We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

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In Slovenia, a saying is that if a person spends too much money on something, Slovenians will place him on a boat and send him to Scotland. The idea is that Slovenia is a poor country where everybody has to be frugal. Sometimes this is done with good intentions, but often the Slovenian way of thinking causes more harm than good.

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