Reply to: The Only Way is Romania

[doodab]

Manager here at client is Romanian.

Lovely fella but mad as a box of frogs. I get the feeling they shipped him over here though because they wouldn't have to pay him as much, and they can screw him into working his nuts off. Silly sod is regularly here till 9pm every night and I regularly get emails sent by him at 3am.

His driving is a sight to see. Only been here 6 months and got done twice for speeding already. Had the misfortune to travel back from Birmingham with him the other day. Made the 90 mile trip in under an hour (and we stopped for McD in services on the way!) Never again.

Did'nt seem to understand that mewling through roadworks on the M50 at 80mph when the limit is 40mphis not a good idea even if you can't see any speed cameras. Pointed that if they did catch him doing that he'd be in big trouble! Not bothered though it seems.

He's probably trying to get himself deported cos he can't afford the air fare.

[psychocandy]

Manager here at client is Romanian.

Lovely fella but mad as a box of frogs. I get the feeling they shipped him over here though because they wouldn't have to pay him as much, and they can screw him into working his nuts off. Silly sod is regularly here till 9pm every night and I regularly get emails sent by him at 3am.

His driving is a sight to see. Only been here 6 months and got done twice for speeding already. Had the misfortune to travel back from Birmingham with him the other day. Made the 90 mile trip in under an hour (and we stopped for McD in services on the way!) Never again.

Did'nt seem to understand that mewling through roadworks on the M50 at 80mph when the limit is 40mphis not a good idea even if you can't see any speed cameras. Pointed that if they did catch him doing that he'd be in big trouble! Not bothered though it seems.

[MyUserName]

Keeping up with the Joneses is more valleys mentality lol

There are a lot more Joneses there too

[The Spartan]

U saying us Valley commandos are all chavs then Spartie? ;-)

Keeping up with the Joneses is more valleys mentality lol

[psychocandy]

Sounds like a lot of people I encountered in the Valleys, it's very much about keeping up appearances. I travelled home from Caerphilly by bus and had the misfortune of hearing a conversation that a woman was having with her friend. Basically they were on about her son's friends birthday party and she was explaining that she'd taken her son to the hairdresser's to have what I could only describe as the latest boy bad haircut which included highlights and fake tan, very OTT considering he was 9.

U saying us Valley commandos are all chavs then Spartie? ;-)

[lilelvis2000]

I've just been listening to a Polish housekeeper at my B&B explaining Romanians.

They love clothes and looking good. They don't go to Church to pray, they go to look at everyone's outfits to make sure that they look the best. They only care about status and that someone else looks cheap.

It doesn't matter if they don't have a roof over their heads provided they have a good hairstyle.

When a boy turns 18 he HAS to have a car, and it can't be any old car but the biggest and most expensive he can get his hands on, even if he can't afford the petrol to put in it.

Stupid Romanians...

Sounds like where I live. Half the town is one culture and adhere to the above. The other have is another culture and adhere to the above. All be it through different funding techniques.

[darmstadt]

Some Romanians (Dacians) yesterday:

[Gibbon]

The Roma are a problem, but not even all of them are crooks, some are very hard working, some are very poor, some are very rich, but the Roma are by nature a nomadic people, ethnically closer to Bob than to the Dacians

How many ethnic Dacians would have been left after the Gothic and Hunnic invasions? The Goths were camped north of the Danube for a long time. If you look at post Roman Britain only the fringes such as Cornwall and North Wales were left with any Romano Britain's by 1000 CE. I can't imagine the Dacians fared any better.

[Bacchus]

Romanians do, on the whole, care about looking their best. Appearances are important to them. As are good manners, hard work, and honesty to all the ones I've met

I think that if some of us had grown up in a country under communism where you could buy bread in quarter-loaves and had to queue for that, where girls died from back-street abortions, and enemies of the state vanished without a trace, rather than a country where we earn well as contractors and buy a plasma tv or a new car to cheer ourselves up we might have simpler values which could be reflected in a new hairstyle (in fact, think 70s Britain...).

The Roma are a problem, but not even all of them are crooks, some are very hard working, some are very poor, some are very rich, but the Roma are by nature a nomadic people, ethnically closer to Bob than to the Dacians

Romania is a very beatiful country with sandy beaches on the black sea, a rich history, and skiing in the Carpathinan mountains. Seriously thinking of investing in property there, the post-communist crooks are running (ruining) the show now, but in a few years you'll be going there for your holidays...

[mos]

I do wonder why more people do not live with realities. Like this quote in that BBC link:



How is "people that exploit their children and women for stealing for begging" and "beg and steal because that's the only chance that they have for surviving" any different for the victims? It is a given that, if the Roma were a successful people, they would not commit these crimes but the more relevant fact is that, as they are not Italians, it is not the duty of Italians to solve their problems.

For what I have seen recently in Italy, Roma people are the least of their immigration problems. Good luck to them.

[xoggoth]

I do wonder why more people do not live with realities. Like this quote in that BBC link:

"The right wing says that Romany Gypsies are just people that exploit their children and women for stealing for begging and maybe there is a bit of a truth in this," says Donatella DeVito, who works for a charity that tries to help integrate the Roma into Italian society.

"But the real problem is that some of the Roma actually beg and steal because that's the only chance that they have for surviving."

How is "people that exploit their children and women for stealing for begging" and "beg and steal because that's the only chance that they have for surviving" any different for the victims? It is a given that, if the Roma were a successful people, they would not commit these crimes but the more relevant fact is that, as they are not Italians, it is not the duty of Italians to solve their problems.

[minestrone]

The Roma should be forcibly escorted out the country as soon as possible.

[xoggoth]

I wasn't getting at you, just my sarcastic philosophy. No personal experience of the Roma but I doubt that the negative things we read are all that innacurate, particularly when much of it comes from reputable sources all over Europe.

In reality, very few "predudices" are totally without foundation.

PS The BBC for example:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8226580.stm

[Scrag Meister]

I suppose that does suggest one plus side of the absurd multicultural concept. When every single nation contains similar quantities of all the minorities we most dislike, we will all hate each other equally. Truly an advance towards a united world!

May be if my experience of them wasn't that of a crooked thieving corrupt sub-group then I wouldn't think this, but that is my experience, so I do.

Believe me I get on with anyone, but I would like to be treated the way I would treat them, not have stuff stolen from my garden, builders vans broken into while they are working in my house and fly tipping around the area.

The French had it right.

[xoggoth]

Sadly the majority of Romanians that I come into contact with are Roma gypsies

I suppose that does suggest one plus side of the absurd multicultural concept. When every single nation contains similar quantities of all the minorities we most dislike, we will all hate each other equally. Truly an advance towards a united world!