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morreth ([personal profile] morreth) wrote2011-12-18 04:22 pm

Десять причин быть...

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/top_ten.htm

По-моему,тут упущено что-то... да, быть русским и быть украинцем!

[identity profile] narihira.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
А попробуйте сформулировать?

[identity profile] morreth.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Top 10 reasons to be Russian

1. Everyone thinks you can hold more liquor than human body can contain.
2. You can always be sure about who is your next president.
3. You can celebrate both Christmas and New Year twice.
4. You certainly know who won WWII.
5. You can be more arrogant than any American with no reasons that make Americans such arrogant.
6. No matter what an asshole you are, you can still refer to the "enigmatic Russian soul".
7. Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev - you may hate them and not read them at all, but still be proud of your great literature.
8. Also Tchaikovski, Glinka, Rakhmaninov, Prokofiev - no matter you couldn't possibly tell their masterpieces from one another, you can still be proud.
9. You can call gays "buggers" almost officialy.
10. Vodka.

Top 10 reasons to be Ukrainian

1. Everyone thinks you can hold more liquor than human body can contain, because everyone thinks you are Russian.
2. And you can always stop to be Russian when it starts to be annoying.
3. You can celebrate both Christmas and New Year twice.
4. No matter how lame your president is, you caan always say "I hadn't voted for him".
5. And comfort yourself that Russian president is way lamer.
6. No matter what an asshole you are, you can still blame Russians.
7. Actually, Nikolai Gogol is Ukrainian.
8. And Sergei Prokofiev too.
9. Girls and women.
10. You can be outsong only by Italians, but Italians don't drink horilka. After a bottle of horilka you can outsing any Italian.

[identity profile] narihira.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
:) смешно, с удовольствием прочитал.

[identity profile] narihira.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Нет, просто смешно. Про президентов да, мериться презиками с русскими -- национальный спорт :) И прочее тоже. Про ВНЕЗАПНО перестать быть русским на вечеринке -- таки да. Всё на месте.

[identity profile] thurbo.livejournal.com 2011-12-18 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
пусть не 10, но

быть русским
1. Мы выиграли WW2. Почти сами!
2. Гагарин
3. Самая большая страна по площади.
4. Дешевая водка.
5. Знание того, что Европа - она до Урала.

быть украинцем
1. Вера в то, что когда-то пустят в Евросоюз.
2. Много красивых девушек.
3. Неплохое дешёвое вино.
4. Красивые народные песни