Please reply to this comment if you would like to add a giveaway to the thread :)
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Congrats on passing the test, bud! Here's one to make it merrier :)
Savage Lands - Level 3
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From the space you can't see frontiers.
But there you have one.
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Congratulations on passing the test :)
And thank you for GA's!
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Two questions. Do you think applying for UK citizenship is easier? Don't you have a safer bet to get (Slovenian) citizenship as someone who's married to their citizen for couple of years now?
Anyway, GZ!
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Thank you! To be honest I have no idea what the process is like in the UK. If I had to guess I would say it's probably easier. England is a lot more diverse than Slovenia. In Slovenia I almost got the feeling that they really don't want any new citizens, so they make the whole process as complicated as possible! :D Being married helps, but that basically just lets you apply sooner than others. You still have to submit all the same documents.
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I smell a trace of sarcasm from your last sentence... but I was just trying to say it's probably harder to get British citizenship for someone from outside commonwealth or EU, than it is for him to get a Slovenian one. He just never had to try that so he thinks this is hard.
I have no intention of asking for any of them, but thanks for the info nevertheless. Happy 3-chimney factory day!
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Well, congratulations, my friend! :)
And I welcome you to ex-Yu citizenship xD
Wish you all the best, really! :)
P.S. I also liked Slovenian trivia! Thanks for that! :)
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Thank you LB! I appreciate that. I feel you're the Mafia and you're welcoming me to the family ;)
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Yes, yes... very similar xD ex-Yu family xD but with little less quarrels and more respect... :)
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Yeah, thankfully :D Keep meaning to ask. How is fatherhood going? :)
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Very nice... :) It has its ups and downs, but generally beautiful :)
Cuts the gaming time, significantly, though... xD
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Great to hear! And yes, young children and gaming don't mix, but soon enough they'll join us in our gaming ways ;)
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Thanks for sharing the happinnes Bauer,
and good luck with the approval of your application!
Best wishes for you and your family.
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Bumped and some comments are disabled because of some feature here on SG to prevent too many spam posts. Just something to consider :)
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Didn't know that. Anything I can do to prevent it? :D
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People will just have to slow down in their replies to your GAs Bauer, perhaps give them an hour or so and then use a raffle ticket to select winners for the extra GAs rather than choose the first 2 or correct answer :)
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Right, good idea. I'll keep that in mind for next time :)
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Tried to guess some of the answers, ty for the GAs!
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Yeah Britain is looking bad at the moment. I have some friends here in Ireland that will have to get citizenship, and the price is ridiculous, so I imagine it was about the same amount for you. Hopefully won't be long for you to find out
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Yeah, hoping to find out soon. And yes, it was expensive and complicated!
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Hi there well done on passing the test.
I just had a question: What benefits will the UK citizens living in EU countries loose when UK activates the leave option ? (hope i made my self clear enough ^^)
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Thank you! Some have gone as far as warning that expats will no longer be able to live in other EU countries. But I think that's an exaggeration. I'm more worried about losing access to things like EU health insurance. That's helped me out in the past! Tbh, no-one really knows until Britain starts the whole process properly.
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Best of luck with the application. Do you get to keep dual citizenship or will you have to renounce your UK citizenship?
Our passport office in Ireland was inundated with queries from the UK and NI in the weeks after the Brexit result with people panicking and wondering if they could apply for an Irish passport. I think it has died down now, but in a case such as your own, where you have tangible ties to Slovenia, it's a good idea to cement your residency status and I also imagine you'll have no problem being accepted.
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Thank you. I hope not. I made sure before applying that I wouldn't need to renounce my UK citizenship. Would be a shame to lose that! I think it's just a smart move. Well, I hope it is :)
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It certainly sounds like it.
Now here's the real question: who are you going to support for Eurovision? :D
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Whaaaat? Voting for songs based on actual merit and not just for your neighbours? I'm not sure you know how to Eurovision :D
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Lol, I know, crazy right! England never gets friendly neighbour votes so we don't have to play by those rules ;)
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That's true. It's rare that anyone would vote for the UK here in Ireland, and yet you guys always seem to give us what we refer to as "the guilt vote", despite all our entries being awful for the last while. It's a bit sad, really. I voted for Bonnie Tyler because she's class :)
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Haha, "the guilt vote". I like that. I will say that Ireland tends to be more consistent with the quality generally, but England has had some reasonable songs over the last few years (apart from Electro Velvet) and in reality we probably deserved more points than we got. That's probably why a lot of people in England see the whole competition as a bit of a joke :) Probably the same in Ireland.
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Why you just don't want to return in the UK with your family?
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Too many ties here. My wife has a good job here (a school teacher), we've bought a flat here etc I think it would actually be a lot harder to move and settle over in the UK than it would be to stay here.
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EDIT: Thanks for all the nice wishes and support! Still haven't found out if my application was accepted, but keep your fingers crossed for me! All giveaways have now ended. A couple of the free keys remain unclaimed so I will save them for my next big set of giveaways :) Have fun everyone!
About 9 years ago I met a kind and beautiful Slovenian girl and we fell in love. Since then I’ve moved to Slovenia, married her and had two kids. Recently, since the outcome of the EU referendum in the UK, I started to worry about losing the benefits of being an EU citizen. So I thought it would be wise to apply for Slovenian citizenship. I know it’s going to take a number of years before Britain actually leaves the EU, but why wait. Btw, I voted to STAY, obviously!
So the whole process of applying for Slovenian citizenship is, frankly, a pain in the arse! There are a tonne of forms to fill out, documents to submit and it’s expensive! The hardest part by far, however, is the requirement that you have to pass a Slovenian language test. It’s a difficult language to learn and I’ve never been to any lessons. Everything I know, I’ve picked up from speaking to others, watching TV and listening to the radio. I can hold a conversation but I make a lot of mistakes and I don’t know much of the grammar, so naturally I was very nervous about taking the test. Well, long story short, and to my surprise, I PASSED! And so, to the point of this post; I’ve yet to find out if my application will be accepted, but I was so happy about passing the test that I wanted to share that happiness with you guys :)
So here are the games! There’s not a lot, but hopefully you can all find at least one game you’d like to add to your collection :)
In each giveaway, I’ve written an interesting fact about Slovenia and posed a question. The first person to guess the answer correctly wins a key for an ungiftable game. If I have multiple keys for any of the games they will go to the next correct answer.
The free games available in each GA are written next to the giveaway game, in brackets. Only unedited answers will be accepted and only one answer per person.
LVL 1+
Cibele (
Ace of Words)Oniken (
Sumo Revise)Tick Tock Isle (
BlackShadows)LVL 2+
Poker Night 2 (
Tompi Jones)Read Only Memories (
Glass Wing)Plantera (
Spheroid)The Forest of Doom by Lunaticmage
LVL 3+
Jurassic Park: The Game (
ShipLord)RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Triple Thrill Pack (
2x Evil Maze)Devil Daggers (
Unknown Battle)Runestone Keeper (
Masked Shooters 2)Savage Lands by JustinSane059
LVL 4+
Stronghold Crusader 2 (
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin)Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders (
2x Deponia)Elegy for a Dead World (
2x Supraball)For my WL
Click to find out
All my giveaways end on the evening of Tuesday Oct 11.
Feel free to add your own giveaways to my thread! Just let me know by replying to my first comment below.
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