:)

P.s. Gone for duty.

Good luck to you too! :-)))

To all who like music.
Here is Westlife- Irish pop boys' group with lyrics.
Enjoy it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

When you need a friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

This one might be also exciting..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

If you need a freind...Leona Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

A bit of fun

Women's English
Yes = No
No = Yes
Maybe = No
We need = I want
I am sorry = You'll be sorry
We need to talk = You're in trouble
Sure, go ahead = You better not
Do what you want = You will pay for this later
I am not upset = Of course I am upset, you moron!!!
You're very attentive tonight = Is sex all you ever think about???

Men's English
will be a bit later...

About beards & pilots:

http://www.askcaptainlim.com/i ...

Hi MSL!!
How are you?
Thanks for the link. It looks as if I wasn't that far away from the idea. To be honest I haven't seen any crew with beards so far!! Haven't flown with Air India or PIA , though....:-)))

a bit of old memories...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Hi Mila! I'm fine. How did you spent your vacations? Did you enjoy it?

Oh, yes..Every time I come back to Russia I am expecting something:-)))
The weather was too kind, even hot +35 in the Middle Volga area. So it was worth travelling all this way down from cold and wet UK...The train service was great fun. They issue you with a pair of red slippers, clean toilets and hot meal from the restaurant, cooked on the premises!!
Watched a lot of TV...The prices on some goods and food are shocking!!! The mini vans " marshrutki" are all driven by "comicadze" drivers!!! I was lucky enough to avoid using them...Now need some time the whole lot of being "digested":-)))

Morning guys!
I've noticed that pilots do not have beards? Does anyone know why?
Ta

Ta...lots of sailors have?)

Hi!
Why do lots of sailors have beards? :-)))

By the way Ta= Thanks (for short)

To Mila:
Sorry...) I took "Ta" for babish: "but them, there, their....")

It's OK! :-))
Just a bit of "proper" English...

Men's English (see the post above re: Womens' English)...
I am hungry = I am hungry
I am sleepy = I am sleepy
I am tired = I am tired
Nice dress = Nice cleavage!
I love you = Let's have sex now
I am bored = Do you want to have sex?
May I have this dance? = I'd like to have sex with you
Can I call you sometime? =
Do you want to go to a movie? =
Can I take you out to dinner? =
Those shoes don't go with that outfit. = I'm gay ( as good as you are)
Well, please bear in mmind that this is English and not the rules...

To MSL
Hi Mila! I'm fine. How did you spent your vacations? Did you enjoy it?

Тогда, уже...
"Did you enjoy them?"

To тестер
+5
I've missed that one :- (

Is it impossible to say "it" instead of "to spent vacations"?

To MSL:
Vacations, holidays - pl.
Spend...больше относится к "материальным вещам"...Spend money, spend gas, spend food...
Обычно, spend time...подразумевает..waste time...spend time with bore...
ИМХО, "spent vacations" на "мое ухо звучит"..."потраченный зря, скучный отпуск".

Morning everyone!
Tester is right, people usually ask:
" How was your holiday? What did you do? Where did you go?...."

VOC:
TO SPEND A PENNY
UK OLD-FASHIONED POLITE EXPRESSION FOR to urinate:
If you'll excuse me, I need to spend a penny.
SPEND TIME
I think we need to spend more time together.
I spent a lot of time cleaning that room.
I've spent years building up my collection.
I spent an hour at the station waiting for the train.
How long do you spend on your homework?
My sister always spends ages in the bathroom.
We spent the weekend in London.
You can spend the night here if you like.
SPEND MONEY
How much did you spend?
I don't know how I managed to spend so much in the pub last night.
We spent a fortune when we were in New York.
She spends a lot of money on clothes.
We've just spent £1.9 million on improving our computer network.
We went on a spending spree (= We bought a lot of things) on Saturday.

It wasn't my own invention. Dictionary writes:

spend[spend]

гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. spent

1) тратить, расходовать (на что-л.)
to spend money on smth. — тратить деньги на что-л.
Syn:
expend

2) проводить (время)
He spent a weekend in London. — Выходные он провёл в Лондоне.
She spends her spare time gardening. — В свободное время она работает в саду.
How do you spend your leisure? — Как вы проводите свой досуг?

Hi MSL!
I understand that you can find Primary meaning of any word in a dictionary.And I agree!!! You are doing the very right thing- looking up a word in a dictionary.
The problem starts, when ordinary people -native speakers- alter it in the way they think it would be useful. Thus creating difficulties for us-non native speakers. And another factor, affecting any language- is time. Any language is live and and is changing...
I would never be 100% sure in anything, myself.
That's why when I hear something, that sounds unusual, I always do one rather annoying thing: start asking people, colleages, friends etc...Very often they can't explain themselves!!! They just say it this way!!!
So, lets' move on:-)))

On the left side there is a forum " Which airline do you like and why?"
Here is one of those

An award should go to the Virgin Airlines desk attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo.

A crowded Virgin flight was cancelled after Virgin's 767s had been withdrawn from service. A single attendant was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, 'I HAVE to be on this flight and it HAS to be FIRST CLASS'.
The attendant replied, 'I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these people first, and I'm sure we'll be able to work something out...'

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, 'DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?'


Without hesitating, the attendant smiled and grabbed her public address microphone: 'May I have your attention please, may I have your attention please, ' she began - her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal..
'We have a passenger here at Desk 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to Desk 14.'

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the Virgin attendant, gritted his teeth and said, 'F.... You!'
Without flinching, she smiled and said, 'I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to get in line for that too.

One thing I cant understand - what for that airline deserve to be liked by inconvenienced travellers of the cancelled crowded flight?

Well....under the circumstances, the airline was trying hard to reschedule...:-)))and to make everybody happy..

Maybe for opportunity to send a desk attended on an erotic journey after standing in endless queue?

LOL :-))))

Ero- trip!?It's a thought.. Something new in holiday making industry...

The airline should appreciate the effort, the desk attendant's made. Sense of humour is a must in any situation!!

Ero- trip!?It's a thought.. Something new in holiday making industry...

You could find a lot of such a "tour operators" on Russian streets :-)

I thought we were talking about "tour operators" in the air and not street-based...

a bit of GRAMMAR

so - such

You can use 'so' with an adjective or an adverb.
e.g. The disco was so hot!
She danced so beautifully

You can use 'such' with an uncountable noun [U] (and adjective)
or with a plural countable noun [C] (and adjective)
You can use 'such a' or 'such an' with a singular countable noun [C] (and adjective)
e.g. Such ideas are hard to understand.
It was such a long journey that it took a day to get over it.

You can say 'so much' [U], 'such many' [C - plural] and 'such a lot (of)' [U] or [C]
e.g. There was so much traffic and such a lot of people that everything came to a standstill!

With comparatives, you can use 'so much' e.g. so much quicker

some more music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

VOCABULARY
'F.... You!' = foot erotic journey to the 3-letters Russian word written on the hedge.
Unless 'F.... You!' means "Fond of You" :-)

MSL

I cant understand


Прикольно выглядит эта бессмыслица. "Cant" - это "наклон", "наклонять" и ещё куча значений как сленговых, так и профессиональных, вплоть до "лицемерный", "блатной" и "отстойник для аэробного сбраживания осадка".

2 Paul


Прикольно выглядят тупые попытки показаться умным прикапываясь к очевидным опечаткам.

Sorry, I can't understand why you are writing in Russian, both of you!!!!..:- (( (
Your English is good enough to clarify..So please, use English here!!!
And we all make mistakes and type with mistakes, so there shouldn't be any pointless remarks. Otherwise our numerous visitors=readers will get stuck!

A very famous phrase in English is "the seven seas". Many
song and poems refer to "sailing the seven seas" to express
the idea of roaming the whole world by sea. But what are
the seven seas?

Today, the seven seas are generally considered to be the:

- Arctic Ocean
- Antarctic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- North Pacific Ocean
- South Pacific Ocean
- North Atlantic Ocean
- South Atlantic Ocean
So why are the seven seas in fact "oceans"? Well, ocean
simply means a very large sea.

Any ideas??

To Mila:
I'm not to be considered....as a fan of fairy-tailes....
But I think they start from...
"Once upon a time.....behind seven seas...")

As far as I remember they start with:
"Once upon time... there lived."
Perhaps we read different tales...

correction
Once upon A time....

Interesting that expression "seven skies" has a completely different meaning.
By the way, wikipedia writes next about seven seas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S ...

To Mila:
To the end of seven seas...I feel like....To cross the World to find your happiness.."up to the end of times")

Well, so many people, so many thoughts!!
We used to know 4 main oceans and lots of seas..can't tell for sure, though...

TO тестер:
To the end of seven seas...I feel like....To cross the World to find your happiness.."up to the end of times")
********
I am terribly sorry, can't work this out:- (( (

To Mila:

Take your time)

To тестер
Do you mean that you could go that far away to make people happy even if it takes your whole life???