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Offline Curval

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« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2004, 08:39:36 AM »
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As to Boroda responding to this thread...I wouldn't hold your breath.  It really doesn't dignify a response.


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« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2004, 08:43:44 AM »
My assistant is a 24 year old Russian woman that is hot as hell.  She doesn't stink at all, can drink beer better the any of the men in the office (me included) and is the harderst worker in the building.

About every month or so I gotta fight off one of the other directors that want to steal her away.

She just got married and is in the process of citizenship and my biggest fear is that she gonna go and get prego.


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« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2004, 08:52:29 AM »
It's not "cultural", it's individual. When I say I thake a bath once in two days - I mean that I spend at least 40 minutes in a bathtub. I think you understand that I can't afford it every day and only take a brief shower.

Rip, I used deodorant for many years, came to a conclusion that I'd better keep myself clean. It's my own decision, not enough to make a conclusion that "all Russians don't use deodorants". They are popular here, but I simply don't like it. Some people smell like someone crapped on a flower-bed... :rolleyes:

My worst "hygienic" experience: I went to a hiking-trip to Khibin mountains for 4 weeks, and forgot a toothbrush... I tried all kinds of substitutes, used fingers, chewed wooden sticks, even grass - but still felt horrible. When we finaly came to a hotel in Murmansk - I bought a toothbrush and spent maybe a whole hour brushing my teeth... BTW, washing in the mountain hiking trips is a very special problem. When the water in rivers or lakes is maybe 3-5 degrees over freezing, and it's so soft that it doesn't wash away the soap :) The result looks like a gender-changing without surgery :)

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« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2004, 08:57:34 AM »
Man that must be rugged, having to take an ice cold shower.  But I bet it feels good afterward (if you don't have a heart attack:) .)

I know a fellow artist who has an outdoor cold shower.  He uses it year round because he doesn't have a hot water heater.  He built a neat little "house" about 200 sq. ft. loft included.

He goes to the YMCA for a hot shower.  He's a neat dude, and the definition of an artist.  He makes cool ceramic faces and chickens holding jugs and surfboards and such.:D

Most of his space is devoted to work in the main building, which is adequate, about 900 sq. ft.


But as for me.  I'm working on etchings that take 6 months apiece to do.  I have a hot shower available, but rarely go anywhere during this time.  I bathe about once every four days.  I have to if I go out, and it's a hassle.  That's the main reason I keep a buzz cut haircut often as I can.  It drys fast and feels good until it starts itching after about four days.




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« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2004, 09:48:05 AM »
had a couple of the liberated commies pass through my office just yesterday.  I paid them no attention but I must say that I did not detect any unpleasant odor within a 5 foot radius of them.

PS I understand they are generating lot of engineering rework and balking at learning english.  I think its a mistake but Im anti  global to start with.  I liked the cold war.
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« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2004, 10:16:25 AM »
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had a couple of the liberated commies pass through my office just yesterday.  I paid them no attention but I must say that I did not detect any unpleasant odor within a 5 foot radius of them.

PS I understand they are generating lot of engineering rework and balking at learning english.  I think its a mistake but Im anti  global to start with.  I liked the cold war.


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« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2004, 12:55:09 PM »
THanks for responding boroda.

So while its a personal choice, I guess there's not nearly the social stigma attached to it that there is here, so its a lot more common.  I assume this because the Moscow residents we import here almost all have the issue.  The only ones so far that don't are the ones that have been here for a significant length of time on previous engagements.  

I'm not one who likes to "smell nice", I just want to not smell at all.  :)

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« Reply #22 on: June 17, 2004, 01:06:39 PM »
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I'm not one who likes to "smell nice", I just want to not smell at all.  :)

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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2004, 01:09:19 PM »
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C'mon, pellet rifle, we all know your farts smell like KY Jelly.
 


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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2004, 02:47:38 PM »
It seems to be a matter more of personal choice than anything
else. We used to have a Brit working in our dealership as a tech and man he would get ugly after a couple of days. When asked about it he said bathing more than twice a month was unheathly.

 Standing down wind of him after a few days was very unheathy.

Oh and btw I have personally had the displeasure of standing down wind of some rather mal oderious Americans from time to time.
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« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2004, 03:10:09 PM »
I have to say I'm impressed with Russian technology. Turning off the water to prevent freezing is genious! When are you going to invent insulation?
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« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2004, 04:33:29 PM »
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I have to say I'm impressed with Russian technology. Turning off the water to prevent freezing is genious! When are you going to invent insulation?


Ok, that was funny.

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« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2004, 04:46:55 PM »
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I have to say I'm impressed with Russian technology. Turning off the water to prevent freezing is genious! When are you going to invent insulation?


Comrade Stalin says, only weak capitalist pig westerners need insulation(or bathing)! Za Rodinu, comrade Boroda! Za Rodinu!!

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« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2004, 05:13:29 PM »
I never noticed with my Russian friends or co-workers.

to be fair though only one guy comes by the house and it's hard to give an honest assessment of the co-workers since we usually work in paper-mills.  unless you where in extremely tight quarters (and maybe not even then), I doubt you can detect BO in a paper-mill.

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« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2004, 06:15:52 PM »
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to be fair though only one guy comes by the house and it's hard to give an honest assessment of the co-workers since we usually work in paper-mills.  unless you where in extremely tight quarters (and maybe not even then), I doubt you can detect BO in a paper-mill.


Never been in a paper mill...is there a strong chemical odor or something? Come to think of it, I have no idea how a tree is turned into a monthly phone bill or Wal-mart sale flyer. :D