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Tevery Best posted:Great, now Poland can claim to have accepted ten million Ukrainian refugees. Make the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Great Again not as catchy tbf edit
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
That's cool. Has anyone (in the U.S.) had any family members come over to go to public school? We have exchange students come stay with us a year at a time and we've decided it'd be cool to have an actual relative come spend a year with us and go to school. It'd be great for my U.S. born children to get to actually know their Eastern European cousins. And now that I'm trying to actually make this happen I'm finding out that the special visa that exchange students get can only be acquired through an official program? That can't be right, can it?
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spacetoaster posted:And now that I'm trying to actually make this happen I'm finding out that the special visa that exchange students get can only be acquired through an official program? That can't be right, can it? My high school students here in Ukraine try to get selected for a FLEX spot. There's also Fulbright options for college/university students, I think. But other than those programs, it's rare to meet a student who has been to the US let alone met an American.
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I looked at latest polls and somehow PO gained like 15 percentage points in a month and PiS lost a bunch. What the hell happened while I wasn't paying attention because polish politics is exhausting?
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I have seen newspapers attributing the change to the failed opposition to the re-election of Donald Tusk to European Council president, in which Poland as the only country opposed, not even managing to get their ally hungary to vote with them. Kaszynski personally dislikes Tusk. This was seen as a petty attack without purpose or effect by many poles. It is also a source of pride to have a Pole in a very influential position in the EU which it seems counterproductive for Poland to try to change. No idea if this is the real explanation.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:My high school students here in Ukraine try to get selected for a FLEX spot. There's also Fulbright options for college/university students, I think. That's where our family is. Our cousin is 13 and it'd be awesome to have her come spend a year in the US (her dad has helped me out a lot when I've traveled through that part of Europe). I already know that I would have to pay a fee to the local school system for them to accept her (even though all my children attend there), the issue is the visa/type of visa that would allow her to stay that long AND attend high school.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:My friend had them try to break into his apartment twice after he told them off on a doorstep. Your friend is full of poo poo. JW are annoying but I've never had a single one try to keep up a conversation after I tell them I'm not interested. They're also 100% pacifist, what possible motive could they have to break into his apartment? Believe it or not they won't actually break down your door to leave the Watchtower on your coffee table. MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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MeLKoR posted:Your friend is full of poo poo. JW are annoying but I've never had a single one try to keep up a conversation after I tell them I'm not interested. They're also 100% pacifist, what possible motive could they have to break into his apartment? Believe it or not they won't actually break down your door to leave the Sentinel on your coffee table.
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MeLKoR posted:JW are annoying but I've never had a single one try to keep up a conversation after I tell them I'm not interested. I had a pair of JWs not taking "not interested" for an answer and trying to follow me home to talk there. In their defence, I may have been a bit curt with them but I really had to take a poo poo fast.
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The only cultists who have been insufferable in their interactions with me are the Hare Krishna. Those people should be lined up and shot.
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^^^ Shot?? cinci zoo sniper posted:
spacetoaster posted:That's where our family is. Our cousin is 13 and it'd be awesome to have her come spend a year in the US (her dad has helped me out a lot when I've traveled through that part of Europe). mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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steinrokkan posted:The only cultists who have been insufferable in their interactions with me are the Hare Krishna. Those people should be lined up and shot. mobby_6kl posted:Do you have a link for this? I thought the final necessary vote hasn't taken place yet. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/20170329IPR69065/parliament-approves-ukraine-visa-waiver Was a bit hastily to report things, as it seems from the official announcement. There is one more hoop to jump through, you are correct.
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steinrokkan posted:The only cultists who have been insufferable in their interactions with me are the Hare Krishna. Those people should be lined up and shot. You're halfway there already. They love forming lines.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hese-countries/quote:An odd thing happened in Lithuania in February. An anonymous sender dispatched an email to a leading member of Parliament and several media outlets. The message claimed that German soldiers, part of a NATO contingent recently dispatched to the Baltic republic, had raped a teenage girl.
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Russia has been trying really hard to ruin the Polish-Ukrainian relationship too. They destroyed some Polish cemeteries and memorials recently and painted them with "death to Poles" and ukrainian flags, held a protest march of "Poles" (who all only spoke Russian for some reason) in Ukraine demanding Wolyn be returned to Poland and even shot up one of our consulates in Lwow (I think, maybe Kiev) trying to pin it on Ukrainian nationalists/Banderists. I don't know how any of that is being reported in the state run media, because I refuse to turn it on, even for a second, but I don't think its been very successful in convincing us Poles to hate Ukrainians, at least those of us who didn't already hate them.Kurtofan posted:
also this is a very good beardog and I want to pet it
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in Soviet Russia a dog pets you
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ringu0 posted:in Soviet Russia a dog pets you Caucasian Shepherds are no joke.
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Has there been any response from Putin yet over Trump's alleged plans to attack his bases in Syria?
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Grouchio posted:Has there been any response from Putin yet over Trump's alleged plans to attack his bases in Syria? Stop trolling every thread with the same stupid question.
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Sinteres posted:Stop trolling every thread with the same stupid question.
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Grouchio posted:I'm loving scared you asshat. We're not going to bomb Russian bases, jfc. The plan you're worried about said we were going to bomb Syria's air defenses, where some Russian technicians happen to be present. It's not good, but recklessly killing Russians isn't quite as bad as actively targeting them.
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Lithuanian TV making fun of the police response to protests in Russia and Belarus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CkmybufcEc
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Grouchio posted:I'm loving scared you asshat. Good, you should be.
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Grouchio posted:Has there been any response from Putin yet over Trump's alleged plans to attack his bases in Syria? https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/850205272123375616
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Yeah? Well gently caress you Putin, and gently caress your Syrian lapdog. The way this is going I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days the brave Donbass freedom fighters successfully destroy a dangerous illegal chemical stockpile of the Ukrainian gayfascists that then unfortunately recombine to form Sarin or VX and kill half of some Ukrainian village. By which I mean the Ukrainian euronazis did it themselves to incriminate the terrorized freedom fighters who have for years been getting bombed with mustard gas supplied by the CIA and Soros. gently caress you, sir. MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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President Putin “regards the strikes as aggression against a sovereign nation,” his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, noting that the president believes the strikes were carried out “in violation of international law, and also under an invented pretext.”
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Check it out, last night in Novi Sad the government shut off the streetlights in an attempt to make the protests seem smaller or harder to see. https://twitter.com/natasaromanof/status/850069934335983616 It did not work.
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Dusty Baker 2 posted:Check it out, last night in Novi Sad the government shut off the streetlights in an attempt to make the protests seem smaller or harder to see. "We have thousands of people with illuminating electronics and vuvuzelas marching on the streets." "Shut down the lights." E: Looks like Czech Republic has shut down a DPR consulate (). cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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quote:President Petro Poroshenko on March 27 signed into law amendments that require anti-corruption non-governmental organizations, investigative journalists and potentially any anti-corruption protesters to file publicly accessible electronic asset declarations. I couldn't find a decent article on this other than the one I read in an Estonian paper. Kyiv Post has pay wall: https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/poroshenko-sign-law-crack-anti-corruption-activists-journalists.html https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/sergii-leshchenko-poroshenko-makes-historic-mistake.html
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Good. People should stop using chemical weapons.
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spacetoaster posted:Good. People should stop using chemical weapons. If you think this improves the situation in Syria in any way you are optimistic on a level bordering on delusional.
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Today is the International Romani Day, so in that name I want to honor my hometown's greatest Romani native son. In the video below he's singing the anthem of the Romani people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVL0BSvSFU e: The information in the video is incorrect, he is not the author of Gelem Gelem, that would be Žarko Jovanović, a different Serbian Romani musician. Alternative version of the song because the first link I gave has some unpleasant crackling sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlAEAKH6vA SaltyJesus fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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meanwhile in France, this movie about a two people having to host a romani family at their house came out last week The guy on the right is supposed to be Romani
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Since not everybody here speaks French, a quick translation to get what the poster says: "Christian Clavier" translates to "avoid this movie at all cost".
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I must secure tickets for the white cinema.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:E: Looks like Czech Republic has shut down a DPR consulate (). Can you legally have a consulate when you aren't a real country?
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The_Franz posted:Can you legally have a consulate when you aren't a real country? They just slapped a name on a rented office last year, they were not invited or recognized.
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Hahaha Jesus Christ, France. To be fair, the majority of people here are not exactly progressive w/ regard to the Romani minority. I was impressed that my preferred newspaper had the balls to "frontpage" (inasmuch as you can do that on a digital publication) an article about the poor living conditions and discrimination against the Romani in Niš today.
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Pierogi posted:I must secure tickets for the white cinema.
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This week in eastern european fightin' words: A group of academics put out a declaration that Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin are the same language. For the uninitiated, nationalists in the former Yugoslavia (but especially Croatia) insist that their shared language is actually several different languages despite the enormous evidence to the contrary. Schoolchildren are divided up by language, people who speak the same language sometimes go through the kabuki ritual of pretending they need translators to understand each other, and TV shows from different countries will be subtitled as if everyone doesn't speak the same language. The article features this pack cigarettes which says "smoking kills" in three different "languages". Don't be fooled by Serbian being in cyrillic, it's also the same thing. Crosswords can be done in mixed "Bosnian" and "Serbian" because there's a one-to-one correspondence between their alphabets. Gobbeldygook fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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