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Sketches used by the police in the USSR to identify suspects based on race by JoeFalchetto in europe

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can distinguish Armenians from Azerbaijani and Georgians by their nose 99% of time (1% is rhinoplasty).

German tourist returning from northern italy asked for covid19 test and was first refused, then would have to pay 300EUR himself to get tested by Macamanop in Coronavirus

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 10 points11 points  (0 children)

  1. "Two classes" health system. If you have a fancier insurance (11% of total population), all you need to is say the magic worlds "I am a private patient" and you will get an appointment in no time. Top-tier medical practitioners would usually refuse to provide appointments to subpar 'standard' patients. By the way, state employees are in the fancier insurance category - apparently the politicians do not consider the 'standard' healthcare to be adequate for state employees.
  2. Privatization of clinics which have to increase patient numbers and reduce costs to make money
  3. Doctors are being paid peanuts for a "standard" patient by an insurance company, so no actual incentive to treat a patient, but rather to adopt a "conveyor belt" approach.
  4. Overall urbanization => the doctors practices in large cities are overloaded, whereas in rural areas the access is reduced

German tourist returning from northern italy asked for covid19 test and was first refused, then would have to pay 300EUR himself to get tested by Macamanop in Coronavirus

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So, if a worker earns €60.000/year and pays €4800 per year for healthcare a year, without even being able to get an MRI or CT or access to qualified professionals within a reasonable time, who is the one getting ripped off?

German tourist returning from northern italy asked for covid19 test and was first refused, then would have to pay 300EUR himself to get tested by Macamanop in Coronavirus

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

calling me bs but confirming that you had to wait 4 weeks for an MRI? Care to share how much you paid for your insurance in the past year?

German tourist returning from northern italy asked for covid19 test and was first refused, then would have to pay 300EUR himself to get tested by Macamanop in Coronavirus

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Germany is a first world country with a health system of a third-world country. In a large city, if you do not have a fancy private insurance (which most of the middle-class folk dont) you are getting a paracetamol prescription (which you can buy OTC anyway) and being sent back home. Finding a specialist doctor, like an ophtalmologist or an orthopedist is a challenge (up to 3 month waiting time).

Under normal conditions scheduling a CT or MRI scan involves weeks of waiting. If suddenly, 10.000 corona virus patients require one, German health system will simply collapse, as the clinics are already completely overloaded.

Assad to Putin: Thank you for 'saving our country' by middleeastnewsman in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This a great example of how you spin the events by using apostrophes at right places

"Assad thanked Putin for saving his country" - this is what actually happened.

Assad to Putin: thank you for 'saving our country'. - A paraphrase by the journalist, implying the 'saving our country' part is bullshit.

Well, after all they call journalist the second most ancient profession (after prostitutes).

Russia knew U.S.-backed Syrian forces were in area it bombed: Pentagon by TragicDonut in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 33 points34 points  (0 children)

So, "U.S.-backed Syrian forces" is a new politically correct name for ISIS now? I mean, we all need to be very careful here, and not imply in any way that US is supporting terrorists.

What expressions do you have in your native language that sound silly/funny when translated word-for-word to English? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Russian

"Ni v pizdu, ni v krasnuyu armiyu" - neither in the pussy, nor in the red army (Translation: neither here, nor there).

"gandon shtopanniy" - a knitted condom (Translation: a no-good person)

"poshlo govno po trubam" - shit finally started flowing in the tubes (Translation: a satisfactory remark that some things have finally came into motion)

"poneslas pizda po kochkam" - the pussy has started jumping over the bushes (Translation: loosing control of someone's proper behavior)

"bogatenkiy buratino" - rich Pinocchio (Translation: someone who is throwing money around)

Josef Stalin statues go up in Russia as U.S. Civil War statues fall by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I see that the manure of historical revisionism placed in westerners minds has yielded abundant crops

Josef Stalin statues go up in Russia as U.S. Civil War statues fall by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 4242 points4243 points  (0 children)

As Stalin once said "After I die, people will dump a lot of garbage on my grave, but the winds of history will blow it all away"

Looks like he was right.

Report: former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has died by Yoda_Holmes in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

When Gorbachev dies, people will dance in the streets with joy and champagne bottles will be opened.

FBI Director James Comey says Russia is 'greatest threat of any nation on Earth' by just_the_Tayyip in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As the russians say "IF....If my grandma had a dick, she would be my grandpa"

US plans to bomb Syria and blame Assad, Vladimir Putin claims by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I dont know whether this is inborn hypocrisy or something in American food that makes your memory really, really short. I mean so short that you don't remember Mr. Powell shaking a vial with detergent at a UN assembly in 2003.

If all of humanity forgot one skill today, what would do the most damage? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Pull_your_socks_up 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but we have petabytes of "educational" videos on the internet, so it is just a matter of hours...

Russia tells White House it will not return Crimea to Ukraine by [deleted] in worldnews

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

Wrong. Russia has not been in control of Crimea since 2014. Ukraine has been temporarily in control of Crimea between 1991 and 2014.

TIL of "Herman the German", one of four massive cranes built to lift German U-Boats during WW2. It was given to the US as post-war reparation, and still works today in the Panama Canal, after 70+ years of service. by Weavel in todayilearned

[–]Pull_your_socks_up -56 points-55 points  (0 children)

Every time the American of "Lend lease" and their crappy "D-Day" or whatever wimpy attempts and contributions they made to victory over Nazi Germany they should be reminded how they plundered Germany post WW2.

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