¿No se puede? Ba pe-a ma-tii.

Remember that 2009 article ? Yeah, the one where I went

Dracu' sa ma ia daca cumpar eu cat traiesc un singur bec de-asta obligatoriu, si dracu' sa ma ia daca nu-mi voi face magazin de becuri de contrabanda aduse de la sarbi. Ca pe vremea aluilalt tampit cu eficienta onirica aplicata (caruia, apropo, nu i-am cumparat nici Tehnica Navigatiei cu Vele, nici biscuitii de beton armat).

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May I drop dead if I ever buy one of these mandatory lightbulbs, and may I drop dead if I don't in the end make a contraband lightbulb store with merchandise smuggled in from the Serbs.ⁱ. Like in the times of that other idiot with onirically applied efficienciesⁱⁱ (of whose, by the way, I've not bought either The Technique Of Sailingⁱⁱⁱ nor the cast concrete biscuits^iv.)

Well, five years have passed (or even six), and here I find myself in a country which has pretty much forbidden smoking (because hey, if they copy retarded Californian hipsterism maybe the land values copy themselves over, and nobody notices that Argentina es un pais pobre) going to buy lightbulbs. So they offer me a vast selection of halogens (including those retarded "encapsulated halogen incandescents" that they recently came up with - exactly like an incandescent EXCEPT NOT). And I explain that no, ty, I don't want that shit. I want the old style ones.

This takes a while to sink in, after which... No se puede!!1

E zau ? No se puede ? Ba pe-a ma-tii.

Did you notice the part where it says MP Lamp ? I hope you did.

I hope you did, and I hope we understand each other.

1. Romania's historically... loose neighbours. [↩]
2. aka "Tovarasul secretar general al partidului comunist roman, presedinte al republicii socialiste romania, tovarasul Nicolae Ceausescu". [↩]
3. This was an apoteosis of idiocy in communism - obviously nobody would have been crazy enough to flaunt their ill gotten wealth by buying a fucking yacth. Yet somehow a troll ensconced somewhere managed to get that damned book overprinted and soon enough people were required to buy that thing if they were going to buy any of the more popular fare (a very typically communist idea this, expect to see it soon in a supermarket near you). [↩]
4. Same kind of product. [↩]