I was watching Top Channel last night, first the news, then Fiks Fare. According to them Tirana's citizens now have a choice not only between Rama and Olldashi, but also between Rama and Rama. A minor right-wing faction, Parti 'Balli Kombetar' , submitted papers to the election authorities registering their candidate, Akile Rama. The people on Fiks Fare got hold of the papers and sent a reporter and camera team to the address listed for Mr A Rama. After much ringing of the bell the gate was reluctantly opened by a middle-aged woman who refused to speak to the reporter and tried to close the gate on her. Back in the studio Saimiri and Doctori - the two presenters of Fiks Fare - revealed that Mr Akile Rama was 73 years old, in hospital, and did not know he was now a candidate for mayor. They also compared two documents - the papers submitted on his behalf, and a genuine document he had signed. The signatures were not even remotely similar. There was an interview with the lea
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And Alwyn he at least agrees with you at one point:
... The streets are a slow crawl of large cars: BMWs, Porsche Cayennes, blacked-out Range Rovers, Humvees and the ubiquitous tribe of Benzes – all stolen, of course, from Germany and Italy.
Great find anyway... I need to save this and give it my girlfriend when I need a reason to break up with her. I am sure after reading it, she wouldn't be caught dead next to an Albanian. So thanks again, MATE!
Ll.
The problem ism lots of other people who also know nothing about the country might *gasp* take him seriously.
Nejse, s'po kam n'qief me humb hohen me budallet.
I was raised by honest parents in an honest way, my sister aims at being a doctor not a gangster bitch. And there are millions more just like them who strive daily, so you know, it's just hard to sit by and take his.
BS
-"homeless incontinent’s toilet" -"distressingly skimpy second scrotums"
-"Albanians are short and ferret-faced, with the unisex stumpy, slightly bowed legs of shetland ponies"
-"a nation of dupes waiting to be taken"
-"grim, hunkered, crumbling commie squalor, with kids kicking balls and toothless ancients sitting like lonely loonies on benches, staring at the angry graffiti"
-"The smelly, tideless Adriatic limply washes nameless slurry onto the shore"
-"grim warrens of piss-stained grey boxes"
-"ripped up and smashed stretches of urban exhaustion and collapse"
Yep, get me the first flight to Mother Theresa Airport in Tirana, named "after a woman who devoted herself to helping people die."
http://www.peshkupauje.com/?p=1765#comment-9167
As the old saying goes, it is all relative; to some the glass is half full and to some the glass is half empty. Obviously we (Albanians) have to see it as half full :)
Ll.
he says nobody wears a watch. are you kidding me? next to the mobile phone vendors are the guys selling imitation watches, just like other minorities do here in nyc.
gill doesnt know what he's talking about. i never heard about this guy until tonight. hes a nobody.
What this idiot needs to do, is open up a history book and understand that his ancestors and the rest of Europe for centuries used Albania as a way to pay their debts amongst each other. Albania has been split, reunited, divided, invaded and destroyed by every single war in human history. This moron that wrote this article should take a look and write about something that he can be proud of in his own country before criticizing and making fun of another country. In my 20 years in Albania, I lived a fuller life than in just one day of my 10 years in America. There is not one day where I don't think about going back and contributing my work, experience and education to my country. It is absolutely the greatest country in the world. The last thing I'd like to say to this ignorant is: Rome wasn't built in one day!
GOD BLESS ALBANIA AND ALL ALBANIANS
Also, it is this guy's job to go to some of the best restaurants in the world and find something he doesn't like, like a napkin folded wrong or the ice-cubes being too big...Mr Gill you are a glorified dog.