[quote]A small plane crash on a remote mountain wouldn’t normally be enough to anger an entire country or threaten the government. Romania, however, is dealing with just this scenario.So far, four senior officials including the interior minister have resigned or been fired after all those onboard a medical flight initially survived Monday’s crash in thick fog. One of the pilots and a medical student later died of hypothermia among other causes after waiting for hours in deep snow to be saved.
Romanians reacted with fury, taking to social media and talk shows to accuse the government of incompetence and complacency after it emerged the least injured of the survivors called emergency services six times.
It took 4 ½ hours for local villagers and a woodcutter to locate the plane in Transylvania after it lost altitude and crashed at 1,400 meters (4,600 feet) above sea level. But medical teams arrived hours later and were reportedly ill-equipped. The plane, carrying two pilots and five medical workers, was on its way to pick up a liver for a transplant.
Nonetheless, public ire has reached a crescendo because many believe the government was unable to muster up-to-date equipment to rescue the crash victims, but is willing to invest its resources heavily on surveillance. Romania, a country of 19 million with no foreign enemies, has seven intelligence agencies, including the main domestic and foreign spying agencies. Democracy activists claim that those in power use intelligence to gain unfair advantages over opponents and dig up compromising data.
There is also anger because the elite telecommunications agency — one of the seven intelligence agencies — invested 40 million euros in the country’s national emergency number, and the six calls one of the survivors made didn’t appear to be enough to get help there quickly enough.[/quote]
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Such a shitstorm
They were both buried with military honors
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Rest in peace, poor souls.
I feel horrible about the medical student who died, especially.
Btw, those that resigned or have been removed.
The Minister of Internal Affairs
The director of the Romanian Air Traffic Services Administration
The State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
And the director of the said telecommunications agency -STS- is to be removed, as he doesn't want to resign
I think that's most of them, more or less
This won't be another kiev, but there will be alot of swearing back and forth. So is the Romanian way.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43679430]This won't be another kiev, but there will be alot of swearing back and forth. So is the Romanian way.[/QUOTE]
du-te dracului!
(translation: go to the devil)
I don't think Romania has a great tradition of swear words, but this is one of the things they say there quite commonly, as far as I know.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43679430]This won't be another kiev, but there will be alot of swearing back and forth. So is the Romanian way.[/QUOTE]
Well people have resigned, this didn't happen before when authorities were incompetent in handling an accident. Good enough.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43679470]du-te dracului!
(translation: go to the devil)
I don't think Romania has a great tradition of swear words, but this is one of the things they say there quite commonly, as far as I know.[/QUOTE]
Not a great tradition with swear words? Pffft
I think our vocabulary has one of the biggest number of swear words
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_profanity[/url]
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43679519]Well people have resigned, this didn't happen before when authorities were incompetent in handling an accident. Good enough.
Not a great tradition with swear words? Pffft
I think our vocabulary has one of the biggest number of swear words
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_profanity[/url][/QUOTE]
hey, most of these are just reused swear words translated into Romanian!
got any new ones? the euphemisms are pretty interesting though.
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43679537]hey, most of these are just reused swear words translated into Romanian!
got any new ones? the euphemisms are pretty interesting though.[/QUOTE]
Romanian has a certain poetic element to it's swear-words.
For example:
Ma! Iti fut mata gravida si fractu imi da muie la fel!
Which means;
Hey! I'll fuck your mother (so hard that/while) your unborn brother sucks my dick!
[editline]26th January 2014[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnAPIP3qL8[/media]
Thread about a plane crashing, turns into discussing romanian swear words.
This is youtube-tier derailing
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;43679636]Romanian has a certain poetic element to it's swear-words.
For example:
Ma! Iti fut [B]mama[/B] gravida si fractu imi da muie la fel!
Which means;
Hey! I'll fuck your mother (so hard that/while) your unborn brother sucks my dick![/QUOTE]
It actually means:
Hey! I'll fuck your mother, and your brother gives me the dick [I](to suck)[/I] the same way!
So, wait what?
[QUOTE=blah2;43680038]It actually means:
Hey! I'll fuck your mother, and your brother gives me the dick [I](to suck)[/I] the same way!
So, wait what?[/QUOTE]
ii dau lui fractu muie la fel.
I don't use the verb to suck dick very often, my bad. I'm more of a your mom's pussy kind of guy.
Im from Romania and yes if you cant make your swearing as vulgar as possible you will be made fun of
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;43679519]Not a great tradition with swear words? Pffft
I think our vocabulary has one of the biggest number of swear words
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_profanity[/url][/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_%28Russian_profanity%29[/url]
nigga please
[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43679470]
(translation: go to the devil)
[/QUOTE]
I'm assuming it's a literal translation, because that sounds too long-winded/broken to be an insult :v:
It's like saying to someone "off to somewhere can you please fuck"
[QUOTE=TheAdmiester;43682109]I'm assuming it's a literal translation, because that sounds too long-winded/broken to be an insult :v:
It's like saying to someone "off to somewhere can you please fuck"[/QUOTE]
It's pretty much an equivalent of "go fuck yourself"
[QUOTE=PatrickT;43681615][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity[/url]
bitch please[/QUOTE]
Out of all the profanity pages I've read in the last 30 mins, this one is by far the funniest! Particular favourite:
[quote]
[b]geitenneuker[/b]
Geitenneuker (literally: "goat fucker") is an ethnic slur applying to Muslims or people of Middle Eastern descent.
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