On Mon, 2025-10-20 at 17:54 -0500, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: > Russian (I include the old USSR satellites) TV is a pure, unpadded > descent into a hopeless trudge through hell.
From IMDB quotes about a Brokenwood series episode in which an actor is killed onstage during a local theater production: * Gina Kadinsky [1]: What was the performance? * Mike Shepherd [2]: Hamlet. * Gina Kadinsky [1]: [laughs] The Russian play. * Mike Shepherd [2]: Hamlet was from Russia? * Gina Kadinsky [1]: No, but he is very Russian. He worries too much, complains about everything, takes too long to make up his mind, and when he finally does, it all ends badly anyway. Such is life. My Russian colleague said that Russian men can do three things indefinitely: * Watch water run * Watch fire burn * Watch other men work [1] Gina Kadinsky https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1375380/?ref_=ttqu_qu [2] Mike Shepherd https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0713761/?ref_=ttqu_qu
