Kurenda,
Have to agree with you about the [i]Exile[/i]. On the scale of journalistic excellence, it's somewhere between [i]The Sun[/i] and the [i]National Enquirer[/i].
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Kurenda,
Have to agree with you about the [i]Exile[/i]. On the scale of journalistic excellence, it's somewhere between [i]The Sun[/i] and the [i]National Enquirer[/i].
Strav I don't read The Sun and the National Enquirer so can't comment on them.
But it's obvious this Exile is full of говна.
Their printed version is banned in Russian and also their web edition is banned from servers in Russia.
kurenda, with all due respect, your post reflects a mixture of ingrained russian prejudice (against jews and muslims, among other things) and recent government propaganda. ames & co. can be blamed for many things, but gay they certainly aren't.
firstly, the exile, before the current russian government censored it using an approach reminiscent of soviet times, was not anti-russian; quite the opposite. it was cynical about putin & cronies and critical of certain aspects of russia, no doubt about it. they liked their free speech, and 1990s moscow which was truly free in many respects, more so indeed than the us or other so-called beacons of democracy. that's why ames came to love russia.
these guys thoroughly enjoyed living in moscow and had many russian friends, and everyone with a more than superficial knowledge of the exile can confirm this.
it is well known in russia that nizhny tagil is not a very wholesome place. i didn't say the poster would get killed, and didn't try to dissuade him from going there. all i told him was to be careful.
[QUOTE=SlutLover] Exile.[/QUOTE]
I personally find the "Face Control, the Savage Lust of Mother Russia!" column really witty and funny.
SlutLover I said what most people in Russia think including their prejudice.
You may know or not, but todays Russia is far from the Russia of the 1990's when really everything was possible.
Ames came to love Russia but he probably never heard or did not pay attention to the old russian saying:
"Don't love Russia because Russia will never return this love".
I agree: the Russian 'nineties are long gone. Perhaps they were a unique result of historical circumstance, and perhaps there won't be a crazy and wondrous place and time like this any more in our lifetime.
It makes me sad, although most Russians are of course better off now materially than they were then, and will wholeheartedly disagree.
And one more thing, Kurenda: I love Russia - I loved it back then, and I love it now. In some ways, this love has been returned, and I'm not referring to easy sex (which is nice, of course) or business relationships.
[QUOTE=SlutLover]
It is well known that Nizhny Tagil is NOT a very wholesome place.
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Besides milk factories and day care centers, is anywhere in Russia very wholesome?
Especially in the middle of the Urals in December? You might as well be in Chechnya.
[QUOTE=Kurenda]"Don't love Russia because Russia will never return this love".[/QUOTE]Kurenda,
Not true. Russia will return your love: but in its own way, in its own time and on its own terms.
[QUOTE=Stravinsky]
Russia loves me in its own way, time, and terms.
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Terms= 7500 rubles
Time =2 hours
Way = RCG, COF
You're starting to sound more like Truman Capote than a Hungry Duck wh0remaster vor v zakone with stars on his chest. What happened to all your Eastern Promises.
Bez,
OK, you lost me now. I think you're in a whole 'nother di-mension, buddy.
Don't have the foggiest idea what you're talking about.
[QUOTE=Stravinsky]
Bez, you lost me now.
Don't have the foggiest what you talk about.
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I always maintain several dimensions between myself and the rest of you.
Its the only sane way to approach the mongering lifestyle.
I'm sure by now you've confirmed this with your confidant Pizzy, my only ever attempt at making contact. Take me out of the provinces, and I'm a carp out of the Volga.
There's no link to connect us, and I'll be damn proud to make sure there never is.
But you're the one philosophizing contrasts to Kurenda's warning, with your sappy love twaddle. How can you be clueless, when YOU wrote it?
"Russia returns her love on her own terms"?????
Sounds much more like a porozhnyak skopets, than the zhverskiy yobar we all admire.
Next you'll confess you can't make sense of this:
Bez,
Man, what a prickly fucker! Chill dude... life is too short to agonize over ephemeral philosophical distinctions between mongering philosophies, и т.к.
What you need is some Kuschelsex! Mit der kuessen und der schmusen. :D It might mellow you out a little bit (maybe).
Nothing would please me more than to spend a month with you in the provinces hunting down your honey in the photo. But I can't do it, I'm saddled with too many responsibilities. I'm not really a card-carrying ideologue, like yourself. I'm just looking to have a little fun once in a while, usually in Russia.
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[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]Besides milk factories and day care centers, is anywhere in Russia very wholesome?
Especially in the middle of the Urals in December? You might as well be in Chechnya.[/QUOTE]
Bez! It takes a special sort of self-proclaimed genius to be first nitpicking, then equating apples and pears in two consecutive sentences!
[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]I'm sure by now you've confirmed this with your confidant Pizzy, my only ever attempt at making contact. Take me out of the provinces, and I'm a carp out of the Volga.[/QUOTE]
BB, I think you'll admit that attempt was mostly mine. As for being Strav's confidant, I'm no more his than yours. I've met you each exactly once, and probably shared a similar number of PMs. So, not sure where you're going with that...
That said, I thought you fit in just fine here in the big city, with the exception that you don't drink much. Or maybe that's just in comparison to me and the guys I usually hang with (ie Skank, SY, and bunch of other alkies!) Yeah, it was my mistake taking you to NF and HD, but I figured you'd at least want to give a face to a name, as despicable as they both are.
As for The Exile, it was a mixed bag, for sure. But there was some pure genius in the writings of Ames and Taibbi. Wh0rer-stories? The Viagra Challenge? The infamous "It Was Us!" Prank? Sure, the bar/club reviews were as stale as three-day-old baguette and the restaurant reviews as pretentious and poseurific they come, but the guys had some fucking [b]balls[/b] to write what they did, and no one can say shit about that.
[QUOTE=Pizdyets]As for The Exile, it was a mixed bag, for sure. But there was some pure genius in the writings of Ames and Taibbi. Wh0rer-stories? The Viagra Challenge? The infamous "It Was Us!" Prank? Sure, the bar/club reviews were as stale as three-day-old baguette and the restaurant reviews as pretentious and poseurific they come, but the guys had some fucking [b]balls[/b] to write what they did, and no one can say shit about that.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't have put it better.