From all the Albanians that live in my neighborhood, I would sum them up saying if depressing brutalist buildings were to be personified, they’d probably be Albanian. Aside from the guys sitting outside the Albanian coffee shop that seem to be loving the life of drinking espresso and chain smoking, they seem kind of perpetually miserable. They do have some really good food, though, and the country itself looks like it has some pretty spots.
Honestly, the language itself seems pretty cool, too. Despite being a natural language, it manages to look like someone’s fantasy conlang when you see it written down.
Their beer has been terrible, from what I’ve tried of it. Tasted like musty bread and always seems to have free-floating goop in the bottle that should have been filtered out.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 months ago
They were a Stalinist dictatorship throughout the Cold War and built tens of thousands of bunkers around their landscape, spending a large part of their economy on preparing for the inevitable invasion by the capitalist imperialists and/or ideologically degenerate socialists. Then, afterwards, they gave the world Dua Lipa and a few other successful pop artists.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Don’t forget the incredibly organised mafia (primarily cocaine trafficking) spanning pretty much the entire world.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t forget that Top Gear scene
youtube.com/shorts/PP5C-oOwL1w
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Ah well who doesn’t like the global cocaine trade!
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Oh well I like Dua Lipa I guess. Or the three songs I’ve heard I don’t hate is more appropriate.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No lie!