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Started by mongers, August 06, 2014, 03:12:53 PM

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OttoVonBismarck

#11040
October 04, 2022, 11:45:35 AM
The Caucasus regions aren't Russia.

alfred russel

#11041
October 04, 2022, 11:54:40 AM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on October 04, 2022, 11:45:35 AMThe Caucasus regions aren't Russia.

The mountains partially lie within Russia's borders...I did see however someone place a flag on a monument and an ethnic russian come and angrily take it away...someone later told me it was a regional flag with sepratist implications.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

alfred russel

#11042
October 04, 2022, 11:55:27 AM
Quote from: The Brain on October 04, 2022, 11:43:33 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 04, 2022, 11:42:06 AMI am too old and i'm not a hipster.

However, it made me think about the context of this thread...I spent a couple weeks in the Caucasus on a climbing trip I think in 2016...how many of you jokers have actually been to russia outside of the major cities?



Oooh! I have! I have! :w00t:

 :ccr
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Valmy

#11043
October 04, 2022, 11:58:25 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 04, 2022, 11:42:06 AMhow many of you jokers have actually been to russia outside of the major cities?

I have never been to Russia and I am sad about that. I probably missed the only good time to visit the country in my lifetime.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

celedhring

#11044
October 04, 2022, 12:05:17 PM
I actually was in western Ukraine many years ago, if Putin keeps annexing random bits of the country I might retroactively have visited Russia  :hmm:

Zanza

#11045
October 04, 2022, 12:05:39 PM
I have only been to Moscow and like Valmy feel a bit sad that it is unlikely that I will see St. Petersburg. :( Not sure that not seeing rural Russia is a big loss. Maybe Lake Baikal and Kamchatka...

Duque de Bragança

#11046
October 04, 2022, 12:25:57 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 04, 2022, 11:43:33 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 04, 2022, 11:42:06 AMI am too old and i'm not a hipster.

However, it made me think about the context of this thread...I spent a couple weeks in the Caucasus on a climbing trip I think in 2016...how many of you jokers have actually been to russia outside of the major cities?



Oooh! I have! I have! :w00t:

Me too. :) I went to Depardieu's former new hometown.  :frog:

Barrister

#11047
October 04, 2022, 02:04:43 PM
I'm not sure which I enjoy more:

-videos of joyous civilians greeting Ukrainian soldiers as they liberate one village after another; or

-videos from Russian TV where the pro-Putin "analysts" attempt to blame their defeats on one cause after another, all the while studiously avoiding any critique of Putin himself
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Habbaku

#11048
October 04, 2022, 02:18:45 PM
I think the former for me, but I can't help but cackle over the latter.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

crazy canuck

#11049
October 04, 2022, 02:59:52 PM
I am waiting for the announcement that "We have always been at peace with Ukraine."

Crazy_Ivan80

#11050
October 04, 2022, 03:02:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAttXqMyEi0&list=RDCMUCyOyXou98UVX8qxPv8USQNQ&start_radio=1&ab_channel=UkraineNewsTV

The Ukrainians seem to be 'on fire'. Amazing gains again.

The Russian on the other hand seem to be fired on...

Legbiter

#11051
October 04, 2022, 05:30:18 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 04, 2022, 02:04:43 PMI'm not sure which I enjoy more:

-videos of joyous civilians greeting Ukrainian soldiers as they liberate one village after another;

The most heartfelt one I've seen so far.

QuoteUkrainian soldiers in newly liberated territories are returning to the local population washing machines Russian soldiers stole.

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1576758293535391744

Posted using 100% recycled electrons.

Admiral Yi

#11052
October 04, 2022, 09:03:36 PM
Closest I've been to Russia is Hungary.

Grey Fox

#11053
October 04, 2022, 09:42:56 PM
Closest I've been to Russia is Edmonton.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Admiral Yi

#11054
October 04, 2022, 10:17:28 PM
Come to think of it I was probably closer in Korea.
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