A thread for my friend.

[2tallbill]

Wow!! Wow! Wow!!

Amazing photos Orchid, you amaze like always!

[2tallbill]

Спасибо большое, Орхид. Как классное фото.

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clasno, kruto, klevo, otpad, interesno, zdorovo, slavno!

[Volshe]

Спасибо большое, Орхид. Как классное фото.

+100

clasno, kruto, klevo, otpad, interesno, zdorovo, slavno!

Where did you learn all that slang?! 

preksrasno, volshebno, chudno

krasota,

lepota (ustar.)

[Volshe]

Next pictures are to remind to Mr. DS and his beautiful wife about very special time in a very special place.
Pictures are very weak illustration why it is special.
To know that you must be there.
People travel from all over the world to bring their love to Taj Mahal.
You can see it in their eyes and how couples hold each other....
Once you step on those stones, you will never be able cut the ties to this place.

Thank you, Orchid! I've never seen images of Taj Mahal from these angles, nor have i seen (what i guess are) the adjacent buildings... Magical indeed!!! 

[2tallbill]

Where did you learn all that slang?! 

preksrasno, volshebno, chudno

krasota,

lepota (ustar.)

ochumet', obaldet', zdorovo, zdorovski, ne khilo!

I've spent years pursuing one FSUW or another, (before getting married)
you tend to pick stuff up as you go.

[Orchid]

Спасибо большое, Орхид. Как классное фото.

+100

clasno, kruto, klevo, otpad, interesno, zdorovo, slavno!

Where did you learn all that slang?! 

That was a surprise for me as well.   

[Orchid]

The Taj Mahal was built in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to honor his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
By the way, as usual in India, astrologist said to him where he can find her.
She died giving birth to their 14th child.

Cross the Yamuna River he wanted to build a mausoleum for himself.



It should be an exact copy of Taj Mahal but in black marble. He was able to finish only foundation.

[Orchid]

He was able to finish a foundation only because he was imprisoned by his third son Aurangzeb in Fort Agra .

[Orchid]

This room was his prison.



For the last EIGHT years of his life he could see his masterpiece only from afar.



Only after his death his son was kind enough to place his parents next to each other.

[el_guero]

I am not so certain he was punishing his father. The amount of money his father was spending must have almost bankrupted the country.

[Orchid]

I am not so certain he was punishing his father. The amount of money his father was spending must have almost bankrupted the country.

Yes, it was the exact reason for Shah Jahan's imprisonment: to prevent the country from bankruptcy.
You know this story.... or history.

Nowadays the Taj Mahal gives gob to the whole Agra city.
And it is the most famous love story on the Earth.
Not many remember the name of his son...

[Volshe]

You know this story.... or history.

Nowadays the Taj Mahal gives gob to the whole Agra city.
And it is the most famous love story on the Earth.
Not many remember the name of his son...

I didn't know the story. Thank you for sharing 

I've spent years pursuing one FSUW or another, (before getting married)
you tend to pick stuff up as you go.

P., based on your posts, i've formed an opinion of you as of a very intelligent and nicest possible guy. Please confess  that you are using a slang dictionary, not that you know those by heart 

[Orchid]

... based on your posts...

Based on your avatar, I am freezed in a Lotus asana thinking of you, Volshe...

Please, change your spouse's country from Narnia to Nirvana.
It would be right thing to do....

[Volshe]

... based on your posts...

Based on your avatar, I am freezed in a Lotus asana thinking of you, Volshe...

It was changed to honor this thread 

Please, change your spouse's country from Narnia to Nirvana.
It would be right thing to do....

Oy... It would get complicated. You know the old saying: "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him"   

[Orchid]

You know the old saying: "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him"   

Is there anyone who can prevent us to change this dogma to
"if you meet the Buddha on the road, talk to him, seduce him, and then.... think hard what to do with all this crap." 

[Volshe]

You know the old saying: "if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him"   

Is there anyone who can prevent us to change this dogma to
"if you meet the Buddha on the road, talk to him, seduce him, and then.... think hard what to do with all this crap." 

I think i like your paradigm better  Especially the eternal question: what to do with all this crap. 


p.s. Люблю тебя 

[2tallbill]

P., based on your posts, i've formed an opinion of you as of a very intelligent and nicest possible guy. Please confess  that you are using a slang dictionary, not that you know those by heart 

I knew clasno, kruto, klevo and otpad from chatting with FSUW back when
I was single. Then I was on a chat with many, many FSUW on it when I
posted those four. Then several others joined in and soon I had a huge
list of words for cool. I have been led to understand that otpad is a little
bit old school, like groovy or far out.

I didn't use a dictionary, but I did have a lot of help.

[Volshe]

P., based on your posts, i've formed an opinion of you as of a very intelligent and nicest possible guy. Please confess  that you are using a slang dictionary, not that you know those by heart 

I knew clasno, kruto, klevo and otpad from chatting with FSUW back when
I was single. Then I was on a chat with many, many FSUW on it when I
posted those four. Then several others joined in and soon I had a huge
list of words for cool. I have been led to understand that otpad is a little
bit old school, like groovy or far out.

I didn't use a dictionary, but I did have a lot of help.

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there. She was in her 90ies, lucid, real genius, her hair always done, always dressed like a lady, with make up and wearing high heels... That was only an addition to her being one of the most outstanding contemporary Russian linguists. If you'd (on purpose of course) said something like: the lecture was superskaya or similar, she'd place her arm on her heart , roll eyes and pretend she's just about to faint. Это при мне так разговаривают?!
I hardly ever use slang words in Russian, but it took me a lot of work to stop talking "Shatrovacki/ Šatrovački", jargon that's spoken in Belgrade 
Before mobiles, you had to speak on the landline in front of your parents. So, a language was developed that they don't understand. (Originally, it was invented by criminals, so the police can't understand them.) It took me years to get rid of its' traces 

Back to India now, as we are derailing the thread 

I loved Nargis Fakhri in Spy movie
@1:36

[Orchid]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

[Dogsoldier]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

[Volshe]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

I am the tiny spot under the dust on your shoes, Orchid.... (That's btw very Balkan way to exchange compliments among friends  )
 

[Contrarian]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

And I am the Angel or the Devil who whispers in your ear, depending on what you need. 

[Orchid]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

And I am the Angel or the Devil who whispers in your ear, depending on what you need. 

Hmm............. Sounds intriguing...........

Volshe, was that for you or for me?

[Contrarian]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

And I am the Angel or the Devil who whispers in your ear, depending on what you need. 

Hmm............. Sounds intriguing...........

for you dear Orchid. 

[Maxx]

I had the honor to attend Pushkin Institute while Natalya Ivanovna Formanovskaya (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Формановская,_Наталья_Ивановна ) was still teaching there.

I am just dust on your shoes, Volshe....

And I am the Angel or the Devil who whispers in your ear, depending on what you need. 

Hmm............. Sounds intriguing...........

for you dear Orchid. 

Don't threaten me ever.