du -hast posted:

Jesus I didn't even know that livejournal still existed. loving Russians, paying ppl to poo poo post on a literally-no-longer-used site.

kalstrams posted:

its the most popular blogging service for russian speakers, by enormous extent

du -hast posted:

i guess i shouldn't be surprised though

Lazer Monkey posted:

Did the paywall ward off any of them from SA, I wonder.

JaucheCharly posted:

Names, example post, etc.

Disco Infiva posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3662635&userid=200788

Disco Infiva posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3662635&userid=200788

cthulhoo posted:

Carbon dioxide posted:

I think that says 'Mars'? The bus to Mars stops there?

Tusen Takk posted:

So Putin is threatening nuclear war so they can take over the Baltic again? Is someone going to call his bluff or is he seriously that dead set on acquiring a bunch of land that nobody else wants?

steinrokkan posted:

Pivotal Lever posted:

wtf is a de facto parade

when do they become de jure parades

quote:

What happens when men and women live together in close proximity and under intense conditions for long stretches of time—like, say, in space? On December 3, 1999, Judith Lapierre, a 32-year-old Canadian health sciences specialist and astronaut candidate, arrived in Moscow to help find out. On the outskirts of the city, researchers from Russian and international space programs had set up the Simulation of Flight of International Crew on Space Station mission, or Sphinx-99: A 60s era three-room chamber mocked up to feel like a spacecraft on a trip to Mars. It was halfway through the experiment, and Lapierre was joining two other prospective astronauts, one from Japan and one from Austria, who planned to spend 110 days in the module, alongside four Russian men who had already been inside for six months. She was the only woman.

Things were fine until December 31—less than one month after Lapierre and her Japanese and Austrian counterparts had arrived at the simulation—when the inhabitants held a small New Year’s Eve party. Celebrated in typical Russian fashion with a number of shots of vodka, the revelry was interrupted when the Russian mission commander, unnamed to this day, approached Lapierre and suggested a make-out session.

“We should try kissing, I haven’t been smoking for six months,” he told her. “Then we can kiss after the mission and compare it. Let’s do the experiment now.” He then attempted to yank her out of the line of sight of the two cameras that kept a constant surveillance on the crew and its activities. He aggressively kissed and manhandled her twice, even as she protested loudly.

This was following a 10 minute brawl which had occurred earlier in the evening, drawing blood from the commander and one of his compatriots. Lapierre would later say it seemed to be the result of both men gunning for her sexual attention. Following the brawl and sexual assault, Lapierre reached out to the Canadian Space Agency for help.

To her surprise, the Canadians were less than enthusiastic in their response. Lapierre was told that such behavior was normal for Russians and that it would be considered taboo within the culture of the host country to complain publicly. Her Japanese counterpart quit in disgust, but Lapierre chose to stay. After ten days of repeatedly requesting assistance from “mission control” to provide more safety inside the simulation, the leaders of the study finally agreed to install locks on the tubular crawl spaces connecting the Russian Mir module and the International Mars module. By this point, Lapierre and her international colleagues had already hidden all the knives in the station.

"I expected to be in better hands," she would later say. "But I'm doubting today what kinds of psychological support [the Russians] are giving to cosmonauts, if they are giving any, because I didn't get any from them."

At the end of the mission, Valery Gushchin, the Russian scientific coordinator, claimed that the brawl was a “friendly fight” and that Lapierre had “ruined the mission, the atmosphere, by refusing to be kissed.” He also admitted that perhaps Russian test subjects could benefit from a little cultural sensitivity training.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

Lapierre was told that such behavior was normal for Russians and that it would be considered taboo within the culture of the host country to complain publicly.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

By this point, Lapierre and her international colleagues had already hidden all the knives in the station.

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

in space no one can hear you squat

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/sexism-in-space

Friendly Tumour posted:

the joke is that SA is a dead gay forum that nobody cares about

Frog Act posted:

katlington posted:

im the swaztika penis and also the man hiding under the stairs