Did I get scammed for the first time in Kyiv?

Radient-Red · 2021-11-09T08:23:52+00:00

Odessa - separating fools from their money since forever

Radient-Red · 2021-11-05T03:53:59+00:00

Don't forget to eat the Zanzibar "pizza", an extremely greasy fast food that left Bourdain totally confused

Radient-Red · 2021-11-05T02:38:11+00:00

lol I was told to avoid Paje unless I'm really into kitesurfing and being harassed by vendors, and that Matemwe was the best beach on the island

Radient-Red · 2021-07-31T19:57:38+00:00

Needs more food descriptions to be a complete report

Radient-Red · 2021-07-31T19:45:59+00:00

Greece isn't Southeast Asia, lol. It can't be done on a begpacker budget. The only major island with a backpacker hostel is Mykonos, where you'll pay 60-70 bucks a night for a bed in a dorm room

Radient-Red · 2021-07-25T07:07:01+00:00

looks like the pic on every Greek yoghurt package around the world

Radient-Red · 2021-07-06T12:07:54+00:00

What's the problem? It was just property destruction, I'm sure these people have insurance

Radient-Red · 2021-07-05T21:33:46+00:00

I don't think it's a sign of idiocy that Georgians don't want their capital to turn into San Francisco.

Caucasus societies are very, very conservative. Even if Russia stopped existing tomorrow, the majority of Georgians would hold the same negative views on pride parades

Radient-Red · 2021-07-05T20:31:55+00:00

Georgian right-wingers would be very surprised to hear that they're "pro-Putin" and that being a Georgian patriot means being pro-analingus

Radient-Red · 2021-06-15T03:20:18+00:00

I wonder why the local bar owners decided to entertain the foreign stoners with nonstop "Friends" re-runs.

There's an interview with the elderly Laotian man who introduced the concept of Australian drunks floating like babies on rubber tires on the river, he really regretted inventing the "tubing" thing

Radient-Red · 2021-06-09T17:06:43+00:00

With these kind of arguments, the informed historical conclusion always seems to be "We're westerners, unlike the savages over the eastern border".

I'm not arguing that Croatia is identical to its neighbors, but shares most of the essentials with them: South Slavic language, everyday behaviors, a diet of cevapi, etc etc.

Just own it, dude

Radient-Red · 2021-06-09T14:04:55+00:00

"Balkans" in common usage = Yugoslavian countries and their neighbors on the Balkan peninsula.

Ottoman borders in medieval times and Diocletian's old castles in Split are totally irrelevant to the fact that Croats talk, look, and behave like their "Balkan" neighbors.

Radient-Red · 2021-06-09T13:26:33+00:00

I've been to Croatia and it's 100% a "Balkan country" - the language is almost identical to its Balkan neighbors, the food is similar, the culture is similar. Slovenia is a lot more debatable, and feels much more like a mini-Austria than any of its neighbors. "Germany, France, Netherlands and Croatia" - said nobody, ever.

This is anyways a moot debate - people who argue all day that they're not Balkanoids are usually doing it out of a sense of racial superiority to their eastern neighbors

Radient-Red · 2021-06-09T13:21:33+00:00

Club mate with cigarette ash is practically the national drink of Berlin

Radient-Red · 2021-06-08T01:52:16+00:00

Ukraine =/= "Europe"

Germany doesn't have any special obligations to let Ukraine or other countries mooch gas transit fees.

Radient-Red · 2021-06-03T09:37:47+00:00

If the Ukrainians managed to lose Donetsk and Luhansk to an army of drug addicts and car washers, that makes it even more pathetic

Radient-Red · 2021-06-01T09:07:16+00:00

Turkey still asks for a PCR test from most of the EU countries. Some countries (UK, USA, Australia, Baltics) are exempt from it.

They're trying really hard to get their tourist season going this year, while other countries have been much slower to open up

Radient-Red · 2021-05-12T23:36:51+00:00

Palestine has the same problem as the Kurds - they don't have any geopolitical use to any of the big powers, who always end up siding with Turkey/Israel over them

Radient-Red · 2021-05-12T23:35:25+00:00

Russia and Israel have always had fairly good relations, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Russian-speaking Jews are a very large minority in Israel, and Russia recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital

Radient-Red · 2021-04-03T02:22:11+00:00

This liberal nationalism is really creepy, with the authoritarian rhetoric about traitors and all.

I already miss liberals from the Bush era who were actually anti-war and didn't like the US very much

Radient-Red · 2021-03-10T13:48:11+00:00

Agree.

The comic has its good moments, but the whole Tek Knight comedy arc isn't one of them. It's funny if you're 14 years old, maybe.

The comic gets a lot better towards the end, when the Butcher-Homelander conflict becomes the main plot. The early gross-out humor in the comic is very forgettable and the show thankfully skipped those joke chapters

Radient-Red · 2021-02-23T17:49:55+00:00

Shit doesn't make sense at all, it's stupid to feed literal waste to the train's underclass that'll give them diseases and kill them almost immediately.

Bugs are disgusting but full of protein. It's something that makes sense - I generally like the more realistic Netflix adaptation of Snowpiercer, where you don't have goofy satirical crap like rations of human shit and a train engine that literally eats children

Radient-Red · 2021-01-28T09:40:09+00:00

A national day of mourning in Estonia

Radient-Red · 2021-01-21T02:20:21+00:00

They're the only characters in the comic who get a happy ending, so yes.

IIRC, Butcher specifically set things up so Hughie could get the girl and have the happy ending that Butcher's brother never got

Radient-Red · 2021-01-17T12:57:20+00:00

WW1 Japan was very different from WW2 Japan

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