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[Spadge Vernacular]

//offtopic, I know

Man, that's the most annoying of our (collective) culture!

We live in an apartment, but every time we visit my SO's parents (cuz they live closer) - we get a thousand things... which we don't have a cellar to keep in, so we keep arguing about it lol

Like yeah, I get it, stuff in jars and that lasts for ages, but realistically you can consume/use 5-6 portions... Congrats, you now have 95 portions, have fun. FFS

Big fan of pickled foods, me. Glorious!

 

[davids]

So you are talking of something completely different, again, and it's my fault for not DoInG mY ReSeArCh?

I'm referring to the link I posted,but you know that already.

 

[tsubaki]

The truck was stopped and briefly inspected - was transporting film cases - no xray done - likely due to it destroying film if so.

Driver wasn't Ukrainian or Crimean but was from Rostov. In terms of how you get him, I guess you hire him to deliver and he regards it as a normal delivery job mate.

Not sure on the distance you'd be able to remote view from in that area but I'd be interested in seeing what other vehicles where behind when it blew

Not sure I buy the first suggestion - even at the most remote airport, if you told them on booking in your suitcase that it couldn't be x-rayed because it would damage things inside then your suitcase would be opened searched by traditional methods. I can't see any security force guarding a strategically vital bridge being less competent than that.

I don't really buy that the driver would just accept the load either - for a start, its on him if he is stopped by the cops. Maybe if he was repeatedly employed by the same people it would earn some trust?

Given all the new conscripts who don’t seem to have any training if this was a truck carrying ammunitions would a simple thing like bad packing/storage be a possible explanation?

That would be a possibility; it would also explain why things were waved through as they were.

 

[DualityNSNO]

If you take what some post on here as gospel,the Russians were busy shelling their own troops in the nuclear power plant and yet the US haven't provided sat footage. It's a very disjointed propaganda narrative.

Who has said that?

The Russian army is badly understaffed and underarmed, to the point that they're conscripting 60+ year olds - that's something the Russians themselves have shown. Those people won't be the most adequately trained, sure, but they're still armed men.

Who's saying the rest of it?

 

[DualityNSNO]

I'm referring to the link I posted,but you know that already.

No, you're referring to something from your head, as what you're talking about is NOT mentioned in the article you linked lol

 

[DualityNSNO]

Big fan of pickled foods, me. Glorious!

Yeah same but, like, if you have a decent/normal amount. We're approaching critical mass with every visit ffs lol

 

[bluestevon]

Did you not say that your mother in law looks back on the Soviet era fondly and supports Putin

Is this related to you needing almost a ton of potatoes?


Well from what I hear it was a terrible decision but as you say, every action cannot be blamed on the initial causal one.

And my granny used to say the police in her day where much more helpful, didn't mean she had any interest in policing policy mate

Simplest way to describe it.
You had the stability that communism provided then massive upheaval under Gorby and Yeltsin with uncertainty and instability (basically law and order collapsed utterly) then again have stability.

That's pretty much why Putin has great support amongst the older generation and why lots of them don't look back on communism as 'bad'. If the stability goes then they'll look back on communism even more fondly I guess.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

And my granny used to say the police in her day where much more helpful, didn't mean she had any interest in policing policy mate

Simplest way to describe it.
You had the stability that communism provided then massive upheaval under Gorby and Yeltsin with uncertainty and instability (basically law and order collapsed utterly) then again have stability.

That's pretty much why Putin has great support amongst the older generation and why lots of them don't look back on communism as 'bad'. If the stability goes then they'll look back on communism even more fondly I guess.

Same for Brexit here in many respects.

 

[bluestevon]

I was curious. We tend to not bulk buy but I can see the logic if you are confident that you can store the veg in a good condition and benefit from economies of scale. I suppose we are conditioned to live within the supermarket/convenience store model of regular, smaller purchasing.

Took me a good few years to get my head around it too, coming from somewhere with hardly any seasonal price change to one where it can literally be 5/6 times cheaper depending what time of year you buy

 

[DualityNSNO]

And my granny used to say the police in her day where much more helpful, didn't mean she had any interest in policing policy mate

Simplest way to describe it.
You had the stability that communism provided then massive upheaval under Gorby and Yeltsin with uncertainty and instability (basically law and order collapsed utterly) then again have stability.

That's pretty much why Putin has great support amongst the older generation and why lots of them don't look back on communism as 'bad'. If the stability goes then they'll look back on communism even more fondly I guess.

I have found, from personal experience so YMMV, these same people saying the "X and Y were better/more helpful" live in a separate world somewhere 30+ years back in time, honestly. My gran used to say it, she hadn't talked to any policemen other than the one we had as a neighbour and who's known her for 40 years, based on... something she heard from someone at some point that they weren't great anymore. That and the people at the passport service.

Fact is everyone had a (mostly) crappy job (for which they were likely either underqualified or only qualified for ONE action), but this creates a bubble in itself, as technology, unlike communism, advanced and obliterated technologies and stuff for the smaller or finer items, leaving factories empty, as anything from outside is known as bad and you'd be an enemy of the state if you even dare think about these western technologies, etc.

The regime itself is a literal murderer, but this is not personal story time, so I won't bother. Plus @davids will come along afterwards to tell me how I'm wrong anyway so it's pointless.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Took me a good few years to get my head around it too, coming from somewhere with hardly any seasonal price change to one where it can literally be 5/6 times cheaper depending what time of year you buy

And you missed having oranges/bananas ONLY on Christmas! lol

Recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who saw no point in having your own garden plot in your house, apparently a waste of space for him, as you'd have to come back home from work to work again...

Great person but such a bizarre view.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[DualityNSNO]

When have these people bothered with "Structural integrity"? lol

 

[Lobster Johnson]

I'm not certain theyll be running trains over that by 8pm...

 

[bluestevon]

//offtopic, I know

Man, that's the most annoying of our (collective) culture!

We live in an apartment, but every time we visit my SO's parents (cuz they live closer) - we get a thousand things... which we don't have a cellar to keep in, so we keep arguing about it lol

Like yeah, I get it, stuff in jars and that lasts for ages, but realistically you can consume/use 5-6 portions... Congrats, you now have 95 portions, have fun. FFS

Father in law does it all the time, pickled tomatoes, pickled cucumbers, leche (tomato and red peppers) all jarred and given to us all the time same with Jam and spoke puree, basically think it's a leftover from making maximum use out if everything you grow or buy at huge savings for the season but won't store well without canning/bottling.


Saying that I'm getting revenge this year as I've pickled shedloads of beetroot just to annoy him by giving him some every few weeks, did eggs too as neither are done here ever