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Re: Trippin in St Pete
« Reply #450 on: April 28, 2015, 05:33:09 PM »
This was at a Pizza place and if you look closely at the photo at the right it even had a mostly full roll the non-abrasive white toilet paper rather than being empty or the brown corrugated, solvent impregnated, scouring USSR paper.

One good thing about fast-food restaurants in the FSU is that they have Western-style toilets.  These are a VERY good alternative to the squat toilets - if you have time to find one before the need overpowers you!  Admittedly, all the kiosk toilets I encountered in the cities had seats (as, of course, did the port-a-loos - from their very design there is no alternative!).  At least the basbushki guarding them always had toilet paper and, to be fair, I never encountered the pot-scrubbing variety.

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Re: Trippin in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #451 on: April 28, 2015, 05:37:51 PM »
If you look on the railing of the bridge you will see padlocks. The Monastery Island
church is a very popular attraction for young couples to get married. The tradition
is that the lovers put their names on the locks then lock them onto the bridge railing
and as long as the lock remains locked the couple will be together.

Then they throw the key into the river. While I was there I didn't see a single forlorn
young man or woman in the water searching for the key.



There's a bridge in Odessa which is groaning under the weight of the locks shackled to it.  There's also a beautiful bridge in Krasnodar which is used for the same purpose - this is one of my photos in the Gallery.


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Re: Dnepropetrovsk say that five times fast
« Reply #452 on: April 28, 2015, 05:58:01 PM »
I went looking for an English version of the movie on Amazon but didn't find one.
Here you go -
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Re: Trippin in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #453 on: April 28, 2015, 08:10:46 PM »
There's a bridge in Odessa which is groaning under the weight of the locks shackled to it.  There's also a beautiful bridge in Krasnodar which is used for the same purpose - this is one of my photos in the Gallery.




There are many cities in the FSU with such bridges.


The tradition is that the lovers put their names on the locks then lock them onto the bridge railing
and as long as the lock remains locked the couple will be together.



Unfortunately for the lovers the locks eventually get cut by government workers resulting in the demise of many relationships! Some bridges have locks on every square cm of the railing. Too much weight make pedestrian bridges unsafe.
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Re: Trippin in Odessa
« Reply #454 on: April 28, 2015, 10:58:21 PM »
This is one of the apartments I stayed at in Odessa. $45 a night.







The back balcony.





Mother In Law Bridge in Odessa.  (What my terp Marina called it.)



At the end of the bridge was this heart shaped sculpture.  It was created for people to put their locks here to reduce the number of locks on the bridge.


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New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #455 on: April 30, 2015, 07:24:17 AM »
So New Year was upon us and my GF cooked up a feast.

This is cutlets which are kinda like little pork meat
loaf patties. She has her own meat grinder and
doesn't trust what the store might put into them.



Her recipe is top secret and I was busy preparing other stuff so I didn't see
what she put inside them but you can find a recipe for Pork Cutlets here

http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/russian-ground-pork-cutlets/


Here they are getting fried up in a pan. I bought this pan because the pans in the flat sucked
and I didn't want to cook with them. I bought a good knife, a pan and a few other items.
My GF brought several of her dishes from home.



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New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #456 on: April 30, 2015, 07:45:33 AM »
The dish on the left is some kind of tasty chicken.
She put it in sweet sour cream (isn't that an oxymoron?)
overnight. Then made some kind of crumbs with spices
(Ukrainian shake and bake) and then fried it. It was surprisingly
moist and tender. 



The dish on the right is a Russian/Ukrainian dish with Herring and lots of mayonnaise.

I ate everything that she placed in front of me, some of the stuff like Holodetz I
ate as little as possible. My parents had several policies regarding eating dinner
(I don't subscribe to these theories)

1. You ate everything on your plate or you got spanked and then ate
everything on your plate. When they served liver I sometimes opted for
a spanking first.

2. You can either eat it now or you could eat it right now.
Staring at your food or whining about it wasn't allowed.

My policy regarding kids eating is that you must take one bite of something
before you announce you don't like something. You can't just look at it and
say that you don't like it. I also made up names for different food to get my
son to eat it. Asparagus was Giant Bug Legs and we made bug eating sounds
while eating it. 

« Last Edit: April 30, 2015, 07:48:39 AM by 2tallbill »
FSUW are not for entry level daters
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If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
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Re: New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #457 on: April 30, 2015, 05:47:20 PM »
My policy regarding kids eating is that you must take one bite of something before you announce you don't like something. You can't just look at it and say that you don't like it. I also made up names for different food to get my son to eat it. Asparagus was Giant Bug Legs and we made bug eating sounds while eating it.

Ingenious, Bill, but that still wouldn't make me like asparagus!

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Re: New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #458 on: May 01, 2015, 09:40:17 PM »
Ingenious, Bill, but that still wouldn't make me like asparagus!

This is now.  But what if your father had been as clever as Bill and called it giant bug legs when you were 5 years old?

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Re: New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #459 on: May 02, 2015, 08:35:14 AM »
This is now.  But what if your father had been as clever as Bill and called it giant bug legs when you were 5 years old?

Wouldn't have mattered if he had gazumped David Bowie and pretended it was spiders from Mars - it's the TASTE that I'm not fond of!

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Re: New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #460 on: May 02, 2015, 08:38:11 AM »
Wouldn't have mattered if he had gazumped David Bowie and pretended it was spiders from Mars - it's the TASTE that I'm not fond of!

Okay, got it.   ;D

What about broccoli?  Do you at least like broccoli?

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« Reply #461 on: May 02, 2015, 10:38:17 AM »








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New Year feast in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #462 on: May 02, 2015, 10:56:43 AM »
This was an interesting but quite tasty dish. It had chicken, pomegranate, mayonnaise,
onions and beets in it.

 
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New Year feast in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #463 on: May 02, 2015, 11:00:19 AM »
The sunflower. This was a tasty dip of sorts, the chips around the dip are Pringles
so I sorta doubt that this is an ethnic Ukrainian dish  ;D



The dip was too thick and would break the chip, so you needed a fork to scoop the
dip onto your chip.
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New Year feast in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #464 on: May 02, 2015, 11:07:52 AM »
If you don't recognize the Eastern European dish on the left it's because I made
it and it's not Eastern European. It's pork fried rice. 



The dish on the right is called Holodets. It's a type of meat jelly, and it was my least
favorite Ukrainian dish. My now Russian wife makes it with more meat and less jelly
and it's far more palatable. This was made by my GF's mother so I choked it down.

We had some special hot sweet horseradish sauce that had beets it in. The Holodets
went down far easier with some of the horseradish sauce on it.

You can find a recipe for holodets here
http://www.melaniecooks.com/russian-holodets-meat-jelly-recipe/5063/

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« Reply #465 on: May 02, 2015, 11:14:12 AM »
Here is most of the New Years spread we also had some deviled
eggs with shrimp and some potato salad that I made.



We put the leftovers out on the enclosed balcony which worked as
a giant refrigerator. The leftovers kept us fed for many days.
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Trippin in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #466 on: May 02, 2015, 11:19:30 AM »
My GF had a son and he was very shy at first but after our first snowball
fight all shyness was gone. We had a lot of fun and he enjoyed pulling little
practical jokes on his mother (and me) The days went along too fast like always
and this girl was obviously someone special. She took excellent care of me and
thought that it was absolutely necessary to try to get me to eat one additional
plate of food.



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FSUW don't do vague
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If you find a promising girl, get your butt on a plane.
There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
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too soon it was time to go
« Reply #467 on: May 02, 2015, 11:24:45 AM »
This was a building called the two pencils.




We enjoyed each other and my GF could find something to laugh at about
ordinary things. She could understand the most nuanced joke that I would
tell then add something to it. The girl was a dream and too soon it was time
to go.

She took me to the airport we kissed goodbye and I was headed back.........

The airline had this giant supersoaker to deice the plane


FSUW are not for entry level daters
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Re: New Year in Dnepropetrovsk
« Reply #468 on: May 02, 2015, 11:27:51 AM »
Okay, got it.   ;D

What about broccoli?  Do you at least like broccoli?

I LOVE broccoli!  :thumbsup:

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How it went to crap
« Reply #469 on: May 02, 2015, 11:38:19 AM »
Not written anywhere but here...........

My GF was a good girl and we cared for each other, however life threw me
a number of curve balls. A financial calamity, the dire sickness of a family member
and some other hardships and then some other things just made it too difficult
to keep things together. These long distance relationships are fragile and need
much more effort, care, time, money and energy to keep things together than I
had available at the time.

I stopped searching for an FSUW and worked to get my life together.

One time when a Western man was going to Skype with her for the first time she
was nervous and wanted me to look her over to make sure everything was fine.
So of course I asked her how did she age so much since we last talked and asked
if a mosquito bite her in the eye? She laughed and was relieved.

She has read another version of this story posted elsewhere, laughed and was
happy with it.

She is married now to an American and they live in the USA. Occasionally (not often)
she will call me when she needs to be cheered up about something.

Eventually I got my life back in order, ducks lined back up and was ready to start
once again. Starting completely from scratch.
FSUW are not for entry level daters
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Re: How it went to crap
« Reply #470 on: May 02, 2015, 07:07:13 PM »
Eventually I got my life back in order, ducks lined back up and was ready to start
once again. Starting completely from scratch.

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So I started a MySpace page
« Reply #471 on: May 04, 2015, 12:52:58 PM »
I started a MySpace page for a different forum and became friends
with over 1100 FSUW from all over the world. Yes, that's right over
1100 FSUW. Some were flakes, one was a transvestite (I booted
him or her) some were sweet girls one was convinced that I was
some trafficker of women. Some used fake photos of various actresses
etc.

However you can be sure that I made cyber friends with many, many
FSUW.

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FSUW like a man of action. Be a man of action 
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Georgia Peaches
« Reply #472 on: May 04, 2015, 01:12:17 PM »
Georgia Peaches

Lynyrd Skynyrd  Georgia Peaches 
Lauren Alaina  Georgia Peaches     

I have a theory (more than one theory actually) but here is one of my theories
about about finding a wife. It goes like this....

Find a clever girl with pretty eyes who likes to laugh, because in 30 years she will
still be a clever girl with pretty eyes who likes to laugh.

So what does Bill do? he is minding his own business on MySpace and finds a girl
with the most vivid and pretty blue eyes on the entire internet. I figured it must
be due to Photoshop because there is no way a girl has eyes like that, but I decide
to send her a comment, and then a conversation develops,

I send her a letter, then another, we chat on Skype and no kidding she really has
eyes that will stop traffic. I am not the shyest guy around but I have honestly
forgotten what I was saying in mid sentence while talking to her on Skype and
she is largely unaware of this quality about herself, very humble and a bit shy.

So I send her more letters (my whole life story spills out) and we chat on skype
almost every day, and finally, it's time that I get on a plane to see if she thinks
I am too old, tall, ugly or funny smelling and don't under estimate funny smelling.

I met the prettiest girl once but she wore something that repelled both bugs and
yours truly so I don't recommend underestimating that one person thinks smells
like flowers and another person thinks would be good for removing paint.

Where was I? oh yes a pretty girl in Georgia with eyes that cause poets to write
verses that don't rhyme and singers to sing outside windows horribly out of tune
causing the neighbors to complain.

I went online and bought a ticket to Georgia from Vayama via Kyak using my
bank card. My son bought something online with the same card (without telling
me) and the number was used on a dodgy internet site so the bank cancelled
the card, voided the ticket sale and of course never told me. (Bank America)

I get a letter from Vayama telling me about it, and after a half dozen calls over
a period of 2 and a half weeks I have a new card and the tickets and I hate
Bank of America.

I did tell them I would be traveling to Georgia but I have zero confidence in
them that the card will be suitable for anything other than for scraping old
gum up from under bar stools. 

More to follow.............
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There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

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« Reply #473 on: May 04, 2015, 01:30:38 PM »









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« Reply #474 on: May 04, 2015, 01:36:00 PM »

Turkish Prisons Airlines didn't have much legroom.



Note #1 this is the seat when the passenger in front didn't recline their seat.
Also when the seats reclined the legs moved forward so it was absolutely
impossible for me to recline the seat even an inch.

Note # 2 there were two women who neither one were more than 5' 3" tall
sitting in an exit row seat their feet barely touching the bulkheads. I could
have keeeeeled them

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There are a hundred ways to be successful and a thousand ways to f#ck it up
Just kiss the girl, don't ask her first. Tolerate NO excuses!

 

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