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In pictures: Murmansk's gorgeous garages
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Posted on 07/25/2007 8:49:23 PM PDT by fishhound

The men of Russia's Arctic city of Murmansk have an unlikely passion - as a woman living there explains: "Many men in Murmansk love escaping to their garages, which are often built far away from the apartment blocks where they live."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Russia
KEYWORDS: garages; refuge; refugio
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To: wizr

“My dream for many years. A place to create, to work with my hands, summer or winter. Somethin’ simple. Just me, my tools, and God.”

Same Here! Great Post!


21 posted on 07/25/2007 9:33:59 PM PDT by fishhound
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To: fishhound

My garagre is my refuge. Thankfully, it is far more accommodating than the ones shown in this story!


22 posted on 07/25/2007 9:34:26 PM PDT by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: fishhound

Great story, I loved it!


23 posted on 07/25/2007 9:36:53 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: fishhound
What Russian guys are running into their garages to get away from...

    

Vodka is the fool's mistress.

24 posted on 07/25/2007 9:40:14 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

Sometimes, people post pictures of some Hollywood “hottie” on FR, and they don’t do a thing for me. “Eh.” The same can’t be said here. Wow. I wish Russia bordered Texas to the south and the coyotes were bringing up these ladies. Heh.


25 posted on 07/25/2007 9:47:28 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: fishhound

I wonder where you go for auto parts in Murmansk.


26 posted on 07/25/2007 9:49:03 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: SevenofNine
Man that nice remind me of my Alaskan uncle garage

Also like my brother's garage in Sonoma, CA.

27 posted on 07/25/2007 9:53:33 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: fishhound

Well, I guess American men have something in common with the guys of Murmansk.


28 posted on 07/25/2007 9:55:05 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: Rastus
Wow. I wish Russia bordered Texas to the south and the coyotes were bringing up these ladies. Heh.

Be careful what you wish for...


29 posted on 07/25/2007 10:00:20 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Huh? Ron Paul is already in Texas!


30 posted on 07/25/2007 10:16:25 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Rastus

Some of those women look really sweet. Some of them look like they’d end up being a Big Problem. Russian women are like any other women, guy: some are a dream and some are a nightmare.


31 posted on 07/25/2007 10:28:04 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: fishhound
Hey....a man's gotta have a place where he can hide out.
32 posted on 07/25/2007 10:31:52 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: Fairview

I’ll take my chances with the redhead in the second row.


33 posted on 07/25/2007 10:38:17 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: snarks_when_bored

I now know for a fact that our government lied to us about Russian women during those decades of the Cold War. If we had known what we know now, our G.I.’s would have demanded we invade and conquer.


34 posted on 07/25/2007 10:52:02 PM PDT by biff
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To: Leroy S. Mort
With so many Russian girls of jaw-dropping beauty . . . dear God. Sic transit gloria mundi.
35 posted on 07/25/2007 10:58:43 PM PDT by dighton
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To: fishhound

"The men spend a lot of time there, repairing their cars and talking politics or gossiping."

"The garages are often furnished with old furniture, so after bad rows with their wives the men can come here to stay for a few days."

"It is strange that behind all these doors, inside all these garages without windows, there is so much going on, like it's a secret society."

Text and photos: Jorn Madslien, in conversation with one of Murmansk's many mystified women

36 posted on 07/25/2007 11:16:23 PM PDT by primeval patriot (Let's go to the Off-World! Brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez Corporation.)
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To: dighton

I said that to a lady friend once as an ambulance went by on the first day of the week.


37 posted on 07/25/2007 11:21:05 PM PDT by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: dighton
Not the phrase that comes to mind, but rather Momento mori
Sic transit pulchritudinem mundi
38 posted on 07/25/2007 11:30:47 PM PDT by rmlew (Build a wall, attrit the illegals, end the anchor babies, Americanize Immigrants)
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To: snarks_when_bored

So many womenski....so little vodkaski...


39 posted on 07/25/2007 11:33:59 PM PDT by rottndog (Government is a necessary evil, but as with all evils, the less of it the better.)
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To: rlmorel

Is that a Playboy on your shelf? Show us the centerfold.


40 posted on 07/25/2007 11:38:05 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (In the Rise and Fall of United States I hope the Fall part is more than one chapter.)
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