Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

As CK is around, wanted to ask a question. Saw Sochi on a map and didn't realise how close it is to Georgia. So will the extra security necessarily reach into neighbouring countries? It must make driving to/from pretty difficult.

There was some programme on the freeview telly last night - no idea what/which channel - some presenter went all over Russia, starting at Sochi, to explore how old-fashioned, alien, strange and different the rest of Russia is.

At one point he was in a graveyard and there were huge gravestones to the most violent gang bosses of the 1990s, which were full head sculptures and full-sized carvings on granite.... and as he was talking they were asked to leave.

There was a brililant bit in the early part where he was in a landrover on VERY rutted/muddy ground, getting it forwards... and it looked like an imminent disaster....

Anyway - random programme, all over Russia, interesting in bits.

EDIT:

Googled it and got lucky.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03skbx0

Justin Rowlatt and Anita Rani continue their epic road trips across Russia, discovering two very different sides of a vast and bewildering country looking to assert itself once again on the world stage.

Having started out at Sochi, the Black Sea resort hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, Anita is in Moscow where she meets wealthy socialite Alisa Krylova, !!!!! Riot protester Yekaterina 'Katia' Samutsevich and some rebellious night drag-racers and their souped-up cars. She then moves on to St Petersburg, Russia's former capital and its gateway to the west. She gets the chance to open a massive bridge and behind the tourist sites she finds a city of migrant workers and gay rights protesters.

Anita then turns north to meet entrepreneurs harvesting caviar from sturgeon stocked in the warm waters of a nuclear power plant, before reaching her final destination of Murmansk, high in the arctic and Russia's new economic frontier.

Justin continues on his journey east, from Perm and one of the last Gulag prison camps, deep into the Ural Mountains and Asia. He spends time with some very traditional bear hunters, gets close to some powerful military buyers at Russia's biggest arms fair, and drives on to Yekaterinburg, where he comes a little too close to men protecting the graves of local gangsters from the 1990s.

Finally, Justin reaches the lands of Russia's incredibly rich natural resources - a world of grim copper smelters, Cold War nuclear bomb-making plants, and a road that seems to go on forever into Siberia, looking east towards China and Japan.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

How do Jews manage in rented houses, council houses and shared houses when it comes to the two sinks thing?

On the basis it takes a lot of money to afford a sole kitchen with space for two sinks, there must be most of them unable to do that.

http://www.ok.org/consumers/your-kosher-kitchen-a-primer-to-going-kosher

There were Jews before fitted kitchens, and Jews in abject poverty always.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ask on the relevant board here, where the heating types hang out.

Hmmm, they are all quite invested in their own opinions I have found.

CKhalvashi

Pastures - a lot of the Red !!!!! are abroad; t started as organization in Russian prisons in about 1950, and when prisoners were released after USSR split (just before first democratic elections) was when it was taken out abroad.

There were Azeris arrested in London a few months ago for serious offenses; this was some of these.

Ask yourself where the money in Russia for working class is from, especially when they just moved abroad and had no money to start; especially those with tattoos.

!!!!! Should me m a f i a

PasturesNew

4 Rooms, LIR would love the Victorian stuffed bird fire guard they are bidding on at the moment
Freeview channel 14, More 4.

He wants £10,000 for it. He paid £1,000 for it. He says one just made £11,000 and it wasn't as good.

First offer £2,500
Second offer £1,000, then £2,000
Third offer £2,500, then owner asked for £4,500. Offered £3,600 as top offer. Seller said £3,700. Offered £3,650, then £3,670 - and it was SOLD.

tomterm8

Jeeze... some people have all the money Or a lot of debt.

3 grand on a fire guard...

lemonjelly

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Next stop: [STRIKE]Kiev[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Tbilisi[/STRIKE] Copenhagen

Say hello to Stale Solbakken for me!
Made online friends with loads of Copenhagen fans 18 months ago when he was appointed Wolves manager. He's back at FCK now. I think he got a raw deal. I do really like the FCK shirts though!

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

Jeeze... some people have all the money Or a lot of debt.

3 grand on a fire guard...

Got an email advertising these the other day:
http://www.firebox.com/product/6387/Shine-24k-Gold-Rolling-Papers?via=hp&s=1x1&t=new

£50 for 12!:eek:

GDB2222

lemonjelly wrote: »

Really? bacon sarnies are epic! (apols to jewish posters )

I don't think that you need to apologise to Jewish (or Moslem or vegetarian!) posters just because you like bacon sarnies. Suppose instead that you had enthused about hang-gliding, would you have felt the need to apologise to those who are scared of heights or those who are too old or frail to hang-glide?

Sometimes we can be a bit too worried about being PC and not offending.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL - High Court Sheriff programme on telly. They've just been dragged into a building and held hostage for filming.... Sheriff on the phone to the police.

They are a load of bullies, who deserve far worse than they actually get.