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2024-02-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Soviet people traded the USSR for Coca-Cola. And they did the right thing

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Posted by badanov 2024-02-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Many people want to get out of Russia two years into the war. A Russian YouTube put out a video yesterday of him looking for a wheel bearing for his truck. He searched and searched for an American made wheel bearing, eventually finding an American Timken bearing. He bought a Russian bearing as a backup but showed how inferior the Russian one was compared to the Timken. He said he dreams of taking his family out of Russia if he ever could find a way without getting arrested. Until then he uses an alias on his Youtube channel and does not disclose where he lives in Russia. He learned English watching old American Hollywood movies. He says many Russians are like him.

Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-02-22 00:22|| 2024-02-22 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 My first Czech au pair girl learnt English from her university computer programming classes in the last years before before the fall of the Berlin Wall. My last au pair girl, the only one who was Polish, learnt hers watching “Beverly Hills, 90210” and Pretty Women. The two in the middle got their English from proper classes, then came to me for fluency and polish. Wonderful, thoughtful girls, all four of them.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-22 00:43|| 2024-02-22 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^^. The Russian said his favorite American movie to learn English from was "The Gods Must Be Crazy". A great movie about a remote African tribesman who happened to be under the flight path of a small plan whose occupants tossed a coke bottle out that almost hit the tribesman on the head. He thought it was sent down from the gods. Jealousy over who had possession of the coke bottle almost destroyed the peace and tranquility of the tribe. A great movie. Trailer below:

https://youtu.be/hvgFqdqPIuE?si=FuYAxeBek3ap14JG

Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-02-22 01:00|| 2024-02-22 01:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Great flick!

Posted by Nero 2024-02-22 01:26|| 2024-02-22 01:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Typically , artillery rockets are electrically fired, but still...

My former Ordnanceman mind had a heart attack watching this. pic.twitter.com/gmzxUmhFh7
— Eric Daniel Kotyk (@SSgtKotyk) February 21, 2024

Posted by badanov 2024-02-22 02:21|| 2024-02-22 02:21|| Front Page Top

#6 ^familiarity bread contempt.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-22 02:29|| 2024-02-22 02:29|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^OK,OK, breeds.
אנגלית שפה קשה

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-22 02:30|| 2024-02-22 02:30|| Front Page Top

#8 From Billy Wilder's movie "One, Two, Three"

Peripetchikoff : No formula, NO DEAL!

C.R. MacNamara : OK, NO DEAL!

Borodenko : We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!

C.R. MacNamara : Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?

Mishkin : No comment!

C.R. MacNamara : And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they're successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?

Peripetchikoff : No comment!

C.R. MacNamara : Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation "Kremlin-kola!" You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn't drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?

Mishkin : No comment!

C.R. MacNamara : So either get down to business or get off the pot!

Peripetchikoff : My dear American friend, if we are to live together in peaceful coexistence, there must be a certain amount of give and take.

C.R. MacNamara : Oh, sure - we give and you take.

Peripetchikoff : What is the matter - you do not trust us?

C.R. MacNamara : No comment!

Peripetchikoff : Well, Comrades, what are we going to do? He's got it - we want it. Are we going to accept this blackmailing capitalist's deal?

Mishkin : Let's take a vote.

Peripetchikoff : I vote yes.

Mishkin : I vote yes.

Peripetchikoff : Two out of three. Deal is on!

Borodenko : Comrades, before you get in trouble, I must warn you, I am not really from Soft Drink Secretariat. I am undercover agent assigned to watch you.

Mishkin : In that case I vote no. Deal is off.

Borodenko : But I vote yes!

Peripetchikoff : Two out of three again! Deal is on!

Posted by European Conservative 2024-02-22 07:35|| 2024-02-22 07:35|| Front Page Top

#9 #5, didn't they ever hear of WD-40?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-22 12:01|| 2024-02-22 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 #1, are your sure that Timken bearing was not Made in China?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-22 12:04|| 2024-02-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#11 #5, didn't they ever hear of WD-40?

As Dad used to say, "Don't force it. Use a bigger hammer!"

Posted by SteveS 2024-02-22 12:26|| 2024-02-22 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 #10 #1, are your sure that Timken bearing was not Made in China?

The Russian ones are probably made by the Chinese, American ones made by Mexican workers, shipped by Maersk ships of Denmark and bombed by the Yemenis.

Posted by Shoth Gratch3103 2024-02-22 16:37|| 2024-02-22 16:37|| Front Page Top

#13 From Billy Wilder's movie "One, Two, Three"

We first saw that when we were living in Germany in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

“Schwanger is pregnant!”

Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-22 23:39|| 2024-02-22 23:39|| Front Page Top

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