Facebook of prosopovivlio?

Penni Pappas looks at the top ten absurd, funny and downright silly Facebook groups and pages that every Greek, first or second generation, can relate to


1. What Greek dance are you? Take this interactive quiz to work out if you are a kalamatiano, tsamiko or the sousta. Post it on your Facebook wall so all your Facebook friends know your personality in Greek dance.

2. Greeks invented everything There’s democracy, the Olympics, civilisation has a lot to thank the ancient Greeks for but did you know that Greeks invented KFC? Katse fai cota. Prepare to be educated in the more obscure of Greek inventions.

3. After seeing 300, everyone wishes they were Greek like me Remember that pride you felt walking out of Hoyts megaplex after seeing 300? Well, someone’s made a Facebook group about it. That’s it.

4. You speak Greek, you just don’t know it. Words of Greek origin It’s not just for the enterprising second-generation Greeks trying to pass Biology exams by racking their brains to find a Greek word that could help define photosynthesis. But so many non-English people speak Greek on daily basis and this Facebook group proves it. There was even a book made out of it. Move over Stuff White People Like, it’s literally all Greek to me.

5.Return the Elgin marbles!!!! No that’s not me being trigger happy with the exclamation mark, that’s the administrator of this Facebook group saying they really, really, really, really wants the Elgin marbles to be returned to Greece. Read posts from this group’s members talking about the return of the Elgin marbles to the Acropolis museum. One’s even gone as far as creating a subsidiary Facebook page titled Elginism, which lists other cultural items that have been ‘taken’ from countries. Elginism, as defined in urban dictions, is an act of cultural vandalism. A term coined by the destructive actions of Lord Elgin who illegally transported the Parthenon Marbles from Greece to London between 1801 and 1805. Now also applies to other cultural objects. Usually refers to artefacts taken from poorer nations to richer ones. Oh Lord Elgin, you gave us so much yet took so much away too.

6.Yes I am Greek and yes we do break plates at parties This Facebook page is pretty self-explanatory. Discussions on the wall include: who likes to party? I like to party. Do you like to party? I break plates at parties.

7.Beaten with random objects as a Greek youth Pantofles and koutalia feature highly on this page but as every Greek youth will tell you, nothing is sacred and everything and anything your mum, yiayia or thea can get her hands on will be used. If you have a war story to swap let George Belegrinis, the group’s administrator know, as he is writing a book about it.

8.I hate when I take my shirt off and people mistake me for a Greek god Greek men are known for their good looks… and arrogance. But judging by the amount of Greek male friends I have on my personal Facebook page who persist in having a profile pic of them completely topless, I have to agree.

9. Greek turn a normal good-bye into a conversation in the doorway If you can say good-bye to a Greek and leave straight away… then they’re not Greek. This group is dedicated to the persistent kisses and gossip that continues after one says goodbye. You know the drill, after you say goodbye you remember what Kosta up the street has been up to or who is recently engaged.

10. Summer IN Greece A page where people can come and gloat about their holiday through happy snaps taken on Aegean beaches holding a frappe. Or, a page where people can come to reminisce about their summer holiday in Greece. Island or not, Summer in Greece is the only way to go.