100% Greek Jokes
Why we're proud to be Greek

- Because we are European Champions in football
- Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices
- Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces
- Because nights in Greece finish in the morning
- Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in "shots"
- Because flirting is our national hobby
- Because sex is our national sport
- Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it
- Because we are not puritans
- Because we are not racists
- Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless
- Because we know how to spend better that we know how to save
- Because we never visit others empty handed
- Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is "kapsoura" (burning desire for someone)
- Because in Greece family is still something valuable
- Because we do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars
- Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment
- Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan war)
- Because we are everywhere around the planet Because we love and hate with passion
- Because "filotimo" (friend of honor, helping someone because it is a shame not to) doesn't exist in any other languages
- Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours
- Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family not with shrinks
- Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek
- Because we invented theatre Because we gave birth to Democracy
- Because we discovered logic Because we jump started science
-  Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars
- Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol
- Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping on trees
- Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for peace by making wars
- Because we can give anything up just to make love
- Because Hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to get laid
- Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both passionately
- Because Eros was a Greek God
- Because when others used to! be clothed with wolf skin we were weaving see-through linen
- Because "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" (Winston Churchill, 1941)
- Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good anyway
- Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval alphabet to the Slavs
- Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker
- Because we are not ashamed to cry
- Because we dance when we are sad
- Because we work to live and we do not live to work
- Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek Because although we know danger well, we dare
- Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns around
- Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal
- Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder
- Because we do not know what anxiety is
- Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
- Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
- Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00 or 4:00 o'clock in the morning
- Because we are direct Because we never report people who cheat
- Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually ends up illegal
- Because we have tendencies to extremity
- Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18
- Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl on grass or jump into fountains
- Because we confront every difficulty with humor
- Because the Olympic games were born here
- Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace
- Because our sky is blue, not gray
- Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet
- Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words
- Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens
- Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means
- Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still fresh
- Because in Greece nobody is hungry Because in Greece nobody is homeless
- Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!
- Because our "model for life" has many curves Because we wear sandals without socks
- Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday morning
- Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"
- Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts.