2024-04-14 13:24:50
Yiannis Miliokas analyzes the phenomena of the times and is looking for a “closer” to take a photo… especially with Theodoros Pagalos. He thinks, like Plato, that Greece is the best plot of land and believes that the IMF is an expensive diagnostic center of excellent quality.
Q.: What do you consider the greatest advantage and what is the greatest flaw of the average Greek?
A: The advantage is that it is medium. If we all get 1,500 euros each, because that’s all we can do, a balance is maintained. The middle man is not consumed by unnecessary expenses, so there is also time left over to do what he dreamed of. His fault is that he has not realized it. We have seen the result in the last decade. The middle man tried to become rich and eventually became poor.
Q.: Do you believe, like Theodoros Pangalos, that we all “ate together”?
ANS.: If he says it again, I will find a “closer” to take a picture next to him. The world will understand… And the little goat will laugh too.
Q: Which person from Greek history or mythology would you like to be and why?
A.: I neither wished nor dared to dream of such a thing. The ancients were much better. They had seen life, nutrition, body, soul, spirit differently. They had found the golden ratio.
Q: Did you go vote in the last election?
ANS.: For technical reasons, because I am from Thessaloniki, I have not gone to vote in the last 25 years. In addition, there were a couple of shops selling blue and green flags. I don’t like this mentality of the shopkeeper who hires employees and we pay them to vote for him. This customer relationship is to blame for the damage we suffered.
Q: What is your opinion on the IMF and the troika?
ANS: It is a diagnostic center of excellence for the disease that had afflicted us and which we kept secret. That it is very expensive, that goes without saying, but it could not be done otherwise.
Q: What has been your biggest success and biggest failure?
A: Success is the bonus that God gave me to have a child. This was one of the hardest things of my life but also the greatest happiness. Failure, Voutsas used to say, is for the successful, so I skip it.
Q: Are you for or against a universal smoking ban?
ANS.: I am in favor of being the only Greek who will smoke. Finally to enter the Guinness book.
Q: What is the biggest sacrifice you have made or would make for money and fame?
A.: I sacrificed the money. When I was about to sit down to collect from what I had presented, I worked hard and built a studio, learned piano, wrote a book, went winter swimming, improved many parts of my life. With money I buy time and do what I like. As for the glory… the money, many hated the glory.
Q.: Do you think that George Papandreou will become the second politician in history to tell the Greek people “unfortunately we have become poor”?
AP.: I believe he will be the second politician to say “unfortunately my grandfather produced both a prime minister father and a grandson”.
Q.: Which news of this year did you watch with interest and which one did you turn off the TV?
A.: I watched the speed with which things developed in our country. For the same reason I closed it. Because I realized that they can’t fairy me. I got angry about what people are saying. There are so many theaters and the biggest one is the Parliament in the Constitution.
Q: When was the last time you went to the stadium?
A: When I stopped selling pads outside the stadium, from which I earned the ticket money to see Hercules. Now I love him but I don’t participate.
Q: What is your relationship with animals?
ANS.: We had a lot of strays in my family home. Then my daughter and I had cats. Painful experience, because they disappear. Now we ask ourselves: will we get a cat? And I tell her “I have a cat. You, who are 22 years old, should look for a cat.”
Q.: Traveling to which part of the planet is a lifelong dream for you?
A.: The journey started when I was born. I’m already at the party. On the only planet so far inhabited among millions of stars. After all, as Plato said, we have the best land, Greece.
Q: Have you made any cuts due to the financial crisis?
ANSWER: No. There were constant parties going on around me and I was invited to two every week. There were installment loans, holiday loans, vacation loans. I never got them. If I have money, I will buy something.
Q: If you won the jackpot, what three things would you do first?
ANSWER: I know I won’t be happy with this money because I didn’t earn it with my worth. I didn’t work. And because of regrets I will convince my family to return them to the smile of the grandfather, the child, the grandmother.
Ten “little” secrets
- His favorite band is Pink Floyd.
- The song that expresses him is “I will never enter another body” by Manolis Mitsias.
- *His favorite place is Schinias where in the summers he goes swimming every day.
- *He chose to stay out of the music scene for 17 years to find his personal rhythms.
- *Dedicated seven years of his life to find the material for his book “Meander: The gymnastics of the ancient Greeks”.
- *He had a painting gallery in Thessaloniki, where he sold his own paintings.
- *His partner is also the artist Georgia Grammatikou, whom he considers Bill Gates’ niece, as she has an excellent relationship with computers.
- *His father was a machinist. He was the one who broke the only guitar he managed to buy at the age of 12 with the little money he had left, fearing that his son would become… a musician.
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