IGX

That is seriously hard to watch, and I don't particulary have a "thing" for heights outside of what I assume is common sense and the survival instinct. I literally got a weird sensation (the willies?) arcing across my chest when he started the hanging and hand-over-hand shit. Brrrrrrrrrrrrgh...fuck that.

Russian teens + boredom + shitty future opportunities + intarnetz = that video.

Russkies taking YOLO to the next level...good luck with that.

Random thoughts:

YOLO?

That kid has fingers of steel.

Why did he change his T-shirt?

"...why is everyone in Russia..."
lol, i thought it is influence of American (and French) culture :)) French - i mean parcour, David Belle, etc

It is really some decease, i saw such guys even in my town. One guy climbed on 10 stairs building.

"Russian teens + boredom + shitty future opportunities + intarnetz = that video." Opportunities not so shitty as many imagine.
They just afraid of routine - family, job, home.

Wild Bill wrote:"...why is everyone in Russia..."
lol, i thought it is influence of American (and French) culture :)) French - i mean parcour, David Belle, etc

It is really some decease, i saw such guys even in my town. One guy climbed on 10 stairs building.

"Russian teens + boredom + shitty future opportunities + intarnetz = that video." Opportunities not so shitty as many imagine.
They just afraid of routine - family, job, home.

Can't they just get high like the rest of the civilized world?

YOLO = you only live once

Wild Bill wrote:"They just afraid of routine - family, job, home.

So what you're saying is, they're Russia's white blacks

Poor parents... i hope they didn't see this video.

Which Russian novel was it where the army officers have a drinking game of standing in an open window with their back to the outside, and lean back, limbo style while guzzling vodka from the bottle? Whoever leans back the furthest without falling to his death wins.

Sounds like a game that could become popular in Finland,they like their Vodka too.
Don`t know if it is true,but heard that they had a game during the war that they called "drink a stump".You sit down on a tree stump,open a bottle of Vodka (throwing away the cap obviously)
and drink until you fall off.

The backing track is dope as fuck.

WildGorillaMan wrote:Which Russian novel was it where the army officers have a drinking game of standing in an open window with their back to the outside, and lean back, limbo style while guzzling vodka from the bottle? Whoever leans back the furthest without falling to his death wins.

War and peace

Bobby wrote:Sounds like a game that could become popular in Finland,they like their Vodka too.
Don`t know if it is true,but heard that they had a game during the war that they called "drink a stump".You sit down on a tree stump,open a bottle of Vodka (throwing away the cap obviously)
and drink until you fall off.

That would have gone over well in my fraternity. We used to play "Scarface" on lazy afternoons: Watch Scarface and everytime someone says "fuck" you have to take a shot.

No one ever made it to the end of the movie.

Wild Bill wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:Which Russian novel was it where the army officers have a drinking game of standing in an open window with their back to the outside, and lean back, limbo style while guzzling vodka from the bottle? Whoever leans back the furthest without falling to his death wins.

War and peace

I see why I forgot that.

спасибо

Bill,
Your English has improved a lot in the last few years. Very impressive. What are you doing to learn? I hope it's not just IGx because we not being good English perfect. And swear words too.

seeahill wrote:Bill,
Your English has improved a lot in the last few years. Very impressive. What are you doing to learn? I hope it's not just IGx because we not being good English perfect. And swear words too.

rough, but pleasant flattery :)

DikTracy6000 wrote:... I usually have to reread most of his quotes to comprehesion.

my grammar still less then pre-intermediate by Oxford standards :)
I learned English at school and wasn't good with it. And some years ago just started to read books in English as a hobby.
I remember it was Sherlok Holmes.

Then Smet gave me link to IGX.
So books in English and IGX my only sources of learning English.
PS
Recently i started hearing of audiobooks there http://englishwell.org/15578-oxford-boo ... brary.html
I am on "Beginer" stage :)

I am deeply amused --- and a little proud --- that one of Wild Bill's primary sources of learning English is IGx. It reminds me of a science fiction story I once read: the lone alien in the spaceship lands on earth but he/it has learned learned English from only once source: James Joyce's deeply impenetrable Finnegan's Wake. Hilarity ensues.

seeahill wrote:I am deeply amused --- and a little proud --- that one of Wild Bill's primary sources of learning English is IGx. It reminds me of a science fiction story I once read: the lone alien in the spaceship lands on earth but he/it has learned learned English from only once source: James Joyce's deeply impenetrable Finnegan's Wake. Hilarity ensues.

Because he's the only person who actually finished it?

"Riverruns past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore..." Is about as far as I got.

Wild Bill wrote: So books in English and IGX my only sources of learning English.

This is awesome

Bill, do you know these fine women??

Russian dash-cams never disappoint.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXldj9zBc0[/youtube]

Wild Bill wrote: They just afraid of routine

They need some GS....family life and a job will look very exciting after a ten minute set of jerks.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmbMd_KxEM0[/youtube]