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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1475487638991814668 If APC stands for Alarmingly Priced Cookies, then they were actually the same.
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Corruption/bribe chat: Bribed the manager at an EE international airport to allow several hundred pounds of pharmaceuticals into the country. I was met by uniformed military at the plane...who promptly loaded my cargo into a van, stamped my passport, and dropped me (and the drugs) off where I told them. 150$ Early 2000's.
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spacetoaster posted:Corruption/bribe chat: Bribed the manager at an EE international airport to allow several hundred pounds of pharmaceuticals into the country. I was met by uniformed military at the plane...who promptly loaded my cargo into a van, stamped my passport, and dropped me (and the drugs) off where I told them.
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I jumped from the window with an APC and two bullets in my head. It is Rasputin
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spacetoaster posted:Corruption/bribe chat: Bribed the manager at an EE international airport to allow several hundred pounds of pharmaceuticals into the country. I was met by uniformed military at the plane...who promptly loaded my cargo into a van, stamped my passport, and dropped me (and the drugs) off where I told them. the lengths eu citizens will go to get melatonin. i'm shaking my head
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FishBulbia posted:the lengths eu citizens will go to get melatonin. i'm shaking my head Melatonin auto corrected to NATO the first time I write it out lol Satellite photos of Yelnya, Russia: ~200 km north of Ukraine, east of Belarus. Units of 41st Combined Arms Army, including tanks, self-propelled artillery and other military equipment. Camera @maxar More units appearing " The 41st Army was reformed on 1 December 1998 from the former headquarters of the Siberian Military District at Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Military District. In 2002, the 122nd Guards Motor Rifle Division was relocated to Aleysk and became part of the army. During the Russian military reform in 2009, the division was converted into the 35th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade.[3][4] On 1 September 2010, the army was transferred to the Central Military District after the Siberian Military District was disbanded.[5] A dedicated electronic warfare battalion is scheduled to be formed within the 41st Combined Arms Army by the end of 2019.[6] " WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-duda-us-clash-media-law-veto/ Always nice to see a good “thank you from the mountain” in a news article. e: double lol if Tusk wrote that in English himself Anne Frank Funk fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1475487638991814668 Does the name "Lepra" actually refer to leprosy because the Russian analogue for "goons" being "lepers" is simpy too on the nose to not be true
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barbecue at the folks posted:Does the name "Lepra" actually refer to leprosy because the Russian analogue for "goons" being "lepers" is simpy too on the nose to not be true The site is called Leprosorium in full, but with users being called lepers this is a yes and yes.
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So I gather they too are losing their members.
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Nenonen posted:So I gather they too are losing their members. It was more niche to start with. You could only get access via existing members vouching for you, but you could also lose it if someone you vouched for eats a perma. I think they have added some sort of paid registration in the last half a decade, but I cannot see that to be a major population booster.
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They even had Photoshop Phridays. The main difference between Lepra and SA is that Lepra has invited and downvotes.
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Was it, y'know, fun? The fact that this dude could post there seems like a red flag
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aphid_licker posted:Was it, y'know, fun? The fact that this dude could post there seems like a red flag It’s not a particular red flag for the purposes of this thread. Lepra was a den of Russian liberals, e.g., Navalnyi had a confirmed account there.
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aphid_licker posted:Was it, y'know, fun? The fact that this dude could post there seems like a red flag i was never a part of it so i wouldn't know as to how it actually was / is, but quite a few prominent media / internet people had accounts there i do recall one notable event where a Lepra user had promised some 14-year old kid an invite if he takes a photo of himself naked and with a flag sticking out his bum, which that poor kid actually went and did. that Lepra user then proceeded to post said photos on the russian equivalent of 4chan which i guess kinda maps onto that one particular mod challenge
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It’s not a particular red flag for the purposes of this thread. Lepra was a den of Russian liberals, e.g., Navalnyi had a confirmed account there. Ah okay I thought it was like ultranationalist Somethingawful
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For my fellow Latvian posters here - you know how people, especially those with affection for USSR, ask what is it that Latvia gets out of EU membership, which it could’ve not gotten “remaining with brothers”? I have finally solved the enigma. nurmie posted:i was never a part of it so i wouldn't know as to how it actually was / is, but quite a few prominent media / internet people had accounts there Yeah they were huge on “signas”. As far as I know, not a lot of people who got signas for the purposes of getting into Lepra actually received the invites. For non-Runet people reading, “signa” is a photo of an accentuated cleavage with someone’s name written on top. 10-15 years ago having a nice one in your name was the Russian internet’s proverbial equivalent of having a brand new set of Adidas clothing.
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steinrokkan posted:Is that a popcorn popsicle hiding at the edge of that picture An icecream rather and one by an USSR legacy brand at that. But it gets better, as the camera is focused on a potato chip one. It's probably good, but nothing will beat the beetroot chocolate bar by Pergale.
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lol, I assumed "čipsi" was just a coincidentally similar name for something innocuous
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steinrokkan posted:Is that a popcorn popsicle hiding at the edge of that picture And the vanilla and potato crisps ice cream with chocolate glazing, in the focus of photo, was okay then, I presume? Yes, it is. a podcast for cats posted:beetroot chocolate bar by Pergale. You know, this doesn’t even sound bad, I’d genuinely try it. But then I’m also cold soup and borsch person. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 28, 2021 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:For my fellow Latvian posters here - you know how people, especially those with affection for USSR, ask what is it that Latvia gets out of EU membership, which it could’ve not gotten “remaining with brothers”? I have finally solved the enigma. the more i look at it the more cursed it becomes also i have always felt that latvian food products are better than lithuanian ones. at least that was child me's assertion made over the course of numerous visits. and of course, Kārums glazed bars still remain unbeaten
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cinci zoo sniper posted:For my fellow Latvian posters here - you know how people, especially those with affection for USSR, ask what is it that Latvia gets out of EU membership, which it could’ve not gotten “remaining with brothers”? I have finally solved the enigma. PC culture gone too far Rye bread ice cream owns though, I'm convinced that the combination of rye bread + dessert is impossible to botch
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nurmie posted:the more i look at it the more cursed it becomes I think that's a sentiment shared by many Latvians. Or, at least, it was until Polish imports became more widespread. Last time I visited, I noticed quite a few products branded with ostensibly Latvian names that were produced in Lithuania and I assumed that the reason was this exact perception.
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nurmie posted:the more i look at it the more cursed it becomes I’m slightly biased, but I prefer Latvian food to Lithuanian as well. Šakotis has my respect, but that’s about it. Arzachel posted:PC culture gone too far Yeah, rupjmaizes kārtojums with some berries or (ice) cream is a very solid dessert in my book. If I’m at a cafe in Latvia, the only thing realistically competing with it is a proper Napoleon or honey cake. In general, Latvia is surprisingly good at dessert foods, in spite of otherwise having somewhat bland cuisine - compared to the rest of the world, not neighbouring countries. While we’re at the topic, I’d like to thank all our boomers for making sure there’s a solid selection of proper plombīrs available in most places.
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I tried Šakotis on three separate occasions. One time at the home of the world's largest Šakotis, too. And it's extremely underwhelming, even freshly baked. It lookS neat, and the way it's made and its history are fascinating, but it's just very plain. All branding. Lithuanian cheeses, though, are great.
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We used to shop in Lithuania frequently, and šakotis always was a treat we’d arrange for ourself. On the small end though, none of those 1 metre monstrosities. If you expect to get more or less a fried муравейник, I think it works just fine.
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šakotis is very good if it's fresh and not too large, yes i'm personally a huge fan of šaltibaršis too (though i'm pretty sure that's not quite a lithuanian invention as i'm pretty sure i have encountered it in latvia), and dranniki that said, in my experience there is a pretty significant overlap in regional cuisines across the baltics and nearby ex-soviet countries - and certain dishes almost have somewhat of a pan-ex-soviet feel to them at this point (i blame that О вкусной и здоровой пище book) (one thing i could never get into is loving холодец. i've no idea why so many people insist on jellying bones and meats into a weird alien-looking blob and then insist on thinking it's good actually)
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Back to thread topic, Memorial just got nuked via “foreign agents” law. https://twitter.com/memorialmoscow/status/1475774529825914882
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nurmie posted:i'm personally a huge fan of šaltibaršis too (though i'm pretty sure that's not quite a lithuanian invention as i'm pretty sure i have encountered it in latvia) ... did you guys really just decide to call it "cold borsch" like that? There are a lot of similar soups in other countries yeah, including окрошка, the холодец of soups. Холодник as made in Lithuania and Latvia is also common in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia with no major recipe changes.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:... did you guys really just decide to call it "cold borsch" like that? it's also literally called холодный борщ in russian too, which is kinda weird when you think about it weird thing is, i don't recall encountering it at all in Russia itself - окрошка is much more of a thing there in my experience. oh, and that weird tomato-and-kefir thing which is a transgression against cold soups everywhere (i probably should stop derailing the thread with food talk. sorry everyone!)
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nurmie posted:it's also literally called холодный борщ in russian too, which is kinda weird when you think about it I've never experienced it being called холодный борщ in Russian - usually холодник, seldom свекольник. Speaking of Russian soups, here's something from my old job in Russia: 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I've never experienced it being called холодный борщ in Russian - usually холодник, seldom свекольник. huh, might be a regional thing then (i didn't realise for a very long time that Russian speakers from other places generally don't call a beetroot "бурак") (i'd go on a diatribe about regional dialects and тутэйшие here but i think that's enough self-doxxing for the time being lol)
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Oh it’s most likely a regional thing. I speculate it’s not холодный борщ for Latvian Russians because it’s “cold soup” in Latvian, literally. My personal long standing regionalism, that took a year of working for Russians to even begin to pay attention to it, was the way I say decimal numbers. Komats is comma in Latvian, so, alongside with basically any Russian I know locally, my purely Russian librarian mother including, I would pronounce 6,7 as шесть кома семь. And I still do, in all fairness, because if I’m going to pontificate about with шесть целых и семь десятых for the entire day, then I might as well ask you to put the kettle on.
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I really enjoy the food chat since it lets me learn something new about a region I rarely visit and makes for fun discussion, a lot more so than the usual armchair general speculation
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nurmie posted:i was never a part of it so i wouldn't know as to how it actually was / is, but quite a few prominent media / internet people had accounts there i don't believe that gaddhafi was a mod challenge??? that said Brown moses might've pm'd the challenge to caro, idk
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pre-emptively apologizing for that joke which is tasteless on multiple levels
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Herstory Begins Now posted:pre-emptively apologizing for that joke which is tasteless on multiple levels
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Grouchio posted:Surprised we haven't heard from Caro ever since that day we learned he got released from a Syrian death camp He was interviewed recently and the last few pages of the Middle East thread have been discussing him.
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