Ever wonder what happens after a royal family gets the boot? Consider the cautionary tale of one Romanian princess, who with her husband just pled guilty to running an illegal gambling operation, in connection with cockfights held on their Oregon ranch.
A Romanian tradition called "bride-napping" has been able to flourish in recent years, because apparently no one in Romania has seen or gives credence to Jawbreaker. It happens like this: a bride is abducted in a fit of ribaldry by her drunkest friends. She is ferried to a secure location (the most popular being…
Bucharest, Romania, Jan 29: Girls wearing rabbit outfits attend celebrations of the Chinese New Year. The Year of the Rabbit will begin on February 3, 2011.
Something is going down in Romania, and it's not good. People who claim the profession of witch, astrologer and fortune teller will have to pay taxes for the first time, ever. Many are not happy.
Seriously, if "I'll fucking die because of honor" doesn't become a meme by the end of the day, we'll have lost our faith in the Internet.
Romanian senators have rejected a bill that would tax witches and fortune tellers, make them produce receipts, and hold them liable for incorrect predictions. One lawmaker claimed the senators were afraid of being cursed. Really?
[Bucharest, May 26. Image via AP]
This Romanian Nestlé wafers commercial demonstrates how women have hampered human innovation throughout history by making men listen to their stupid ideas. This is, of course, absurd — as countless ads have shown, men never listen to women. [Sociological Images]
[Raducaneni, Romania; November 12. Image via Getty]
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Herta Mueller, a 56-year-old member of Romania's ethnic German minority, has won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature for her stark depictions of life under Communism.
[Targoviste, Romania; June 4. Image via Getty]
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Bathing suits in Barcelona now feature hygienic protectors in swim bottoms that feature a picture rusty razor blade that sits right under your ladyarea to raise awareness about genital mutilation. Wow, genius and kinda gross. • Josef Fritzl is apparently writing his memoirs while in prison, much to the horror of his…
It's sort of weird to be celebrating an abortion, but um, we're really happy that the 11-year-old girl who was knocked up by her 19-year-old uncle in Romania will be allowed to have an abortion in her own country. A government committee has decided that "the girl's mental health would be severely affected if she had a…
Last week it was Polish 14-year-old who was caught in a choice battlefield, and now, news of a pregnant by rape 11-year-old Romanian girl has hit the international news wires. The legal time limit for abortions in Romania is 14 weeks, and because this girl is, you know, eleven, she didn't realize she was pregnant…
I've never seen a critical reception as uniformly positive as that surrounding the release of the foreign film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The movie follows a pregnant college student, Gabita, her best friend, Otilla, and their attempts to procure an illegal abortion for the former. (The title refers to how far…
