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Robin Williams6 said:You're already cozying up to the Germans anyway, so why should anyone listen to you? Once this war is over, we'll give you a haircut ourselves.😬

I think I'll just handle that task myself. die Kriger. 😢

New here, so I'm not sure if this has been done yet, but here's my two cents.
Top 5 tracks to drive your neighbors absolutely insane if they're stuck listening to country music or those cheesy
"party anthems"

1. Bad Religion - Punk Rock song
2. DJ Dog - Fatboy Slim
3. Fatboy Slim - Rockafella skunk
4. Scooter - Nevada or Christmas in Holland
5. Yamboo - Kalinka 2001

The order doesn't really matter.

And obviously, crank that treble and bass, blast the speakers to the max, and turn it up until it hurts!!

Not gonna quote myself here, just a quick fix: SPEAKERS ON THE FLOOR

Some completely useless top five

one: sitting on my stool, feeling absolutely nauseous from some bad chili
two: a stomach ulcer
three: a whimper
four: Xena: Warrior Princess
five: stinky elderberry juice and a crazy grandma who kept forcing me to drink it

ironcrane7 said:I think I'll just handle this myself. Die Kriger. 😢

You’re lucky if you end up on our side, because Steve McQueen actually survives his stint as a doctor in "Walter Defends Boston."

The lead actors really wish
they were on the winning side
but I'd rather be a German
than one of those partisans!

🙂 :halt: :auzvajs:

stormyviper11 said:The lead actors wish
they were on the right side of history
if I were a German
and they were the resistance!

🙂 :halt: :auzvajs:

I was actually itching to comment on this in what is supposed to be the most democratic thread here:😛

The best German actor in the history of American cinema has passed away—honestly, a better German than the actual Germans.
I already lamented how mediocre Glenn Close was in Lordan Zafranović's Holiday Bitch, and don't even get me started on his role as Professor Manfred (another German).

Steve McQueen was at his absolute peak for me in Berković's "Rondo," specifically when he's talking about how he used to crack down on jazz back when he was a young Bolshevik.progression of jazz

I'll write more about it on my blog, but I can't right now because I'm stuck dealing with a literal fire at work.😠 😠

For my absolute favorites!

The top 5 (in any sense of the word) elementary school teachers

1. Relja - honestly, no comment needed—it was the soccer, the mustache, and the gut; the red denim outfit; the fact he wouldn't give you credit unless you wrote the units next to the answer; and all those lines like, "Look, I'm appealing to you guys, my heart is breaking, do you want to chew on my shoe? It's neither here nor there," etc... basically the greatest legend EVER 🙏 🙏 🙏

2. Zobenica - because she was just wild, totally hippie, and used to yell at us first-graders like we were hardened criminals. She loved Houses of the Holy and Lou Reed, hung out with Ilan Kabiljo, and would just nap during class. Absolute best teacher, hands down 😍

3. Dugačkica - since she was the smallest but definitely the toughest teacher in the whole school. Plus, you couldn't get an A in geography unless you knew exactly which bus her car parked near and where she was born. And that killer move where she’d open the yearbook and call your name, then when you walked up, she'd clean her glasses on your shirt 🙏

4. Sabalić - mostly because he was blind and deaf as a post; rumors said he had a prosthetic eye, and then there was the legendary ritual of getting smacked in the balls every time he went to sit down 🤣 🤮

5. Makoveck - because of the 17 husbands and the massive 🙂

Special award goes to the janitor for the "girls touching" scandal

gentlepuma20 said:for my dear goodness sake!

The top 5 elementary school teachers—in any sense of the word.

🤣 🤣 :laughing_hard: how long ago was that...

Without Kelemen 😍 the list just isn't right: sorry.

Goodness, how can you call someone so small "Dugačkica"? And what about Nela Mihaljinec? Is that some kind of microscopic category? Always drawing cabbage. 😍

Back in my day, Zobenica supposedly dated a guy—they used to meet up by the clock tower. A real queen. To me, she was actually quite attractive, in a somewhat wild way.

Hadzo 😍 😍

Relja once pulled me by the ear through a tiny window in the door—it actually hurt for a month afterward.🙂

Miss El, do you remember the name of that teacher from our era at the technical school? Could you please, please try to recall?

:nostalgia_attack:

gentlepuma20 said:for my freaking chickens!

The top 5 elementary school teachers (in any sense of the word)

Oh man, I am actually going to die laughing 🤣 I feel like I just aged backward 15 years 😬

@ brightridge19: hmm, I had Relja for tech class, so I have no idea who you mean? 🤔

Susan Clark10 said:brightridge19 — Hmm—I actually had a Relja back in my technical school days—so I'm really not quite sure who you're referring to. 🤔

Someone was calling—it’s all a bit fuzzy now—but I think there was a ring. Delić—it’s a name that carries weight, much like those old family legacies we still respect today. My head is spinning—it’s all just a blur right now. I know I haven't always been particularly patient with this particular individual—truth be told, my temperament isn't always my strongest suit. 😬

Here is my list:

1) > - I actually agree with gentlepuma20 (let's all agree on something just once 😬), mainly because of his presence (6'3" and a solid 260 lbs). He had more authority than any of the professors combined, and he breathed right along with the class. His favorite catchphrases were stuff like "simple as a flip-flop" and "you want me to whistle a slap at you?" 😁 He actually liked me because I played basketball for the school... yeah, and he’d always let us watch Lakers games on the TV during class. Definitely the absolute greatest legend of the school. I knew him personally too, since his daughter used to train with me—he's such a great guy, and even today, I still see him jogging around the high school campus 🙏

2) Roda - our resident terror whom we drove absolutely crazy for all four years. She's the reason I've frozen out biology and chemistry for good. Her biggest blunder was calling a parent-teacher meeting because she was dead certain that seeing U2 written on the desks meant some sort of radical political code 🤣

3) Krajca - mostly because she was only 24 when she started teaching us. She was a fantastic teacher, though, but thanks to her relentless drilling of Latin grammar, every other language I tried later on was a total disaster. I heard later that she left the school and moved to Canada

4) > - because she would just suddenly snap for no reason at all, dropping her voice to a whisper so that only the front row could hear, only to ask the exact same question during the next period—of course, nobody had any clue what she said. And she was incredibly mean to the poor interns who came for practicums; she managed to make them cry more than once. On my last day of 8th grade, when she gave me my final grade, she handed me an A and said, "But next time I see you, you better be walking down the street with Mark A. and his kids"—Mark A. was my big crush that the whole school knew about, but I had no idea she even knew 😬

5) Tying for fifth place are Hadzo, who would read sports news through a hole in his paper just to peek and see if we were still copying 😬, and that Canadian lady from the library who taught us French for a year and forced us to memorize poems about partisans (in French, naturally 😬

A special mention goes to the school counselor, Stephen Siroglavic—what a character! Man, whenever I remember that hairstyle 😂

Oh, and I couldn't stand Zobenica because she was so bitter. I remember back in 7th grade (right around the time the local elections happened), she walked into class and proudly announced that she wasn't everyone's "friend" anymore, she was a "Lady," and anyone who dared suggest otherwise was going to regret it... but we all absolutely loved Frank, the lecturer 😍

Oh yeah, Mihaljinecka hated anyone taller than her, especially me, since I was one of the tallest in the class

EDIT: The best custodian was Auntie Aisha. She used to always beg whoever was on hall monitor duty to write a postcard to her son—his address was in Zenica 😬

brightridge19 said:I swear, someone popped into my head—just a tiny little fragment of a memory... super brief. I know I haven't always been able to grasp these patients... 😬

Oh my gosh, a fragment... how on earth did you remember him??? 😬The guy with the Southern accent who taught 8th-grade computer science and was such a huge flirt? 😁

Susan Clark10 said:So here's my list:

5) It’s a tie for fifth place between Hadzo—who was basically failing his exams because he spent all his time staring through a hole in his sports magazine—😬 and that librarian from the local library who taught us French for a year and somehow convinced us we had to memorize songs about the resistance fighters (in French, obviously 😬).

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I honestly don't think anyone deserves more respect than those two. I mean, seriously, those resistance songs in French probably deserve 🙏 🙏 🙏

Susan Clark10 said:Oh my goodness—how on earth did you remember him? 😬 That specific accent, teaching middle school computer science back then—he was such a flirt with the girls. 😁

It wasn't quite computer science for me—more like technical studies. Truly. Those multi-purpose teachers—you know, the ones who teach basic middle school IT... just turn the computer on, turn it off. Or maybe that was the high school teacher? 🤔

leeektoooor 😍 used to drill aujourd'hui c'est mercredi into our heads constantly—nothing else at all. We were practically dying of laughter.
But his name wasn't Frank 🤔—wasn't he more of a thin guy, balding with glasses and a bit of a reddish beard?

brightridge19 said:It wasn't really computer science for me; it was more technical. Purely technical. Those were those multi-purpose teachers. Just basic middle school tech classes... turn the computer on, turn it off. Or was that back in high school? 🤔

The language instructor 😍 used to repeat nothing but "aujourd'hui c'est mercredi" over and over again. We were absolutely dying laughing.
But his name wasn't Frank, 🤔 right? Wasn't he a bit stocky, balding, wearing glasses, with that messy reddish hair?

Hehe, tech class was all about the Commodore 64—we just learned how to draw stuff... 😁

And the instructor's name was Frank; he was young, handsome, and wore glasses... 🙂

Rachel said:I think I'll just handle this myself. The Kriger died.😢

Moving over to Krishna?

Susan Clark10 Asks:
I remember back in my school days—we actually used Commodore 64s in computer lab—and we spent our time learning how to draw simple graphics... just basic stuff, really. 😁

The editor was a man named Frank—young, quite handsome, and always wearing these thick glasses... 🙂

An unreliable editor—honestly, it's such a headache. 😢
I have been digging through my old transcripts today—quite a tedious task, really—and I have arrived at two distinct conclusions:
I never actually had computer science classes back in elementary school—not even once. 😕
Ms. Zobenica was actually my homeroom teacher back in sixth grade—it’s such a small world.

Our editor back then—he was just better, honestly—had a much sharper eye for detail. 😍

brightridge19 said:Not an accurate account. 😢
I just finished digging through some old transcripts and came to two conclusions:
1. She never actually took computer science in middle school. 😕

I think it might have been an elective or something similar... 🤔 it wouldn't show up on the official transcripts.

But now I'm genuinely curious—which graduating class were you in? What year?