> YOU KNOW YOU ARE RUSSIAN IF:

>

> 1. Your car costs more than your college education

> 2. Your blood has a permanent vodka content level, no matter if you

have

> been drinking or not

> 3. Any outfit you wear involves leather (even in the summer when no

coats

> are worn)

> 4. Your idea of a normal Friday or Saturday night is spending it

raving with

> 2000-3000 of your closest friends

> 5. Your idea of a love song is Track 1 of the Global Underground Party

 

> Volume 3 CD.

> 6. Things you can't live without include food, water, and a cell phone

 

> 7. Instead of notes during class you write text messages to your

friends in

> Russian font

> 8. You come home at 3am and your parents are still out partying with

all

> your  friend's parents

> 9. People are always asking you if you can get them a cheap deal on

> something... and you can

> 10. Every sentence you say or hear starts with "blyad'" and ends with

> "nahuy"

> 11. You know the new line of Nokias 3 months before they come out on

the

> market

> 12. You can't go to the movies without having to save 20 seats for

your late

> friends cuz they're buying semichki

> 13. You don't mind family get together because you know the grandmas

will be

> making dinner

> 14. You know all the cops by their first names

> 15. You know someone who works at a dental lab

> 16. You are somehow related to most of the people you know

> 17. On the weekends your place of residence is the pool hall, and

every 10

> mins the tolstii pon'chik tells you to pick up line 3

> 18. You drive a Maxima (or, in the EXTREME worst case an Altima), and

your

> windows are tinted to twice the legal limit

> 19. Your Maxima has either a RU (Russia) or UA (Ukraine) sticker on

the back

> bumper

> 20. Your Maxima is a 5 speed stick shift, and you laugh at anyone

driving an

> automatic by calling them lohs.

> 21. At any given moment you are carrying at least a dime bag of

shmal'...

> 22. Your uncle is in the Russian Mafia or is a former employee of the

KGB

> 23. You have been kicked out of the JCC at least twice for trying to

sneak

> in without paying.

> 24. You can be identified as "Russian" by your scent (D&G or Aqua de

Gio

> cologne).

> 25. The waitresses at El Greco know your order even before you say

anything.

> 26. You met your girl playing strip durak at the last party you went

to.

> 27. You get 20 speeding, red light, and stop sign tickets, and no

record of

> it in Harrisburg.

> 28. Everyone you know has a ruchka of Smirnoff in their trunk

> 29. You wake up on a Saturday morning, unable to remember which one of

your

> friends gave you a ride home because you couldn't even walk, but see

your

> car standing in the parking lot (you drove home your self).

> 30. You start thinking of bread as a good mixer for vodka.

> 31. You know more than 30 Olgas, Annas, Natashas, and Vikas

> 32. You have to tell your parents what channel is "YOUR" HBO,Showtime,

 

> Pay-Per-View is on.

> 33. You ask me each time for the link to russianvodka16/images/:)

> 34. You major in computer science or in worst case scenario

information

> systems (but you still barely know how to turn on a computer).

> 35. You have a personalized license plate.

> 36. When you are going downtown you ride in one of the last two train

cars.

> 37. Typical Friday/Saturday night phone call to your friends starts

with "So

> what are we doing tonight?"

> 38. Most of your clothes are fake brand names but you "just can't tell

them

> apart from the real ones."

> 39. If your fake id is the International Driving License who you got

through

> your friend who goes to Kingsborough.

> 40. You don't do anything during coop (you are comp sci major).

> 41. You used to work out, but you don't anymore (you just don't have

enough

> time).

> 42. Lifting a cigarette while drinking coffee in El Greco's counts as

an

> exercise.

> 43. You know the exact time it takes to get from UA Theater to El

Greco's

> (6min. 44 seconds)

> 44. Have a fake Movado because you can't afford a real Rolex.

> 45. Once in a while you attempt to go to synagogue but you never make

it

> past the door because you meet so many people you haven't seen for so

long.

> 46. Some English words like "use, shop, apply, and etc" permanently

become a

> part of your conversational speech and they start conjugating

according to

> Russian language rules.

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