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  1. November 2nd, 2006, 04:08 PM #41
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    You got your holidays confused here, comrade. Based on your statement you obviously are talking about another popular American holiday "April Fool's Day"!!!!

    By the way, are Russians familiar with this holiday and if so, is it celebrated?
    They are and it is. The name is different though: “День смеха”.
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  2. November 2nd, 2006, 06:36 PM #42
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    Quote Originally Posted by Siriusly
    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    St Valentine's Day....relates to love which is 'recognized' all over the world...
    You got your holidays confused here, comrade. Based on your statement you obviously are talking about another popular American holiday "April Fool's Day"!!!!

    By the way, are Russians familiar with this holiday and if so, is it celebrated?
    I'm even not shure about it's American origin. As far as I know this "holiday" was brought to Russia by Peter the Great from Europe in the end of XVII century.
    Please, correct my mistakes, except for the cases I misspell something on purpose!
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  3. November 3rd, 2006, 06:05 PM #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by Siriusly
    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    St Valentine's Day....relates to love which is 'recognized' all over the world...
    You got your holidays confused here, comrade. Based on your statement you obviously are talking about another popular American holiday "April Fool's Day"!!!!

    By the way, are Russians familiar with this holiday and if so, is it celebrated?
    I can't understand why I got my holidays confused! Could you clarify this for me please? I don't have a clue what "April Fool's Day has to do with love. And you quoted my phrase stating that love is a term acknolwedged everywhere on earth, which makes me think that there's something the matter with this phrase.

    I agree with adoc that the majority of people don't consider Halloween a religious holiday. I said earlier that I take the view that for most Halloween is just a day of fun.

    As Triton's said, Russians are familiar with April Fool's Day and celebrate it. Though I don't think it's possible to celebrate a holiday such April Fool's Day. In what way can you celebrate it? Is fooling others called celebration? I doubt it...
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    A $5,000,000,000.00 holiday,
    A good day to blow off some steam.
    So what if it's a material holiday? I spent $20 on candy to keep the little bastards in the neighborhood quiet for a year!
    I'm easily amused late at night...
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  5. November 8th, 2006, 07:28 PM #45
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    Quote Originally Posted by capecoddah
    A $5,000,000,000.00 holiday,
    A good day to blow off some steam.
    So what if it's a material holiday? I spent $20 on candy to keep the little bastards in the neighborhood quiet for a year!
    Which holiday are you talking about? About Halloween, Fool's Day.... which one?

    If you want to let off some steam, you could listen to classical music
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  6. November 22nd, 2006, 03:15 PM #46
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vincent Tailors
    It's a bad idea to celebrate a foreigners' holiday in our own country... I don't approve of such actions :-/ Even if it's not taken seriously at all. It is not ours.
    I don't think that Russia needs any more nationalism or xenophobia right now. It's regressing to a totalitarian state.
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  7. November 22nd, 2006, 04:12 PM #47
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    Quote Originally Posted by capecoddah
    A $5,000,000,000.00 holiday,
    A good day to blow off some steam.
    So what if it's a material holiday? I spent $20 on candy to keep the little bastards in the neighborhood quiet for a year!
    Which holiday are you talking about? About Halloween, Fool's Day.... which one?

    If you want to let off some steam, you could listen to classical music
    Halloween, of course
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    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.
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  8. November 22nd, 2006, 04:17 PM #48
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    Quote Originally Posted by Vincent Tailors
    It's a bad idea to celebrate a foreigners' holiday in our own country... I don't approve of such actions :-/ Even if it's not taken seriously at all. It is not ours.
    I don't think that Russia needs any more nationalism or xenophobia right now. It's regressing to a totalitarian state.
    Agree with ZeusTKP.
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.
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  9. November 22nd, 2006, 04:32 PM #49
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    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    I don't think that Russia needs any more nationalism or xenophobia right now. It's regressing to a totalitarian state.
    Agree with ZeusTKP.
    Конечно, из Далласа и из Чарльстона виднее, что происходит в России.
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  10. November 22nd, 2006, 04:44 PM #50
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    I don't think that Russia needs any more nationalism or xenophobia right now. It's regressing to a totalitarian state.
    Agree with ZeusTKP.
    Конечно, из Далласа и из Чарльстона виднее, что происходит в России.
    I don't think that you actually have to be in Russia, or any other country for that matter, in order to understand what is going on over three. It's 21st century y'all
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.
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  11. November 22nd, 2006, 05:58 PM #51
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lampada
    Quote Originally Posted by charlestonian
    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    I don't think that Russia needs any more nationalism or xenophobia right now. It's regressing to a totalitarian state.
    Agree with ZeusTKP.
    Конечно, из Далласа и из Чарльстона виднее, что происходит в России.
    Ya rodilsya v moskve. U menya tam ostalis' rodstviniki. I ya tam ne davno bil. No nekotorie veshi mozhno sudit' ne smotrya gde naxodishsya, na primer voina v Irake i tsinzura v Rossie.
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  12. November 22nd, 2006, 07:56 PM #52
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    No nekotorie veshi mozhno sudit' ne smotrya gde naxodishsya, na primer voina v Irake i tsinzura v Rossie.
    И что же не пропустила цензура интересно?
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  13. November 22nd, 2006, 08:14 PM #53
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    No nekotorie veshi mozhno sudit' ne smotrya gde naxodishsya, na primer voina v Irake i tsinzura v Rossie.
    Я, даже живя в России, не знаю, что в России есть какие-то глобальные проблемы с цензурой. Так что, видимо, действительно неважно, где находишься.

    По-моему, сейчас такое время (не только в России), что цензуры нет ВООБЩЕ. В принципе. Никакой. Иногда даже кажется, что она бы не помешала.
    А если и есть что-то такое из области политики, чего цензура не пропускает, то интересно, как же можно об этом узнать, находясь далеко за пределами страны?? Не каждой разведке это под силу, не то что рядовому эмигранту (на всякий случай, извини, ZeusTKP, если я тебя этими словами обидела).
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  14. November 22nd, 2006, 08:59 PM #54
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    TV is state owned, for example.

    But I don't feel very comfortable talking about this, even on the internet.
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  15. November 22nd, 2006, 09:04 PM #55
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    Quote Originally Posted by Оля
    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    (на всякий случай, извини, ZeusTKP, если я тебя этими словами обидела).
    no, I'm very thick-skinned
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  16. November 22nd, 2006, 10:04 PM #56
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeusTKP
    But I don't feel very comfortable talking about this, even on the internet.
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  17. November 23rd, 2006, 03:32 AM #57
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    О цензуре. В США мы ежедневно слушаем по радио или смотрим по ТВ и хвалу и критику своего Президента, своего правительства. А в Москве по ТВ критикуют вашего Президента? Нет. Значит, или он действительно бог или цензура есть.
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  18. November 23rd, 2006, 03:43 AM #58
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    Quote Originally Posted by chaika
    О цензуре. В США мы ежедневно слушаем по радио или смотрим по ТВ и хвалу и критику своего Президента, своего правительства. А в Москве по ТВ критикуют вашего Президента? Нет. Значит, или он действительно бог или цензура есть.
    Yep. Russia always had, and will have censorship. It will always be a police state!
    Well, I don't know what to say. I want to say thanks to the Academy, to Mama, to Papa and to my dog. I love you all.
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  19. November 23rd, 2006, 04:16 AM #59
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    Quote Originally Posted by chaika
    А в Москве по ТВ критикуют вашего Президента?
    Да, критикуют.
    Может быть, это делают не журналисты. Но если есть человек, который захочет по ТВ высказать свое недовольство президентом и правительством, то он может это сделать. Это может быть какой-нибудь писатель или деятель культуры. И никто его за это не посадит.

    Если журналисты выполняют заказ правительства (если это так), то это дело их совести. Но в России живут не только журналисты.
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  20. November 23rd, 2006, 04:57 AM #60
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    Ну не знаю. Мне наше ТВ больше нравится. Разнообразнее и интереснее. Я могу сравнивать, у меня тарелочка стоит и наши каналы идут одновременно.
    Попса у нас еще хуже, чем на Западе это да, а про политику интереснее говорят. Кстати говоря, кого только по центральному ТВ не показывают. И Новодворскую и Борового. Какая цензура? Вы чё?
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