Native russian man. Tweet in English only.
Moscow, Russia
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This is a very cheap russian vine at a discount store in Moscow. 1 litre ~ USD 1.25. 😬 Russian middle class prefer not to buy it.
Interesting fact — we ironically call these types of vine "la packet". It sounds like a natural french. 😂
"Packet" (RU) = "Mutilayer carton"
I visited an exhibition several weeks ago. This painting has impressed me a lot. Kliment Redko "Motherhood" 1928.
There are a large number of senses here. Mother's love, violation of personal boundaries, childhood trauma, Oedipus complex etc.
Old russian anecdote.
The moose with large balls was walking proudly through the forest. He got his scrotum caught in the bushes and...🤬
He came out onto a clearing where a cow was grazing.
“What's your name?”
“I'm "Big Udder". Who are you?”
“I'm a moose. Just a moose...” 😭
Do you have any russian friends? It's good idea — write them 9/03 "I wish you a happy Saint Shufutin's day!"
If you are going to congratulate orally, the correct pronunciation is: "Show Four Teens".
It's a popular russian meme, it will be funny to hear it from non-russian.
😂😂
The most unusual dishes of Russian cuisine is okroshka.
It is fresh vegetables, herbs, eggs and meat poured over cold kvass.
Foreigners call it “soup with cola”, it's very unusual to eat it for the first time.
But for us it's a pleasure to eat cold okroshka in the summer heat.
It's really cool — as I notice, this building has been built by giant men (see the middle if the footage), but little dwarfs finished the process.
😁
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Now it's watermelon season in Moscow.
My wife likes them very much and eats with pleasure. But I eat a couple of slices - and that's enough for me. If I eat any more - I have an unpleasant feeling, as if I were being inflated like a soccer ball.🤮⚽
Do you like watermelon?
I once had to chase bums off the lawn under my wife's office window. You can't guess what their arguments were.
1) Only we sit here, we don't let anyone else in.
2) We clean up after ourselves.
I chased them away anyway. But the “only we sit here” argument is classy, I think.😁
Let's say you don't like this design idea. Then the strategy should be to ask the staff where the women's restroom is. And if every fifth woman does that, the staff will get fucked up and make the management repaint the doors.
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian poet who had a huge influence on Russian poetry. Like Shakespeare in England.
His great-grandfather was from Ethiopia, so he is sometimes jokingly referred to as "the African poet".
Pushkin was scandalous, and eventually died in a duel.
Pushkin had a very memorable appearance, his image is easily recognizable, he is very easy to parody on stage (like Lincoln in the US). If a Russian guy has curly hair, it is very likely that his nickname will be Pushkin.
Table tennis is such a technically simple game that new variations appear all the time.
No one invents soccer on a round field or water polo in a piranha tank. And it's as if table tennis exists for perversion.
The idea is great, but realization was bad. This item will scratch the enamel on the door and door jamb. This is where silicone pads need to be added.
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It doesn't matter if it's a real photo, a painting or an AI product.
Anyway there is good looking but 100% uncomfortable interior.
"How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper."
W.G. Sebald, "Austerlitz"
Good night
Don't like it.
Why did they ignore punched cards and 5" diskettes?
Yes, I am old enough to remember 5" disks.
The tale with a propaganda inside. 😁
And this tale couldn't be inversed 'cause the phrase "Why you were arguing with an elephant?" sounds very strange. 😁
One day, a donkey said to a tiger, “The grass is blue.”
The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”
Their argument escalated, loud and relentless, until they agreed to let the king of the jungle decide. So they went to the lion.
Before they even reached the lion’s throne, the donkey shouted, “Your Highness! Isn’t it true the grass is blue?”
The lion calmly replied, “Yes, the grass is blue.”
The donkey danced in joy. “See! The tiger keeps contradicting me, arguing, annoying me. He should be punished!”
The lion turned to the tiger and said, “You are sentenced to five years of silence.”
The tiger was stunned. “But… Your Majesty, the grass is green. Why are you punishing me?”
The lion said, “Yes, the grass is green. But your punishment has nothing to do with the color of the grass. You are being punished for wasting your time arguing with a donkey—a creature that doesn’t care about truth, only about winning the argument. You brought this nonsense before me and disturbed the peace of the kingdom for nothing.”
Then the lion added:
“The worst waste of time is arguing with someone who doesn’t care about facts, only about being right. Never lower your voice to ignorance. When ego shouts, wisdom stays silent.”
Because sometimes, silence isn’t defeat—it’s wisdom choosing peace over pride.
