Comments on: Brașov, yet again

By: The perpetual transition « The Tar Pit

The perpetual transition « The Tar Pit — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:49:58 +0000

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By: Bușteni « The Tar Pit

Bușteni « The Tar Pit — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:42:06 +0000

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By: Against the direction in Romanian culture today, translated and annotated « The Tar Pit

Sun, 28 May 2023 14:23:13 +0000

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By: A new system for musical notation? « The Tar Pit

A new system for musical notation? « The Tar Pit — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 23:17:01 +0000

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By: Ion Ghica, Letters to Vasile Alecsandri: From the time of Caragea [iv] « The Tar Pit

Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:39:07 +0000

[...] Brașov, then part of the Austrian Empire. Let us remember whose man Caragea was. ↩ [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:21:43 +0000

In yet another honest interpretation of #justthefacts: the security guard, a young, well-built "smardoi", was hungry for a round of punchin', but all he got was a loud dork who wouldn't even show the faintest sign of resistance when he saw it coming*.

But wait, there's more! Just a couple of minutes later, yet another security guy showed up -- "the emergency team" -- asking the counter ladies why they didn't press the panic button. The counter ladies -- complained that they did in fact press the panic button, but no panic was registered over at Centre, so by the time we left, they were all spending quality time at the phone with Centre to test 'em panics.

But w-w-wait, there's even more! Not a moment after #PhysicalRemoval occured, scared moms were all outraged at the show of violence that their children were being subjected to, and that Centre should put up a sign: no children allowed -- #wontsomebodythinkofthechildren!

That's the sad state of the social contract, and I'm afraid it can only go downhill from here.

*: That said, I can only hope that the dork in question shows enough balls to sue the "security" company. But I'm not holding my breath.

By: Cel Mihanie

Cel Mihanie — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 04:11:30 +0000

I dunno, me, I don't see nothin' wrong with that last incident. "Fuck around and find out" is a universal natural law that transcends ideologies. A commie regime would say that a subversive counterrevolutionary element was put down, while a lolbertarian would cheer at Hoppe's principle of #PhysicalRemoval being applied :D