Calling all cooks! I need a good apple pie recipe. Anyone?? (x-posted w/Bitches)
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
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.
ChiKat - Jun 20, 2005 12:32:29 pm PDT #3164 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
aurelia - Jun 20, 2005 12:37:01 pm PDT #3165 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Mallory is indeed a cutie.
I love the "dingo snack" shirt.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 12:40:09 pm PDT #3166 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My experience with Russian guys is that they've been incredibly unhesitant about saying things that were on their mind to people (aka me) they didn't know. Not particularly loudly, or anything. Just things that probably would have been said loudly, aggressively, daringly by a north American, if they were going to bother.
bon bon - Jun 20, 2005 12:41:26 pm PDT #3167 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Yes. Did you have the pleasure of being in Prague when the spring tourist season started? Dear lord. We could identify nationalities from across the river/square/whatever. It was funny and sorts horrifying.
We were no longer the most hated people in town! It was the Italian/German/Japanese tour groups at the bottom rung of the ladder!
The other fabulous thing about spring in Prague: public transit with people who hadn't yet adopted deodorant.
JZ - Jun 20, 2005 12:46:17 pm PDT #3168 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I only know a Hungarian. She's very emotional and touchy.
Her mom is exactly the same way. Face-petting, public crying, and has patted me on the ass and exclaimed in Hungarian how pretty it is (her daughter translated for me without a trace of embarrassment, and found it hilarious that I was weirded out). Extremely, possibly excessively, forthright and direct.
Also, when I do the fake-patient bit, the Eastern European doctors are usually very good but possessed of unnervingly tiny privacy zones. Sometimes the fake patients end up scrunched into a corner, ducking away to keep from touching noses with the doctor (also, they are generally deaf to American PLEASE BACK OFF, YOU'RE GIVING ME A WIGGINS body language).
Robin's BF is so the Best Evah, and now I'm eager to hear lisah's CD as well.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 12:48:22 pm PDT #3169 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Eastern European doctors are usually very good but possessed of unnervingly tiny privacy zones
When I was at this club (Propanganda, for those keeping track) in Moscow, a woman sat on my barstool. Not that I'm being overly proprietary to call it mine -- I was sitting on it at the time. I made the culturally ignorant error of leaning towards others in my party, and baring half the seat. She paid no attention to the fully empty stools, sat on the clear half, and completely ignored me.
Burrell - Jun 20, 2005 12:55:32 pm PDT #3170 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My experience with Russian men involved one who, during the Gorbachev era, proudly claimed "I am anti-communist!" and one who jokingly shouted "I love you, let's go to America!" So, um, yeah, more forward. Definitely.
§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 12:59:25 pm PDT #3171 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The most forthright Russian guy I've ever encountered was on the other side of a vast cultural gulf -- he was repeating "I love niggers!" to us with such glee I thought he was going to wet himself.
-t - Jun 20, 2005 1:03:38 pm PDT #3172 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
All the Russians I've known were members of my family. I thought it was just, you know, them. Or us. Not that that's me. I don't think.
Anyway, not much for the filter between brain and mouth, in my experience.
Burrell - Jun 20, 2005 1:34:31 pm PDT #3173 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The most forthright Russian guy I've ever encountered was on the other side of a vast cultural gulf -- he was repeating "I love niggers!" to us with such glee I thought he was going to wet himself.
Ah ha. Like the young woman I met who was so happy to tell us "my parents were Cossacks!" She didn't realize I'm Jewish.