Dustbin™ Ressurection

[IamtheZombie]

Not back yet except to start this thread.

Soon. Maybe.

I was a friend of Charlston Farmhouse for a few years when we lived up the road. It was the country retreat of the bloomsbury mob.
I love the way if they wanted to do a painting they just did it straight on the walls, or the bath.

The guided tour was one of the funniest things I've witnessed.

Very earnest ladies in tweed skirts and lisle stockings managing to describe the promiscuous and adulterous behaviour and make it sound boring

You'd take a couple of steps away from the last bit of commentary and slowly realise they were describing where the children were conceived, and by whom!

Lovely garden there too.

Evening all.

I have been going to go to Charleston for about the last 7 years - I will go this summer. Nag me, please!

oops, missed an "e", silly me!

Don't mind the missing 'e' at all - just kick me in a month or so & tell me to get my sorry arse down there!

GET YOUR SORRY ARSE DOWN TO SEE THE BLOSSOM, COMRADES AND SISTERS.

can you tell its o'clock.....

I will, I will

Got to give it to the Ruskis-they have a proper sing-a-long national anthem

Are we allowed to say Ruskis?

Zombie's Ruski friend that you met at the London meetup doesn't mind it, Bee.

God only knows what we are allowed to call anyone these days
My DDs have progressed from being half-caste,dual heritage,bi-racial....none of which they identify as personally

I worked for a blind person who called himself blind because he was literally....blind and he got extremely pissed off with all the pussyfooting. around with people calling him 'visually challenged' 'visually impaired' 'visually otherly experienced'-ok I made the last one up but you get my drift.

People of the Cyrillic Script under the rule of Putin???

Why wouldn't we be able to call them Ruskis? It's just russians for Russian, innit. As I expect you all know, being as widely travelled etc. as you all are

Oh she was so gorgeous Z, what a fabulous person.

It all drives me mad. Ruski sounds affectionate to me, but then so could Chinky and Paki and Frog. But I've seen people on here get their tits shredded for saying all of those.

And then other people say just because your friend is black and is happy to use, and be called the n word, ( funny how can't type that one), doesn't mean you should use it

My wildly travelled days are well over Thumbwitch I am relying on you to take up and run with that baton

I think Russia for Russians/Russians for Russia is pretty much the battlecry

Nevertheless it is the only decent earworming national anthem

I have to admit some affection for O Flower of Scotland

MMMmmmm But the Russian national anthem inspires me to be Russian and proud to be the Russian that I am nationally not

Some sort of musicological neuroscience brainwashing occurring ??

Nah, just makes me shiver, all that stomping across steppes, feet rotting, and frozen frowns, brrrr.

I think you have had a bad experience lost two hours of your life watching Battleship Potemkin

You forgot having to eat the maggotty meat and rolling around in unconvincing man-agony for 30 minutes [bitter]

Three hours: Dr. Zhivago

I raise you 4hours and Ghandi

Much more appealing as hardship goes.

Warm and mystic.

Pass on the outfit though.

You would certainly frighten the horses upstage the bride 'no offence'

Not even Tilda could rock the loincloth vibe

As for the film my heart was willing but my bum was numb................

I still think Ruski is ok, although probably better pronounced more like Rooski, where the oo is short, as in book (unless you're from that area that DOES say boook )

My Dad is a Russophile. He has lots of Russian friends and has been several times to Russia. I went with him once, to Moscow, which was amazing - but I don't think I'd like to go without him.

Thumbwitch I have a collection of aeroflot flight bags and matroshyka dolls......

Love Russian fillums too

All a bit at the moment,and difficult to get unbiased facts about what is happening.

Ah, Aeroflot - Dad used to joke about them A Lot. And, bizarrely, nick their cutlery