How Russians Change Light Bulbs
This article will let you get acquainted with how the Russians change a light bulb. This is kind of humorous 'do it yourself' advice with a different culture approach. What can you learn from the below information? First of all, it just may be interesting to see some simple things that the Russians can do differently than you. There might be many aspects of home improvement actions and procedures, but we will speak about some single things that are very distinctive. So how to make a light bulb work again if all of a sudden the light turned off.
So the first action of a Russian person who is sitting in the room and reading his favorite newspaper called 'Pravda' (in translation it means 'The Truth') after the light goes off will be saying something definitely not nice about the electricity, the government, the mother-in-law and the light bulb itself. Then, going in the dark, the guy will come up to the box with matches. All Russians have a box with matches, as well as canned meat, packs with salt and a couple of boxes with ammo just in case. So if there are no other signals of apocalypse rather than simply the absence of light, then the guy will open the box with matches first, will take a candle and will light it up.
If there is no sounds of fire-gun in the street, so there is no need to do anything rather than take one of the boxes (the one with matches will go), move it to the center of the room and use it as a ladder to reach to the light bulb. After that a two powerful turning movement anticlockwise and the old broken light bulb is in hands.
There may be no need in a new light bulb because the old one with tungsten filament can still work if the filament is not destroyed completely. Just turn the lightbulb the way so that the filamnet is connected again and turn the light on. Electricity will go and will solder the connection. And the thing will work for some more days and even weeks.
After the light is again on, the guy will sit down on his wooden chair again, wil take his paper again and will have a snack with brown bread (the Russians call it black bread by the way, not brown) and onion with salt.
Let's summarize what experience you can take from this guy. If you still use old type light bulbs, don't throw them away as they stop working, They still may function if you tweak them like it is described in the article above.
So the first action of a Russian person who is sitting in the room and reading his favorite newspaper called 'Pravda' (in translation it means 'The Truth') after the light goes off will be saying something definitely not nice about the electricity, the government, the mother-in-law and the light bulb itself. Then, going in the dark, the guy will come up to the box with matches. All Russians have a box with matches, as well as canned meat, packs with salt and a couple of boxes with ammo just in case. So if there are no other signals of apocalypse rather than simply the absence of light, then the guy will open the box with matches first, will take a candle and will light it up.
If there is no sounds of fire-gun in the street, so there is no need to do anything rather than take one of the boxes (the one with matches will go), move it to the center of the room and use it as a ladder to reach to the light bulb. After that a two powerful turning movement anticlockwise and the old broken light bulb is in hands.
There may be no need in a new light bulb because the old one with tungsten filament can still work if the filament is not destroyed completely. Just turn the lightbulb the way so that the filamnet is connected again and turn the light on. Electricity will go and will solder the connection. And the thing will work for some more days and even weeks.
After the light is again on, the guy will sit down on his wooden chair again, wil take his paper again and will have a snack with brown bread (the Russians call it black bread by the way, not brown) and onion with salt.
Let's summarize what experience you can take from this guy. If you still use old type light bulbs, don't throw them away as they stop working, They still may function if you tweak them like it is described in the article above.
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