Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from  01.02.2015 17:56   
   about Some new year fun around the world.   
      
    ak>> "My wife urges me that it is very useful to eat raw vegetables"   
    ak>> "Yeah, mine also doesn't like cooking!"   
      
    AH> Two sentences... two different speakers. While some software may   
    AH> try to improve on the spacing you got it right. You omitted a full   
    AH> stop, however.   
      
    AH> As a certain author of practical & amusing books about   
    AH> housewifery... Peg Bracken or Erma Bombeck, I'm not sure which   
    AH> now... once said, it's not the cooking per se. It's the   
    AH> dailiness... [chuckle].   
      
    AH> As an English teacher I'd say "Mine doesn't like cooking either."   
    AH> As chief cook & bottle washer in the Hinton residence I enjoyed the   
      
   I thought that "bottle washer" has sense only in the area where bottles can be   
   returned back to shops for money. In the USSR we had such practice.   
      
    AH> series of ads on our daughter's favourite radio station in which   
    AH> some guy advised some other guy how about how Real Men supposedly   
    AH> behave. I haven't heard such ads lately.. perhaps because others   
    AH> reacted the same way I did. I don't remember which brand of beer   
    AH> they wanted their listeners to buy. But I liked the scenario in   
    AH> which Macho Man comments to a male friend, who has just ordered a   
    AH> salad, "Cows eat [the green stuff]... we eat the cows!" From an   
    AH> anthropological standpoint it makes sense to me that women &   
    AH> children who could get by on fruit & veggies (together with the   
    AH> scraps of meat the Hunters overlooked &/or didn't bother to pick   
    AH> off the bone) would have an evolutionary advantage.   
      
   From another side every group of population can have their own sense of humor.   
   Sometimes they mock over another group, but IMHO it must be forgivable if it   
   is in the area of humor. Yes, it was a rude joke of a meat eater over the   
   vegetarians, but people go too far when they make other people to shut up with   
   their jokes. Note, this joke was much more innocent than the joke about profit   
   Muhammad in the now famous French journal. But everybody in the democracy   
   world have supported the freedom of jokes, and encouraged the journal to   
   follow the same course.   
      
    AH> If your job is to go berry-picking & you must at the same time meet   
    AH> the needs of young children who want to be fed every couple of   
    AH> hours, it's very different from that of Hunters who must ingest   
    AH> enough protein & fat at one meal to last until they have found   
    AH> another source of protein & fat. What makes this joke amusing AFAIC   
    AH> is that I don't personally know anyone who has to load up on whale   
    AH> meat & blubber (e.g.) because they may have to go without food for   
    AH> several days, but a lot of people seem to think they do. And I note   
    AH> with interest that at a campout where there are various families   
    AH> involved girls come to me for advice re which berries are edible,   
    AH> while boys chop wood & men discuss in detail how to build a fire.   
    AH> :-)   
      
   Maybe we should not go from one extreme to another. I don't see why a meat   
   eater cannot like to have some bilberries if he is in the forest. It may be in   
   the case if a person has never seen bilberries in his life.   
      
      
      
    ak>> A strange economic crisis happened in Russia: All automobile sales   
    ak>> centers have sold their cars up to the middle of 2015.   
      
    AH> IOW, the demand exceeds the supply... or does it? Satire alert. :-   
    AH> ))   
      
   Rouble rate started to fall after oil. People in Russia massively decided to   
   free themselves from rouble savings. That's why we had a tremendous increasing   
   in goods sellings. Actually a crisis started, but it made many Russians to buy   
   things they wanted for a long time. That's why it is funny a bit.   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   ENGLISH_TUTOR 2015   
      
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