Comments on: From Russia with Love

By: leonard

leonard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:41:12 +0000

The Crimean War (October 1853[13][14]–February 1856) was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of the British Empire, France, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia on the other. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining Ottoman Empire. Most of the conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula, but there were smaller campaigns in western Turkey, the Baltic Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the White Sea.

The war has gone by different names. In Russia it is also known as the “Oriental War” (Russian: Восточная война, Vostochnaya Voina), and in Britain at the time it was sometimes known as the “Russian War”.

above from….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War

andIn the English-speaking world, the use of tobacco in cigarette form became increasingly popular during and after the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkish and Russian comrades.[6] This was helped by the development of tobaccos that are suitable for cigarette use, and by the development of the Egyptian cigarette export industry.

The widespread smoking of cigarettes in the Western world is largely a 20th Century phenomenon

from…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette

…war produces too much waste…”like love and hate+greed and love”

By: leonard

leonard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:03:27 +0000

I once read…that war—”of the Light Brigade “— was where “rolled-cigarettes” came into the west from the turks? [cigarettes] is my word request A cigarette (French “small cigar”, from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco The earliest forms of cigarettes have been attested in Central America around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings. The cigarette, and the cigar, were the most common method of smoking in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America until recent times.[5]

The South and Central American cigarette used various plant wrappers; when it was brought back to Spain, maize wrappers were introduced, and by the seventeenth century, fine paper. The resulting product was called papelate and is documented in Goya’s paintings La Cometa, La Merienda en el Manzanares, and El juego de la pelota a pala (18th century).[6]

By 1830, the cigarette had crossed into France, where it received the name cigarette; and in 1845, the French state tobacco monopoly began manufacturing them.[6]

By: neuroway

neuroway — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:44:54 +0000

Good and interesting catch Hs4Mm. Now you can have a look at the other side of the ideological debate, and pick one side of the fight if you feel like it, or just let them battle it out between themselves if you don’t care and are strong minded enough to not be influenced by the medias, Hollywood, internet, the jetset and the propaganda, and can afford to be independant enough to avoid being pulled into all this.

I personally think that delibately shafting or influencing the little guy for money or for profit or for anything else is a very ugly thing to do. But that’s my personal opinion of course.

By: Hs4Mm

Hs4Mm — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:38:22 +0000

Pfd of an article published by The Motion Picture Alliance for The Preservation of American Ideals, Beverly Hills, CA: Ayn Rand’s Screen Guide for Americans.

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:40:01 +0000

Or “misandrist.”

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:36:51 +0000

And do your “piscines” swim in la piscine?

By: Evan Owen

Evan Owen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:33:50 +0000

As they say in Quebec, “One man’s fish is another man’s poisson.”

By: cheshirecat

cheshirecat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:20:22 +0000

Yep.

Here’s an example: the Russian word for egg is slang for testicle in this tale(яицо):

A train compartment. A family: a small daughter, her mother and grandma. The fourth passenger is a Georgian. The mother starts feeding a soft-boiled egg to the daughter with a silver spoon. Grandma: “Don’t you know that eggs can spoil silver?” — “Who would have known!”, thinks the Georgian and replaces his silver cigarette case from the front pants pocket to the back one.

By: cheshirecat

cheshirecat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:12:24 +0000

I love it when they post Russian here—looks like [gobbledygook]

Heh…it’s ~~allpartially Greek to me.~~

By: cheshirecat

cheshirecat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:10:07 +0000

I think I answered the question down the thread.

“Diareya” is the medical term,
“Ponos” is the common term, describing the end result or the condition.