Hi, Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from  09.10.2014 10:33   
   about Some fun.   
      
    PQ>>> I generally 'swipe' my credit card over a reader on   
    PQ>>> the counter for either petrol or tobacco; no PIN or receipt   
    PQ>>> required. I use very little cash these days.   
      
    ak>> Yes, now this things are in Russia, too. Although, IMHO, when people   
    ak>> pay with card it takes more time, and they create cues. ;-) Well,   
    ak>> maybe our shops have slow Internet?   
      
    PQ> Probably slow, indeed.  :)  The new readers are the 'swipe & go'   
    PQ> variety, for less than AUD$100, so it's pretty slick shopping.   
      
   Although, telling the truth, most of us still enter PIN code taking a special   
   card reader. Then we take it over to the cashier; he does some tricks in his   
   computer, waits for the response from the bank etc. It takes more time than   
   paying with cash.   
      
      
    ak>> In Russia we also like this type of stories. In one of them, a hunter   
    ak>> went to hunt a bear and didn't take a gun. When a bear rushed on him   
    ak>> he grasped the bears' front paws and kept them until the bear   
    PQ> died. ;-)   
      
    PQ> Oh yeah.  Sure.  More likely he tired the bear to death with all the   
    PQ> dancing.   
      
   Bears suck their paws and feed themselves in this way (especially in winter).   
   The hunter grasped the bear's paws and hold them until the bear died of hunger.   
      
    (BTW, there's only one bear so your apostrophe is in the wrong   
    PQ> place.)  Is there more to the story?  Or, is that a traditional tale?   
      
    I bet you heard of this story. It is from the stories of the famous Baron   
   Munchausen. ;)   
      
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2014   
      
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