Good work part II

[topum]

More brilliant road making from Moldova. If you thought this was bad, look at this one:



This is crushed asbestos basically. I hope part III will not involve uranium.

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's just scary. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

And really stupid too.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Yes scary stupid.  Are they ignorant on how to build roads or is this conscientious stupidity? 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

they just have no money to build proper roads and have not been educated on the hazards of asbestos. So use whatever they can find to make it possible for cars to go through the mud.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Hm we need to have one of those we are the world concert things.  Raise some money.  Someone should call Bon Jovi make it happen.  Or Elton John..although I haven't been hearing much new stuff from him lately.  Or Lady Gaga.  Or all three.

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Not really, haha. Things are getting better here slowly as soon as people take the matters in their own hands. It is not easy but it is happening nevertheless.

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Crushed asbestos? Wow. When we were repairing an old house here, we found asbestos tile. It cost a small fortune to dispose of them correctly. I wonder if they shipped them to Moldova!

[topum.livejournal.com]

I hope not, but I would not be surprised if Moldovan political elite started selling the land for toxic waste disposal landfills for huge kickbacks. They sold and stole pretty much everything that there was here to steal and their families are based in Switzerland anyway.

[slobberpuppy.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah, don't inhale that.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Luckily this is not in one of our villages. But we initiated the project to remove the asbestos anyway.

[darkoshi]

Oh my gosh. Maybe you'd be better off without a road.

[topum.livejournal.com]

No, we need a road and this is what we will get. A proper road.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

It's not a road. It's The Way. Dao.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Ladies and Gentlemen, only in Moldova, you ask for a road you get Dao.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Dao for the price of a road.

[topum.livejournal.com]

And your health too though.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

"Your health" goes with wine, if I remember well. Now with a road too? They build it and shout to you: "Cheers! Your health!"

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Another magnificent production from the Moldovan 'Art of not building roads' group.

I look forward with excitement to finding out what their next work will be. Perhaps a road made entirely of their own droppings?

[topum.livejournal.com]

Droppings would be so much better than this and so much easier to remove.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

True. Uranium really is probably the only way they can surpass this. The way that it would become more lethal the more you drove on it is particularly ... wtf.

[topum.livejournal.com]

There are weeks when I am facepalming myself so hard here. Like last week when we gave huge plastic rubbish disposal containers with lids to each household in one of the villages and helped install them so that the garbage collectors can pick them two times a week and the locals took those bins into their cellars instead and used them to salt cabbage in. The carcinogenic non-food grade plastic bloody waste disposal containers. They were paid for by the Danish Crown to keep the village cleaner and healthier and were turned into something to give people more cancer. We had to go into every house again and make people throw away whatever food they put into those containers and tell them again that they could not remove the containers from their place because they are not theirs, they are part of the village's infrastructure that they are using. But isn't it nice to have a bit of salted cabbage from that thing and then perhaps a nice relaxing barefoot walk along the crushed asbestos road.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It all makes sense, from a certain point of view, and yet... I suppose that the point of view is from about 1920...

(I checked my bins to see if they were marked 'not food grade' : they were not, but I don't think it would ever have occurred to me to salt cabbage in them.)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ours are marked and we also slapped additional very bright coloured stickers on them saying they are not food grade and would be carcinogenic if used to store food in both Russian and Romanian. Many villagers apparently thought "Nice try but you are not fooling us with your stickers" and still took them to their cellars. No one did in the village where we stay but then our village is not very typical, it has a very large percentage of "remainians", people who worked abroad, often for a very long time but came back because they want to live here. That changes the village immensely. Our host lived in London for many years working for Deloitte and his wife worked at Freshfields in London. These families are here not because they don't have a choice but because they want to live at home and they also bring quite of bit of western experience and perspective on things with them which helps lift the villages out of their post-Soviet destruction a great deal.

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