Let's Get Out Of This Country

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:36:25 GMT

In Russia, for example, one typically accords very few people the status of "friend". These friendships however make up in intensity what they lack in number. Friends are entitled to call each other by their first names alone, and to use diminutives. Everyone else is addressed by full first name plus patronymic, and is known as an "acquaintance". These could include relationships which elsewhere would be qualified as real friendships, such as workplace relationships of long standing, neighbors with whom one shares an occasional meal and visit, and so on. Physical contact between friends is expected, and friends, whether or not of the same sex, will embrace, kiss and walk in public with their arms around each other, or arm-in-arm, or hand-in-hand, without the slightest embarrassment or sexual connotation.

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sworn to the stars like a modern queen

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:50:30 GMT

This forum for hipsters with angst to expel their inhibitions and obsessions is getting one more chance. And really what does this say about me and my life?
Hello again old friends.

baby shambles

Let's Get Out Of This Country

sworn to the stars like a modern queen