The embrace of algae

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Apparently being covered in pond slime can be a Good Thing:

That's an advertisement in the elevator at the LREC 2016 site. The legend sounds like a chapter heading from a dystopian SF novel, but apparently it's an experience worth 46,80 €.



16 Comments

  1. Victor Mair said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 7:48 am

    Google Translate yields: "Eden hug algae".

  2. Victor Mair said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 8:02 am

    Now back to Slovenian: "EDEN objem alge".

  3. Victor Mair said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 8:13 am

    Algae is skin care's "new miracle incredient".

  4. Coby Lubliner said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 9:14 am

    Rajski (or rajský) is, in several Slavic languages, the adjective corresponding to raj (paradise), and is best translated as 'heavenly', as Google Translate does for Polish and Serbian-Bosnian-Croatian.

  5. Coby Lubliner said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 9:16 am

    I just noticed Paradise Spa in the picture.

  6. Curtis G. Booth said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 9:23 am

    Paradisiacal is too obscure, I guess.

  7. un malpaso said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 10:35 am

    I can offer the same experience at a fraction of the price down by the river behind my Atlanta apartment.

  8. Jerry Friedman said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 10:45 am

    Curtis G. Booth:

    Paradisiacal is too obscure, I guess.

    So are paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, and paradisiac—some of them so much that I had to look them up.

  9. D.O. said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 3:07 pm

    At least they are not trying towel you leeches.

  10. D.O. said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 3:08 pm

    towel = to sell. Sorry

  11. cameron said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 7:50 pm

    This puts me in mind of the early George R.R. Martin story "A Song for Lya".

  12. Viseguy said,

    May 26, 2016 @ 10:14 pm

    What an ad! (русский: ад)

  13. Robot Therapist said,

    May 27, 2016 @ 8:43 am

    What's it all about, algae?

  14. Coby Lubliner said,

    May 27, 2016 @ 9:33 am

    Viseguy: do you mean рaйский?

  15. Keith said,

    May 27, 2016 @ 10:45 am

    @Cory
    Maybe a play on words, bewteen ад as an abbreviation for "advertisement", and ад being the Russian word for "hell"… Being smeared with algae might not be everybody's idea of paradise.

  16. Viseguy said,

    May 27, 2016 @ 7:58 pm

    @Keith: Just so.

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