baltica Forum Posts (220)

RE: Happy New Year 2009 Thread

Please get well soon... Flu is not allowed into the New Year!

RE: Happy New Year 2009 Thread

More good than bad... I prefer not to focus on the bad side because it is in the past, and I prefer to live in the present hoping for a better future!

RE: Have You Ever made Love to a Vegetable before?

Sorry for him...

Really, I feel that guys who can spend all days (and nights) long watching the TV are on their way to become vegetables, i.e. pass into the state of vegetation...

RE: in bed

I eat whatever I have got at hand at the computer, sometimes until late past midnight, and then I actually crawl into my bed... sometimes falling asleep over the keyboard... otherwise I like to read and to knit in bed, then some fruit, crisps or chocs are OK!

RE: What do think of French Kissing? Does it really make a difference?

You probably mean XXX...

RE: What do think of French Kissing? Does it really make a difference?

affair? laws? love? money? which to separate from what?



Sorry, I am dumb tonight and at a loss... Please explain!

RE: What do think of French Kissing? Does it really make a difference?

Dear me, I got so excited writing about French kissing that I even forgot all about the Sequence of Tenses in my short reply...
Noticed it at once when it appeared online... shame on me!
Now you come to my rescue and talk about someone's Babelfish English...
Oh yes, thank you, now I know what 'French letters' are... never heard about them in this context before!
And everyone seems to be too shy to talk about kissing tonight...

RE: What do think of French Kissing? Does it really make a difference?

Oh yes, I heard that it is somewhat different than a casual cheek kiss...

RE: I´m a forgotten old time CS member.

Thank you, Marti! She is a good girl, I will tell her to behave... and if she does, one of the big cups may be hers in future!

RE: I´m a forgotten old time CS member.

I agree with every word Smoky has written! We never forgot you, and I am sure that we all wish to see you here more often!



I am guilty of disappearing from the CS scene now and then, too... in the past month or two I used to have 6-8 dog shows a month, that is, two shows almost every weekend! I am happy to be at home with my big gang now, so I can spend a part of my time on the CS forums...

RE: waste

No waste in my household, never ever!



It looks like waste mostly takes place when people are hungry when they go shopping, so they buy stuff they would have never looked at if their stomachs had been full!



Otherwise waste happens due to lack of planning the family menu... and for large parties it may be not easy, too. But in smaller families there should be no waste if at least one of them can cook and bake! I bake delicious pies and quiches using every single crumb and the good leftovers that inevitably remain from the stuff that was bought for yesterday's meals... and something can also go to my dogs - except salty or smoked meat/fish - if it cannot harm them (raw vegetables, fruit, dairy products, etc.). Otherwise people should more often give the leftovers to the farmers instead of throwing good food into waste containers...



As for overeating... I think that it is a good idea to look at oneself naked in the mirror before each meal... I bet everyone will eat a bit less with the sight in his/her memory, even if one does not gain weight after all the parties!

RE: "Xmas

Happy Holidays to everyone - whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or just the New Year!

RE: Happy birthday

Happy birthday, Marti!



Have a fabulous day, and many happy returns!



Natalie

RE: An extra place at Christmas dinner......

Yes, it is a tradition in Poland, in Ukraine and in Lithuania on Christmas Eve, both in town and in the countryside. Even when there are only three or four people at the table, there is always one plate and one chair left vacant. Also the twelve dish Christmas Eve supper is basically the same in these three countries, though Ukrainians are mostly Orthodox, while Poles and Lithuanians are Catholics. I think that it should be the same way in Belarus as well.

RE: Local news from your country

More pictures with snow: this place is also 50 km south of here, but not on the continent, it is on the Curonian Spit - a strip of land stretching from Russia with its tip approaching Klaipeda across the bay.



Click on the first picture below the story, then drag the mouse to the right side of the picture, and go to the next one, etc.

It is an absolutely fantastic and unique area, a must see for everyone coming to Lithuania, especially in summer:
(town)

They have not had so much snow falling within 24 hours since 1936 there! By tonight all the snow is already gone and it is raining...

RE: Local news from your country

Sorry, the links to the pictures did not come through, they were too long for one line... I will try to re-send them below:


pamaryje-ugniagesius-atkirto-nuo-gaisro-vaikus-nuo-mokykl%C5%B3-nuotraukos.htm


sniegas-pamariui-grasina-potvyniu-nuotraukos.htm

RE: Local news from your country

The first snow this year came to Lithuania last Friday, and the weekend was white everywhere, the temperatures were about the freezing point. In some areas more snow came on Monday.

This is what our countryside roads about 50 km south of where I live looked like on Tuesday morning... here in Klaipeda we have had more rain than snow.



On Wednesday they warned about a possible flood in this area (south west of Lithuania bordering Russia):

RE: what do animals understand?

Before I had dogs we used to have cats, and I was sure that they were the most intelligent animal souls under the sun! They are just more independent than dogs, and it is sometimes misleading. They have preserved their natural instincts much better than most present day dog breeds, too. A toy dog and even a "big" dog will no longer hunt to get food in a natural way, and every cat will do it, even the lazy Persians... so cats are more likely to survive in extreme conditions than most dogs who rely too much on us humans.







I try to never oppose pets to humans, the more so there are more animal and pet haters around than we would like to see, but sometimes I want to agree with this statement...

RE: Learning to play the piano

Do it, enjoy yourself, and have fun! It is never too late to do something that you want to learn or to be...

RE: hi...i'm guiriman

Grammar can be absolutely fascinating if your teacher has the clue how to show it to his students 'from the inside'... yes, it takes skill, talent, imagination... in other words, a lot of creativity!

RE: hi...i'm guiriman

Oh yes, there will soon be more than one Little Lithuania in the EU... in the UK, in Ireland (also in the North!), and in Spain... the number of Lithuanians working abroad is second after the number of Poles, and our population is ten times smaller than that of Poland!



Twenty and more years ago there was only one Little Lithuania, and it was not in Europe, but in Chicago:




Football is not the strongest sports in Lithuania, it is basketball that is claimed to be the nation's second religion... Most of the players in the ex-USSR national and Olympic men's basketball teams used to be Lithuanians, and last year the Lithuanian team won bronze at the European Championship.

RE: hi...i'm guiriman

Sorry, you have got me wrong... they probably think Lithuania is in Africa (yes, you know - Liberia, Libya, Lebanon, Lesotho... so why not Lithuania) and who cares about the Baltic countries...



Yes, right you are - the Banana republics of the North!



By the way, the colours of our national flag are red, green and yellow, and they also belong in many African flags... everyone notices it!

RE: hi...i'm guiriman

Hi, I am Natalie from Lithuania - one of the three Baltic countries (not to be taken for Liberia as it sometimes happens).



It looks like we are colleagues, since I am also a linguist by profession, and I was teaching English at two Universities for about 15 years, but it was long, long ago...



I have been here on the CS for a year, and I drop in for the forums now and then.

RE: Miriam Makeba, 76, Singer and Activist, Dies

May she rest in peace...

RE: what do animals understand?

It takes a dog some time to switch from one language to another, and sometimes it is very stressful for them, so they look right into your eyes for support... I know it very well because many people bring puppies/dogs from other countries, travel with their pets, etc., and sometimes they become quite multilingual... even their names are pronounced in a different way in different languages!

RE: what do animals understand?

I have had cats all my life, and dogs for about 30 years. Some of them are not just smart but also seem to have some inner telepathic perception of what is going to happen before we know it...

Canine psychologists and behaviourists seem to agree that a normally socialized adult dog knows as many words as a 2 year old child. Dogs are not supposed to understand the meanings of prepositions, also most adverbs and adjectives, unless they are used as commands. Thus they probably cannot understand fluent speech even if it contains all the words that are otherwise familiar to them because of their interrelations and interconnections in the sentences. But both dogs and cats are very sensitive to our emotional state and thus can easily 'read between the lines' in their own way...

So if you say to your dog, 'Now you will go for a walk' or, in case you want to punish your pet, you say in anger, 'Never again will you go for a walk', the dog will only understand the word walk... In the first case the dog will be jumping with joy, and in the second he/she will probably be very upset because your eyes, voice and face expression will say more than the favourite word 'walk'... That's why we have to be very careful choosing the right words to communicate with our pets.

RE: Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday!



Have a great day, and many happy returns!

RE: Intellectual property

And what if she has already had the hard drive cleaned and formatted? Hopefully not...

RE: Intellectual property

In case the text was uploaded on the web - yes. But then there would have been no problem to access it without having the computer back.

RE: Great Love Songs

Maybe not exactly a love song... also by Leonard Cohen:



A lovely video, too!



The lyrics are here: