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ruzz1 wrote:How come u guys can click on the thong link? i can't get in as the site is blocked.
raidah wrote:what is so undecent in that site, that they would want to block it??? its not p<3n, or anything of the kind...is a woman's body in a string enough to block a site???
the_zooter wrote:raidah wrote:what is so undecent in that site, that they would want to block it??? its not p<3n, or anything of the kind...is a woman's body in a string enough to block a site???
In a word - YES!!
Liban wrote:Today's Greece is nothing like the Greece of years gone by. Today's Greece is an example of an EU charity basket. The EU has spent and currently spends billions to prop up this third world country. I have nothing against Greece. Its just a fact. Greece is third world, unlike other EU members such as UK, France, Germany, Italy, etc....
Romania, I never mentionned that little country. But Romania is definatly not a fully developped country. It is less developed than Greece and that by far. Romania's problems are deep rooted in poverty, education (lack of), and discrimination. All these apply to the mainly Roma population that suffers under Romanian laws. Romania has some ways to go.
These are facts. I am not attacking any one country because I frankly do not care about Greece or Romania to the point of having an issue with them since they are not world players and do not provide for an even minor blip on the radar.
alexandra wrote:Liban wrote:Today's Greece is nothing like the Greece of years gone by. Today's Greece is an example of an EU charity basket. The EU has spent and currently spends billions to prop up this third world country. I have nothing against Greece. Its just a fact. Greece is third world, unlike other EU members such as UK, France, Germany, Italy, etc....
Romania, I never mentionned that little country. But Romania is definatly not a fully developped country. It is less developed than Greece and that by far. Romania's problems are deep rooted in poverty, education (lack of), and discrimination. All these apply to the mainly Roma population that suffers under Romanian laws. Romania has some ways to go.
These are facts. I am not attacking any one country because I frankly do not care about Greece or Romania to the point of having an issue with them since they are not world players and do not provide for an even minor blip on the radar.
Liban u r so funny man....get ur eyes on a world map and chek romania, if it's a little country than lebanon is just an almost invisible dot on the map!
and what facts r u talking about???? u know nothing about romania, u talk only from what u heared! and if u the problem is education, tha lack of it , how u saied it, than tell me why most of the arabs sent their kids here to college? my city is the greatest universitary city in ROmania, the UMF college is one of the best in europe! UTC college has an impressive number of foreign students, mostly arabs!
and about poverty: as i stated before RO might not be the richest country in the world, but u wont see ppl using donkeys for sure: on the shit roads u can see poor ppl in ferarri, mercedes, bmw, rolls, maybach and so on........so yeah u r right they must be sooooooooo poooor to afford to buy cars of hundred thousands dollars.
regarding the laws: i dare to say i know more than u do about romanian laws, and i will say that we have good laws but the problem is that ppl don't know to use their rights!
discrimination, well i that exists all arround the world, even the fully developed DUbai has problems with that! but it has never been a main problem here, the number of ppl that r discriminated against is not higher than other countries!
alexandra wrote:i have nothing against donkeys.....animals have more brains than some ppl
so u go girl, i wont mess up ur plan!
arniegang wrote:Liban is not far off being totally correct in his assessment Alex.
rather than enter into debate regarding the economy, i would just like to post some hard facts published by the IMF that assessed the Romanian economy post your diversion from communisim in 1989 and again in 2003.
The agricultural economy and its employment outweighs its industial economy by 75%. However its GDP of Industry is 300% over agriculture.
This state of economy confirms the inbalance and shows the vast majority of the population are employed in argriculture and the income is minimal in compassison to its much smaller but profitable Industrial Economy.
Its current public debt is 25.3% of its GDP. Basically Alex romania is "broke".
The last figures to show true inflation levels was in 2004 running at 15.3% !!!!!!
i will paste the overall conclusion by the IMF
"The IMF Board approved Romania's completion of the standby agreement in October 2003, the first time Romania has successfully concluded an IMF agreement since the 1989 revolution. Nonetheless, recent macroeconomic gains have done little to address Romania's widespread poverty, while corruption and red tape hinder foreign investment.
Like Liban states we admire your patriotism Alex. But sadly it has to be accepted that Romania is on the verge of being considered " a third world country". The actuallity of your post is far off the reality.
arniegang wrote:I repect your reply Alex, but these figure do indeed have an impact on the countries culture. In terms of % about the amount of people working in Argriculture, this shows the very small % of those working within Industry.
This in turn reflects on the amount of quality education within the % of the population. I would not wish to say Rom does not have its Uni's and is not an "educated" country. But is it clear from the figures that we are indeed talking about a minority.
I would also wish to disagree on your assessment of comparing Rom education where you drew comparrisons to the rest of Western Europe. You further reinforce this comment by stating that many Arabs use the countries facilities for education.
Alex in all reallity it probably comes down to cost, and availability and lack of choice for those Arabs countries in being able to offer their kids an education but at the cheaper end of the higher education fee's. I would put it to you it has nothing to do with the excellent educational facilities you would wish us to think. As far as Bach and Master Degree's go on the quality scale, Rom is near the bottom of the list in Europe.
MaaaD wrote:damn a thread about thongs on the beach turned into a socioeconomic argument ... interesting stuff
alexandra wrote:MaaaD wrote:damn a thread about thongs on the beach turned into a socioeconomic argument ... interesting stuff
sory guys1 this is why i ended it... so u can go back on the topless, G string, and thongs....
raidah wrote:i already did arnie
all feather and pearls and lace....hhhmmmmmm