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anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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I know that show is about farmers looking for wives but the name does have rather great connotations in Czech; the verb transliterates into "to gently caress".

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anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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I've read it only on one news server, but Poland apparently wants back 368 hectares of territory they lost to Czech Rep during border adjustment in 1958. Is that a joke or is Poland really that butthurt about it?

The server it's on isn't very reliable and there's no date in the article, so that feels kinda weird; on the other hand, the current Polish government seems capable of just about anything.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Apr 7, 2016

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Rincewinds posted:

Goods news everyone, Putin, in his eternal wisdom, have decided to make a new national guard consisting of a few hundred thousands troops with heavy equipment, who will be answerable only to the president and with a license to kill without warning. These troops will deal with terrorists, but also maintain public order in case of large scale protests, and it's a complete coincidence that this happens a few months before the elections.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35975840
Anyone else getting strong SS vibes?

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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I think he's just playing it for the home audience. No one expects it to hit him in any way, so he's just milking it for political capital. Evil western capitalists constantly assaulting plucky little Russia has worked every time so far.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Gantolandon posted:

Also, TVP2 (the second channel of the Polish public TV) wants to make a sitcom about future Poland, which became a world power. It quickly dominated Europe thanks to cutting edge tech and now plenty of impoverished Belgians, Germans and Brits try to leave their third-world shitholes and work here. The series will begin with the Polish national team beating the Brazilian one and winning World Cup.

http://m.wirtualnemedia.pl/m/artykul/tvp2-chce-nakrecic-futurystyczny-sitcom-2050-o-polsce-jako-swiatowej-potedze
See that could work if it was self-aware and pointing out all those beautiful absurdities we're used to in EE like corruption being the only way to get anything done, but amped to eleven...
...But then you could just set it in contemporary Russia.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Yeah, the mighty Polish army totally needed crippling. They seriously believe they are relevant to something like Russia?

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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chitoryu12 posted:

Doesn't Poland live in constant fear that Russia is going to try and restart the USSR and start rolling past Ukraine? I don't think their obvious invasion of Ukraine and Crimea is helping matters.
I was more referring to them thinking their army is a factor that Russia would need to deal with.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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alex314 posted:

can Slav nations pick new name for "Slav"? Thanks to Germans it's too close to "slave" for comfort. "Slovians" is too close to slow..
It's going to be "Russian" in a couple years.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Well, getting rid of the "republic" bit feels honest to current development if anything.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

Who's the new king and prince-elector?
The former publicly elected state clown is trying to whip up a dictatorship.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Deteriorata posted:

So I guess this is now Czechia Cheese?



Does it come with Skee-ball and prize tickets?
It should come with a gas mask. This poo poo is positively toxic.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Very smelly cheese. It tastes like rot in your mouth.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Seems Savchenko is to be released in exchange for two Russian pilots. Wait, haven't we heard that one before?

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Rincewinds posted:

Brown shirts are old fashioned. At least Polish game developers can get with the times.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/448370/
Isn't that by the Hatred crowd? I remember reading somewhere that they had a neo-nazi bent.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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The parallels to Nazi Germany grow stronger, eh.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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alex314 posted:

It was pretty poo poo for most of the locals, but I don't see how this compares to Crimea.
Same excuse for invasion. Granted, it's the excuse and not a reason.

Palpek posted:

It's because Russia knows this won't start a war, dickwaving is all it is. The US could do the same to Russian army honestly but the US has a different PR idea than petty actions like these.
I imagine the Russian public loves it, though: heroic army making defiant gestures at the country that's the root of all evil in the world. Turns out dickwaving goes very well with the average Russian.

edit: Also, the Czech pro-Kremlin media state the ship was trespassing in Russian territory and, I poo poo you not, disabled by a secret EMP weapon, upon which Russian plane offered assistance, which was refused. The ship's crew was so demoralized that 27 crewmen immediately resigned from the Navy (this one is actually in English, anyone can vouch for the redness of the source?).
So yeah, the Russian interpretation goes just a bit wilder.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Apr 30, 2016

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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steinrokkan posted:

If this blog is the main arm of Kremlin's influence, things are pretty good :toot:
Nah, this is just their youth-oriented website. Sensation, celebrities, and just how loving cool Russia is. There's more than thirty Russian-operated "news" websites currently in action here and the fuckers keep multiplying.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Cat Mattress posted:

The fantabulous EMP claim refers to a previous buzzing incident with the Donald Cook, when it was in the Black Sea. The more recent incident was in the Baltic Sea.
Yeah, the link was in the first article - which handily fuses the incidents together and restates it again. Russian EMP across time and space.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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They just got high on the opium of the people.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

And the Night Wolves were denied entry into Poland.
They somehow managed to sneak into Slovakia, though.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Dusty Baker 2 posted:

It was also an Assad apologist.
That's pretty much the same thing, really.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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It's more that they defeated fascists to replace them with an equally monstrous regime.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Was it? I thought Stalin alone managed to rack up a higher kill count than the Nazis, not to mention all the suppressions that followed.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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It's not like Stalin wasn't at least partially responsible for WW2 as well...

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Send him on a trip there.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Plus there's nothing like a good war to boost one's popularity in Russia.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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fishmech posted:

Sorry you were apparently blind and deaf when the war actually happened?
The one thing the Russians are best at: delusion.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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If anything, he'll stalk Ukraine and shoot imaginary Nazis.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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We All Know Poles Make Best Popes, Holy Father Kaczynski Decrees.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Well, good luck, but I'm afraid the windmill you fought has a natural advantage over the victims' families there; it just doesn't give a poo poo.

edit: VVV Yeah, that ultimately means it's not going to own up to anything, so I guess it'd be better to say it doesn't give a poo poo about human rights or that court. It's going to be the Evil West Slandering Plucky Russia All Over Again.

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 11:15 on May 21, 2016

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Will it? It's essentially accepted by anyone who doesn't read exclusively Russian propaganda by now and I somehow don't see that bunch changing their opinion.
Don't get me wrong, you're doing a great job and I admire it, but, well, windmills. Fuckers have two extra arms and don't feel pain.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Savchenko is back, folks. Also she apparently made a twitter account where she promises to keep killing Russians... while she was in prison.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Well it would be more fitting.

edit: To add some content: a sad but fitting look at what happens in the westernmost eastern nation when you give presidential elections to the people:
https://euobserver.com/opinion/133789

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jun 12, 2016

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Well, it's a start: next up, they should get suspended from politics and escorted out of Ukraine.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Aliens. They don't really understand how all the other secret societies work, sadly.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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I honestly think the real problem is defense. Shattered EU means more room for Russia to play Hitler in.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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"Russia manufactures the most intelligent computer in the world. Last seen heading for the border."

It's somewhat tragic when jokes from the eighties suddenly become true.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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That looks like they're blaming Dracula.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

If Dracula was still around, Europe would be safe from the Muslim menace.
And we wouldn't have the whole mess with Turkey trying to join. Seriously, why Romania?

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jun 27, 2016

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anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

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Welp, there goes the sonic tank development project.

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