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Posts on ‘January 5th, 2009’

Bucharest Sets New World Record for Pointless World Records

Bucharest last week set three new stupid, expensive and utterly pointless world records, thereby breaking the old record held by no city in the world. Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu told Bucharest Life: “We are thrilled at these three new records. We are delighted that we can waste so much of the public’s money without anyone [...]

‘Sports Story on Sports News’ Shock Rocks Nation

Angry television viewers last night bombarded the switchboard of the CNA (Romania’s Audio-Visual watchdog) with a string of complaints related to the sudden, unannounced appearance of a sports result on the sports bulletin of a national TV station. One viewer, Ron Scuscu, told Bucharest Life: “It’s a disgrace. There I was watching some cracking footage [...]