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  • #76
    Hell yeah. Dosing water supplies. That **** is peak cold war.
    If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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    • #77
      Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
      I'm pretty damn sure it was over 1 million a year
      Based on what ? Your supposed skills at intuiting what happened in the great events of 20th Century history ?

      Not on the evidence so far...
      Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

      ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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      • #78
        Originally posted by onodera View Post
        The menus are hilarious. They wanted to write "a selection of X", which is literally written as "X in assortment" in Russian and is shortened to "X in ass." in every menu. Google Translate failed to understand what ass was.

        Have you seen "language in the test" as well?
        From elsewhere on the internet:

        BoC: Excuse me, waiter, I'll have an Arnold Palmer.

        Waiter: We don't have that, sir.

        BoC: Hmm...

        [looks at menu]

        Alright, make it an Arnold Fister.
        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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        • #79
          Originally posted by Serb View Post
          Germans were ok. What destroyed Romanovs were Brits and their "Grandma Victoria" with her precious gift of hemophilia.

          Nicolas II and George V were twins. Well, cousins actually.
          So not Nicholas II's detested German wife, Princess Alix of Hesse ? And his incapacity to rule ? And Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War ? What about Plehve's hostility to Witte and Witte's subsequent forced resignation ? Etc....



          Yeah, blame haemophilia.
          Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

          ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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          • #80
            Originally posted by Elok View Post
            I was putting words in the mouth of Peter the Great. My point is, there have been two Russian monarchs called "the Great," both of whom more or less openly despised Russian society, just like Western European society of the time and ever since. And you guys have been through a lot, so we should cut you some slack. C'mon, I'm trying to be sympathetic here, you dumb Slavic bastard. :wiglaf:
            It's difficult for some Russians to be proud of Catherine the Great. After all, she started out as a minor German noblewoman.

            Stillm, her armies did get to kill a lot of Muslims, and annex big chunks of Poland.
            Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

            ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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            • #81
              Originally posted by molly bloom View Post
              Yeah, blame haemophilia.

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Elok View Post
                This is arguably a big step up from Beijing.
                Disagree.
                "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                • #83
                  Originally posted by molly bloom View Post
                  It's difficult for some Russians to be proud of Catherine the Great. After all, she started out as a minor German noblewoman.
                  Why do you think so? All European monarchs were relatives more or less. It's absolutely normal. I haven't seen a single Russian who is not proud of Catherine because of her been a German Princess.
                  Last edited by Serb; February 8, 2014, 13:36.

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                    Disagree.
                    Nazi.

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                    • #85
                      oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooookay. Sure. I'm a Nazi.
                      "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                      "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                      • #86
                        The point of view from the cultural bunker has most people being Nazis.
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                        (")_(") This is Bunny. Copy and paste bunny into your signature to help him gain world domination.

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                        • #87
                          Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                          oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooookay. Sure. I'm a Nazi.
                          No ****, Sherlock. Sure you are.

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                          • #88
                            Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                            Disagree.
                            On what grounds? I mean, Putin is a thug, but the Chinese are surely at least as bad. Sochi is inappropriate climate-wise, but Beijing doesn't even have decent air to breathe. If they bussed the athletes to a place with real air to compete, then Sochi and Beijing are a draw. It still seems silly to hold a Russian Olympics in one of the few parts of the country that doesn't have snow in winter, but eh.

                            (mind you, I haven't been following all this very closely, so there's probably aspects of it I'm not familiar with)
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                            • #89
                              Originally posted by notyoueither View Post
                              The point of view from the cultural bunker has most people being Nazis.
                              Isn't the guy from that cultural bunker on your avatar, NYE?

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by Elok View Post
                                It still seems silly to hold a Russian Olympics in one of the few parts of the country that doesn't have snow in winter, but eh.

                                (mind you, I haven't been following all this very closely, so there's probably aspects of it I'm not familiar with)
                                hint: mountains

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