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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>480</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-5519765718697868806</id><published>2012-01-28T20:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T20:26:02.101+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='USA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Motorists / Conducători auto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Questions for My Readers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photoholic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cars the Brits Drive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spyder or Roadster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English Language / Limba engleză'/><title type='text'>UK’s motor vanity fair (25) [Bâlciul deşertăciunilor cu motor din UK]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edsT9hgsaKQ/TyQ6H_LEGnI/AAAAAAAAD3I/HOixnubJFk8/s1600/Carmine+car+-+DSC01518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-edsT9hgsaKQ/TyQ6H_LEGnI/AAAAAAAAD3I/HOixnubJFk8/s400/Carmine+car+-+DSC01518.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A strange looking car photographed by &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;my reader C.L.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;I-don’t-know-where&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; in the UK, inside what seemed to be (from other pictures) a sort of exclusive little &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_yard"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;scrapyard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, as it is known in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;British English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Or, if any one is more familiarised with the name in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;American English&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – a &lt;i&gt;junkyard&lt;/i&gt;. A place where a bunch of former fancy cars – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dictionary.sensagent.com/spyder/en-en/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;spyders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (or &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadster"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;roadsters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; by their American name) – had been put to rest (or to rust :-).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;This &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;carmine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (do I correctly identify the colour, girls?!) car appears to me as one that has once been some mighty ‘&lt;i&gt;king of the roads&lt;/i&gt;’, maybe in the 1960s or 1970s. But I’ve got no idea about the brand.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;To any reader from anywhere in the world ever landing on this blog page (and being&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;better informed about this car that I am, of course)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;I can only say: please,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;share your knowledge with us!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S2DCCI1746M/TyLT3e_RIXI/AAAAAAAAD3A/9Rphw8wFZdc/s1600/Ger+1+-+P1470890.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S2DCCI1746M/TyLT3e_RIXI/AAAAAAAAD3A/9Rphw8wFZdc/s400/Ger+1+-+P1470890.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;De-a lungul ultimilor ani, de fiecare dacă când România a înfruntat condiţii meteorologice extreme, fusesem &lt;i&gt;avertizaţi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;. Primisem semnalul că urmează ceva foarte rău&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"&gt;(caniculă, furtună, inundaţie, ger etc.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;cod portocaliu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nmppD83OoUI/TyLTyvFMIzI/AAAAAAAAD24/DkupMsoaQis/s1600/Ger+2+-+P1470882.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nmppD83OoUI/TyLTyvFMIzI/AAAAAAAAD24/DkupMsoaQis/s400/Ger+2+-+P1470882.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;La fel precum alte respectabile ţări UE, şi noi avem sisteme de avertizare timpurie, &amp;nbsp;iar autorităţile statului pot să anticipeze întâmplările nedorite, pentru că ştiu &lt;i&gt;când&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;unde&lt;/i&gt; şi &lt;i&gt;cu ce amploare&lt;/i&gt; vremea o va lua razna.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z52DVlyeB9w/TyLTsiVl9HI/AAAAAAAAD2w/e-UzxxUhIiM/s1600/Ger+3+-+P1470896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Z52DVlyeB9w/TyLTsiVl9HI/AAAAAAAAD2w/e-UzxxUhIiM/s400/Ger+3+-+P1470896.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Însă, fără excepţie, de fiecare dată suntem luaţi prin surprindere, de la vlădică la opincă, de la &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gandul.info/politica/emil-boc-a-dat-la-lopata-pentru-a-scoate-din-zapada-un-audi-q7-9178382"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;premierul-lopătar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; până la unii şoferi care s-or crede mai tari decât orice avertizări.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vY-Bkzcw3zA/TyLTnuI56bI/AAAAAAAAD2o/48VOzYPnc2o/s1600/Ger+4+-+P1470888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vY-Bkzcw3zA/TyLTnuI56bI/AAAAAAAAD2o/48VOzYPnc2o/s400/Ger+4+-+P1470888.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Am putea s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă ne amăgim că şi la alţii merg lucrurile la fel de prost când dă viscolul şi gerul (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074433/UK-weather-forecast-Snow-heavy-rain-hit-large-parts-Britain.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Big Freeze&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), invocând ultimele trei ierni aspre (poate vine şi &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/9044353/Britain-braces-itself-for-the-cold-as-snow-starts-to-fall-across-the-country.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;a patra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;?!) din Anglia şi Scoţia. Cam tot aşa de mare este surpriza autorităţilor şi pe acolo...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5xJ5sAVJVRk/TyLTZYa0QVI/AAAAAAAAD2g/lIL0ZwcyuZ4/s1600/Ger+5+-+P1470897.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5xJ5sAVJVRk/TyLTZYa0QVI/AAAAAAAAD2g/lIL0ZwcyuZ4/s400/Ger+5+-+P1470897.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Totuşi, clima Marii Britanii – şi aceasta de acum, darămite cea mediteraneană pe care i-o prevăd ideologii încălzirii globale – este destul de blândă, ca să justifice precauţii excesive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZUczPlupK8/TyLTWElReVI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/QtphGYbyeS0/s1600/Ger+6+-+P1470894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IZUczPlupK8/TyLTWElReVI/AAAAAAAAD2Y/QtphGYbyeS0/s400/Ger+6+-+P1470894.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Mai ales în condiţii de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediafax.ro/economic/datoria-publica-a-marii-britanii-a-depasit-pragul-de-1-000-miliarde-de-lire-sterline-9172335"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;datorie publică consistentă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, în UK nu prea se face să investeşti masiv în tehnologii anti-zăpadă. Las&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ pe oamenii cu răspundere &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;din Canada, Rusia ori Suedia să-şi bată capul cu aşa ceva... &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H3bTVEtWox8/TyLTScqcabI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/pHVH76hZUNc/s1600/Ger+7+-+P1470893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H3bTVEtWox8/TyLTScqcabI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/pHVH76hZUNc/s400/Ger+7+-+P1470893.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Ei bine, poate că în UK o &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;merge şi a&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;(tipic rom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;âneşte să-i zicem?), dar acolo ar fi avut loc măcar un mic cutremur politic de s-ar întâmpla, precum în România, ca viscolul să lase în urmă oameni morţi de frig în maşini.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RBM381UR23c/TyLTNXO5AwI/AAAAAAAAD2I/TcjAAJMuQPY/s1600/Ger+8+-+P1470875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RBM381UR23c/TyLTNXO5AwI/AAAAAAAAD2I/TcjAAJMuQPY/s400/Ger+8+-+P1470875.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Desigur, viaţa şi moartea sunt în mâna lui Dumnezeu, dar cine s-ar putea ascunde după scuza că &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;aşa a fost să fie&lt;/i&gt;”, când este vorba de un (prevăzut!) viscol?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rDC27ARgyac/TyLTG7ymGvI/AAAAAAAAD2A/zn3tH7s5O0o/s1600/Ger+9+-+P1470884.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rDC27ARgyac/TyLTG7ymGvI/AAAAAAAAD2A/zn3tH7s5O0o/s400/Ger+9+-+P1470884.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Fiecare dintre noi vine şi se duce de pe lumea aceasta cum îi este rânduit, dar dacă adevărata cauză a morţii este ‘&lt;i&gt;ciuma portocalie&lt;/i&gt;’, nicidecum gerul? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_zdpkd2SGv0/TyLS75HYuxI/AAAAAAAAD14/gxQluZ1zkWY/s1600/Ger+10+-+P1470895.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_zdpkd2SGv0/TyLS75HYuxI/AAAAAAAAD14/gxQluZ1zkWY/s400/Ger+10+-+P1470895.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;La opt ani de la îmbătarea cu promisiunile de stârpire ale ‘&lt;i&gt;revolu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ţiei portocalii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;dezăpezirea unui kilometru de drum în România este &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.romanialibera.ro/bani-afaceri/economie/incredibil-romania-cheltuieste-pe-deszapezirea-soselelor-cat-finlanda-247227.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;de patru ori mai scumpă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; decât dezăpezirea unui kilometru de drum din Finlanda.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-5758797371633301263?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/5758797371633301263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=5758797371633301263' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/5758797371633301263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/5758797371633301263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/cod-portocaliu-code-orange.html' title='Cod portocaliu [Code Orange]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S2DCCI1746M/TyLT3e_RIXI/AAAAAAAAD3A/9Rphw8wFZdc/s72-c/Ger+1+-+P1470890.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-7377131669641642409</id><published>2012-01-25T19:10:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T19:51:30.439+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sweden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='France'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Questions for My Readers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Privatisation of British Rail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CFR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margaret Thatcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Japan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Public Transport in the UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Netherlands'/><title type='text'>About public transport in the UK (22) [Despre transportul în comun în UK]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8EWHe9B9NYU/TyAyjtXzZSI/AAAAAAAAD1w/RueCkt_kwdE/s1600/Waverley+1+-+P1070239.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8EWHe9B9NYU/TyAyjtXzZSI/AAAAAAAAD1w/RueCkt_kwdE/s400/Waverley+1+-+P1070239.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It would be reasonable to expect that in a country like Great Britain, where &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;locomotives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; were invented some two centuries ago, trains would the best in the world in our times, wouldn’t it? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Well, that &lt;i&gt;would be&lt;/i&gt; reasonable… But what’s reasonable these days in the world we live in? There’s no secret that – although faring well compared to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/07/about-public-transport-in-uk-14-despre.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;what happens in Romania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Great_Britain"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the British rail transport&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; lags behind those of France, Germany and other EU countries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tUAyEVjqJmw/TyAyeisfuGI/AAAAAAAAD1o/BXqMDSaZ9-c/s1600/Waverley+2+-+P1110785.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tUAyEVjqJmw/TyAyeisfuGI/AAAAAAAAD1o/BXqMDSaZ9-c/s400/Waverley+2+-+P1110785.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;And it is certainly lightyears away from the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Japanese rail system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, where passengers can receive a ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_certificate"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;delay certificate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ if a train is only five minutes late!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;As of 1994, trains in the UK have been operated by private firms, nevertheless, Britons haven’t seen any of the improvements in service quality that they had been promised ever since &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/essential/biography.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Margaret Thatcher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in the 1980s.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PJjWnUjUvQ/TyAyZJW44dI/AAAAAAAAD1g/kid69aGvhzE/s1600/Waverley+3+-+P1110796.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2PJjWnUjUvQ/TyAyZJW44dI/AAAAAAAAD1g/kid69aGvhzE/s400/Waverley+3+-+P1110796.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;By all accounts, it was a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/05/20/britons-are-paying-the-price-for-the-tories-botched-privatisation-of-the-railways-115875-23142462/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;botched privatisation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Britons ended up paying 40% more for a train ticket in their own country than they would pay in the Netherlands, Sweden or France.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;To this day, France’s (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;SNCF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) and Germany’s (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bahn"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Deutsche Ban&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) rail companies are state-owned and their performance is often acclaimed. On the other hand, since 1987, Japan’s complex rail system has been in the hands of some 16 private firms – and trains run even better.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8K-LBdMX2Nc/TyAyQDOAGHI/AAAAAAAAD1Y/Hqz7N3ijaTI/s1600/Waverley+4+-+P1210048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8K-LBdMX2Nc/TyAyQDOAGHI/AAAAAAAAD1Y/Hqz7N3ijaTI/s400/Waverley+4+-+P1210048.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It’s not the aim of this blog post to go into ideological speculations about privatisation. If it’s carried out, it should be &lt;i&gt;done properly&lt;/i&gt; – the Japanese way, not the British way (read about this big failure: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk/management/cri/pubpdf/Occasional_Papers/23_Glaister.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://think-left.org/2011/08/30/re-nationalise-the-railways/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/19/transport-transport"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/04/east-coast-rail-privatisation-virgin"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publicworld.org/docs/britrail.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uctc.net/access/28/Access%2028%20-%2004%20-%20How%20Privatization%20Became%20a%20Train%20Wreck.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/982037.stm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Why do I fear that when the Romanian state-owned rail company (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83ile_Ferate_Rom%C3%A2ne"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;CFR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) is eventually privatised, the result will look more like what happened in Britain than how privatisation was done in Japan?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-7377131669641642409?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/7377131669641642409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=7377131669641642409' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7377131669641642409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7377131669641642409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/about-public-transport-in-uk-22-despre.html' title='About public transport in the UK (22) [Despre transportul în comun în UK]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8EWHe9B9NYU/TyAyjtXzZSI/AAAAAAAAD1w/RueCkt_kwdE/s72-c/Waverley+1+-+P1070239.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-7935700271561578424</id><published>2012-01-23T18:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T18:51:19.422+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Picnic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Realităţi româneşti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sea / Mare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DB'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brighton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Meadows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK Teens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Edinburgh'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photoholic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='British Way of Having Fun / Distracţie britanică'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='East Sussex'/><title type='text'>[EN] No comment / [RO] Fără comentarii (22) – At a barbecue / La un grătar</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZ2OjvzP0n4/Tx2PRz3_KYI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/4q2raYLL4Hw/s1600/P1390625+-+Barbecue+Romania.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZ2OjvzP0n4/Tx2PRz3_KYI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/4q2raYLL4Hw/s400/P1390625+-+Barbecue+Romania.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Barbecuing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; in Romania – somewhere NV of Târgovişte, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_929148383"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;D&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A2mbovi%C8%9Ba_County"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;âmboviţa county&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (DB)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparate_la_gr%C4%83tar"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;La grătar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; în România – undeva la NV de Târgovişte, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude%C8%9Bul_D%C3%A2mbovi%C8%9Ba"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;judeţul Dâmboviţa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (DB).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tAkefy5c3uY/Tx2POMfT3zI/AAAAAAAAD1I/KkBl_Bt9ps8/s1600/P1110427+-+Barbecue+Edinburgh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tAkefy5c3uY/Tx2POMfT3zI/AAAAAAAAD1I/KkBl_Bt9ps8/s400/P1110427+-+Barbecue+Edinburgh.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Barbecuing in Scotland –&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meadows_(park)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The Meadows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; park, Edinburgh. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;La grătar în Scoţia – parcul &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meadows_(park)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The Meadows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, Edinburgh.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkgDYITQd5M/Tx2PKOdaM1I/AAAAAAAAD1A/9vhtJ3hn_KU/s1600/P1100580+-+Barbecue+Brighton.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VkgDYITQd5M/Tx2PKOdaM1I/AAAAAAAAD1A/9vhtJ3hn_KU/s400/P1100580+-+Barbecue+Brighton.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; ...and youngsters warming up by a fire on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visitbrighton.com/things-to-do/beach-life"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;a beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the cold sea in Brighton, East Susssex. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;...ş&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;i tineri încălzindu-se la un foc pe &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visitbrighton.com/things-to-do/beach-life"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o plajă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;lângă marea rece din Brighton, East Sussex.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-7935700271561578424?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/7935700271561578424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=7935700271561578424' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7935700271561578424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7935700271561578424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/en-no-comment-ro-fara-comentarii-22-at.html' title='[EN] No comment / [RO] Fără comentarii (22) – At a barbecue / La un grătar'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xZ2OjvzP0n4/Tx2PRz3_KYI/AAAAAAAAD1Q/4q2raYLL4Hw/s72-c/P1390625+-+Barbecue+Romania.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-7252645746223474727</id><published>2012-01-20T18:18:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T13:15:52.370+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traian Băsescu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Death / Moarte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I.L. Caragiale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St. Paul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Realităţi româneşti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Literature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Urban Art / Artă urbană'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EMU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alegeri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Berlin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1914-1918'/><title type='text'>România fără rost a lui I.L. Caragiale, o sută de ani mai târziu... [I.L. Caragiale’s aimless Romania, a hundred years later…]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUEv4riZtTQ/TxmRjHUp82I/AAAAAAAAD04/1nBygonpQnI/s1600/Pta+Univ+1+-+P1470409.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUEv4riZtTQ/TxmRjHUp82I/AAAAAAAAD04/1nBygonpQnI/s400/Pta+Univ+1+-+P1470409.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În 2012, se vor împlini &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ronduldesibiu.ro/rondul-cafe/Anul-Caragiale-politica-romaneasca/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o sută de ani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; de când a murit&lt;i&gt; &lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Luca_Caragiale"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Ion Luca Caragiale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, după vreo şapte ani de autoexil în capitala Germaniei. Fără îndoială, şi pe atunci era traiul mai bun&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;acolo, iar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;ora Europei&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; (acum a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniunea_European%C4%83#Uniunea_monetar.C4.83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EMU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; şi a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniunea_European%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;UE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) începuse deja să se dea la &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Berlin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Era mai bine în acra, ordonata, eleganta şi &lt;i&gt;cumintea&lt;/i&gt; – dar care avea să-şi dea cu mucii în fasole, în &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primul_R%C4%83zboi_Mondial"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;1914-1918&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;! – Germanie decât în preaplina de dulci neorânduieli Românie. Acolo lucrurile mergeau ceas, dincoace – parcă nu mai aveau vreun rost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Şi pe atunci, printre primii care se stabileau peste hotare erau cei cu &lt;i&gt;minţi luminate&lt;/i&gt;, care nu plecau neapărat de foame (s-ar fi dus şi flămânzii, dar cine i-ar fi primit?), ci de &lt;i&gt;scârbă&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Aşa plecase şi Caragiale, pe care mă şi mir de nu şi-l revendică vreunul dintre &lt;i&gt;indignaţii anti-sistem&lt;/i&gt; de pe străzi, citându-i cuvinte precum acestea: “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Cauza dezastrului în care a căzut țara este numai – da, numai, nenorocita politică ce o fac partidele și bărbații noștri de stat, de patruzeci de ani încoace”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Dar cine să-l mai citească pe &lt;i&gt;Nenea Iancu&lt;/i&gt; altundeva decât pe &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bnr.ro/Monede-si-bancnote-in-circulatie-724.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;bancnota de 100 de lei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;? Şi, de l-ar mai citi cineva, ce altceva &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şi-ar mai agonisi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;în suflet decât amărăciune?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Oare mai trebuie pomenite &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/1907_din_prim%C4%83var%C4%83_p%C3%A2n%C4%83'n_toamn%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;vorbele lui Caragiale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, ca să priceapă mai marii zilei că &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;între masa poporului și clasele stăpânitoare este (cine ar putea tăgădui?) o prăpastie de interese și de sentimente, pe care aceste clase n’au știut-o umplea încetul cu încetul, ba chiar și-au dat toată osteneala s’o sape cât mai adânc&lt;/i&gt;”?!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Orcare om cuminte peste putinţă să nu gândească&lt;/i&gt;”, socotea dramaturgul, dar iată cum, tâlcul celor ce se petrec, nu pare a-l pricepe tipătescul de la Cotroceni, dandanachii portocalii sau brânzoveneştii uselişti, nici pristandalele care – “&lt;i&gt;curat constiuţional&lt;/i&gt;”, nu-i a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şa?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; – dau în oameni ca în oala de fasole…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Oare o să ajungem chiar într-acolo, încât, puşi faţă în faţă cu reacţiunea primului cetăţean turmentat al ţării, nişte puhoaie de cetăţeni nu chiar atât de oropsiţi precum cei de la 1907 (dar poate la fel de iscusit aţâţaţi de peste hotare&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://foaienationala.ro/1907rascoala-sau-complot.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ca atunci&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) să sară la gâtul câtorva vampiri sugători de sânge ai boborului?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Şi de ar fi &lt;i&gt;să iasă cu sânge&lt;/i&gt; – ipoteză, probabil, foarte convenabilă unei puzderii de interese – ar putea ieşi ceva bun şi pentru românul scos din r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăbdări&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, dar care îşi arde mânia în crâşmă, în faţa televizorului,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;pe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/Protest.AntiBasescu"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt; sau într-un joc video? Nicidecum.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fkTuBESJXeg/TxmRckIgtaI/AAAAAAAAD0w/6sVl9IsELEE/s1600/Pta+Univ+2+-+P1470412.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fkTuBESJXeg/TxmRckIgtaI/AAAAAAAAD0w/6sVl9IsELEE/s400/Pta+Univ+2+-+P1470412.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Putem &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;înlocui &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;liderii, ca să facem&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;niţel mai&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white;"&gt;suportabil&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;sistemul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, până la o vreme&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;– să plece Băsescu (cât mai repede), să se facă alegeri (nefurate!), iar oamenii să voteze (şi să candideze, să se organizeze politic), nu să-şi închipuie că ar da cineva o ceapă degerată pe ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;protestul&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ lor prin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acum.tv/articol/10431/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;absenteism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A schimba sistemul rămâne o jalnică amăgire. Nu-l putem schimba, căci toţi suntem parte din el. Şi este tot atât de greu a-l schimba (îmbunătăţi, înnoi, reforma etc) &lt;i&gt;pe el&lt;/i&gt; precum este a ne schimba &lt;i&gt;pe noi&lt;/i&gt; înşine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Cine nu s-a folosit niciodată de ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/teatru/ilc-lantul.php"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Lanţul slăbiciunilor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’, cine n-a luat cam multişoare lucruri din jur în băşcălie, ca ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Mitic%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mitică&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ a lui Nenea Iancu, cine n-a copiat la examene, cine n-a dat şpagă în via&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ţa lui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; sau cine şi-a ţinut cuvântul dat întotdeauna să ridice primul piatra contra sistemului!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Desigur că ar fi de dorit un ‘&lt;i&gt;alt sistem&lt;/i&gt;’ şi o ‘&lt;i&gt;viaţă mai bună&lt;/i&gt;’ (ideal, să fie clădite pe dragoste, bucurie, pace, îndelungă-răbdare, bunătate, facere de bine, credinţă, blândeţe, înfrânare, curăţie) – “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=29&amp;amp;cap=5"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;împotriva unora ca acestea nu este poruncă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”, ne aminte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.orthodoxwiki.org/Apostolul_Pavel"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sf. Apostol Pavel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Doar că o astfel de &lt;i&gt;viaţă mai bună&lt;/i&gt; rămâne complet inaccesibilă instrumentelor (voia proprie, mândria, egoismul, lăcomia, indiferenţa etc – manifestate chiar şi la cei ce s-ar decrie drept ‘&lt;i&gt;oameni de bine&lt;/i&gt;’) cu care vrem noi să accedem la ea, iar Caragiale ne pune &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sfantuldaniilsihastrul.ro/articole/129-il-caragiale-noi-si-bisericaq.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;diagnosticul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, la fel de valabil acum mai bine de un veac precum şi în zilele noastre:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Încă de mult, lumea noastră românească nu mai merge la biserică. Oamenii de sus, de mijloc şi de jos au uitat de mult cărarea ce duce la locaşul icoanelor. Boieri, ostaşi, meseriaşi, negustori, dascăli, slujbaşi, mari şi mici s-au lepădat de datoriile către legea lor creştinească – toţi sunt astăzi liber-cugetători. &lt;/i&gt;(…)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Poate, după cum unii, să fie bine; poate că lipsa de aplecare spre religie să fie dovada unui spirit care se emancipează lesne de ideile învechite şi devine astfel mai susceptibil de idei noi, de progres intelectual şi moral.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Poate, dinpotrivă, după cum zic alţii, să fie de rău; poate că lipsa aceasta să fie dovada unei porniri la descreierare, la o scădere, la o înjosire progresivă intelectuală şi morală, la o din ce în ce mai mare pierdere a omeniei. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Nu ştiu deocamdată cine să zic că au dreptate – pesimiştii ori optimiştii; trebuie să mă gândesc mult la această întrebare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;”, se întreba Caragiale, iar &lt;i&gt;dincolo&lt;/i&gt; (nu la Berlin, ci dincolo de moarte) sigur va fi aflat răspunsul.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jkBZ3Crj0Hw/TxmRSMiizgI/AAAAAAAAD0o/f_Yghd-FihU/s1600/Pta+Univ+3+-+P1470413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jkBZ3Crj0Hw/TxmRSMiizgI/AAAAAAAAD0o/f_Yghd-FihU/s400/Pta+Univ+3+-+P1470413.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;La rându-mi, nu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ştiu cât de creştin o fi fost acest &lt;i&gt;om-monument &lt;/i&gt;al literaturii române, însă cu greu s-ar mai putea strânge dovezi &lt;i&gt;pro&lt;/i&gt; sau &lt;i&gt;contra&lt;/i&gt; după un veac de la moarte. Demn de menţionat este cum îi numeşte (de patru ori!) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;foşti ortodocşi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;” pe compatrioţii săi în &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sfantuldaniilsihastrul.ro/articole/129-il-caragiale-noi-si-bisericaq.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;eseul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; citat mai sus. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Aşadar, deloc n-ar trebui să ne mire că, de-a lungul plinelor de haz opere de-ale sale, Hristos nu apare nicăieri amintit măcar (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/O_f%C4%83clie_de_Pa%C8%99te"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;O făclie de Paşte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ nu intră între scrierile comice). Pentru că toate acele haioase personaje trăiau, de fapt, într-o absolută stare tragică.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Veşnic gonind după meschine patimi, antrenaţi în intrigi, ispitiţi de măreţe idei intrate cocoşat în cotloanele minţilor lor înguste, înrobiţi cu totul poftelor clipei prezente, dar fără urmă de deschidere spirituală, către Dumnezeu – aşa sunt personajele &lt;i&gt;comice&lt;/i&gt; (?!) ale scriitorului născut într-un sat numit &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jurnalul.ro/redescoperirea-romaniei/in-fostul-haimanale-dupa-nenea-iancu-print-515997.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Haimanale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Da, &lt;i&gt;haimana&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;= om de nimic, f&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ără căpătâi, derbedeu, vagabond) este omul pe lume, câtă vreme rămâne în afara &lt;i&gt;sistemului lui Dumnezeu&lt;/i&gt; şi îşi raportează împlinirea şi sensul vieţii la tot felul de ale &lt;i&gt;sisteme&lt;/i&gt;. Orice om fără El (cu atât mai grav dacă este un &lt;i&gt;fost ortodox&lt;/i&gt;) nu face decât să &lt;i&gt;vagabondeze&lt;/i&gt; între o amăgire sau alta.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Oricât ar dori cineva să schimbe sistemul social-politic – într-unul care să promită paradisuri pământeşti, prin respect, meritocraţie, prosperitate, bunăstare etc în lumea de aici – nu îşi va putea umple golul sufletesc nici de s-ar putea împlini cu vârf şi îndesat acele promisiuni. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;A nu se crede că aş considera inutile protestele paşnice ori că subscriu la verdictul arogant al unui oarecare caţavenc portocaliu care îi declară &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;viermi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;” pe cei care îşi strigă nemulţumirea pe străzi. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Ar fi de dorit o justă păstrare a proporţiilor: &lt;i&gt;da&lt;/i&gt; – pentru &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;Jos Băsescu&lt;/i&gt;’ (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şi păstrarea acestei imperfecte democraţii, care, dând Cezarului ce-i al Cezarului, nu este încă incompatibilă cu vreo aspiraţie spirituală)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, &lt;i&gt;nu&lt;/i&gt; – pentru ‘&lt;i&gt;revoluţie anti-sistem&lt;/i&gt;’ sau altă grozăvie.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cine mai ştie să citească şi altfel decât &lt;i&gt;Nae&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ipingescu, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;amicul lui&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://literaturaromana.g0.ro/article/jupan-dumitrache-caracterizare-213-1.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Jupân Dumitrache&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, pe un plan care transcende tristele realităţile curente şi perspectivele asupra lumii mustind de coclite ideologii, va pricepe ce explicaţia de mai sus a noţiunii de haimanale...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Astfel, tot în cheie spirituală mă întreb: oare întâmplător are loc noua “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Conu_Leonida_fa%C8%9B%C4%83_cu_reac%C8%9Biunea"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;rivoluţie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;” taman în &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia%C8%9Ba_Universit%C4%83%C8%9Bii"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Piaţa Universităţii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, unde şade gânditor Nenea Iancu alături de personajele sale? Or fi doar o &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ziare.com/social/primaria/personajele-din-operele-lui-caragiale-in-fata-tnb-1063408"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;oarecare creaţie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; de artă urbană sau este &lt;i&gt;o oglindă&lt;/i&gt; – în care nu doar protestatarii, ci noi toţi, neam de &lt;i&gt;haimanale&lt;/i&gt; şi &lt;i&gt;foşti ortodocşi&lt;/i&gt;, să ne putem vedea?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-7252645746223474727?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/7252645746223474727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=7252645746223474727' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7252645746223474727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7252645746223474727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/romania-fara-rost-lui-il-caragiale-o.html' title='România fără rost a lui I.L. Caragiale, o sută de ani mai târziu... [I.L. Caragiale’s aimless Romania, a hundred years later…]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hUEv4riZtTQ/TxmRjHUp82I/AAAAAAAAD04/1nBygonpQnI/s72-c/Pta+Univ+1+-+P1470409.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-1303591854083662414</id><published>2012-01-17T18:48:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T11:32:39.202+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Traian Băsescu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mikheil Saakashvili'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viktor Yuschenko'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ukraine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SMURD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Riots'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hoax of Democracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Elected Dictatorship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Uncle Sam'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communism'/><title type='text'>Romanians to their former ‘orange’ hero: “Come out, ordinary mutt!” [Românii către fostul lor erou ‘portocaliu’: “Ieşi afară, javră ordinară!”]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8JVB5QSimEk/TxWiVhPcpjI/AAAAAAAAD0g/OPuUyHujRwQ/s1600/Base+1+-+P1230416.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8JVB5QSimEk/TxWiVhPcpjI/AAAAAAAAD0g/OPuUyHujRwQ/s400/Base+1+-+P1230416.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;What has been a common sight of the past years – in some corners of the EU (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Greek_protests"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Greece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2011-11-05/world/world_europe_italy-protest_1_berlusconi-confidence-votes-italy-s-president-giorgio-napolitano?_s=PM:EUROPE"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Italy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;), in countries from EU’s periphery (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Georgian_protests"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Georgia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;), in several Arab states (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Egypt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_civil_war"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Libya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;) and to a lesser extent in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16122524"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Russia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; – is finally taking place in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Romanian_protests"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Romania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;People are taking their anger to the streets, a few for senseless rioting (like in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/08/towards-grievous-failure-of-british.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), some others simply to shout that they’ve had enough of the current Government and especially of the incumbent president since December 2004.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Many of those contested learders around the world had always been &lt;i&gt;villains&lt;/i&gt;, but &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1247746703"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Traian B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_B%C4%83sescu"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ăsescu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; – just like &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikheil_Saakashvili"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mikheil Saakashvili&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in Georgia, and Ukraine’s former president &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Viktor Yuschenko&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – was portrayed as an anti-communist and anti-totalitarian hero&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;not so long ago (by the mid 2000s)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It was a ridiculous image, as he was &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-A-Ec/B-sescu-Traian.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;a merchant marine captain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in charge of the largest vessel in the commercial fleet of communist Romania, and he had never hid (nor had he ever seemed ashamed of) his communist past.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Far from winning elections &amp;nbsp;in landslide victories – and many believe he couldn’t have won at all without &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Uncle Sam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’s help – he was, nevertheless, regarded as a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;hero&lt;/i&gt;’ by his fanatic supporters, as well as by the mainstream media of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Western world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In spite of this pedestal of respectability on which he was put and of his ceaseless rethoric against the corruption and presumed authoritarianism of &lt;i&gt;others&lt;/i&gt;, his regime proved to be even more malignous than the previous ones in post-communist Romania.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Eager &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/11/witty-bits-from-what-i-learned-in-uk-12.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;to get richer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, as the former communists had done before them in the early 1990s, the orange gang around B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăsescu has engaged in parasiting on the Romanian economy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sACLoLoNkqo/TxWhZYNAWLI/AAAAAAAAD0I/e3ix0LfgA4o/s1600/Base+2+-+P1030587.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sACLoLoNkqo/TxWhZYNAWLI/AAAAAAAAD0I/e3ix0LfgA4o/s400/Base+2+-+P1030587.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;That was nothing new for democratic Romania. What would eventually draw the ire of many was the aggressive manner in which he understood to exert his prerogatives, as if the political establishment could be steered like the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biruin%C5%A3a_(ship)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;oil tanker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;that was once under his command.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Unlike his predecessors – a shrewd &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Iliescu"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;former commmunist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, always able to build consensus, and a politically weak &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Constantinescu"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;geology professor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, who refused to run for a second term, admitting that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;he had been defeated by the system&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;” – Băsescu appears to be at ease only when at war with someone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Because of his stubbornness and arrogance, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;orange hero&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ would soon be vehemently contested. Halfway into his first term, the Parliament voted for his impeachment. According to the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Romania"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Constitution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, he was suspendend, the President of the Senate temporarily replaced him, and Romanian voters were called to approve or nulify the decision of their representatives.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Back then, Romanians were to bee too blind to see that the bogus anti-system hero, promising to tread on all enemies of democracy and prosperity, was himself the product of a despicable system. Thus, he won the referendum confirming him in office by 70%.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It would be simplistic to believe &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-16/romania-violent-protests/52598336/1?csp=34news"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foreign media reports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;(+ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16570860"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;that the protests on the streets have to do with the VAT increase (from 19% to 24%) or with some of the harshest austerity measures taken anywhere in the EU: a 25% wage cut of public employees, and a 15% tax on pensions. The decisions were taken in May-July 2010, and Romanians bit the bullet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EHaa3kn_Wsw/TxWiPF96CRI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/6u4mFqynstY/s1600/Base+3+-+P1230477.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EHaa3kn_Wsw/TxWiPF96CRI/AAAAAAAAD0Y/6u4mFqynstY/s400/Base+3+-+P1230477.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Maybe not even the incident that ignited the protests – in the second week of January 2012, Băsescu arrogantly took on the chief of the Romanian emergency rescue service (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMURD"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;SMURD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), accusing him of opposing a controversial health reform – should be overestimated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nevertheless, it was the spark that enraged many, among the millions in whose hearts the ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Orange Revolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ (a term which was not as much used in Romania as it was in Ukraine, while the colour was equally widespread) into an ‘&lt;i&gt;orange plague&lt;/i&gt;’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;People are angry with a lot of things in this country, among which Băsescu’s divisive manner of leadership and resentful attitude rise above any other reasons of discontent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The president who promised “&lt;i&gt;to turn to the people&lt;/i&gt;” (in his war against a corrupt system) has turned his back on the people that put their hopes in him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Only insiders from the system who knew exactly when to dress in orange are better off, while many of Băsescu’s fans, his reluctant supporters (who thought he was a lesser evil), the mass of politically indifferent Romanians, and those how never voted for him are worse off. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Although demonstations were held in many cities (some 60) apart from Bucharest, very few are those protesting on the streets these days, compared to the level of discontent in Romania. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZbtCLhcNdT8/TxWhDmMTk5I/AAAAAAAADz4/nsqEDP1bZOU/s1600/Base+4+-+P1260162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZbtCLhcNdT8/TxWhDmMTk5I/AAAAAAAADz4/nsqEDP1bZOU/s400/Base+4+-+P1260162.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Most protesters are a&lt;i&gt;gainst &lt;/i&gt;the entire ruling class, the opposition (former communists + liberals) is united only in weakenesses, while most other law abiding citizens are &amp;nbsp;‘&lt;i&gt;protesting&lt;/i&gt;’ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro-ro.facebook.com/anti.basescu"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;on Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and blogs or cynically mock those on the streets.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;It seems unlikely – but I like to never say never! :-) – that B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăsescu and the Government he supports would resign and call &lt;i&gt;earlier&lt;/i&gt; elections (as 2012 is electoral year anyway). Not even blocking unpopular reforms appears probable for now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;This happens because – thanks to the very same putrid system that he often criticized – &amp;nbsp;Băsescu has managed to forge a ruling coalition. His party (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Liberal_Party_(Romania)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;PDL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) is propped up by a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;new party (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNPR"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;UNPR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) made up of dissenters &amp;nbsp;from the main opposition party (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Romania)"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;PSD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;With a popular support of 10%, Băsescu’s regime is currently &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;a sort of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/05/witty-bits-from-what-i-learned-in-uk-9_18.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;elected dictatorship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;widespread (but far from being &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; until now) protests and the president’s reaction to them will be one of the most serious test for the post-1989 Romanian democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;All in all, the hero of 2004-2009 has turned into public enemy number one. Like so often before in history, the same man who once personified so many hopes for the better became the personification of bitter disappointment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Sadly, irrespective of all the anger and despair of many, there’s no true&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;feeling of revolution&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the air, as if everyone knew that, with of without ‘&lt;i&gt;captain B&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăsescu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, Romania would be still floating adrift boundlessly... As if only hitting an iceberg could possibly help this aimless nation come to its senses...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-1303591854083662414?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/1303591854083662414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=1303591854083662414' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1303591854083662414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1303591854083662414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/romanians-to-their-former-orange-hero.html' title='Romanians to their former ‘orange’ hero: “Come out, ordinary mutt!” [Românii către fostul lor erou ‘portocaliu’: “Ieşi afară, javră ordinară!”]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8JVB5QSimEk/TxWiVhPcpjI/AAAAAAAAD0g/OPuUyHujRwQ/s72-c/Base+1+-+P1230416.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-7943233154859752624</id><published>2012-01-13T16:04:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T17:26:02.163+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hedonism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Smoking / Fumat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Confessions of Faith'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Newspeak / Novlimbă'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Death / Moarte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memento mori'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Information Technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English Language / Limba engleză'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MunteanUK'/><title type='text'>Novlimbă: pot oamenii să-şi ‘reîncarce’ bateriile şi să fie ‘deştepţi’ precum computerele? [Newspeak: can people ‘recharge’ their batteries and be ‘smart’ like computers?]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X2kJWX6SUzs/TxAllLyUSFI/AAAAAAAADzw/VP8VyCWJaZ8/s1600/Apple+Store++1+-+P1020947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X2kJWX6SUzs/TxAllLyUSFI/AAAAAAAADzw/VP8VyCWJaZ8/s400/Apple+Store++1+-+P1020947.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Dacă nu am avea vicii, am fi nişte roboţi&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;”, încuviinţa cineva vorba de duh a unui amic pe un oarecare blog – căruia nu aş avea de ce să-i fac reclamă. &amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;După o asemenea mostră de înţelepciune a vremurilor noastre, n-ar trebui să fie de mirare &amp;nbsp;ce venea scris în rândurile ulterioare. Bloggeru’ îşi cam &lt;i&gt;mângâia&lt;/i&gt; cu vorbe dulci &lt;i&gt;viciile&lt;/i&gt; (cafeaua, fumatul, dependenţa de net), ca pe nişte foarte dragi, nespus de paşnice şi complet &lt;i&gt;nevinovate pisicuţe&lt;/i&gt;…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FDavEahlrQ/TxAlgGLFw6I/AAAAAAAADzo/OTFx3Tbbxlw/s1600/Apple+Store++2+-+P1020942.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FDavEahlrQ/TxAlgGLFw6I/AAAAAAAADzo/OTFx3Tbbxlw/s400/Apple+Store++2+-+P1020942.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cu toţii avem astfel de &lt;i&gt;animale de companie&lt;/i&gt;, mult mai &lt;i&gt;vinovate&lt;/i&gt; decât ne închipuim, dar n-aş vrea să intru acum în detalii despre vicii şi păcate. Mai ales că de dependenţa de net – mai puţin aceea de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, ceea ce nu poate fi circumstanţă atenuantă :-) – sufăr şi eu.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Aş vrea numai să strâng puţin de buba acestor exprimări foarte curente în ultima vreme, care compară omul cu neînsufleţite creaţii de-ale sale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLALoqGPj9w/TxAlZNBqmHI/AAAAAAAADzg/sQOCf5LFBW8/s1600/Apple+Store++3+-+P1020948.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLALoqGPj9w/TxAlZNBqmHI/AAAAAAAADzg/sQOCf5LFBW8/s400/Apple+Store++3+-+P1020948.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;S-a umplut lumea de exemple ale acestei orwelliene &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novlimb%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;novlimbi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Newspeak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;). Ori că ne referim la română, ori la engleză (cele două limbi cu statut oficial egal pe &lt;b&gt;MunteanUK&lt;/b&gt; :-), din ce în ce mai des observ cum &lt;i&gt;măsura omenescului&lt;/i&gt; a devenit &lt;i&gt;prestaţia&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;unei maşinării&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Tot omul obosit vrea să ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;îşi reîncarce bateriile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’, iar de se găseşte vreunul care îşi mai pune mintea la contribuţie – fără ca doar să regurgiteze ceva din informaţiile preasamblate şi preambalate cu care s-a îmbibat, inevitabil, din lumea din jur – se zice că este ‘&lt;i&gt;deştept precum un computer&lt;/i&gt;’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zCoUelcJg6g/TxAlTEX5qEI/AAAAAAAADzY/WNT7P8nlLYs/s1600/Apple+Store++4+-+P1020953.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zCoUelcJg6g/TxAlTEX5qEI/AAAAAAAADzY/WNT7P8nlLYs/s400/Apple+Store++4+-+P1020953.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Iar despre un prichindel care era pe calea înfiripării unei culturi generale, deşi nu ajunseze nici măcar în clasa a patra, colegii mi-au spus că “&lt;i&gt;el este Google-ul clasei&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;A crede că &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Google&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; poate avea vreun soi de virtute în sine, pentru că ‘&lt;i&gt;ştie&lt;/i&gt;’ multe,&amp;nbsp; a socoti că un computer, oricât de performant, este ‘&lt;i&gt;deştept&lt;/i&gt;’ de unul singur îmi pare la fel de stupid precum a crede că un om poate trăi numai din ‘&lt;i&gt;reîncărcări&lt;/i&gt;’ ca o ma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ş&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;inărie.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkqcjXc67kQ/TxAhlL3kuXI/AAAAAAAADzQ/CLI0XONsV2w/s1600/Apple+Store++5+-+P1020946.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkqcjXc67kQ/TxAhlL3kuXI/AAAAAAAADzQ/CLI0XONsV2w/s400/Apple+Store++5+-+P1020946.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A compara omul cu aceste născociri neputincioase (de nu ar fi puse în funcţiune tot de voinţa omului şi de nu s-ar fi creat prin strădaniile sale, dar mai ales cu îngăduinţa &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://florinm.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/%E2%80%9Etatal-atottiitorul-facatorul-cerului-si-al-pamantului-al-tuturor-celor-vazute-si-nevazute-talcuire-la-crez-partea-ii/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Făcătorului tuturor celor văzute şi nevăzute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) este lipsit de sens.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Fiecare om este infinit mai mult decât un robot şi&amp;nbsp;ceea ce îl&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;umanizează&lt;/i&gt; nu sunt viciile (ci dimpotrivă: răstignirea lor!), iar ceea ce ne &lt;i&gt;încarcă&lt;/i&gt; nu sunt cele la care râvnesc cei mai mulţi dintre pământenii zilelor noastre…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h6IoI4dIDZM/TxAheoAurTI/AAAAAAAADzI/KNys0sQ74aE/s1600/Apple+Store++6+-+P1020950.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h6IoI4dIDZM/TxAheoAurTI/AAAAAAAADzI/KNys0sQ74aE/s400/Apple+Store++6+-+P1020950.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;…mai mult somn, mai multă şi mai bună mâncare şi băutură, mai mulţi bani, mai multă faimă, mai mulţi prieteni (pe Facebook?!), mai multe cărţi citite, mai multe filme văzute, mai multe călătorii, nenumărate tipuri de distracţii şi plăceri ori alte felurite ‘&lt;i&gt;experien&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ţe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ irelevante în &lt;i&gt;veşnicie&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Orice baterie re&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;încărcabilă (acumulator) are un ciclu de viaţă, la capătul căruia nu mai este posibilă vreo reîncărcare. Nouă, tocmai când ni se opreşte maşinăria (trupul – singurul în ale cărui pofte şi în a cărui bunăstare am investit), ni se vădeşte omul din noi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YjsylXud8ak/TxAhMy0iV5I/AAAAAAAADzA/xJU4dcTl6Jk/s1600/Apple+Store++7+-+P1020951.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YjsylXud8ak/TxAhMy0iV5I/AAAAAAAADzA/xJU4dcTl6Jk/s400/Apple+Store++7+-+P1020951.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;De-abia când &lt;i&gt;bateriile&lt;/i&gt; (burdihanele, urechile nesătule, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://florinm.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/ochii-vad-inima-cere-cuvant-despre-ce-se-cade-a-face-cineva-cand-va-fi-rapit-cu-ochii-sf-nicodim-aghioritul/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ochii mereu doritori să vădă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, dar şi cotloanele cu gânduri şi amintiri din creier) se golesc definitiv, omul este liber să fie el însuşi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Dar mulţi n-or mai putea &lt;i&gt;să fie&lt;/i&gt;, nu pentru că ar exista &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;nefiinţa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ unde se duc morţii (cum pretinde altă odraslă a novlimbii), ci pentru că&lt;i&gt; bateriile sufletului&lt;/i&gt;, cele cu care trecem dincolo de moarte, vor fi goale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gpYaEMk43o0/TxAhHVPuuCI/AAAAAAAADy4/6fSfQi-m3ns/s1600/Apple+Store++8+-+P1020945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gpYaEMk43o0/TxAhHVPuuCI/AAAAAAAADy4/6fSfQi-m3ns/s400/Apple+Store++8+-+P1020945.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Mai toate dintre &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;hainele care îl fac pe om&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ – după cum zice o proastă vorbă omenească mai veche de inventarea bateriilor, a roboţilor sau a computerelor – vor cădea atunci de pe noi ca frunzele uscate de pe arbori.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Despuiaţi de amăgitorul frunziş, cei acum mereu grijulii să nu ne lăsăm bateriile neîncărcate vom spune şi noi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=25&amp;amp;cap=3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;mă tem, căci sunt gol&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;precum &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ortodoxiatinerilor.ro/fapte-bune/pocainta/7497-plangerea-parintelui-nostru-adam.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;odinioară Adam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. Î&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;nsă teama de atunci a celor &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ortodoxiatinerilor.ro/tinerii-in-societate/ispite-moderne/17023-pasiunile-lumesti.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;trăitori în netemere de Dumnezeu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; în vremea acestei vieţi nu va mai fi de vreun folos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-7943233154859752624?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/7943233154859752624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=7943233154859752624' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7943233154859752624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/7943233154859752624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/novlimba-pot-oamenii-sa-si-reincarce.html' title='Novlimbă: pot oamenii să-şi ‘reîncarce’ bateriile şi să fie ‘deştepţi’ precum computerele? [Newspeak: can people ‘recharge’ their batteries and be ‘smart’ like computers?]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X2kJWX6SUzs/TxAllLyUSFI/AAAAAAAADzw/VP8VyCWJaZ8/s72-c/Apple+Store++1+-+P1020947.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-4763139681317168605</id><published>2012-01-11T18:18:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T21:11:54.305+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Correctness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='British Atheism / Ateism britanic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Questions for My Readers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Islam in the UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Secularism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weird Brit Stuff / Ciudăţenie britanică'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='University of Sussex'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BBC'/><title type='text'>God’s place in a humanist society (21) [Locul lui Dumnezeu într-o societate umanistă]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jWTj4-fLbT4/Tw219Nwf4BI/AAAAAAAADyw/7Wu8rQ-_i_A/s1600/Univ+of+Sussex+-+P1080474.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jWTj4-fLbT4/Tw219Nwf4BI/AAAAAAAADyw/7Wu8rQ-_i_A/s400/Univ+of+Sussex+-+P1080474.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It wouldn’t be fair not to admit that followers of any religion who are teaching or studying at the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;University of Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;can use a specially designated building (in the picture) for services, prayers or meetings of whatever kind.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;From this point of view, the university is 100% politically correct, although not immune to a certain degree of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://protectthepope.com/?p=2374"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;pro-Islamic bias&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; specific to some contemporary British institutions like the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/sikhs-and-hindus-accuse-bbc-of-promuslim-bias-922482.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;BBC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Anyway, the university – which will be half a century old in 2012 – boasts itself with being completely secular, while also tolerant to all religious beliefs.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;From another perspective, it’s strange – if not ridiculous – how such a humanist university uses as a motto a truncated verse from &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esvbible.org/Psalm+46/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Psalm 46&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The moto says “&lt;i&gt;Be still and know&lt;/i&gt;”, instead of “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://bible.cc/psalms/46-10.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Couldn’t have the humanist founders of the university found any other motto not reminding of this ‘&lt;i&gt;mythical character&lt;/i&gt;’ (according to their views) Whose existence they deny?!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-4763139681317168605?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/4763139681317168605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=4763139681317168605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/4763139681317168605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/4763139681317168605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/gods-place-in-humanist-society-12-locul.html' title='God’s place in a humanist society (21) [Locul lui Dumnezeu într-o societate umanistă]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jWTj4-fLbT4/Tw219Nwf4BI/AAAAAAAADyw/7Wu8rQ-_i_A/s72-c/Univ+of+Sussex+-+P1080474.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-1985209410389519825</id><published>2012-01-08T17:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T17:42:07.291+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Belgium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brighton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Questions for My Readers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food from the UK / Mâncare din UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fish and Chips'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brussels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bucharest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='British Footprints in Romania / Urme britanice în România'/><title type='text'>[EN] No comment / [RO] Fără comentarii (21) – Fish &amp; chips / Fish &amp; chips</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IbucQn55mT0/Twm5L5ZzeFI/AAAAAAAADyo/Fd_eLUr56VI/s1600/P1090220+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528UK%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IbucQn55mT0/Twm5L5ZzeFI/AAAAAAAADyo/Fd_eLUr56VI/s400/P1090220+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528UK%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Three mouth watering versions of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;fish and chips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;: &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Trei versiuni care îţi lasă gura apă de&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_331246888"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://aromele.blogspot.com/2009/04/calatorie-culinara-fish-and-chips.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;fish and chips&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Py_pn7umU7U/Twm5IbQRTaI/AAAAAAAADyg/2W8LCyCC8Ec/s1600/P1140996+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528BE%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Py_pn7umU7U/Twm5IbQRTaI/AAAAAAAADyg/2W8LCyCC8Ec/s400/P1140996+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528BE%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;British (pic 1 – Brighton), Belgian (2 – Brussels), and Romanian (3 – Bucharest). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Britanic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă (poza 1 – Brighton), belgiană (2 – Bruxelles) şi românească (3 – Bucureşti).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8BspQjEzMDU/Twm5ETSMlFI/AAAAAAAADyY/NQKaEZnoyls/s1600/P1170776+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528RO%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8BspQjEzMDU/Twm5ETSMlFI/AAAAAAAADyY/NQKaEZnoyls/s400/P1170776+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528RO%2529.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;Could anyone guess which I found tastier? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Ar putea cineva să ghicească pe care am găsit-o mai gustoasă?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-1985209410389519825?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/1985209410389519825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=1985209410389519825' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1985209410389519825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1985209410389519825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/en-no-comment-ro-fara-comentarii-21.html' title='[EN] No comment / [RO] Fără comentarii (21) – Fish &amp; chips / Fish &amp; chips'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IbucQn55mT0/Twm5L5ZzeFI/AAAAAAAADyo/Fd_eLUr56VI/s72-c/P1090220+-+Fish+%2526+Chips+%2528UK%2529.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-285262211920481699</id><published>2012-01-06T18:20:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T18:20:08.929+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Theophany'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK Teens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK Women / Femeile în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty / Frumuseţe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Smile / Zâmbet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Weird Brit Stuff / Ciudăţenie britanică'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='British Civility'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Speakers&apos; Corner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Australia'/><title type='text'>Femeile în UK (24) [Women in the UK]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kwupzrhvdco/TwccR4-OycI/AAAAAAAADyQ/1v7jUpDhdys/s1600/Weird+1+-+P1110001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kwupzrhvdco/TwccR4-OycI/AAAAAAAADyQ/1v7jUpDhdys/s400/Weird+1+-+P1110001.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Nu se îmbrac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă (sau ar fi trebuit să spun &lt;i&gt;dezgolesc&lt;/i&gt;?! – că aceasta se petrece cu atâtea alte fete, inclusiv în România) pentru a atrage atenţia unor &lt;i&gt;amorezi&lt;/i&gt;, fie ei şi unii &lt;i&gt;pasageri&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nici nu se vopsesc sau poartă bijuterii (sau poate nu e un nume potrivit pentru &lt;i&gt;chestiile&lt;/i&gt; acelea?!) care să aibă, măcar la o primă vedere, vreun efect de &lt;i&gt;înfrumuseţare&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;De fapt, parcă scopul ar fi cu totul altul – să &lt;i&gt;scandalizeze&lt;/i&gt;. Numai că efectul nu se mai produce în UK, unde aproape nimeni nu se mai miră de ciudăţenii, nu mai întoarce capul, nu mai strâmbă din nas, darămite să şuşotească ceva.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Că o fi un soi de politeţe (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bdavetian.com/INTRODUCTIONCivility.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;British Civility&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) a celor care îşi văd de treaba lor (&lt;i&gt;mind their own business&lt;/i&gt;) sau o atotcuprinzătoare diferenţă – nu ştiu. Dar aş fi curios să aflu :-)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Este imposibil să nu remarci cât de indiferentă rămâne lumea pe străzi la &lt;i&gt;mesajele vizuale&lt;/i&gt; pe care vor să le transmită unele adolescente din UK, care n-ar avea nicio şansă de a rămâne &lt;i&gt;neremarcate&lt;/i&gt; în România.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;De la un &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Uite&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;-o şi p-aia...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;” până la “&lt;i&gt;Vai, tinerii din ziua de azi…&lt;/i&gt;” ori “&lt;i&gt;Aşa ceva, pe vremea mea…&lt;/i&gt;”, fluierături, priviri &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;î&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ncruntate sau zeci de capete întoarse, efectul ar fi &lt;i&gt;garantat&lt;/i&gt; la noi. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O veritabilă &lt;i&gt;atragere a atenţiei&lt;/i&gt; s-ar produce în România, faţă de Marea Britanie, însă tot nu ar însemna ceva care să merite efortul celor care or fi investit timp, bani, răbdare etc în a-şi modifica înfăţişarea în felul respectiv.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Mă rog, poate unii (unele) poate chiar aceasta vor să primească – &lt;i&gt;aversiune&lt;/i&gt; – şi să consume drept hrană a sentimentului &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;da, chiar sunt altfel, am ceva de spus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;” toate privirile şi gesturile dezaprobatoare primite când ies în lume.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Din păcate, aproape nimeni şi aproape niciodată nu stă de vorbă cu &lt;i&gt;ciudaţii&lt;/i&gt;, pentru a afla dacă au ceva de spus, cum or crede mulţi despre ei înşişi. Înfăţişarea este al lor &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers'_Corner"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Speakers’ Corner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GD11fObJ_uk/TwccF-uSHNI/AAAAAAAADyI/5L7CK526fOo/s1600/Weird+2+-+P1080804.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GD11fObJ_uk/TwccF-uSHNI/AAAAAAAADyI/5L7CK526fOo/s400/Weird+2+-+P1080804.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;De câteva ori – din curiozitate tipic românească, jurnalistică sau pur şi simplu ca defect personal – m-am angajat în câte o mică pălăvrăgeală (&lt;i&gt;chat&lt;/i&gt;) cu astfel de personaje. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;De fiecare dată am înţeles că, dincolo de înfăţişarea scandaloasă, persoanele respective voiau să transmită ceva, căutau ceva, deşi nu ştiau ce anume. Şi ciudăţenia aspectului exterior nu este neapărat un semn de instabilitate psihică sau devianţă socială, cum adesea socotim.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ba dimpotrivă. De mai multe ori am văzut tinere cu aparenţă de &lt;i&gt;fete respectabile &lt;/i&gt;moarte de bete sau care te lăsau mut de cât de &lt;i&gt;inteligente&lt;/i&gt; :-) erau. În acelaşi timp, cu astfel de &lt;i&gt;ciudate&lt;/i&gt;, parcă aveai ce vorbi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Iar gheaţa se sparge simplu. În loc de o grimasă (care uneori îţi vine involuntar), pune-ţi pe faţă un zâmbet (numai la filmări cu încetinitorul se pot face diferenţieri între zâmbetele sincere şi cele forţate!) şi spune ceva de genul:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Ce culoare&lt;/i&gt; [ori alt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă chestie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;] &lt;i&gt;interesantă&lt;/i&gt;!”, sau “&lt;i&gt;Cum ţi-ai făcut părul aşa?&lt;/i&gt;”, sau “&lt;i&gt;Ce vrea să reprezinte…?&lt;/i&gt;” sau “&lt;i&gt;Împotriva a ce protestezi?”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Aproape sigur şi aproape mereu vei avea parte de răspunsuri. În primul rând, chipul aparent fioros (din cauza decoraţiunilor bizare) din faţa ta se va însenina, uimit de întrebare şi de faptul că cineva chiar vrea să audă mesajul pe care – repet! – nici persoana respectivă nu-l ştie, nu şi l-a structurat încă în minte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pare jalnic ca, în lumea civilizată în care pretindem că trăim, să &lt;i&gt;ai ceva de zis&lt;/i&gt; prin culori fistichii în păr ori prin nu doar unul (ci 3-4-5-etc) belciuge în nas, buze, urechi, sprâncene… Adică într-o manieră de comunicare specifică mai degrabă &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aborigenilor din Australia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Este încă şi mai dureros că mulţi dintre semenii noştri au nevoi de astfel de caraghioase abţibilduri în a se adresa lumii din jur şi sigur nu ştiu de minunea “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ziarullumina.ro/articole;1823;1;66126;0;Cati-in-Hristos-v-ati-botezat-in-Hristos-v-ati-imbracat.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Câţi în Hristos v-aţi botezat, în Hristos v-aţi şi îmbrăcat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Totuşi, poate tocmai ei sunt leproşii cu care ar sta ast&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;la masă Mântuitorul&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;(nemascat, nedeghizat, la a Sa &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.orthodoxwiki.org/Epifania"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Epifanie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;. Sunt cei care poartă o autoindusă lepră, pe care nimeni nu le-o va da jos cu forţa sau cu predici, ci, poate, cu zâmbete şi curiozitatea de a-i întreba “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ce vrei să zici?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366ff;"&gt;[Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366ff;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366ff;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-285262211920481699?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/285262211920481699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=285262211920481699' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/285262211920481699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/285262211920481699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/femeile-in-uk-24-women-in-uk.html' title='Femeile în UK (24) [Women in the UK]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kwupzrhvdco/TwccR4-OycI/AAAAAAAADyQ/1v7jUpDhdys/s72-c/Weird+1+-+P1110001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-5267337288501645389</id><published>2012-01-03T14:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-03T14:55:51.747+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romanians in the UK / Românii în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brain Drain / Exodul creierelor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happiness / Fericire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Immigration to the UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meritocracy / Meritocraţie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Students / Studenţi'/><title type='text'>[EN] Hail to competing sites / [RO] Salutări siteurilor concurente (20)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7nGTrhbS2Vg/TwLxsWy_oHI/AAAAAAAADyA/aQ4F1aPQZhE/s1600/Hail+to...+-+student-in-uk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7nGTrhbS2Vg/TwLxsWy_oHI/AAAAAAAADyA/aQ4F1aPQZhE/s400/Hail+to...+-+student-in-uk.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Where do young &lt;i&gt;bright minds&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; go, when they leave Romania? More and more often these days – to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studentiromaniuk.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;a British university&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;… &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Unde se duc &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;minţile str&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ălucite&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, când părăsesc România? Tot mai des în aceste zile – către &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studentiromaniuk.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;o universitate britanică&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Will they stay young and bright? That’s a thing no education system could guarantee to anyone. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Vor rămâne tinere şi strălucitoare? Acesta nu-i un lucru pe care vreun sistem de învăţământ să-l poată garanta cuiva.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; In spite of its attractiveness described on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://student-in-uk.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;this blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, as well as on other sites (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.educationuk.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studylondon.ac.uk/?gclid=CLKFne_us60CFQUOfAoddVV1tg"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.studyin-uk.com/e/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Î&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;n ciuda atractivităţii sale descrise pe &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://student-in-uk.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;acest blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, precum şi pe alte siteuri (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-10520605-saptamana-din-viata-unui-absolvent-liceu-care-studiaza-acum-universitate-marea-britanie-marcat-cel-mai-puternic.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edmundo.ro/index.php?page=despre_noi"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-8764073-50-000-tineri-studiaza-facultati-straine-numarul-creste-constant-care-sunt-cauzele-exodului-creiere-care-sunt-sursele-finantare-pentru-studentii-care-pleaca-din-romania.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Studying and living in the UK may not be (the inexistent) ‘&lt;i&gt;heaven on earth’ &lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(possible reasons: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/10/is-uk-such-bad-place-to-live-in-este-uk.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/04/material-wealth-and-british-unhappiness.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/04/gods-place-in-humanist-society-4-locul.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; A studia şi a trăi în UK n&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;-o fi (inexistentul) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;rai pe pământ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ (posibile motive: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/12/din-viata-studenteasca-11-un-apartheid.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/05/unul-din-patru-britanici-vrea-sa.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/02/alcoolul-sta-prietenul-cel-mai-bun-al.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Still, Great Britain remains a land of opportunity for students from all over the world, especially from the EU. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Totuşi, Marea Britanie rămâne un tărâm al oportunităţilor pentru studenţi din întreaga lume, în special din UE.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Getting there and finding a ‘&lt;i&gt;good life&lt;/i&gt;’ may not be too hard, however, finding happiness will be as hard in the UK as in Romania. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO] &lt;/span&gt;A ajunge acolo şi a găsi o ‘&lt;i&gt;via&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ţă bună&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ n-o fi prea greu, dar a găsi fericirea va fi la fel de greu în UK precum în România.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Universities and (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-pht-newscorp-britain-corruption-idUSTRE76J25L20110720"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;apparently&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!) &lt;i&gt;meritocratic&lt;/i&gt; societies may provide tools for earning one’s (presumably better) living. &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Universităţile şi societăţile (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.contributors.ro/global-europa/dar-avem-coruptie-si-la-noi-in-marea-britanie/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aparent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!) &lt;i&gt;meritocratice&lt;/i&gt; pot oferi instrumente pentru a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;-ţi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; câştiga o (presupus mai bună) existenţă.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; But they can never grant a meaning to anyone’s living… Do the &lt;i&gt;bright minds&lt;/i&gt; know this when they leave the meaningless Romania? &lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Dar nu pot dărui niciodată un sens pentru viaţa cuiva… Ştiu&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;aceasta&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;minţile strălucite&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;când părăsesc lipsita de sens Românie?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-5267337288501645389?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/5267337288501645389/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=5267337288501645389' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/5267337288501645389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/5267337288501645389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2012/01/en-hail-to-competing-sites-ro-salutari.html' title='[EN] Hail to competing sites / [RO] Salutări siteurilor concurente (20)'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7nGTrhbS2Vg/TwLxsWy_oHI/AAAAAAAADyA/aQ4F1aPQZhE/s72-c/Hail+to...+-+student-in-uk.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-2622599609995718178</id><published>2011-12-30T22:35:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T12:55:34.813+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year’s Eve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hedonism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Smoking / Fumat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Death / Moarte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Partying'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hypocrisy / Ipocrizie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alcohol / Alcool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Darwinism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Promiscuity / Promiscuitate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Year'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hangover / Mahmureală'/><title type='text'>A taste of the endless night [O pregustare a nopţii fără sfârşit]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZtBTfQzpvo/Tv4eGSXf0bI/AAAAAAAADx0/oLxMYrE9TPU/s1600/New+Year+1+-+P1070812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZtBTfQzpvo/Tv4eGSXf0bI/AAAAAAAADx0/oLxMYrE9TPU/s400/New+Year+1+-+P1070812.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Although there’s nothing&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;to celebrate, most people in the ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;civilised world&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ will ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;celebrate&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;’ the departure (where to?!) and the arrival (where did it come from?!) of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;New Year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Passing from 2011 to 2012 will not bring any immediate change in anyone’s life – except for those dying that night, suffering from severe hangover, nausea, indigestion or falling victim to party accidents.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In spite of the lack of concrete significance, people of our times prefer to give various symbolic meanings to this winter night, to prepare for it, and to spend money for it &lt;i&gt;as if &lt;/i&gt;it meant anything.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Actually, everything has to do with partying – eating, drinking, smoking, and… … … … [anyone feel free to fill in the blanks!]. I’ve never understood why couldn’t any other night (and why not day?!) be equally suitable for this purpose?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Many think that ‘&lt;i&gt;this is life&lt;/i&gt;’ – they have never looked for another purpose and meaning of their existence, and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Eve"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;New Year’s Eve&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is the typical night when &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;hedonists&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; do what they can do everyday, yet in an &lt;i&gt;excessive manner&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;So be it; most party goers are doing it because they want it. Who am I to preach against this perspective on life? We are all free to believe what we want. If I were to say something, I’d only remind everyone that there is only &lt;i&gt;One Truth&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pretty pathetic are those doing it reluctantly, just because everybody else is doing it. They will drag themselves to parties, hypocritically feign having fun, then eagerly go home.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pgmhoNrh_hA/Tv4d8xNsFgI/AAAAAAAADxo/Ao890HjBp6M/s1600/New+Year+2+-+P1070811.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pgmhoNrh_hA/Tv4d8xNsFgI/AAAAAAAADxo/Ao890HjBp6M/s400/New+Year+2+-+P1070811.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;All just because they would be ashamed to answer “&lt;i&gt;I stayed home&lt;/i&gt;” or “&lt;i&gt;I slept&lt;/i&gt;” to the question “&lt;i&gt;What did you do on New Year’s Eve?&lt;/i&gt;”. As if everyone &lt;i&gt;must do&lt;/i&gt; something – preferably something &lt;i&gt;cool&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Some of those either having fun or those simulating the enjoyment will make &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_resolution"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;New Year’s Resolutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, stitching together hopes, plans, expectations, wishes for one another…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Most are goals arising from this world, concerning this passing world, and ending in this world. We mark the passing of time, unaware of the One Who gave us time – time in general and personal time - and can take it away from us.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For those who deny God – and, among other things, embrace &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Darwinist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; views of our planet being billions of years old – celebrating the passage of the billionth part of the Earth’s existence is ridiculous.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;But who would stop to consider such details? This is hardly a night of philosophical meditation, of introspection, and of soul searching… &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Even of those dying in 2012, almost none would regard death as an impediment for attaining the petty resolutions made that night. Apart from Saints, who ever thinks that the next year ahead could their last one?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Partying and death seem so far apart, but after-party death is not uncommon at all. As a matter of fact, because of binge drinking and promiscuity, hard partying is often the prelude of immediate death (car accidents) of future deaths (abortions, cancers).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-2622599609995718178?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/2622599609995718178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=2622599609995718178' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/2622599609995718178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/2622599609995718178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/12/taste-of-endless-night-o-pregustare.html' title='A taste of the endless night [O pregustare a nopţii fără sfârşit]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZtBTfQzpvo/Tv4eGSXf0bI/AAAAAAAADx0/oLxMYrE9TPU/s72-c/New+Year+1+-+P1070812.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-4820723423954200910</id><published>2011-12-28T12:42:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-28T15:49:02.592+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Isle of Skye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photoholic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beauty / Frumuseţe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Worth Seeing in the UK / Merită văzut în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scottish Highlands'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roads in the UK / Drumuri în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sea / Mare'/><title type='text'>[EN] A few wonders from the UK / [RO] Câteva minunăţii din UK (28)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ2bgQPXms0/TvrwA2jz3uI/AAAAAAAADxc/PZIy9Zmh9zA/s1600/Winter+1+-+P1060123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ2bgQPXms0/TvrwA2jz3uI/AAAAAAAADxc/PZIy9Zmh9zA/s400/Winter+1+-+P1060123.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; There are patches of the world that photoholics never think they’ve seen (in other people’s pics) enough…&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LzM9Ru7NUOE/TvrvkiUKwQI/AAAAAAAADxQ/JdBnF66FRnA/s1600/Winter+2+-+P1060216.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LzM9Ru7NUOE/TvrvkiUKwQI/AAAAAAAADxQ/JdBnF66FRnA/s400/Winter+2+-+P1060216.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Exist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă petice din lume despre care fotoholicii nu socotesc niciodată că le-au văzut (în pozele altora) destul... &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CSFmRPA8brA/TvrvCzD1uzI/AAAAAAAADxE/deZOZHBkMgk/s1600/Winter+3+-+SDC14740.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CSFmRPA8brA/TvrvCzD1uzI/AAAAAAAADxE/deZOZHBkMgk/s400/Winter+3+-+SDC14740.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; There are such ‘&lt;i&gt;ideal destinations&lt;/i&gt;’ probably meant just to fire up winter dreams of travellers…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IrlvxeQM4yE/TvrujQfxqoI/AAAAAAAADw4/zcuiynRJGOQ/s1600/Winter+4+-+P1060230.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IrlvxeQM4yE/TvrujQfxqoI/AAAAAAAADw4/zcuiynRJGOQ/s400/Winter+4+-+P1060230.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Există astfel de ‘&lt;i&gt;destinaţii ideale&lt;/i&gt;’, probabil menite doar să aprindă visele de iarnă ale călătorilor…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sqKnPsycJtk/Tvrt88YxjZI/AAAAAAAADws/zYxAjhMLKTo/s1600/Winter+5+-+P1060270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sqKnPsycJtk/Tvrt88YxjZI/AAAAAAAADws/zYxAjhMLKTo/s400/Winter+5+-+P1060270.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Although&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/03/en-few-wonders-from-uk-ro-cateva.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;shown before&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, here’s a clearer ‘&lt;i&gt;winter version&lt;/i&gt;’ of a beautiful island.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UPGsncfR0iI/Tvrtg4QOf2I/AAAAAAAADwg/DBgnVtKM5Tg/s1600/Winter+6+-+P1060219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UPGsncfR0iI/Tvrtg4QOf2I/AAAAAAAADwg/DBgnVtKM5Tg/s400/Winter+6+-+P1060219.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; De&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;şi &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/03/en-few-wonders-from-uk-ro-cateva.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;arătată anterior&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, iată o mai clară &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;versiune de iarnă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ a unei frumoase insule.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cvnVtEM3BA4/Tvrs2KtLaJI/AAAAAAAADwU/LjWUehOs46Y/s1600/Winter+7+-+P1060215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cvnVtEM3BA4/Tvrs2KtLaJI/AAAAAAAADwU/LjWUehOs46Y/s400/Winter+7+-+P1060215.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Again, we are virtually visiting these places thanks to &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;my reader C.L.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CyCcSIg6gEw/TvrrUopRxgI/AAAAAAAADv8/S4tqh0KpBn8/s1600/Winter+6+-+P1060219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CyCcSIg6gEw/TvrrUopRxgI/AAAAAAAADv8/S4tqh0KpBn8/s400/Winter+6+-+P1060219.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Din nou, vizit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăm virtual aceste locuri graţie &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;cititoarei mele C.L.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oBYsjgASjrM/TvrqeIHfgaI/AAAAAAAADvk/TWymET9mLnM/s1600/Winter+9+-+P1060232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oBYsjgASjrM/TvrqeIHfgaI/AAAAAAAADvk/TWymET9mLnM/s400/Winter+9+-+P1060232.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; It seems that my turn for going &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skye.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; hasn’t come yet. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mQs6wsbOBUo/TvrpmxjIzeI/AAAAAAAADvY/ZKItuIWqINc/s1600/Winter+10+-+P1060218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mQs6wsbOBUo/TvrpmxjIzeI/AAAAAAAADvY/ZKItuIWqINc/s400/Winter+10+-+P1060218.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Se pare c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ândul meu pentru a mă duce &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skye.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;acolo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; nu a venit încă.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QMedDZKHA04/TvrpRXFa7II/AAAAAAAADvM/mbv3IKmu3kI/s1600/Winter+11+-+SDC14932.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QMedDZKHA04/TvrpRXFa7II/AAAAAAAADvM/mbv3IKmu3kI/s400/Winter+11+-+SDC14932.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Far from &lt;i&gt;desperately yearning&lt;/i&gt; for going there, I’m just glad I can share pics these pics.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n2-V0-_-63A/Tvro5g5UokI/AAAAAAAADvA/9NWJhkR0_7c/s1600/Winter+12+-+SDC14636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n2-V0-_-63A/Tvro5g5UokI/AAAAAAAADvA/9NWJhkR0_7c/s400/Winter+12+-+SDC14636.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Departe de &lt;i&gt;a tânji cu disperare&lt;/i&gt; să mă duc acolo, sunt doar bucuros că pot împărtăşi aceste poze.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B-FShUxb8zw/Tvrogu5PVaI/AAAAAAAADu0/J3XzlzaemJM/s1600/Winter+13+-+SDC14886.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B-FShUxb8zw/Tvrogu5PVaI/AAAAAAAADu0/J3XzlzaemJM/s400/Winter+13+-+SDC14886.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Landscapes may not be very much different from the rest of the magnificent &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visithighlands.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Scottish Highlands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;, yet &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seas_west_of_Scotland"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the sea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; adds even more beauty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vUGBCxUarcY/TvroFCLUPaI/AAAAAAAADuo/I4u0MneB9AE/s1600/Winter+14+-+SDC14875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vUGBCxUarcY/TvroFCLUPaI/AAAAAAAADuo/I4u0MneB9AE/s400/Winter+14+-+SDC14875.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Peisajele n-or fi cu mult diferite de restul magnificei&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.visithighlands.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Scottish Highlands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;dar &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seas_west_of_Scotland"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;marea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; adaugă şi mai multă frumuseţe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLXskNQj0FU/Tvoeh0oj70I/AAAAAAAADuQ/MNo3pvqSlLE/s1600/Winter+15+-+P1060272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DLXskNQj0FU/Tvoeh0oj70I/AAAAAAAADuQ/MNo3pvqSlLE/s1600/Winter+15+-+P1060272.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; And the roads appear to be excellent, even in winter time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvYmxtMi4bQ/TvoeRtgGxVI/AAAAAAAADuE/uiu5MmeCK28/s1600/Winter+16+-+SDC14879.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GvYmxtMi4bQ/TvoeRtgGxVI/AAAAAAAADuE/uiu5MmeCK28/s400/Winter+16+-+SDC14879.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Iar drumurile par s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă fie excelente, chiar şi în vreme de iarnă.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Jc9BitQWzY/TvoeDC8bO3I/AAAAAAAADt4/IioP75Y4VVU/s1600/Winter+17+-+SDC14935.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Jc9BitQWzY/TvoeDC8bO3I/AAAAAAAADt4/IioP75Y4VVU/s400/Winter+17+-+SDC14935.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; I can’t be sure – only to imagine that the people are as friendly as other Scots.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9yedbTNE-dU/TvodrTyQ6zI/AAAAAAAADts/RI3g-C9fF24/s1600/Winter+18+-+P1060265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9yedbTNE-dU/TvodrTyQ6zI/AAAAAAAADts/RI3g-C9fF24/s400/Winter+18+-+P1060265.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Nu pot fi sigur – doar s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă îmi imaginez că oamenii sunt la fel de prietenoşi precum alţi scoţieni.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sDOdqMga7f0/TvocxMvDdtI/AAAAAAAADtg/HowoEyFfdqw/s1600/Winter+19+-+SDC14623.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sDOdqMga7f0/TvocxMvDdtI/AAAAAAAADtg/HowoEyFfdqw/s400/Winter+19+-+SDC14623.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; The pictures in this 28th episode were taken across the… – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Isle of Skye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, to the west of Scotland. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6USE2sEbXBE/Tvoco6MlmPI/AAAAAAAADtU/pNK0BUz8czc/s1600/Winter+20+-+SDC14739.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6USE2sEbXBE/Tvoco6MlmPI/AAAAAAAADtU/pNK0BUz8czc/s400/Winter+20+-+SDC14739.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Fotografiile din acest al 28-lea episod au fost făcute de&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;-a lungul... – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skye"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Isle of Skye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, în vestul Scoţiei.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-4820723423954200910?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/4820723423954200910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=4820723423954200910' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/4820723423954200910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/4820723423954200910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/12/en-few-wonders-from-uk-ro-cateva.html' title='[EN] A few wonders from the UK / [RO] Câteva minunăţii din UK (28)'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ2bgQPXms0/TvrwA2jz3uI/AAAAAAAADxc/PZIy9Zmh9zA/s72-c/Winter+1+-+P1060123.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-2807344814159196756</id><published>2011-12-24T13:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T13:46:07.913+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cortina de Fier / Iron Curtain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Political Utopias / Utopii politice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Consumerism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shopping'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Happiness / Fericire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St. Paul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trotskyism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Realităţi româneşti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mao Zedong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Communism'/><title type='text'>Aşteptând încă revoluţia mondială... (9) [Still waiting for the world revolution...]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kGdUZDpkPVM/TvWmftWFaFI/AAAAAAAADtI/LQWxGiD7Gu8/s1600/Dragonul+R+1+-+P1470432.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kGdUZDpkPVM/TvWmftWFaFI/AAAAAAAADtI/LQWxGiD7Gu8/s400/Dragonul+R+1+-+P1470432.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;N-or putea măsura vreodată statisticile &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;câţi or fi fost aceia care, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolu%C8%9Bia_Rom%C3%A2n%C4%83_din_1989"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;acum 22 de ani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, aşteptau zorii libertăţii de a-L putea mărturisi pe &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.orthodoxwiki.org/Iisus_Hristos"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Cel Care revoluţionează conştinţele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; de două mii de ani încoace şi oferă &lt;i&gt;adevărata libertate&lt;/i&gt;... &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;În schimb, este sigur că la un alt fel de &lt;i&gt;revoluţie&lt;/i&gt; şi alt fel de &lt;i&gt;libertate&lt;/i&gt; se aşteptau majoritatea românilor – să se &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;dea drumul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ la cumpărături, să ai &lt;i&gt;cu ce&lt;/i&gt;, dar şi &lt;i&gt;ce&lt;/i&gt; să cumperi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;După decenii de dezumanizare – brutală mai întâi, apoi mai rafinată, cu destule &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;p&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ărţi bune&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ de sub spoiala cărora mulţi nu îşi mai pot aminti &lt;i&gt;nonsensurile &lt;/i&gt;şi &lt;i&gt;relele&lt;/i&gt; – &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;în &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;paradisul comunist&lt;/i&gt;’, puhoaiele de neterminaţi &lt;i&gt;oameni noi&lt;/i&gt; nu mai aveau decât aspiraţii de sorginte materială.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Libertatea nu putea fi concepută ca însemnând &lt;i&gt;a fi liber&lt;/i&gt;, ci &lt;i&gt;a avea&lt;/i&gt;. A deţine, a cumpăra, a folosi sau adesea doar &lt;i&gt;a etala&lt;/i&gt; bunuri de tot soiul era expresia &lt;i&gt;supremei libertăţi&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Dacă şi eu, la nici zece ani, eram &lt;i&gt;contaminat&lt;/i&gt; – &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/02/en-worth-trying-in-uk-ro-merit-ncercat.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;visând să am jucării ca în Germania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; :-) – ce alte aşteptări puteau să aibă cei abrutizaţi de lipsa de perspectivă, cu mintea trecută fără de încetare prin râşniţa sloganurilor ideologice?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Puţini spre niciunii or mai fi fost aceia care să creadă în posibilitatea de îndeplinire a falselor promisiuni de înfăptuire a &lt;i&gt;paradisului comunist&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Utopia îşi arătase hidoasa neputinţă de multă vreme. Mai degrabă &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/ceausescu-despre-capitalism-va-reveni-in-romania-cand-va-face-face-plopul-mere-si-rachi-946.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ar fi făcut plopul pere şi răchita micşunele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; decât să iasă ceva bun din fantasmagoria comunistă.&amp;nbsp; Probabil că şi cei mai fanatici comunişti (de or mai fi fost vreunii?!) înţelegeau aceasta.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Totuşi, evidenţa eşecului nu era suficientă pentru a aduce eliberarea de credinţa că &lt;i&gt;raiul pe pământ&lt;/i&gt; se poate înfăptui. Ba chiar că acesta ar şi exista deja, dincolo de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortina_de_fier"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Cortina de Fier&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Comunismul murea, dar efectul său otrăvitor abia avea să se desăvârşească. Majoritatea oamenilor erau robiţi de aceeaşi iluzie pe care o constata &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://sfapostolipetrusipavel.wordpress.com/viata-si-activitatea-sfantului-apostol-pavel/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sf. Apostol Pavel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;: “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=12&amp;amp;cap=15"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Dacă morţii nu înviază, să bem şi să mâncăm, căci mâine vom muri!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Robii lui ‘&lt;i&gt;aici&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; şi acum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ nu se puteau elibera de comunism decât spre a preschimba lanţurile sclaviei anterioare cu altele mai sclipitoare şi – doar aparent! – mai uşor de purtat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kb-FbmUsj-U/TvWmW5KCIVI/AAAAAAAADs8/gmln2TNL608/s1600/Dragonul+R+2+-P1470433.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Kb-FbmUsj-U/TvWmW5KCIVI/AAAAAAAADs8/gmln2TNL608/s400/Dragonul+R+2+-P1470433.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Din lacul cu rumeguş ideologic al comunismului s-a sărit în puţul consumismului, într-o mocirlă călduţă. Ca de carton putred, sloganurile comuniste erau tot mai greu de ros, dar şi mai greu de digerat. Le-au înlocuit cele de marketing, parcă mai crocante şi apetisante.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Sufletelor constipate de o cvasiabsolută lipsă a opţiunilor, 22 de ani de ‘&lt;i&gt;libertate&lt;/i&gt;’ le-au adus o permanentă cufureală, ca urmare a chiolhanului de alegeri care le sunt puse înainte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cine nu cumpără nu este şi n-ar putea fi &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://foaienationala.ro/consumism-nefericire.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;fericit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, sugerează – chiar dacă nu explicit – lozincile vremurilor noastre. Cine nu consumă, nu contează (pentru progresul economiei). Cine nu are, nu este (nimic pe lumea aceasta). Acestea sunt proclamatele &lt;i&gt;noi adevăruri&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Şi nici nu s-ar putea numi &lt;i&gt;post-revoluţionare&lt;/i&gt;, căci mereu se anunţă &lt;i&gt;noi revoluţii&lt;/i&gt; în comerţ, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;în &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;tehnologie sau economie, başca în politică.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Aşa cum &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tro%C8%9Bkism"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;troţkiştii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; vorbesc despre o &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolu%C8%9Bia_permanent%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;revoluţie permanentă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, şi în paradisul consumist se tot succed revoluţii – ale preţurilor, ofertelor, bonusurilor, chilipirurilor… Nimic nu stagnează, totul se schimbă. Oare în &lt;i&gt;mai bine&lt;/i&gt;?!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Culmea este când negustori din ţara &lt;a href="http://www.athenian-legacy.com/2010/03/marea-revolutie-culturala-china-1965-1971/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Revoluţiei Culturale a lui Mao Zedong&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, vin să ne promită&amp;nbsp; o &lt;i&gt;revoluţie a comerţului&lt;/i&gt; (potrivit imaginilor de faţă).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Aşa fraieri să fi fost?! La peste două decenii de ‘&lt;i&gt;libertate&lt;/i&gt;’, pare-se că n-am învăţat &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;cât de fericiţi putem fi cheltuind mai puţin, dar cumpărând mai mult.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Nici &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://strajeriiortodoxiei.blogspot.com/2009/06/consumismul-si-mantuirea.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;nu vrem mai mult de atât&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, nici că ni se oferă altceva. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ca ţară creştin-ortodoxă (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/08/mai-sunt-romanii-o-natiune-crestina-are.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;oare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;?!) s-ar fi cuvenit să căutăm mai mult &lt;i&gt;nepreţuitele&lt;/i&gt; – pace, bucurie, iubire, blândeţe, compasiune, răbdare…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Bine ne-ar fi fost să nu ne fi scobit de miez sufletele, pentru a le umple cu biete &lt;i&gt;consumabile&lt;/i&gt;, prin care îşi închipuie rostul sute de milioane de oameni din lumea aşa-zis &lt;i&gt;dezvoltată&lt;/i&gt; sau în care îşi caută &lt;i&gt;eliberarea&lt;/i&gt; miliardele de chinezi şi de indieni.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Din păcate, şi ro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;mânii se leagănă &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;letargic&amp;nbsp; pe pânza de păianjen a amăgirii că &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crestinortodox.ro/morala/spiritualitate-consumism-70844.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;suntem ceea ce avem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; şi &lt;i&gt;avem ceea ce putem cumpăra&lt;/i&gt; – iar aceasta ar fi o condiţie absolut necesară a fericirii.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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(9) [Still waiting for the world revolution...]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kGdUZDpkPVM/TvWmftWFaFI/AAAAAAAADtI/LQWxGiD7Gu8/s72-c/Dragonul+R+1+-+P1470432.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-8656375728713358341</id><published>2011-12-20T18:12:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T10:47:43.476+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romanians in the UK / Românii în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Birmingham'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oxford'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shanghai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='AG'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SUV'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MG Car'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Car Club'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ARO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BMW'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='China'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iconic Brands of the UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cars the Brits Drive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Germany'/><title type='text'>UK’s motor vanity fair (24) [Bâlciul deşertăciunilor cu motor din UK]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gIpJWTCHOBo/TvCyBAc0OEI/AAAAAAAADsw/54lP_r01d_U/s1600/MG1+-+SDC13481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gIpJWTCHOBo/TvCyBAc0OEI/AAAAAAAADsw/54lP_r01d_U/s400/MG1+-+SDC13481.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Although I dedicated &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/07/uks-motor-vanity-fair-17-balciul.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;another episode&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; to this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_Cars"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;legendary British car&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;, I feel that there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’s a little more to say before&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;exhausting (or maybe not?!) the topic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In tune with the season, these images (taken by &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;my reader C.L.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;) are meant to illustrate the good news of 2011 for England’s motor industry.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Automotive_Industry_Corporation"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Chinese owners of MG&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;have kept their word, and seem more determined to succeed than the previous German owners (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;BMW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Not only that they &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/mg-new-car-china-birmingham"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;reopened a former MG plant in Birmingham&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, yet the result of their work could be seen on British roads as of April 2011.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;The (re-named) ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1028119_mg-is-now-modern-gentleman"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Modern Gentleman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ is back. A new model (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/carreviews/8404664/MG6-1.8T-Fastback-review.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;MG6 1.8T Fastback&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) was launched in spring, for a starting price of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;£ 15,495.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Obviously, many could argue that this ‘&lt;i&gt;renaissance&lt;/i&gt;’ of the motor industry in Britain is rather symbolic, having a negligeable impact (what&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;s more fragile than&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-12/13/content_14255926.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;air bridges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;? :-) on t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;he whole of UK’s economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A_8bQerZZEU/TvCx7_HEfAI/AAAAAAAADso/VaJOY6ujxLo/s1600/MG2+-+SDC13479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A_8bQerZZEU/TvCx7_HEfAI/AAAAAAAADso/VaJOY6ujxLo/s400/MG2+-+SDC13479.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Over 75% of the ‘&lt;i&gt;new MG&lt;/i&gt;’ is build in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Shanghai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, shipped to Britain, and finished by less than 100 skilled British specialists.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Anyway, irrespective of the adverse global economic climate, why wouldn’t we hail any little success, in this world so flooded with &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_crisis_of_2008%E2%80%932010"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;bad news about the automotive industry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It took 16 years for the brand’s fans (some of their car clubs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mgcc.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;her&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;e&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mg-rover.org/index.htm?"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mgfregister.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;) to see a new MG and their patience was rewarded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;There are less than 10 years since no new &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ARO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; left the assembly plant in the Romanian municipality of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_998601636"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A2mpulung"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;âmpulung-Muscel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arge%C5%9F_County"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Argeş county&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (AG).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;MG has always been an &lt;i&gt;elitistic brand&lt;/i&gt;, such as it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;’s birthplace (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Oxford&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) is. Still, we are witnessing its resurrection.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Would it be so exaggerate to dream that ARO – a ‘&lt;i&gt;SUV for the masses&lt;/i&gt;’, exported to over 110 countries – could be reborn thanks to its current&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autoevolution.com/news/romanian-aro-to-be-reborn-23976.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;British owner of Romanian descen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-8656375728713358341?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/8656375728713358341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=8656375728713358341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/8656375728713358341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/8656375728713358341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/12/uks-motor-vanity-fair-24-balciul.html' title='UK’s motor vanity fair (24) [Bâlciul deşertăciunilor cu motor din UK]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gIpJWTCHOBo/TvCyBAc0OEI/AAAAAAAADsw/54lP_r01d_U/s72-c/MG1+-+SDC13481.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-1645689706897672731</id><published>2011-12-16T16:52:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T17:41:00.008+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video Games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Flea Market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Children / Copii'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toy and Model Trains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St. Paul'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dioramas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wages in the UK / Salarii în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prices in the UK / Preţuri în UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Information Technology'/><title type='text'>Când locomotivele stabileau ‘standarde’ de viteză... [When locomotives set speed ‘standards’…]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P-NHy2jKR8Q/TutSYksggVI/AAAAAAAADsg/IiPP3iZ4uzs/s1600/Trains+1+-+P1050972.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P-NHy2jKR8Q/TutSYksggVI/AAAAAAAADsg/IiPP3iZ4uzs/s400/Trains+1+-+P1050972.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;…parc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă lumea nu era atât de grăbită, călătoriile erau mai bine pregătite, destinaţiile – mai îndelung aşteptate, gările – mai elegante, vremurile – mai domoale, iar oamenii – mai blânzi şi mai înţelegători unii cu alţii.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nu era rival al trenului pe pământ (sau pe cer), nici nu existau atâtea jucărele electronice (&lt;i&gt;gadgets&lt;/i&gt;) cu care oamenii să-şi care &lt;i&gt;pseudoviaţa&lt;/i&gt; de pe &lt;i&gt;Facebook&lt;/i&gt; până şi în tren.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Călătoria pe &lt;i&gt;liniile de fier&lt;/i&gt; era prilej de &lt;i&gt;socializare autentică&lt;/i&gt;. Şi aş zice că încă mai este, în comparaţie chiar şi cu avioanele – care, inclusiv la &lt;i&gt;business class&lt;/i&gt;, sunt suficient de incomode pentru a stingheri conversaţiile.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tXveXS4X4iw/TutSTAjQoNI/AAAAAAAADsY/28CtTIAG_mI/s1600/Trains+2+-+DSCN0347.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tXveXS4X4iw/TutSTAjQoNI/AAAAAAAADsY/28CtTIAG_mI/s400/Trains+2+-+DSCN0347.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Nu gonea trenul ca gândul, dar măcar îţi dădea prilej de aşezare a gândurilor – care nu mai erau păstrate în împrăştiere, cu&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ajutorul&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehnologia_informa%C8%9Biei"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;tehnologiei informaţiei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Călătoria era un &lt;i&gt;răgaz&lt;/i&gt;, fie de a sta doar cu tine privind pe geam (aveai ce vedea, că nu erau &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_de_mare_vitez%C4%83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;trenuri-glonţ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), fie de interacţiune cu alţii – poate plăcută, poate forţată de vreun pasager agasant de vorbăreţ.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Astăzi, nu doar că totul se desfăşoară mult mai repede, dar nici măcar în interiorul acestei repeziciuni nu mai găseşti clipe doar pentru sufletul tău.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2Yy-a_jWdw/TutSM6QSumI/AAAAAAAADsQ/wl9-CuV1q_k/s1600/Trains+3+-+P1060333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f2Yy-a_jWdw/TutSM6QSumI/AAAAAAAADsQ/wl9-CuV1q_k/s400/Trains+3+-+P1060333.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Tot timpul, omul vremurilor noastre este cu ochii într-un ecran (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/06/femeile-in-uk-12-women-in-uk.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), cu căşti în urechi şi cu degetele încleştate până la durere şi deformare pe butoanele unui joc video sau pe minuscule tastaturi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Într-o astfel de lume, oricâte puteri virtuale ţi-ar da sloganurile ideologice sau publicitare din jur, nu controlezi nicidecum lumea; nu ea este &lt;i&gt;a ta&lt;/i&gt;, ci tu &lt;i&gt;al ei&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În acest &lt;i&gt;paradis al nebunilor&lt;/i&gt; se trăieşte (sau către el se tinde) în lumea aşa-zis civilizată, unde se oamenii nu doar că mânâncă, ci şi gândesc, visează ori se joacă &lt;i&gt;prefabricat&lt;/i&gt;. Puţini mai facem ceva &lt;i&gt;liber&lt;/i&gt;; mai toţi răspundem la o &lt;i&gt;ofertă&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A5NpIZ3ZQok/TutSDg1RlJI/AAAAAAAADsI/fAxFaUOjOJE/s1600/Trains+4+-+DSCN0344.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A5NpIZ3ZQok/TutSDg1RlJI/AAAAAAAADsI/fAxFaUOjOJE/s400/Trains+4+-+DSCN0344.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nu există niciun control asupra &lt;i&gt;realităţii reale&lt;/i&gt; – pe care doar Dumnezeu îl poate avea, oricât se amăgesc unii că pot stăpâni lumea – dar nici al &lt;i&gt;realităţilor fictive&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Visăm şi ne jucăm cu ce &lt;i&gt;prefabricate&lt;/i&gt; (sau &lt;i&gt;pre-rumegate&lt;/i&gt;) ni se oferă – în schimbul banilor sau a altor &lt;i&gt;jertfe &lt;/i&gt;aduse de noi idolului &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;economie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’. Avem o tot mai mică reală libertate, cu cât avem mai multe alegeri.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O frântură de iluzie că mai poţi construi o &lt;i&gt;lume de vis&lt;/i&gt; care să îţi rămână &lt;i&gt;doar a ta&lt;/i&gt; o mai au pasionaţii de trenuleţe – de la nepoţi la străbunici.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NysNt8AplUw/TutR-1loVMI/AAAAAAAADsA/YW9l05PAt2E/s1600/Trains+5+-+P1060336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NysNt8AplUw/TutR-1loVMI/AAAAAAAADsA/YW9l05PAt2E/s400/Trains+5+-+P1060336.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Este tot o deturnare a omului dinspre cele către care ar trebui să tindă, dar parcă – aş zice eu şi cred că şi &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;cititorul meu Mihai Gociu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (care mi-a oferit pozele 2, 4, 7) – dar cumva mai &lt;i&gt;benignă&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;O graniţă între un &lt;i&gt;sănătos hobby&lt;/i&gt; şi o &lt;i&gt;dăunătoare patimă&lt;/i&gt; trebuie să existe şi orice pasionat poate risca să treacă &lt;i&gt;dincolo&lt;/i&gt; de ceea ce îi este &lt;i&gt;de folos&lt;/i&gt;, după cum &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=12&amp;amp;cap=6"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;arăta Sf. Apostol Pavel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Totuşi, aş zice că într-o lume atât de înnebunitoare precum cea în care trăim, un hobby poate avea un important rol &lt;i&gt;profilactic&lt;/i&gt;. Dar puţini sunt cei care au răbdarea unui hobby, care este altceva mult decât prea căutata şi lipsita de sens &lt;i&gt;distracţie&lt;/i&gt;...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xa2ofNij2Vs/TutR6YVnd7I/AAAAAAAADr4/OOdYIfhryt0/s1600/Trains+6+-+P1050973.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xa2ofNij2Vs/TutR6YVnd7I/AAAAAAAADr4/OOdYIfhryt0/s400/Trains+6+-+P1050973.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mulţi ar zice că sunt &lt;i&gt;bani aruncaţi&lt;/i&gt;. În magazinele din UK – poate or fi mai ieftine în talciocuri (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trainweb.org/lmra/fleamarket.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;flea markets&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) – preţurile dădeau dureri de cap.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;N-am văzut locomotivă mai ieftină de £ 80, vagoanele erau vreo £ 15-20 şi o singură cabină telefonică tipic britanică făcea £ 4. Două cutii poştale, iarăşi tipic britanice, făceau £ &amp;nbsp;2.75, iar casele (cam vile, nu &lt;i&gt;căsuţe&lt;/i&gt;) erau cam £ 16-25.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Două containere cu deşeuri le luai la £ 5.50 – cam cât era (£ 5.52) &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-munc-n-uk-1.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;salariul minim pe oră&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; la vremea când am ajuns eu în UK.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hiQe5qdZUxY/TutR0UoC6xI/AAAAAAAADrw/bvWooNXzHBM/s1600/Trains+7+-+DSCN0351.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hiQe5qdZUxY/TutR0UoC6xI/AAAAAAAADrw/bvWooNXzHBM/s400/Trains+7+-+DSCN0351.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pe de altă parte, a construi o lume virtuală a trenuleţelor îţi exersează răbdarea, atenţia şi perseverenţa şi îţi mai îngăduie să visezi. Şi să-ţi pui mintea la contribuţie. Doar colecţionarii foarte bogaţi îşi cumpără (de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trenulet.ro/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trenulete.ro/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; sau &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://trains-addicted.ro/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) chiar toate accesorile, în timp ce mulţi &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://trenulete.info/linkuri-utile/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;şi le fac singuri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În afara motoarelor de locomotivă (&lt;i&gt;engines&lt;/i&gt;) şi a şineleor (&lt;i&gt;tracks&lt;/i&gt;) cam orice altceva se poate construi de către pasionaţi, din resturi provenite de la te-miri-ce.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nici eu n-aş da nici &lt;i&gt;cel-mai-ultra-nu-ştiu-cum&lt;/i&gt; joc video sau gadget pe astfel de jucării pe care să le poţi atinge şi îmbunătăţi. Îţi construieşti lumea aceasta virtuală cum vrei, unde orice dezastru feroviar este reversibil.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RDLmoGVKXeE/TutRKH9dzfI/AAAAAAAADro/XipU_WAhZTQ/s1600/Trains+8+-+P1060337.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RDLmoGVKXeE/TutRKH9dzfI/AAAAAAAADro/XipU_WAhZTQ/s400/Trains+8+-+P1060337.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pe când, într-un joc video – să-i recunoaştem meritul de a fi mai &lt;i&gt;interactiv&lt;/i&gt; decât holbatul la televizor – cine poate schimba scenariul? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cine poate schimba regulile jocului la jucăriile electronice ale zilelor noastre? Nimeni, căci orice preferinţe nu pot fi exprimate decât optând pentru lucruri &lt;i&gt;presetate&lt;/i&gt; de creatori. Pe când, rolul creator în construcţia &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dioramemachete.ro/despre-noi-1"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;dioramelor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;nu îţi este ştirbit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Poate este o iluzie, dar îmi vine a crede că &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.modernism.ro/2009/08/02/casa-trenuletelor/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;pasionaţii de trenuleţe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (nu cunosc personal niciunul) sunt oameni (ceva mai) &lt;i&gt;buni&lt;/i&gt; şi ştiu exact ce cadouri vor de Crăciun :-)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-1645689706897672731?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/1645689706897672731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=1645689706897672731' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1645689706897672731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/1645689706897672731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/12/cand-locomotivele-stabileau-standarde.html' title='Când locomotivele stabileau ‘standarde’ de viteză... 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5YqX_YzOlSw/TujwqtYP4qI/AAAAAAAADrg/37U9y5s6c5U/s1600/Hail+to...+-Engrish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5YqX_YzOlSw/TujwqtYP4qI/AAAAAAAADrg/37U9y5s6c5U/s400/Hail+to...+-Engrish.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Aware or not of how Asians struggle with pronouncing English, I hope there would be many those enjoying &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engrish.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;this recommandation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Conştienţi sau nu de felul în care asiaticii se luptă cu pronunţarea englezei, sper că vor fi mulţi cei cărora să le placă &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engrish.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;această recomandare&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; It’s a website (+ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_89219.aspx"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;another&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) storing some 600 pages with examples of ‘&lt;i&gt;funny&lt;/i&gt;’ (not for teachers :-) deformations of the English language. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Este un website (+ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_89219.aspx"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;altul&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) care stochează vreo 600 de pagini cu exemple de ‘&lt;i&gt;amuzante&lt;/i&gt;’ (nu pentru profesori :-) deform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ări ale limbii engleze.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; The phenomenon occurs especially but not exclusively in Japan (where it’s known as &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Engrish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) and China (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Chinglish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;). &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Fenomenul apare în special, dar nu exclusiv în Japonia (unde este cunoscut drept &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Engrish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) şi China (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Chinglish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Most usually, the hilarious &lt;i&gt;new words&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;nonsensical phrases&lt;/i&gt; appear because these languages have no ‘&lt;i&gt;l&lt;/i&gt;’ and ‘&lt;i&gt;r&lt;/i&gt;’ sounds. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Cel mai adesea, hilarele &lt;i&gt;noi cuvinte&lt;/i&gt; sau &lt;i&gt;frazele fără sens&lt;/i&gt; apar pentru că aceste limbi nu au sunetele ‘&lt;i&gt;l&lt;/i&gt;’ şi ‘&lt;i&gt;r&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; It’s a perpetual confusion between the two, similar to the one that young children often make when learning European languages. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Este o perpetuă confuzie între cele două, similară celei pe care copiii mici o fac adesea când învaţă limbi europene.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; This explains why many people in Shanghai were refering to an nonexistent ‘&lt;i&gt;Lomania&lt;/i&gt;’ instead of Romania :-) &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Aceasta explică de ce mulţi oameni în Shanghai se refereau la o inexistentă ‘&lt;i&gt;Lomania&lt;/i&gt;’ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;în loc de România &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;:-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bR6WaAEryxM/TuYHn357EwI/AAAAAAAADrY/X7kqFDWRRLQ/s1600/P1030590+-+Europalia+2007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bR6WaAEryxM/TuYHn357EwI/AAAAAAAADrY/X7kqFDWRRLQ/s400/P1030590+-+Europalia+2007.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In the wake of the last &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2011/12/09/eu-summit-results-analysts-react/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EU summit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, all leaders who had entered lengthy negociations in Brussels claimed ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;victory&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;’, whilst &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8949723/Merkels-Teutonic-summit-enshrines-Hooverism-in-EU-treaty-law.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;not truly achieving anything substantial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; for the half a billion European citizens.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;On the one hand, the presumed &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/euro-mps-accuse-france-germany-of-diktat--over-budgets_104581.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Franco-German diktat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; of a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/02/european-fiscal-union-experts"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;European Fiscal Union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;stepped closer to reality than ever before. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;By March 2012, another EU Treaty with as strong historical implications as those of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Treaty of Maastricht&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is due to be signed. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Out of the EU’s current 27 members (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13725558"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;soon to be 28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), at least 23 countries will no longer decide exclusively by themselves how to shape their national budgets. A Big – and pressumably wiser – Brother in Brussels (the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;European Commission&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) would ‘&lt;i&gt;help&lt;/i&gt;’ national governments plan their spending more carefully.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;That should be cheered as a ‘&lt;i&gt;triumph&lt;/i&gt;’ of common sense and seen as a ‘&lt;i&gt;safeguard&lt;/i&gt;’ that public debt would stop accumulating to unsustainable levels in EU countries, we were told.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nevertheless, this assumption regarding the smooth functioning of the future &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Europe"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;United States of Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (USE) does absolutely nothing to solve the actual economic crisis in Europe, and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.protesilaos.com/2011/12/so-is-euro-safe-now-is-eu-all-fine-not.html#.TuYhQrIpqAV"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the future of the common currency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is still uncertain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Irrespective of the ideological debate – is it worth giving up national sovereignty or not, could Europeans live better within the USE than in their national states? – a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15997784"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;full fiscal union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;offers &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8948173/Eurozone-leaders-duck-all-the-big-issues.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;no solutions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to the current debt crisis…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Neither to the lack of competitivity of many European economic sectors or to the demographic and moral decline of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Continent"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Old Continent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;When and who is ever going to address those issues in the EU? For how long would political leaders be fooled by fictions such as ‘&lt;i&gt;economic growth&lt;/i&gt;’ and ‘&lt;i&gt;prosperity&lt;/i&gt;’, which are impossible to achieve while built up on other fictions such as ‘&lt;i&gt;credit&lt;/i&gt;’ and ‘&lt;i&gt;capital markets&lt;/i&gt;’?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4oDfP7d_pZI/TuYHhjZnczI/AAAAAAAADrQ/OvmvZYKxjyk/s1600/P1030593+-+EU+Council.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4oDfP7d_pZI/TuYHhjZnczI/AAAAAAAADrQ/OvmvZYKxjyk/s400/P1030593+-+EU+Council.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;When will &lt;i&gt;history makers&lt;/i&gt; (politicians) learn the bitter lessons of history that all times of severe crisis are the broader consequence of a grave moral ills rather than effects of mere disfunctionalities or redeemable mistakes?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;There cannot be growth on a continent where millions of EU nationals are are still ‘&lt;i&gt;second&amp;nbsp;(or even fourth!) class citizens&lt;/i&gt;’ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.romanianewswatch.com/2011/07/romania-bulgaria-demand-full-access-to.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;on the job market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, where the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/673/The_brain_drain:_Old_myths,_new_realities.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;brain drain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to the USA has never ceased, where hedonism, promiscuity, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://politicsofthecrossresurrected.blogspot.com/2011/02/multiculturalism-and-moral-relativism.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;moral relativism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6235557.stm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;abortions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; are widespread.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;On the other hand, Britain’s PM &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;David Cameron&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; also claimed his petty ‘&lt;i&gt;victory&lt;/i&gt;’ for managing to snatch his country out of the future new European treaty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Far be it from me to join those deploring Great Britain’s self-condemnation to many years (the most commmonly invoked figure is 20) of isolation. After all, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6366504/A-sterling-crash-is-a-godsend.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;outside the European Exchange Mechanism and the Eurozone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, Britain had done better than it would have probably done inside.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Anyway, the much esteemed financial services and the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/3187946/Financial-crisis-Banks-nationalised-by-Government.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;partly nationalised&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; British banking system will not remain immune to what’s going on in the Eurozone, and their freedom of maneuver could be limited whether the UK is in or out a new EU treaty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cameron put himself in a ridiculous position, as &lt;i&gt;defender of the bankers&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063595/David-Cameron-refuses-blame-bankers-global-financial-crisis.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;and not for the first time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!) in an era when everyone hates them, although most EU Council solutions to the crisis &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.protesilaos.com/2011/12/eurobonds-printed-money-all-policies-in.html#.TuYjWbIpqAU"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;favoured this clique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, not the European taxpayers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In spite of being portrayed as an &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2011/12/britain-and-eu-summit"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;isolationist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(in Europe) or &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8950245/David-Miliband-labels-David-Cameron-foolish-over-Europe-veto.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foolish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (at home), he dared taking a huge gamble, and that’s somewhat &lt;i&gt;admirable&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Loerobg5ZwE/TuYHYhFefmI/AAAAAAAADrI/WwfCf1N6eoM/s1600/P1030594+-+EC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Loerobg5ZwE/TuYHYhFefmI/AAAAAAAADrI/WwfCf1N6eoM/s400/P1030594+-+EC.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Especially when compared to &lt;i&gt;yesmen&lt;/i&gt; like Romania’s President &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_213748341"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Traian B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Basescu"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ăsescu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, who has been a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;brainwashed &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/08/30/feature-04"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;lobbyist for the USE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; even long before this last EU summit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Last, the little victories of the Hungarian, Swedish and Czech delegations who said they would first consult national parliaments are also ridiculous. It’s not impossible but very unlikely that they would join Britain on the isolationist path.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Britain and Sweden could possibly afford it, like Switzerland and Norway. But Hungary and the Czech Republic would eventually give in to unbearable pressures. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;All the triumphalism of those pretending to avoid a catastrophy either by wowing for deeper &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_integration"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;European integration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; or, on the contrary, by staying out of too much integration – is equally meaningless.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Europe is in desperate need of both sound economic solutions and of reshaped moral foundations, which it gravely lacks. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Their absence is by no means a sign that the Old Continent requires a ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;revolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ in political terms or a sort of ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Nuremberg trial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ for a failed generation of bankers and/or politicians.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It would actually need &lt;i&gt;other Europeans&lt;/i&gt; – people aspiring towards what truly matters in this life (which is but an antechamber of &lt;i&gt;afterlife&lt;/i&gt;), not hordes of hedonist copycats, enslaved by the dreadful illusion that happiness equals a perpetual ‘&lt;i&gt;I-do-what-I-please&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;(&lt;i&gt;having fun&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;feeling good) here and now’&lt;/i&gt;...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Simply replacing a wrong ideological model (unrestricted free flow of capital, living on credit) with another (a centralisation of austerity) leaves little room for hope. Everything will keep turning&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-all-things-are-going-from-bad-to.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;from bad to worse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FudsX-NndH0/TuHqvLWWZDI/AAAAAAAADrA/4NnvikIJWkQ/s1600/Commoner+1+-+P1060395.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FudsX-NndH0/TuHqvLWWZDI/AAAAAAAADrA/4NnvikIJWkQ/s400/Commoner+1+-+P1060395.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Într-o ţară mândră trecutul glorios precum Marea Britanie, te-ai aştepta să întâlneşti prin oraşe numai statui cu &lt;i&gt;personaje măreţe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Adică oameni care &lt;i&gt;au rămas în istorie&lt;/i&gt;, de la eroi medievali (&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/02/lipsiti-de-scutul-credintei-suntem-fara.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;exemplu&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;foto deja postat de mine&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) până la generali din cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/04/british-obama-and-his-little-truths_24.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6qaLlieCKJA/TuHqq40WS4I/AAAAAAAADq4/DT9GoRvwOIU/s1600/Commoner+2+-+DSCN0395.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6qaLlieCKJA/TuHqq40WS4I/AAAAAAAADq4/DT9GoRvwOIU/s400/Commoner+2+-+DSCN0395.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Desigur, există nenumărate astfel de statui, să le zicem &lt;i&gt;clasice&lt;/i&gt;, cu oameni de stat (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/10/witty-bits-from-what-i-learned-in-uk-20.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) şi războinici în posturi victorioase sau încrâncenaţi în luptă.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;În alte cazuri, ostaşii sunt surprinşi deloc &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;tipic statuesc’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;, ci, pur şi simplu, în clipele de răgaz ale &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primul_R%C4%83zboi_Mondial"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;războiului de poziţii din 1914-1918&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; sau răpuşi (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/11/en-no-comment-ro-fara-comentarii-18-war.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ckGtx84-g9s/TuHqmn3EehI/AAAAAAAADqw/Bunj-m7ESZQ/s1600/Commoner+3+-+DSCN0394.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ckGtx84-g9s/TuHqmn3EehI/AAAAAAAADqw/Bunj-m7ESZQ/s400/Commoner+3+-+DSCN0394.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Dar este ceva care mi-a părut &lt;i&gt;neobişnuit&lt;/i&gt;, ca vizitaror venind din jumătatea estică a UE, pentru că n-aş zice că obiceiul este lipsit de echivalent în jumătatea vestică a Uniunii.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Anume numărul destul de mare (în comparaţie cu ce puţine fotografii am pentru a-mi proba observaţia) de statui cu &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;oameni de rând&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;’ (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoner"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;commoners&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VFAyYdRmzrI/TuHqiCvOn7I/AAAAAAAADqo/eQkVlHLtjX8/s1600/Commoner+4+-+DSCN0895.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VFAyYdRmzrI/TuHqiCvOn7I/AAAAAAAADqo/eQkVlHLtjX8/s400/Commoner+4+-+DSCN0895.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Sunt convins că trebuie să fie un curent (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;trend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) mai recent, poate nu mai vechi de 15-20 de ani, dar ale cărui efecte se cunosc deja în peisajul urban britanic.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Şi nu mă refer doar la muzee, precum&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.migrationmuseum.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Migration Museum din Liverpool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, unde este firesc să apară grupuri statuare cu imigranţi istoviţi (poza 4).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FO6gGG1TifI/TuHqcSxOKkI/AAAAAAAADqg/ckgtkc4u0eI/s1600/Commoner+5+-+DSCN0397.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FO6gGG1TifI/TuHqcSxOKkI/AAAAAAAADqg/ckgtkc4u0eI/s400/Commoner+5+-+DSCN0397.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Muritori de rând pregătiţi şi cu feţe parcă emoţionate de iminenta călătorie apar şi în faţa micuţei, dar elegantei gări &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Street_station"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Liverpool Street Station&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; din Londra (poza 1).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_bus_station"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Autogara Buchanan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; din Glasgow ochii trecătorilor nu pot omite o imortalizată îmbrăţişare – şi ea destul de &lt;i&gt;clasică&lt;/i&gt;, specifică unor vremuri mai romantice decât zilele noastre (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/femeile-n-uk-7-women-in-uk.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yAMiuc038Hg/TuHqYBKA0YI/AAAAAAAADqY/JMVA14KSCsE/s1600/Commoner+6+-+DSCN0396.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yAMiuc038Hg/TuHqYBKA0YI/AAAAAAAADqY/JMVA14KSCsE/s400/Commoner+6+-+DSCN0396.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În Birmingham, dai peste statui cu un aer mai cunoscut pe meleaguri româneşti (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2010/06/asteptand-inca-revolutia-mondiala-5.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;poate şi la Roma&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), oarecum... &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletcult"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;proletcultist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Avem un &lt;i&gt;muncitor&lt;/i&gt; (?! – nu-s sigur – poza 2), un &lt;i&gt;marinar&lt;/i&gt; (poza 6), un &lt;i&gt;soldat&lt;/i&gt; (poza 5), ba poate chiar o &lt;i&gt;muză revoluţionară&lt;/i&gt; (?! – iarăşi nu-s sigur – poza 3).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hEeWdRo1JBE/TuHpwSiqqII/AAAAAAAADqQ/lfS4NIf_DBE/s1600/Commoner+7+-+P1070178.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hEeWdRo1JBE/TuHpwSiqqII/AAAAAAAADqQ/lfS4NIf_DBE/s400/Commoner+7+-+P1070178.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;În Edinburgh, până şi potăile de rând (însă devenite simboluri ale oraşului) ca&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2009/02/din-raidurile-mele-prin-inima-scotiei-8.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Greyfriars Bobby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; se bucură de statui chiar şi într-un hol de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.barcelo-hotels.co.uk/hotels/scotland/barcelo-edinburgh-carlton-hotel"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;hotel de patru stele&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(poza 7).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Cu mulţumiri &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;cititorului meu Mihai Gociu&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; pentru imaginile 2-6, aştept şi părerile altora despre arta urbană din UK.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pTJ3RhGTLVQ/Ttzz5ygqWVI/AAAAAAAADqI/zjmu2RaxuHA/s1600/P1090366+-+Litter...+ature+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pTJ3RhGTLVQ/Ttzz5ygqWVI/AAAAAAAADqI/zjmu2RaxuHA/s400/P1090366+-+Litter...+ature+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Litter…ature?! Not really, as both books seemed interesting enough. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Liter… l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;turi?! Nu chiar, căci ambele cărţi păreau destul de interesante.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; However, someone in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Lewes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/default.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;East Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) seemed to have had enough of them. &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;Totuşi, cineva din &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Lewes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/default.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;East Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) parea să se fi săturat de ele.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZvJCdCkINmI/TtzztZz4BzI/AAAAAAAADqA/3D2zLooRmKE/s1600/P1090367+-+Litter...+ature+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZvJCdCkINmI/TtzztZz4BzI/AAAAAAAADqA/3D2zLooRmKE/s400/P1090367+-+Litter...+ature+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;As for the p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;un, here’s an anecdote that an English language tutor from the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;University of Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; told me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Cât despre calambur, iată o mică anecdotă&amp;nbsp; pe care o profesoar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă de limba engleză de la &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;University of Sussex&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; mi-a spus-o.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt; foreign student of hers thought that he was sending letters home... &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;care credea că trimite scrisori acasă…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Un student străin de-al ei credea că trimite scrisori acasă…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnHwvMK0OcE/TtzzZBpa0oI/AAAAAAAADp4/pWCLbC4KmnI/s1600/P1090274+-+Litter...+ature+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnHwvMK0OcE/TtzzZBpa0oI/AAAAAAAADp4/pWCLbC4KmnI/s400/P1090274+-+Litter...+ature+3.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;...while putting them not into &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Royal Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; post boxes, but into trash bins inscribed with the word LITTER. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; …în timp ce le punea nu în cutii poştale ale &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Royal Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, ci în tomberoane înscrise cu cuvântul LITTER (gunoi).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;The word looked like LETTER to him :-) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Cuv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ântul părea LETTER (scrisoare) &amp;nbsp;pentru el :-)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; 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[Va crăpa Eurozona?]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nR1SXeopsE/Ttprrvt2eHI/AAAAAAAADpo/X_NEYNSCcMs/s1600/EU+Crack+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nR1SXeopsE/Ttprrvt2eHI/AAAAAAAADpo/X_NEYNSCcMs/s400/EU+Crack+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;More than three years after the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wallstcrash.com/wall-street-stock-market-crash-2008/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Wall Street Crash of 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, the unthinkable&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1417411055"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;demise of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8929042/Can-the-euro-be-saved.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;euro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; and the break-up of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Eurozone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;has&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;(apparently) become &lt;/span&gt;plausible&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It’s getting crystal clear even to the most fanatic&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100114468/why-did-the-euro-enthusiasts-get-it-so-wrong-because-they-were-prejudiced/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;euroenthusiasts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; that any &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.europeaninstitute.org/April-2010/has-the-eurozone-crisis-become-a-new-global-financial-crisis.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;imminent economic cataclysm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; cannot be blamed on &lt;i&gt;convenient scapegoats&lt;/i&gt; anymore.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The &lt;i&gt;lazy&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Greeks&lt;/i&gt;, the &lt;i&gt;irresponsible governments&lt;/i&gt; in Eurozone weak links countries (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;PIIGS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), along with &lt;i&gt;greedy bankers&lt;/i&gt; everywhere may have played relatively secondary roles in influencing the destiny of the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Union_of_the_European_Union"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EMU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nevertheless, the fate of the European currency has never been – nor is it in these very days of turmoil – in the hands of less important actors like the above.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The devil lies in the details of EU treaties and especially in the chain of misdeeds committed by the political leaders of Europe, whether acting unilaterally, from Berlin, Paris or Rome, or together, from Brussels.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Hardly could the roots of the current crisis be located in Frankfurt, as the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ECB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; has seldom had its hands united by the heads of state and government reunited in the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.consilium.europa.eu/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Council of the Union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;More and more independent economists show that the mess engulfing the EU and threatening to blow up the global economy has &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://protesilaos.blogactiv.eu/2011/09/15/time-for-a-euro-wide-strategy-to-deal-with-the-systemic-crisis/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;systemic causes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The EMU is on the brink of disaster because it lacks several fundamental premises of an efficient monetary union; it is made up of an econimic ‘&lt;i&gt;giant&lt;/i&gt;’ (Germany) with 16 ‘&lt;i&gt;feet of clay&lt;/i&gt;’ of various strengths from stronger (France) and weaker (Italy) muscles to negligible appendices (Estonia).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DKg5BPd6t0A/Ttprx168QdI/AAAAAAAADpw/eGfu5aKBqIU/s1600/EU+Crack+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="215" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DKg5BPd6t0A/Ttprx168QdI/AAAAAAAADpw/eGfu5aKBqIU/s400/EU+Crack+1.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The ECB could be reasonably functioning as a central bank (if allowed to act do so), yet there is no effective equivalent of a national &lt;i&gt;Treasury&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Ministry of Finances&lt;/i&gt;) or &lt;i&gt;Government&lt;/i&gt; in Brussels.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For decades, EU leaders have been deploring the lack of a common defence policy (greatly compensated by NATO) or of a common energy policy (whose absence contributes to the fact that Europeans are often ‘&lt;i&gt;energy hostages&lt;/i&gt;’ of Russia). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It was fashionable to complain about these issues, however, none was as &lt;i&gt;divisive&lt;/i&gt; and able to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21541016"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;threaten the survival of the EU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; as the other skeleton that the current crisis took out of the Union’s closet – there is no common fiscal policy of the EMU.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In its absence, sooner or later, the Eurozone would be doomed to crack, like some analysts anticipated in the late 1990s, if not even longer before, around &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_convergence_criteria"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the dawn of this project&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The flaws of the EMU &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100064330/margaret-thatcher-knew-the-single-currency-would-devastate-europe/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;were known from the very beginning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; but swept under a carpet of great expectations about increased common prosperity.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For a while, the illusion worked. After the first months of wariness, when many Europeans in euro countries were shocked by price hikes, almost everyone grew accustomed with a stable currency, no need for exchange rates, low inflation and bearable interest rates.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese and others had access to cheap credit, while their tourist industries cashed in &lt;i&gt;strong&lt;/i&gt; euros, instead of &lt;i&gt;weak&lt;/i&gt; drachmas, pesetas or escudos.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In the meantime, the euro was weaker than how the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Deutsche Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; would have probably been in the 2000s, enabling &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100013600/germany-is-the-ultimate-victim-of-emu/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; to be biggest world exporter in 2007, ahead of China. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oIBg9t6DFYY/TtprgK_-VVI/AAAAAAAADpg/MsExkkbyztU/s1600/EU+Crack+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="361" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oIBg9t6DFYY/TtprgK_-VVI/AAAAAAAADpg/MsExkkbyztU/s400/EU+Crack+3.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The success story seemed complete, and many warnings (like the ones about &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/italy-and-the-eurozone/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Italy being unfit for EMU membership&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(+ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://italyeconomicinfo.blogspot.com/2006/02/les-jeux-sont-faits.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://italyeconomicinfo.blogspot.com/2005/06/italy-devaluation-or-deflation.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://italyeconomicinfo.blogspot.com/2005/09/italian-government-has-new-crisis.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) – see the pics*** illustrating this article!) were bluntly dismissed as nonsensical soothsaying.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Actually, there’s growing evidence that it was well-known to the architects of the euro that the Eurosystem was &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8932647/Euro-doomed-from-start-says-Jacques-Delors.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;ill conceived from the start&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;This didn’t prevent them from taking a huge gamble on the hope that a severe crisis (like the one the world has endured since 2008) would eventually help establish a “&lt;i&gt;a more perfect union&lt;/i&gt;,” like the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Constitution of the USA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; aimed in 1787.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Is this imperfect monetary union &lt;i&gt;perfectible&lt;/i&gt;? Are the 17 euro countries willing to take upon themselves the full political cost of making the EMU truly functional?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;And could giving up more of one country’s sovereignty &lt;i&gt;guarantee&lt;/i&gt; anything for the EU’s citizens (“&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_Constitution"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;we the people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,” if we were to quote the US Constitution again), apart from helping save the banking system from collapse? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Will a ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15997784"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;full fiscal union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ work better than the current ailing EMU? The Eurosystem would probably run smoothly, yet the imbalances between the 17 economies would remain as grave as they are today, if not even worsen.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Smothering public deficits from the cradle would not grant choices of more responsible political leaders to European voters; it would merely ignite more vicious political battles and maybe even&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;class conflict&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;within nations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;And, riskier than anything else, wouldn’t this ‘&lt;i&gt;EU Treasury&lt;/i&gt;’ remain as &lt;i&gt;unaccountable&lt;/i&gt; to European citizens as other EU institutions and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100064538/guilty-men-when-are-the-supporters-of-the-euro-going-to-apologise/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;leaders&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;that created the current ‘&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://mises.org/daily/5800/Why-Is-There-a-Euro-Crisis"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;euro-mess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’ have always been?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;]&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;*** NOTE: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Simon Tilford, from the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cer.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Center for European Reform&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 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Andrei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, împărtăşesc cu lumea unele dintre cele mai uimitoare poze pe care le-am făcut vreodată.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;This is a rare icon of our Lord Jesus Christ with His eyes closed, from the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://dc307.4shared.com/doc/T0KvYV02/preview.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Celic Dere Monastery&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulcea_County"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Tulcea county&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (TL). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Aceasta este o icoană a Domnului nostru Iisus Hristos cu ochii închişi, de la &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://biserici-manastiri.info/manastirea-celic-dere/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mănăstirea Celic Dere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude%C8%9Bul_Tulcea"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;judeţul Tulcea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (TL).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; This monastery lies in the northernmost part of &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobruja"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Dobruja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – where St. Andrew spread the Gospel among the ancestors of Romanians. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Această mânăstire se află în partea cea mai nordică a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrogea"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Dobrogei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – unde Sf. Andrei a răspândit Evanghelia strămoşilor românilor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; What’s even stranger than Christ’s appearance is the fact that &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.romanianmonasteries.org/other-monasteries/dobrogea-monasteries/celic-dere"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;the darkened icon has been cleaning itself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (+ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orthphoto.net/photo.php?id=52133&amp;amp;id_jezyk=1"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shorex.ro/danube-black-sea-danube-delta.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45261862"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) over the centuries. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Ceea ce este şi mai ciudat decât înfăţişarea lui Hristos este faptul că &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crestinortodox.ro/reportaj/icoanele-unicat-la-manastirea-celic-dere-72344.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;icoana înnegrită s-a curăţat singură&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (+ &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://mihaelatilvar-inaltareagandului.blogspot.com/2011/09/icoana-care-se-curata-singura.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ortodoxie.3x.ro/diverse/Carti/jurnalul_national/icoane_facatoare_de_minuni/12.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.adevarul.ro/locale/constanta/Constanta-_Icoana_care_se_curata_singura_de_la_Celic_Dere_0_199780049.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) de-a lungul secolelor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Yha0bTQHmg/TtaXRdUmG4I/AAAAAAAADpQ/y8yinVwj7jc/s1600/P1150238+-+Celic+Dere+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5Yha0bTQHmg/TtaXRdUmG4I/AAAAAAAADpQ/y8yinVwj7jc/s400/P1150238+-+Celic+Dere+2.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Brought to Dobruja during the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1806%E2%80%931812)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Russo-Turkish war of 1806-1812&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;by a soldier, it is expected that a great miracle will be made through this icon one day. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO] &lt;/span&gt;Adusă în Dobrogea în timpul &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C4%83zboiul_Ruso-Turc_(1806-1812)"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Războiului ruso-turc de la 1806-1812&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; de către un soldat, se aşteaptă ca prin această icoană să facă un mare miracol într-o zi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Apart from the miraculous cleaning (as it was once all black), when all the dirt will be wiped off, Christ would open His eyes. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Dincolo de de curăţarea miraculoasă (căci a fost cândva cu totul neagră), când toată mizeria va fi ştearsă, Hristos Îşi va deschide ochii.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; It is believed that when the painted Christ could see again, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming_of_Christ"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;His Second Coming&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; may be drawing near. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Se crede că atunci când Hristos cel pictat va putea vedea din nou, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.razboiulnevazut.org/capitol.php?id=1203"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;A Doua Sa Venire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; va fi aproape.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; However, only the He knows whether the self-cleaning of the other half of the icon would take two more centuries, decades or a few years… &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Totuşi, doar El ştie dacă auto-curăţarea celeilalte jumătăţi a icoanei va lua încă două secole, decenii sau câţiva ani…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wqLBCFgzujI/TtaXF_Uli2I/AAAAAAAADpI/lVZwLun8bBM/s1600/P1150233+-+Celic+Dere+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wqLBCFgzujI/TtaXF_Uli2I/AAAAAAAADpI/lVZwLun8bBM/s400/P1150233+-+Celic+Dere+3.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; When this happens, “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+18%3A1-8&amp;amp;version=NASB"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;will the Son of Man find faith on earth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,” in a world so drunk with destructive delusions? &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Când se va întâmpla aceasta, “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=48&amp;amp;cap=18"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;va mai găsi Fiul Omului credinţă pe pământ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, într-o lume atât de îmbătată de amăgiri distrugătoare?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; All that could be known is that the times are already as troubled and hopeless as were those in the early 1800s. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Tot ceea ce se poate spune este că vremurile sunt deja la fel de agitate şi lipsite de speranţă precum la începutul anilor 1800.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; It was the time when &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’s forcefully united Europe was about to crack, as exhausted French armies couldn’t hold it together anymore… &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Era vremea când Europa unită cu forţa a lui &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Napoleon Bonaparte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; era gata să crape, căci epuizatele armate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;franceze nu mai puteau s-o mai ţină la un loc...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Could we imagine that any resemblance to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/euro_crisis/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;current events in the EU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; and the rest of the world (USA, Syria, Israel, Iran etc) is entirely &lt;i&gt;coincidental&lt;/i&gt;? &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Ne putem imagina că orice asemănare cu &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zf.ro/special/criza-zonei-euro-cum-a-ajuns-cel-mai-mare-proiect-al-europei-sa-fie-doar-un-simbol-de-tranzactionare-9019233"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;evenimente actuale din UE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; şi restul lumii (SUA, Siria, Israel, Iran etc) este cu totul o &lt;i&gt;coincidenţă&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-65259042042697895?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/65259042042697895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=65259042042697895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/65259042042697895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/65259042042697895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/11/en-no-comment-ro-fara-comentarii-19_30.html' title='[EN] No comment / [RO] Fără comentarii (19) – Christ’s blackened icon that cleans itself / Icoana înnegrită a lui Hristos care se curăţă singură'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTU9w0uJzY0/TtaXYhKH_NI/AAAAAAAADpY/zEBZDFtvNK4/s72-c/P1150237+-+Celic+Dere+1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-2416665323970355400</id><published>2011-11-28T14:59:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T17:49:01.490+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oxford'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Britain&apos;s Christian Heritage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='England'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St Andrews'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cambridge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canterbury'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orthodox Church'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Church of Scotland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='St. Andrew'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Golf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Students / Studenţi'/><title type='text'>Din raidurile mele prin inima Scoţiei (24) [From my forays into Scotland's heartland]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ghkHejkl1GY/TtOFfNKNdKI/AAAAAAAADog/U2f5Z6KeBSM/s1600/P1120776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ghkHejkl1GY/TtOFfNKNdKI/AAAAAAAADog/U2f5Z6KeBSM/s400/P1120776.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Pentru că se apropie prăznuirea &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sfantulandrei.info/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sfântului Andrei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; – o zi (oare şi &lt;i&gt;miezul ei creştin&lt;/i&gt;?!) la mare cinste, atât &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrew's_Day"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;în Scoţia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;, cât şi &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://2011.calendar-bisericesc.ro/randuieli%20bisericesti/sarbatori%20bisericesti%20nationale.php"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;în România&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; – postez câteva imagini din orăşelul scoţian cu numele sfântului.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gTsgf0KM-xc/TtOFYcZ1nnI/AAAAAAAADoY/8_qj3rem0BA/s1600/P1120777.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gTsgf0KM-xc/TtOFYcZ1nnI/AAAAAAAADoY/8_qj3rem0BA/s400/P1120777.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Acest &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrews"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;St Andrews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; este de-abia al cincilea oraş ca mărime din &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Fife&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (circa 16,700 locuitori) şi rămâne în istorie drept capitală a Bisericii din Scoţia (cea dinainte de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Church of Scotland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1h5dixJBOx0/TtOFTrSpK3I/AAAAAAAADoQ/J683SHTZTzY/s1600/P1120795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1h5dixJBOx0/TtOFTrSpK3I/AAAAAAAADoQ/J683SHTZTzY/s400/P1120795.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Deşi de 2.5 ori mai puţin populat decât echivalentul eclesiatic din Anglia (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Canterbury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), cu greu s-ar putea zice că orăşelul n-ar avea &lt;i&gt;greutate&lt;/i&gt; în UK.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XKHx7hJX_1c/TtOFOpVjXwI/AAAAAAAADoI/NghDRAgAVZY/s1600/P1120810.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XKHx7hJX_1c/TtOFOpVjXwI/AAAAAAAADoI/NghDRAgAVZY/s400/P1120810.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Nu atât din perspectivă economică, cât mai ales ca importanţă istorică şi intelectuală, pentru că găzduieşte a treia universitate de pe tărâm britanic, după cele &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Oxford&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; şi &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Cambridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4VqZLICIUxU/TtOFH3HW-aI/AAAAAAAADoA/57Tmky_i1zo/s1600/P1120811.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4VqZLICIUxU/TtOFH3HW-aI/AAAAAAAADoA/57Tmky_i1zo/s400/P1120811.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;A treia în ordine cronologică şi încă în &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of_universities_in_the_United_Kingdom"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;top zece universităţi britanice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; în privinţa calităţii educaţiei, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;University of St Andrews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; a fost fondată la 1410-1413.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y0tFWEY4NnM/TtOFAKKIbMI/AAAAAAAADn4/zo2Ac0VKAxM/s1600/P1120837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y0tFWEY4NnM/TtOFAKKIbMI/AAAAAAAADn4/zo2Ac0VKAxM/s400/P1120837.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mii de studenţi din toată lumea au venit şi vin aici, foarte probabil atraşi nu doar de vreo poveste de iubire princiară precum cea dintre &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/04/25/11/st-andrews-where-william-kates-fairytale-started"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;William şi Kate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FUdN2-F7e2U/TtOE7ebpgCI/AAAAAAAADnw/nYX3Me-wXbw/s1600/P1120850.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FUdN2-F7e2U/TtOE7ebpgCI/AAAAAAAADnw/nYX3Me-wXbw/s400/P1120850.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ci de aerul boem dintr-un oraş medieval, fără industrie (în afara &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.standrews.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;celei turistice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, inclusiv &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.standrewsgolf.org/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;celei dedicate golfului&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;), unde n-ai ce face decât &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/883457.stm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;să studiezi şi să te distrezi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WP42WmoHWXo/TtOE2hJoviI/AAAAAAAADno/d5aG7rIMSDY/s1600/P1120860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WP42WmoHWXo/TtOE2hJoviI/AAAAAAAADno/d5aG7rIMSDY/s400/P1120860.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Cu atât mai puţin nu cred că mai interesează pe cineva moştenirea creştină a localităţii, unde mai funcţionează &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;‘&lt;i&gt;biserici&lt;/i&gt;’, dar nu ştiu câtă ‘&lt;i&gt;credinţă&lt;/i&gt;’ o mai fi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-qBdtJ7-Fs/TtOEbj71-OI/AAAAAAAADng/rHQ4m8tHN5g/s1600/P1120873.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f-qBdtJ7-Fs/TtOEbj71-OI/AAAAAAAADng/rHQ4m8tHN5g/s400/P1120873.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;Şi unde ruinele &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrews_Cathedral"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Catedralei din St Andrews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; – înălţate&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;(începând cu anul 1158)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;dup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;ă ruperea creştinătăţii britanice de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sfaturiortodoxe.ro/singur-ortodoxia/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Biserica Una a lui Hristos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; – vin ca un &lt;i&gt;avetisment&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M_BRji-p4fI/TtOEUzf05ZI/AAAAAAAADnY/M2uPqe-eDe0/s1600/P1120892.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M_BRji-p4fI/TtOEUzf05ZI/AAAAAAAADnY/M2uPqe-eDe0/s400/P1120892.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;De s-o încrede cineva doar în &lt;i&gt;ştiin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ţa&lt;/i&gt; lui, să nu uite ce zice Mântuitorul: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bibliaortodoxa.ro/carte.php?id=35&amp;amp;cap=15"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Cel ce rămâne întru Mine şi Eu în el, acela aduce roadă multă, căci fără Mine nu puteţi face nimic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;[Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la/For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #333333; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #3366ff; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-2416665323970355400?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/2416665323970355400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=2416665323970355400' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/2416665323970355400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/2416665323970355400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/11/din-raidurile-mele-prin-inima-scotiei.html' title='Din raidurile mele prin inima Scoţiei (24) [From my forays into Scotland&apos;s heartland]'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ghkHejkl1GY/TtOFfNKNdKI/AAAAAAAADog/U2f5Z6KeBSM/s72-c/P1120776.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-6849880764178409396</id><published>2011-11-25T14:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T14:47:03.452+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eurozone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Greece'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brussels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Websites I recommend / Siteuri pe care le recomand'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='European Affairs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Synonblog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Newspapers / Ziare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EMU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='EU'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Daily Mail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Portugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spain'/><title type='text'>[EN] Hail to competing sites / [RO] Salutări siteurilor concurente (18)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i58xPfOvM8I/Ts-I-YoDoNI/AAAAAAAADnQ/fnLE8_O3eHE/s1600/Hail+to...+-+synonblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="231" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i58xPfOvM8I/Ts-I-YoDoNI/AAAAAAAADnQ/fnLE8_O3eHE/s400/Hail+to...+-+synonblog.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; A blog that thrashes the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Eurozone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Union_of_the_European_Union"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EMU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;) and everything that an be deemed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; in regard to the EU is one kept by&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;this&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Irish journalist&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; from Brussels. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Un blog care chelf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ăneşte &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_euro"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Eurozona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Union_of_the_European_Union"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EMU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) şi tot ceea ce poate fi considerat &lt;i&gt;bun&lt;/i&gt; în legătură cu UE este ţinut de &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;această jurnalistă irlandeză&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; din Bruxelles.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Hosted by the conservative and euroskeptic &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The Daily Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, the blog has no mercy for pro-EU European leaders. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Găzduit de conservatorul şi euroscepticul &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The Daily Mail&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, blogul nu are milă pentru liderii europeni pro-UE.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; In the author’s view, for everything bad in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/greece-the-eus-colonial-administrator-gives-his-report.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Greece&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/01/getting-ireland-to-break-with-sterling-how-the-european-union-manipulated-support.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Ireland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/the-euro-rampage-wont-stop-at-rome-spain-is-more-at-risk-than-italy.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Spain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/05/portugal-and-its-bailout-it-will-solve-nothing-time-to-get-on-with-the-default.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/italy-where-the-worlds-first-virus-state-replicates-its-dna.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Italy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; it’s surely the EU’s fault… &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; În opinia autoarei, pentru tot răul din &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/greece-the-eus-colonial-administrator-gives-his-report.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Grecia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/01/getting-ireland-to-break-with-sterling-how-the-european-union-manipulated-support.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Irlanda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/the-euro-rampage-wont-stop-at-rome-spain-is-more-at-risk-than-italy.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Spania&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/05/portugal-and-its-bailout-it-will-solve-nothing-time-to-get-on-with-the-default.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Portugalia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; sau &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://synonblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/11/italy-where-the-worlds-first-virus-state-replicates-its-dna.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Italia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; este în mod sigur vina UE…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8EhYx81WLNQ/Ts-I5RE21zI/AAAAAAAADnI/ysoD-4sZ5w0/s1600/Hail+to...+-+the-eu-and-me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="232" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8EhYx81WLNQ/Ts-I5RE21zI/AAAAAAAADnI/ysoD-4sZ5w0/s400/Hail+to...+-+the-eu-and-me.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Enjoying less success than such a blog are the &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;European Commission&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;’s efforts (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.the-eu-and-me.org.uk/eu-myths"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/communication/take_part/myths_en.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/budget/explained/myths/myths_en.cfm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) to defuse the myths and rumours about the EU. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Bucur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;ându-se de mai puţin succes decât un astfel de blog sunt eforturile &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_ro.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Comisiei Europene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.the-eu-and-me.org.uk/eu-myths"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/communication/take_part/myths_en.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ec.europa.eu/budget/explained/myths/myths_en.cfm"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;aici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) de a dezamorsa miturile şi zvonurile despre EU.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Of which the Brit newspapers (especially but not exclusively) are &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8157541/EU-launches-website-to-dispel-urban-myths.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;filled with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, often on a daily basis. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; De care ziarele britanice&amp;nbsp; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;î&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;n special, dar nu exclusiv) &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8157541/EU-launches-website-to-dispel-urban-myths.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;sunt pline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, adesea zi de zi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[EN]&lt;/span&gt; Where does the truth lie? That’s for my readers to figure out for themselves!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"&gt;[RO]&lt;/span&gt; Unde se af&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span lang="RO" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;lă adevărul? Cititorii mei să-l descopere singuri!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;[For all the episodes of this series, and all the posts on this blog go to/Pentru toate episoadele din această serie şi toate postările de pe acest blog mergi la: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2008/03/en-contents-ro-cuprins.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Contents/Cuprins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3366ff;"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/821544239627177055-6849880764178409396?l=munteanuk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/feeds/6849880764178409396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=821544239627177055&amp;postID=6849880764178409396' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/6849880764178409396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/821544239627177055/posts/default/6849880764178409396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://munteanuk.blogspot.com/2011/11/en-hail-to-competing-sites-ro-salutari.html' title='[EN] Hail to competing sites / [RO] Salutări siteurilor concurente (18)'/><author><name>MunteanUK</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04076516846278419749</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yuqXggZe6PU/SE-gWc-zVLI/AAAAAAAAAtk/aBb7CvyfEmM/S220/MunteanUK+-+Logo+-+Avatar.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i58xPfOvM8I/Ts-I-YoDoNI/AAAAAAAADnQ/fnLE8_O3eHE/s72-c/Hail+to...+-+synonblog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-821544239627177055.post-6044648798786365486</id><published>2011-11-23T10:02:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T11:48:34.006+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Daily Telegraph'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='On a British Train / Într-un tren britanic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Newspapers / Ziare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Questions for My Readers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Global Warming / Încălzirea globală'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Freeze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Public Transport in the UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BBC'/><title type='text'>About public transport in the UK  (21) [Despre transportul în comun în UK]</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2GtlvRIOQeE/TsyoAzdwJAI/AAAAAAAADnA/F4Q7dX0uZhY/s1600/P1060381+-+Trains+Late.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2GtlvRIOQeE/TsyoAzdwJAI/AAAAAAAADnA/F4Q7dX0uZhY/s400/P1060381+-+Trains+Late.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Keeping in mind that “&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/43428-train-punctuality-improving"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;grumbling about trains being late is almost a national hobby&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;” in Britain, I noticed this kind of ‘&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;worries&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;’ reflected more and more often in the online editions of British newspapers…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;…and not that they would have serious topics to discuss or gossip about :-) Thus, I find myself wondering (and simultaneously asking my readers): how serious is this issue?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 150%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Last June, a &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;BBC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; report noted that&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;
