Friday, June 27, 2014

Day of the flag

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Yesterday, I learned while watching the news, was "The Day of the Romanian Flag". WTF is that? There's also a day for the nat...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Romtelecom, setting Romania back 30 years

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Customer service in Romania is frequently (though by no means always) a haphazard affair, with there still being a significant number of pl...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Exams

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This week is exam week for the 8th graders of Romania.  Essentially, they have 2 (or 3 - see below) big exams, after which their futures ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Modern slavery in the free market

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My neighbour has just come home from Sweden. She's been working there for a month or so picking asparagus.  She came home early because...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Sportopolis

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I wonder if there is any town that is has produced as many successful sportspeople per head of population as Csikszereda. Novak Edouard...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

Extreme Mildness

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That's about as oxymoronic as it gets, I suspect, but in fact it fits. We are experiencing a very very weird winter. As I may have go...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Health and Safety

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One of the things that the Daily Mail reading knobheads who make up a dangerously large proportion of my countrymen moan about is "h...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Lightbulbs

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How many politicians in Romania does it take to change a light bulb?   One or two to sign the contract handing over billions of dollars o...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

A 100 year old mirror

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Recently, I started reading what seems to be widely regarded as "The Great Transylvanian Novel", which is Miklos Banffy 's ...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Romanian Vignettes

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There is a system of heating and hot water in Romania, whereby for the (many) blocks of flats, there is a centralised building where they h...