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Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


I guess Sean just got a copy of The Secret.

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Its Rinaldo
Aug 13, 2010

CODS BINCH

Eifert Posting posted:

I have actually been cursed by an old Romani woman in Tblisi because I refused to pay her bus fare to Kutaisi. Come to think of it, it was in the spring of 2011. I'm not joking.


Edit: Tying things back to politics. I have a soft spot for Mikheil Saakashvili and I don't care who knows it.

The bus was supposed to leave at 4pm. What have you done :tinfoil:

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


Eifert Posting posted:

Это не язык жесткий мой друг.

I think you're going for трудный, товарищ.

The Puppy Bowl
Jan 31, 2013

A dog, in the house.

*woof*
I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

That depends, are you a fan of Infowars?

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax
You know who Sean should have on as a guest to analyze these claims? HA Goodman

Seraphic Neoman
Jul 19, 2011


The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

Nope. Not at all. Not even for optics reasons.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

Yes. You should feel pretty retarded for even typing this.

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer

SSNeoman posted:

I think you're going for трудный, товарищ.

College was a long time ago. :smith: I also basically got by by supplementing my poo poo Russian with Georgian words as I learned them, so I'm pretty sure my spoken Russian is even worse.


I maintain that Russian is actually a pretty easy language to learn if you have any experience with Romance languages, I'm just poo poo at learning them in general. Compare it to a Korean or Japanese and it's easy street.

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?
Are you a time traveler from colonial days whose first response is "Pneumonia? Why, she needs leeches and a lead elixir lest her humors go out of balance!"

If so, a) I congratulate you on overcoming your fear of the glowing box that devils make words appear in, b) no, pneumonia is treatable nowadays, and c) you would not believe who's president.

Otherwise, nah, it's treatable and candidates getting sick is probably a lot more common than we think given all the poo poo campaigns put you through.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

I got a magical elixir that cures all cancers. Wanna buy a bottle?

Artificer
Apr 8, 2010

You're going to try ponies and you're. Going. To. LOVE. ME!!

Lord Hydronium posted:


Otherwise, nah, it's treatable and candidates getting sick is probably a lot more common than we think given all the poo poo campaigns put you through.

Good point. I'm surprised we don't see more candidates come down with the flu or something given how many random people they're shaking hands with all the time.

FairGame
Jul 24, 2001

Der Kommander

The "bombshell" is that Trump has sketchy and probably illegal business dealings with very bad people both inside and outside the US.

This is meaningless; anything short the live boy/dead girl isn't going to make anyone care about this.

It's probably well researched and well written, though!

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Eifert Posting posted:

College was a long time ago. :smith: I also basically got by by supplementing my poo poo Russian with Georgian words as I learned them, so I'm pretty sure my spoken Russian is even worse.


I maintain that Russian is actually a pretty easy language to learn if you have any experience with Romance languages, I'm just poo poo at learning them in general. Compare it to a Korean or Japanese and it's easy street.

It sucks if you have a bad visual memory, but any non-Latin script language is much harder if that's the case since there's the extra step of visual recognition of a new alphabet plus all the other poo poo you need when learning another language. It's no harder than Greek, though.

Source: I am exactly like you and used to be able to kinda hold a conversation in Russian after 3 years of taking it in college, now I could barely read your bit.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Eifert Posting posted:

College was a long time ago. :smith: I also basically got by by supplementing my poo poo Russian with Georgian words as I learned them, so I'm pretty sure my spoken Russian is even worse.


I maintain that Russian is actually a pretty easy language to learn if you have any experience with Romance languages, I'm just poo poo at learning them in general. Compare it to a Korean or Japanese and it's easy street.

I have always wanted to learn Russian and it may come in useful in a Trump presidency...

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

This thread:

Eifert Posting
Apr 1, 2007

Most of the time he catches it every time.
Grimey Drawer
^^^^^
Nothing that happened today needs any kind of breakdown or analysis. It's kind of hard to have an involved conversation on yet another Trump meltdown and wacky policy out of nowhere. Obama's speech is beyond reproach and not exactly hard to understand.


Luigi Thirty posted:

I have always wanted to learn Russian and it may come in useful in a Trump presidency...

Selling point 1: If you can speak any sentence correctly without butchering the pronunciation you feel like an utter badass and writing Russian script makes you feel like a 19th century ponce.

Selling point 2: I bombed my Russian 310 speaking final. My professor gave me a stern look and told me to go get tipsy and come back. Got a B on the second try.

Selling point 3: Thanks to lovely movie accents giving people a terrible idea of what it actually sounds like it's the perfect language for white people to pretend not to speak English with.

Con: Try and think of a place you'd want to live where they speak it.

Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Sep 14, 2016

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Eifert Posting posted:

Con: Try and think of a place you'd want to live where they speak it.

There's a lot of cool stuff written in Russian, at least.

Donkwich
Feb 28, 2011


Grimey Drawer

legstump posted:

those brave soldiers didn't die in russia so i could write the letter R backwards, commie

every time I see a Toys Я Us I have a momentary seizure and scream they have arrived

STOP LITTERING
Sep 11, 2005

The Puppy Bowl posted:

I feel pretty retarded even typing this, but is there any reason at all that I should take Hillary having pneumonia as anything more than sometimes people get sick?

Maybe she has one of those proven quack Theranos machines and having an ounce of faith in it for her sister in the struggle Liz Holmes.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Shifty Pony posted:

International real estate is basically ground zero for organized money laundering, embezzlement, and fraud. Trump having ties ties to all sorts of awful characters wouldn't be shocking at all.

As an AML investigator for a bank whose footprint includes the West coast, confirming this times a million. The visa fraud going on is staggering.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
Didn't Trump dabble in some shady work visas too?

stone cold
Feb 15, 2014

DemeaninDemon posted:

Didn't Trump dabble in some shady work visas too?

Yeah through his underage girl mill.

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Warcabbit posted:

Should be. He's mobbed to hell. Surprised nobody's mentioned that.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/trumpcast.html

DemeaninDemon posted:

Didn't Trump dabble in some shady work visas too?

Same as everything else in life he just didn't bother trying to do it right

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

DemeaninDemon posted:

Didn't Trump dabble in some shady work visas too?

Yeah, his modeling agency hired a bunch of models from Europe who only got travel visas (and telling them the agency would "work it out" after they arrived) and then of course proceeded to ignore the issue forever. This has been known for a while but nobody in the media's asked Trump about it as far as I know.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx
Ah yes that one. Build the wall!!!!

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


Hmm a billionaire who worked in real estate AND the modeling industry you say? Why I can't imagine such a man ever being involved in any wrongdoing!

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Eifert Posting posted:

It's depressing how rusty my Russian has gotten. I probably wouldn't even be able to troll Republicans with it.


I could hold half a conversation in college, honest.

Well, here is a refresher: жесткий only really works for hard surfaces (and personalities), not things which are hard to learn.
(You've reproduced the experience of Russians faking documents in Ukrainian pretty well, though. Wonder how their documents in English would
look like --- missing articles are likely, at least).

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Augus posted:

Hmm a billionaire who worked in real estate AND the modeling industry you say? Why I can't imagine such a man ever being involved in any wrongdoing!

I doubt the billionaire part.

foobardog
Apr 19, 2007

There, now I can tell when you're posting.

-- A friend :)

Augus posted:

Hmm a billionaire who worked in real estate AND the modeling industry you say? Why I can't imagine such a man ever being involved in any wrongdoing!

That's the worst thing. Someone posted a quote in here of a Trumper saying that "Oh, of course Trump did shady things, that's just part of being a businessman. But Clinton is a politician, so it's bad when she does it."

speng31b
May 8, 2010

foobardog posted:

That's the worst thing. Someone posted a quote in here of a Trumper saying that "Oh, of course Trump did shady things, that's just part of being a businessman. But Clinton is a politician, so it's bad when she does it."

That definitely seems to reflect the standards they're being held to.

berserker
Aug 17, 2003

My love for you
is ticking clock

Ah yes, that would truly put the cap on the "what the gently caress" status of this year if after all of the campaign-ending gaffes, lies, violence, and bullshit pulled by the Trump campaign, that it would be the Democrats who replace Clinton, because she... got woozy while sick?

Hannity is so dumb.

The Puppy Bowl
Jan 31, 2013

A dog, in the house.

*woof*
Right, what I figured. Just didn't want to waste time reading any of the immense amount of bullshit surrounding Hillary health.

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



This is what Eichenwald was talking about yesterday. Doesn't seem to be anything new or unexpected, just glancing at it.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


berserker posted:

Hannity is so dumb.

This can't be stated enough.

Saeka
Jul 2, 2007

I'm a man that loves the simple things. Sunhats. Boba. Dresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQueaSlvjCw

Good god, Donald Trump is loving insane.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Augus posted:

Hmm a billionaire who worked in real estate AND the modeling industry you say? Why I can't imagine such a man ever being involved in any wrongdoing!

Not to mention casinos!

It's a wonder that devout Christians can bring themselves to vote for this guy.

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



canepazzo posted:

This is what Eichenwald was talking about yesterday. Doesn't seem to be anything new or unexpected, just glancing at it.
Well if it means people will actually loving discuss it instead of blowing Trump because you can't question a Republican too harshly, I'm all for it. Trump is the actual thing they all accuse Hillary of being, complete with hanging out with Bill Clinton

Saeka
Jul 2, 2007

I'm a man that loves the simple things. Sunhats. Boba. Dresses.

God drat it. My stepfather, a man I (used to?) greatly respect has in eight years gone from supporting Obama to posting Alex Jones videos on Facebook.

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Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth

Saeka posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQueaSlvjCw

Good god, Donald Trump is loving insane.

If not a single one of those ridiculous things could derail the Trump train, collectively bringing them all up at once in a single video won't do it either. I can hear the basket of deplorables cheering at every single one of those.

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