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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Good. Fuck Iran. Their only embassy should be in N. Korea or maybe D.C. |
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For a sensible chuckle read on…
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Pranksters tell Kremlin official’s som he is being enlisted.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pranksters-tell-kremlin-officials-son-hes-being-enlisted-he-refused-2022-9 The hosts of the Russian YouTube channel Popular Politics called the 32-year-old son of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The pranksters, who pretended to be recruitment officers, told the 32-year-old Nikolay Peskov that he has been drafted into the army and needed to attend a medical examination the following day. "Obviously not!" the younger Peskov told the pranksters, according to a video shared by independent Russian news website The Insider. "You must understand it is not right for me to be there. I have to resolve this on a different level." |
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Originally Posted By sq40: I really hope no nuke will ever be set off in anger again. But, knowing the way the world works, it’s just a matter of time until it happens. I *think* the world would be so shook up over even a tactical nuclear weapon use, it would rapidly cascade into a decision tree of making preemptive strikes to remove Russia’s nuclear capabilities all together. The fear is just too great, and so many people will demand the threat be eliminated, that it will snowball. Perhaps in minutes or hours. This particular situation is all possible because of one man’s ego. He is a deceiver, a conqueror, and possibly the wealthiest man alive. He has a whole church of which he controls, and nearly 200 million people under his control. He is on the cusp of being the Antichrist. View Quote I actually dreamt that a couple nights ago. Trumpets and fire in the sky, revelations shit. The stuff nightmares… |
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Bitch, sit down. Get out the way, get out the way. |
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Originally Posted By Dracster: "Turkey advocates the abolition of Russia's right of veto in the UN Security Council Turkish Foreign Minister Mevl t avu o lu stressed that his country is in favor of replacing the right of veto to decision-making by majority vote. Recall that thanks to this right, Russia, which is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, blocks any decisions aimed at counteracting its own crimes." (The middle sentence makes it sound like all permanent member vetoes, not just Russia's.) View Quote I'm for this, it would have saved us from iraq |
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Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: What's your native language? I've been very slowly learning Russian for years and learning a language and all the context, exceptions, etc is just mind boggling. View Quote Hungarian It is phonetic and uses a lot of accent marks and dots. You pronounce every letter in the word. When I told my Hungarian family that we use the dictionary often to find out how to spell words they looked at me like I was a retard. "A dictionary is used to teach children. Are you sure you learned English?" And the concept of a spelling bee!! Totally lost on them. |
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Originally Posted By CenterMass762: Duolingo is a pretty good app. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By CenterMass762: Originally Posted By sq40: Originally Posted By dillydilly: Originally Posted By sq40: Thank you! Any other major city/oblast pronunciations that westerners get wrong? I don’t want to misspeak again. Ya Kharkiv. Same thing, K is silent. That’s about all I can think of. I’m sure someone else will chime in with some others. Thank you. Now I need to learn the alphabet. Hell, I might learn Ukrainian on one of those apps. It may come in handy one day. Duolingo is a pretty good app. I am about 4 months and 2/3 of the way through Duolngo’s Ukrainian lessons. I am learning words and phrases and probably know enough to get by as a tourist. Learning the grammar has been a challenge. I am supplementing it with resources and podcasts through Ukrainian.Lessons.com. The opportunity to practice with native speakers is critical to becoming fluent. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO: For a sensible chuckle read on…
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"People, ideas, and hardware...in that order!" Col John Boyd
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Hungarian It is phonetic and uses a lot of accent marks and dots. You pronounce every letter in the word. When I told my Hungarian family that we use the dictionary often to find out how to spell words they looked at me like I was a retard. "A dictionary is used to teach children. Are you sure you learned English?" And the concept of a spelling bee!! Totally lost on them. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By RolandofGilead: What's your native language? I've been very slowly learning Russian for years and learning a language and all the context, exceptions, etc is just mind boggling. Hungarian It is phonetic and uses a lot of accent marks and dots. You pronounce every letter in the word. When I told my Hungarian family that we use the dictionary often to find out how to spell words they looked at me like I was a retard. "A dictionary is used to teach children. Are you sure you learned English?" And the concept of a spelling bee!! Totally lost on them. Ha that's hilarious. English is kind of a nightmare. My wife asks me questions about weird pronunciations and the conversation goes like this: Attached File |
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
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Originally Posted By SkiShooter: I am about 4 months and 2/3 of the way through Duolngo's Ukrainian lessons. I am learning words and phrases and probably know enough to get by as a tourist. Learning the grammar has been a challenge. I am supplementing it with resources and podcasts through Ukrainian.Lessons.com. The opportunity to practice with native speakers is critical to becoming fluent. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SkiShooter: Originally Posted By CenterMass762: Originally Posted By sq40: Originally Posted By dillydilly: Originally Posted By sq40: Thank you! Any other major city/oblast pronunciations that westerners get wrong? I don't want to misspeak again. Ya Kharkiv. Same thing, K is silent. That's about all I can think of. I'm sure someone else will chime in with some others. Thank you. Now I need to learn the alphabet. Hell, I might learn Ukrainian on one of those apps. It may come in handy one day. Duolingo is a pretty good app. I am about 4 months and 2/3 of the way through Duolngo's Ukrainian lessons. I am learning words and phrases and probably know enough to get by as a tourist. Learning the grammar has been a challenge. I am supplementing it with resources and podcasts through Ukrainian.Lessons.com. The opportunity to practice with native speakers is critical to becoming fluent. I've found Duolingo and talking with a native speaker is good for phrases and such, and I like the app Drops just for pure vocab |
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer
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What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Massive movement of US troops observed in Poland |
Panem et Circenses
Since it cost a lot to win and even more to lose... |
What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Lithuania will not provide asylum to those Russians who simply run away from responsibility and try to hide from mobilization, wrote Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis “The Russians must stay and fight. Against Putin,” the minister wrote |
Panem et Circenses
Since it cost a lot to win and even more to lose... |
Originally Posted By panthermark: /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/5ddc336bfd9db244c913783d-460.gif /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/vladimir-putin-laughing_zpsov82lsef_GIF-129.gif View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By panthermark: Originally Posted By Grendelsbane: You mean, like troopers digging foxholes in the immediate environs of Chernobyl? /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/5ddc336bfd9db244c913783d-460.gif /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/vladimir-putin-laughing_zpsov82lsef_GIF-129.gif I thought about those guys the other day in passing wondering if they were still alive. Then I shrugged. |
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“If by chance you were to ask me which ornaments I would desire above all others in my house, I would reply, without much pause for reflection, arms and books.”
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Originally Posted By Waldo: Probably. I don't have much in the way of blood lust, but I wouldn't look away from seeing one shred a Russian aircraft in real time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Waldo: Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: 6000 rounds of ammo!!?? That like what, a 10 second burst? Probably. I don't have much in the way of blood lust, but I wouldn't look away from seeing one shred a Russian aircraft in real time. I would pay for a video of a Gepard shredding a Kamov or a Hind. |
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Originally Posted By Prime:
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"the science" /duh si-ens/ noun: progressive postmodern religious dogma not based in tested hypothesis or facts used to advance an authoritative political ideology
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Fingers crossed I can use the "It has been 0 days since the last death of a Russian General" meme. |
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Originally Posted By CPT_CAVEMAN: And it's coming to a country near you. Can already see them starting the beat down View Quote I agree. The craziness that led to Russian dysfunctional culture is in human nature everywhere. Russians dont lack a chromosome or function with sub 80 IQ. They simply tried communism. Hard. America, at least until recently, has been a freak anomaly of selfless individualism. But the normal status quo of human existence is closer to Russia then to the USA. And we are trying to kill ourselves. |
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Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: 6000 rounds of ammo!!?? That like what, a 10 second burst? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By ITCHY-FINGER: Originally Posted By Prime: It's coming, though I bet very very delayed.
6000 rounds of ammo!!?? That like what, a 10 second burst? |
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Originally Posted By SkiShooter: I am about 4 months and 2/3 of the way through Duolngo’s Ukrainian lessons. I am learning words and phrases and probably know enough to get by as a tourist. Learning the grammar has been a challenge. I am supplementing it with resources and podcasts through Ukrainian.Lessons.com. The opportunity to practice with native speakers is critical to becoming fluent. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By SkiShooter: Originally Posted By CenterMass762: Originally Posted By sq40: Originally Posted By dillydilly: Originally Posted By sq40: Thank you! Any other major city/oblast pronunciations that westerners get wrong? I don’t want to misspeak again. Ya Kharkiv. Same thing, K is silent. That’s about all I can think of. I’m sure someone else will chime in with some others. Thank you. Now I need to learn the alphabet. Hell, I might learn Ukrainian on one of those apps. It may come in handy one day. Duolingo is a pretty good app. I am about 4 months and 2/3 of the way through Duolngo’s Ukrainian lessons. I am learning words and phrases and probably know enough to get by as a tourist. Learning the grammar has been a challenge. I am supplementing it with resources and podcasts through Ukrainian.Lessons.com. The opportunity to practice with native speakers is critical to becoming fluent. It’s not easy, lol. I’m doing the same thing as you, but less quickly. I’m really trying to grasp the alphabet flawlessly and repeating the sections until I’m not translating in my head. I wish I had a local group of cool anti-communist Ukrainians to hang with and learn from. Immersion would get me way further at this point. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote Just when I start to feel sorry for the average Russian soldier... |
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83:
Massive movement of US troops observed in Poland View Quote Training exercise. How was the wheat harvest in Kansas this year?.... Would be an interesting remake of Red Dawn. |
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
View Quote I could've sworn one Russian filmed himself raping a kid and the Russians put him in prison. This was a few months ago I guess the bad news is he's probably Wagner by now |
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Originally Posted By BustinCaps: It’s not easy, lol. I’m doing the same thing as you, but less quickly. I’m really trying to grasp the alphabet flawlessly and repeating the sections until I’m not translating in my head. I wish I had a local group of cool anti-communist Ukrainians to hang with and learn from. Immersion would get me way further at this point. View Quote I lasted ONE DAY in Russian class in college. I saw the alphabet and I was gone. Totally unrelated...a section of a fence we share with our neighbor fell and I went over to ask if they want to spilt the cost of a new fence...they are Ukrainians and have a family there from Ukraine (grandmother, mom, and a young boy). I almost hugged them and tried my only Ukrainian "Slava Ukraini" (well also cuka but the time was not right). They seemed very nice but nervous. Spoke no English. Anyway I havnt seen them since and they probably thought I was KGB or something. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Wonder what would happen if all of the referendums failed for Putin? Would that give him an out?
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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." -Hunter S. Thompson
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83: things are changing around the world
View Quote Looks like he tried to spray her with mace or something |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By HIPPO:
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Coyote with 40 people crammed into a minivan gets into a chase with DPS, Paco over estimates his driving abilities and *whmmo!* the Astrovan of Immigration becomes a Pinata of Pain, hurling broken bodies like so many tasty pieces of cheap candy...
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By sq40: Wonder what would happen if all of the referendums failed for Putin? Would that give him an out? View Quote Is that a joke? The Russians determined the outcome of this referendum long before it ever began. There is no “referendum.” It is a complete, total, 100% farce. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By Dominion21: Is that a joke? The Russians determined the outcome of this referendum long before it ever began. There is no “referendum.” It is a complete, total, 100% farce. View Quote We all know that. He is just wondering what putin would do if somehow it went against him. IF putin wants out of this, it would be a great opportunity. But I think putin is only willing to win or burn the world if he can't have it. |
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Russia decides to use nukes, no one is going to retaliate in kind. Biden won't trade US cities for Ukraine.
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Originally Posted By R0N: They are treated just like other armored vehicles, the preferred means to move them is via transport to as close to where they will be used to prevent wear and tear. The big reason the USMC got rid of SPs in the late 80s was the mobility portion of the system is the most maintenance intense portion of the system, and guns were generally down because they could not be driven. But with towed weapons, if the prime mover goes down, you don’t lose the system, you just replace the prime mover and drive on. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By R0N: Originally Posted By Bama_Rebel: Originally Posted By Featureless: Originally Posted By Glock63: Originally Posted By AROKIE: not really, when used in firebases like we did in afghanistan that covered an AO, towed artillery worked perfect. But if you are moving frontlines and shooting and moving then mobile artillery is King. An army needs both to be effective A self propelled howitzer can sit at a firebase just as well as a towed piece if the need arises. I guess lighter towed guns might be needed in the inventory in case they need to be airlifted to remote locations. Towed gear can be towed by a wide range of tow vehicles. Self propelled is harder and heavier to move if the propulsion gear fails or is damaged. do they transport the sph to the front on a truck and trailer or do they drive it? Seems like a gas hog either way They are treated just like other armored vehicles, the preferred means to move them is via transport to as close to where they will be used to prevent wear and tear. The big reason the USMC got rid of SPs in the late 80s was the mobility portion of the system is the most maintenance intense portion of the system, and guns were generally down because they could not be driven. But with towed weapons, if the prime mover goes down, you don’t lose the system, you just replace the prime mover and drive on. That's kinda what I was thinking. Sorta like a camper vs an RV. What was the pro argument for the sph, further firing range?. Seems like the self propelled might be more accurate as well due to not jumping around when fired |
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Originally Posted By ArmedKulak: And the 'o' is pronounced as in 'owned' View Quote Here is a recording of it. Under Ukrainian. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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Originally Posted By Dominion21: Is that a joke? The Russians determined the outcome of this referendum long before it ever began. There is no "referendum." It is a complete, total, 100% farce. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Dominion21: Originally Posted By sq40: Wonder what would happen if all of the referendums failed for Putin? Would that give him an out? Is that a joke? The Russians determined the outcome of this referendum long before it ever began. There is no "referendum." It is a complete, total, 100% farce. Of course, but the point is that it could give Putin an out. "Oh you don't want to be part of Russia? Ok, we killed all the Nazis so we'll go home now" Of course he won't, but it's a hypothetical "out"...one he won't take. |
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Originally Posted By stgdz: I'm for this, it would have saved us from iraq View Quote Nope. I'm not sure we can fully depend on majority votes in the Security Council. It was set up for veto by the permanent members for a reason. Permanent members: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States Non-permanent members: Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Arab Emirates. When you look at the make up and voting tendencies of the UN as a whole and some of it's committees, we don't want "democracy" at work there. |
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It's not stupid, it's advanced!!
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What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Panem et Circenses
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In the previous page, Jack mentioned the mobilization and looking inward. Is the mobilization not for taking Ukraine, but instead protecting Russian borders after nukes are launched?
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Originally Posted By DOW: Biden is a fucking senile old man. I put nothing past him. Nothing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By DOW: Originally Posted By shark101au: Russia decides to use nukes, no one is going to retaliate in kind. Biden won't trade US cities for Ukraine. Biden is a fucking senile old man. I put nothing past him. Nothing. He'll go back to the 1980s in his head and let em fly! |
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