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[MadImmortalMan]

Ouch

My Wife Is My Sister
In a live chat, Prudie counsels a man about an unthinkable discovery.

Q. Nasty Surprise: When my wife and I met in college, the attraction was immediate, and we quickly became inseparable. We had a number of things in common, we came from the same large metropolitan area, and we both wanted to return there after school, so everything was very natural between us. We married soon after graduation, moved back closer to our families, and had three children by the time we were 30. We were both born to lesbians, she to a couple, and me to a single woman. She had sought out her biological father as soon as she turned 18, as the sperm bank her parents used allowed contact once the children were 18 if both parties consented. I never was interested in learning about that for myself, but she felt we were cheating our future children by not learning everything we could about my past, too. Well, our anniversary is coming up and I decided to go ahead and, as a present to my wife, see if my biological father was interested in contact as well. He was, and even though our parents had used different sperm banks, it appears so did our father, as he is the same person. On the one hand, I love my wife more than I can say, and logically, done is done, we already have children. I have had a vasectomy, so we won't be having any more, so perhaps there is no harm in continuing as we are. But, I can't help but think "This is my sister" every time I look at her now. I haven't said anything to her yet, and I don't know if I should or not. Where do I go from here? I am tempted to burn everything I got from the sperm bank and just try to forget it all, but I'm not sure if I can. Please help me figure out where to go from here.

What advice would you give? Do you think Dear Prudence got trolled?   

[mongers]

Ouch

My Wife Is My Sister
In a live chat, Prudie counsels a man about an unthinkable discovery.

Q. Nasty Surprise: When my wife and I met in college, the attraction was immediate, and we quickly became inseparable. We had a number of things in common, we came from the same large metropolitan area, and we both wanted to return there after school, so everything was very natural between us. We married soon after graduation, moved back closer to our families, and had three children by the time we were 30. We were both born to lesbians, she to a couple, and me to a single woman. She had sought out her biological father as soon as she turned 18, as the sperm bank her parents used allowed contact once the children were 18 if both parties consented. I never was interested in learning about that for myself, but she felt we were cheating our future children by not learning everything we could about my past, too. Well, our anniversary is coming up and I decided to go ahead and, as a present to my wife, see if my biological father was interested in contact as well. He was, and even though our parents had used different sperm banks, it appears so did our father, as he is the same person. On the one hand, I love my wife more than I can say, and logically, done is done, we already have children. I have had a vasectomy, so we won't be having any more, so perhaps there is no harm in continuing as we are. But, I can't help but think "This is my sister" every time I look at her now. I haven't said anything to her yet, and I don't know if I should or not. Where do I go from here? I am tempted to burn everything I got from the sperm bank and just try to forget it all, but I'm not sure if I can. Please help me figure out where to go from here.

What advice would you give? Do you think Dear Prudence got trolled?   

It's possible, like a one in ten thousand chance, but since this happened on the interwebs, yeah she got trolled. 

[Razgovory]

What was the point of that, Tim?

[garbon]

What advice would you give? Do you think Dear Prudence got trolled?   

Take the secret to the grave.

[Eddie Teach]

What advice would you give?

Ask her if she would give him a kidney if he needed one.

[Malthus]

What advice would you give?

Become one of those who finds that Hott. 

[jimmy olsen]

What was the point of that, Tim?

Thought it was amusing.

Moving on, I'd totally watch this.

[Ed Anger]

Ugh to the retard art.

Anyways, game spy,ugo and some other game site are shutting down. Back when I was a video game nerd, I would have cared.

[Eddie Teach]

The art is dumb. The concept, otoh, of Star Trek meets Planet of the Apes, is oddly intriguing. 

[derspiess]

Russian language experts: what does this say?  I'm guessing that the last part says year 1973, but the rest I dunno.

[merithyn]

Fair warning: Tonight, I intend to get drunk. I have a bottle of wine, and I'm not afraid to drink it.

[mongers]

Fair warning: Tonight, I intend to get drunk. I have a bottle of wine, and I'm not afraid to drink it.

Good luck with that.

I'm off to bed.   

[Tonitrus]

Russian language experts: what does this say?  I'm guessing that the last part says year 1973, but the rest I dunno.

My best guess is some kind of quality control inspection certificate.

The first word just means "label/stamp/ticket/tab, etc"

Not sure about the "oshinovshchick", but from the construct of the word, some sort of profession.  From the roots, I'd guess someone who works on/with tires (edit: further research it could also be related to electrical transformers)

OTK usually has to do with technical inspections (otdel' tekhnicheskyy kontrol), basically, the department of "quality control".

Zak. is likely "zakaz", as in an order (like a purchase order, or item order).  The last number is definitely a date... the "g." is usually always "goda", or "year".

[fhdz]

Ugh to the retard art.

Anyways, game spy,ugo and some other game site are shutting down. Back when I was a video game nerd, I would have cared.

Gamespy blows.

1UP was really neat, though. It'll be a shame to see them go.

[Tonitrus]

Found this site, with some Russians discussing an almost identical label...

http://murmolka.com/post/107843/Druzya-Bumajka-iz-korobki-s-7-62h54R-amunitsiey-CHto-takoe

Most agree that this kind of label is found in boxes of ammunition, and that the ошиновщик is probably a guy who works in packing the ammunition (at the factory) into boxes and onto pallets.

Thanks for the opportunity to get some language practice in.