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Monday 18 February 2013

223:Where does the squirrel keep its nuts?

1.  Yesterday I found the time for a quick walk around Park Dubki (A doob, by the way, is an oak tree and a doobinka, or little oak, is a truncheon). In the photo you can see there is still plenty of snow around and some kind soul has built a little feeding box (кормушка) for the birds, which a grey squirrel is in the process of raiding! My lingvo dictionary tells me that кормушка also means, colloquially, a sinecure or cushy job.
The children's park, in the background, is deserted at the moment. The kids will be back in a few weeks with the first signs of Spring.

2.  The news from Russia this week is of the meteorite which crashed into the Urals city of Chelyabinsk on Friday and, unfortunately, injured several hundred people. I have read that the meteorite was nothing at all to do with the asteroid which just missed Earth last week - just one of life's strange coincidences.
Here are some interesting reactions, in Russian and English, to the meteorite landing:
Комментарии иностранцев под видео с падением метеорита на Челябинск вызывают не меньше улыбок, чем комментарии наших пользователей.

"I love how the Russians dont even act like its big deal! eh, just keep driving." (Мне очень нравится как русские никак не реагируют на это событие. Просто продолжают рулить.)

"love how absolutely nobody reacts ... Russia" (Нравится как абсолютно никто не реагирует... Россия)

"In Russia everyone has to recorded?" (В России у всех есть видеозаписывающие устройства?)

"Why do so many Russians have cameras in their cars? Do they expect shit like this to happen?" (Почему у такого большого количества Русских есть камеры в машинах? Неужели они надеялись/предвидели, что произойдет дерьмо наподобие этого?)

"Why does all of the cool shit happen to the Russians :(" (Почему все клевое дерьмо случается с Русскими)

Ну и на закуску:
"Apparently the aliens don't realize that you never attack Russia in winter, just ask Hitler how that worked out." (Видимо, инопланетяне не понимают, что вам не стоит нападать на Россию зимой, просто спросить Гитлера, что из этого получается)


3.  Trying to find a space-related video I came across this 1968 song from the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band (!!) called "The Urban Spaceman". I think it is more to do with being spaced out on drugs than the Cosmos but it seems to be a telling reminder of the zany things that were happening in the 60s (but not to me!).

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