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Camrade
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 Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: Russian winter :) |
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Anathema
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cyndy22
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Camrade,
Great photos! Ya better like snow if you live in SPB. Nothing we get in Massachusetts compares to the winters in SPB. Must be hard getting around the city though. |
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Camrade
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2Anathema
that's sucks i can't count how 67°F would be in °C?
2cyndy22
yeah, sometimes it's hard to get around the city but we got used to.... |
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Anathema
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| Camrade wrote: | 2Anathema
that's sucks i can't count how 67°F would be in °C?
2cyndy22
yeah, sometimes it's hard to get around the city but we got used to.... |
21°C |
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Camrade
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2Anathema
quite nice winter in Phoenix |
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Anathema
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| Camrade wrote: | 2Anathema
quite nice winter in Phoenix |
You should see the summers! It averages 40 Celsius! |
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Babuschka
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I always wondered whether Russians developed similar techniques of maintaining and developing heat like the Tibetan monks in the Himalaya mountains?
Considering the severe winters you have in Russia and the few ressources for keeping houses warm and heated, it would be interesting to know how you people deal with the cold? Are you just so much acostumed to it that you live well in that cold or do you have some other tricks (drinking alcohol?)
Thanks for taking this question seriously!
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Camrade
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2Babuschka
my favourite trick is to turn on the additional electric heater
but still it's not very cold in houses cause there's central heating |
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Crabman
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| Anathema wrote: | | Camrade wrote: | 2Anathema
that's sucks i can't count how 67°F would be in °C?
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Actually 67 F is about 19 C (admittedly, not a big difference).
Comrade: Go to Google (WEB Search) and type in the following:
67 degrees F in C
This works for other non-metric measures that Americans (and sometimes English) use: Try:
1 mile in kilometres OR 1 mile in kilometers (same thing, Americans have never learnt how to spell)
You already know that Americans and the English have difficulty speaking to each other.  Try typing in the following:
1 pint in litres (a pint is the standard size for a beer in America and Britain) then type:
1 British pint in litres.
We have difficulty drinking with each other!
Where would you rather have a beer? |
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Camrade
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2Crabman
when I was in England I've found lots of things ununderstandable the most weird for me - were english roads with signs "look right" that was quite exotic
| Quote: | | Where would you rather have a beer? |
In Germany
or in litres  |
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Jutrzenkapolska
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It's called a liter
Google can also be used as a calculator and dictionary.Type for example, define bad weather or (67- 32)(5/9) and presto.
And that's not all it can do.Google can be used to track packages, find movie showtimes and as a US phonebook, provided you know the person's first and last name and what state they live in. I just looked up several of my old teachers and found the addresses and telephone numbers of almost all of them. |
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Crabman
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| Camrade wrote: | 2Crabman
when I was in England I've found lots of things ununderstandable the most weird for me - were english roads with signs "look right" that was quite exotic
| Quote: | | Where would you rather have a beer? |
In Germany
or in litres |
You were in England? I wondered why your English was so good! I agree that a litre of beer in Germany is about as good as it gets. If you ever get back to England (London), PM me and I'll give you a "tour" of fine English pints of beer.
| Jutrzenkapolska wrote: | | It's called a liter |
It is hard to argue with you. I would say that the majority of the world's speakers of English would agree with you. But let me ask you, have you ever got a flat tier on your car (to get what I mean, replace the"ti"with a"lit")? Or would you write "tire"?( just to complicate things,some of us would write tyre). No big deal, I'm in a mellow mood just thinking about a litre of fine German beer.. |
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AliceFromMoscow
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Katyara
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