13-03-2007, 02:17 PM
You are a Bosnian when:
- you begin most sentences with "jebiga"
- you can not explain what "bolan" means, but you use it all the time
- your mother insists that promaja "will kill you"
- older people call you "sine" although you are a girl
- your mother tells you to wear "potkosulja", no matter what the temperature outside
- you tuck your "potkosulja" into your underwear
- your father refers to all politicans with "đubrad , "lopovi", and "kriminalci"
- your mother threathens you with "samo čekaj dok ti ćaća dođe kući!"
- you are 6 and your father sends you out to buy him "Drina" and "Sarajevsko"
- you start your day with a cup of cofee and a cigarette
- your mother won't accept the fact that you are not hungry
- you have "pita" for dinner at least 4 days a week
- you have "sarma" for dinner the remaining 3 days
- a loaf of bread is eaten for lunch every day
- your neighbour comes over every day uninvited, for coffee
- you have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
- your mother tells you not to sit close to TV, and not to use cell phones, because you
will get brain tumor
- your mother tells you that you will get sick from drinking cold water
- your parents have "goblene" on their walls, and "heklanje" on every piece of their
furniture, including the TV
- the time is divided into "before" and "after" the war.
- you begin most sentences with "jebiga"
- you can not explain what "bolan" means, but you use it all the time
- your mother insists that promaja "will kill you"
- older people call you "sine" although you are a girl
- your mother tells you to wear "potkosulja", no matter what the temperature outside
- you tuck your "potkosulja" into your underwear
- your father refers to all politicans with "đubrad , "lopovi", and "kriminalci"
- your mother threathens you with "samo čekaj dok ti ćaća dođe kući!"
- you are 6 and your father sends you out to buy him "Drina" and "Sarajevsko"
- you start your day with a cup of cofee and a cigarette
- your mother won't accept the fact that you are not hungry
- you have "pita" for dinner at least 4 days a week
- you have "sarma" for dinner the remaining 3 days
- a loaf of bread is eaten for lunch every day
- your neighbour comes over every day uninvited, for coffee
- you have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
- your mother tells you not to sit close to TV, and not to use cell phones, because you
will get brain tumor
- your mother tells you that you will get sick from drinking cold water
- your parents have "goblene" on their walls, and "heklanje" on every piece of their
furniture, including the TV
- the time is divided into "before" and "after" the war.
