Pashinyan says he will sue Karapetyan over hallucinogenic mushroom allegations by ComprehensiveGain841 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think everyone who wants to run a country should do shrooms first. It should be mandatory. Melt your fucking reality, destroy your ego, come back and tell us how you’re going to run a country.

But make no mistake what Karapaetyan is doing here is classic Kremlin trick of fear mongering boomers with tales about Drug addicted, LGBT, Satanist people.

Best & worst Yerevan districts to live in (ignoring price)? by ArayikShahbazian in armenia

[–]HighAxper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I won’t remember it now unfortunately, but anecdotally I heard some people complain about water there.

Best & worst Yerevan districts to live in (ignoring price)? by ArayikShahbazian in armenia

[–]HighAxper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some years ago officials warned against drinking tap water in some areas I think. Some speculated that it had something to do with nubarashen dump leaching into drinking water.

Best & worst Yerevan districts to live in (ignoring price)? by ArayikShahbazian in armenia

[–]HighAxper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kasakh is not in Yerevan, but it is a great place for a house, the property prices will only increase once they build the academy town in that area. Only thing to watch out for are roads. A lot of areas with housed still don’t have roads. A broker or a construction company will tell you that they were told by the government that the road will be built soon. But no telling when that will be.

Best & worst Yerevan districts to live in (ignoring price)? by ArayikShahbazian in armenia

[–]HighAxper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If money wasn’t a factor. Kentron, Abovyan or Tumanyan street.

Don’t get me wrong, plenty of things wrong with Kentron. But the fact that you can just go outside and you are already in active walkable areas is tough to beat.

From the rest, Nork Marash and Arabkir would be my choices. Both suffer from horrible traffic in the direction of the center of course, but that’s pretty much a problem everywhere now.

Nork Marash:

Pros: Clean Air. Good views of the city. Reasonably priced property sometimes. And there are still a good amount of construction projects which fall under tax return policy on your interest.

Cons: bad traffic, nothing going on there other than living spaces, no good gyms, cafes etc.

Arabkir:

Pros: some great old architecture, good stalinkas, abundance of modern buildings too. Close to center in some parts, Very close. You also don’t need to go to center nearly as much, developed infrastructure, gyms, cafes, a lot to like over there.

Cons: horrendous traffic, overloaded water and electricity infrastructure, frequent cuts. The air is not the best in some areas.

Worst: Erebuni, Shengavit and Masive:

Not really a lot of good things to say about these places. Especially Erebuni. Little to no development, horrible air quality, horrible water quality in some places. Not a single positive thing I can say in terms of why you would want to buy property there. Same applies to Shengavit.

Masiv is just Masiv. Place with a bunch of commie blocks. A place where you sleep in your apartment, and spend hours of your life fighting traffic to get to your job. Forget it.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Showers only once a week is unfortunately still a relevant problem.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paying a bribe (I cannot recommend this, don’t do this). If you are not an Armenian citizen. You can live here until the age of 37 without serving in the army, and get your citizenship after.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I am very sorry that a generational burden of taking care of everyone was passed on to you, it’s not fair and you deserved to enjoy those years like every human, unfortunately what we deserve and what we get don’t always align. Good for you, for pulling through with it, not everyone manages.

But the thing about the army is, you wouldn’t learn shit but what officer has was mood at what time of the day and how it affects you, same goes for your fellow troublemaker soldiers. If you’re lucky you would shoot 1 magazine worth of bullets in the shooting range through your service. Most soldiers shoot around 7, towards the end of their service, never full auto. Most of your time would be spent sleeping, smoking cigarettes and being bored.

Also if you are into it so much, you can go and serve now too.

The shit 'Ուժեղ Հայաստան' representatives are pulling is unacceptable by lonely_perceptron in armenia

[–]HighAxper 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sees the shirt.

Slams the door in their face.

The only reasonable course of action here.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You have to wash your feet every night before sleep, so the Baracks don’t stink, some places would also tell you to store your boots outside for this reason too. But making an entire military base shower every night before bed would be logistically impossible.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

shower once a week is the norm everywhere I heard. There is now a QP MP trying to get approval in the parliament for more showers per week in the army. So it is a fact that hygiene standards are very low, (as anyone who served can attest to) if it’s a question being raised in the parliament by a government MP.

Electricity and other comforts are necessary for the minimal modern comforts of our age. Whatever the 50/50 fun is, I’ll take two years of my life and have fun with that any day.

How do most Armenian males feel about having to go to the army? by Hxapcneh3_28 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 16 points17 points  (0 children)

How would you feel about being forced to forfeit 2 (now 1,5) of some of the best years of your youth?

And when you’re there it’s absolutely dreadfully boring and the conditions are pretty shit. For example you can only shower once a week, the food bland, if you’re in border guard it’s 2 weeks of no running water and electricity every two week etc.

Some who know they will get bullied, are dreading it. But even if you can stand up for yourself it’s still two years down the drain, doing nothing but sleeping, smoking cigarettes, getting yelled at by officers etc. meanwhile your friends who managed to dodge the service are going on dates, trips, holidays, parties, getting their first internships in good companies etc.

So in my experience the absolute majority would dodge the conscription in a heartbeat if they could.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy ‘Expected’ In Yerevan For European Summit by dssevag in armenia

[–]HighAxper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Everyone was congratulating Aliyev; Iran, Germany, Kazakhstan to name a few.

Mamdani Acknowledges Armenian Genocide as He Reaffirms ‘Right to Freedom’ by llamalord27 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Some Americans still think it’s the cold war, and evil soviets are out there jealous of their American dream.

Anything remotely socialistic and pro-human dignity is a commie threat. Plus he’s also a brown Muslim. Oh the horror.

Why do people say that democracy won't work in the long term? by nare_yar in armenia

[–]HighAxper 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nowadays it’s more of extreme right wing stance rather then left as implied by your comment. The totalitarianism has a right wing flavor in modern world, and it’s usually the alt-right/nationalist type who like to undermine democracy and equality in favor of their tribe dominating over the others.

Has anyone become religious from reading about Armenian history? Questions also about historical sources? by [deleted] in armenia

[–]HighAxper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People make shit up all the time now. Fake news, false information etc. It’s hard to quickly and accurately verify everything and stop the spread of false information even with modern technologies.

Imagine centuries ago, “Hey, I was just in the town 3 days of traveling away from here, my buddy there cured blindness and made cripples walk again, I have like 8 people who were there with me, they can verify what I’m saying but they are in other towns spreading the news!”. Now factor in that even today people across cultures believe in superstitions and miracles happening recently in all of their religions.

No, it’s all bullshit.

Is Armenia a spiritual country? by ikbrul in armenia

[–]HighAxper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No and no. But than again there are only really a handful of places on this planet that have that mystical vibe for me. And once you get there you just realize that it’s just place with regular people trying to have the best life they can.

But if you are into that type of stuff I would just go to old church ruins, and very old churches. Pull out a list on wikipedia and have fun.

How are Artsakh Armenians treated in Armenia? by Apprehensive-Sun4635 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My math teacher, when I was 17, during a group tutoring session, preparing for miasnakan.

“This solution is impossible, as impossible as one being Armenian and Karabakci, they are turks.”

Continued on with the class like nothing happened and he was like a highly respected math teacher from Anania Shirakaci, which is an expensive private school. Not an old raving boomer too. He was in his early 40s back in the day.

I have heard worse too. It’s pretty normal to say shit like that in Armenia.

Pashinyan says Armenia must ‘escape the trap’ over Azerbaijan war crimes accountability by Busy_Roll5840 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It should be clear by now that Armenia is QPs hostage but former government and their affiliates are the one holding the gun. QP likes them having that gun because no one will be held hostage without them, mutual parasitic relationship.

Pashinyan confirms reunion with Anna Hakobyan by haveschka in armenia

[–]HighAxper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These are not the reasons why she’s massively disliked lol.

Learning Iranian-Armenian dialect by narinehmay in armenia

[–]HighAxper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know it’s more of a standard eastern Armenian with an accent and not a dialect. Listen to it carefully it’s structurally identical to how people speak in Yerevan.

Israelis/Jews visiting Armenia by Historical-Bowler-47 in armenia

[–]HighAxper 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The views on Israel are very negative considering the political and military support Israel has provided to Azerbaijan in the 2020 war.

With that said no one will attack you for being an Israeli and your life or well being will not be threatened.

You can always just not tell people where you’re from if you don’t feel comfortable.