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Ya Krunk'd Floo
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Hello Sergo, may I please yes call you 'Sergo'? My name is being 'Ya', like the word 'yes'! You know of it? Is good. So, in my questioning is like this... I'm a great, big fan-person of your writing words and I see with my eyes many lots twinkles of the stars behind you! Yes, is true! So very is true! So, with my question again, I ask yourself speaking...Is possible to transport many egg-shaped pigs via traffic and rivers to this place of my asking or is no? So, thanking your kind, I very like your. Good to see you again, maybe? Good, please! Good.
Sergo
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Ya Krunk'd Floo said:
Hi Ya, may sun shine on you.
Really, I have not understood much from you told me here: must be that my language skills fail me again.
As to pigs... I've never tried to deliver live pigs, but what the matter - it is never late to start, yeh? And I do not much care for their shape. If you know where to get those weird species you mention - OK, let's talk business. I would prefer them to be cube shaped though - much more cost effective, you know. But that's your headache really, if you want them egg shaped - that's up to you. As to quantity of pigs... The more the better. If we strike the deal... say, each one pig in a hundred you have free. You want pigs delivered to your boat? OK, I'll try to manage that. Though the final leg may have to be done by a hopper, so the cost would be the killer. But that depends mightily on the size of your boat and its docking abilities.
See ya, do not overuse that grass...
Sergo
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Robert said:
I see. Yup, we have lots of good players, I remember those games with Canadians, Sweeds, Americans, Czech... (they were "Cheskoslovakians" then, as far as I remember).
Really, with our winters it would be strange if we couldn't play good hockey. About as strange as to have a person living near a warm ocean not able to swim...
Ya Krunk'd Floo
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Sergo said:Hi Ya, may sun shine on you.
Really, I have not understood much from you told me here: must be that my language skills fail me again.
As to pigs... I've never tried to deliver live pigs, but what the matter - it is never late to start, yeh? And I do not much care for their shape. If you know where to get those weird species you mention - OK, let's talk business. I would prefer them to be cube shaped though - much more cost effective, you know. But that's your headache really, if you want them egg shaped - that's up to you. As to quantity of pigs... The more the better. If we strike the deal... say, each one pig in a hundred you have free. You want pigs delivered to your boat? OK, I'll try to manage that. Though the final leg may have to be done by a hopper, so the cost would be the killer. But that depends mightily on the size of your boat and its docking abilities.
See ya, do not overuse that grass...
Hello Sergo, we have maked friends yes? Good.
Mostly, my thinking in the head has been about egg-shaped pigs that can transport in smaller space, yes? This my special thinking can mean the more of them! Doing business in this compartment will maked much speed, so the less of the profit money becomes more! Like they said, "Little space is most cheap!" Ha! I do the joke! Of more important is when, no? When, my friend? WHEN? OK, if busy, not worry. We talk with mouth and do the discuss. On my boat all those pigs! OH! My mother bless her face will cry with water eyes! So you question my boat and I answer with the yes! So bigger that people play the game you know as tennis on it! Yes, so bigger! Is all for this now, but more we talk. I face you back!
Sergo
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I think that with more experience it is now much easier for me to tolerate others with the ideas absolutely perpendicular to mine... Sometimes I even understand that those perpendicular ideas are even closer to what should be true than mine...Kenny Shovel said:
I see. The closest to it we have is a show where people do all things people normally dislike or fear of. Eat rats and goat's testicles, walk boards between very high buildings, dive in a sack with chains on the legs and hands with seconds to open the locks before air in their lungs ends... The one I liked most was with contestants dancing striptease in some club in Turkey or somewhere... The girls were quite beautiful...Kenny Shovel said:
I think that the show I've mentioned is really without any risk: snakes not poisonous, nets secured under the boards, cranes ready to lift you up from the water if it seems that you are unable to unlock your chains in time... So our is a very different kind of a game.Kenny Shovel said:
What I do not like about those shows (I've seen some made in USA) - is attitudes of the contestants to one another: open dislike towards winner by the losers. Maybe it is just a play for the sake of the watchers, but... OK, there are always people who feel so in a game, but I've never thought they are 12 in a dosen.Kenny Shovel said:
It is not so in this our show I mentioned. No fake frendlines and camaraderie, but no accusations behind the back of the winners too...
Yep. And they will have the same problem in their turn. How perfect life is!Kenny Shovel said:
Yep, sure. But for me it is time to know Europe better: it is a shame I had not been to lots of places yet...Kenny Shovel said:
And my colleague speaks well of Gonduras - how good it is there, magnificent nature and "reasonable prices"... He nearly talked me into buying some land there... OK, it must be interesting at least to live there for a week or so...
I see. Though I think I could manage without getting a free meal on a flight if it would cost me $100 instead of $500...Kenny Shovel said:
Kenny Shovel said:
Yep, if you have friends in Gaming Software business - you may try to sell them this idea. I even see it before my eyes right now - not a Quake or a Halflife, but could be interesting...Kenny Shovel said:
It seems I got too much cash with us... We are not accustomed to spending so much, and naturally when we understood how much has been already spent, her shopping enthusiasm seriously deminished... And I get bored with shopping after half an hour or so (with TVs, PCs, radios and such things - half an hour more).Kenny Shovel said:
Kenny Shovel said:
Eh-he-he... Novy Russkiy my leg... And our "fancy car" is a small Grand Vitara SUV (it could be considered grand only if placed near a toy car). And I walk a lot - I like it, you know. So... I do not think my life is that different from the ordinary working people. Yes, I earn slightly more... But I have less spare time.
(I know you have just pulled my leg, but I cannot help discussing that just the same. Isn't it boring?!)
Yossarian89
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Kenny Shovel
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I think that’s a change most of us go through with experience, I know I was a different fish as a young man, so confident of things that now seem less solid.Sergo said:
That sounds like ‘Fear Factor’ which I think was an American TV show first, but has now spread to other countries like my own.Sergo said:
Are you sure you’re not describing one of your dreams?Sergo said:
Yes, I know what you mean. I guess this is one of the reasons I love cricket; both teams play the game hard (bowling a cricket ball deliberately at an opponents head is a legitimate tactic), but you still applaud him off the field of play if he has played well, and you drink with him in the bar afterwards.Sergo said:
Well, they say that we all become our parents in the end.Sergo said:
The trouble is there is so much to see, you are always just scratching the surface.Sergo said:
I worked with a guy who spent six months traveling round South America with his girlfriend, some day I'll have to do the same thing as his girlfriend is one hot mama.Sergo said:
I’m not sure how much a meal is on these cut-price airlines, but I’m going to stick my neck out and guess that it’s less than $400.Sergo said:
Yes, not you Sergo. I’m sure your dental work is a marvel to behold.Sergo said:
I think she might have liked some of the markets in London in places like Portobello Road.Sergo said:
And this is a puzzle I think you need to solve.Sergo said:
Sergo
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Yep, exactly, it is called the same here - I've just forgot the name really.Kenny Shovel said:
Quite sure. Girls were beautiful, and I even thought about buying a full version of that show - you know, I believe it was possible. Though I am tooo lazy for any consistent effort over such an unimportant event... So I never even come around to checking the possibility.Kenny Shovel said:
Wow, that seems to be my kind of a game. That's what I always loved about good connections with the customs officers of my past: through the day they often made us some trouble with their demands (for documents, additional information - not bribes, you know), then we came together to some bar to heal our mutual wounds, or even went to some barbeque party with our girls together the next day. But on monday again we met on different sides...Kenny Shovel said:
Errr... Too Freudish (or Jungish, I am not sure) for me to understand...Kenny Shovel said:
Yep, exactly. So it is natural to try scratching in as many places as possible? Our problem is we like places so much we want to come there again and again. You see, I have very often been to the same places a lot of times. We came twice to the same village on Turkish sea shore, twice to London... And I want to come again, really...Kenny Shovel said:
Grrr... Are you going to travel six month with his girlfriend, or round S. America, or both?Kenny Shovel said:
I think I would like too... Any one of the options...
Ha. Really, I wanted to come to my dentist about a year ago. In a month or two I will HAVE to come to him. The problem is I will have to spend several hours a day several days in a row on it - to get to the clinic (that's the 1st Central - the one on which territory Stalin died; supposedly it is very high-class now, but really very reasonably priced and well known for quality of its services) is quite far from my work or home either.Kenny Shovel said:
You would not believe me, but we came there, and bought nothing at all.Kenny Shovel said:
By the way, I nearly bought a real netsuke in some shope on Nottingham Hill, but then decided that 300 pounds were too much for that... I am so greedy...
By the way, have you heard about 355 TONS of contraband mobile phones confiscated in Russia? No, that were not mine, of course... Though that truck of mine got in the same checking, so it was so difficult to deal with it... (and still is)
But what I wanted to tell you about is the position our militia took over it: as after this confiscation were done, telephone prices in our shops began to rise steeply (up to 20 - 30% by now), the militia told that they will check for reasons, and if such are not to be found - those who has risen prices without reason would be punished. It seems that I do not understand something important... Or is it the same in other places? I thought that has passed with our still-born socialism...
(Errr... I believe I've seen somewhere that you talked about your being left wing-oriented... What do you think about a government trying to get business to order? Though, if there could be some GOOD government... But that isn't possible, I imagine)
Hi Sergo,
How are you?
I got thinking about you today. Check out this other thread and see why: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7733&page=5
Flower
How are you?
I got thinking about you today. Check out this other thread and see why: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7733&page=5
Flower
Kenny Shovel
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I thought so; you know we’re all watching different versions of the same bloody programmes these days. They find a formula that works then sell it to everyone they can.Sergo said:
As we say in Britain “You need to get out more often mate”.Sergo said:
Yes, I can imagine you in cricket whites (the uniform is all white), tucking in to tea, cucumber sandwiches and cake during the break between innings. Any game that has official breaks for meals has got to be civilised in my opinion.Sergo said:
Yes, that’s sounds rather civilised too…Sergo said:
Yes, I’m guilty of the same thing myself; I enjoy really getting to know somewhere and seeing it change over time to the point where I neglect other destinations.Sergo said:
I was joking about both. Don’t you start misunderstanding my humour; I’ve had enough of that in ‘General Chat’ already!Sergo said:
Now perhaps it’s my turn to misunderstand, but this doesn’t sound like a recommendation to me!Sergo said:
Ah, but you looked, and you can say you went to that famous place, even if it was of no use to you.Sergo said:
Sorry, but what do you mean by ‘netsuke’?Sergo said:
BTW, I think you mean Notting hill rather than Nottingham hill. Notting Hill is where they have just had the annual carnival that is organised by the West Indian community in that part of London. I took my Ukrainian friend there a few years ago, and she was a bit freaked out by how loud the music was. I remember we went past one sound system and you could feel your internal organs vibrating.
No. Was that thousands of new phones or just 20 or 30 of the type they had in the 80’s?Sergo said:
Erm, I’ll try and compare to over here. If prices are going up just because a lack of phones then that’s just simply the ‘laws’ of supply and demand, nothing you can do. If they think that some companies are using that lack of supply as an excuse to push prices up with everyone else then there is still probably nothing they can do, as they are entitled to sell their goods at the market price. If however they think that a cartel is in operation, meaning all the phone companies have decided to increase their profit margins, and are using the supply problems as an excuse to ‘set a market price’ between them, then the government may look at that, as it possibly infringes consumer rights. But to be honest, I’m not an expert in this area.Sergo said:
You mean when I said I was the Che Guvara of the Insurance world?Sergo said:
I’m not sure what you want me to talk about. The situation you just mentioned, or the more broad subject of government intervention in business?Sergo said:
Sergo
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Flowerdk4 said:Hi Sergo,
How are you?
I got thinking about you today. Check out this other thread and see why: http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7733&page=5
Flower
Thanks Flower, I am fine, just trying to get a handle on things after my absence from my office...
I've written several words in that thread...
Sergo
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Yep. Another one we've seen was named "The Last Hero" - with some actors and actresses, showpeople and ordinary people from the street, thrown on some island to survive. The last year they said it was the last "Last Hero", and this year there is none...Kenny Shovel said:
Yep, I imagine you are right: my social life is close to zero lately. To change that I have to change my life, and I am not ready for that now.Kenny Shovel said:
Ha-ha... Yes, that could be fun to try it...Kenny Shovel said:
I've tried to joke too, you know.Kenny Shovel said:
And it is, nevertheless. That outfit was founded on the base of a clinic arranged to look after Stalin at his Moscow dacha. So that was really the first government-oriented clinic in Russia. And the fact he actually died there doesn't change anything at all. When a person of such importance as Stalin has to die - he dies, doctors or no doctors. Doctors could be always executed afterwards, if needed...Kenny Shovel said:
Yep, my wife told me that we have to come there. Cannot see I like such places very much, but as the wife asked... And of course it is always interesting to see a market like that - it also tells you something of people... (We had lots of markets selling old taps, used spareparts, secondhand footwear etc. once upon a time... Now we have markets like Portobello one)Kenny Shovel said:
That's a traditional Japanese small sculpture made of wood, bone, stone or very rarely metal. I like them very much, and made some myself.Kenny Shovel said:
Yes, sure, I was hurrying like hell yesterday...Kenny Shovel said:
Only this morning I've seen video report about this carnival...Kenny Shovel said:
Brand-new phones, of course. This business has been very profitable here: we have almost everybody in big cities having at least one phone. And 95% of them are brand-new. So the cost of this confiscated lot varies from $55M to $250M by different estimations.Kenny Shovel said:
Really, it is as follows: mobile phones are very difficult goods from the point of customs clearing view: to customs clear them here one needs lots of documents, and some of them are really impossible to get (for example, an approval from an agency that ceased to exist a year ago or so, but its approval is needed until now just the same). Then, customs duties on the phones are so high, the final prices would be much higher if people really paid those duties in full, and as the result our market of mobiles would be much worse off, with people not able to buy as much of them as it is now the case (supposedly). So I think that about 99% of the mobiles are contraband here.Kenny Shovel said:
As you see, in any case prices MUST be higher - either because of hundreds of thousands of mobiles withdrawn from the market, or because people will be paying full customs duties on them: it is natural, and to understand that one has not have to be a financial genius, I think. But our government seems to have a different opinion on this...
I believe I've glimpsed your words to that effect to somebody somewhere...Kenny Shovel said:
Kenny Shovel said:
Oh, really I am in my blue moods at the moment, and apt to discuss what fools we have for our government, which keep saying things able to keep Russia from normal relations with other countries for years. Why, we have militia looking after our market prices?! Naturally, I would like to hear that's the common situation everywhere... Or even some logical explanations from you, that will calm me down...
chewlianchillz
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Wow! Sergo.. you seems successful..
Sergo said:
You are welcome!
How many people are working in the office?
I have been reading this book "The russian singer" by Leif Davidsen. He used to work in Moscow for the danish national tv. In the book, he mentioned these winter hats and I got to think of you when I saw the penguin, just like Kenny did.
Davidsen also mentioned the thing we talked about, how you take drinks and food to your graveyards. In the book there is an episode, where some artists go to a poets grave and drinks vodka and tell poems out load. This is in the vinter and I pictured people standing there with winter hats and vodka being very sentimental.
At another point in the book, he mentions that the russian is very emotional and acts on and talks about their souls, not like him being a rational dane. I can easily picture this and find it somehow nice and great. One thing which is hard to me to picture is what it was like to live there before Gorbartjov, not being able to get the most simple things and to have a police force like you did. I guess you have to live it, to fully understand it.
Flower
Sergo
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Flowerdk4 said:You are welcome!
How many people are working in the office?
I have been reading this book "The russian singer" by Leif Davidsen. He used to work in Moscow for the danish national tv. In the book, he mentioned these winter hats and I got to think of you when I saw the penguin, just like Kenny did.
Davidsen also mentioned the thing we talked about, how you take drinks and food to your graveyards. In the book there is an episode, where some artists go to a poets grave and drinks vodka and tell poems out load. This is in the vinter and I pictured people standing there with winter hats and vodka being very sentimental.
At another point in the book, he mentions that the russian is very emotional and acts on and talks about their souls, not like him being a rational dane. I can easily picture this and find it somehow nice and great. One thing which is hard to me to picture is what it was like to live there before Gorbartjov, not being able to get the most simple things and to have a police force like you did. I guess you have to live it, to fully understand it.
Flower
You know, it is usually not the same as it seems from the outside...
Yes, I think we are quite emotional people. At least most of us are. I am not sure if it is bad or good.
And as it was time when we were young - it is with longing that we remember those times of Gorbachev and pre-Gorbachev times... Yes, the only chance to get a good clothes was to have them brought from abroad, to buy a book one had to collect 20 - 60 kg. of paper wastes and get a special coupon, to buy a car one had to wait for several years (and most people just hadn't money enough even to think of that, I remember our family eating peaches once or twice a year...
But... All the same, it is our life. It is a part of us. So I am happy it was as it has been. Who knows, maybe my life would be quite different, if I hadn't got all the experience I have now... Maybe it could be not as good as it is now.
Kenny Shovel
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Mmm, do they vote each other off the island? If so that sounds like ‘Survivor’ which ran for , I think, two series here, but I believe is probably the biggest show of it’s type in America.Sergo said:
Sure, I understand the pressures you seem to be under at present.Sergo said:
Eating cucumber sandwiches? Sure.Sergo said:
Ah, in which case you have out dead-panned me; I tip my hat to you.Sergo said:
That remains me of an interesting book I read called “Lenin’s Embalmers” which was co-written by Ilya Zbarsky ,one was one of the men who kept Lenin’s body preserved. It described who they did this but also gave an insight into how scientists and doctors were treated at various times during Soviet history.Sergo said:
Of course, as was the fashion at the time.Sergo said:
Clearly your wife is a discerning shopper.Sergo said:
Ah, ok, I thought it was some kind of typo. I’ll try and find some examples on the net to look at.Sergo said:
Yup, that’s the one; although you don’t get the atmosphere without the smell of the food and the ear bleedingly loud volume of the music.Sergo said:
Sure, I was joking about the size of the old ones from years ago.Sergo said:
This business is big everywhere Sergo, but I’ve noticed that Russians, particularly the women, love their mobiles.Sergo said:
I see, so the government has unworkable customs rules with unrealistically high duties; which combined together mean that in most cases they are circumvented and end up with no customs duty at all. This seems a familiar tale of your government living in the past and not understanding the new world they live in.Sergo said:
Ok, but there have been disagreements about public/private ownership here in Britain too. Our Railways were privately owned, then controlled by the Government, and now back in private hands again.Sergo said: