Author Topic: Date Time Format (ARGH) (Read 1447 times)

Boroda · « **Reply #45 on:** September 10, 2003, 04:16:46 AM »

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Originally posted by GrimCO
Boroda,

You continue to amuse me each time you post. Please don't ever stop doing it. I would truly miss it, and I mean that in the most sincere of ways.

You've gone out of your way this time. The long dissertation showing the superiority of the Russian way of addressing envelopes had me engrossed. I give it not one, but TWO thumbs up for content, and the transitional smoothness with which it deviated from the original thread.

Do the Ruskies have a better way of peeling potatoes than we do here in the U.S.? That subject has the potential for a real cliff hanger!

Thanks! I am glad I entertain you!

I don't think our way of adressing letters is "superior", I just want to say that your way is annoying to me. Just as your date format. I don't have a nesessity to adopt to an alien society like Miko, so I don't want to change my natural habbits becase someone thinks my way is somehow connected to our "communist" and "totalitarian" past. Let me put it this way: I need freedom to write my letters in the way I want

BTW, I discovered that most of the Americans don't know how to roast potatoes. I mean to make roasted potatoes, not "freedom

fries". Many Americans who come here try to understand the art of making good roasted potatoes. This clearly and obviously shows that we ARE superior to you, bloody imperialists

Boroda · « **Reply #46 on:** September 10, 2003, 04:21:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Karnak
I've worked for the post office as a letter carrier.

Point the first, the western style of addressing poses no additional difficulty whatsoever. None.

Point the second, Russia has not had sorting machines like we have here for forty years. To make that claim is ludicrious.

Russian way of adressing isn't difficult and is comfortable too.

You mean you worked in Russian post office?! If not - why do you think that we have or have not something that you didn't ever have a chance to see? Or do you mean that we simply can't be as food as the people from the "land of the free"?! If so - what about roasted potatoes, Ukrainian sausage and pepper vodka?

This thread is here to entertain me

Sancho · « **Reply #47 on:** September 10, 2003, 04:35:23 AM »

it is now 1063186526. I don't see what the problem is.

Boroda · « **Reply #48 on:** September 10, 2003, 04:36:04 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm371
We must have VASTLY superior telephones than Russia. There is this new invention...The Cellular Phone...it works almost anywhere (and has no wires!:eek: )Telegrams disappeared for the most part in the 1960's. Western Union is now used to send money to the sattellite TV company to stop them from turning off your HBO if the payment is late.

Cellular phone? You mean "mobeela" or "sotovik"? This stupid invention that gets you out of your warm sleeping bag and makes you rush some 200km to your work place from the forest where you are camping? No please! I prefer to send a telegram once in a week

Sometimes I feel like I want to go to a bridge and drop my cellular into the water, so I'll not get disturbing calls from stupid users who's printers don't print and mice don't mouse.

There are some other ways to use Western Union, like buying some useless things on Ebay

Bodhi · « **Reply #49 on:** September 10, 2003, 06:47:26 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
I meant "business" standards, the once that are supposed to be based on common sence

That's rich... a former communist lecturing the US on how business should be run...

What a laugh...

Boroda, thanks for sending me off with a smile today. You will be the butt of jokes the rest of the day.

rpm · « **Reply #50 on:** September 10, 2003, 07:38:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
...what about roasted potatoes, Ukrainian sausage and pepper vodka?

Baked potatoes? Idaho makes the best spuds.
Sausage? Johnsonville Brats.
As for Vodka...The best comes from, hold on to your sable hat... Tito's TEXAS Handmade Vodka

GrimCO · « **Reply #51 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:27:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Boroda
Thanks! I am glad I entertain you!

I don't think our way of adressing letters is "superior", I just want to say that your way is annoying to me. Just as your date format. I don't have a nesessity to adopt to an alien society like Miko, so I don't want to change my natural habbits becase someone thinks my way is somehow connected to our "communist" and "totalitarian" past. Let me put it this way: I need freedom to write my letters in the way I want

BTW, I discovered that most of the Americans don't know how to roast potatoes. I mean to make roasted potatoes, not "freedom fries". Many Americans who come here try to understand the art of making good roasted potatoes. This clearly and obviously shows that we ARE superior to you, bloody imperialists

Hey there Pavel,

My favorite way of roasting potatoes is to wrap them in foil and throw them next to the coals in a campfire. Corn is also excellent cooked this way.

That's probably how the Russians did it before they got electric stoves five years ago?

Charon · « **Reply #52 on:** September 10, 2003, 11:29:53 AM »

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WE CAN NOT ALLOW.... A DATE TIME FORMAT GAP!

Gal Darnit... You come up with the perfect witty retort, scroll down the screen and see funked already beat you to it!
Arrgh!

Charon

Boroda · « **Reply #53 on:** September 10, 2003, 11:45:39 AM »

Hehe, I surrender, Americans are always superior

By saying "roasted potatoes" I mean not baked. I mean just roasting them on the frying pan, but not like french fries.

Ukrainian home-made sausage can't be compared to anything else. As for pepper vodka - you can try to look for Nemiroff "Pepper and honey", it's from Ukraine too and AFAIK they export it. It's not the best, but nice. A small 100g glass will make you fly

http://www.nemiroff.ua

Hand made vodka!? My imagination fails when I try to think of the way they use their hands making it

I am expecting a guest from Lipetsk now, he promised to bring some "Soblazn" vodka from Yelets, that one is really smooth, one of the best I have ever drank.

BTW, do you know how to drink vodka?