Jennka
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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww it is hard when their not home, i never SLEEP when mine isntthe cat is saying WTF mom, where's it go
Oh, tell me about it - the first night was awful, I miss him so much. It´s so cold in the bed without him
and much less fun
but those vids were gorgeous
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww the cold part i got down pat, hanna gets in bed with me, lolllllll, she's like her daddy a freaking HEATER lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, mr poopie used to get in the bed to when he was yyounger, now he's a lazy old fart lollllllll
but this is one YOU DONT WANT
Favorite new model of the week...Thank you, Danni!
Karolin Langfeldt
How did I miss this post? 
Hi Danni!!! 
How far? Pretty far, if you ask me <_< new malls and retails are built every year... they are like mushrooms after rain. Once you see a huge not-used area here, you can be pretty sure it´s going to be filled by some shopping centre very soon.
Well, I can kind of guess what's going to happen. I like to call it "the Neoliberal Growth Model, an example is the United States of America 1978-2006". The UK tried it, but they didn't do it as well as we did..eh.. 
As foreign business outsource business units in Slovakia (the Emerging Market) to take advantage of its cheap, educated labor, incomes will initially grow in Slovakia like never before. Entrepreneurs will thrive, and living standards will improve as new corporations emerge and retail stores are ceaselessly built. Over time, the corporations will grow larger and larger, and swallow up competitors through mergers and acquisition activities. With more and more money, the Slovakian people will start to spend more and more as they are bombarded with advertisements and a newly ascendant commercial culture. Cults of celebrity begin to emerge. Soon, every family will be trading for larger and larger houses and more and more cars.
The very concept of a profession as a life long job that owes obligations to society at large begins to evaporate. Each professional starts to see themselves as mercenaries that work in an environment with ever greater degrees of institutional pressure and job insecurity. Once lifelong, honorable callings like "engineer" are reduced to "employee". The average person will start working 50 hours a week, then, finally, 60 or more and do two, maybe three unrelated careers in their working life.
Financial services will be ascendant all the way, with more and more Slovaks starting to gamble with their savings. Like a Casino, the game is rigged by the house and the well connected will benefit at the expense of the large flock of gamblers. As new job opportunities emerge, more and more people start pursuing higher education, until half of the population have degrees of some sort. With the new financial services, they are able to borrow more than ever before. Individuals who seek to exploit the system will emerge and eventually have their way. Their goal is to reduce the savings of the general population through various business practices, many of them financial in nature.
Politicians will begin emphasis stuff like: deregulation, "self-reliance", destroy the unions, cut taxes, free global markets, and reduce social benefits for the poor. The Slovak government starts to pile on more and more debt every year as a result of decreased tax revenues. They will also decrease interest rates year by year with the ceaseless goal of stimulating the economy. The easy money would stimulate the economy with savings, misallocate progressively more and more, and increase the general level of financial risk taking. The savings of Slovak people start to decrease and consumer debt begins its yearly ascent.
As markets become more and more free, foreign competitors start emerging and start taking away Slovak business with their lower labor costs. Slovak managers and foreign businesses will start firing huge numbers of employees and outsource/outshore while receiving a commission for getting foreign goods/services into the hands of domestic/international consumers. A small group of Slovaks will begin to profit more and more from the labor cost differential. There will be companies that link their arms with the government and overcharge domestic citizens for their services. New financial products will emerge, most of which are less than beneficial as businesses and Slovak people start to experience the effects of these "hidden" interest charges. These interest charges and forms of financial asset income will accumulate within the hands of the very few, and they too become very wealthy.
The top managers, owners, and financiers eventually form a new class of people on their own right and begin to truly dominate the government and engineer it for their personal benefits. Old values such as readiness for struggle, self-sacrifice, anti-materialism, professionalism & the total pursuit of excellence, and honor start to melt away. The aggregate demand for the economy is kept down as the top 0.05% rich amass huge, multigenerational savings that lie dormant with little use. They become so rich that there isn't much to really buy or invest in anymore, so they hoard their savings as well as divert some into risk-taking accounts at funds and give a portion to charity.
The great-grand children of the super rich will live their lives figuring out how to use their family money. They will forget that this money, is fundamentally composed mostly of accumulated hard labors of others.
The vast majority of Slovaks will see their incomes stagnant, the upper class will do okay, while those in the top 0.1% will see it skyrocket.
Corruption of all sorts will skyrocket as well as private, moneyed individuals replace civil service. Government corruption rises as a huge amount of political and economic power becomes more and more concentrated in the very few. Just several hundred individuals or so. The quality of the government declines as the second-rate people start taking the mantle of power, and they begin to mismanage.
Even the high bastions of academia and the purity of the Universities become polluted by power.
Three decades later, through slow attrition and often hidden decline, the economy starts to sputter and real economic growth falls..from 6%, to 5%, to 3% , to 0%..
Slovaks finally wake up, and realize that that their country should be thought of as an Emerging Market once again..but only, this time...with a political class that looks at the economy and the various classes of Slovak people as a chessboard and bargaining chip.....for accumulating media points & distributing patronage.
Gosh, that was long, and from my American businessman perspective. 
So Jennka, I hope that people in your country will refrain from making the same mistakes we have.. 
happy FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JENKS
CI, all these things you wrote about your predictions on what's going to happen in Slovakia 
I wanted to read it all but couldn't but the part about big markets vs. small shops (or at least that's how I interpreted one of the parts, or rather-how I wanted to read it) it reminded me of the article I read in one of the magazines here. It was about shopping preferences of Polish people, how and when we go shopping (for food etc) They compared our situation with Germany, and how some companies had to change their strategies here. It was mentioned that in Germany, people usually do shopping in huge markets located at the outskirts of the city, once a week. And such strategy, to surprise of some, doesn't work here. Most people prefer to do shopping in places which are not located further than 10 minutes by feet from their houses. The 'once a week' shopping startegy also doesn't work here for several reasons. Petrol is getting more expensive with each year. Many people live in blocks of flats which don't have elevators, so the perspective of carrying heavy bags to your flat isn't a good one. The article also said people in Germany have bigger fridges 
but I wouldn't count it as one of the reasons really A few years ago, many 'experts' scared us that these big markets like Carrefour, Real, Tesco etc. will kill small shop owners but it's not as dramatic; these big places win when it comes to buying things like washing powder etc.
Ok, I guess I said all these to explain that every country may not go the expected (worse) route but you may disagree of course, since I have no idea for predicting such stuff 
Because you're an intelligent woman?
I guess it has more to do with the type of intelligence, not exactly being intelligent but thank you 
Well, when I mentioned that Leo effect- I personally felt it myself when I flipped through a magazines and found Lara Stone's wedding photos. I haven't really visited her thread ever since.. It is interesting.I have happy thoughts (but no inclination) about getting married sometimes, so there. I liked her wedding photos- her dress was awkward enough, I like Anja, and the whole affair seemed close knit and scenic enough. I wouldn't want a huge wedding.
All of it comes from an internal longing for a reward of some sort- after years of very hard work...
A Utopian "You won", "Happily ever after" would do..
I was surprised when I read that she got married. Some people who know her husband's work were surprised too, because many people thought he's gay
You have high standards, LaylaFrom a male perspective- I think it's fairly hard for even a high testosterone type to maintain a six-pack. Eventually, people get tired of abdominal exercises.
I think Dicaprio is a very experienced actor with above- average talent... unusually powerful & well connected. The Thread is labeled "King of the World"...
What kind of irks me about his movies is the fact that he's not usually appropriate for the top roles. Plutocracy!
As for attractive women...Is Bar Rafeli famous because she dated him?
I don't have any ideals I guess no, ok, I kinda do I've never been into these 'muscled' guys with 6 packs, like the ones who are required for action movies... I'd say slim, a man who actually has a neck 
haha these are of course not the only qualities.
Can't tell it from a male perspective but I've read somewhere that for some reason, related to muscle system, it is easier for men to keep fit, nicely-built body 
I haven't heard of Bar before she started dating Leo, but I don't follow her career so I have no idea if she got some lucrative modelling deal before.
you tempt me with those delightful creatures ,and i just couldnt resist not coming herei freakin adore cats!
thanks!
I adore them too 
You should have seen them this weekend, they were adorable, getting bigger and more active 
she seems to enjoy it really
but this is one YOU DONT WANT
NO 
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww the cold part i got down pat, hanna gets in bed with me, lolllllll, she's like her daddy a freaking HEATER lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, mr poopie used to get in the bed to when he was yyounger, now he's a lazy old fart lollllllll
oh, you´re as cold as I am? I do use fl like a heater
How far? Pretty far, if you ask me <_< new malls and retails are built every year... they are like mushrooms after rain. Once you see a huge not-used area here, you can be pretty sure it´s going to be filled by some shopping centre very soon.Well, I can kind of guess what's going to happen. I like to call it "the Neoliberal Growth Model, an example is the United States of America 1978-2006". The UK tried it, but they didn't do it as well as we did..eh..
As foreign business outsource business units in Slovakia (the Emerging Market) to take advantage of its cheap, educated labor, incomes will initially grow in Slovakia like never before. Entrepreneurs will thrive, and living standards will improve as new corporations emerge and retail stores are ceaselessly built. Over time, the corporations will grow larger and larger, and swallow up competitors through mergers and acquisition activities. With more and more money, the Slovakian people will start to spend more and more as they are bombarded with advertisements and a newly ascendant commercial culture. Cults of celebrity begin to emerge. Soon, every family will be trading for larger and larger houses and more and more cars.
The very concept of a profession as a life long job that owes obligations to society at large begins to evaporate. Each professional starts to see themselves as mercenaries that work in an environment with ever greater degrees of institutional pressure and job insecurity. Once lifelong, honorable callings like "engineer" are reduced to "employee". The average person will start working 50 hours a week, then, finally, 60 or more and do two, maybe three unrelated careers in their working life.
Financial services will be ascendant all the way, with more and more Slovaks starting to gamble with their savings. Like a Casino, the game is rigged by the house and the well connected will benefit at the expense of the large flock of gamblers. As new job opportunities emerge, more and more people start pursuing higher education, until half of the population have degrees of some sort. With the new financial services, they are able to borrow more than ever before. Individuals who seek to exploit the system will emerge and eventually have their way. Their goal is to reduce the savings of the general population through various business practices, many of them financial in nature.
Politicians will begin emphasis stuff like: deregulation, "self-reliance", destroy the unions, cut taxes, free global markets, and reduce social benefits for the poor. The Slovak government starts to pile on more and more debt every year as a result of decreased tax revenues. They will also decrease interest rates year by year with the ceaseless goal of stimulating the economy. The easy money would stimulate the economy with savings, misallocate progressively more and more, and increase the general level of financial risk taking. The savings of Slovak people start to decrease and consumer debt begins its yearly ascent.
As markets become more and more free, foreign competitors start emerging and start taking away Slovak business with their lower labor costs. Slovak managers and foreign businesses will start firing huge numbers of employees and outsource/outshore while receiving a commission for getting foreign goods/services into the hands of domestic/international consumers. A small group of Slovaks will begin to profit more and more from the labor cost differential. There will be companies that link their arms with the government and overcharge domestic citizens for their services. New financial products will emerge, most of which are less than beneficial as businesses and Slovak people start to experience the effects of these "hidden" interest charges. These interest charges and forms of financial asset income will accumulate within the hands of the very few, and they too become very wealthy.
The top managers, owners, and financiers eventually form a new class of people on their own right and begin to truly dominate the government and engineer it for their personal benefits. Old values such as readiness for struggle, self-sacrifice, anti-materialism, professionalism & the total pursuit of excellence, and honor start to melt away. The aggregate demand for the economy is kept down as the top 0.05% rich amass huge, multigenerational savings that lie dormant with little use. They become so rich that there isn't much to really buy or invest in anymore, so they hoard their savings as well as divert some into risk-taking accounts at funds and give a portion to charity.
The great-grand children of the super rich will live their lives figuring out how to use their family money. They will forget that this money, is fundamentally composed mostly of accumulated hard labors of others.
The vast majority of Slovaks will see their incomes stagnant, the upper class will do okay, while those in the top 0.1% will see it skyrocket.
Corruption of all sorts will skyrocket as well as private, moneyed individuals replace civil service. Government corruption rises as a huge amount of political and economic power becomes more and more concentrated in the very few. Just several hundred individuals or so. The quality of the government declines as the second-rate people start taking the mantle of power, and they begin to mismanage.
Even the high bastions of academia and the purity of the Universities become polluted by power.
Three decades later, through slow attrition and often hidden decline, the economy starts to sputter and real economic growth falls..from 6%, to 5%, to 3% , to 0%..
Slovaks finally wake up, and realize that that their country should be thought of as an Emerging Market once again..but only, this time...with a political class that looks at the economy and the various classes of Slovak people as a chessboard and bargaining chip.....for accumulating media points & distributing patronage.
I´ve read it all, but I´m too tired to respond to it the way I should. Generally speaking, in Slovakia it´s more or less like Layla said it was in Poland. As for corruption, there is a hell lot of it in this little state, and I´m sure it always will be. The whole progress is still slow, which I find rather calming - we only have like two real cities, the rest of Slovakia is made of villages (smaller or bigger, which call themselves cities). There are rich people, very rich people, poor people, very poor people, but mostly the society consists of the middle class. Incresing number of people with universities and titles, increasing number of managers, which makes the value of handicraft rising every year. I think it will take some 5 to 10 years for people to realize that university education is not everything and we do not need only "managers" but someone who will work too.
Price of fuels is rising higher and higher every year, which makes people buy more economic and ecologic vehicles. In cities (especially in Bratislava) only rich people own a house (or those who inherited some) and mostly people live in block of flats, in villages it´s common for people to live in houses they have built by their own hands. Since the world economic crisis appeared, the salaries stayed the same and everything else raised it´s price. Like food, furniture... but we are more or less the ants nation. Work, work and work. And put apart money for worse times. And enjoy it all...
Generally, people here are not very consume (that´s the word?), for now I think it´s in norm... generally. People still value things. Water. Food. Clothes. Of course it does not apply on every Slovak... this is only what I can see in my surrounding.
It´s way too complicated to speak generally when I think about it
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww the cold part i got down pat, hanna gets in bed with me, lolllllll, she's like her daddy a freaking HEATER lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllll, mr poopie used to get in the bed to when he was yyounger, now he's a lazy old fart lolllllllloh, you´re as cold as I am? I do use fl like a heater
during what we can "call" winter in Florida lollllllllllllllllllllll, yes i have J & then hanna when he goes to work in the AM, but its very short lived, we only have cool weather for like maybe 3months maxs it SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, cause i hate the HEAT
I´ve read it all, but I´m too tired to respond to it the way I should. Generally speaking, in Slovakia it´s more or less like Layla said it was in Poland. As for corruption, there is a hell lot of it in this little state, and I´m sure it always will be. The whole progress is still slow, which I find rather calming - we only have like two real cities, the rest of Slovakia is made of villages (smaller or bigger, which call themselves cities). There are rich people, very rich people, poor people, very poor people, but mostly the society consists of the middle class. Incresing number of people with universities and titles, increasing number of managers, which makes the value of handicraft rising every year. I think it will take some 5 to 10 years for people to realize that university education is not everything and we do not need only "managers" but someone who will work too.Price of fuels is rising higher and higher every year, which makes people buy more economic and ecologic vehicles. In cities (especially in Bratislava) only rich people own a house (or those who inherited some) and mostly people live in block of flats, in villages it´s common for people to live in houses they have built by their own hands. Since the world economic crisis appeared, the salaries stayed the same and everything else raised it´s price. Like food, furniture... but we are more or less the ants nation. Work, work and work. And put apart money for worse times. And enjoy it all...
Generally, people here are not very consume (that´s the word?), for now I think it´s in norm... generally. People still value things. Water. Food. Clothes. Of course it does not apply on every Slovak... this is only what I can see in my surrounding.
It´s way too complicated to speak generally when I think about it
Ugh yeah, the university titles. Jennka, do people have to pay to study at state universities? The University of Bratislava and other bigger ones? Because here, if you become a student of Warsaw University or Warsaw School of Economics or any other big univeristy-in Warsaw or in any other city-you don't pay for studying, unless you study in evening or extramural mode. But the whole need to have a title is ridiculous. There are more and more private academies and only a few of them are of a good level. Most of them accept morons though, if you pay to get in. A few years ago, lots of vocational school were closed and now it's like: oh no, we need physical workers with vocational school diploma but as many of them were closed and that there is this stupid trend that 'everyone' has to study... ugh. Also, even if you study at a uni, MA seems to be a new BA so finishing a uni with just a bachelor's degree is not the best option.
Jennka, I can't remember the word but I know what you mean,
CI, all these things you wrote about your predictions on what's going to happen in Slovakia
Where should I elaborate?
Because mostly, when I meet such people, they give me some kind of uneasy feeling I can´t understand, nor can I describe it. It´s like getting mentally sick. You just... feel there is something wrong, but you can´t name it. And also, my priorities are absolutely different and somewhere else... not saying how this "society" changed my father at last. His life... and his priorities. Like you said - it´s not a healthy environment to be in.
Participating in politics tends to breed sociopaths, in my view. A lot of people who get into it eventually become kind of imbalanced and have strained personal lives. My 'friend' now works in the NYC local govt in public finance. I don't like the political life- firstly only a small number of people make it, and its' full of low-mid-high networking/cronyism that usually has little to do with anything productive or value adding to society. Barack Obama's favorite book was "The Power Broker" (Famous bio of Dr. Robert Moses, the greatest of all public works builders and one of the most cunning political leaders of the 20th century) and he was just the political type. He even graduated from Columbia University in NYC.
I agree with you - it
As for high fashion, I´m seriously fascinated - I don´t know why, I just am. By fashion as a whole. Ironically, I´m no fashionist myself and mostly don´t give a shit about what do I wear...
I care about what I wear, hehehe, and I can get pretty vain. I often look at men's magazines to get ideas. But I don't buy what I don't need, though
What books? All of them
It's not just that, Layla 
I don't have any ideals I guessCan't tell it from a male perspective
What are some of the other qualities?
I think it's generally hard to have a heavily muscled torso without doing some major weight training and dieting. With the six-pack and its derivatives, the key for men is to lower one's body fat down to 5% or so (a low %, and pretty unnatural). This is pretty hard to do and requires a ton of cardio. Getting solid abs is usually attainable, though
I used to weigh around 195 pounds (very muscular) and my abdominal area was tight & chiseled, but I didn't have "the 6 pack". (even w/ lots of swimming for cardio)
So you like long necks on men? or just medium? I've always thought that long necks were feminine