The LONGEST x-mas thread on the board....

[mambobirdette]

wooden things like frogs and if you stroke its back with the wooden stick it makes a frog sound :

yeah we've got them........a stall with these orange rock salt crystal candles, a stall with loads of tin man type (wizard of oz) toys, a stall with loads of little intricately weaved dolls that just look like a nightmare to either play with or store and then some random stalls selling scarves/jewellry/etc.

all tatt really but hey that christmas for you......

Same as mate same as

I like the wooden frogs the best , it really is all tat but its a nice tat to look at, id never buy anything from them. I like the idea of the roast chestnuts

 

[mambobirdette]

To be honest, you don't see many homeless people on the streets here

Only because it too bloody cold for them to be on the streets

 

[Ibiza-girlie]

That's why from a young age we've always gone out with my Grandad (he's a vicar) ...Barbie lol* must come in handy having a vicar in the family who can purify your sins after a good weekend out!

 

[x-amount]

There are no homeless people in Russia.

None.

Communism at it's finest.

yeah like when officially no one committed suicide or murder or somethin......there's an excellent parody of this charade in gorky park

Yup

(And they have them shot by the secret police)

 

[Ibiza-girlie]

good m,ovie, Gorgy park btw!

 

[grego]

good m,ovie, Gorgy park btw!

not actually seen the film only read the book..........

its on my list though

 

[Morbyd]

Yup

(And they have them shot by the secret police)

Or sent out to the Gulag for Christmas dinner

(real Xmas photo, by the way )

 

[Barbie]

Barbie lol* must come in handy having a vicar in the family who can purify your sins after a good weekend out!

I know, what went wrong with me

 

[Ibiza-girlie]

lol* well apples can fall FAR away from the tree. My dad is vice CEO for IFC in Minsk, and works with numbers and economy - and my mum is an acountant and me: i cant put 2 and 2 together ha!

 

[mikkak]

Grego, here in Mallorca we say BON NADAL and when you say goodbye to people at Christmas time you allways say: Molt D'anys, wich mean muchos años.

 

[Morbyd]

Barbie lol* must come in handy having a vicar in the family who can purify your sins after a good weekend out!

I know, what went wrong with me

Don't worry... my dad's a deacon.

Sometimes we all stray from the path of god

 

[grego]

Yup

(And they have them shot by the secret police)

Or sent out to the Gulag for Christmas dinner

(real Xmas photo, by the way )

morbyd..........be surprised if you don't know this ..........but what was the name of the infamous (and first) secret police service in russia???

 

[Morbyd]

morbyd..........be surprised if you don't know this ..........but what was the name of the infamous (and first) secret police service in russia???

Cheka -> NKVD -> KGB -> FSB

("chekists" persists as a slang term for security services personnel)

 

[grego]

Grego, here in Mallorca we say BON NADAL and when you say goodbye to people at Christmas time you allways say: Molt D'anys, wich mean muchos años.

¡bueno!

bon nadal mikkak y molt d'anys.

 

[mikkak]

have a very good Christmas Grego. Kisses

a little correction, in catalan you don't use "y" you use "i" . Just saying it cause I know you like to improve yourself. I also want corrections

 

[grego]

morbyd..........be surprised if you don't know this ..........but what was the name of the infamous (and first) secret police service in russia???

Cheka -> NKVD -> KGB -> FSB

("chekists" persists as a slang term for security services personnel)

have to say the lesson on the cheka in my history class at school was one of the more entertaining/gruesome - isn't putin a chekist

 

[Morbyd]

have to say the lesson on the cheka in my history class at school was one of the more entertaining/gruesome - isn't putin a chekist

Putin is indeed... as is a new recently-appointed executive in my company

As for the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky and the gang were a happy bunch of people

 

[grego]

have a very good Christmas Grego. Kisses

a little correction, in catalan you don't use "y" you use "i" . Just saying it cause I know you like to improve yourself. I also want corrections

desgraciadamente, puedo leer 'catalá' pero no escribelo muy bien porque no he tenido un educación formal en esta idioma. Por favor, corrígeme sin embargo, a que probar!

it is easy to read catalan because it is like a mix of spanish and french (hablo un poco frances)

 

[mikkak]

have a very good Christmas Grego. Kisses

a little correction, in catalan you don't use "y" you use "i" . Just saying it cause I know you like to improve yourself. I also want corrections

desgraciadamente, puedo leer 'catalá' pero no escribelo muy bien porque no he tenido un educación formal en esta idioma. Por favor, corrígeme sin embargo, a que probar!

it is easy to read catalan because it is like a mix of spanish and french (hablo un poco frances)

lo escribes muy bien le pones acentos y todo y ahora ya sabes esa pequeña diferencia

 

[grego]

have to say the lesson on the cheka in my history class at school was one of the more entertaining/gruesome - isn't putin a chekist

Putin is indeed... as is a new recently-appointed executive in my company

As for the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky and the gang were a happy bunch of people

of course dzerzhinksy, my knowledge of random soviet apparatchiks was quite obsessive at one point.

aside from my fav - Lev Davidovich Bronstein, i always remember troika members Zinoviev and Kamenev and also, kirov (another gruesome tale of uncle joe's horror state)