Don't you love the new Seagal commercial?

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The new Mountain Dew commercial with Steven Seagal is just so hilarious!

Next time I see it I'll try to record it.

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I saw it the other day it was kind of funny.. :) My wife is a big Steven Seagal fan but she was like why is he doing commercials now.. :(
 
Well, he's been disappointing me lately as well with weak movies he's been making. I like his early work.
 
Way over in Romania (Eastern Europe that is). We used to be commies. ;)

Recently (about a year ago or perhaps a bit more) Mountain Dew started to be marketed here, so I do have a chance to see that commercial. :)
 
Hey Dan, I have a friend who is in Romania for the next month. He working on a project between the Romanian tourism dep't. and the World Bank. He will be helping to implement a tourism/hospitality program at a school there.
 
Steven Seagal and many of our old action hero's seem to be gone...The new ones like Van Diesel and TheRock are just not the properly material type. I did see the commercial and I laughed pretty hard. He gained a few...uh hundred pounds by the looks of it :eek:.
 
I saw a Mountain Dew commercial today, but it wasn't the one discussed here. :(

I have a friend who is in Romania for the next month. He working on a project between the Romanian tourism dep't. and the World Bank.
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LOL. It's like hearing the news here. That's being discussed every day: IMF (International Monetary Fund) this and World Bank that. Sometimes it looks like they are running the country, not the government. Add our process of integration in the EU to the mix and you've got our evening news. :)

Anyway... I wonder what your friend thinks of Romania... What's good and what's bad here, from his point of view...
 
I'll let you know.
He left here on Saturday and should have arrived in Romania Sunday evening.

I think the project he is working on is a part of the big picture in getting Romania integrated into the EU.

Hasn't Romania done a lot of work toward this goal, abolishing capital punishment and such?
 
While things like capital punishment and others might get a better press, fact is that we are way, way too underdeveloped. Since the whole thing is a political decision, we might become a full member in 2007 though.

I live in an area that is quite heavily industrialised, in a relatively big city, close to the capital, where things are progressing, but there are zones where the economy is very depressed. You should see the rural zones, filled with elderly people living out of less than $500/year. Luckily for them they do have some land (a few hectares usually) and that usually accounts for most of their income. The pensions for agricultural workers (as that's what they were back when communism was ruling, their land being collectivised) are often about $10.

The laws are changing every 6 months or so. Now we do it the IMF's way, now we do it the EU's way, now we do it as internal forces want it. The fiscal code (policy) was changed last year. Then it was changed yet again and surprise-surprise - they will change it one more time (at least!).

This whole thing made the law very... shall we say... unimportant. Corruption is present at all levels. Bribery paves the way in everything. There's little doubt (in my mind) that 99.99 of politicians are corrupt. There is a saying that is used with relation to bribery here: "Everything can be solved with money".

Funny thing is that despite all this, the economy will grow over 5% this year, but I guess that's easy when you are at very low levels (average wage being around $150/month). You read it right!

We'll see how your friend sees the country though. :)

PS. Sorry for taking the thread off topic. I will stop talking about this and get back here once I see that commercial. :)
 
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