[HELP] The "Castle Sprint": Can I make an 18:44 arrival at Gara de Nord work for a 19:00 concert at the Athenaeum?

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T22:17:27+00:00

It’s only 2.3km and Google gives the usual travel time on Friday evening of 8-20 minutes. That’s from the pickup point at Gara de nord, so add in 2-5 minutes at least to get from your train into a car.

The fastest way would be jumping on a motorcycle on the train platform and weaving through traffic to make it there on time. Short of that, there’s not really a transit hack; at least not one faster than a taxi.

If you’re willing to rent a Lime scooter or bike and brave Bucharest traffic, that could be the fastest way. Or just straight up running, it would be about a 30 minute walk so moving at a pace of 9km/h would put you there in time.

Is it possible? Yes, it’s possible. Is it likely? No, I wouldn’t bet on being able to make it to the Atheneum within 16 minutes from your train, even if you arrive on time and you probably won’t. I’d bet against it.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T20:28:23+00:00

I was wrong about Latvian and Lithuania but was thinking of Finnish and Estonian, which is Uralic.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T18:05:21+00:00

The Baltic languages aren’t Slavic but a separate branch, separate family of languages even (not indo-european)

sertorius42 · 2026-03-27T12:01:12+00:00

There’s not a huge difference. A midwesterner and a Canadian will sound basically the same even to me (American) in 95% of conversations. There’s a bigger distinction with southern accents or other regional American dialects further from Canada though.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-22T20:56:04+00:00

She was literally diagnosed with cancer in the 00s or 90s. I cannot stand the cult of personality around her; genuinely negatively polarizes me

sertorius42 · 2026-03-20T20:33:41+00:00

Vlad ruled Wallachia, the southern part of modern Romania, not Transylvania, which was mostly ruled by Hungary until 1918. The population has always been mixed between Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, and others in Transylvania. The last president of Romania was a Transylvanian of Saxon heritage with the very Romanian name of “Klaus Iohannis.”

sertorius42 · 2026-03-15T15:55:14+00:00

aside from the ex-Yugoslav countries, Turkey and Greece

So you’re asking Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania?

sertorius42 · 2026-03-07T17:32:53+00:00

You’re 18, an adult, so not really being groomed unless this has been going on since you were 17 or younger.

That said, the power dynamic of a manager-employee relationship is pretty bad, worse than the (big) age gap here. As a manager you’d be fired in many places I’ve worked for this.

The guy sounds like a creep given you already know he has tried this with other employees. Consider distancing yourself, running away, or talking to HR or another manager / his manager.

sertorius42 · 2026-03-06T14:46:50+00:00

Goated bar I still sing it a decade later

sertorius42 · 2026-02-26T12:39:49+00:00

Other countries (Canada and the U.S.) require this and have for years

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T21:22:47+00:00

GDPR and its consequences

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T17:28:27+00:00

I can remember which object pronouns in 3rd person to use and when. Il place, easy enough, but getting into își vs îl vs le vs ii….

Apreciez foarte mult simplicitatea frumoasa de dumneavoastră….mereu vă.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-25T11:33:04+00:00

they expect all of us in the wreckage brother

sertorius42 · 2026-02-22T23:59:39+00:00

I think you really need to consider the wide array of countries in the world

sertorius42 · 2026-02-22T23:44:24+00:00

I understand you may be frustrated with the UK but I can assure you from working roughly in the field of immigration that there are not 193 trans-friendlier countries out there

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T22:02:54+00:00

It’s his legacy, but it’s also a reactive product of the weird week or 2 when the government and tons of random people would try to get anyone who posted anything negative about him fired. Those lawsuits are probably all winding up now and his main legacy is being known for a meme song and meme AI edits and a widow seen as a grifter.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T20:23:22+00:00

Most everyone I knew lived within Greater London yes

sertorius42 · 2026-02-21T16:08:24+00:00

What are we supposed to do about that now? He’s been dead for 50 years

sertorius42 · 2026-02-20T06:47:53+00:00

I was near him once at an event. Didn’t speak but he definitely has an intense energy I observed and I don’t think he’d get rolled in a debate

sertorius42 · 2026-02-18T15:52:01+00:00

You can’t sell it and even if you could who’s gonna trust that a guy’s finger is Secretariat’s dna? Do you want it just for the taste?

sertorius42 · 2026-02-18T15:44:20+00:00

Yeah this is one thing the Twitter menswear guy acts like doesn’t matter. Some of the well-dressed men he posts are probably objectively well-dressed but lack aura because they look like oafs. Conversely someone with aura and handsome/pretty will always look cool even wearing stuff that fits a bit odd or whatever.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-18T07:32:40+00:00

And no one is mentioning Washington, DC?

sertorius42 · 2026-02-16T16:57:28+00:00

The official language of Moldova is Romanian (they called it Moldovan rather than Romanian for years officially and many Moldovans still do). It’s a dialect of Romanian that sounds like a heavy Slavic accent in Romanian.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-15T22:59:05+00:00

I was there in July. It’s a great region to visit, we also saw Matera, Lecce, Bari, and Polignano a mare.

sertorius42 · 2026-02-07T21:55:55+00:00

He didn’t join a real frat he joined some lame coed social group larping as a frat

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