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You know you're a Bosnian when:
* your family owns a manual coffee grinder
* you take your shoes off when you enter the house, and every family
member has his/her own slippers (plus some extra for the guests)
* your neighbour comes over every day uninvited, for coffee
* your father wears a striped pajamas
* you start your day with a cup of cofee and a cigarette
* you have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
* your mother/nena won't accept the fact that you're 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
* you're 6 and your father sends you out to buy him "Drina" and "Sarajevsko"
* you don't speak to your cousins who support "Zeljo"
* when your nena insists you eat something with "kasika" at least once a week
* you chop up some onions and then decide what to cook for dinner
* your mother insists that "promaja" will kill you
* your mother tells you not to sit on the concrete slabs, or your varies are going to freeze
* your mother tells you to wear "potkosulja", no matter what the temperature outside
* your mother tells you not to sit close to TV, and not to use cell phones, because you'll get brain tumor
* your mother tells you that you'll get sick from drinking cold water
* you tuck in your "potkosulja" into your underwear
* your parents wonder why you take shower every day
* your parents tell you that they had you, AND your sister/brother when they were your age
* a couple of days really means a week or so
* your parents have "goblene" on their walls, and "heklanje" on every piece of their furniture, including the TV
* your parents make "zimnica" every september
* your mother threathens you with "samo cekaj dok ti se babo vrati kuci"
* you spend all your family vacations in Neum
* you drive there in a family "golf"
* you take a cab to go everywhere
* you begin most sentences with "jebi ga", "svega mi", or "Tita mi"
* your young cousin doesn't know what "Tita mi" means
* you can't explain what "ba" means, but you use it all the time
* you're the only one who gets all the Mujo and Suljo jokes
* you know the entire script of "Walter brani Sarajevo" by heart
* you despise your cousin who's going out with an "unproforac"
* your mother bakes a cake without oil, sugar, eggs, or flour, and she calls it "a war cake"
* the time is divided into "before" and "after" the war
* your father refers to all politicians with "djubrad", "lopovi", and "kriminalci"
* you have at least one best friend from high school who went to "their side" and you still can't explain it to yourself
* your remaining friends from high school live in Australia, Norway, South Africa, and Malaysia
* you don't want to talk about the war to anyone, but that's the only thing you talk about with other Bosnians
* you have at least three passports, and have lived in at least 4 countries in the last 12 years
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Samo 4 mil. imaju srecu da zive u BiH, ostali nemaju tu srecu . . . ali imaju sve ostalo!
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