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Shai-Hulud
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posted January 11, 2005 03:57 PM |
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Misconceptions about Romania...
1.If you got to Transylvania you will surely meet at least 1 vampire!!!
2.We are still under comunism and our leader is Nicolae Ceausescu.
3.Stupid people, dirty country!!!
4.Only few of us have a TV, radio and stuff--> IMHO .. this came from the experience one of my friend's mom had with a French lady. They met on the Internet.When the romanian lady went to France, when she got to the french lady's houses, the lady started showing things and saying: " You see that is a TV. That is a fridge etc.", at which the romanian replied:"But we have all this in Romania too.", at which the french lady was very, very suprised. Continuing, the turn for the french woman to come to Romania.It turned out the romanian lady was more rich..the french became very envy.. anyway continuing they went to the Moldovanian monstaries.. she didn't took any pictures of the wondefull things.. but when she saw a gipsy wagon she quickly took a picture of that.. RUDE!!!
5.50% of the romanians are hackers and use false credit cards..
6.We are very wild, like our ancestors..
7.All romanians like Dragostea din Tei and Cheeky Song!!!
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posted January 11, 2005 06:00 PM |
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Canadians don't live in igloos... I remember going to California and explaining this to people... also, you guys wouldn't except our money, but some kids on the bus there thought it looked pretty cool...
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posted January 11, 2005 06:27 PM |
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Rage08
Is it true that approximately 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border. I also read that Canada is the second largest country(land mass) in the world behind Russia.
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posted January 11, 2005 06:39 PM |
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Almost all of our population lives in the south, so that's probably true...
Especially southern Ontario...
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Consis
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posted January 12, 2005 04:56 AM |
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Continued...
Wyoming
near the Great Lakes
cowboys
where is it again?
Arkansas
Bill Clinton lives there(lol)
"COPS" the t.v. show
speeding tickets
kids with rifles and shotguns
Kansas
Wizard of Oz
tornadoes
farming
tornadoes
farmers
(did I mention)tornado alley
Alabama
"Crimson Tide"(college football)
white supremecy
"Good christian people"
Forrest Gump lives there
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terje_the_ma...
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posted January 12, 2005 02:35 PM |
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Tennessee
country music
home of Elvis Presley
eats southern food dishes(fried apple crisp desert)
all the women have poofy hair
Elvis is the only man that ever lived in Tennessee
Davy Crockett!!! 
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Washington d.c.
pentagon(which is top secret)
lots of monuments
is it a state?
it doesn't have any electoral votes
Is the Pentagon supposed to be a top secret? 
Anyway, Norway has been so thoroughly discussed, so I won't have any more to add...
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klauts
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posted January 13, 2005 08:53 PM |
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5.50% of the romanians are hackers and use false credit cards..
6.We are very wild, like our ancestors..
7.All romanians like Dragostea din Tei and Cheeky Song!!!
well.... 5) is almost true 
whats so wrong about 6)? althou its not true
and 7) BLOODY NO!!!!! FOREVER METAL!!!
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posted January 13, 2005 09:06 PM |
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7.All romanians like Dragostea din Tei and Cheeky Song!!!
7) BLOODY NO!!!!! FOREVER METAL!!!
I was going to say that the common misconception was all of you listen to metal! LOL
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terje_the_ma...
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posted January 13, 2005 09:11 PM |
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anyway continuing they went to the Moldovanian monstaries.. she didn't took any pictures of the wondefull things.. but when she saw a gipsy wagon she quickly took a picture of that.. RUDE!!!
Romanians seem to have an issue with gypsies...
Is that a misconception too? And how do you suppose the French woman should know about your possible antipathies towards gypsies?
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posted January 13, 2005 09:34 PM |
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Edited By: Shiva on 13 Jan 2005
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I like seeing Americans with skis driving through
the streets of Montreal in July
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Shai-Hulud
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posted January 13, 2005 09:50 PM |
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anyway continuing they went to the Moldovanian monstaries.. she didn't took any pictures of the wondefull things.. but when she saw a gipsy wagon she quickly took a picture of that.. RUDE!!!
Romanians seem to have an issue with gypsies...
Is that a misconception too? And how do you suppose the French woman should know about your possible antipathies towards gypsies?
Well.. I believe that is beracuse:
1. 90% of the gypsies are criminals, thieves, part of the local mafia or just beggers. And I'm not exagerating. Like one of my aunt almost got knifed by a female gypsy.
2. Other countries belive that Romania is a country of gypsies, adn romanians are just a minority. WRONG!
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7.All romanians like Dragostea din Tei and Cheeky Song!!!
7) BLOODY NO!!!!! FOREVER METAL!!!
I was going to say that the common misconception was all of you listen to metal! LOL
LOL.. Well I listen to metal! And for that I get in trouble.. 40% of the guys around here listen to hip-hop, and have a real hate for metalists... also hardcorists and punkers..
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terje_the_ma...
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posted January 13, 2005 09:56 PM |
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Seems like Romania is a very hateful country...
The one thing I remember best from my holiday in Romania back in '92, was that if anyone walked on a lawn, someone would come and shout for that person to get his arse off it...
And I refuse to believe the gypsies are that bad. But what do I know...
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posted January 14, 2005 04:38 AM |
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And I refuse to believe the gypsies are that bad. But what do I know...
Of course they are not. Thing is, xenophobia and racism against gypsies today in Europe (obviosly these countries are not "Europe", no matter how hard they strive to belong there) is amazingly strong, even rivals the Apartheid. If anyone has seen the slums where Roma live, without basic sanitary conditions, the huge number of Roma kids begging on the streets for charity, its terrible, and at the same time there are very decent consitions for the majority. If this is not Apartheid, i dont know what is.
Sure, they are equal in the face of the law, but they are discriminated against and prevented from taking part in normal social life. Also mental matrix of the majority needs to be changed. And at the same time, Gypsy culture is one of the most influensive factors in the development of Balkan music. Sad really.
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posted January 14, 2005 07:06 AM |
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Edited By: Consis on 14 Jan 2005
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Very Interesting
I must tell you that I find this relation of Gypsy stigma to western Apartheid very interesting. I commonly refer to my own mother and older sister as a "gypsy". I call them this because they are never stable people. They donot value what I value. I like to live in a home that does not move. I like to have the same job for a long time and then retire from it. But my mother and sister travel A LOT and they reject authority. When people tell them they are breaking the law by what they say or do then they want to do it even more. That is why I call my sister and mother a "gypsy".
But the strange thing is americans don't have the same thinking as Europeans. I do because of all the time I spend listening to everyone talk in this place. But most americans think a gypsy is like a witch that travels with a wagon and crystal ball of clairvoyance. Our hollywood(t.v./movies) always makes gypsies look like this. They wear some kind of bandanna over their head with very large bulky silver earrings most likely made from silverware eating utensils. Strange isn't it; how americans associate "gypsy" with magic, mysiticism, taro cards, palm reading, etc? But europeans associate them with poverty, thievery, and lawlessness you say? Hmm strange indeed.
Oh by the way Svarog. You mispelled something:Quote:
Gypsy culture is one of the most influensive factors in the development of Balkan music.
The word is influence. The proper usage of the way you had it is influencial. Influensive isn't really a word but the way you spelled it makes it sound like you meant flu-like(as in the gypsies gave balkan music the flu). I know you didn't mean to make it sound like they caught a cold virus but I thought it sounded funny. I don't normally correct anyone because I make many mistakes too. I don't mean any offense. I thought it was funny-sounding.
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terje_the_ma...
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posted January 14, 2005 10:15 AM |
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Of course they are not. Thing is, xenophobia and racism against gypsies today in Europe (obviosly these countries are not "Europe", no matter how hard they strive to belong there) is amazingly strong, even rivals the Apartheid.
That's basically what I thought...
Now, Norway hasn't treated it's traveling people any better; it's only 30 years since the government stopped taking childern away from their parents if they were "gypsies" (I don't know how related they were, but Norwegian "gypsies" had much the same lifestyle as continental European ones), sterilizing them, and shooting their horses if they came to close to where "decent" people lived (imagine the disaster it must have been for the "gypsy" family; losing their only means of transportation in what was practically "enemy territory").
"We" also did this to psychical retarded people, so it seems we learned more than we're willing to admit during the German occupation...
Thank god this barbary has ceased here at least...
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Shai-Hulud
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posted January 14, 2005 03:27 PM |
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And I refuse to believe the gypsies are that bad. But what do I know...
Of course they are not. Thing is, xenophobia and racism against gypsies today in Europe (obviosly these countries are not "Europe", no matter how hard they strive to belong there) is amazingly strong, even rivals the Apartheid. If anyone has seen the slums where Roma live, without basic sanitary conditions, the huge number of Roma kids begging on the streets for charity, its terrible, and at the same time there are very decent consitions for the majority. If this is not Apartheid, i dont know what is.
Sure, they are equal in the face of the law, but they are discriminated against and prevented from taking part in normal social life. Also mental matrix of the majority needs to be changed. And at the same time, Gypsy culture is one of the most influensive factors in the development of Balkan music. Sad really.
Svarog... you really talk without knowing stuff around here.. I'm here and I know it, believe me..I'm not a racist( if I were a racist I wouldn't had written that 90% ..)Let me give you a simple example.. If the local mafia needs to kill somebody, they pay a few gypsies to do it. How do I know?!? Well simple.. I gad my share of disscusions at a beer in which people from the mafia were taking part. Also you talking about the beggers.. Well belive me, not all beggers are gypsy. Many of them are abandonned kids and stuff. It is just the fact that orphelinates can't handle the situation. Also saw at TV many cases of gypsies who went to France and other UE countries and obliged their kids to beg. Also, not all gypsies are very poor people. If you go to village near Galatz, you could see REAL PALACES that belong to gypsies. Seen pictures of them. The ruler of gypsies, called King of Gypsies in Romania, has a real gold crown.
So in conclusion.. you got on my nerves. Next time, please don't talk without informing. You really know many things, but no need to say things you only speculate.
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Svarog
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posted January 15, 2005 05:47 AM |
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Edited By: Svarog on 16 Jan 2005
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