Thread: Домашние обязанности и традиции в разных странах

Originally Posted by Lena

Gee, I feel like I’m being interrogated somewhere in CIA and your purpose is only to confuse me with your questions. But you forgot to read me the Miranda warning, officer. I’m afraid that you will be demoted for that.

Nevertheless, to the point of the charge I want to claim the following.

There is no contradiction in my testimony. Sadly, due to my carelessness I just missed the word “potential” in the sentence “I am still having my guinea-pig”. I should have gone with “I am still having my potential guinea-pig”. He is a potential guinea-pig for my experiments. Up to now I’ve been training him using the wrong methods by applying different sorts of kitchen-ware, like those advised in your previous posts, to different parts of his body. I have achieved no result. Now I’m testing a new method on cats.

Will you enter my words in the report of the interrogation, please.

Okay,forgive my curiosity; it's my duty, after all.
And please go on keeping us in touch how everything is going on with your cats and pigs! I’m zealous to learn to what extent your new approach may come to fruition! Otherwise, I'm ruined!

Originally Posted by diogen_

Okay,forgive my curiosity; it's my duty, after all.
And please go on keeping us in touch how everything is going on with your cats and pigs! I’m zealous to learn to what extent your new approach may come to fruition! Otherwise, I'm ruined!

Be sure I’ll let you know. I hope if I succeed I could even work delivering lectures on human males taming.

Originally Posted by Lena

Be sure I’ll let you know. I hope if I succeed I could even work delivering lectures on human males taming.

Sounds terrific! No denying you’ll have it made in no time at all. Fingers crossed, though.

On a side note, you seem to be a polymathic savant in a multitude of ultimately controversial aspects of interpersonal intercourse. Hence, I cannot but beg you kindly enough to satiate a modicum of my scientific appetite on one of the most abstruse aspects of Ukrainian culture; namely, is it the universal cultural standard in the Ukraine for a woman first ask for the moon and then place her ‘flying pig' in a sack for better preservation in case of emergency inasmuch as it is presented on the clip hereunder? I have racked my feeble mind for four days running to no avail. Please, land me a friendly hand on the issue when you have a chance!

Originally Posted by diogen_

Sounds terrific! No denying you’ll have it made in no time at all. Fingers crossed, though.

On a side note, you seem to be a polymathic savant in a multitude of ultimately controversial aspects of interpersonal intercourse. Hence, I cannot but beg you kindly enough to satiate a modicum of my scientific appetite on one of the most abstruse aspects of Ukrainian culture; namely, is it the universal cultural standard in the Ukraine for a woman first ask for the moon and then place her ‘flying pig' in a sack for better preservation in case of emergency inasmuch as it is presented on the clip hereunder? I have racked my feeble mind for four days running to no avail. Please, land me a friendly hand on the issue when you have a chance!

Certainly, I will most willingly clarify the matter.

But before I pass on to the Ukrainian cultural standards I would like to call upon you to use the name of the country you mentioned in compliance with the United Nations Organization’s standards. We are "Ukraine" (a state), not "the Ukraine" (a Russian region). Don’t you think that the name "the Ukraine" sounds condescending and colonial? You should respect others in order to be respected.

http://search.un.org/search?ie=utf8&...aine&Submit=Go

And now as concerns the cultural traditions: I’m afraid that first I have to reproach you in having been inattentive while watching the video. I suppose that you were eyeing the lady’s ample bosoms instead of paying attention to details which, as you claim, interest you. She didn’t put the moon into a sack. She put it into a trunk.

Naturally, the tradition of keeping jewelry and other valuables has changed a little since Gogol wrote his “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. As we have furniture in our houses and apartments, we usually keep the jewelry we have in wardrobes, built-in closets, chest of drawers, commodes, sideboards, as well as in bureaus and desks. Besides that we often use banks for this purpose. Yes, we do have banks, no matter how strange that may sound. Ukraine is in Europe, you know.

Well, how’s your scientific appetite now? Have I fed you enough?

Certainly, I will most willingly clarify the matter.

But before I pass on to the Ukrainian cultural standards I would like to call upon you to use the name of the country you mentioned in compliance with the United Nations Organization’s standards. We are "Ukraine" (a state), not "the Ukraine" (a Russian region). Don’t you think that the name "the Ukraine" sounds condescending and colonial? You should respect others in order to be respected.

No more condescending and colonial than the Netherlands, the Hague and many other states and places. Please see BBC News - Ukraine or the Ukraine: Why do some country names have 'the'?

You ARE unscrupulously preoccupied in mindreading, attributing me the thoughts that I didn’t have at all, by the by. I spelled the Ukraine automatically by force of habit. Yet, since you feel so much affinity with Ukraine and actually reside there, please stop casting aspersions about Russian men, the topic you’re not immediately familiar with, and focus on Ukrainian men instead from now on.

I’m afraid that first I have to reproach you in having been inattentive while watching the video. I suppose that you were eyeing the lady’s ample bosoms instead of paying attention to details which, as you claim, interest you. She didn’t put the moon into a sack. She put it into a trunk.

What? You seem to have some minor sight imperfection or we saw different videos. I NEVER wrote of her putting the moon into a sack. Please reread my previous post once again. Ample bosoms? How do you know what I paid attention to? That statement reveals only your own mindset and real attitude towards men as voluptuous animals. How bad of you! You should have written how the prurient Ukrainian lady actually put her hoard of lovers one after another into the sacks if you wanted to be precise, instead. That’s beyond any shadow of a doubt!

Well, how’s your scientific appetite now? Have I fed you enough?

To some extent. But many thanks for your sincere attempt to provide information. I appreciate it.