Ridiculous Bans etc of Stuff Considered to be dangerously 'Russian'

[Pickman's model]

I like vodka and caviar. What's wrong with it?

I love St Petersburg FL too. It has a great Dali museum which I always visit when I'm there.

If you saw the shop you'd understand. Imagine a shop on Freeman Street knocking out top price if not range fish and chips at £100 a time and you'll get an inkling

 

[dessiato]

If you saw the shop you'd understand. Imagine a shop on Freeman Street knocking out top price if not range fish and chips at £100 a time and you'll get an inkling

Like the Pea Bung?

 

[Pickman's model]

Like the Pea Bung?

Never been there but will have to swing round there next time up that way after emptying my bank a/c to pay for the feast

 

[dessiato]

Never been there but will have to swing round there next time up that way after emptying my bank a/c to pay for the feast

It used to be extremely good, people queued to get in. That was in the 70s though

 

[not-bono-ever]

U.S. Proposes Bipartisan Bill to Freeze Russia’s $130 Billion in Gold Reserves

www.occrp.org

this kinda slipped through amongst the other stuff of the past few days. Russia - unlike many nations - doesnt store its stuff in the usual hubs like London or Zurich, meaning it cannot be easily ringfenced in the West. it has a couple of thousand tones of the stuff hidden away at a handful of vaults around the country. Gold, unfortunately, doesn't have a memory and can be easily moved on discreetly and legitimised elsewhere -unlike other traditional assets. as part of a longer plan to change state coffers to rely less on easily identified overseas stuff, russia have wound down its holdings of yankee bills and bonds gradually over the past few years. There will always be someone willing to hand over cash for bars

 

[tim]

U.S. Proposes Bipartisan Bill to Freeze Russia’s $130 Billion in Gold Reserves

www.occrp.org

this kinda slipped through amongst the other stuff of the past few days. Russia - unlike many nations - doesnt store its stuff in the usual hubs like London or Zurich, meaning it cannot be easily ringfenced in the West. it has a couple of thousand tones of the stuff hidden away at a handful of vaults around the country. Gold, unfortunately, doesn't have a memory and can be easily moved on discreetly and legitimised elsewhere -unlike other traditional assets. as part of a longer plan to change state coffers to rely less on easily identified overseas stuff, russia have wound down its holdings of yankee bills and bonds gradually over the past few years. There will always be someone willing to hand over cash for bars

As they've got plentiful hydrocarbon resources to flog, at very high market prices, the Russians are probably not that focussed on selling off Romanov gold.

 

[_Russ_]

Its nuts how connected our world is, so much so that we are all interdependent not only on our friends but also our declared enemies.

Fuck globalisation, its negative aspects not least its support of economic growth outweigh the benefits for me.

 

[dylanredefined]

Stoli was OK back in the day but is vile oily shit made in Latvia these days to get around the EU block on Russian goods. Its awful. The Icelandic Reyka shows how much Voddy has improved over the years.

I still like Lada and moskvitches becuase I am a twat. I posted in the motors thread about a bloke in blackheath who was importing real new Lada Nivas for sale for about 20K or so - looks to be having a fire sale now at cost £14k. I kinda would but no yeah no.

Baltika beer is meh. only worth picking up if its on special.

Alyonka red october chocolate is nice but its hardly for sale at the local costcutter

Struggling to think of any russian goods that I would have any interest in using tbh. maybe an AK, but its hard to get a decent russian one these days, the market is flooded with random copies made to even lower standards that the soviets used to consider acceptable

Got a camouflage cover for my jetboil off some bloke in st Petersburg the russian one not the flordia shithole. Hope he okay he e bay shop sold random bits of military kit.

 

[LDC]

No more Russian cheeki breeki trackies for anyone.

Grey Shop - Motherland Supply

Grey Shop is best shop for buying of Russian Equipment. We accept world payments and send our parcel worldwide.

grey-shop.ru

 

[dessiato]

No more Russian cheeki breeki trackies for anyone.

Grey Shop - Motherland Supply

Grey Shop is best shop for buying of Russian Equipment. We accept world payments and send our parcel worldwide.

grey-shop.ru

Could we start a gofundme, buy loads of body armour and helmets, then have them sent to the Ukraine army?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Could we start a gofundme, buy loads of body armour and helmets, then have them sent to the Ukraine army?

With the best will in the world I'm not sure paying a Russian company hard currency to ship body armour to the Ukrainian military is going to inspire great confidence on the part of either vendor or recipient

 

[frogwoman]

 

[frogwoman]

A couple days after YouTube banned an anti Ukraine invasion pop video at Roskomnadzor's request

 

[frogwoman]

Fuck sake

 

[frogwoman]

I don't know how this stuff is helping anyone except Putin tbh. His opponents in the west are going to find themselves unable to support themselves. Meanwhile some of his biggest lackeys still haven't been sanctioned

 

[maomao]

In a history classroom where I work, Putin's portrait has been removed from the display of important figures of the past century but Hitler, Ian Brady and Richard Branson are all still there.

 

[MickiQ]

In a history classroom where I work, Putin's portrait has been removed from the display of important figures of the past century but Hitler, Ian Brady and Richard Branson are all still there.

Whilst I find the Bearded Wonder very annoying I must admit to be rather bemused that he is part of that list.