General Talk!!

[Daniil]

humbert - I took this smileys from sites. It's just a gif images, which I inserted into my messages with <img> tag.

Here's an example:
Smiley address: http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/personal/patsak.gif
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[img]http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/personal/patsak.gif[/img]
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Smileys collections I took from different sites. Here is some most often used by me:
http://www.kolobok.us
http://yoursmileys.ru
http://smayliki.ru
(Warning! Russian language!  )

[Daniil]

Also, humbert some time ago said that he saw snow only on TV. So, for him, for Usman, Ahmad and all of you guys who ever asked me about this. At 29 of November, later at evening, snow at last layed down. I.e., there was snowfalls even at October, but snow "lays down" when it don't melt anymore till spring. So now it's layed down.


That's a snow. I took a bit from a bench.

[scarface]

Snow...youre probably the only one (with shadow97  ) to have snow now. Here in Paris snow is not frequent, 2 years ago, 10 cm of snow had paralyzed the roads and sparked discontent. Speaking of Ahmad, when Walking in the streets 2 days ago and looking at the Christmas decorations, I was imagining Ahmad dressed in Santa, then I was thinking it would not fit him.

[Shadow.97]

Snow...youre probably the only one (with shadow97  ) to have snow now. Here in Paris snow is not frequent, 2 years ago, 10 cm of snow had paralyzed the roads and sparked discontent. Speaking of Ahmad, when Walking in the streets 2 days ago and looking at the Christmas decorations, I was imagining Ahmad dressed in Santa, then I was thinking it would not fit him.

I will give a short movie tomorrow I think of me walking to the bus(because I can't go by moped at winters) Snow.. Snow in loads lol! "snowstorm" today, when you look out of the window all you see is just a little red on the neighbors garage 10 meters away(approx). Snow in your shoes, and wet socks all day. Love it!

[aa1234779]

@Daniil Really great scenery in those photos.

[humbert]

@Shadow - if possible take some pictures of your snowy surroundings and upload them. I haven't seen snow in 12 years. Even when I've traveled during winter where it normally snows, there was none during my visit.    - and of course send us that movie of yourself.

@Daniil - awesome pics you uploaded! Doesn't the river freeze over this time of year? Also, I'm surprised how pristine the Winter Palace is. Wasn't it sacked after Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown in 1917?

It's hard to see the red flags on the monument for Bloody Sunday (I think it was called that). Are they just red or the old Communist hammer-and-sickle?

[Daniil]

@Scarface - Ahmad dressed in Santa - that would be interesting!  BTW, today morning we have 10 cm of snow after all-night blizzard. That's not so bad as you can imagine.

@Shadow - How do you walk to get snow in your shoes, comrade?

@Humbert - No, Neva doesn't freese till -20. It's very big and strong river. I think this year it will be freesed after a new year, maybe at the middle of January.  Small rivers around it, such as Fontanka, started to freese just now, at Saturday I was on Fontanka and Moyka, near the shore thin ice is started to building.
Winter Palace never be sacked. At  the first year after revolution it was used as a hospital, a place for temporary government, and a headquarters of Red Guards (revolutionary workers-guards). Since 1919 Lenin published directive, obligue to turn Winter Palace into the museum (palaces mustn't be the in ownership of unbridled imperialists, but must serve for people). So all art and jewelery staff started to nomading to Winter Palace from "capitalists" and "imperialists".  Those who didn't want to gave their jewelery to museum, was tortured by ChK. Also, some value stuff was lost somewhere in ChK, and because of that it (ChK) was cleaned (i.e., "to the wall") by NKVD. Then the torturers in NKVD was cleaned... Well, it was very funny here. Anyway, after communism power became strong in Russia, Winter Palace was turned into a museum, and all the time was carefully saved and repaired. BTW, better than today, because, at socialistic era, government didn't spare money to fix culture monuments, and in today government many officials stealing money from budget.

Yes, it's true historical red flags, with hammer and sickle. Why you say "hard to see"? Red communistic flags isn't bad at all. They, and eternal flame, meaning: never forgive and never forget bad monarchy leaders, who had kill this peoples.

[Shadow.97]

@Scarface - Ahmad dressed in Santa - that would be interesting!  BTW, today morning we have 10 cm of snow after all-night blizzard. That's not so bad as you can imagine.

@Shadow - How do you walk to get snow in your shoes, comrade?

@Humbert - No, Neva doesn't freese till -20. It's very big and strong river. I think this year it will be freesed after a new year, maybe at the middle of January.  Small rivers around it, such as Fontanka, started to freese just now, at Saturday I was on Fontanka and Moyka, near the shore thin ice is started to building.
Winter Palace never be sacked. At  the first year after revolution it was used as a hospital, a place for temporary government, and a headquarters of Red Guards (revolutionary workers-guards). Since 1919 Lenin published directive, obligue to turn Winter Palace into the museum (palaces mustn't be the in ownership of unbridled imperialists, but must serve for people). So all art and jewelery staff started to nomading to Winter Palace from "capitalists" and "imperialists".  Those who didn't want to gave their jewelery to museum, was tortured by ChK. Also, some value stuff was lost somewhere in ChK, and because of that it (ChK) was cleaned (i.e., "to the wall") by NKVD. Then the torturers in NKVD was cleaned... Well, it was very funny here. Anyway, after communism power became strong in Russia, Winter Palace was turned into a museum, and all the time was carefully saved and repaired. BTW, better than today, because, at socialistic era, government didn't spare money to fix culture monuments, and in today government many officials stealing money from budget.

Yes, it's true historical red flags, with hammer and sickle. Why you say "hard to see"? Red communistic flags isn't bad at all. They, and eternal flame, meaning: never forgive and never forget bad monarchy leaders, who had kill this peoples.

I don't use winter boots and rhe snow was up to my knees (wind had pushed it agaist a wall where I had to pass by)  or places where they havnt plowed the roads

[humbert]

@Shadow - take some pics of the snow and upload them here! I'd like to see what I've been missing for 12 years now.

@Daniil - "hard to see" means that in the picture I couldn't see if the flag were those of the bygone Communist era. I do agree that the meaning of the Communist flag stands for something good, but here it has a very bad reputation. Communists were our mortal enemies for many years and the red flag is a hated symbol.

Of course I'm aware of the events of Bloody Sunday in 1905. Stalin may have built that memorial, but he has a short memory - he was 1000 times more despotic than Tsar Nicholas II.

[Daniil]

@Daniil - "hard to see" means that in the picture I couldn't see if the flag were those of the bygone Communist era. I do agree that the meaning of the Communist flag stands for something good, but here it has a very bad reputation. Communists were our mortal enemies for many years and the red flag is a hated symbol.

Of course I'm aware of the events of Bloody Sunday in 1905. Stalin may have built that memorial, but he has a short memory - he was 1000 times more despotic than Tsar Nicholas II.

Oh, I understand what you meant. Maybe if at holidays weather will be fine, I'll shot a flag from shorter distance for you.  I guessed, that you will say that red flag is a hated symbol in USA. That is not surprising after many decades of Cold War. BTW, here is the same reputation of your, USA flag. Stars and stripes was "a symbol of bloody capitalism, oppression of the workers, unprovoked wars..." Sorry, I can't exactly remember the texts of old propaganda booklets. I'll ask my father, he has a number of this booklets and posters somewhere in the larder.
Many people think, that USA is the main enemy of Russia even now. 
BTW, was in USA same propaganda against USSR? I saw some old american "Civil Defence" films, there was toon monkeys in caps with ear-flaps with nuclear bombs under one arm (monkeys looks a bit like Khrustchev). Did all children in american schools  was trained to "duck and cover"?