Je suis un Russia, avec ex-Frenchmen

Mar 23, 2009 15:47

My life at the moment is sort of like Russia around 1812; French things keep intruding into my life ( Read more... )

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volandum March 23 2009, 13:27:30 UTC
To defeat the French, use a mix of heavy and light cavalry backed by scattered artillery positions. You can also use line infantry, but they're less mobile and not as good at annihilating routing Frenchmen.

There are much better writers on computational geometry than Descartes.

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marmot_pie March 24 2009, 07:49:20 UTC
My understanding of the wars of 1812 between Russia and France was that it was less the Russian army that beat them, than the Russian countryside and refusal to engage. Also Cossacks, which would be the cavalry you suggested I assume?
Another method to defeat the French could be to get someone else to ride in at the nick of time and destroy their last pockets of resistance, yet somehow get the kudos for the victory.
I like the French, and don;t really know why there's so much, mostly good humoured, French knocking going on. Ideas?

Yes, I imagine there would be. I havn't read much about his geometry as my essay is about the key features of his departure from traditional and scholastic philsophy, and I've mostly been studying his method, epistemology, mind-body dualism and super-skepticism.
I just had a tutorial in Liebinz, who had very interesting thinsg to say about computers and the binary system and other things which we use nowadays. He was a polymath, apparently.

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volandum March 24 2009, 09:29:09 UTC
The Russian army, by the middle of the war, had the training, leadership and manpower to engage. Borodino was a tie, for instance. Cossacks are an important part of the cavalry; they also had heavier stuff, like dragoons.

I don't do the French knocking, but they have the honour of getting thwacked by Germany every time in Western Europe since the Franco-Prussian War.

What did he say?

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peter1610 March 23 2009, 13:36:17 UTC
I want to suck your fingers and slurp your palms . . .

I've got,
Ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas,
I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge.

I've got lots of lovely lire,
Now the Deutschmark's getting dearer,
And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

There is nothing quite as wonderful as money,
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash,
Some people say it's folly,
But I'd tather have the lolly,
With money you can ma--ake a splash.

There is nothing quite as wonderful as money
There is nothing like a newly minted pound

Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker
It's accountancy that makes the world go 'round
(round round round)

You can keep your Marxist ways
For it's only just a phase
For it's money makes the world go 'round

(money money money money money money money money money)

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marmot_pie March 24 2009, 07:52:22 UTC
I shall ask someone next time I'm in, whether they are hankering for my butchness.
I try to think of it as monopoly money, then it doesn't seem as overwhelming. Also money is one of the filthiest things around, so disinfectant might be required.

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dogsinsmeg March 24 2009, 02:21:29 UTC
I just started reading Candide! Voltaire is fantastic. Also, Moliere is pretty amusing in a bawdy fashion.

"I am a responsible handler of money and my hands smell of cash."

I'm now imagining you as Anya. Yes I am.

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marmot_pie March 24 2009, 07:57:20 UTC
He is indeed. I'm also studying Liebniz this week so all his little cracks at him make sense.
My plans to learn French have to be stepped up now, because if it's entertaing in English, imagine how it would be in his original words?
I saw a movie about Moliere on the plane to Europe, which was... well, French. In a witty, bawdy way.

This is ok, dying in battle isn't a bad way to go (My Viking genes are taking over).

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