Thanks for the promote. It's hilarious that you and Farhad both promoted it barely a minute apart from each other.

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*promote

trying to get gold need some votes ! thnx

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Human-Eye-10-Things-You-Didnt-Know

Ah, Ya ponimayo! I actually have a tremendous amount of pictures, some of them bring back things I would rather forget though! We spent most of the time completely in the wilderness miles and miles away from anything. The closest "town" Ust' Kuyga was extremely small and it was ~ 30 miles away one we were done hiking/boating/tractoring our way through the tundra. The mosquito populations are totally out of control there by the way. It would have been difficult to breathe for how saturated the air was with mosquitoes.

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i can't speak russian. i simply know how to say "HI MAMA, YES I ATE, ALOT, YES, YES, NO I DON'T NEED BRANDY, THANKYOU"



it's a great language but i find it very hard. lithuanian is easier because i hear it all the time. i would recommend just watching loads of russian movies withouth subtitles to get the rhythm, then it's easier to learn what you just saw.

i can't imagine how beautiful the things you have seen are. got photos?

pachimu is why (literally "done of what" i think) payetamu is therefore. patamushta is because.

ja nigavariu pa russky patamushta ja v litvie. i think that's right!


In reply to this comment by residue:
Haha, I can pick up most of that, but I'm missing a couple of those words from my vocabulary. I'm still new to the language and have only the basics..
Here's what I think you said:
You don't (something) speak russian (perhaps don't speak much russian) You only understand some words: hello, mom, ??, very, yes, yes, no (something), thanks

I'm also not sure what Pachymu is, but presumably that asks why I went to Yakutsk?

I was there for about a month doing research near Ust' Kuyga. It will be Alaska next summer, to the Bendeleben mountains...


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ja nimagu gavareet pa russky. ja prosta znaiu kak pagavareet PRIVYET MAMA, DA JA KUSHAL, OCHEN, DA, DA, NIET BRENDY NINADA, SPASEEBO.

etc

pachymu ty v yaktutski?


In reply to this comment by residue:
Zdrastvuite, Ochen priyatnah. Kak vue Pshvaieteu?

I can't spell this crap without a Rusky keyboard

I just got back from Yakutsk

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i sleep with a russian vote for me! i touched a real one!

check my diplomaterisation skillz:

privyet! ya gavriu pa rusky! tvoy brat eta bolshoy kon! holas amigos! nobombardoski america por favor senor putinski!

btw "trade missions" means "drinking wine in a foreign country while wearing a name badge". i know that because i am a diplomateriserer like i just said ^

Haha, I can pick up most of that, but I'm missing a couple of those words from my vocabulary. I'm still new to the language and have only the basics..
Here's what I think you said:
You don't (something) speak russian (perhaps don't speak much russian) You only understand some words: hello, mom, ??, very, yes, yes, no (something), thanks

I'm also not sure what Pachymu is, but presumably that asks why I went to Yakutsk?

I was there for about a month doing research near Ust' Kuyga. It will be Alaska next summer, to the Bendeleben mountains...


In reply to this comment by MINK:
ja nimagu gavareet pa russky. ja prosta znaiu kak pagavareet PRIVYET MAMA, DA JA KUSHAL, OCHEN, DA, DA, NIET BRENDY NINADA, SPASEEBO.

etc

pachymu ty v yaktutski?


In reply to this comment by residue:
Zdrastvuite, Ochen priyatnah. Kak vue Pshvaieteu?

I can't spell this crap without a Rusky keyboard

I just got back from Yakutsk

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i sleep with a russian vote for me! i touched a real one!

check my diplomaterisation skillz:

privyet! ya gavriu pa rusky! tvoy brat eta bolshoy kon! holas amigos! nobombardoski america por favor senor putinski!

btw "trade missions" means "drinking wine in a foreign country while wearing a name badge". i know that because i am a diplomateriserer like i just said ^

Some one marked this video dead, so I updated the video... with the Intro from Terrahawks. Hope it was close to the original video you posted.

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from http://www.erinshore.com/terrahawks/main.html

"Terrahawks is a Gerry Anderson puppet and model based animation set in the year 2020. Mars has been invaded and the Earth is under threat. A small but well equipped force known as the "Terrahawks" has been prepared on Earth to defend the planet from the aggressors. "

Thank you very much! By the way, do you want to know how I got these scars?

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Fjnbk I present you with the highly prestigious MINK FOUNDATION AVATAR OF THE YEAR award.

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Oh god, this is a *horrorshow. *fear, also, I guess.

Zdrastvuite, Ochen priyatnah. Kak vue Pshvaieteu?

I can't spell this crap without a Rusky keyboard

I just got back from Yakutsk

In reply to this comment by MINK:
i sleep with a russian vote for me! i touched a real one!

check my diplomaterisation skillz:

privyet! ya gavriu pa rusky! tvoy brat eta bolshoy kon! holas amigos! nobombardoski america por favor senor putinski!

btw "trade missions" means "drinking wine in a foreign country while wearing a name badge". i know that because i am a diplomateriserer like i just said ^

We all make mistakes in life. His just happens to be the size of a house, something you could live in as if it were a house, but not actually a house.

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he's got to have a hummer but he doesn't need his own room?

My roommate has a Hummer. When I asked him why he bought it, he replied, "I just had to have it." As if that's a valid response.

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haha glad you like

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
FANTASTIC comment, Mink.

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lol he must have got such a rush out of that totally pointless act.

just like the guy who bought the hummer.

FANTASTIC comment, Mink.

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lol he must have got such a rush out of that totally pointless act.

just like the guy who bought the hummer.

Crude and replete in sarcasm maybe, but that one had me in stitches. Cheers, neighbor

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^yeah, damn!

another funny trick is to pour petrol on your friend and then light a cigarette and wake him up. LOL!

yeah that crap bothers me too. Without a drug war cops would be terribly bored. And what the hell is up with the freaking moral lessons cops love to preach when they're arresting some drunk, coked up, slobbering druggy meth-head. People feel bad they got caught, not wether it was right or wrong!

and that "somebody call the prison and tell them to make another bed and start cooking" part really cracked me up :-D Those cops just love their jobs dont they?

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I just HATE the way the cops get excited about finding some dude's personal shit.

"WOOHHOO!!!! a CRIME! i can't WAIT to pay more taxes to take THIS guy off the streets! Now i can let my daughter play outside the house again! Somebody call the prison and tell them to make another bed and start cooking! WOOHOOO!"

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Well, to me, it's all about the way that's it's written.

129908 is 12 September, 2008. The same goes for 12.9.08

But when using a slash, like 9/12/08, it's September 9, 2008.

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nice one for giving me the opportunity to rant about the retarded way americans insist on writing the date

you didn't "correct" the date format, you americanised it. I like the symbolism, american marine tells the world how to write dates, and thinks he's doing an educational favour.

just kidding around, it's obviously not earth shatteringly important. but seriously, month, THEN day, THEN year?


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Wait - what's your pet hate? People correcting the way dates are written or people that write dates like that?

because you say "Nice one" with a smile, and at the same time, downvote my comment.... I'm lost...

In reply to this comment by MINK:
heads up! i replied...

you just made my day! hit one of my pedantic pet hates right on the button!
nice one


In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
4/9/2008 = April 9, 2008
9/4/2008= September 2, 2008

hence "9/11"