@bens By the way, just like the bottle of your shame, there is an NFC chip on the cork. If you tap the NFC antenna of your phone to the top of the bottle, it will link the person who scans it to the BNSI stock market to see what it looks like now.

You are free to reprogram it as you deem fit -- like a message in a bottle!

@Quroe wait WHAAAAAT?!

@bens I'm an engineer. We make cool things.

But why a samovar with khokhloma? It's like kitsch squared: on the most basic level - the actual samovar, and then the real khokhloma was always on wood.

@MaxA take it up with my grandparents

@bens oh. my. god.

I found this samovar, looks like Soviet production from the 1980s. I guess that's about when your grandparents got out of the country?

@MaxA ya they left in I think 81, but i doubt this was brought with them? They had to travel quite light IIRC, so probably this is just some imported slop