Romanian slang terms/sayings

I've compiled a list of my favorite Romanian slang terms/sayings because

1.Cocalar (plural cocalari) - a subculture of men who stereotypically wear kitschy clothing, have a "poor" or "ridiculous" taste in fashion, participate in BMW car culture, wear lots of gold, jewels or glitter and have multiple tattoos etc. (basically what a westerner imagines when someone says "slavic men").

2.Cocalareasa, cocolorita (feminine of cocalar, plural cocalarese, cocalarite) - a subculture of women who stereotypically wear "trashy 2000s" clothes and wear intense makeup, they make Instagram boomerangs every day and go Instagram live all the time, they don't date "poor" men, mostly wear animal prints or hot pink etc. (basically slavic version of a British chav).

3.a freca menta (to rub the mint) - when someone is doing nothing, wasting time, it's similar to a sta degeaba (to sit for no reason).

4.a fi prost de dai in gropi (to be so stupid you trip on potholes) - when someone does or says something foolish, when they make a mistake or when someone trips on  a rock/pothole (said to make them mad on purpose usually).

5.a te manca pielea (to have itchy skin) - said when someone is looking for trouble on purpose or is a troublemaker.

6.ploua, ploua babele se oua (it's raining, it's raining the old ladies are egging/ laying eggs) - lullaby sang by children or to children when it's raining. The romanian version of rain, rain go away, come again another day.

7.buturuga mica rastoarna caru' mare (the small log knocks over the big chariot) - self-explanatory.

8.iti trece pana te insori (it will go away by the time you'll get married) - it will heal soon.

9.a te manca in cur (to itch in your butt) - when someone is misbehaving.

10.a lua teapa (to take a spike) - when someone is misled, scammed, or tricked.

11.a arunca cu mucii in fasole (to throw the boogers in the beans) - when someone screws up, messed up.

12. a fi dus cu pluta (to be gone on a raft) - to go crazy, insane

13.a isi baga picioarele (to stick their feet in) - calling it quits, "screw it"

14.a da la rate (to give to the ducks) - when someone throws up, drops food. Another version of a da la morti (to give to the dead).

15.ce p*la mea (what my d*ck) - what the f*ck.

16.a avea o piatra pe inima (to have a rock on your heart) - when someones sad, stressed, down, low.

Why Romania is better than Hungary

 If you don't know about the r/h beef let me break it down:

Hungary occupied Transylvania in 1002 from Dacia (Ancient Romania which before it was ancient Romania it was a Roman colony) and after that Transylvania became its own independent state and Romania proceeded to take the state back because it belonged to their ancestors before 1002. Now Hungarians were (and still somewhat are) all pissy about it and demanded to be acknowledged as an official minority in Romania (Szekely/Secui in Romanian) and Hungarian became the second official language of Romania and Hungarians have lots of rights (more than any other minority in Romania) and allat. I'm not going to get that in-depth here because someone already did it for me and I really recommend watching Why Romania & Hungary Hate Each Other by Living Ironically In Europe, their channel is really great.

Let me start off with MONEY $$$$$$$$$$. In 2023 Romania's GDP per capita surpassed Hungary's which was 76% at the time. Crazy I know right. Even crazier is that they did that this year too lmao!!!!!!!! SUCH LOSERS. TRY HARDER NEXT YEAR BITCH. It's gonna be hard passing the top 50 richest countries IN THE WORLD. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

We got rid of communism way cooler than they did like protest started in Timisoara and then they started in Bucharest and Ceausescu ran away like a pussy in a helicopter!!! Then we ended up catching him and executing him on the spot (definitely not an exaggeration) and what did Hungary do? They had to get rid of communism because Austria was like "No! Bad Hungary that's we're breaking up!" and they were like "Nooo please Daddy Austria I'll get rid of communism for u!!!" like dude what the fuck.

Our rock music is way better than theirs like the only Hungarian rock song that's good is the one I have in my playlist duhh like you should be thankful I even CONSIDERED listening to your SHITTY GARBAGE DISGRACE of a song. Romanian rock is an absolute work of art even foreigners agree like 2 Japanese girls showed up to an OCS concert like isn't that so sick!!!

The only good thing that has come out of Hungary aka the shithole of the earth is kurtos kalacs and we still do that better than them. Kurots Kalacs tastes so good here in Romania but in Hungary its like they shoved it up their yoo-haw (and before anyone says "WHAT ABOUT LANGOS WHAT ABOUT PALINKA" THOSE ARE ROMANIAN FOODS!!!!).

Also, we occupied them in 1919-1920 like yess!!!! revenge era!!! We even occupied BUDAPEST, THE CAPITAL OF HUNGARY BUDAPEST!!! so like yeah basically a taste of their own medicine 🙄🧏‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I would say more but..... 😬😒

for legal reasons this is satire viktor orban please don't kill me

(A more In-Depth) Update on the Andrew Tate situation

 It's 06/04/24 and this man still DOESN'T FUCKING KNOW HIS PLACE

New Andrew Tate information has been revealed and it's alarming.

He apparently was arrested in 2015 after 2 of his victims filed severe complaints against him; his response was: "I love r****** you". This "man" is the definition of the "average Twitter user", either he does it for likes, for fame, for exposure or he does it because he wants to be put in a psychiatric ward.

In 2019 he somehow got away with allegations of sexual aggression and physical violence because their accusations didn't meet their "standards". The victim proceeded to call the case mishandled because of all the delays and shit.

Here's where it gets juicy: In March 2024 the UK's Westminster Magistrates' Court issued an arrest warrant against Andrew and his brother with allegations of sexual aggression (same shit as earlier). They were later detained by the Romanian Police (again) on 11 March after the court ordered them detained for a day until they decided on the execution of the warrant. The day after that the Romanian court decided that the Tate brothers could be banished to the UK only after the trial for human trafficking concluded (basically the one I talked about last year).

Tate had told ADIN ROSS (?!) that he was planning to flee Romania, so he wanted the British police to detain him? Which is rly weird..

Something that I didn't get to cover last year because it wasn't fully disclosed yet was how the whole "they won't catch us in Romania" started. Basically, on April 11, 2022, the US embassy received a report that an American citizen was being held against her will by the Tate brothers in Pipera, Romania and so the Romanian police (specifically DIICOT) raided his home and found 4 women being held by the two brothers: one of them was American (the American citizen who filed the report) and another one was Romanian. After that DIICOT interrogated and released the two brothers but at the time, they were heard as witnesses rather than suspects.

As you can see a lot has changed since my initial post about Andrew Tate. Not only has this man committed the same crimes multiple times but he also got away with it (didn't get sentenced to jail)??? MULTIPLE TIMES?? And not only is he not ashamed of who he has become but he also thinks WE should respect HIM??? After his trial in the Romanian Court, he was interviewed by several reporters but told the woman reporter to ask him questions more politely? He even told her how like "May I ask you some questions? How do you think the trial went?" like dude, how can u expect her to respect u when u are a literal incel misogynist rapist and manipulative cocalar (*1). She couldn't care less and honestly good for her for not putting up with his bullshit. Also, what the fuck does Adin Ross have to do with this? I can't say I didn't exactly expect this crossover but..

Also to add to the "they won't catch us in Romania" plan, he initially said he moved to Romania because the police there are weak and dumb and that they won't catch him/ won't care but that only made them more determined to catch him, that's why the situation only escalated once he moved to Romania. I'm sure no one has ever heard of Andrew Tate's charges before he moved to Romania. After the Romanian police caught him, he later said on a podcast that he moved to Romania because it's a beautiful country and that the people here are smart and hustlers and shit like that, basically gassing up Romania. Like, I mean sure... sure... definitely...

To elaborate on the "webcam studio" I mentioned Andrew Tate owned in my last post about him. The War Room is essentially an incel factory that you subscribe to. In 2019 BBC discovered women were being groomed into online sex work. To quote Andrew Tate on what the War Room is: "The War Room promotes self-discipline, motivation and confidence building whilst giving members access to thousands of professionals from around the world who encourage personal responsibility and accountability, emphasizing the importance of taking ownership of your choices and actions."

I was gonna write more about him but icba atp I've wasted too much time writing about this odd fellow.

Honorable mention: "My job was to meet a girl... get her to fall in love with me to where she'd do anything I'd say, and then get her on webcam so we could become rich together." -Andrew Tate's PhD course

*1- Romanian, slang term used in Romania to describe a subculture of adult men who stereotypically wear kitschy clothing, have a "poor" or "ridiculous" taste in fashion, participate in BMW car culture, wear lots of gold, jewels or glitter and have multiple tattoos, among other stereotypes. 

*2- Original text without me correcting it (spelling mistake)(nice job wikipedia): emphasising

To be clear, I an NOT an Andrew Tate supporter. this man is cuckoo crazy and should be put in a mental institution.

Why Jersey Shore: Family Vacation is complete ASS (emotional)

 As many of you may know, Jersey Shore: Family Vacation is a reality show on MTV starring Nicole Polizzi, DJ Pauly D, Jenni Farley, and others that started in 2018. It is basically a reunion series of Jersey Shore, another reality show. Both of the shows follow the lives of 8 housemates at a vacation house in New Jersey.

The thing that bugs me the most about this show is the people. The show's premise is excellent but the execution is awful, especially on the reunion series Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. I have yet to see much of the show (because it's IMPOSSIBLE to sit through a whole episode without wanting to punch my tv) but I have seen enough to be able to form an opinion of it. In one episode they were someplace where a traditional Danish festival was being held and the girls on the show decided to make the most of it by dressing up in traditional Danish clothes. At first, they didn't know where the Danish were from. They started guessing and their guesses were Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Greece, etc. Later on, they googled it and the answer was that Danish people are from Denmark. They didn't know that Denmark was a country and said "There's a country called Denmark?" or something along those lines. Between those shots, we can also see what the guys on the show are doing. Usually, they show DJ Pauly D showing off, working out, or something along those lines. The guys don't do much on the show from what I can see. The girls on the show are more interesting because of the gossip, the drama, and their "quirky" activities. They eventually made it to the festival and went to a stand that was set up there. The lady from the stand offered them a Skol, which is a beer brand from Europe (probably popular in Denmark). One of the girls replied "I don't know what a 'Skal' is but give me a shot".

Another person on the show who annoys me the most is DJ Pauly D. So many people love him but he is literally the worst DJ I have ever seen and he is also a big flexer and loves showing people his money and acts like he is so cool. His smile is absolutely horrid. Looking through his Instagram he also wears clothes from the brand Barrow with literally every homeless sizeable lower-class suburban punk with the poorest apartment in the world who has a Lamborghini parked in the dirty parking lot of the apartment complex in Ferentari, Bucuresti, Romania. His hair looks like he tried to become those island boys on TikTok who look like 6ix 9ine if he was from the Maldives. His pose in every picture is the pose of a complete Romanian ass donkey. He is literally the head of all of the people I hate, and that type of person (yk who) is spreading all throughout Romania. Everywhere I look everyone looks like they are from New Jersey and it's getting very annoying. If you own a Barrow shirt you literally aren't a functioning member of society. No one with a Barrow shirt has ever contributed to society in a positive matter. He is overdoing everything and it's getting to the point where it is annoying.

I'd like to add a few Reddit comments on the topic of DJ Pauly D that fit this well:

"I think he was funnier before he realized he was funny if that makes sense. Like now he has a definite 'character' whereas in the beginning he was more just being himself and the humor came naturally."

"It's like he's thinking "hm what would sound good on a t-shirt" instead of just saying funny things for the sake of being funny"

-omgcow, r/jerseyshore

"The prank wars was annoying because it was so inauthentic since it was obviously scripted, but personally I'll never tire him of calling Vinny a Keto guido lol."

-nelleybeann, r/jerseyshore

The Andrew Tate situation in Romania

 From what I know, Andrew Tate started by founding some sort of "alpha male club" that promoted toxic masculinity and misogyny. Tate also owned a video chatting company that exploited tons of women. He grew a massive wealth from that and showed off his wealth on the internet by filming his cars or keeping them in the background of his videos. With lots of men admiring him and wanting to know his secret to wealth and dating advice for women, he was invited to tons of podcasts and shows where he answered a variety of questions. Usually, when he talked about women he would point to them in misogynistic ways.

The internet was flooded with videos and clips of him from his interviews which were taken as a joke by most people. His most popular line was "Just breathe air" which became viral and also got him suspended. Some people that were with the same mindset as Tate would comment on his posts with encouraging affirmations which would only make him continue what he is doing. Despite all of the hate he was getting he still continued and couldn't be stopped.

He was a known criminal in the UK so Andrew Tate moved to Bucarest, Romania with his brother, Tristan. He claimed that Romania has low security and he would be less likely to be imprisoned or detained there. At some point, they were found and the Romanian police searched their house but didn't arrest them.

Recently in December, they were detained (finally) until at least the 29th of January, 2023 along with two other suspects. The police found two victims (women). They have been charged with human trafficking and organized crime. The Romanian police say that the victims were coerced into participating in paid revealing content for social media through false acts of affection called the "loverboy method".

What these people have done is absolutely disgusting, as a Romanian, I can't say I'm surprised this happened in my country but seeing people move in here only to make our life here a living hell is awful. We Romanians can't do anything about it. Seeing people say nice words about Romania under people's comments talking about the situation all of a sudden while our country and people usually get slandered and discriminated against. Romania is down bad in general, it never had a good era, women in Romania are used to getting abused and the police don't take SA cases seriously.


I'd like to include a lovely comment at the bottom of this page: "Stop lying, you are not from Romanian" -Call it, youtube commenter

Thank you very much

What happens if you sleep with a candle lit?

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you slept with a candle lit? It is actually hazardous and can damage things in your living space.

I'm sure some of you have not seen that dumb TikTok video with a girl that had blacked-out nostrils captioned something along the lines of "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SLEEP WITH A CANDLE ON", I don't know what it actually said since I can't find it anymore but that inspired me to write this post. If there's something that bugs me more than the smell of bleach it's people believing stupid TikTok videos. 

Some people do not read what the package says for all products and won't read the instructions for the candle since it seems simple enough. A candle expert at Tabo said that most of the candles commercialized have burning instructions that will say to only burn for a specific amount of time.

The wax will eventually melt until the bottom proceeding to heat up the container that it is in. This could result into burning the surface that it is on.
The candle could also fall over and set on fire objects and/or materials near. Even if it doesn't fall over, if it is lit next to flammable material, that can be a danger itself.

Even if it has a bit left to burn and you let it burn out while you sleep or if the candle is capable of extinguishing itself after burning for a while, the flame can still spread to other flammable objects.

Some simple rules are also to keep it in sight and not to keep it next to things that can catch fire. You should at least know this is you own a candle.

You shouldn't sleep with a candle lit under any circumstance, the risks are there no matter the situation.