Also, they are wearing capes.
resists the urge to shout NO CAPES!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Jun 20, 2005 11:12:48 am PDT #3146 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
juliana - Jun 20, 2005 11:15:52 am PDT #3147 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My experience with eastern European cultures is much smaller than hers, but as far as guys go, it doesn't contradict her at all. Have other people noticed this, enough to call it a cultural distinction? Does it extend to women too?
Yes to both counts, in my experience. Dunno why.
resists the urge to shout NO CAPES!
BWAH!
Volans - Jun 20, 2005 11:22:00 am PDT #3148 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I've lived amongst Eastern European men and women for oh, 3 years or so, and I agree. Both men and women are very forthright, in ways that don't fly for Western Europeans/Americans. I definitely think it's a cultural distinction.
I finally posted most of my journals of the past few months on my website, and just put new baby pictures up in the Mallory Gallery [link]
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 11:33:04 am PDT #3149 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I could link without comment, but where's the fun in that? I have to say, TomKat is providing some of the funnest snark in gossip rags. Beats Brad and Angelina, and J-Lo and whoever hands down.
I wonder why I know so few (can't think of any) eastern European women.
sumi - Jun 20, 2005 11:37:14 am PDT #3150 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
That is amusing.
juliana - Jun 20, 2005 11:39:05 am PDT #3151 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
As I said in my journal: S-C-H-A-D-E-N-F-R-E-U-D-E! It's kind of cathartic.
bon bon - Jun 20, 2005 11:50:46 am PDT #3152 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
NSM for Czechs, which I imagine sarameg will confirm. The Praguers in particular are extremely contained unless drunk.
Although a Moravian complimented my birthing hips, so I got that going for me.
Also, I just got sworn in to the New York Bar a year late.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 11:55:46 am PDT #3153 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, I'd say that sounds about right, though bon's experience is pretty much my experience of Russian men, where stoicism gives way to weepy sentimentality with the application of vodka.
brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 11:56:06 am PDT #3154 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yay! Why late?
sarameg - Jun 20, 2005 11:58:58 am PDT #3155 of 10001
The Praguers in particular are extremely contained unless drunk.
And so freaking quiet on public transit.
I wonder if it has to do with recent history. They were cranky. Deception and secrets and being inobtrusive were kinda a big theme for a good while there. Plus just being prime drive-through real estate whenever some dictator got hungry.
I must admit, I'd never really thought about it at the time, but you are right, bon. I went to Spain in the middle of my time there and was mentally shrieking most of the time because every.single.human was invading my space and touching me and leaning on me and uhhhng!
Of course, the Russians/Ukrainians I met in the USSR were similarly loud and touchy.