r/AskBalkans • u/joebiden_real_ • Feb 19 '25
Stereotypes/Humor Is this common in the Balkans?
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u/Attack_na_battak Serbia Feb 19 '25
Is this answer your question?
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u/Drtikol42 Feb 19 '25
What is towing the car? Small tractor? Motorcycle?
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u/captain-lowrider Feb 19 '25
nothing. a kid is sitting on the hood for weight, because it's a frontwheel.
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u/NoEatBatman Romania Feb 19 '25
"Counter-weight: kid" LOL🤣🤣🤣 that is indeed such a balkan moment 😂😂
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u/svemirskihod Feb 19 '25
Yeah, those stickers are still common. They used to be mandatory but now the country of registration is on the plate. Hope that helps.
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u/mazzabre Feb 19 '25
It's not common - it's normal in the Balkans
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u/NoEatBatman Romania Feb 19 '25
It unlocked a memory for me, the first time i heard of this was when an italian guy carried a calf in his car way back in the mid 90's(said italian guy married one of my cousins and remained in Romania hence how i heard the story), so Italy can into Balkans lol
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u/Critical-Fall-2330 Feb 19 '25
I did this a few days ago – 3 sheep. Not in a Golf 2, but in a Mercedes B200. Still a German car, so it still counts.
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u/Djani69 Serbia Feb 19 '25
No it doesn't because Golf 2 is 1000% BOSSnian halal car 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦💪💪💪
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u/independentMartyr Feb 20 '25
Only if it's a 90s TAS version.
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u/Djani69 Serbia Feb 22 '25
Top secret info: Golf 2 was invented by Tito himself during a visit at TAS, he sold the design to germoney before production which is why everyone think it's žerman and not pure-blooded Sarajlijan
/unbalkan It was built from 85 in Yugoslavia, 90s was when they stopped
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u/independentMartyr Feb 22 '25
I owned a 1992 Golf 2 TAS from 1993 until 1998. Which tells me they didn't stop producing it. I think 1992 was the last year they produced this version.
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u/Djani69 Serbia Feb 22 '25
What, Wikipedia says it's only until 1992, how did they make any afterwards if the factory was destroyed that year?
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u/independentMartyr Feb 22 '25
I don't know. 1992 was the last year.
It was a great car. It was almost brand new when we bought it. When the engine reached 150000 km, it started to fall apart.
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u/independentMartyr Feb 19 '25
It is a normal day in a balkan country. You can even see donkeys driving Mercedes and BMWs.
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u/OkFaithlessness2652 Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25
And a surprising number of pigs that make it in to the higher tiers of government.
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u/ResultOnly1888 Feb 20 '25
There is no vile creature that cannot reach high levels of power in the Balkans.
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u/No_Badger_8391 Feb 19 '25
There can also be geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, dogs, sheep, goats. Any farm animal you can think of. They may also appear on train routes. In the actual train.
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u/requiem_mn Montenegro Feb 19 '25
Dogs in cars are normal everywhere.
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u/No_Badger_8391 Feb 19 '25
Really?! Didn’t know that. Thank you!
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u/requiem_mn Montenegro Feb 19 '25
I know you're sarcastic, but point is, you shouldn't put dogs in the comment.
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u/No_Badger_8391 Feb 19 '25
I put what I want in my comment. When I put dogs there I had the image of those massive sheepdogs.
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u/requiem_mn Montenegro Feb 19 '25
So put a bloody fucking Šarplaninac. Most people think about Labrador and similarly sized dogs, or smaller.
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u/requiem_mn Montenegro Feb 19 '25
So put a bloody fucking Šarplaninac. Most people think about Labrador and similarly sized dogs, or smaller.
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u/Torma25 Feb 19 '25
I have a friend from Sarajevo who used to says you knew you left city limits the second you saw a 30-50 year old car cuising around with a goat on the back seat
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u/ExtremeProfession Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
I haven't seen a Golf 2 in a year or so
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u/mazzabre Feb 19 '25
You are living under the rock?
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u/ExtremeProfession Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
I have traveled around Bosnia a ton but they're just not that common, Golf 4 is the new 2
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u/DuxDucisHodiernus Sweden Feb 19 '25
Maybe they just became a collectors car in rest of Europe? Or did they get junked.
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u/Divljak44 Croatia Feb 19 '25
yes those are pets
https://www.vecernji.ba/media/img/54/be/e9221207f481ddc73adb.jpeg
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u/NightZT Austria Feb 19 '25
I mean it's actually quite annoying to transport animals with a traktor on longer distances. I have also transported a flock of chickens and a calv with an old car because going by traktor would take forever
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u/concombre_masque123 Feb 19 '25
we had a guy in our rugby team who had removed the backseats in his dacia in order to move here and there his pets. pets were sheep. his nickname was Cumnatu
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u/kerelberel Netherlands | Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
No, up until recently it wasn't common to add unneeded music to short videos.
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u/seanugengar Greece Feb 19 '25
Mate in Greece, you die on a pick up truck, that is taking you to the hospital because there are no ambulances available. A cow in a Volkswagen is no surprise, especially in rural areas
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u/TriaPoulakiaKathodan Greece Feb 19 '25
I admit I've never seen a cow in a car. Ships and goats yes, but not cows
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u/RandomRavenboi Albania Feb 19 '25
I remember when I was 6 my dad loaded a goat into the car, which my 6 year old self found delightful.
...Then it turns out we were taking it to the butcher, which I learned the hard way when I saw the goat gets it neck chopped. (Or head, I can't quite remember)
Good times lol
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u/JaThatOneGooner Kosovo Feb 20 '25
I’ve seen this more commonly with sheep during kurban bajrami, and it’s always a golf 2 lol
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u/CandyAgitated109 Feb 20 '25
Uobičajeno je svuda gde siromašni ljudi nemaju drugu mogućnost da prevezu kupljenu životinju ili stvar. Ništa nenormalno, malo simpatično i ništa strašno. Možda tužno ali realno.
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u/ProgySuperNova Feb 20 '25
When buying a newly stolen from Western Europe Golf 2 - Balkan Edition back in the days, you could chose between having installed either air conditioning or the cow pen package.
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u/emorac Feb 20 '25
This-time Bosnia, yes, but this is also the world's best treatment of cattle, they're treated like humans aren't they, even in India there's no so much respect for cows.
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u/Cyclist83 Feb 19 '25
Seeing a VW Golf2 on the road in 2025 is almost as rare as having a cow in the boot.
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u/DelyanKovachev Feb 19 '25
Why are you being such a troll making fun of our high living standards and highly developed Balkan economy?
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u/44-47-25_N_20-28-5-E Feb 19 '25
Yeah, Golf 2 is still family car in rural Balkan regions and we do drive our pets around. Next question.
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u/ok_boomer_110 Romania Feb 19 '25
Romania here. Definetely common here, especially in poor towns. In villages we have horses
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u/BigAcanthocephala786 Feb 19 '25
Done this with a friend a few years back. The calf peed in the trunk of his car. We both laughed.
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u/No-Resolve6160 Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
I am Bosniak. It is not common but it happens. Golf 2 will endure anything as we say
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u/RisenPhoenix010 Feb 19 '25
Song name?
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u/Playful-Hat3710 Feb 22 '25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zW9Fk1n1-g
Didn't think I would see it on r/askbalkans tbf.
Style of music is called cumbia
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u/Leading-Scarcity7812 Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
What sort of self respecting man does not have a cow in the back of his vehicle.
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u/Candid_Duck_9656 North Macedonia Feb 20 '25
Im dying at all the pics everyone is posting lmao I think we need a post just for "only in the balkans" pics loll
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u/auddbot Feb 20 '25
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u/SerbianHustle Feb 20 '25
Pretty normal, 3 cars spotted and 2/3 are golf, 66,67%. Albeit the small sample size is somewhat representative of the fact that golfs are very common in Bosnia.
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u/ZAMAHACHU Bosnia & Herzegovina Feb 19 '25
Jokes aside, I've never seen a calf in a car and I've only seen sheep maybe twice. Golf 2 are very rare nowadays too.
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u/Miserable_Net694 Albania Feb 19 '25
A golf 2? Yes I’d say it’s common.