
#2507 : ...because we have just 3 and half bears. one is half ours and half estonian.
#2102 : ...because when the conductress on a bus shouts at you, and you tell her, "I don't understand Latvian," she shouts even more in her language as if it will make me understand her.
#1729 : ...because even in Glasgow Prestwick airport ir advertisment "Come to Riga, the Capital of European nightlife!"
#1564 : ...because if somebody wishes you a good day, you start feel suspicious and think, what's behind that.
#1563 : ...because the bribe to the cop for speeding has gone up since Latvia joined EU.
#979 : ...because Brussels has only one Urinating boy. But we have planty of them in Riga, and, in fact, they all speak english.
#926 : ...because the fuel prices go up immediately on the next day after each price increase in NY stock exchange, even though the fuel stock had been purchased some time before
#882 : ...because politicians have more free days than unemployed people.
#681 : ...because we sent to the Eurovision contest to represent us a group with a French name and an Italian singer.
#680 : ...because in Riga's old town you find more strip-tease bars than public toilets.
#679 : ...because "Privata Life" is the most read "source of information" in Latvia.
#672 : ...because we have no unemployment. That is already a profession.
#574 : ...because noone swears in Latvian. Thats what Russian language is ment for.
#523 : ...because when wind is faster than 10 meters per second, a part of Latvia loses electricity.
#510 : ...because when you buy BMW, you get drivers license for free.
#509 : ...because cause teachers in kindergarten need a college degree, while you can get with high schools degree in goverment.
#507 : ...because school bags weigh more than pupils themselves.
#506 : ...because the skirt's length of the Latvian women is proportional to the number of male inhabitants
#505 : ...because when life forms came out of water million years ago, Latvians came first. As a proof, they have an idiom: "Shut your gills!"
#502 : ...because schools janitors place a bucket for cigarette butts in the corner of the gym.
#495 : ...because long-distance drivers who come to Latvia from Russia takes with them not only Christmas presents, but Easter eggs too.
#492 : ...because mobile phone has the same warranty as newly built house - 2 years!
#489 : ...because all our problems are always in solving process, but they are never solved.
#482 : ...because our population register is available in site www.draugiem.lv.
#481 : ...because if tourists arrive in Riga via train, they think the' re in a city called Origo.
#479 : ...because we care about the safety of our country. That's why soldiers get a bigger wage than medics.
#478 : ...because we love our capital city and we are touched to see it for a couple of hours through the window of a wehicle before and after work.
#477 : ...because in Latvia you have to know how to survive till retirement.
#466 : ...because pensioners do not have to worry, what to buy for lunch today.