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AKA Pseudonym posted:They don't take them away to shelters and put them to sleep. They just kill them right there in the street, bag them up, and go. Most former Soviet cities have huge numbers of strays and no pounds. Sounds way more efficient.
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Cosima posted:This is the non-hell version of this: If you ever buy fresh snapper and like to eat the head, make sure you check the tongue.
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drat we had a guy die of exposure at the end of my street 12-years ago. He was dressed the same, was laying in a snowdrift in front of a parked car, and his skin was bright orange due to the cold. He was a Section 8 resident of the nearby motel, apparently in a low-sugar fog, and laid down to sleep. It was 11-degrees F out. Content: 
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PainterofCrap posted:drat we had a guy die of exposure at the end of my street 12-years ago. He was dressed the same, was laying in a snowdrift in front of a parked car, and his skin was bright orange due to the cold. He was a Section 8 resident of the nearby motel, apparently in a low-sugar fog, and laid down to sleep. It was 11-degrees F out. S.A. comes full circle
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AKA Pseudonym posted:They don't take them away to shelters and put them to sleep. They just kill them right there in the street, bag them up, and go. Most former Soviet cities have huge numbers of strays and no pounds. Isn't it in Russia where the feral dog packs figured out for themselves how to use the subway system and stuff?
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Choco1980 posted:Isn't it in Russia where the feral dog packs figured out for themselves how to use the subway system and stuff? They're almost as advanced as the homeless people in New York! They're for pooping in 
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Choco1980 posted:Isn't it in Russia where the feral dog packs figured out for themselves how to use the subway system and stuff?  
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my understanding is that all roadkill gets turned into dog food at the roadkill factory
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umalt posted:On the topic of grotesques how about Alien archeologist are going to get so much wrong when we're gone.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Speaking of corrupt sports organizations, FIFA accepted the Qatari bid for the World Cup, and only later did they announce that it would have to be moved to the winter due to the weather getting far too hot in the summer. Qatar apparently got in on a summer bid, ahead of the US, Australia, South Korea and Japan, and now the decision to move the World Cup is going to cause havoc in the European leagues. Look forward to the UK burning to the ground in 2022. What about the World Cup in Russia, this hellish poo poo is just in one city.
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Is there a thread collecting all of these terrible Sochi stories? As trade:  $775.00 per month
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I've paid more per month for shittier in Boston.
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quote:What kind of animal is that? It's exactly what I imagined Stephen King's billybumbler to look like.
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Ragequit posted:I've paid more per month for shittier in Boston. Judging from the bed, that room is less than 3 feet tall.
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Captain Trips posted:What kind of animal is that? It's exactly what I imagined Stephen King's billybumbler to look like. Looks like a Red Panda.
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Tomero_the_Great posted:Is there a thread collecting all of these terrible Sochi stories? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3607043
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Wet Fifty posted:Judging from the bed, that room is less than 3 feet tall. It's probably on the 7-1/2th floor of some building. The little door across the hall leads directly into the mind of Vladimir Putin.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It's probably on the 7-1/2th floor of some building. The little door across the hall leads directly into the mind of Vladimir Putin. 7000 Rubles a pop!
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Choco1980 posted:Isn't it in Russia where the feral dog packs figured out for themselves how to use the subway system and stuff? I went Moscow in 2008 and this dog followed me down the escalator and onto the subway and then got off at stop, Just chilled at my feet for the ride. Moscow had so many dog just hanging around. 
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Are they mostly nice? They seem like pigeons in the 3 pics I've seen. Has there been any scientific study on them? Tracking of their behavior and movements?
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Tomero_the_Great posted:Is there a thread collecting all of these terrible Sochi stories? Haha the perspective here is tripping me out. Is that a giant lamp, or a desk lamp in a tiny room? Is that door square? It's like a hobbit's home.
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RatHat posted:If you ever buy fresh snapper and like to eat the head, make sure you check the tongue. That family of parasite is extremely common and can be found on almost all large fish. It's just the peculiar niche that particular species has that makes it unique. When I do volunteer angling for a research group we routinely pluck off hissing cockroach size louses off the fish we are tagging.
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Baldbeard posted:Haha the perspective here is tripping me out. Is that a giant lamp, or a desk lamp in a tiny room? Is that door square? It's like a hobbit's home. I think the most important item for comparing to the rest of the room for scale is that baseball hat.
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LingcodKilla posted:That family of parasite is extremely common and can be found on almost all large fish. It's just the peculiar niche that particular species has that makes it unique. When I do volunteer angling for a research group we routinely pluck off hissing cockroach size louses off the fish we are tagging. Well yeah, but these ones might go unnoticed.
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BANME.sh posted:This happens in every city that hosts the olympics, doesn't it? Not in Vancouver...they just shipped all the homeless to Alberta and threatened anyone with an Anti-Olympics sign in their yard with a $10k fine. 
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Blistex posted:Personally I see the Olympics as some manner of international dog show where they parade their superior breeding and training. Back even as recent as 50 years ago the Olympics were a venue for people with a natural talent. Those athletes would have regular 9-5:00 jobs and lives, today's athletes are just training machines who only have one purpose in life. Hell, the athletes from China don't even have a choice as they are selected from as early as 9 years old to spend the rest of their (useful) lives in one of the thousands of Olympic training camps. Up until about 50 years ago, the Olympics were strictly amateur-only. So what you say is exactly correct. But, with the cold war raging, the destitute Communist countries trying to show the world they weren't destitute. They began to 'assist' their aspiring, hopeful, naturally-talented, but still technically 'amateur' athletes with 'volunteered' professional training staff, facilities, food, lodging, and a 'salary' of "your family doesn't go to gulag if you win". Think Rocky IV. By the 80s, pretty much all amateur rules had been phased out simply because it was impossible to enforce. The honor system doesn't work with global politics.
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Back in the day poetry and sculpture were part of the Olympics.
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Pft who has time for that nerd poo poo.
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holttho posted:Up until about 50 years ago, the Olympics were strictly amateur-only. So what you say is exactly correct. But, with the cold war raging, the destitute Communist countries trying to show the world they weren't destitute. They began to 'assist' their aspiring, hopeful, naturally-talented, but still technically 'amateur' athletes with 'volunteered' professional training staff, facilities, food, lodging, and a 'salary' of "your family doesn't go to gulag if you win". Think Rocky IV. By the 80s, pretty much all amateur rules had been phased out simply because it was impossible to enforce. The honor system doesn't work with global politics. In the normal parts of the world, though, where Olympic hopefuls are chosen out of the aggregate of smaller relevant contests, it is rad as gently caress to see that there's people out there getting paid to try to be the best in the world at doing what they love. 
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FreudianSlippers posted:Back in the day poetry and sculpture were part of the Olympics. Back in the day tug-of-war was part of the Olympics.
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Back in the day, everyone in the Olympics was nude and oiled up.
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At the rate Russia's going, they're going to get demoted from 2nd world to 3rd world.
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Hydrolith posted:At the rate Russia's going, they're going to get demoted from 2nd world to 3rd world. They'd demote themselves if it funnelled cash the right way.
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Hydrolith posted:At the rate Russia's going, they're going to get demoted from 2nd world to 3rd world. That is weird. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world are based on USSR vs USA alignment rather then economics. I'm not sure Russia can ever be 3rd world
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