Greek People

[Kimpatsu]

Originally posted by Okashira
..because... if it was in greek you wouldn't know what it means
besides it wouldn't be a pallindrome any more.

True about the palindrome, but most people here wouldn't recognise a classical quotation if it bit them on the arse.

Originally posted by Okashira
As for the tickets, there are certain sports that are sold out, but certain others are completely unpopular in Greece.

Did you read the Guardian article above?

[Okashira]

Yes I did (after I posted my reply )

It's very easy to understand why people waited until the last minute to buy tickets;
nothing was ready until the last minute.

Also, concerning greeks, we've been through hell for more than 8 years for these olympic games, and there are mixed sentiments concerning them.
There have been many scandals concerning the works that had to be done

Anyway, it's fine to watch them on TV for free I guess

[Ramirez]

Originally posted by Okashira
Anyway, it's fine to watch them on TV for free I guess [/B]

Good one! Shows the intelligence of the Greek people, too smart to get taken in by the propaganda of the Olympics.

[Kimpatsu]

From today's Guardian:

Even sex can't sell the Games
Having confounded the sceptical world and actually built the stadia for the Olympics, the Greeks now cannot be bothered to turn up for the Games.
Four years ago the Australians packed out even the most obscure events, such as Honduras v Finland at baseball. But the 10,000-seat beach volleyball stadium has only enjoyed any real kind of crowd when the Greeks themselves have been competing. And given that beach volleyball is about sex, and sex - I read somewhere - is an international language, this apathy is almost perverse. There is now talk of giving tickets away.
What's the problem? One theory is that the Greeks are scared of terrorism. But everybody knows, from the history of security at Athens airport, that they don't care at all about being blown to pieces. In any case the "too-scared-to-travel" stereotype belongs to the Americans.
I think the truth may be that the Greeks never wanted the Games at all. They are not a sports-loving nation, not like the mad Australians or the perpetually disappointed British. And Greece winning the soccer Euro Cup was just an aberration, like France winning the 1998 World Cup.
No, the Greeks, being a nation of builders, just tendered for the biggest building job going. Having (unusually) completed most of it without leaving all those iron struts sticking from a hundred unfinished second floors, they now have other things to do, such as eating, dancing, fleecing tourists, playing backgammon and reading the poems of Cavafy.

[costas]

You cant blame the greeks for the small amount of visitors!

Blame the media and not the greek media, the only thing the wrote about was, terrorism, that the arenas wasnt ready etc etc.

Nothing positive, like in the EURO 2004. Complaining complaining all the time, that the greeks didnt earn the title cause the didnt play good football. !!!!!!!!..

Im going to Athens on friday to watch the 100m finals and some soccer games

The whole nation stands behind the olympic games!

You know in greece they say.

The grapes the fox cant reach to eat, she calls them rutten grapes.

I mean that the medie from countrys that didnt get the games calls the greek games sucky cause the are jealus.



thats all for me

[Kimpatsu]

Originally posted by costas
You cant blame the greeks for the small amount of visitors!
Blame the media and not the greek media, the only thing the wrote about was, terrorism, that the arenas wasnt ready etc etc.

There is that.

Originally posted by costas
You know in greece they say.
The grapes the fox cant reach to eat, she calls them rutten grapes.

This is one of Aesop's fables. In English, the phrase is rendered as "sour grapes".

[costas]

thanks
i couldnt translate grapes

[Kimpatsu]

Originally posted by costas
thanks
i couldnt translate grapes

They're better eaten, instead, Costas.

[gilda]

hello i am from athens doing kendo and aikido.basically i just got here coz i was living in thessaloniki studying 4 yrs.there i practiced at yudokan dojo,kendo and aikido.
maybe we ve met at some kendo seminar and i dont know your name where do you do kendo in athens?

ah and another thing.where do you suggest to do jodo?

[Okashira]

Geia sou Eva,
I train at the Kage Dojo in Agios Dimitrios, where we do Kenodo, Jodo & Iaido. Training starts again next week, if you want the adress and schedule send me a pm.

And remember to sign your posts with your name

[SHINOBI 888]

Hi @ all
I am in Athens

Searching for outdoor trainingsbuddy

Experience age and gender does not matter

For

Outdoor

Ninjutsu

Kihon happo
Torite goho gata
Koshi sanpo

Thanks