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08-13-2009, 05:30 PM
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I was the Company barman. Closing time was supposed to be 10pm. Actual closing time? More like 3am... Damn those SNCOs can drink! :P
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08-14-2009, 06:32 AM
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I used to be a big drinker (not that it is something to be proud of btw), nowadays I dare not drink more than my limit - what is the 'science' that means when you are age 17-?25 or so making you almost hangover immune? Then you get older and having 1 drink over the 'sensible' and you lose the first half of the next day sick as a dog...
Maybe it is just me.
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08-29-2009, 08:36 PM
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08-14-2009, 05:16 PM
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  During parties, my favored game was alcohol contest with US students (even seniors): 1 shot, US student out. And we were only drinking Chartreuse Green (55°) or Trapist Beers (12°) when I got back to Europe. Nowadays, my liver strongly disagree except from time to time...(Noooooo!!! Don't shoot me on the spot.  )
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08-19-2009, 10:37 AM
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That is may be an attempt to get back to this original thread topic (I'll go pick up a beer first
).The fact that Russians are seen as evil might go back to the events in 1904-1905 with Japan. I'm currently reading interesting report on that and something striking came out of it. A Western view (still true today) imply that when we fight a war (except of course among ourselves) it's always the fight between civilisation (us) and the barbarians (them). Of course we evolved slightly and we, now, bring them Democracy (in place of civilisation). That was also the case for the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. And the Russians were first presented as being the champions of civilisation going to fight the Barbaric Japanese. When Japan finally came on top, the propaganda in the West changed. Russian slowly becoming the Barbarians while the Japanese were gaining their place among the civilised world.
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08-19-2009, 04:46 PM
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That and Britain loathed the Russians from the start, seeing Russian designs on India. This confrontational attitude led to them siding with the Ottomans against Russia in the disastrous Crimean War, simply because they couldn't countenance any Russian expansion.
Since then Russia has been seen as something scary, primarily because the did over Napoleon when they finally got around to fighting him properly. Important Men With Maps looked at Russia and suddenly realised how big thier manpower reserves were, and how few thier own were. The Russian Juggernaut is not just a twentieth century fear. As far as the USSR goes, it was diametrically opposite the USA in ethos, and ideologically a bugaboo against the movers and shakers in power. The incursion into Archangel after WW1 was ideologically driven, as the commies in charge were far more democratic than the tzarists were. In fact, 'soviet' means 'council' and refers to the original pyramid democracy practised by communist groupings. It was a better democracy than ours at the time (wasn't that to change!)
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08-22-2009, 11:53 PM
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