…a foreign, drunken, philandering buffoon who cheated on his wife during their honeymoon and was best friends with a horrific pedophile is a better ambassador at promoting your country than your own idiotic and unnecessarily combative Minister of Tourism. Continue reading You Know You’re Romanian When…
Many moons ago when the grass was greener and the waters were sweet, I briefly worked at an American fast food restaurant called Wendy’s. It’s essentially identical to McDonald’s, selling hamburgers and chicken sandwiches, French fries and carbonated sugar drinks (soda). While it’s often derided as work that’s just flipping burgers, I actually never “graduated” to that responsibility because cooking the sandwiches is actually the … Continue reading The Franchise
Well it seems that every few months I’ve got to post a new article on Gypsies so here we go with another bit of clarification. Certainly you can find all of my previous posts on the subject by clicking here or reading all of my posts under the relevant category (articles on the main page are grouped by category). Since I’ve met so many foreigners … Continue reading Black and Blue
Well folks, if you’ve been visiting this website here lately, you’ve probably noticed a few changes. Some are rather minor cosmetic ones and others are a little more substantial. If you’re a long-time reader from way back, the biggest change you’ve probably noticed is that I’ve been posting more often here recently. Writing, Ahoy! Back in December I wrote a post called Batting a Thousand. … Continue reading Ch-Ch-Changes
As Europeans began their centuries long business of exploration, subjugation, genocide, slavery and colonization of lands inhabited by the indigenous peoples (“Indians”) of the Americas, it isn’t surprising that along the way they adopted native words into their own language for the plants, animals and activities that they encountered. Modern English has hundreds of words in regular use that were originally native words. Just yesterday … Continue reading WOTD: Cauciuc
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