I've noticed that here, at RMRA, everyone is concerned with the mint-rubbing-phenomenon, talking about it as if it was something like the default-activity of the default-romanian. i think that RMRA is terribly wrong here, they seem to misunderstand the whole political, economical and especially the social situation in romania. i will try to put things straight in the following lines:
i presume that everyone has noticed that our beloved homeland is not a place where dogs walk around with pretzels on their tails. therefore, only the top of the social pyramid can actually afford the luxury of round-the-clock-mint-rubbing.
i surely don't want to deny that (almost) every romanian longs for the satisfaction offered by 24/7-mint-rubbing, but fact is that most romanians have to spend their time with another type of activity, by far not as fulfilling as mint-rubbing or gas-burning (though somewhat related to these), which is based on the "much work-no profit-no satisfaction" - principle (mint-rubbing, on the other hand, is based on the "no work-no profit-full satisfaction"-principle). and this way-of-life-for-the- romanian-average-citizen is called spinning-like-a-testicle-in-the-bucket (from romanian: a se invarti ca un coi intr-o caldare).
i will try to explain this in the following example: while a factory-boss spends all day driving around in his bmw, mercedes, or any other big, expensive and fast car, and spending his money on hookers, gas (50% for keeping the car functional, 50% for gas-burning) and mint (90% for rubbing, 10% for fresh-breath in case he meets a girl who wants to fuck him for free),
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the poor worker spends half the day in a messed-up factory at his/her underpaid job, then goes home and dreams of escaping his/her current life, and in order to do so he/she does the following: (1) get drunk with cheap whatever (you don't really want to know). (2) beat up wife / husband. (3) watch boss on tv talking about great achievements in the economic sector and off-the-scale-worker-satisfaction. (4) beat up husband / wife again.
(5) seriously consider subscribing to amway (or any other association that promises quick money for almost no work). (6) find the best solution to all problems: (7) drink some more no-one-really-knows-what. (8) find the second-best solution to all problems: have some more children, send them to work / sing&beg from age 3. (9) try to have sex with partner, but realize that alcohol has temporarily disabled certain body-functions.
(10) go to bed, knowing that tomorrow it all starts over again - but hey, the boss just said on tv that his employees are extemely satisfied! maybe it won't be that bad. (11) realize that alcohol has (temporarily) disabled most mental functions.
still feel like mint-rubbing? well, i guess that's actually the thing we can do best (that is, if we can afford it.)
(fridrih nitce)
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