People around here are very happy to see me in my Ukrainian fur coat. Passersby light up when they see it. I get endless compliments.
What I don’t get is, why don’t people wear them if they like them so much? And please don’t tell me they can’t afford. Every woman in Ukraine can afford a fur coat, and Americans can’t? We afforded them even in the USSR. I thought maybe people are opposed on ideological grounds around here but judging by the reaction, they aren’t.
It’s so warm in a fur coat, if you never tried, you have no idea. Warm, light, roomy. We are having the coldest winter since I moved to the area, and I can’t believe it’s actually cold enough for the fur.
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Anything that’s actually stylish or interesting, the average American thinks they’re not cool or good enough to wear it. Or they’re just not willing to put any effort into dressing themselves.
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Yeah, fur coats (especially full-length ones) haven’t been “cool” for a long fucking time. I’m sure there are exceptions but for the most part they just scream “mob-wife.”
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Your first and second sentences contradict each other…
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Fur has gotten out of fashion for animal cruelty reasons. Fur harvesting is an order of magnitude more cruel than factory farming. And these days you have excellent technical fabrics that’ll handle most temperatures, unless you’re going below -40 or something. Then it’s back to animal hides.
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Been there, done that. Working at 40 below is truly a b!tch, and in most places you are not covered by Workers Compensation. The best parkas are goose down filled with a wolf fur trimmed hood, under clothing and socks should be layered of high quality wool, a fine wool scarf is wise, so are snowmobile pants and gloves, boots should be heavy felt lined. And never mind people, remember that even mild steel can crack and break at those temperatures ;-D
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Hi Clarissa may i ask for your help?
Martin OdoniTheCritique Archives From England wrote a piece called: Get in your own lane, JLM [VIDEO]
He erased what I wrote, then made a response in my name:
mosckerr
3d ago
Israelis can fuck off, they’re all wankers. Oh, and nobody bother reading the unhinged bullshit on the Conflict Resolution blog, it’s all written a bigoted imbecile.
Then responded
Martin Odoni
mosckerr
1d ago
I agree on both counts.
I did not write this. Then he blocked me. This is the second time I have encountered a person who has done this behavior on WordPress. What’s more I cannot seem to report this abuse to WordPress. What can I do about it. This person has a computer savvy way above my limited knowledge.
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lol this is funny.
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WordPress is just a platform for blog creation, not a social media platform like facebook or twitter, so they’re not going to care what the users do unless it’s blatantly illegal, they’re not in the business of community management.
As for what you can do, have you considered starting your own blog? The comment section on most blogs is for comments related to the main post, so posting what should be its own post as a comment in someone else’s is usually considered rude, like barging in a conversation between people you don’t know and changing the subject. Some blog authors feel that this justifies them being rude in return.
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Thank You.
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You’re welcome. You have a very distinct voice, it’s a pity for your writing to be lost in the chatter rather than having its own corner of the Internet to live in 🙂 Then if you start writing on-topic comments on people’s blogs from your wordpress account rather than your email (like methylethyl here does, for example), it’s a good way of attracting attention to your own writing without being intrusive 🙂
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Hi Stille, I share some of my writings with Clarissa consequent to her high education. Thank you for your good advice. :)))
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Hi Stille, I share some of my writings with Clarissa consequent to her high education. Thank you for your good advice. :)))
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First Light of Hanukkah
Time oriented mitzva from the Torah IF a person affixes prophetic mussar as the מלכות of the oath sworn ברכה לשמה. Now that’s how the B’HaG, also known as Baal HaMaor,,, (based upon his commentary to the Rif’s famous halachic code) [[This, the student of the Rif, and Rabbeinu Gershom]],,, learned.
This unique poskin of Halacha, that tohor time oriented commandments could make an aliyah of positive and negative toldot commandments unto time oriented Av commandments to create from nothing the chosen Cohen people in all generations יש מאין. Furthermore, he argued an even larger chiddush, even halachic rabbinic mitzvot – if elevated to time oriented Av commandments by means of interpreting the k’vanna of prophetic mussar tohor middot – as the מלכות of the sworn ברכה, these rabbinic commandments too became Mitzvot from the Torah!
However the מלחמת השם directly challenged the priority to interpret the k’vanna of mitzvot, over the need to establish religious halachic codifications as the Rif code clearly accomplished. The commentary written by the RambaN on the Rif halachic code, the dispute between the B’HaG and the RambaN (which also included the Raavad III – this מחלקת ראשונים) … disputed matters of priority.
Whether to learn the T’NaCH\Talmud in order to interpret the k’vanna of tohor Oral Torah middot, as learned from T’NaCH/Talmudic Primary sources vs. the establishment of religious halachic codifications, to cement the religion of Judaism, during the dark ages of Medieval Europe.
Herein defines the essence of the dispute which ripped Jewish communities apart from Spain, to France, to England and Germany. This terrible Jewish Civil War erupted into an all out brawl after the Rambam published his Yad Ha’Zakah. That the RambaN named his commentary to the Rif code מלחמת השם testifies to the bitter fierceness of this brutal Jewish Civil War.
War brings chaos and anarchy. Civil War brings foreign intervention. Picture a dead carcass where lions, hyenas, wild dogs, and vultures all fight to consume the carcass of some trief animal … this depicts a Civil War. How many countries in Syria today? Iraq invaded Iran immediately after the Khomeini revolution in 1979. 1980 Iraq invaded. G’lut Jewish Civil War did not have vast Armies as did the American Civil War where England Russia and France threatened to intervene. But it most definitely experienced foreign interventions!
Henry Seward the Yankee Secretary of State, the European equivalent of Foreign Minister, prevented PM Gladstone from recognizing the Confederate states. Russia threatened to send its navy to Yankee ports and also to widen the American Civil War into a general war across Europe, if England initiated to break the Union blockade of Confederate Ports. Secretary of State Seward pulled a clever stratagem. He knew that PM Gladstone and FM Lord Russell detested one another. Therefore he sent two diplomatic notes conveying opposite messages to Gladstone and Russell.
The Industrial revolution began in England. Hence England, the first European country to outlaw slavery! The Yankee States also Industrialized as did France, especially after Napoleon’s defeat at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Both the Southern Confederacy and Russia maintained a feudal agricultural based slavery/serf economy. In 1864 both Lincoln and the Czar of Russia outlawed slavery. Both the consequences of military victory/defeats. Lincoln following the battle of Gettsburg & Russia after the 1856 Crimean War. Where Russia faced off against industrialized England and France, and lost that war just as the Confederate South lost the Civil War to those Damned Yankees!!!!!
Southern bitterness has not diminished to this day. Jewish bitterness because lions, tigers, bears and wolves have mauled our trief bodies over and again since the Rambam Civil War have caused the Jewish people to forget the extreme bitterness of that specific horrible Jewish Civil War which plunged Jews into chaos and anarchy following publication of the Rambam’s Yad Chazakah halachic code of “Statute Law”.
Secretary of State Seward sent a diplomatic note to PM Gladstone saying America would tolerate, if England traded Confederate long strand cotton (Only in 1864 did a similar long strand cotton start growing in Egypt. British mills required long strand cotton.), by acquiring it through the Mexico-Texas border; to prevent the British navy from breaking the Union blockade of Southern ports! Secretary of State Seward sent a different diplomatic note to Foreign Minister Lord Russell. In that note Seward bluntly stated that if England attempted to bi-pass the Union blockade of Confederate ports, by trading through Mexico, that such a hostile act – Washington would consider as a pre-text for War between England & the United States.
Secretary of State Seward gambled that the two men, Gladstone & Russell, would not communicate and share their received diplomatic Notes from Seward. Gladstone, deceived by Seward’s diplomatic note, immediately dispatched British troops to acquire Southern Cotton in Mexico. Secretary of State Seward issued an Ultimatum of War, and Foreign Secretary Russell waved his diplomatic note in front of the whole of Parliament, and called the PM a warmonger! This diplomatic crisis almost brought down the Gladstone majority in Parliament! British politics entered into a state of chaos and anarchy!
In this near collapse of the British government, during the ensuing chaos and anarchy – of the fox in the hen house – Bismarck of Prussia initiated his 3 little wars which turned Prussia (dismembered Poland) into the 2nd Germanic empire. That damned Yankee Seward set up a domino effect ירידות הדורות, which triggered the 1st & 2nd World Wars and the Shoah! The resurrection from the dead of the Jewish state, 2000+ years after Rome expelled almost all Jews living in Judea and renamed the land “Palestine”, also a direct result of Secretary of State Seward stratagem to prevent PM Gladstone recognizing the Confederate right to self-determination.
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why don’t people wear them if they like them so much?
Import duties? Female crab-bucketing and need to conform?
Fur is ideal and if there was ever a species that had being raised for fur coming it’s mink.
Very sustainable from a conservation perspective, and accessible at a small operator level (local business model) as well.
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