Syt's Pictorial Collection of Stuff and Things (image heavy)

[Syt]

Ah, Russian weddings.















And a bonus one that might be from a David Lynch movie ... 

[Jacob]

Looks like they're having fun

[Valmy]

What is up with the accordions?

[Jacob]

What is up with the accordions?

Accordions are great for impromptu musical performances and sing-alongs.

It's a cultural thing... just like crappy DJs or cheesy cover bands are for North American weddings.

[Valmy]

I was not questioning the usefulness of accordions I was just not aware they were a Russian thing. And hey it is not our fault everybody has a cousin in a cheesy cover band.

[Jacob]

I was not questioning the usefulness of accordions I was just not aware they were a Russian thing.

I think they're relativel popular in other Slavic cultures as well.

And hey it is not our fault everybody has a cousin in a cheesy cover band.

No blame needs to be distributed

[CountDeMoney]

I was not questioning the usefulness of accordions I was just not aware they were a Russian thing. And hey it is not our fault everybody has a cousin in a cheesy cover band.

Accordions are big in all the Jew-hating cultures over there; in fact, the word "accordion" is loosely based on the Slavic for "sounds a Jew makes when crushed for Christ.," or something to that effect.

[Barrister]

I was not questioning the usefulness of accordions I was just not aware they were a Russian thing. And hey it is not our fault everybody has a cousin in a cheesy cover band.

At Christmas at my brother and sister-inlaws, my niece got an LP player as a gift (everything old is new again).  So her dad, my brother-in-law, dragged out some 30 or more year old records from somewhere of Ukrainian music (he's also Ukrainian by ancestry, but no relative of mine).  That stuff was gloriously awful, did feature accordions quite heavily, yet did have a toe-tapping quality to them.

My niece looked a little like she wished she'd kept the record player in the box.

[Ed Anger]

The chick holding the carpet on the right has weird feet. GROSS

[CountDeMoney]

Eww, you're right. Gollum feet.

[Ed Anger]

 

I have strange powers of observation.

[Syt]

[CountDeMoney]

Fuck you, Syt.  I had Music Maker. 

[Syt]

Did you have a pink cardigan, though?

Do you *still* have a pink cardigan?

[CountDeMoney]

Sometimes I just like to feel pretty.