[Dick Bachert]

Probably has a lot to do with those long, cold, dark winters.

Vodka explains why so many of the long car crash/crazy driver videos are from Russia!

And, of course, there's the dark, brooding music, some of which, like the Shostakovich Symphony #5, I've come to love.

[cloudmountain]

Probably has a lot to do with those long, cold, dark winters.
Vodka explains why so many of the long car crash/crazy driver videos are from Russia!
And, of course, there's the dark, brooding music, some of which, like the Shostakovich Symphony #5, I've come to love.

I love classical music, always have, since I grew up on it.

The Russians aren't the only ones with LONG, COLD WINTERS. The Scandinavians have the same weather as the Finns and THEY [the Scandinavians] aren't drunks. So, the climate can't be the answer.

I visited "Suomi" (It's what the Finns call their own country.) once, wearing my sunglasses at midnight in June. Of course the sun stayed so low, just above the horizon, that I did REALLY need them.
THEY, the Finns, drank like fish. I only saw men sprawled out all over the place. The Finnish women must drink at home.

*****They DID have deeeeeelicious ice cream, however, so I was quite happy.

Hyvästi!