Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "Living Ironically in Europe" channel.

  1. In South Moravia county in Czechia, there are serveral hunting grounds. One of them is called "Romanian" in rememberence of visit of Romanian king long in the past. Caucescu visited these hunting grounds three times. People who worked the hunting grounds at the time remembered him as full on myslivec (professional game keeper/ranger) on his first visit. Very respectful, very ethical, hunted well. When he came a few years later for his second and third visit, he turned into a butcher, that just wanted to kill, kill, kill and kill some more trophy animals. Not even interested in either meat or trophies, RDR2 would not have enough animals for him to skin! Insane change.
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  2. To be fair, you have some really good justifications from well before division of Poland, through Communist times... But I guess only those, who had similar experiences in their past understand that. I mean, we too remember 1968, neighbour.
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  3. Cause Romanian is basically intelligible to Italian :D
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  4. Yeah, I've been told, that priests in Romania can get political in their sermons... My grandpa was Romanian and once told me, that dad had problem in school, because he told the teacher, that in 1968 Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Warsaw pact (which in itself was huuuuge nono at the time) and that he had learned it from a priest's sermon... that took place in Cugir. Another tradition I've been told about, was gift giving. One person is selected and begins to gather wedding gifts for the happy couple and he goes in order of value of the gift. Which can get awkward at times. For instance, at one wedding my dad decided to add to his initial gift 50 West German Marks and he was like tenth in the line. Worst of all, he didn't know about the exchange rate and so, some fifty people after him had to go home for a moment to bring extra gifts valued about two monthly salaries at the time. Yeah... dad was not welcome in Romania for over a year afterwards... where he'd repeat the stunt with a TV, though this time, everyone was expecting it. Edit: The two weddings my dad attended took three days of this each
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  5. yes... brotherly nations... Czechia, literally number 2 country on Russia's hostile countries list :D
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  6. I'm sorry, south of the country? They've been as far as Trenčín! that's basically in the middle of Slovakia North to South!
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  7. Nah, what people do in the clips, outside of actually crazy shit is... whatever. Hell, by that metric, we'd have to be very suspicious of prezident Petr Pavel of my homeland of Czechia... Cause he was also moving logs and choping firewood in his spots. Pretty sure Kremlin is not happy about at a time the top guy of NATO winning an election.
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  8. Romania is diverse in this sense... I have family in judet Alba. When visiting Alba Iulia, I dropped my passport wallet, which holds my emergency card. Nobody called to me. A guy ran after me all the way to the train (which made me miss it) to return me the wallet. A few days later, family and I were returning home and in the middle of the mountains, some kids approached us hand extended, begging and then tried to pry them selves into our car and we had to flee. From what my uncle told me, things are going in the right direction, but it's taking it's sweet time.
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  9.  @munchkin0.o  Nah, it's more like it would have been worthless. My dad, back during Caucescu's reign went to a local exchange office to sell some 50 West German Marks. He received several trillion (old) Lei and had to go and buy two shopping bags for half a million each, to carry all that currency home... So what would fit in a full wallet in terms of bills? A loaf of bread, maybe?
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  10. fun fact. My dad is a proffessional lorry driver. Whenever we entered Serbia, roads became slippier to the point, where he actually changed his driving style to accomodate the road.
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  11. That's cute. Now try Czech
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  12. Yeah, road quality is different thorughout the Balkans, no kidding. My dad's a trucker, he always said, that he loved driving in Croatia, because the roads there are made from something, that makes them have a good grip... Cross over to Albania, and it feels like you're driving on ice... in the middle of a summer!
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