The Russian army

[Lilith7]

Yeah, I'd heard about their high rate of alcoholism - probably just as bad with other drugs, too I suppose. I wonder if they have AA over there, poor buggers.


I suppose I shouldn't but am unable to resist - how do you happen to have such familiarity with Russian condoms??

the russian ones are short and chunky with tread that have 'ussr' in Cyrillic down the length.
the american ones are much bigger and have 'Proudly Made in the United States of America' written down the length.

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mr putin has shot himself in the foot quite badly.
many european countries have been weaning themselves of russian oil.
i think the finns or the dutch have been stockpiling such is their lack of faith in russias ability to supply.
this has accelerated that process markedly.

thats all russia has got. gas and oil. and theyre screwing that up. they make bugger all else to be exported anywhere. so shoddy is their workmanship much of their production has no market anywhere else.

That'll teach me for asking!


I wouldn't be surprised if the Scandinavian countries have been stockpiling; they're relatively sensible countries especially by comparison with Russia.

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Someone on Al J was talking about banning nukes and I yelled at the screen why just nukes? Why not all war materials?

Why not indeed...

We are such stupid animals.

Yes - exactly. Teach peace, teach self control, & destroy all those barbaric weapons capable of slaughtering millions.

The world is a weird place. And humans are crazy.

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I've had a couple of Lada's and a Ural...although the Ural had a VW engine. Talking to a guy, maybe last century, and he went to Russia to get a Ural from the factory. There were 2 Ural factories, one for export, and one for local sales...he had a tour of both. In the local production factory everyone   was drunk....in the export plant they were all sober, and the quality of product was far superior.

I have a friend who went to Russia for a couple of orphans...good kids.

There was a TV series a while ago, done by one of the kids adopted in Russia & brought here. Having eventually made contact with his birth family, he was helping other kids in the same situation to find their biological families.
Some of the stories were really interesting.