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	<description>Dispatches from an American in Romania (was Transylvania)</description>
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		<title>By: Fritz</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-147979</link>
		<dc:creator>Fritz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The proper way to open a wine bottle (in Romania) without a corkscrew, is to wrap the bottom of the bottle in a towel. You then repeatedly strike the bottom of the bottle against a wall until the bottle shatters. Amidst the flying shards of glass, the blood spatter and the cries of &quot;Du-te!&quot; someone usually remembers they have a corkscrew in the back of their Dacia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The proper way to open a wine bottle (in Romania) without a corkscrew, is to wrap the bottom of the bottle in a towel. You then repeatedly strike the bottom of the bottle against a wall until the bottle shatters. Amidst the flying shards of glass, the blood spatter and the cries of &#8220;Du-te!&#8221; someone usually remembers they have a corkscrew in the back of their Dacia.</p>
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		<title>By: Romer!can</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-127531</link>
		<dc:creator>Romer!can</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the positive comments, dan! I&#039;m glad to hear you found the content so valuable in helping you learn more about Romania. I hope to hear from you again. Come back any time!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the positive comments, dan! I&#8217;m glad to hear you found the content so valuable in helping you learn more about Romania. I hope to hear from you again. Come back any time!</p>
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		<title>By: dan</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-127439</link>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amice esti total rauvoitor. Te incadrezi perfect in profilul imigrantului care nu vede decat jumatatea goala a paharului.Jumatate din lucrurile de mai sus sunt neadevarate sau nereprezentative pentru Romania iar 90%sunt lipsite de haz.Ori n-ai fost decat in romania si america ,ori esti subiectiv si ignorant.Nu in ultimul rand ,nu gasesc utilitatea acestui site ...poate e doar gazda frustrarilor tale. Cu speranta ca si altii ca tine vor pleca din Romania,iti doresc un Paste Fericit.Get a life!!


   Dan...un Roman din america</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amice esti total rauvoitor. Te incadrezi perfect in profilul imigrantului care nu vede decat jumatatea goala a paharului.Jumatate din lucrurile de mai sus sunt neadevarate sau nereprezentative pentru Romania iar 90%sunt lipsite de haz.Ori n-ai fost decat in romania si america ,ori esti subiectiv si ignorant.Nu in ultimul rand ,nu gasesc utilitatea acestui site &#8230;poate e doar gazda frustrarilor tale. Cu speranta ca si altii ca tine vor pleca din Romania,iti doresc un Paste Fericit.Get a life!!</p>
<p>   Dan&#8230;un Roman din america</p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Black</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-78706</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Black</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there! I found out about this blog last summer when I returned to Romania after some time abroad, so I was curious to find some expats around here and know what they feel about my country. (I&#039;m Romanian.) This particular blog is quite all right (so far). I haven&#039;t had time to read it &quot;page by page&quot; but I probably will. I do find some subtle sarcastic touches like Ana pointed out, but they&#039;re not by far as bad as another blog of an American expat which I will not mention here and now.

However, I&#039;m annoyed by &quot;Emil&quot;&#039;s intervention who came up with fictional arguments taken from some hungarian or jewish pulp literature book about the history of ...well..the first people of Europe (us). &quot;Chiar eu&quot; is probably very accurate regarding &quot;Emil&quot;&#039;s backroud, but Emil can as well be half vulgarian and half hungarian from his father&#039;s side. Such blockheads like &quot;Emil&quot; and the insanities that they cast should not be taken seriously.

Danno, what corruption are you talking about? Any fields in particular? I can provide you with such a thing, but you have to get in touch with me. It&#039;s quite riscky, though... But why do you need one in the 1st place? Wanna steal ya&#039; daddy&#039;s car and take ya&#039; gal on a ride?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there! I found out about this blog last summer when I returned to Romania after some time abroad, so I was curious to find some expats around here and know what they feel about my country. (I&#8217;m Romanian.) This particular blog is quite all right (so far). I haven&#8217;t had time to read it &#8220;page by page&#8221; but I probably will. I do find some subtle sarcastic touches like Ana pointed out, but they&#8217;re not by far as bad as another blog of an American expat which I will not mention here and now.</p>
<p>However, I&#8217;m annoyed by &#8220;Emil&#8221;&#8217;s intervention who came up with fictional arguments taken from some hungarian or jewish pulp literature book about the history of &#8230;well..the first people of Europe (us). &#8220;Chiar eu&#8221; is probably very accurate regarding &#8220;Emil&#8221;&#8217;s backroud, but Emil can as well be half vulgarian and half hungarian from his father&#8217;s side. Such blockheads like &#8220;Emil&#8221; and the insanities that they cast should not be taken seriously.</p>
<p>Danno, what corruption are you talking about? Any fields in particular? I can provide you with such a thing, but you have to get in touch with me. It&#8217;s quite riscky, though&#8230; But why do you need one in the 1st place? Wanna steal ya&#8217; daddy&#8217;s car and take ya&#8217; gal on a ride?</p>
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		<title>By: danno</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-69565</link>
		<dc:creator>danno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi there everyone, could anyone please tell me, how high is the level of corruption there? is it possible to buy a drivers licence. And if so where and how much?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi there everyone, could anyone please tell me, how high is the level of corruption there? is it possible to buy a drivers licence. And if so where and how much?</p>
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		<title>By: Ana</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-68415</link>
		<dc:creator>Ana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, 

Seems pritty gloomy, doesn&#039;t it? 
Oh, but when you think about the Americans who won&#039;t ever bother growing anything themselves, instead they&#039;ll buy their vegetables from Australia, will have them washed in Norway, packed in India, an imported from Tansania.....hat is to cut it short.....still think that the ones grown in Romanian balconies are fresher....

The thing about plastic bags: it&#039;s caled recycling an is the very thing you keep preaching about to everyone - but you won&#039;t hear anything about it - remember Kyoto Protocol....???

The thing about water being cut ...well it&#039;s surely  not too bad if people are still prepared from last time when it happened...several years ago, as you say...still...it never happened this to me, and surprisingly enough I have ben living in a large city for over 30 years no...well... I am yet to learn about it...from an American!

And stop complaining about people&#039;s ingeniosity you so sarcasticly illustrate...did you enjoy the wine?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, </p>
<p>Seems pritty gloomy, doesn&#8217;t it?<br />
Oh, but when you think about the Americans who won&#8217;t ever bother growing anything themselves, instead they&#8217;ll buy their vegetables from Australia, will have them washed in Norway, packed in India, an imported from Tansania&#8230;..hat is to cut it short&#8230;..still think that the ones grown in Romanian balconies are fresher&#8230;.</p>
<p>The thing about plastic bags: it&#8217;s caled recycling an is the very thing you keep preaching about to everyone &#8211; but you won&#8217;t hear anything about it &#8211; remember Kyoto Protocol&#8230;.???</p>
<p>The thing about water being cut &#8230;well it&#8217;s surely  not too bad if people are still prepared from last time when it happened&#8230;several years ago, as you say&#8230;still&#8230;it never happened this to me, and surprisingly enough I have ben living in a large city for over 30 years no&#8230;well&#8230; I am yet to learn about it&#8230;from an American!</p>
<p>And stop complaining about people&#8217;s ingeniosity you so sarcasticly illustrate&#8230;did you enjoy the wine?</p>
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		<title>By: George</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-57107</link>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Romarican... very clever.  Love the flag.  I&#039;m having one made first chance I get.  And the romanian bottle opener... oh so true... except I always resort to the utensil pushing the cork in the bottle method.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Romarican&#8230; very clever.  Love the flag.  I&#8217;m having one made first chance I get.  And the romanian bottle opener&#8230; oh so true&#8230; except I always resort to the utensil pushing the cork in the bottle method.</p>
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		<title>By: Dylana Carlson</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-51221</link>
		<dc:creator>Dylana Carlson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for your site!

My husband and I have been following your site for the past year.  We just moved to Brasov from the states back in September.  We loved your story about the palinca.  We had an experience our first weekend here when we took the microbus over to Iasi to visit with some friends. On the way back we sat next to a Romanian couple that talked with us the whole way back to Brasov- with them knowing no English and us knowing small amounts of Romanian.  They shared their homemade wine with us-from an Dorna apa minerala bottle.  

Multumesc!

Dylana and Michael</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for your site!</p>
<p>My husband and I have been following your site for the past year.  We just moved to Brasov from the states back in September.  We loved your story about the palinca.  We had an experience our first weekend here when we took the microbus over to Iasi to visit with some friends. On the way back we sat next to a Romanian couple that talked with us the whole way back to Brasov- with them knowing no English and us knowing small amounts of Romanian.  They shared their homemade wine with us-from an Dorna apa minerala bottle.  </p>
<p>Multumesc!</p>
<p>Dylana and Michael</p>
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		<title>By: chiar eu</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-45919</link>
		<dc:creator>chiar eu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>emil is in fact Hungarian,  half Bulgarian from his father side (unknown story nor reason, grandmother involved)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>emil is in fact Hungarian,  half Bulgarian from his father side (unknown story nor reason, grandmother involved)</p>
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		<title>By: TZM</title>
		<link>http://romerican.com/2007/01/21/on-resourcefulness/comment-page-1/#comment-45530</link>
		<dc:creator>TZM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hahahaha, utterly brilliant and completely true, as well, in every detail !!! 

Regarding the Palinca argument, however, I have to agree with the people you quoted : the &#039;&#039;corporate&#039;&#039; one is complete rubbish while the home-made one is 100% natural (if you&#039;re not naive enough to buy it from some countryside folk that actually turned the whole thing into a business).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hahahaha, utterly brilliant and completely true, as well, in every detail !!! </p>
<p>Regarding the Palinca argument, however, I have to agree with the people you quoted : the &#8221;corporate&#8221; one is complete rubbish while the home-made one is 100% natural (if you&#8217;re not naive enough to buy it from some countryside folk that actually turned the whole thing into a business).</p>
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