You know you're Romanian if...
You cant have a boyfriend when you are 17 but you have to be married at
18.
You grew up on liver pate sandwiches.... and thought that it was normal.
You make your own noodles.
You had to share a room until you were 21.
You eat everything with sour cream.
You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.
You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their
real names.
You know someone with 20 kids.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
You can fit 10 people into a Dacia.
You know what a Dacia is.
Your parents never throw anything away and if you by some chance manage to get something to make it to the garbage can... it mysteriously appears back where it was again.
You have lace tablecloths.
You have lace curtains.
You have lace curtains hanging across doorways.
You have rugs covering every inch of your house.
You have or ever had rugs on your walls.
Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though your 30 pounds
overweight.
You ever heard of 'stomach stew'.
You know someone that married his girlfriend of 2 months.
You ever said, "Nu pot right now ca sunt busy!" or any other sentence
in a similar bilingual format.
Your mom is a doctor and force feeds you medicine for anything ranging
from a headache, stomach ache to a stubbed toe.
Your house is full of Romanian medicine that is probably illegal here.
You and your friends have ever been kicked out of a restaurant or
recreational park for being too loud or rowdy.
Your mom recycles plastic cups and paper plates, and sandwich bags by
washing them.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
You ever ate pig skin.
You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as
possible.
Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plastic
utensils (Got free with some household items).
Your mom ever chased you with a rolling pin or a broom telling you to
stop so that she could hit you.
Your dad ever threatened to smack you across the mouth for being
disrespectful.
You're twenty years old and your parents are trying to send you to
romoville to get you married cause your old.
Getting married at 18 is normal.
Getting married at 16 actually happens.
Your mom washes your clothing at 40.
A new tax being passed by the government is simply a cover up because
the end of the world is really coming.
Asking if you can get a discount at a discount store on clearance items
is normal and not embarrassing for your parents.
You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off or receive you whether you are traveling by bus, train or plane.
You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've
eaten, even if it's midnight.
When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you
discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have
improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their
lungs when making foreign calls.
You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting
dirty.
It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
You dont know half the people at your wedding cuz your parents invited
them.
You have mastered the art of bargaining in grocery shopping.
You walk out of the grocery store with no less then two packed shopping
carts weekly.
You ever took a picture in a bathroom or saw a pic of a group of girls
in a bathroom.
You have a RO sticker on your car.
Borat banned from Russian screens
A government agency has denied permission for Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan to be shown in Russian cinemas.
The Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography said the film could offend some viewers and contained material that “might seem humiliating in relation to certain ethnic groups and religions”, according to Vadim Ivanov, sales director at distributor Gemini Film International.
The film was to premiere in Russia on November 30.
British comedian Cohen’s comic character Borat Sagdiyev has told the world that Kazakhs are addicted to horse urine, enjoy shooting dogs, view rape and incest as respectable hobbies and are fond of pursuits such as “running of the Jew” festivals.
Russia has close political ties with Kazakhstan, whose officials and citizens have seethed at the comedian’s depiction of their country.
21-st Century...
Our education - Valueless
Have a good day, with LESS problems !
To my Darling Husband...
To my Darling Husband,
I have to inform you of something before you return from your overseas trip, I had a very tiny, absolutely small accident...
I was returning from work in the ute, as I was turning into our drive way, I slightly accelerated instead of stopping...
I'm really sorry, but I know you will find forgiveness in that sweet heart
of yours!!!
ENGLISH SIGNS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Cocktail lounge, Norway:
"LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR."
At a Budapest zoo:
"PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. IF YOU HAVE ANY SUITABLE FOOD, GIVE IT TO
THE GUARD ON DUTY."
Doctors' office, Rome:
"SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES."
Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
"DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS."
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True Joke
Queen Elizabeth II, George W Bush & Traian Basescu died & went straight to hell. Queen Elizabeth II said "I miss Britain , I want to call Britain and see how everybody is doing there. She called and talked for about 5 minutes, then her Majesty asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "Five million dollars" She wrote him a cheque and went to sit back on her chair. George Bush was so jealous, he began screaming, "My turn! I wanna call the United States, I want to see how everybody is doing there too" He called and talked for about 10 minutes, then he asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "Ten million dollars" With a smug look on his face, he made a cheque and went to sit back on his chair. Traian Basescu was even more jealous & started screaming, "I want to call Romania , I want to see how everybody is doing there. I wanna talk to the ministers, to the deputy, I wanna talk to everybody". He called Romania and he talked for about twenty hours, he talked & talked & talked, then he asked "Well, Devil how much do I owe you? The devil replied "One dollar". Basescu is stunned & says "One dollar??? Only one lousy dollar??" The Devil says "Well if you make a call from one hell to another hell, it's local"
What is the Internet?
Brief tutorial that describes this wonderful thing called Internet
What is the Internet?
I got this question out of many of my students. It’s quite difficult to give a scientifically correct definition. Actually, this article is meant to give a quick look at the Internet, rather than analyzing its technological features.
Ok, first, a little bit of history. In the times of the Cold War, America and the USSR where “at war”. Nuclear holocaust was in the mind of every living American. This was partially due to the launch of the Sputnik satellite the soviets put on orbit. The Department of Defense wanted a network that could easily adapt to changes and that could interconnect distant locations. The latter was already achieved; the telephone system was capable of transporting voice over many thousand kilometers. The problem was that if a telecommunications office would be for some reason disabled, all the users attached to that office would not be able to communicate with nobody. So, the smart guys from DoD developed the first Internet, if we can call it like that: ARPA Net. This early Internet could communicate important information among different locations around the US. Most important, the system could “find” another way, in case a communication link came down.
Finally, the Cold War was over. Still, the system remained operational. Soon, universities connected to this network. Soon, the growth became almost uncontrollable and the Internet developed to the form in witch we can fin it today.
It’s important to say two things: nobody is controlling the Internet and nobody is “producing” it. As strange as it may seem, the last phrase is unfortunately in a lot of people’s minds. Actually, some of my students asked me this. Ok, let’s review each statement.
Nobody is controlling the Internet
This is a two-edged sword. The good about this fact is that one can, for example, build a site without much trouble and with a relatively small budget. No one will ask you why you want that site; you just pay for the name of the site and period. Things are pretty loose. The bad thing about the fact that nobody is controlling the Internet is that relative to our example, you can write all you want in the site that you just bought. If it’s poetry, it’s ok. But if you are explaining, for example, how to make a bomb, then things tend to become a little bit ugly. Nowadays, one can find pretty much everything on the Internet. Ok, let’s see now the second statement about the Internet
Nobody is “producing” the Internet
Ok, to put it briefly, the Internet is one huge network of networks. Let me explain that. Suppose in a city we have an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that connects the majority of the inhabitants. Everyone pays a fee (smaller or greater) to the ISP in order to have access to the Internet. Various ISP’s may run in a city. These ISP pay at their turn to a larger ISP for access to the Internet. So the pyramid goes up until we find the top-level ISP’s, that don’t pay anything to anybody. They just establish connections with another top-level ISP, in order to exchange data. It’s a simple as that. Practically, from a newbie’s point of view, the Internet consists of the following:
• Computers: the computers of all the users that access www.google.com, for example
• Traffic moving devices: these devices make sure that one request to view www.google.com reaches Google and doesn’t go anywhere else.
• Servers: everyone has heard of servers. They simply provide the services that we use every day, like e-mail, web-search, sites and so on.
Keep in mind that the above grouping is only meant for understanding purposes. In real life, things are much more complicated.
Before I end this article, I would like to comment on my first statement (nobody is controlling the Internet). In this big network (witch pretty much resembles a huge city) if you want to go somewhere, you need to know the address, right? Everyone has heard of an IP address, but not everyone knows what an IP address is. An IP address is like one’s postal address. It’s unique and identifies your computer. Everyone connecting to the Internet has an unique IP address. The format is a four dotted decimal notation, for example 82.78.213.112. Now, the reason I discussed about this is that, like every good thing in life, IP addresses are not infinite. Roughly, the total number of IP address is 4.294.967.296. So, if IP addresses are finite, precise control is required. For this purpose an authority has been created in order to allocate IP addresses. Its name is IANA and stands for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
Now, let me explain a little bit how one as a home user gets an IP address. Top-level ISP’s buy addresses from IANA. As some of you may have already anticipated, these addresses are not sold in a chaotic fashion. Instead, IANA sells “chunks” of IP addresses in a contiguous fashion, for example one ISP cannot buy 82.78.213.112 and 82.78.213.117, and instead he has to buy the whole “chunk” starting from 82.78.213.1 and ending to 82.78.213.254.
So, as we have seen, the first “golden rule” has changed a little bit. We can rephrase it: the Internet is very loosely controlled.
The most important things to know about the Internet are the following:
• it’s a network of networks
• it’s very loosely controlled
• nobody is “producing” it
• every computer connected to the Internet is identified by an unique address, called the IP address
source:
NetMeUp
True Sayings
* A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one
* Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember
* A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't
* He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her
* When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
* When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see,they listen.
* A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
* Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly
* When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
* A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
