The World Cup starts tomorrow, in South Africa. Are we bothered? Well, yes, of course we are; we expect to watch a large number of games. But truth be told we have never been so indifferent about a major football tournament for sometime. The reasons for that are many. Firstly, football is in a bit [...]
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Volcanic tempers
We really have a great deal of sympathy for anyone currently stranded by the almost total shutdown of European airspace. Andy Hockley, a Brit who lives in Czikszerada/Miercurea Ciuc in Romania and who blogs here is one such stranded passenger. His attempts to get from Cambridge back to Romania (and now to Berlin) can be [...]
Copied from Wikipedia
Apparently, an Amazon.com ‘user review’ of a guidebook we wrote a few years ago claims that parts of the book were ‘lifted from Wikipedia.’ Really? Knowing full well that they were not (we have the original words – and they were original, all god-knows-how-many thousands of them – on a hard drive somewhere), we wondered [...]
Romania, keep your lights on!
That turning off the lights for an hour has become such an acceptable (and, let’s face it, painless) way of protesting says much about the top down, elitist green movement’s world view, which sees deprivation and poverty as lifestyle choices, and thinks that people in the developing world should be spared the excesses of our [...]
Astrology, Witchcraft, Pseudoscience & Classic Comedy
Last night, Romanian television was awash with astrologers, pyschics, energicians, homeopaths and other such quacks. All of whom were given time to explain – as if their theories had any scientific validity – the power allegedly being influenced by Traian Basescu’s Purple Flame Brigade. (Apparently, Basescu takes a chap called Aliodor Manolea – a ‘parapsychologist’ [...]