnik.
False fronts and big egos,
The main products of Trimo's;
Unstable profiteers:
Laško, brewer of beers.
And PSL Storitve
Not worth a shit, huh?
Perutnina Ptuj:
Arturo Ui.
"The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But do not rejoice too soon at your escape —
The womb he crawled from is still going strong."
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brecht.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.ptuj.co.uk
BANK RAID SPECIAL
This hobo of a poem began life at this article about the collapse of the chicken man's bank,
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/almost-business-as-usual-as-probanka-factor-banka-reopen#comment_3000
then after The Great Deletion it crept back in here and hung around a while
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/wish-list-of-slovenian-voters.
Now it is homeless again.
WINNERS AND LOSERS: THAT SLOVENIAN TRANSITION PERIOD IN FULL
Too much leverage:
Bine Kordež;
Bank in red, she's in pink:
Romana Pajenk.
Great big blank cheque
Vito Verstovšek;
Alpos pohištvo:
Payment plan is "No no no."
Luxury car,
Boss of Avtotehna;
Logistical wreck:
Zdenko Pavček.
Business crepuscular:
Vladimir Voduška;
Money? Darko Horvat
He'd no chance to save that.
Holders of Finetol
Shares might get nowt at all.
Big mansion, Florida,
Small cell, Thomas Lovše.
Rasta Tomažiča,
Patrick Ceglarja:
20 mil will not likely a
Fast net get Serbia.
Meanwhile Igor Bavčar
Is not going far;
Transferred shares were ha ha
For Milana Lah.
Sports stadium in aspic:
Burned fingers Pečečnik;
Mouldy toast makes you sick:
Handiwork of Ročnik.
False fronts and big egos,
The main products of Trimo's;
Unstable profiteers:
Laško, brewer of beers.
And PSL Storitve
Not worth a shit, huh?
Perutnina Ptuj:
Arturo Ui.
"The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But do not rejoice too soon at your escape —
The womb he crawled from is still going strong."
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, by Bertolt Brecht.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.ptuj.co.uk
Spring chickens: When
roosters attack (2)
todayszaman.com
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A now-invisible comment on the fat of the land, from November 2012
BAD FOOD AND BLING LIE
I should co-co? What premium, trigger? You
Northern Rococo? No...figure. So
Outright, hedged, mind the GAAP -
Argumentum ad crap,
Ad crumenam...or ad steatopygia.
BAD FOOD AND BLING LIE
I should co-co? What premium, trigger? You
Northern Rococo? No...figure. So
Outright, hedged, mind the GAAP -
Argumentum ad crap,
Ad crumenam...or ad steatopygia.
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UNION NEWS:
SAME OLD TO BE SAME OLD SAME OLD
RECYCLED POETRY from 2013, deleted in 2014.
From Scargill To Štrukelj...
Went on strike with the Communists,
And I didn’t move up,
Because we weren't Communist.
Went on strike with the Jews,
And I didn’t move up,
Because there weren't any Jews.
Went on strike with the Catholics,
And I didn’t move up,
In fact I actually had to move into a smaller flat and share with my auntie.
Then I went on strike for the union
Thanks to which they got me
This place by the river. Which was nice.
Ayup, it's t'nineteen eighties in Slovenia. Get thy Duran Duran on! While you're on strike not doing god-knows-what in an office why not catch up on this 1988 comedy gold, back when striking was all the rage in the UK. http://is.gd/XJf0ZB
Fast-forward thirty years http://is.gd/J1QVtk Phew! It's all historical perspectives this week***: http://is.gd/cwxOT6
***And it still is. Originally posted at http://www.sloveniatimes.com/public-sector-unions-announce-strike-for-january I think
Poem based on http://is.gd/HbhPHa Obviosly.
SAME OLD TO BE SAME OLD SAME OLD
RECYCLED POETRY from 2013, deleted in 2014.
From Scargill To Štrukelj...
Went on strike with the Communists,
And I didn’t move up,
Because we weren't Communist.
Went on strike with the Jews,
And I didn’t move up,
Because there weren't any Jews.
Went on strike with the Catholics,
And I didn’t move up,
In fact I actually had to move into a smaller flat and share with my auntie.
Then I went on strike for the union
Thanks to which they got me
This place by the river. Which was nice.
Ayup, it's t'nineteen eighties in Slovenia. Get thy Duran Duran on! While you're on strike not doing god-knows-what in an office why not catch up on this 1988 comedy gold, back when striking was all the rage in the UK. http://is.gd/XJf0ZB
Fast-forward thirty years http://is.gd/J1QVtk Phew! It's all historical perspectives this week***: http://is.gd/cwxOT6
***And it still is. Originally posted at http://www.sloveniatimes.com/public-sector-unions-announce-strike-for-january I think
Poem based on http://is.gd/HbhPHa Obviosly.
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DELETED: this limerick and prose on the Scotch mist of Slovenian regulatory systems had to go...
SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS
Ouroboros of boss who paid multure:
Go to jail for Slovenian culture!
Advantage expected
If you want it erected -
Bad bank swoops, as if avenging vulture.
I think these sentences are a shame, and go against everything that is normal in Slovenia.
These construction firm directors did not wake up one day and decide to bribe some government drone to build an airport control tower. And this Žibert character can't even afford a decent hat: http://is.gd/v6cFCt
By way of economic analogy with Slovenia, let's look at Scottish feudal domains of the Middle Ages.
"Thirlage was the law in regard of the milling of grain for personal or other uses. Vassals in a feudal barony were thirled to their local mill owned by the feudal superior. People so thirled were called suckeners and were obliged to pay for use of the mill and help maintain it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirlage
In this agro-economy payment could either take the form of corvée (free labour) or multure (payment in goods, a share of your grain for the miller). This was known as a bannock - also the name for a kind of unleavened Scottish pitta bread resembling rock.
On with the analogy. A Big Baron [Government] owned the farmland [Slovenia] and its grain mill [airport]. The suckeners [Kontrola zračnega prometa Slovenije d.o.o. - http://www.sloveniacontrol.si/en/public-tenders] were bound by tenure to the feudal lord [employed by the government] of the territory and forced [needed to earn pay to survive] to toil in the field [field of transport sector construction tender assessment] somewhat for the communal benefit but mostly for the benefit of the establishment.
The lowly producer [Dušan Črnigoj] probably saw the miller himself as a jumped-up, parasitical sort of character. And both had to play according to the rules of a powerful monopoly with control over a finite contractual world of food supply [major public infrastructure projects] as they would have perceived it.
The idea of thirlage originated so that these poor suckeners had to pay somehow for the construction of this vitally important, capital-intensive centralised food [tourist] processing facility - the flour mill [control tower].
Outsucken multures, i.e. use of mills to which you were not thirled or bound by tenure or, worse yet, just going off and grinding away by yourself in secrecy were big no-nos.
Down would come the law, in the form of a fine or some other punishment, with the miller legally entitled to smash his rival's quern-stones...no doubt that gave the village [readers of Slovenske Novice] a cheap thirl.
Of course in this case, the miller's grassum [business licence] made him, too, a prisoner of the system - and you can imagine the frustration of an always hungry fat miller [Tomaž Žibert] having to watch sack after sack of food heading out of the door [being paid less than euromillions] to oversee the proper product of the euromillions of others.
Observing the squandering of grain [overblown tenders] who would not be tempted to have a quick feel around the crevices of his machine and pop a few extra bannocks into his mill-bitch?
Overcontrolling primitive society fun slavery facts:
Ireland's bad bank was also born amid the prosecution of property tycoons but it turned out it was just being run for the gain of other property tycoons.
http://is.gd/4Bd5Li
http://is.gd/xevTMI
Tomaž Žibert successfully claimed 9500 euros for unfair dismissal in 2009.
Multure is pronounced "mooter" - accordingly the rhymes above must be: cooter, vooter.
Thirlage was only abolished in Scotland in 2004.
SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS
Ouroboros of boss who paid multure:
Go to jail for Slovenian culture!
Advantage expected
If you want it erected -
Bad bank swoops, as if avenging vulture.
I think these sentences are a shame, and go against everything that is normal in Slovenia.
These construction firm directors did not wake up one day and decide to bribe some government drone to build an airport control tower. And this Žibert character can't even afford a decent hat: http://is.gd/v6cFCt
By way of economic analogy with Slovenia, let's look at Scottish feudal domains of the Middle Ages.
"Thirlage was the law in regard of the milling of grain for personal or other uses. Vassals in a feudal barony were thirled to their local mill owned by the feudal superior. People so thirled were called suckeners and were obliged to pay for use of the mill and help maintain it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirlage
In this agro-economy payment could either take the form of corvée (free labour) or multure (payment in goods, a share of your grain for the miller). This was known as a bannock - also the name for a kind of unleavened Scottish pitta bread resembling rock.
On with the analogy. A Big Baron [Government] owned the farmland [Slovenia] and its grain mill [airport]. The suckeners [Kontrola zračnega prometa Slovenije d.o.o. - http://www.sloveniacontrol.si/en/public-tenders] were bound by tenure to the feudal lord [employed by the government] of the territory and forced [needed to earn pay to survive] to toil in the field [field of transport sector construction tender assessment] somewhat for the communal benefit but mostly for the benefit of the establishment.
The lowly producer [Dušan Črnigoj] probably saw the miller himself as a jumped-up, parasitical sort of character. And both had to play according to the rules of a powerful monopoly with control over a finite contractual world of food supply [major public infrastructure projects] as they would have perceived it.
The idea of thirlage originated so that these poor suckeners had to pay somehow for the construction of this vitally important, capital-intensive centralised food [tourist] processing facility - the flour mill [control tower].
Outsucken multures, i.e. use of mills to which you were not thirled or bound by tenure or, worse yet, just going off and grinding away by yourself in secrecy were big no-nos.
Down would come the law, in the form of a fine or some other punishment, with the miller legally entitled to smash his rival's quern-stones...no doubt that gave the village [readers of Slovenske Novice] a cheap thirl.
Of course in this case, the miller's grassum [business licence] made him, too, a prisoner of the system - and you can imagine the frustration of an always hungry fat miller [Tomaž Žibert] having to watch sack after sack of food heading out of the door [being paid less than euromillions] to oversee the proper product of the euromillions of others.
Observing the squandering of grain [overblown tenders] who would not be tempted to have a quick feel around the crevices of his machine and pop a few extra bannocks into his mill-bitch?
Overcontrolling primitive society fun slavery facts:
Ireland's bad bank was also born amid the prosecution of property tycoons but it turned out it was just being run for the gain of other property tycoons.
http://is.gd/4Bd5Li
http://is.gd/xevTMI
Tomaž Žibert successfully claimed 9500 euros for unfair dismissal in 2009.
Multure is pronounced "mooter" - accordingly the rhymes above must be: cooter, vooter.
Thirlage was only abolished in Scotland in 2004.
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SLOVENIA, 20/10/14 - PTUJ MAYOR ELECTION RESULTS. Seems that rumour worked. Or maybe it was the death threat. Or maybe it was a false flag death threat that went wrong. Or maybe it was a real death threat meant to look like a false flag...actually Ptuj is a giant pinball machine which I am controlling from my IMF-funded flying saucer. Tell it on the mountain.
Anyway now the election's over Ptuj can forget all those ugly rumours. And start some new ones. I'm starting one about most of it being broke, drunk, coughing a lot in the morning, and very very bored!! If the substantially less dense air we have been having lately continues, it will become possible to move around with larger hairstyles. Could Ptuj's new Mayor do something about introducing the 80s?
If you are from around there, do listen to this nice icy one about ignoring them. Do that. Remain sane. Don't be a twat who cuts themself and makes other people's lives a misery. Or expect me to care if you do.
A Slovenian-style point-missing overanalysis shows the Fun Boy Three 80s contain 66.67% Bananarama, 42.86% Specials, 0% fucking wine, 0% fucking chicken, and 0% fucking sport. And 300% hair! It is some kind of a crazy futuristic scene.
Anyway now the election's over Ptuj can forget all those ugly rumours. And start some new ones. I'm starting one about most of it being broke, drunk, coughing a lot in the morning, and very very bored!! If the substantially less dense air we have been having lately continues, it will become possible to move around with larger hairstyles. Could Ptuj's new Mayor do something about introducing the 80s?
If you are from around there, do listen to this nice icy one about ignoring them. Do that. Remain sane. Don't be a twat who cuts themself and makes other people's lives a misery. Or expect me to care if you do.
A Slovenian-style point-missing overanalysis shows the Fun Boy Three 80s contain 66.67% Bananarama, 42.86% Specials, 0% fucking wine, 0% fucking chicken, and 0% fucking sport. And 300% hair! It is some kind of a crazy futuristic scene.
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After failing to meet the strict quality criteria for comments in The Slovenia Times this went on the poetry bonfire...
NAKED GREEN
Eco-plan: not quite seventies yet.
Environmentally friendly roulette.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Recommends chicken smog.
Green-tourism-wash? Place your bet.
Besides hydro-powered roulette we offer green poker, greenjack, and green craps.
You won't find environmentally damaging intensively farmed oranges and lemons on our slot machines - only zucchini, mung beans, and a wholewheat sausage.
After a night of squinting across the green baize and nibbling squashed poultry products why not help a green prostitute to get through college?
HIT casinos and envirohippies have much in common - a tendency to yearn for an imaginary idyllic past, and an aversion to profit.
The past they revere was full of myopic, irrational idiots whose tourist expeditions were mostly wars and flights from famine.
Of course Slovenia does however have some beautiful sights - just stay away from anything the tourism industry has touched and you'll be quids in.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - all you have to do is believe your rabbit's foot can save the planet.
NAKED GREEN
Eco-plan: not quite seventies yet.
Environmentally friendly roulette.
The Whole Earth Catalog
Recommends chicken smog.
Green-tourism-wash? Place your bet.
Besides hydro-powered roulette we offer green poker, greenjack, and green craps.
You won't find environmentally damaging intensively farmed oranges and lemons on our slot machines - only zucchini, mung beans, and a wholewheat sausage.
After a night of squinting across the green baize and nibbling squashed poultry products why not help a green prostitute to get through college?
HIT casinos and envirohippies have much in common - a tendency to yearn for an imaginary idyllic past, and an aversion to profit.
The past they revere was full of myopic, irrational idiots whose tourist expeditions were mostly wars and flights from famine.
Of course Slovenia does however have some beautiful sights - just stay away from anything the tourism industry has touched and you'll be quids in.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - all you have to do is believe your rabbit's foot can save the planet.
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FROM THE NATIONAL POETRY ARCHIVE:
NAUTICAL BUT NOT NICE:
In The Great Deletion of September 2014 The Slovenia Times went anti-shanty. Wondering if they're still there, I searched on www.vesselfinder.com, but to no avail. Probably it sank, maybe the crew made it back with people-smugglers, and waited on Lampedusa for the Slovenian receiver to unblock the playboy owner's bank account.
PAS D'UN AHOY-KU
Flog the flag, barter nautical pieces:
Electrics might get you some pizzas.
Cannot get to the casbah?
Talk to your pasta.
Banking antics' xerantic exegesis.
Yaaar! Both me treasure chests is frozen since Guy Fawkes' Night in the Year Of Our Lord 2010. As any lookout could have seen by casting his nets in the direction of http://www.idoo.si/en/boniteta/EUROSHIPPING
NAUTICAL BUT NOT NICE:
In The Great Deletion of September 2014 The Slovenia Times went anti-shanty. Wondering if they're still there, I searched on www.vesselfinder.com, but to no avail. Probably it sank, maybe the crew made it back with people-smugglers, and waited on Lampedusa for the Slovenian receiver to unblock the playboy owner's bank account.
PAS D'UN AHOY-KU
Flog the flag, barter nautical pieces:
Electrics might get you some pizzas.
Cannot get to the casbah?
Talk to your pasta.
Banking antics' xerantic exegesis.
Yaaar! Both me treasure chests is frozen since Guy Fawkes' Night in the Year Of Our Lord 2010. As any lookout could have seen by casting his nets in the direction of http://www.idoo.si/en/boniteta/EUROSHIPPING
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Nowadays Slovenia loves stupid gamblers, and thanks to its new theo-oligarchic political ideology stupid non-foreigners can now join in too, although stupid foreigners are still preferred. Along with anti-tobacco messages, this type of comment was never popular with the half-baked national image-controllers of The Slovenia Times, even in the good old days.
93% PERFECTLY OK
Honest income from housekeeping spent -
Winners all, we shall never relent;
Optimists fuel quagmire
As casinos acquire
Half their profits from 7%.
Gambling is the great leveller of kings and peasants and in a Darwinian sense ComTrade's effect on the Slovenian gene puddle can only be positive.
If you've ever wondered what goes on with the money which your lawyer with the purple nose has stored safely in the escrow account, this guy seems to be an expert: http://is.gd/Whqc9w
And don't be fooled - that sweaty, desperate looking guy in the football top asking to borrow 5 euros has a thorough understanding of non-Bayesian probability too, and knows how to use arbitrage to exploit incoherent odds across different bookmakers with a bet array, without forgetting that there is a noncommutative extension of de Finetti's theorem which characterizes noncommutative sequences invariant under quantum permutations.
Erm...try the red one.
93% PERFECTLY OK
Honest income from housekeeping spent -
Winners all, we shall never relent;
Optimists fuel quagmire
As casinos acquire
Half their profits from 7%.
Gambling is the great leveller of kings and peasants and in a Darwinian sense ComTrade's effect on the Slovenian gene puddle can only be positive.
If you've ever wondered what goes on with the money which your lawyer with the purple nose has stored safely in the escrow account, this guy seems to be an expert: http://is.gd/Whqc9w
And don't be fooled - that sweaty, desperate looking guy in the football top asking to borrow 5 euros has a thorough understanding of non-Bayesian probability too, and knows how to use arbitrage to exploit incoherent odds across different bookmakers with a bet array, without forgetting that there is a noncommutative extension of de Finetti's theorem which characterizes noncommutative sequences invariant under quantum permutations.
Erm...try the red one.
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Among the 300 or so poems "disappeared" in The Great Deletion under Miro I was this untitled one about Slovenia's half-a-nuclear-power-plant being shut down due to leaves.
Stuxnet had already whizzed Iran's UF6-whizzing project to pieces and several Iranian scientists had also been destabilised by this point. Meanwhile this alternative - and greener - plan survived, ticking away inside my PR-goof-proof concrete national poetry sarcophagus...
This deciduously nuclear yarn
Reports foliage shut (shot?) it dahn,
See? So frail to frondescence,
Israel, learn your lesson:
Send big planes, to drop leaves on Iran.
Looks like a revenge attack to me. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96750869
Stuxnet had already whizzed Iran's UF6-whizzing project to pieces and several Iranian scientists had also been destabilised by this point. Meanwhile this alternative - and greener - plan survived, ticking away inside my PR-goof-proof concrete national poetry sarcophagus...
This deciduously nuclear yarn
Reports foliage shut (shot?) it dahn,
See? So frail to frondescence,
Israel, learn your lesson:
Send big planes, to drop leaves on Iran.
Looks like a revenge attack to me. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96750869
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And on the Sixth Day in the reign of Miro I a great silence fell among the watchers of the Sloven-i-ites, for it was decreed that no man shalt speak unto the comments columns of The Slovenia Times. Even unto the Nineteenth Day.
And among those ancient columns A Great Deletion occurred, even unto this comment about kitchens, from the Second Moon Cycle in the reign of Alenka The Legs...
KITCHEN CABINET
This news made me curious. Had any British kitchen company ever received a government subsidy, I wondered?
Probably not, I guessed, as any luxury kitchen company that couldn't make a profit or pay its workers probably had the wrong product, or the right one but in the wrong place, or at the wrong time, or the wrong price.
You know, those awkward troubles you get, trying to sell things.
Now I see where the UK has been going wrong - instead of all these bankrupt kitchen companies that we have, we could have just had the biggest one, making a loss.
The man in the street happily accepts the necessity of kitchens, and is glad in his heart to hear that other people's jobs could be saved, in return for his participation in a compulsory donation from the kitchen-loving population.
Once the people's kitchen company is simmering away nicely, the same non-investors funding it will be able to pay a second time, for a new kitchen of their own, and the Party's curse upon any who begrudge their previous, generous contribution, or think they should at least get a free worktop.
It all makes so much sense what politicians are doing in Slovenia, where everything they say is smart and new, especially the Prime Minister (Ed: is that OK?)
Instead of the expected string of reports on taxpayer help for ailing kitchen firms, in a search of UK pages for "kitchen" + "subsidy" all I got was "MPs' expenses: Gordon Brown's £9,000 kitchen subsidy revealed".
http://is.gd/jFDO7M
Mrs Stepišnik surely has a great kitchen already, which just makes the comparison between Anglo-American capitalism and Balkan capitalism all the more baffling.
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And among those ancient columns A Great Deletion occurred, even unto this comment about kitchens, from the Second Moon Cycle in the reign of Alenka The Legs...
KITCHEN CABINET
This news made me curious. Had any British kitchen company ever received a government subsidy, I wondered?
Probably not, I guessed, as any luxury kitchen company that couldn't make a profit or pay its workers probably had the wrong product, or the right one but in the wrong place, or at the wrong time, or the wrong price.
You know, those awkward troubles you get, trying to sell things.
Now I see where the UK has been going wrong - instead of all these bankrupt kitchen companies that we have, we could have just had the biggest one, making a loss.
The man in the street happily accepts the necessity of kitchens, and is glad in his heart to hear that other people's jobs could be saved, in return for his participation in a compulsory donation from the kitchen-loving population.
Once the people's kitchen company is simmering away nicely, the same non-investors funding it will be able to pay a second time, for a new kitchen of their own, and the Party's curse upon any who begrudge their previous, generous contribution, or think they should at least get a free worktop.
It all makes so much sense what politicians are doing in Slovenia, where everything they say is smart and new, especially the Prime Minister (Ed: is that OK?)
Instead of the expected string of reports on taxpayer help for ailing kitchen firms, in a search of UK pages for "kitchen" + "subsidy" all I got was "MPs' expenses: Gordon Brown's £9,000 kitchen subsidy revealed".
http://is.gd/jFDO7M
Mrs Stepišnik surely has a great kitchen already, which just makes the comparison between Anglo-American capitalism and Balkan capitalism all the more baffling.
www.maria.si
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SLOVENIA ERASED: Historic national poetry marking AB's June 2013 visit to the Vatican has recently vanished from The Slovenia Times....
TABULARII SEMPER FIDELIT: CONATA EFFICERE EUM IRE AD QUAM SEMPER
Popes accustomed to veil, over head -
But I thought Amy Winehouse was dead.
To turn on and impress
She should probably dress
As a seven year old boy instead.
Cop blows whistle on 'Catholic mafia'
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
TABULARII SEMPER FIDELIT: CONATA EFFICERE EUM IRE AD QUAM SEMPER
Popes accustomed to veil, over head -
But I thought Amy Winehouse was dead.
To turn on and impress
She should probably dress
As a seven year old boy instead.
Cop blows whistle on 'Catholic mafia'
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
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This wee verse in honour of a visit by the Japanese royals used to be a comment at http://www.sloveniatimes.com/japanese-royal-couple-starting-visit-to-slovenia
ロイヤルフラッシュ - セキュリティ区高
プリミティブ
トイレ：
の王女
持って
おしっこ
我々
聞く
You may associate Toto with Africa - but in fact they have been busy preventing Japanese ladies having to constantly flush the toilet to stop us hearing the embarrassing sound of liquid meeting liquid.
To ensure Slovenia doesn't miss anything important that the foreigners might spend money on, a local version of the otohime designed for the royal accommodation will replace the recording and speaker with a microphone and direct transmission through to SOVA's offices. Masturbation model coming soon.
http://is.gd/zXH7V4
人々が理解できる言語では、スロベニアの国立詩人、非スロベニア語圏の世界にとって重要なスロベニア出来事を解釈します。 www.maria.si
ロイヤルフラッシュ - セキュリティ区高
プリミティブ
トイレ：
の王女
持って
おしっこ
我々
聞く
You may associate Toto with Africa - but in fact they have been busy preventing Japanese ladies having to constantly flush the toilet to stop us hearing the embarrassing sound of liquid meeting liquid.
To ensure Slovenia doesn't miss anything important that the foreigners might spend money on, a local version of the otohime designed for the royal accommodation will replace the recording and speaker with a microphone and direct transmission through to SOVA's offices. Masturbation model coming soon.
http://is.gd/zXH7V4
人々が理解できる言語では、スロベニアの国立詩人、非スロベニア語圏の世界にとって重要なスロベニア出来事を解釈します。 www.maria.si
Otohime
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NPOSIALPU's June 2013 prophecy on Max Clifford came true. But poetic problems at The Slovenia Times meant deleting this important historical dialectical material celebrating the visit of Prince Eddie and the "Countess of Essex"...
ROYAL US IN ESSEX - DA
From unvajazzled patch Slovene, I cawllw
On Liz's TOWIE fave dor-er-in-law,
Who representin' Clacton to Chigwellw
Willw prove to awl the Woyals are normalw.
'Er purpus 'ere, er, dunno wot it's fowr,
They's Iphones: 'ope to be regalewd
Wiv news Max Clifford and Rebekah Wade woz jailewd.
Let Harlow drink, and Canvey Island blast,
Not pullin' 'ere, I need more Shoeburyness -
More Essex gelws, 2 end my sexshuwelw fast,
Wivaht ta-oo, wewl fi', 'er zone smokeless;
Wha'evva the test, I 'ope our noo Countess
Has one lady-in-waitin' or handmayde:
Loves ridin', furry bawlls, an' lemonade.
My lupine howl commemorating this royal hover is based on Troilus And Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, verses 1 and 3.
The Old English of Chaucer is not the same as Essex English and you can check that here: http://is.gd/5NMRt7 and here: http://is.gd/mMXEMf
For a technical explanation of the stanzas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_royal
For a technical explanation of the Countess of Wessex - according to aristocratic protocol Essex only has Duchesses, Pearly Queens and various barons - see http://is.gd/maisvS
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is hoping for a royal appointment. www.maria.si
ROYAL US IN ESSEX - DA
From unvajazzled patch Slovene, I cawllw
On Liz's TOWIE fave dor-er-in-law,
Who representin' Clacton to Chigwellw
Willw prove to awl the Woyals are normalw.
'Er purpus 'ere, er, dunno wot it's fowr,
They's Iphones: 'ope to be regalewd
Wiv news Max Clifford and Rebekah Wade woz jailewd.
Let Harlow drink, and Canvey Island blast,
Not pullin' 'ere, I need more Shoeburyness -
More Essex gelws, 2 end my sexshuwelw fast,
Wivaht ta-oo, wewl fi', 'er zone smokeless;
Wha'evva the test, I 'ope our noo Countess
Has one lady-in-waitin' or handmayde:
Loves ridin', furry bawlls, an' lemonade.
My lupine howl commemorating this royal hover is based on Troilus And Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, verses 1 and 3.
The Old English of Chaucer is not the same as Essex English and you can check that here: http://is.gd/5NMRt7 and here: http://is.gd/mMXEMf
For a technical explanation of the stanzas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_royal
For a technical explanation of the Countess of Wessex - according to aristocratic protocol Essex only has Duchesses, Pearly Queens and various barons - see http://is.gd/maisvS
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is hoping for a royal appointment. www.maria.si
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English comedy news: Ex-PM tells the EC she was a chef...
Explanation: "Šef" is Slovenian for "chief".
Alenka - who is slated to be the EU's Commissioner for Energy - describes her meteoric rise thus:
Ministry of Finance - General Director for budget from 2006-2011, befor that I was chef of Budget Department
Member of parlament
Government - prime minister
Explanation: "Šef" is Slovenian for "chief".
Alenka - who is slated to be the EU's Commissioner for Energy - describes her meteoric rise thus:
Ministry of Finance - General Director for budget from 2006-2011, befor that I was chef of Budget Department
Member of parlament
Government - prime minister
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HOW DEMOCRACY WORKS
PTUJ --- Our Mayor has calculated he can get more votes for his re-election convincing the locals Ptuj smells like Switzerland than by agreeing with troublesome citizens who "bother him" about the chicken factory blurp stench descending on them from across the river.
http://nov.vecer.com/clanek.aspx?id=201409256061756
With their incomprehensible language little is known about the inhabitants over there. Occasionally they cross the river on Saturday night shouting and running up and down excitedly. The ones with the feathers seem to be trying to stop anyone with the horn.
They inhabit a chicken complex over there, in long huts and various ceremonial structures. A department of witchdoctors tends to the disposal of their mass sacrifices in a number of enormous pressure cookers hidden deep in a jungle of pipes and conveyors, wherefrom the smells of Switzerland plop limpidly onto the town opposite, and NPOSIALPU headquarters.
Timid and shy towards outsiders, they are easily intimidated into believing their future depends on the smell in some way. The Perutnini know everything there is to know about chickens.
They are particularly terrified of science, manufacturing, industrial and public hygiene, of engineering, clean air regulations, and tourists. Y'know, like Switzerland.
Any works connected with complete containment of their meat waste rendering are viewed as juju - threatening to traditional stinky ways.
An inner coven of management believers assemble to worship Ptuj's chicken factory smell at secret all-male midnight ceremonies.
Aside from their pungent aromas, contact between the Perutnini and the civilised world is necessarily limited. But I'm sure they'll venture out to vote for Swiss Toni, the people's champion.
The alternative would be bananas.
PTUJ --- Our Mayor has calculated he can get more votes for his re-election convincing the locals Ptuj smells like Switzerland than by agreeing with troublesome citizens who "bother him" about the chicken factory blurp stench descending on them from across the river.
http://nov.vecer.com/clanek.aspx?id=201409256061756
With their incomprehensible language little is known about the inhabitants over there. Occasionally they cross the river on Saturday night shouting and running up and down excitedly. The ones with the feathers seem to be trying to stop anyone with the horn.
They inhabit a chicken complex over there, in long huts and various ceremonial structures. A department of witchdoctors tends to the disposal of their mass sacrifices in a number of enormous pressure cookers hidden deep in a jungle of pipes and conveyors, wherefrom the smells of Switzerland plop limpidly onto the town opposite, and NPOSIALPU headquarters.
Timid and shy towards outsiders, they are easily intimidated into believing their future depends on the smell in some way. The Perutnini know everything there is to know about chickens.
They are particularly terrified of science, manufacturing, industrial and public hygiene, of engineering, clean air regulations, and tourists. Y'know, like Switzerland.
Any works connected with complete containment of their meat waste rendering are viewed as juju - threatening to traditional stinky ways.
An inner coven of management believers assemble to worship Ptuj's chicken factory smell at secret all-male midnight ceremonies.
Aside from their pungent aromas, contact between the Perutnini and the civilised world is necessarily limited. But I'm sure they'll venture out to vote for Swiss Toni, the people's champion.
The alternative would be bananas.
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breaking news
HESPERUS WRECKED
REX v THE SLOVENICURSE
Stoppeth about, Slovenicurse
That prosecuted three -
Did they have equal billing? Whole show's about one
Of the three's bare stroški.
Bewitched, his dwarfing hour is here
So, it's off to work, hi ho!
"Ivan is toast", his vassals wept,
Hope he knows some taekwondo.
Judiciary in soixante-neuf
With the likes of Mao Zedong.
In Murglah, average neighbourhood,
They play The Birdy Song.
Hot windless night, purposeless haze,
And to-night no moon in Ptuj!
And as Perutnina whiffed from their chicken pipe,
Whereabouts was our MEP?
Is beastly Milan so outraged
J-Bird's fresh air's denied?
It's no excessive Brussels: Zver's
Justice? Just improvised.
These legal wrecks Slovenicurse,
Great theories - normal?...no,
Does the SDS air rights for you?
In practice...don't think so!
Slovenian politics is the politics of the average.
By not staying firmly behind a long table with a sausage on a paper plate Mr Janša was always playing a dangerous game.
Frankly, whatever the existence of the evidential facts or otherwise on which this verdict may eventually be found not to have been based, or based, Mr Janša has behaved in an unaverage fashion by claiming that normality is not normal.
Surely in the interests of the rule of law he should be cravenly caving in to whatever bum rap his enemies have decided to put him through.
By employing such unusual techniques as reality and rational argument, what kind of example does JJ think he is setting to all the potentially illegal yoof of today?
Let us hope that his imprisonment will restore our faith in averageness, and extinguish the dangerous ideology of normalcy in the courts, politics, and media.
Crowds (apparently) go wild celebrating JJ's jailing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7A-p_YipzfE
Origins: vicarious and various verses, of
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13830/13830-h/13830-h.htm ...with beautiful engraved illustrations.
The above national poem was deleted during the reign of Miro I.
HESPERUS WRECKED
REX v THE SLOVENICURSE
Stoppeth about, Slovenicurse
That prosecuted three -
Did they have equal billing? Whole show's about one
Of the three's bare stroški.
Bewitched, his dwarfing hour is here
So, it's off to work, hi ho!
"Ivan is toast", his vassals wept,
Hope he knows some taekwondo.
Judiciary in soixante-neuf
With the likes of Mao Zedong.
In Murglah, average neighbourhood,
They play The Birdy Song.
Hot windless night, purposeless haze,
And to-night no moon in Ptuj!
And as Perutnina whiffed from their chicken pipe,
Whereabouts was our MEP?
Is beastly Milan so outraged
J-Bird's fresh air's denied?
It's no excessive Brussels: Zver's
Justice? Just improvised.
These legal wrecks Slovenicurse,
Great theories - normal?...no,
Does the SDS air rights for you?
In practice...don't think so!
Slovenian politics is the politics of the average.
By not staying firmly behind a long table with a sausage on a paper plate Mr Janša was always playing a dangerous game.
Frankly, whatever the existence of the evidential facts or otherwise on which this verdict may eventually be found not to have been based, or based, Mr Janša has behaved in an unaverage fashion by claiming that normality is not normal.
Surely in the interests of the rule of law he should be cravenly caving in to whatever bum rap his enemies have decided to put him through.
By employing such unusual techniques as reality and rational argument, what kind of example does JJ think he is setting to all the potentially illegal yoof of today?
Let us hope that his imprisonment will restore our faith in averageness, and extinguish the dangerous ideology of normalcy in the courts, politics, and media.
Crowds (apparently) go wild celebrating JJ's jailing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7A-p_YipzfE
Origins: vicarious and various verses, of
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13830/13830-h/13830-h.htm ...with beautiful engraved illustrations.
The above national poem was deleted during the reign of Miro I.
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arts festival news
After rain delays, Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell finally kicks off...
Here's the erased Slovenia Times comment from NPOSIALPU...
DNEVI POEZIJE IN PIŠČANČJE TOVARNE VONJ
August's back-end marks the end of Ptuj's annual festival Days of Poetry and Wine.
But this year the jollity continues throughout September with Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell. http://is.gd/1oU1xW
It's strong stuff! As promised http://is.gd/1oU1xW there'll be a poem for each olfactory event, in an attempt to convey the nauseating flavour of Slovenia's baroque centrepiece over the internet to a waiting world.
As Smell-Poet in residence I have been waiting with bated breath for Ptuj's first major municipal ming of the month, and gearing up for a sensational programme of nose prose, to assist our visitors in soaking up Ptuj's contemporary smells.
Unfortunately the start of the chicken smell festival, which takes place over 52 weeks each year in Ptuj, was delayed by wet weather, preventing full expression of our artistic aroma.
But at 1030 a.m. on 8 September Perutnina Ptuj finally released its first major guff of the month, a maggoty little number with a hint of tramp's underpants.
Pavement displays will subtly suggest how to cope with it all. http://is.gd/t36azD Bring your own corks and take some away. Please.
In theory anyone with at least one of the five senses can contribute, making it accessible to some of our locals, but hopefully the arts points will all go to me - Ptujčanijo have their own downright serious arts events. Well, their organisers must have their head in the clouds not to recognise the city's inspirational rendering odour oeuvre.
At the end of each month we'll count up the poems in a heady fusion of unpaid-for art and air pollution statistics! How Slovenian is that!
Here's the first poem - it's a real humdinger!
ODOUR TO NUMB
C3-Zone, rough mists, and tallow fat fullness,
Nose sniffs butt-end of bird-denaturing gloop;
We respire remnants of carnivore-mess -
Boiled juicy slime of heads, feet, guts, and poop
Offends my crap-receptors: chicken law
Just fills Ptuj with rudeness - f-f-fwwooaar!
God's swill? The Board's still plump, whose hazy smells
Have a sweet kernel. Sanders?...Once I stored
My stuff in former undertaker's shop of yore;
A similar stench crept warmly from walls / floor
- Recalled dark fluids drained from ex-unwells.
Who hath not smelt thee waft about thy store?
Qlandia, Hofer, Jager, Lidl find
Thee shitting, day and night, by their front door,
Thy air's not lifted, bits fall, left behind;
Marry in Ptuj: it honks, no need to beep,
Drows'd with the fumes of poopies, droopy gluck
Coats park, paths, playgrounds: Alič meats the flowers.
Town needs a big fat cleaner that can suck
/ Cut price Bin Laden who will aim his jet
Into thy ivory towers...And cancel bet
- On sneak industrial oozings in wee hours.
Where were the snogs this Spring? This smell's so gay.
Think what? Of Audis, turbofolk CDs,
While sa-a-aad clouds gloomily slide your way?
How much the trouble's plain: thy grisly brew,
Its molecules pour - no more blood, greased meats
Ming valse past Bo Cafe: they're barely fluffed,
Stink-tease! Poor anemometer pasties stop...
A full groan "Come on" each film's rank release.
- September smells averse? - A verse each day! -
Unless the beastly whiff just stays away...
- Ptuj'll swallow it 'till our Twitters zettaflop.
http://is.gd/LeHPIN links to this page if you want to try to prise Slovenia's oldest town's head out of its ass.
Do that then, if you enjoyed today's smell-po or are just grateful you don't live there.
For your insipid relatives, here is the relatively insipid original: http://allpoetry.com/Ode-To-Autumn
After rain delays, Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell finally kicks off...
Here's the erased Slovenia Times comment from NPOSIALPU...
DNEVI POEZIJE IN PIŠČANČJE TOVARNE VONJ
August's back-end marks the end of Ptuj's annual festival Days of Poetry and Wine.
But this year the jollity continues throughout September with Days of Poetry and Ptuj's Chicken Factory Smell. http://is.gd/1oU1xW
It's strong stuff! As promised http://is.gd/1oU1xW there'll be a poem for each olfactory event, in an attempt to convey the nauseating flavour of Slovenia's baroque centrepiece over the internet to a waiting world.
As Smell-Poet in residence I have been waiting with bated breath for Ptuj's first major municipal ming of the month, and gearing up for a sensational programme of nose prose, to assist our visitors in soaking up Ptuj's contemporary smells.
Unfortunately the start of the chicken smell festival, which takes place over 52 weeks each year in Ptuj, was delayed by wet weather, preventing full expression of our artistic aroma.
But at 1030 a.m. on 8 September Perutnina Ptuj finally released its first major guff of the month, a maggoty little number with a hint of tramp's underpants.
Pavement displays will subtly suggest how to cope with it all. http://is.gd/t36azD Bring your own corks and take some away. Please.
In theory anyone with at least one of the five senses can contribute, making it accessible to some of our locals, but hopefully the arts points will all go to me - Ptujčanijo have their own downright serious arts events. Well, their organisers must have their head in the clouds not to recognise the city's inspirational rendering odour oeuvre.
At the end of each month we'll count up the poems in a heady fusion of unpaid-for art and air pollution statistics! How Slovenian is that!
Here's the first poem - it's a real humdinger!
ODOUR TO NUMB
C3-Zone, rough mists, and tallow fat fullness,
Nose sniffs butt-end of bird-denaturing gloop;
We respire remnants of carnivore-mess -
Boiled juicy slime of heads, feet, guts, and poop
Offends my crap-receptors: chicken law
Just fills Ptuj with rudeness - f-f-fwwooaar!
God's swill? The Board's still plump, whose hazy smells
Have a sweet kernel. Sanders?...Once I stored
My stuff in former undertaker's shop of yore;
A similar stench crept warmly from walls / floor
- Recalled dark fluids drained from ex-unwells.
Who hath not smelt thee waft about thy store?
Qlandia, Hofer, Jager, Lidl find
Thee shitting, day and night, by their front door,
Thy air's not lifted, bits fall, left behind;
Marry in Ptuj: it honks, no need to beep,
Drows'd with the fumes of poopies, droopy gluck
Coats park, paths, playgrounds: Alič meats the flowers.
Town needs a big fat cleaner that can suck
/ Cut price Bin Laden who will aim his jet
Into thy ivory towers...And cancel bet
- On sneak industrial oozings in wee hours.
Where were the snogs this Spring? This smell's so gay.
Think what? Of Audis, turbofolk CDs,
While sa-a-aad clouds gloomily slide your way?
How much the trouble's plain: thy grisly brew,
Its molecules pour - no more blood, greased meats
Ming valse past Bo Cafe: they're barely fluffed,
Stink-tease! Poor anemometer pasties stop...
A full groan "Come on" each film's rank release.
- September smells averse? - A verse each day! -
Unless the beastly whiff just stays away...
- Ptuj'll swallow it 'till our Twitters zettaflop.
http://is.gd/LeHPIN links to this page if you want to try to prise Slovenia's oldest town's head out of its ass.
Do that then, if you enjoyed today's smell-po or are just grateful you don't live there.
For your insipid relatives, here is the relatively insipid original: http://allpoetry.com/Ode-To-Autumn
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FROM THE ERASED HISTORY ARCHIVE
A twice-deleted comment...you get extra Country Joe points for that.
It is completely true what you say about ladies liking light, airy rooms with a fresh scent.
And it with this in mind that I always keep my doors and windows tightly closed in Ptuj, in the hope one will come rushing in simply to escape the molecular remnants of the rendering of hundreds of thousands of unfortunate chickens.
Under such circumstances, Slovenians are unlikely to agree with the notion that the market value of their accommodation, as the engine of financial survival, is its only true worth, and nor do I.
In the same way, only wealth-intoxicated hillbillies would fail to value their own air - and run a stinky thing like that right next to a great big cold river, in the middle of their tourist attraction.
But contrary to what you say, Justin, Ptuj's agroindustrial aroma of poultry fat-dewatering really turns the girls on...even one whiff in the street can send them wild and samba-ing out of control.
Indeed, many a reputation has been irretrievably trashed by an evening of 3-methylbutanal microdroplets, and our outdoor arts events are famous for their Jekyll and aldehyde juxtapositions.
Anyways I'm exhausted with all the action. That's why the property's only 1000 euros! Some great terms and conditions apply...get lucky! http://www.241.si
FROM THE ERASED HISTORY ARCHIVE
A twice-deleted comment...you get extra Country Joe points for that.
It is completely true what you say about ladies liking light, airy rooms with a fresh scent.
And it with this in mind that I always keep my doors and windows tightly closed in Ptuj, in the hope one will come rushing in simply to escape the molecular remnants of the rendering of hundreds of thousands of unfortunate chickens.
Under such circumstances, Slovenians are unlikely to agree with the notion that the market value of their accommodation, as the engine of financial survival, is its only true worth, and nor do I.
In the same way, only wealth-intoxicated hillbillies would fail to value their own air - and run a stinky thing like that right next to a great big cold river, in the middle of their tourist attraction.
But contrary to what you say, Justin, Ptuj's agroindustrial aroma of poultry fat-dewatering really turns the girls on...even one whiff in the street can send them wild and samba-ing out of control.
Indeed, many a reputation has been irretrievably trashed by an evening of 3-methylbutanal microdroplets, and our outdoor arts events are famous for their Jekyll and aldehyde juxtapositions.
Anyways I'm exhausted with all the action. That's why the property's only 1000 euros! Some great terms and conditions apply...get lucky! http://www.241.si
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Well this is a find.
Remember the 90s? It was a time of career steps and a well-defined niche. Compared to now it seemed like there were stupid jobs for everyone, even stunted cameramen.
Here's an act that knew what it was about and met its targets. I prefer the blonde one. Do they have sticks in their mouths? - the smiling is the hardest work probably: I imagine them looking forward to a really miserable holiday somewhere.
Despite everything a very neat Latin orchestra.
Remember the 90s? It was a time of career steps and a well-defined niche. Compared to now it seemed like there were stupid jobs for everyone, even stunted cameramen.
Here's an act that knew what it was about and met its targets. I prefer the blonde one. Do they have sticks in their mouths? - the smiling is the hardest work probably: I imagine them looking forward to a really miserable holiday somewhere.
Despite everything a very neat Latin orchestra.
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The deleted poem/comment here went:
The National Poet celebrates the successful rescue of an Irish tourist from behind a bush by a casino...
HAVIN' A GO AT DISORGANISED SWIMMING
Divers views: though in end he was nigh, he
Seemed submerged in lake Catholic/slimy,
Alcohol plus banality
Employs chaps - externality!
Fortunate eyes-a-smiling: O'Blimey.
What a jolly jape, pointing to the broken window fallacy in the context of the alcohol economy.
If Slovenia's economists are reading, I'm happy to report that police searches of casino bushes, lakes, etc., are not billed under the heading of alcohol externalities, at least not in Ireland.
http://is.gd/T9HF7k
And swimming in Lake Bled is something else you're supposed to do. Although there's always some show-off.
http://is.gd/W8lDAB
These local search and rescue people need to get out more. Swimming is just part of the daily commute in Ireland.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand. Porter, porter everywhere. http://www.agua.si
The National Poet celebrates the successful rescue of an Irish tourist from behind a bush by a casino...
HAVIN' A GO AT DISORGANISED SWIMMING
Divers views: though in end he was nigh, he
Seemed submerged in lake Catholic/slimy,
Alcohol plus banality
Employs chaps - externality!
Fortunate eyes-a-smiling: O'Blimey.
What a jolly jape, pointing to the broken window fallacy in the context of the alcohol economy.
If Slovenia's economists are reading, I'm happy to report that police searches of casino bushes, lakes, etc., are not billed under the heading of alcohol externalities, at least not in Ireland.
http://is.gd/T9HF7k
And swimming in Lake Bled is something else you're supposed to do. Although there's always some show-off.
http://is.gd/W8lDAB
These local search and rescue people need to get out more. Swimming is just part of the daily commute in Ireland.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand. Porter, porter everywhere. http://www.agua.si
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Ptuj Election Night Weather Special
Cocks in the air. Election thunder, dry but reign of fatty derivatives to continue, leading to general erection failure. Slovenia was spinning towards a poeti-political void...
DEMOGRAPHIC ELECTION RESULT
Nation chooses according to share,
Slovene hero: a millionaire.
Followed by the Dobfather;
Fogeys, then Che Guevaras -
Desperate Dejan and God hang in there.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand notes that no party thought it worth offering to order a remedy for the sulphurous atmospheric cocktail of Dr Glaser's stinkytown.
Probably none of them had his permission to say that.
As a retch-inducing fog of deceased meat descended abruptly on drinkers Saturday night, a local responded to my disgust with the traditional pat answer.
"It's Ptuj," he explained, either helpfully or helplessly.
Oh. That's final, then. The voter has spoken...and he expects to stay tuned for life to the hum of the chicken charnel.
Now the circus is over, it's not time for change. http://www.ptuj.co.uk
Cocks in the air. Election thunder, dry but reign of fatty derivatives to continue, leading to general erection failure. Slovenia was spinning towards a poeti-political void...
DEMOGRAPHIC ELECTION RESULT
Nation chooses according to share,
Slovene hero: a millionaire.
Followed by the Dobfather;
Fogeys, then Che Guevaras -
Desperate Dejan and God hang in there.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand notes that no party thought it worth offering to order a remedy for the sulphurous atmospheric cocktail of Dr Glaser's stinkytown.
Probably none of them had his permission to say that.
As a retch-inducing fog of deceased meat descended abruptly on drinkers Saturday night, a local responded to my disgust with the traditional pat answer.
"It's Ptuj," he explained, either helpfully or helplessly.
Oh. That's final, then. The voter has spoken...and he expects to stay tuned for life to the hum of the chicken charnel.
Now the circus is over, it's not time for change. http://www.ptuj.co.uk
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It was a shame the Russian FM was unable to drop in and sample our own locally produced gases here in Ptuj. A French haiku to mark his non-visit...
AIR WAR CONTINUES: IN JULY IT'S PRETTY HIGH-KU
Ce centreville-ci
N'est pas une pipe - escargots!
Qui sont ces andouilles?
You often see several pipes together, for different things. It's more convenient to lay them that way.
Along with the pipe to a hole in the North Sea for the recovered carbon from TEŠ6 and the South Stream gas pipeline, it makes sense to lay one for Perutnina Ptuj's chicken gases. To Belgium.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand exchanged a jetstream for a gutstream. http://www.ptuj.co.uk/rendering
AIR WAR CONTINUES: IN JULY IT'S PRETTY HIGH-KU
Ce centreville-ci
N'est pas une pipe - escargots!
Qui sont ces andouilles?
You often see several pipes together, for different things. It's more convenient to lay them that way.
Along with the pipe to a hole in the North Sea for the recovered carbon from TEŠ6 and the South Stream gas pipeline, it makes sense to lay one for Perutnina Ptuj's chicken gases. To Belgium.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand exchanged a jetstream for a gutstream. http://www.ptuj.co.uk/rendering
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Marketing news: Slovenia's top bottled water company Radenska has rejected the slogan "A golden age in every drop".
It looks like they will go with their original of "Each and every drop captures a balanced richness of thousands of years of intact nature", in a plan to take US supermarket shelves by storm.
Has this committee discovered something about the average American attention span the rest of us have missed? And what did they expect for 9 euros anyway?
In Slovenia, nothing will stand you in better stead for an all-round career than a degree in philosophy - as long as you stick to an all-round career as one of Slovenia's many lecturers in philosophy.
And indeed, everyone has an equal right to know what it all means and why God put us here if he did. What about other occupations, though? It's time Slovenians put their understanding of reality to the test.
What kind of philosophical faculty is Slovenia's Poli-buro bringing to bear at existentially-impaired not-so-supermarket for sale Mercator...?
It looks like they will go with their original of "Each and every drop captures a balanced richness of thousands of years of intact nature", in a plan to take US supermarket shelves by storm.
Has this committee discovered something about the average American attention span the rest of us have missed? And what did they expect for 9 euros anyway?
In Slovenia, nothing will stand you in better stead for an all-round career than a degree in philosophy - as long as you stick to an all-round career as one of Slovenia's many lecturers in philosophy.
And indeed, everyone has an equal right to know what it all means and why God put us here if he did. What about other occupations, though? It's time Slovenians put their understanding of reality to the test.
What kind of philosophical faculty is Slovenia's Poli-buro bringing to bear at existentially-impaired not-so-supermarket for sale Mercator...?
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Following his successes in the philosophy of diplomacy I expect there's a job waiting for him in the philosophy of tourism. He'll be back in a jiffy...he's just going to Lacan...
The Slovenia Times didn't like this poem:
SPOILS OF PHWOOOAR
Safe deposit box, nuclear osmium -
Arms supplies to top Serbian Bosnian.
Ferrero Rocher...
Party spoiled anyway -
She was seven: he said she came on to him.
I suppose some Slovenians reading this are going to complain about bad taste!
Hey so the guy's made a few mistakes! He was upset about something! It was all a blackmail set-up anyway! Oh, he went to jail?
Well look. If we start excluding every ex-convict, international arms and nuclear detonator smuggler, money launderer and child rapist we are due for some pretty dull and pointless embassy parties.
I'm sure Mr Oman (not Balažic) was just doing his best. The real culprit in any future war involving Slovenia is going to be Google, which just doesn't seem to get it, that some nights, we say "ne".
Take for example this, from http://www.dossierkorupcija.com/novice/?p=17376
A casual analyst using Google Translate would learn that
"We can say that Slovenia will join the coalition of the willing countries to impose sanctions against Russia."
Original:
"Lahko rečemo, da Slovenija ne bo vstopila v koalicijo voljnih držav za uvedbo sankcij proti Rusiji."
Now NPOSIALPU is only in his ninth year of Learn Slovene The Drunk Higglety-Pigglety Way (the only affordable one) and is still collecting opinions on the one-letter Slovene words.
But how long, they might demand to know, has that Google been in Slovenia? Since the 1990s - but it is refusing to learn about "ne"!
If we survive as long as it may take Google's Slovene machine translation experts to get things straight, Google may in some future lesson discover that the FM says Slovenia will NOT join these proposed EU sanctions against Russia if it annexes more of Ukraine.
Tch! It hardly matters anyway. The EU has Slovenia surrounded.
Television Archive: Ferrero Rocher ambassador's reception UK TV commercial advert 1990s
Dr. Strangelove phone conversation U.S President
http://www.a2z.si/h
The Slovenia Times didn't like this poem:
SPOILS OF PHWOOOAR
Safe deposit box, nuclear osmium -
Arms supplies to top Serbian Bosnian.
Ferrero Rocher...
Party spoiled anyway -
She was seven: he said she came on to him.
I suppose some Slovenians reading this are going to complain about bad taste!
Hey so the guy's made a few mistakes! He was upset about something! It was all a blackmail set-up anyway! Oh, he went to jail?
Well look. If we start excluding every ex-convict, international arms and nuclear detonator smuggler, money launderer and child rapist we are due for some pretty dull and pointless embassy parties.
I'm sure Mr Oman (not Balažic) was just doing his best. The real culprit in any future war involving Slovenia is going to be Google, which just doesn't seem to get it, that some nights, we say "ne".
Take for example this, from http://www.dossierkorupcija.com/novice/?p=17376
A casual analyst using Google Translate would learn that
"We can say that Slovenia will join the coalition of the willing countries to impose sanctions against Russia."
Original:
"Lahko rečemo, da Slovenija ne bo vstopila v koalicijo voljnih držav za uvedbo sankcij proti Rusiji."
Now NPOSIALPU is only in his ninth year of Learn Slovene The Drunk Higglety-Pigglety Way (the only affordable one) and is still collecting opinions on the one-letter Slovene words.
But how long, they might demand to know, has that Google been in Slovenia? Since the 1990s - but it is refusing to learn about "ne"!
If we survive as long as it may take Google's Slovene machine translation experts to get things straight, Google may in some future lesson discover that the FM says Slovenia will NOT join these proposed EU sanctions against Russia if it annexes more of Ukraine.
Tch! It hardly matters anyway. The EU has Slovenia surrounded.
Television Archive: Ferrero Rocher ambassador's reception UK TV commercial advert 1990s
Dr. Strangelove phone conversation U.S President
http://www.a2z.si/h
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Banda brothers: effect of the Slovenian language on cooperation
In a threat to Slovenia's national political heritage and linguistic integration in Europe, some of the previous competing groupings were erased as the new government began. The deleted comment went:
Here are your new political groupings for Monday 9 June 2014
31. FINALLY IT'S THE WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (KJBSNDBUJ3S)
32. NO NO WE WILL BE THE ONES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (NNBTKBSNDBUJ3S)
33. HEY NO WE THOUGHT OF DOING ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III FIRST PARTY (HNSMDSNUJ3PS)
34. HEY EITHER YOU GANG UP* WITH US TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WILL GANG UP* WITH THEM TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (HASSZPNSNDUJ3ABZZNSNDUJ3S)
35. HEY DON'T TELL US WITH WHOM TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WON'T DO ANYTHING PARTY (HDNSKNPSNDUJ3APNBSNP)
36. LET'S SORT OF PRETEND TO GANG UP* TO STOP JANŠA III AND SEE HOW IT GOES THEN MAYBE GANG UP WITH JANŠA III PARTY (NNPDZUJ3IVKTGINMZZJ3S)
37. THE EVERYBODY'S GANGING UP ON ME* LIST OF SAMO KODELA (VSNMLSK*)
38. LET'S HVAR BEACH PARTY (PHPS)
*Today's big lingual culturistical discovery here was when it emerged that this was untranslatable into Slovene, as "ganging up" is hardly merely "uniting" or "joining forces"...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - let's make foreign cars easily recognizable with funny yellow number plates. http://www.rum.si
In a threat to Slovenia's national political heritage and linguistic integration in Europe, some of the previous competing groupings were erased as the new government began. The deleted comment went:
Here are your new political groupings for Monday 9 June 2014
31. FINALLY IT'S THE WE'LL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (KJBSNDBUJ3S)
32. NO NO WE WILL BE THE ONES WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (NNBTKBSNDBUJ3S)
33. HEY NO WE THOUGHT OF DOING ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III FIRST PARTY (HNSMDSNUJ3PS)
34. HEY EITHER YOU GANG UP* WITH US TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WILL GANG UP* WITH THEM TO STOP JANŠA III PARTY (HASSZPNSNDUJ3ABZZNSNDUJ3S)
35. HEY DON'T TELL US WITH WHOM TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP JANŠA III OR WE WON'T DO ANYTHING PARTY (HDNSKNPSNDUJ3APNBSNP)
36. LET'S SORT OF PRETEND TO GANG UP* TO STOP JANŠA III AND SEE HOW IT GOES THEN MAYBE GANG UP WITH JANŠA III PARTY (NNPDZUJ3IVKTGINMZZJ3S)
37. THE EVERYBODY'S GANGING UP ON ME* LIST OF SAMO KODELA (VSNMLSK*)
38. LET'S HVAR BEACH PARTY (PHPS)
*Today's big lingual culturistical discovery here was when it emerged that this was untranslatable into Slovene, as "ganging up" is hardly merely "uniting" or "joining forces"...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - let's make foreign cars easily recognizable with funny yellow number plates. http://www.rum.si
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PARTY POOPER
As Slovenia's new "I Believe" party takes shape, the hot topic for Slovenske Novice (Slovenian News) is not which ideas it might believe in, not how many seats Šoltes' group might win, not who or what is behind this exciting movement, but of course...bottoms!
Hence this brief informative article, devoted to the (nameless) congress attendee with the best arse.
Two girls were dressed the same, our intrepid reporter notes, although this one got his/her attention because of a shorter skirt. That this is news shows Slovenians are less backward than Wasatch County, Utah, in some way.
Another human interest article reveals the hire of the hotel and the catering bill came to 430 euros, while 15 euros was spent on balloons.
I'm sure she was offered handsome pay for her vital political public relations duties as the face of the new party - and possibly even received it.
And it shows how useful public comment sections have become in Slovenian journalism, as only there is it clarified that they are actually the hostesses - basically waitresses/gofers - and so her butt's presence over there was devoid of ideological motives, and she is unlikely to end up using her assets to sit in the National Ass-embly.
But hey...in Slovenia you never know. And never trust a heterosexual male feminist anyway.
As Slovenia's new "I Believe" party takes shape, the hot topic for Slovenske Novice (Slovenian News) is not which ideas it might believe in, not how many seats Šoltes' group might win, not who or what is behind this exciting movement, but of course...bottoms!
Hence this brief informative article, devoted to the (nameless) congress attendee with the best arse.
Two girls were dressed the same, our intrepid reporter notes, although this one got his/her attention because of a shorter skirt. That this is news shows Slovenians are less backward than Wasatch County, Utah, in some way.
Another human interest article reveals the hire of the hotel and the catering bill came to 430 euros, while 15 euros was spent on balloons.
I'm sure she was offered handsome pay for her vital political public relations duties as the face of the new party - and possibly even received it.
And it shows how useful public comment sections have become in Slovenian journalism, as only there is it clarified that they are actually the hostesses - basically waitresses/gofers - and so her butt's presence over there was devoid of ideological motives, and she is unlikely to end up using her assets to sit in the National Ass-embly.
But hey...in Slovenia you never know. And never trust a heterosexual male feminist anyway.
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After the Cerar government took power, The Slovenia Times decided this page looked better without this.
VARIOUS CART-ON CHARACTERS: I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE HE-MAN HUNTING WABBITS
He thought, he taught, he's Cerar party
Cat...Asterix*, Grayskull-powered, Sparty**.
What's up, Doc...is this nation's
101 damn nominations'
Desthpicable Top Cat repartee.
New political parties - continued from http://is.gd/n1JcgA
28. OPPORTUNISTICKY NO COMMENT ON THE FUTURE PARTY
Niches for no-comment-on-what-will-happen-after-they-are-elected parties are disappearing fast.
With his Olympic genes Miro is the kind of hero politician some folks might somersault, jump, throw things, and continue running in circles to the polls to vote for.
And indeed there is an argument for measuring everything using sports stadiums. If Columbus had paid attention to *catasterist Eratosthenes, America might never have been discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
On the other hand the sporty constituency doesn't like anything too clever (that's cleverer than their least clever team-member). Can Miro low-ball it enough to be a populist sensation?
Scooby Doo - Catchphrases
**
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=300&issue=1367
VARIOUS CART-ON CHARACTERS: I CAN'T STANDS NO MORE HE-MAN HUNTING WABBITS
He thought, he taught, he's Cerar party
Cat...Asterix*, Grayskull-powered, Sparty**.
What's up, Doc...is this nation's
101 damn nominations'
Desthpicable Top Cat repartee.
New political parties - continued from http://is.gd/n1JcgA
28. OPPORTUNISTICKY NO COMMENT ON THE FUTURE PARTY
Niches for no-comment-on-what-will-happen-after-they-are-elected parties are disappearing fast.
With his Olympic genes Miro is the kind of hero politician some folks might somersault, jump, throw things, and continue running in circles to the polls to vote for.
And indeed there is an argument for measuring everything using sports stadiums. If Columbus had paid attention to *catasterist Eratosthenes, America might never have been discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
On the other hand the sporty constituency doesn't like anything too clever (that's cleverer than their least clever team-member). Can Miro low-ball it enough to be a populist sensation?
Scooby Doo - Catchphrases
**
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/eyeplayer.php?media=300&issue=1367
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Onward virgin soldiers! Here's the deleted poem and comment if you want to read it...
NPOSIALPU welcomes the AB Fab Party with some
MIDDLING ENGLISH
I syng of a midden
one þat alle mynges
barbecuwed fictere -
here be just chyckenes.
þrill of beswíc bille
swych neuer beon gesíenene -
féower billion due,
by twéntigsixtíene.
Rignaþ Gabriel, dún
mid úrean virgyn's hud -
níedes wundres preg:
nancy cnihtas, ne gud.
ágénstende stylle
scréadunga folcwóh
ðu must flogge Telekom,
ellesj we'll be on the floor.
Moder & mayden
ciósan alle cronys –
so wytch gets þe flour,
and hwa cuts þe cýse?
It's amazing what you can do without with a few prepositions. Modern English does without the instrumental case, which had virtually vanished by the time any surviving texts came into existence.
Slovene, as well as Russian, Sanskrit, Greek, Czech, Armenian, Hungarian, Finnish and Nahuatl, among others, still enjoy an instrumental case. So there's no need to feel lonely.
With what, then, could it be better to serenade Slovenia's Renaissance and the now fatherless and therefore somewhat miraculous gestation of the AB Fab Party than my (I'm sure truly awful) Old-to-Middle-English-om?
It's based on the 15th century pop hit "I syng of a mayden", about an archangel's famous involvement in (and it has to be said, subsequent abandonment of) a well-known single-parent family.
Honestly, some people will believe anything! But hey, pop lyrics are usually nonsense so little has changed.
Slovenian bond yields are getting a good press at the moment: perhaps it is time to expand and complicate Slovene grammar yet further with a financial instrumental case.
Old English had a base-12 numerical system which makes billions rather difficult. "Twelve" comes from the Proto-Germanic "twa-lif" = "two left", something else Slovenian political parties might consider taking a look at.
Meanwhile, Slovenia's pushing on with yet another sort of cult-of-personality party.
How will this one go, I wonder?
Other Renaissance popular heroes included Hamlet, Romeo, Don Quixote, and Doctor Faustus. Hmmm...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - v hotelski sobi z baby hobotnice. Have I got the right end? http://www.maria.si
NPOSIALPU welcomes the AB Fab Party with some
MIDDLING ENGLISH
I syng of a midden
one þat alle mynges
barbecuwed fictere -
here be just chyckenes.
þrill of beswíc bille
swych neuer beon gesíenene -
féower billion due,
by twéntigsixtíene.
Rignaþ Gabriel, dún
mid úrean virgyn's hud -
níedes wundres preg:
nancy cnihtas, ne gud.
ágénstende stylle
scréadunga folcwóh
ðu must flogge Telekom,
ellesj we'll be on the floor.
Moder & mayden
ciósan alle cronys –
so wytch gets þe flour,
and hwa cuts þe cýse?
It's amazing what you can do without with a few prepositions. Modern English does without the instrumental case, which had virtually vanished by the time any surviving texts came into existence.
Slovene, as well as Russian, Sanskrit, Greek, Czech, Armenian, Hungarian, Finnish and Nahuatl, among others, still enjoy an instrumental case. So there's no need to feel lonely.
With what, then, could it be better to serenade Slovenia's Renaissance and the now fatherless and therefore somewhat miraculous gestation of the AB Fab Party than my (I'm sure truly awful) Old-to-Middle-English-om?
It's based on the 15th century pop hit "I syng of a mayden", about an archangel's famous involvement in (and it has to be said, subsequent abandonment of) a well-known single-parent family.
Honestly, some people will believe anything! But hey, pop lyrics are usually nonsense so little has changed.
Slovenian bond yields are getting a good press at the moment: perhaps it is time to expand and complicate Slovene grammar yet further with a financial instrumental case.
Old English had a base-12 numerical system which makes billions rather difficult. "Twelve" comes from the Proto-Germanic "twa-lif" = "two left", something else Slovenian political parties might consider taking a look at.
Meanwhile, Slovenia's pushing on with yet another sort of cult-of-personality party.
How will this one go, I wonder?
Other Renaissance popular heroes included Hamlet, Romeo, Don Quixote, and Doctor Faustus. Hmmm...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - v hotelski sobi z baby hobotnice. Have I got the right end? http://www.maria.si
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Pun-ish meant, Mura-less.
Hopefully Mojca will be able to get by on her 48,000 euros a month rental income from the Ljubljana District Court. If they are paying up.
And here's the deleted stuff:
STA-PRESSED AHA-HA PR-KU
Spin of the month - just
A quarter as many jobs
Lost vs. last time!
Ahem. Quite a yarn.
Sew things are improving, right?
Obvious bias towards the wrong side.
Twill all end in tears.
STA could start by cutting out the couture of PR.
They know how to embellish anything.
Talk about embroidering the truth.
Is there any kind of a tack on reality these spin-doctors won't gather?
Seams not.
It's all a fabrication.
Darn, that judgement is binding and the lawyers made a placket.
No more butting. Too late to selvedge.
It's a bust line. Time to bolt.
I'm starting to see a pattern.
Someone's lining their pockets and the workforce is being stitched up.
No one understands the tension.
You couldn't make it up and for those be-weft it's no yoke.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - you too can become a statistic. http://www.maria.si
Hopefully Mojca will be able to get by on her 48,000 euros a month rental income from the Ljubljana District Court. If they are paying up.
And here's the deleted stuff:
STA-PRESSED AHA-HA PR-KU
Spin of the month - just
A quarter as many jobs
Lost vs. last time!
Ahem. Quite a yarn.
Sew things are improving, right?
Obvious bias towards the wrong side.
Twill all end in tears.
STA could start by cutting out the couture of PR.
They know how to embellish anything.
Talk about embroidering the truth.
Is there any kind of a tack on reality these spin-doctors won't gather?
Seams not.
It's all a fabrication.
Darn, that judgement is binding and the lawyers made a placket.
No more butting. Too late to selvedge.
It's a bust line. Time to bolt.
I'm starting to see a pattern.
Someone's lining their pockets and the workforce is being stitched up.
No one understands the tension.
You couldn't make it up and for those be-weft it's no yoke.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - you too can become a statistic. http://www.maria.si
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Some protestors are so desperate they even convince themselves that drunk sporty boys from other countries are interested in civil rights.
Sports tournaments not only reinforce divisive national rivalries, they waste valuable energy which could be used to deal with meteorological catastrophes, and are increasingly being used as circusses to sanitise unsavoury regimes and distract from reality in general.
Sports fans and fitness types' gym machines and widescreen TVs should be taken away. They must be relocated to flood areas, and taught sandbagging is a sport. Rowing of course already is. Add cameras and a pointless commentary and lives could be saved.
This is a site where activists in Belarus can register before being pre-emptively rounded up for the duration the 2014 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship (and maybe beyond).
Sports tournaments not only reinforce divisive national rivalries, they waste valuable energy which could be used to deal with meteorological catastrophes, and are increasingly being used as circusses to sanitise unsavoury regimes and distract from reality in general.
Sports fans and fitness types' gym machines and widescreen TVs should be taken away. They must be relocated to flood areas, and taught sandbagging is a sport. Rowing of course already is. Add cameras and a pointless commentary and lives could be saved.
This is a site where activists in Belarus can register before being pre-emptively rounded up for the duration the 2014 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship (and maybe beyond).
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DECENT PROPOSAL...?
The destruction of Slovenia's poetic heritage included this fine comment:
SPOILS OF PHWOOOAR
Safe deposit box, nuclear osmium -
Arms supplies to top Serbian Bosnian.
Ferrero Rocher...
Party spoiled anyway -
She was seven: he said she came on to him.
I suppose some Slovenians reading this are going to complain about bad taste!
Hey so the guy's made a few mistakes! He was upset about something! It was all a blackmail set-up anyway! Oh, he went to jail?
Well look. If we start excluding every ex-convict, international arms and nuclear detonator smuggler, money launderer and child rapist we are due for some pretty dull and pointless embassy parties.
I'm sure Mr Oman was just doing his best. The real culprit in any future war involving Slovenia is going to be Google, which just doesn't seem to get it, that some nights, we say "ne".
Take for example this, from http://www.dossierkorupcija.com/novice/?p=17376
A casual analyst using Google Translate would learn that
"We can say that Slovenia will join the coalition of the willing countries to impose sanctions against Russia."
Original:
"Lahko rečemo, da Slovenija ne bo vstopila v koalicijo voljnih držav za uvedbo sankcij proti Rusiji."
Now NPOSIALPU is only in his ninth year of Learn Slovene The Drunk Higglety-Pigglety Way (the only affordable one) and is still collecting opinions on the one-letter Slovene words:
http://www.a2z.si/h
So we can see that some drunks in Ptuj's Orfej and other bars have every right to make themselves feel better by complaining to each other in a circular fashion about my linguistic dithering - until I disappear round a corner and they forget all about it.
Deploying fundamental attribution errors good enough for these folks leads me to conclude that that multinational Google must be a retard. Obviously that Google thinks it is better than these drunk language experts, with its smartypants imperialist English language.
Shitkicking on, they might demand to know how long Google has been in Slovenia? Since the 1990s - but it is refusing to learn about "ne"!
If we survive as long as it may take Google's Slovene machine translation experts to get things straight, Google may in some future lesson discover that the FM says Slovenia will NOT join these proposed EU sanctions against Russia if it annexes more of Ukraine.
Tch! It hardly matters anyway. The EU has Slovenia surrounded. Google is just showing off - all Google needs is a good clout round the head from a jealous drunk coked-up sporty boy.
Slovene is the world's top language for as far as a jealous chickentown drunk can see and Google just needs to stop reminding us of other opinions and go away.
In fact this translation shows that Slovenia looks to both the east and the west, and with Google's help tells everyone what they want to hear.
And isn't speaking with forked tongue what diplomacy is all about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlP_Moo0bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - we'll all be sorry. http://www.maria.si
The destruction of Slovenia's poetic heritage included this fine comment:
SPOILS OF PHWOOOAR
Safe deposit box, nuclear osmium -
Arms supplies to top Serbian Bosnian.
Ferrero Rocher...
Party spoiled anyway -
She was seven: he said she came on to him.
I suppose some Slovenians reading this are going to complain about bad taste!
Hey so the guy's made a few mistakes! He was upset about something! It was all a blackmail set-up anyway! Oh, he went to jail?
Well look. If we start excluding every ex-convict, international arms and nuclear detonator smuggler, money launderer and child rapist we are due for some pretty dull and pointless embassy parties.
I'm sure Mr Oman was just doing his best. The real culprit in any future war involving Slovenia is going to be Google, which just doesn't seem to get it, that some nights, we say "ne".
Take for example this, from http://www.dossierkorupcija.com/novice/?p=17376
A casual analyst using Google Translate would learn that
"We can say that Slovenia will join the coalition of the willing countries to impose sanctions against Russia."
Original:
"Lahko rečemo, da Slovenija ne bo vstopila v koalicijo voljnih držav za uvedbo sankcij proti Rusiji."
Now NPOSIALPU is only in his ninth year of Learn Slovene The Drunk Higglety-Pigglety Way (the only affordable one) and is still collecting opinions on the one-letter Slovene words:
http://www.a2z.si/h
So we can see that some drunks in Ptuj's Orfej and other bars have every right to make themselves feel better by complaining to each other in a circular fashion about my linguistic dithering - until I disappear round a corner and they forget all about it.
Deploying fundamental attribution errors good enough for these folks leads me to conclude that that multinational Google must be a retard. Obviously that Google thinks it is better than these drunk language experts, with its smartypants imperialist English language.
Shitkicking on, they might demand to know how long Google has been in Slovenia? Since the 1990s - but it is refusing to learn about "ne"!
If we survive as long as it may take Google's Slovene machine translation experts to get things straight, Google may in some future lesson discover that the FM says Slovenia will NOT join these proposed EU sanctions against Russia if it annexes more of Ukraine.
Tch! It hardly matters anyway. The EU has Slovenia surrounded. Google is just showing off - all Google needs is a good clout round the head from a jealous drunk coked-up sporty boy.
Slovene is the world's top language for as far as a jealous chickentown drunk can see and Google just needs to stop reminding us of other opinions and go away.
In fact this translation shows that Slovenia looks to both the east and the west, and with Google's help tells everyone what they want to hear.
And isn't speaking with forked tongue what diplomacy is all about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlP_Moo0bE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uBeiNXAo
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - we'll all be sorry. http://www.maria.si
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Grand Resignation Auto. The deleted comment:
HOLE IN ONE - 3 POINTS
Conspiracy theory: Vilfan
Topples ancient pedestrian man -
Was his drive not quite Pozi?
Drugo strankamikaze?
Anyway - in the back of the van!
In some places in Slovenia the pedestrian has to walk out onto the crossing and then it is the drunk drivers' job to stop.
And sometimes they will stop when they see you waiting to cross, like in the UK.
I'm talking about crossings without lights.
I say "in some places" but actually one I go over quite often, they sometimes drive on when I'm going one way, and stop when I'm coming back.
Or vice versa. It is another of Slovenia's dual cases.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is still looking for someone to undertake the sensual videography of balls. http://www.baloncesto.si/
HOLE IN ONE - 3 POINTS
Conspiracy theory: Vilfan
Topples ancient pedestrian man -
Was his drive not quite Pozi?
Drugo strankamikaze?
Anyway - in the back of the van!
In some places in Slovenia the pedestrian has to walk out onto the crossing and then it is the drunk drivers' job to stop.
And sometimes they will stop when they see you waiting to cross, like in the UK.
I'm talking about crossings without lights.
I say "in some places" but actually one I go over quite often, they sometimes drive on when I'm going one way, and stop when I'm coming back.
Or vice versa. It is another of Slovenia's dual cases.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is still looking for someone to undertake the sensual videography of balls. http://www.baloncesto.si/
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Everything was going great, everything in Slovenia from its various governments to the Roman Catholic Church to Slovenia's corruption trials to TEŠ6 to the public sector unions were getting adequately satirised and The Slovenia Times' "missing angles" somewhat highlighted.
But when the National Poet began publishing a poem every time Ptuj's chicken factory released a horrid smell everything suddenly went wrong.
The Great Deletion saw hundreds of items of poetry and prose vanish from The Slovenia Times website.
One vital comment casualty is this lost papyrus of Slovenia's democratic flowering...
NPOSIALPU looks at 23 of the new political parties emerging from the PS split
One problem emerging is the few sets of initials remaining which haven't been used by splinter parties in the recent past.
1. K9 SLOVENIA
Hopes to raise the woof and keep doggedly on.
2. NOT SURE SLOVENIJA (NPS)
Vague, meandering party for swing voters, swinger voters, anyone who finds all their friends' views equally credible, and the mentally unstable.
3. PRISONERS' PARTY (ZS)
Representing the interests of the building trade, former politicians, serial killers etc.
4. FIRE BRIGADE PARTY (GS)
Loud, populist movement with big red engines.
5. ANTI-WOMEN PARTY (PŽS)
Keep our bars female-free (except for barmaids).
6. FARTY PARTY (PS2)
From Ptuj: www.ptuj.co.uk
7. TARTY PARTY (KS)
Not from Ptuj: http://is.gd/rumFxZ
8. CHILDREN'S PARTY (OS)
Its main platform is to increase political maturity in Slovenia by disenfranchisement of the over-7s. Good range of crisps and drinks, policies very messy, lots of silly games and running around!
9. VILLAGE PARTY (VS)
For some reason or other. Basic beer plus sausage manifesto. No ideology whatsoever.
10. BUREAUCRACY PARTY (BS)
Its manifesto promises to count everything in Slovenia, all the time, at the public's expense.
11. TURNIPS FOR ALL (RZV)
Representing the interests of Slovenia's turnip counters. If elected it will be a turnip for the books.
12. MY COUSIN, MY COUNTRY (MBMD)
Heez-a-lavverlee-boy!
13. VOTES FOR TREES (GZD)
Slovenia's silent majority.
14. AUDI COLLECTIVE OF 1947 (AK47)
For Senior Political Commissars and above only.
15. CONSTANTLY DIVISIVE VERY SMALL PARTY (NRZMP)
Votes with the minority every time - except when expected to.
16. PLAGIARISM PARTY (PS3)
Aims to be swept to power by hatred of the previous regime, then Slovenia will try to copy everything else Tony Blair ever did.
17. PLAYSTATION PARTY (PS4)
Its goal if elected is to shut up the population for hours on end.
18. TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE PARTY (TICS)
Run by students.
19. ANN SUMMERS PARTY (ASS)
Run by housewives.
20. KISS MY ASS PARTY (PNRS)
Just run along and get me a coffee luv.
21. MAKE EVERY YEAR THE YEAR 1918 PARTY (NVLJLTDSIOS)
Will resume Royal rule by remote families with copious facial hair - includes women.
22. BRING BACK WINDOWS 98 PARTY (NPO98S)
Pensioner group which says now computers are faster it might be alright.
23. THEO-OLIGARCHY PARTY (OS2)
Slovenia will continue as before...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
But when the National Poet began publishing a poem every time Ptuj's chicken factory released a horrid smell everything suddenly went wrong.
The Great Deletion saw hundreds of items of poetry and prose vanish from The Slovenia Times website.
One vital comment casualty is this lost papyrus of Slovenia's democratic flowering...
NPOSIALPU looks at 23 of the new political parties emerging from the PS split
One problem emerging is the few sets of initials remaining which haven't been used by splinter parties in the recent past.
1. K9 SLOVENIA
Hopes to raise the woof and keep doggedly on.
2. NOT SURE SLOVENIJA (NPS)
Vague, meandering party for swing voters, swinger voters, anyone who finds all their friends' views equally credible, and the mentally unstable.
3. PRISONERS' PARTY (ZS)
Representing the interests of the building trade, former politicians, serial killers etc.
4. FIRE BRIGADE PARTY (GS)
Loud, populist movement with big red engines.
5. ANTI-WOMEN PARTY (PŽS)
Keep our bars female-free (except for barmaids).
6. FARTY PARTY (PS2)
From Ptuj: www.ptuj.co.uk
7. TARTY PARTY (KS)
Not from Ptuj: http://is.gd/rumFxZ
8. CHILDREN'S PARTY (OS)
Its main platform is to increase political maturity in Slovenia by disenfranchisement of the over-7s. Good range of crisps and drinks, policies very messy, lots of silly games and running around!
9. VILLAGE PARTY (VS)
For some reason or other. Basic beer plus sausage manifesto. No ideology whatsoever.
10. BUREAUCRACY PARTY (BS)
Its manifesto promises to count everything in Slovenia, all the time, at the public's expense.
11. TURNIPS FOR ALL (RZV)
Representing the interests of Slovenia's turnip counters. If elected it will be a turnip for the books.
12. MY COUSIN, MY COUNTRY (MBMD)
Heez-a-lavverlee-boy!
13. VOTES FOR TREES (GZD)
Slovenia's silent majority.
14. AUDI COLLECTIVE OF 1947 (AK47)
For Senior Political Commissars and above only.
15. CONSTANTLY DIVISIVE VERY SMALL PARTY (NRZMP)
Votes with the minority every time - except when expected to.
16. PLAGIARISM PARTY (PS3)
Aims to be swept to power by hatred of the previous regime, then Slovenia will try to copy everything else Tony Blair ever did.
17. PLAYSTATION PARTY (PS4)
Its goal if elected is to shut up the population for hours on end.
18. TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE PARTY (TICS)
Run by students.
19. ANN SUMMERS PARTY (ASS)
Run by housewives.
20. KISS MY ASS PARTY (PNRS)
Just run along and get me a coffee luv.
21. MAKE EVERY YEAR THE YEAR 1918 PARTY (NVLJLTDSIOS)
Will resume Royal rule by remote families with copious facial hair - includes women.
22. BRING BACK WINDOWS 98 PARTY (NPO98S)
Pensioner group which says now computers are faster it might be alright.
23. THEO-OLIGARCHY PARTY (OS2)
Slovenia will continue as before...
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
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Sat lav...
yep the art lovers deleted this limerick in Bulgarian too...
допирни точки
Словенски, български, юг Слав.
Идентичен език? вид ав.
Отношения външните и
затова в хърватски -
Добре дошли, имат седне лaв.
Britain welcomes the Bulgarians...
Britain welcomes the bulgarians
Slovenia has wood - enough for doughnuts in every granny's greenhouse! http://is.gd/8u0FSt
Националният поет на Словения на език, хората да разберат, интерпретира-важните словенски въпроси за света на не-словенски говорене. www.maria.si
yep the art lovers deleted this limerick in Bulgarian too...
допирни точки
Словенски, български, юг Слав.
Идентичен език? вид ав.
Отношения външните и
затова в хърватски -
Добре дошли, имат седне лaв.
Britain welcomes the Bulgarians...
Britain welcomes the bulgarians
Slovenia has wood - enough for doughnuts in every granny's greenhouse! http://is.gd/8u0FSt
Националният поет на Словения на език, хората да разберат, интерпретира-важните словенски въпроси за света на не-словенски говорене. www.maria.si
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easter special!
REVEALED: THE BIGGEST BAD EGG IN SLOVENIA
In an Easter Diocesan bankruptcy special NPOSIALPU reveals his secret national poetry formula, as he takes mouse to pixel on the occasion of BAMC's well-timed pre-holiday fess-up...
First choose an existing poem. Nautical disasters are always good for that marooned, sinking feeling.
How about this extract from The White Ship, about a royal family's dynastically disastrous drunken boating accident off Cherbourg in 1120, which led to anarchy in Essex:
Deep, deep, drain the cup,
Or leave its wealth untasted -
Deep, deep, drain the cup,
Or its best gift is wasted.
Drink not of the purple wine
For a moment's gladness -
Flashing wit and careless laugh
Are but transient madness; -
There's sparkling light floats on the bowl,
There's flashing mirth within it:
But its deep forgetfulness
Is the best spell in it.
Drain the red wine till it be
Lethe to life's sorrow;
'Tis something to forget to-day
That there must come tomorrow.
Not the Rosetti poem. This one: http://is.gd/r7idyJ
Now the tricky creative bit. Change the words, for topical effect. Here's my one...
THE WHITE SHEET
Beep, beep, paper cup,
Archbosh-up debt created -
Beep, beep, paper cup,
Their goose is truly basted.
Think not of the purple peeps,
Of Krašovec's hopeless
Cashing in on careless graft
That's left the Diocese groatless; -
Their assets floating in the bowl,
Unflushed, and yet ag'in it's
Catholic forgetfulness
That's why the banks lost...innit?
In drains from other banks, they'll be
Left a-Gaping - "Sorry!";
One more memento to forget:
Raiffeisen's 8 mil mori.
Add some references and you're done.
http://www.zurnal24.si/je-patronatska-izjava-zavezala-nadskofijo-maribor-clanek-227279
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This jolly jaunt of a poem was deleted soon after publication, but managed to slip back in during the chaotic period around The First Great Deletion of September 2014, only to vanish not long later in the Second Great Deletion of Miro I...
REVEALED: THE BIGGEST BAD EGG IN SLOVENIA
In an Easter Diocesan bankruptcy special NPOSIALPU reveals his secret national poetry formula, as he takes mouse to pixel on the occasion of BAMC's well-timed pre-holiday fess-up...
First choose an existing poem. Nautical disasters are always good for that marooned, sinking feeling.
How about this extract from The White Ship, about a royal family's dynastically disastrous drunken boating accident off Cherbourg in 1120, which led to anarchy in Essex:
Deep, deep, drain the cup,
Or leave its wealth untasted -
Deep, deep, drain the cup,
Or its best gift is wasted.
Drink not of the purple wine
For a moment's gladness -
Flashing wit and careless laugh
Are but transient madness; -
There's sparkling light floats on the bowl,
There's flashing mirth within it:
But its deep forgetfulness
Is the best spell in it.
Drain the red wine till it be
Lethe to life's sorrow;
'Tis something to forget to-day
That there must come tomorrow.
Not the Rosetti poem. This one: http://is.gd/r7idyJ
Now the tricky creative bit. Change the words, for topical effect. Here's my one...
THE WHITE SHEET
Beep, beep, paper cup,
Archbosh-up debt created -
Beep, beep, paper cup,
Their goose is truly basted.
Think not of the purple peeps,
Of Krašovec's hopeless
Cashing in on careless graft
That's left the Diocese groatless; -
Their assets floating in the bowl,
Unflushed, and yet ag'in it's
Catholic forgetfulness
That's why the banks lost...innit?
In drains from other banks, they'll be
Left a-Gaping - "Sorry!";
One more memento to forget:
Raiffeisen's 8 mil mori.
Add some references and you're done.
http://www.zurnal24.si/je-patronatska-izjava-zavezala-nadskofijo-maribor-clanek-227279
note
This jolly jaunt of a poem was deleted soon after publication, but managed to slip back in during the chaotic period around The First Great Deletion of September 2014, only to vanish not long later in the Second Great Deletion of Miro I...
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In the forests of the tight...woodland verse deleted on Day Six of Miro I...
COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
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lunar medicine
BIG NURSE RESIGNS AFTER 28 DAYS
This poem was deleted again and again...and again.
KENTUCKY FRIED TRANS-FAT-PARENT GOVERNMENT
Bloated sick-exploitation pops Trop's
Non-glass ceiling with non-see-through strops.
Poultry farm's air conditionin'
Blew her back to her kitchen - win
Home team's: Stinkers 1, Chick (full) stops....
Poor Alenka simply wasn't thug enough for the uberjob in healthcare.
Anything that got its priorities right, or resembled a breath of fresh air, was never going to be popular here in the Slovene fartlands: www.ptuj.co.uk
Could health insurance ripoffs Triglav, and Vzajemna or their colleagues from the President of the Štaerska Chamber of Commerce ever-fragrant Ptuj chicken factory, and Mr Zamuda the boss of Ptuj health insurance who doesn't know how to copy and paste on a computer, and the ESS that doesn't really do anything, please all complete their now long-overdue responses to the Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire! Download it at www.aaa.si/q
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
BIG NURSE RESIGNS AFTER 28 DAYS
This poem was deleted again and again...and again.
KENTUCKY FRIED TRANS-FAT-PARENT GOVERNMENT
Bloated sick-exploitation pops Trop's
Non-glass ceiling with non-see-through strops.
Poultry farm's air conditionin'
Blew her back to her kitchen - win
Home team's: Stinkers 1, Chick (full) stops....
Poor Alenka simply wasn't thug enough for the uberjob in healthcare.
Anything that got its priorities right, or resembled a breath of fresh air, was never going to be popular here in the Slovene fartlands: www.ptuj.co.uk
Could health insurance ripoffs Triglav, and Vzajemna or their colleagues from the President of the Štaerska Chamber of Commerce ever-fragrant Ptuj chicken factory, and Mr Zamuda the boss of Ptuj health insurance who doesn't know how to copy and paste on a computer, and the ESS that doesn't really do anything, please all complete their now long-overdue responses to the Slovenian Health Unsurance Questionnaire! Download it at www.aaa.si/q
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
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No problem running the piss-up. Sadly this brief poetic look at the business situation was too much for the fragile egos behind the national Fifty Year Plan and was deleted...
UNCLE JOE'S BREW
People's Dominant Communist Beer
Can't recall his last positive year:
His balance is risible,
Mission unpissable -
Is his vision religious? Not clear.
UNCLE JOE'S BREW
People's Dominant Communist Beer
Can't recall his last positive year:
His balance is risible,
Mission unpissable -
Is his vision religious? Not clear.
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And there was an Emperor beyond the Empire of the Junckers who did sorely vex the Nato-ites with his adventures at the Crimean seaside. For he was the one they call Pu-tin and with good reason as he was put-in it in wherever he felt like.
And in a brave and terrible mission Alenka The Legs volunteered to travel long and hard to defend Slovenia's essential supply chain all the way from EU-kraine to Ti-Ti-Ba, eventually reaching a swampy, infested, legless frontier where she was supposed to get it all sorted. And ho, there was shopping in Belgium as well.
AND IN THE TIME OF MIRO I scribes with a big digital rubber did remove all poetic record of Alenka The Legs in The Slovenia Times, and all such songs were exiled to Google+...and here's this one.
With fresh spaces for wars running short, and many old wars inconveniently finishing before video was invented it's time for Hollywood remakes like The Siege of Sevastopol, The Raid of Scone, etc.
Let's relive 1854 as Slovenia considers its geopolitical options...
THE LADY WITH THE LAMPSHADE HAT
Whene'er a country's billions short,
Whatever the IMF has bought,
The poor wear wars gone by -
Aggression to disguise.
The protest, more process than goals,
Throws barricades, Thermosses, rolls,
With pyrogenic flare -
Political funfair.
Horror for all whose winning deeds
Appear in internet news feeds,
We'll never really know -
Antidepressants flow!
Diplomats: Both sides shot dead
By friend? Or foe? Just gun-nut Fred?
OSCE limo -
Babushkas screaming "Go!"
While petrol booms and glaziers gain
Though, dreary bureaucrats still reign.
The previously elected face
Based now in offshore space.
SS insignia? Samizdat?
The Lady With The Lampshade Hat
Cannot tell them apart 'midst gloom
Of the smashed up, burnt out conference room.
"And what if refugees, by bus..."
Speechless, stuttering: "Here with us?"
Her lampshade hat a-quiver -
"Send them up the river!
"Mind, bog in heaven," added she,
"Flushes now most dramatically -
To Kyiver their expenses,
Might they build flood defences?"
Stoppit Kyiv! Run, Serry!
No trips to Putinland-on-Sea!
Broke piggy bank. Oblast -
Great Lent: results not fast.
Our Lady With The Lampshade Hat
Expects, from Ukraine, merely twat:
Poledancing womanhood -
Ours are not in the mood.
Slovene tourism piloting
Park themed on non-stop rioting,
Religious camp. What's new?
Lady's no clue. Have you?
Adapted to a Ukrainian shaver socket from:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/nov1857/filomena.htm
Thought the Ottomans were the bottom 'uns? Ladies with lamps: the Catholic anglepoise:
http://www.nfl.si/DNK
And in a brave and terrible mission Alenka The Legs volunteered to travel long and hard to defend Slovenia's essential supply chain all the way from EU-kraine to Ti-Ti-Ba, eventually reaching a swampy, infested, legless frontier where she was supposed to get it all sorted. And ho, there was shopping in Belgium as well.
AND IN THE TIME OF MIRO I scribes with a big digital rubber did remove all poetic record of Alenka The Legs in The Slovenia Times, and all such songs were exiled to Google+...and here's this one.
With fresh spaces for wars running short, and many old wars inconveniently finishing before video was invented it's time for Hollywood remakes like The Siege of Sevastopol, The Raid of Scone, etc.
Let's relive 1854 as Slovenia considers its geopolitical options...
THE LADY WITH THE LAMPSHADE HAT
Whene'er a country's billions short,
Whatever the IMF has bought,
The poor wear wars gone by -
Aggression to disguise.
The protest, more process than goals,
Throws barricades, Thermosses, rolls,
With pyrogenic flare -
Political funfair.
Horror for all whose winning deeds
Appear in internet news feeds,
We'll never really know -
Antidepressants flow!
Diplomats: Both sides shot dead
By friend? Or foe? Just gun-nut Fred?
OSCE limo -
Babushkas screaming "Go!"
While petrol booms and glaziers gain
Though, dreary bureaucrats still reign.
The previously elected face
Based now in offshore space.
SS insignia? Samizdat?
The Lady With The Lampshade Hat
Cannot tell them apart 'midst gloom
Of the smashed up, burnt out conference room.
"And what if refugees, by bus..."
Speechless, stuttering: "Here with us?"
Her lampshade hat a-quiver -
"Send them up the river!
"Mind, bog in heaven," added she,
"Flushes now most dramatically -
To Kyiver their expenses,
Might they build flood defences?"
Stoppit Kyiv! Run, Serry!
No trips to Putinland-on-Sea!
Broke piggy bank. Oblast -
Great Lent: results not fast.
Our Lady With The Lampshade Hat
Expects, from Ukraine, merely twat:
Poledancing womanhood -
Ours are not in the mood.
Slovene tourism piloting
Park themed on non-stop rioting,
Religious camp. What's new?
Lady's no clue. Have you?
Adapted to a Ukrainian shaver socket from:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/nov1857/filomena.htm
Thought the Ottomans were the bottom 'uns? Ladies with lamps: the Catholic anglepoise:
http://www.nfl.si/DNK
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Slovenian government receives a boost with natural fibres...
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splitting herrs
VY seems to have capitalised on an early-Blair-like scale. All tracking back to London, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ukraine-is-a-country-divided-against-itself-watch-out-scotland-9144967.html
With its burning rubber and naked women, ferocious Ukraine is mostly very unlike our own dear Hlapcistan. Can you imagine Pahor on the run?
However Slovenia too has the potential to break into smaller countries - 70 or 80 at least.
VY seems to have capitalised on an early-Blair-like scale. All tracking back to London, Liechtenstein, and Austria.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/ukraine-is-a-country-divided-against-itself-watch-out-scotland-9144967.html
With its burning rubber and naked women, ferocious Ukraine is mostly very unlike our own dear Hlapcistan. Can you imagine Pahor on the run?
However Slovenia too has the potential to break into smaller countries - 70 or 80 at least.
Victor Yanukovych |
Yanukovich's Assets
yanukovich.info
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These people want to be less European...
Revealed: how green
ideology turned a deluge into a flood
spectator.co.uk
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We are being promised a huge health scandal in Slovenia so I thought we should prepare ourselves by setting a benchmark...also the comment by silver760 sounds pretty spot on - the Slovenian equivalents are probably thinner and slightly better dressed though.
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Lords of the manor confronted by free heating fuel horror! By the time of The Great Deletion, Židan was still agriculture minister under the next coalition, of Miro I.
COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
Related deleted poetic heritage of Slovenia:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/DV4FPyWsMQY
COMMANDY CON O'TREE
Židan trusts not to markets free
To set the value of a tree.
A Soviet surgeon is the best,
Shock tree doctrine, post froze forest;
Laws shove rivals out of the way,
Timber alert - panic today!
Hoods Robin price the ersatz rare,
They're privatising stuff? Not there;
Whose branch is tweety perch insane?
Logistics vultures in the main.
Price hike for national wooden spoons;
The bottom, else, will fall out soon.
Arbore-ideology:
Only gov.si can sell a tree.
Progressive economics like, er, Brezhnev. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
Related deleted poetic heritage of Slovenia:
https://plus.google.com/112569714916753901063/posts/DV4FPyWsMQY
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I am happy to see it confirmed scientifically that Facebook is for sad people.
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Despite its image as a nation of jolly rustic alcoholics, with 1/70th of Russia's population, this inability at self-deprecation is 70 times truer of inferiority complex-prone Slovenia, where po-faced indignation at the type of satire favoured by NPOSIALPU is not just typical, but likely to lead to anything between ostracism and a beating. Dour doesn't even begin to describe it.
No Jokes Please, We’re
Russian
trove.com
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What-women-want mystery continues to deepen, as this latest research points to Slovenia's sexual paralysis being less a consequence of village Catholicism than of not-post-communist-enough-everybody-being-rather-the-same. An intriguing article on the state of the union...or lack of it.
Does a More Equal
Marriage Mean Less Sex?
nytimes.com
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In the times before The Great Deletion, this page was adorned with the following comment which remains true:
WORLD'S WILDEST ACCOUNTANCY MOVES XI-KU
with Jon Bunnell
When economies
Contract! ......11 months is
A better unit.
Watch!!! as the Slovenian banking system crashes head on!!! Right into the month of December!!!
The good news is that the above problems with the chicken factory man's bank and the bishops' lost billion don't reflect the whole story.
In the midst of this now-traditional economic doom and banking tragedy www.bank.si ended another uneventful year with no difficulties.
www.bank.si is the right way to see every Slovenian compensated for all their personal losses related in any way to the banks' overfriendliness.
But when I mention it here they just scuttle off and tell their dads...some of whom work for the chicken factory...and I'm guessing some of the others might be bishops.
Economhaiku by the National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
WORLD'S WILDEST ACCOUNTANCY MOVES XI-KU
with Jon Bunnell
When economies
Contract! ......11 months is
A better unit.
Watch!!! as the Slovenian banking system crashes head on!!! Right into the month of December!!!
The good news is that the above problems with the chicken factory man's bank and the bishops' lost billion don't reflect the whole story.
In the midst of this now-traditional economic doom and banking tragedy www.bank.si ended another uneventful year with no difficulties.
www.bank.si is the right way to see every Slovenian compensated for all their personal losses related in any way to the banks' overfriendliness.
But when I mention it here they just scuttle off and tell their dads...some of whom work for the chicken factory...and I'm guessing some of the others might be bishops.
Economhaiku by the National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand
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Stays loosened...my comment before the Ministry of Truth intervened was:
ODE TO CULTURE CLASH
LEGALISTIC DECONSTRUCTION OF A THIRD LANGUAGE MISUNDERSTANDING
The bankers freeze freeze freeze.
Vague crappy English. What a wheeze!
The "stay" defined as cutting slack -
Woe! Slo no go so no dough back.
Most stays are temporary though...
Nobody knows how long stays go.
Da-da-da Di-di-di-de-Da
NPOSIALPU thinks a stay of proceedings is a suspension, not a cancellation. Pity nobody paid me really.
So a stay is intended to be temporary. But indefinite suspension is not an impossibility.
On the other hand perhaps Slovenia is using the word in the sense that a bankrupt would: staying his creditors' claims while it all gets sorted out.
Forever, then.
When Americans stop proceedings for a while they call it a continuance. US trials continue when a continuance is refused. So don't listen to Americans if you want your English to make at least some sense.
I don't know, all these talks and then it turns out the two sides were talking about different things. Wasn't today's Foreign Health Minister Erjavec merely an ex-Foreign Minister when Janša concluded the memorandum? Doesn't anyone even want to dispute its meaning because of that?
Today's ode was remodelled by the National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand from "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" by The Clash. www.aaa.si
ODE TO CULTURE CLASH
LEGALISTIC DECONSTRUCTION OF A THIRD LANGUAGE MISUNDERSTANDING
The bankers freeze freeze freeze.
Vague crappy English. What a wheeze!
The "stay" defined as cutting slack -
Woe! Slo no go so no dough back.
Most stays are temporary though...
Nobody knows how long stays go.
Da-da-da Di-di-di-de-Da
NPOSIALPU thinks a stay of proceedings is a suspension, not a cancellation. Pity nobody paid me really.
So a stay is intended to be temporary. But indefinite suspension is not an impossibility.
On the other hand perhaps Slovenia is using the word in the sense that a bankrupt would: staying his creditors' claims while it all gets sorted out.
Forever, then.
When Americans stop proceedings for a while they call it a continuance. US trials continue when a continuance is refused. So don't listen to Americans if you want your English to make at least some sense.
I don't know, all these talks and then it turns out the two sides were talking about different things. Wasn't today's Foreign Health Minister Erjavec merely an ex-Foreign Minister when Janša concluded the memorandum? Doesn't anyone even want to dispute its meaning because of that?
Today's ode was remodelled by the National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand from "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" by The Clash. www.aaa.si
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Sailor drunk in port shock! This was deleted:
SEA LEGS HARD TO PORT
Breathalysed, but before Mišič grooves with 'em,
Shipmates jump and quorum strikes alluvium.
Such non-vanishment offers
A mystery obverse to Hoffa's:
Obviously oblivious to oblivium.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - yo ho ho and a container of www.rum.si
SEA LEGS HARD TO PORT
Breathalysed, but before Mišič grooves with 'em,
Shipmates jump and quorum strikes alluvium.
Such non-vanishment offers
A mystery obverse to Hoffa's:
Obviously oblivious to oblivium.
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - yo ho ho and a container of www.rum.si
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The deleted comments on Slovenia's green revolution:
KEY POINTS OF SLOVENIA'S GREEN REVOLUTION
TEŠ6 - brand new coal-burning power station.
Will not increase carbon emissions but keep them at about the same safe levels, ridding the planet of local high-sulphur lignite (20%) and lovingly hand-mined anthracite (80%) - shipped from Indonesia in environmentally-friendly bulk carriers.
Dealing with deadly insects.
Bees stings can kill. Despite EU interference in Slovenian sovereignty, we have ensured a lasting reservoir of apicidal pesticides will remain active in the Slovenian ecosystem for years to come.
Mountain springs.
Breathe freely amid Slovenia's mountains of Tito-era asbestos roofing waste and water pipes.
Holistic awareness.
Green living requires a paradigm shift in perception and enhancing our conscious role as sensitive microcosmic actors in renewable systems. Slovenia has enough cheap beer and fags to achieve any level of consciousness we have ever been able to imagine. And the bitches are allowed to join in too.
Fighting the evil of food poverty.
Ptuj's chicken factory ensures that no-one will ever go hungry. Just stand outside, open your mouth, and the nutritious organic by-products will come to you!
Healthy things that go around in circles.
Slovenia is so healthy it can be impossible for foreigners to buy any health insurance for at least 13 years. If you are unlucky enough to become unwell, there are plenty of government bureaucrats and priests available.
www.aaa.si/q
It's not all about capitalism.
While you're here on holiday you can help us practice your more useful language at no additional cost. Slovenians are masters at maximising the value of your visit: we will smile a lot and pretend you are really interesting while you explain what is going on in the world, the role of sex in reproduction, and how this money thing works.
Buy now!
All in all, Slovenia offers some of the greenest people your tourists will ever meet.
http://is.gd/8oNCNe
KEY POINTS OF SLOVENIA'S GREEN REVOLUTION
TEŠ6 - brand new coal-burning power station.
Will not increase carbon emissions but keep them at about the same safe levels, ridding the planet of local high-sulphur lignite (20%) and lovingly hand-mined anthracite (80%) - shipped from Indonesia in environmentally-friendly bulk carriers.
Dealing with deadly insects.
Bees stings can kill. Despite EU interference in Slovenian sovereignty, we have ensured a lasting reservoir of apicidal pesticides will remain active in the Slovenian ecosystem for years to come.
Mountain springs.
Breathe freely amid Slovenia's mountains of Tito-era asbestos roofing waste and water pipes.
Holistic awareness.
Green living requires a paradigm shift in perception and enhancing our conscious role as sensitive microcosmic actors in renewable systems. Slovenia has enough cheap beer and fags to achieve any level of consciousness we have ever been able to imagine. And the bitches are allowed to join in too.
Fighting the evil of food poverty.
Ptuj's chicken factory ensures that no-one will ever go hungry. Just stand outside, open your mouth, and the nutritious organic by-products will come to you!
Healthy things that go around in circles.
Slovenia is so healthy it can be impossible for foreigners to buy any health insurance for at least 13 years. If you are unlucky enough to become unwell, there are plenty of government bureaucrats and priests available.
www.aaa.si/q
It's not all about capitalism.
While you're here on holiday you can help us practice your more useful language at no additional cost. Slovenians are masters at maximising the value of your visit: we will smile a lot and pretend you are really interesting while you explain what is going on in the world, the role of sex in reproduction, and how this money thing works.
Buy now!
All in all, Slovenia offers some of the greenest people your tourists will ever meet.
http://is.gd/8oNCNe
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It seemed the Slovenians wanted to earn the minimum possible. I was sure their classmates will help them out. But my comment was deleted:
RUSSIA 1918: WHAT WAS THE YEKATERINBURG EFFECT ON THE COEFFICIENT OF REMUNERATION?
Focus - not about maximum wages?
Who'll take them? Brains here taking ages.
Every output Orphean
Should earn over the mean and
What's left for the savages, averages.
A literally fantastic debate, skewed toward the joint interests of both styles of exploiters, about how to resolve the exploited situation of those people they sometimes see stacking shelves at Mercator.
And surely, whether we work in the real economy or bargaining over the value of the manpower of others, it is maximum wages that we all want.
Maximum wages are achievable only by a revolution in the way we think about money.
Even asking how a maximum wage might be organised is some kind of communism of course. And beyond the land of Yugonostalgia, we all know that most communist peoples led fairly cabbage-rich lives while the West whooped it up.
To stop the money running out - a recurring problem in Slovenia - a maximum wage strategy might mean enforcing lower maximum working hours. Even worse than communism, then.
And has anyone noticed how the countries who pay the lowest wages manufacture some of the worst crap, and have the worst services?
Perhaps you could have minimum and maximum wages. Then it wouldn't be communism.
Pausing for such thoughts amid the "minimum wage" debate instantly reveals something so obvious that only veteran negotiators and graduates in poverty theory could deny, namely that the money needed to give everyone a maximum wage would have to come from someone, someone uncomfortably quite like them.
And in just the same way, for everyone to have an equal share of a finite productivity, working hours have to be reduced.
So BETTER PAID WORK and LESS OF IT is all we need to fix the socioeconomy. Why is this so unpopular with wage bargainers?
Only religious and other ideological zealots ought to argue with a program like that, and we need to see the viewpoints of work-crazy pennypinchers for what the unrepresentative extremes of humanity that they actually are.
Unfortunately the money needed to top up the lifestyles of the 99% belongs to some rich people, who control not only it, but also what we think it is for.
In the transition to a maximum wage system, someone would have to be the Romanovs.
So we should not be surprised that their courtiers concentrate on the unpleasant, narrow-minded, habitually servile idea of a minimum wage instead.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/decent-wages-breadline-economy-no-brainer
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - a revolution in the way we think about money. www.bank.si
RUSSIA 1918: WHAT WAS THE YEKATERINBURG EFFECT ON THE COEFFICIENT OF REMUNERATION?
Focus - not about maximum wages?
Who'll take them? Brains here taking ages.
Every output Orphean
Should earn over the mean and
What's left for the savages, averages.
A literally fantastic debate, skewed toward the joint interests of both styles of exploiters, about how to resolve the exploited situation of those people they sometimes see stacking shelves at Mercator.
And surely, whether we work in the real economy or bargaining over the value of the manpower of others, it is maximum wages that we all want.
Maximum wages are achievable only by a revolution in the way we think about money.
Even asking how a maximum wage might be organised is some kind of communism of course. And beyond the land of Yugonostalgia, we all know that most communist peoples led fairly cabbage-rich lives while the West whooped it up.
To stop the money running out - a recurring problem in Slovenia - a maximum wage strategy might mean enforcing lower maximum working hours. Even worse than communism, then.
And has anyone noticed how the countries who pay the lowest wages manufacture some of the worst crap, and have the worst services?
Perhaps you could have minimum and maximum wages. Then it wouldn't be communism.
Pausing for such thoughts amid the "minimum wage" debate instantly reveals something so obvious that only veteran negotiators and graduates in poverty theory could deny, namely that the money needed to give everyone a maximum wage would have to come from someone, someone uncomfortably quite like them.
And in just the same way, for everyone to have an equal share of a finite productivity, working hours have to be reduced.
So BETTER PAID WORK and LESS OF IT is all we need to fix the socioeconomy. Why is this so unpopular with wage bargainers?
Only religious and other ideological zealots ought to argue with a program like that, and we need to see the viewpoints of work-crazy pennypinchers for what the unrepresentative extremes of humanity that they actually are.
Unfortunately the money needed to top up the lifestyles of the 99% belongs to some rich people, who control not only it, but also what we think it is for.
In the transition to a maximum wage system, someone would have to be the Romanovs.
So we should not be surprised that their courtiers concentrate on the unpleasant, narrow-minded, habitually servile idea of a minimum wage instead.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/decent-wages-breadline-economy-no-brainer
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand - a revolution in the way we think about money. www.bank.si
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See www.nyjets.si about the Lottery Tax Tax. I expect this deleted comment was damaging to national security...
SEVENTH HEAVEN: HI-PROBABILITY-LUCKY-NUMBER-KU
So of their winnings
They won eighty-six percent.
Architects lucky.
There goes Slovenia with that Counter-Reformation again. In the UK lottery they sprinkle a little money for the "good causes" but it is taken from the huge pot of money from the very numerous poor LOSERS, allowing them to reduce dissonance with the rubbish belief that their desperate optimism helped SOMEBODY.
But here for some reason it is the winner's birthday, children's and dog's ages, or other lucky number, which determines which town's health centre gets an extension and which does not.
Luckily there was an architectural visualisation ready http://is.gd/KluOad
This proves Slovenia's economic luck has turned. We'll soon see winners in other places in need of facilities too. http://is.gd/QVV2eo
But is this fair to you? Here are a number of things wrong with this way of sharing out everyone's money.
1. Some areas are bound contain more poor people - who are less able to grasp the basics of probability - and so more likely to enter lotteries - and therefore win - than the populations of less mathematically challenged middle-class areas.
2. Most Europeans are unlikely to hear about a Slovenian winner, and will be unable to derive any petty satisfaction from the reduction of his fortune.
3. The winner can afford it. This is completely inimical to the principles of regressive taxation, austerity, rich bankers, and such things as hiring lawyers to argue that the Grosuplje council didn't contribute to the selection of the numbers or the cost of the ticket - everything you would expect in Slovenia.
4. Not all unhealthy people around Europe who bought the losing tickets will be able to travel to the Grosuplje health centre.
5. It is a wasteful way to fund public services. 6/7ths of the potential spending power is going to some gambler. Grosuplje's town council hardly had a sporting chance!
What changes should be made?
If we are really seeking development in Slovenia we should just cut out the sad loser as a middle-man and co-funder of public projects - and let health, pensions, infrastructure and the other ministries battle it out for their budgets...at partypoker.com or similar national finance establishments.
SEVENTH HEAVEN: HI-PROBABILITY-LUCKY-NUMBER-KU
So of their winnings
They won eighty-six percent.
Architects lucky.
There goes Slovenia with that Counter-Reformation again. In the UK lottery they sprinkle a little money for the "good causes" but it is taken from the huge pot of money from the very numerous poor LOSERS, allowing them to reduce dissonance with the rubbish belief that their desperate optimism helped SOMEBODY.
But here for some reason it is the winner's birthday, children's and dog's ages, or other lucky number, which determines which town's health centre gets an extension and which does not.
Luckily there was an architectural visualisation ready http://is.gd/KluOad
This proves Slovenia's economic luck has turned. We'll soon see winners in other places in need of facilities too. http://is.gd/QVV2eo
But is this fair to you? Here are a number of things wrong with this way of sharing out everyone's money.
1. Some areas are bound contain more poor people - who are less able to grasp the basics of probability - and so more likely to enter lotteries - and therefore win - than the populations of less mathematically challenged middle-class areas.
2. Most Europeans are unlikely to hear about a Slovenian winner, and will be unable to derive any petty satisfaction from the reduction of his fortune.
3. The winner can afford it. This is completely inimical to the principles of regressive taxation, austerity, rich bankers, and such things as hiring lawyers to argue that the Grosuplje council didn't contribute to the selection of the numbers or the cost of the ticket - everything you would expect in Slovenia.
4. Not all unhealthy people around Europe who bought the losing tickets will be able to travel to the Grosuplje health centre.
5. It is a wasteful way to fund public services. 6/7ths of the potential spending power is going to some gambler. Grosuplje's town council hardly had a sporting chance!
What changes should be made?
If we are really seeking development in Slovenia we should just cut out the sad loser as a middle-man and co-funder of public projects - and let health, pensions, infrastructure and the other ministries battle it out for their budgets...at partypoker.com or similar national finance establishments.
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Amusingly - for a nation wiv such tewibble money problems - Slovenians er dunno where Essex is weallwee.
Bu' wheah does euros isshooed by da Bank of Slovenia ackshally come from?
The arnser is Loughton in Essex...of course!
Bu' wheah does euros isshooed by da Bank of Slovenia ackshally come from?
The arnser is Loughton in Essex...of course!
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Come to the people's paradise - Starofart
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Slime-bolic? Oh. Symbolic... Shambolic more like.
A great why-are-we-doing-this? moment.
A great why-are-we-doing-this? moment.
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Vertical disintegration of the Slovenian health insurance system
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Slovenian lawyers welcome home world's oldest wheel
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WARNING: You risk acquiring carpal tunnel syndrome for nothing looking any further than here for the DELETED NATIONAL POETRY OF SLOVENIA. Restoration work from here on down is in progress...
Hindi health insurance haiku. Please offer your local bureaucrats the chance to explain Slovenia's apartheid healthcare system.
Hindi health insurance haiku. Please offer your local bureaucrats the chance to explain Slovenia's apartheid healthcare system.
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MESEČNI BLOK: ZIMSKE GUME
Selling winter tyres to DURS and SURS employees helps to make people homeless through government debt auctions, and brings about economic freezing by blocking their bank accounts.
They don't make the rules and it IS their fault.
To prevent these bad things happening, please use all legitimate means to stop the purchase of winter tyres by these public servants. For more details go to www.afl.si
Selling winter tyres to DURS and SURS employees helps to make people homeless through government debt auctions, and brings about economic freezing by blocking their bank accounts.
They don't make the rules and it IS their fault.
To prevent these bad things happening, please use all legitimate means to stop the purchase of winter tyres by these public servants. For more details go to www.afl.si
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Welcome to Hlapcitibank...
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Slovenia's trying to get back the money vanished by the Catholic Church and various oligarchs, by taxing the usual victims. Death by a thousand cuts...
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Invasion of the black workers...
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Continuing Caro's Hitchcock theme...
The birds have flown!
The birds have flown!
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Bless her big Dutch bottom!
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Nposialpu gives thanks for Slovenia's non-participation in ECSM
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Joint Sloatian-Crovenian Anthem - the operatic version
Donna borrows Pat Robertson's pulpit to explain everything with a straight if prescription-drug addicted face , accompanied by the Tupperware Orchestra.
"I Feel Love" was good though. But is this the funniest pairing of a song and a performer ever?
Donna borrows Pat Robertson's pulpit to explain everything with a straight if prescription-drug addicted face , accompanied by the Tupperware Orchestra.
"I Feel Love" was good though. But is this the funniest pairing of a song and a performer ever?
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Croatia reporn: It's not often you get a whole country joining a continental economic zone because of a misunderstanding...
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The holiday resort Yugoslavians hardly knew they had....More capitalist propaganda in the search for the truth about the King of Socialism
The Haludovo Palace
Hotel: Where Tito Met Penthouse | The
Basement Geographer
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tito was brit shock
...more historic verse deleted in the time of Miro I (2014- )
UBOJSTVO, UROTE ... ili samo trulež?
Jugo-spasitelj naroda inflacije
Imao kajkavske palatizacije?
Dvojnik: zapadši ditto?
Sve cajt neki Britito?
CIA ... dišim dezinformacije.
Croatian paper Večernji list found 66% (3714 voters) believed Tito was an identity thief. http://is.gd/mQXSnR
Josip Broz is becoming a bit like God in that the quantity of discussions about him totally exceed his existence or everyday relevance, aside from the massive mess left by their departure in both cases.
It attracts skeptics, to address their fans' own obsession. And people find themselves being drawn into unnecessary arguments, predicated on hype.
Was Tito a Jewish illuminatus or a shapeshifting alien lizard from Lambda Andromedae? You decide. Current favourites: post-1941 Tito was a western doppleganger; Tito's own mother said he wasn't him (others say she had already died when she is supposed to have said this); that no-one from around Kumrovec remembered him from childhood (but then, nobody around here remembers anything) and on and on.
http://is.gd/HVYKWT
According to those without a book to sell, this recently released US intelligence analysis of Tito's "Russian" accent is probably a misunderstanding of the area's thick pronounciation - alternatively, we have our very own undercover Russian agent: http://is.gd/XRRYSI
Some slightly less out-there - but tough to verify - anomalies in the Titography are introduced here: http://is.gd/yYUFaq
Here's my own discovery: "On occasions he corrected the interpreter's translation to English" - The Advertiser (Adelaide) 11 May 1950. http://is.gd/NFWM92
So Tito was British. I like this Yugoboss Anglo-angle. Mrs Thatcher lusted after him. Of course he would still have needed the interpreter to parley with Fitzroy Maclean, who spoke only Scottish. Britito is a brill name for a Yugonostalgic cocktail, or arguably, a silicone implant polish.
...more historic verse deleted in the time of Miro I (2014- )
UBOJSTVO, UROTE ... ili samo trulež?
Jugo-spasitelj naroda inflacije
Imao kajkavske palatizacije?
Dvojnik: zapadši ditto?
Sve cajt neki Britito?
CIA ... dišim dezinformacije.
Croatian paper Večernji list found 66% (3714 voters) believed Tito was an identity thief. http://is.gd/mQXSnR
Josip Broz is becoming a bit like God in that the quantity of discussions about him totally exceed his existence or everyday relevance, aside from the massive mess left by their departure in both cases.
It attracts skeptics, to address their fans' own obsession. And people find themselves being drawn into unnecessary arguments, predicated on hype.
Was Tito a Jewish illuminatus or a shapeshifting alien lizard from Lambda Andromedae? You decide. Current favourites: post-1941 Tito was a western doppleganger; Tito's own mother said he wasn't him (others say she had already died when she is supposed to have said this); that no-one from around Kumrovec remembered him from childhood (but then, nobody around here remembers anything) and on and on.
http://is.gd/HVYKWT
According to those without a book to sell, this recently released US intelligence analysis of Tito's "Russian" accent is probably a misunderstanding of the area's thick pronounciation - alternatively, we have our very own undercover Russian agent: http://is.gd/XRRYSI
Some slightly less out-there - but tough to verify - anomalies in the Titography are introduced here: http://is.gd/yYUFaq
Here's my own discovery: "On occasions he corrected the interpreter's translation to English" - The Advertiser (Adelaide) 11 May 1950. http://is.gd/NFWM92
So Tito was British. I like this Yugoboss Anglo-angle. Mrs Thatcher lusted after him. Of course he would still have needed the interpreter to parley with Fitzroy Maclean, who spoke only Scottish. Britito is a brill name for a Yugonostalgic cocktail, or arguably, a silicone implant polish.
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Chaos of Slovenian bank blocking rampage reaches Algerian waters.
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Slovenia vows to drink itself out of debt. I think that's what it said. It just needs more time! It has a giro coming in 2014.
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Alouette, je te fumerai.
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woodland studies
The Slovenia Times didn't like my summer haiku
WOODLAND HIKE ECONOMI-KU
Not in the top ten
Economics summer camps:
Among the biggest.
A new dawn, the econo-mists are clearing, and it is clear the students can learn much from the rustic asceticism of Slovenia's hugely successful economic story.
Mealy-mouthed non-numerical descriptions are the way forward - our camp's "among the biggest" even if it is not in "the top ten".
http://is.gd/gjLvUP
At any rate, we offer an interquartile range of forest skills for economics summer camp students...
Start your campfire using just your glasses and some money
Survival: stay alive by doing nothing
Pond-fishing for positive statistics
Digging a liquidity trap and hoping a wild Pigou Effect will save your bacon
Un-undo-able knot-tying
Camouflage for fatties
Build your own log(x + y)n = log(xn + yn) cabin
Wild party with Bush and TARP
Make alcoholic regression analysis
Vomiteering
Holistic student dim sum bonding
Student p-test in horizontal channels, with heavy tailed distributions
Doing your duty by scouting for self-help books
Soft-rock climbing
Thatchering with Keynes
Clearing up your trash/The art of going light (students excused if too wet or suffer from Parkinson's Law)
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
The Slovenia Times didn't like my summer haiku
WOODLAND HIKE ECONOMI-KU
Not in the top ten
Economics summer camps:
Among the biggest.
A new dawn, the econo-mists are clearing, and it is clear the students can learn much from the rustic asceticism of Slovenia's hugely successful economic story.
Mealy-mouthed non-numerical descriptions are the way forward - our camp's "among the biggest" even if it is not in "the top ten".
http://is.gd/gjLvUP
At any rate, we offer an interquartile range of forest skills for economics summer camp students...
Start your campfire using just your glasses and some money
Survival: stay alive by doing nothing
Pond-fishing for positive statistics
Digging a liquidity trap and hoping a wild Pigou Effect will save your bacon
Un-undo-able knot-tying
Camouflage for fatties
Build your own log(x + y)n = log(xn + yn) cabin
Wild party with Bush and TARP
Make alcoholic regression analysis
Vomiteering
Holistic student dim sum bonding
Student p-test in horizontal channels, with heavy tailed distributions
Doing your duty by scouting for self-help books
Soft-rock climbing
Thatchering with Keynes
Clearing up your trash/The art of going light (students excused if too wet or suffer from Parkinson's Law)
The National Poet Of Slovenia In A Language People Understand interprets important Slovenian affairs for the non-Slovene speaking world. www.maria.si
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Slovenia Discovers Ruin
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In this Chaucerian style verse, deleted in the reign of Miro The Shut-It, The National Poet of Slovenia In A Language People Understand is hoping for a brush with the royals (or vice versa)...
ROYAL US IN ESSEX - DA
From unvajazzled patch Slovene, I cawllw
On Liz's TOWIE fave dor-er-in-law,
Who representin' Clacton to Chigwellw
Willw prove to awl the Woyals are normalw.
'Er purpus 'ere, er, dunno wot it's fowr,
They's Iphones: 'ope to be regalewd
Wiv news Max Clifford and Rebekah Wade woz jailewd.
Let Harlow drink, and Canvey Island blast,
Not pullin' 'ere, I need more Shoeburyness -
More Essex gelws, 2 end my sexshuwelw fast,
Wivaht ta-oo, wewl fi', 'er zone smokeless;
Wha'evva the test, I 'ope our noo Countess
Has one lady-in-waitin' or handmayde:
Loves ridin', furry bawlls, an' lemonade.
My lupine howl commemorating this royal hover is based on Troilus And Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, verses 1 and 3.
The Old English of Chaucer is not the same as Essex English and you can check that here: http://is.gd/5NMRt7 and here: http://is.gd/mMXEMf
For a technical explanation of the stanzas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_royal
For a technical explanation of the Countess of Wessex - according to aristocratic protocol Essex only has Duchesses, Pearly Queens and various barons - see http://is.gd/maisvS
ROYAL US IN ESSEX - DA
From unvajazzled patch Slovene, I cawllw
On Liz's TOWIE fave dor-er-in-law,
Who representin' Clacton to Chigwellw
Willw prove to awl the Woyals are normalw.
'Er purpus 'ere, er, dunno wot it's fowr,
They's Iphones: 'ope to be regalewd
Wiv news Max Clifford and Rebekah Wade woz jailewd.
Let Harlow drink, and Canvey Island blast,
Not pullin' 'ere, I need more Shoeburyness -
More Essex gelws, 2 end my sexshuwelw fast,
Wivaht ta-oo, wewl fi', 'er zone smokeless;
Wha'evva the test, I 'ope our noo Countess
Has one lady-in-waitin' or handmayde:
Loves ridin', furry bawlls, an' lemonade.
My lupine howl commemorating this royal hover is based on Troilus And Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, verses 1 and 3.
The Old English of Chaucer is not the same as Essex English and you can check that here: http://is.gd/5NMRt7 and here: http://is.gd/mMXEMf
For a technical explanation of the stanzas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_royal
For a technical explanation of the Countess of Wessex - according to aristocratic protocol Essex only has Duchesses, Pearly Queens and various barons - see http://is.gd/maisvS
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A haiku of piss and understanding as Nippon royals head for Slovenia
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WHAT WAS HE THINKING? US Ambassador wrote letter to Slovenia in English.
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SLOVENIA BANS SHOES. Shoes and socks will have to be removed by foreigners entering Slovenia, a spokesman for the economy said today.
"They come over here with their fancy footwear, often leaving prints on Slovenia's pristine natural environment of asbestos dust, mercury, fly ash, and broken beer bottles...We'll show them!" said a man with an inferiority complex.
Slovenian anti-racist groups criticised the move, saying the ban should only apply to identifiably inferior races.
According to an opposition spokesman, a tax on foreigner footwear wearing, based on shoe size multiplied by meters walked, would probably be the right compromise for Slovenia. Tourists will also be told to leave belts and any spare laces at the border.
Police are being equipped with the latest foot X-ray devices in anticipation of legislation next winter.
more taxes!
www.nyjets.si
"They come over here with their fancy footwear, often leaving prints on Slovenia's pristine natural environment of asbestos dust, mercury, fly ash, and broken beer bottles...We'll show them!" said a man with an inferiority complex.
Slovenian anti-racist groups criticised the move, saying the ban should only apply to identifiably inferior races.
According to an opposition spokesman, a tax on foreigner footwear wearing, based on shoe size multiplied by meters walked, would probably be the right compromise for Slovenia. Tourists will also be told to leave belts and any spare laces at the border.
Police are being equipped with the latest foot X-ray devices in anticipation of legislation next winter.
more taxes!
www.nyjets.si
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Mardy at Moody's - fig leaves akimbo, Slovenia threatens to launch long-range lawyer attack on 7 World Trade Center http://is.gd/i9PYM0
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Slovenian trepidation at streetview information all across the nation. Google Streetview frightens faceless bureaucrats http://is.gd/BqSzvS
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I'm a Latin lover, me...
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Observational. Comedy. Yorkshire.
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