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Never Seen This Before
« on: March 24, 2008, 07:40:20 AM »
I noticed a new agency running a banner ad at RWD - RussianEuro something.  It seems like a good new resource for men seeking to find women.  The photos are normal photos (not professional shots), which always encourages me about the sincerity of the women.  Another encouraging sign - the women are all mixed together, the pretty women with those who would be described by her friends as having a wonderful personality.  I did not examine the agency's prices for addresses and emails.

MY QUESTION:

Scanning through the pages of women, an entry by one woman confused me.  She wrote that she seeks a:

"Normal, copper-bottomed, kind family oriented man"

What does the term copper-bottomed mean?  

My bottom is white.  Men from England have a pinkish white one.   When I get angry, I have a red one.  As did I when my mama punished me as a young lad.  I spent a week at an European beach a long time ago, and at the end of the week I had a copper bottom.  

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2008, 08:19:49 AM »

"Normal, copper-bottomed, kind family oriented man"

What does the term copper-bottomed mean? 

Here's a visual of copper toned bottoms:

http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?pid=26

English is a strange language where one word can have multiple meanings and one meaning can be applied to multiple words.

I checked the dictionary of the words copper and bottom and here's my guess based on their multiple meanings I can choose from. Copper: A coin, usually of small denomination, made of copper or a copper alloy. and Bottom: The supporting part; the base.

So from those two meanings, maybe the RW is implying that she seeks a man who can provide at least a little financial support for a family or is basically "financially stable".
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2008, 08:28:00 AM »
Copper-bottomed (обшитый медью) is used as an idiom or phrase to describe something that is completely safe and reliable:
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a copper-bottomed plan, agreement, or financial arrangement is completely safe. She has a copper-bottomed contract with a very successful company. (always before noun)

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2008, 08:42:31 AM »
Mir is right, the lady is using words and phrases that are used in the UK.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=17055&dict=CALD
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2008, 09:58:03 AM »
Mir,

Why don't you Brits learn proper English!


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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2008, 10:31:14 AM »
Mir,

Why don't you Brits learn proper English!

Perhaps if the lady had said that she wants a man who is like Revere Ware it would be clearer.

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2008, 12:27:09 PM »
Scanning through the pages of women, an entry by one woman confused me.  She wrote that she seeks a:

"Normal, copper-bottomed, kind family oriented man"

What does the term copper-bottomed mean?  

My bottom is white.  Men from England have a pinkish white one.   When I get angry, I have a red one.  As did I when my mama punished me as a young lad.  I spent a week at an European beach a long time ago, and at the end of the week I had a copper bottom.  

 :ROFL:

Oh my.. :D Thanks Gator! I just came from a dentist with my tooth aching after disappearing anesthesia. I laughed loud out and forgot about my dental pain  :D

RussianEuro could probably consider giving this woman a month of free full membership.
Attention all copper-bottomed men. Yeah, only a copper-bottomed man can be called real men. Pinkish white and pale white bottoms have a long way to go.
 :mooning:

Now, on a serious note, I never heard this expression before. Looks like a rarely used UK idiom?

Again, thank you for the question  :-*
« Last Edit: March 24, 2008, 12:31:14 PM by Lily »
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2008, 01:02:33 PM »
 ;D it is very funny, really!  ;D

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2008, 03:32:41 PM »
In olden days the ships were made of wood. The bottom of the ships got eaten by termites and damaged by weeds, stones etc. So one fine day it developed a hole or more and the ship sank. Copper came into fashion as a sheething for the bottom so that it was protected from the ravages of the elements etc. and the ship can stay afloat, i.e become safe, reliable and unsinkable. Maybe we now need a copper sheething for the dollar and world economy.
To be honest I have never heard anyone use this in common speech.
Perhaps it is not such a bad idea for men going to FSU to look for women to have copper sheething covering their bottoms etc. to protect them from various dangers, one of which is:
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AIDS in the former Soviet Union and neighbouring communist countries was considered a minor problem associated with the capitalist lifestyle, and widespread testing initially showed very few positive findings. However the opened borders and transition to a market economy involved the fastest growth of HIV infection in the world. Russia and the Ukraine account for the majority of cases, with a prevalence of 1.1% of the adult population in Russia and 1.5% in the Ukraine. The difference between the Ukraine and its next-door neighbour Poland is startling, with a 15 times higher prevalence in the Ukraine.

Specific to the HIV epidemic in eastern Europe is that people subject to HIV infection through injected drug use and high-risk sexual behaviour are very young. This results in a highly dynamic epidemic, with a much greater potential to spill over into the general population than the concentrated outbreaks amongst marginalized drug users typically seen in the West. Russia also has a very high prevalence of other sexually transmitted infections, which increases the risk of HIV transmission. In addition, Russia also has the highest opium addiction in the world, with about 1 million people affected, partly as a result of the ill-fated war in Afghanistan. One of the culprits for the spread of HIV is the habit of cooking so-called ‘compote’ from poppy seed, and clearing the resulting murky liquid by adding human blood before injecting it.

In China there are an estimated 650 000 people living with HIV, which is less than in Russia despite 10 times the population. China is also implementing resolute measures in accordance with UN best practice to control the epidemic.

India has an estimated 2.5 million people living with HIV. Although this is one of the highest numbers in the world, it represents less than 0.4% of the adult population, and as in Russia and China, most infected people live in limited geographical areas. Higher concentrations are reported from the industrialized areas and from the north-eastern areas bordering on the Golden Triangle, where injecting drug use is the main risk factor. Most infections are transmitted through heterosexual intercourse and the proportion of infected that are women is increasing (as everywhere else) – in 2005 it was approximately 40%.

Thailand has a higher prevalence than India and China, i.e. 1.4%. Of new HIV cases, 43% occurred among women, the majority of whom are housewives who propably contracted HIV from husbands who have had casual sex or injected drugs.

RE:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2007.01910.x

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2008, 03:34:47 PM »
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Mir,

Why don't you Brits learn proper English!

In proper English one puts ? and not ! at the end of a question :)

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2008, 04:01:28 PM »
Mir,
I am sure your explanation is incorrect.  :cheesygrin: It is far too practical and boring to be true.  I am sure that the reference in question has to do with the old Copper(tone) ads!
 :ROFL: :ROFL:
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2008, 04:28:17 PM »
In proper English one puts ? and not ! at the end of a question :)
Not necessarily in case of an epiplexis (rhetorical question aimed at reproaching rather than eliciting an answer, and really an exhortation, hence the acceptable exclamation mark) ;).

Copper came into fashion as a sheething
Hybrid between sheeting and sheathing? $heeth ;D.

Oy Mir, long time no hear, how's your hull copper holding, ol' Barnacle Bill ?
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2008, 04:55:53 PM »
Ken she got a bit older since that last photo.
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2008, 07:26:37 PM »
 :D :D :D
The first thing that springs to mind is медная задница - someone whose bottom is so hard it can take any amount of sitting (office) work = hard-working, assiduous type.  ;D 

Molotov, USSR's famous Foreign Minister, was known to have a party handle "Stone A$$" (Каменная Жопа) for his diligence and attention to detail. 

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2008, 10:02:18 PM »
In proper English one puts ? and not ! at the end of a question :)

Say it in your mind as if it were not interrogative.

Sandro, I saw your comment after I posted the above.  Thanks. 
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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2008, 10:19:11 PM »
Molotov, USSR's famous Foreign Minister, was known to have a party handle "Stone A$$" (Каменная Жопа) for his diligence and attention to detail. 

Stone ass!  In America we use the term "hard ass" which means a tough and inflexible man, such as a Marine drill instructor.  Jazzy would say a better example is KenC.  I checked the British dictionary, and it could not be found in  Cambridge's.  The term did make Urban Dictionary (from another world) as an alternative definition to describe "someone mean or tight on doing chicks cause he prefers guys".  That would not be a Marine DI or KenC.


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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2008, 11:05:37 PM »
Stone ass!  In America we use the term "hard ass" which means a tough and inflexible man, such as a Marine drill instructor.  Jazzy would say a better example is KenC.  I checked the British dictionary, and it could not be found in  Cambridge's.  The term did make Urban Dictionary (from another world) as an alternative definition to describe "someone mean or tight on doing chicks cause he prefers guys".  That would not be a Marine DI or KenC.



:)))) I think KenC is far far worse than that , but I suppose he knows that himself  ;D


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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2008, 11:57:40 PM »
Most Americans have become rather Lard-assed

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2008, 06:09:25 AM »
Most Americans have become rather Lard-assed

 :ROFL:

That is Russian anti-American propoganda.  American people are skinny and need to eat more - I read that in McDonald's annual report.

Do Russians say "salo popka?"

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2008, 06:13:56 AM »
:ROFL:

That is Russian anti-American propoganda.  American people are skinny and need to eat more - I read that in McDonald's annual report.

Do Russians say "salo popka?"

Nah they say zhirnaya popka hahhaha

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Re: Never Seen This Before
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2008, 06:14:21 AM »
They say 'Zhirtrest' what would be interpreted as a sort of 'Lard Corporation'  :ROFL:
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