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[Macanudo 13099]

2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

You should cross post in the Sugar Babies thread. Airfare to the US would be covered by lunchtime.

I was wondering if she could get hired by Costco.

[Bevo 13653]

2 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

You should cross post in the Sugar Babies thread. Airfare to the US would be covered by lunchtime.

I'm thinking the difficulty for Mr. Cumsteen is bringing "the family" to the US.

[Orange&White 5557]

58 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

Is Bert a common Taiwanese name?

I played golf at Torrey Pines last Monday. We got paired with a Japanese couple in their 70's that had an extremely difficult time speaking English. Yet, when they introduced themselves, they were Chris and Monica. So maybe Bert is common?

[BabaYaga 15388]

2 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

had an extremely difficult time speaking English. Yet, when they introduced themselves, they were Chris and Monica.

Did they use to work at a corporate call center held desk?

[MissingInAction 25316]

4 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

I played golf at Torrey Pines last Monday. We got paired with a Japanese couple in their 70's that had an extremely difficult time speaking English. Yet, when they introduced themselves, they were Chris and Monica. So maybe Bert is common?

I work with a lot of Asians and it's common for them to go by an English first name. 

They have zero confidence in us trying to pronounce their actual names corectly.

[Sbbruin 21923]

49 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

LOL

 

That's a pretty good read.  Like a fleet of Yugo trucks.

[Zhorn96 1780]

my brother in law spent 6 weeks in Taiwan and the girl he was banging went by Fanny as her English name.  Which was funny enough but her friends she intro'd him to were Tarzan and Barbie so I just gave up all hope for Taiwan in general at that point

[BabaYaga 15388]

2 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

my brother in law spent 6 weeks in Taiwan and the girl he was banging went by Fanny as her English name. 

Tell me you like doggie style without telling me you like doggie style....

[TexasEd 8147]

1 hour ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Taiwan team Ramjet donates $35K in drones. 

 

1 hour ago, Kel Varnsen said:

Is Bert a common Taiwanese name?

 

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

Taiwanese and Chinese who have English names usually have very proper British sounding English names, not the US Western or fancy spelling names of that the US parents like to name their kids. There are no Dylan, Dillon, Dyllon, Dylan, Dyllyn, Brooklin, Brooklyn, Brookln, Dakota, Wyoming, and shit in Chinese and Taiwanese English names.

Many William, Constance, Wilbert, Henry, Elizabeths. Hardly any one syllable names. One syllable names are for stupid kids. Ergo, I'm scratching my head at Bert. Maybe he's trying to dumb down for his American counterparts?

The guy next to him is clearly named Ernie.  I love how the far right side is doing the money fingers or maybe chef's kiss.  🤌

[Parliament 14383]

1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

LOL

 

Am I racist for wondering if Russia is ate up with inbreeding?

[conVINCEd 21474]

2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Am I racist for wondering if Russia is ate up with inbreeding?

As long as you wonder the same about Oklahoma I think you’re ok.

Edited March 21, 2022 by conVINCEd

[DDD Dad 14376]

SIAP. This seems like wishcasting. 
 

 

[Bevo 13653]

9 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

SIAP. This seems like wishcasting. 
 

 

Up-thread there was talk of fake regime change like when Putin voluntarily gave up office for a year so that he could evade the constitution and remain in power.

[Guest Lobo]

It’s not a real New York Post article unless it involves a tot or an angel or a hero or a bozo. 

[Zonahorn 8079]

 

[MillerEP 30575]

 

[MillerEP 30575]

Orcs wanted to cross the river in the Nikolaev area, but something went wrong.

The servicemen of the 24th King Danylo OMBR are faithful to the traditions of the Ukrainian Safari 2.0 and continue the hunting season for Russian military equipment.

Trophy Russian "Tiger".

Russian fascists in the south of the country destroyed.

Destruction of enemy infantry by the Azov Regiment

As a result of counteroffensive of ZSU in the Nikolaev direction the army of the Russian Federation threw a heap of equipment and retreated.

 

[SydneyCarton 48320]

14 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

Facebook and Instagram are extremist organizations? Well, I guess a blind nut can find an acorn occasionally, Russia. 

[MillerEP 30575]

In Kherson without changes - Russian terrorists continue to rob stores. 1/2

In the Nikolaev area the Ukrainian paratroopers liberated the village from the Russian invaders.

 It is noted that DShV units surrounded the racists from the flanks, held a short battle, as a result of which the enemy was destroyed. Russian terrorists hid in a kindergarten.

Russian troops "liberated" the gas station in the Kherson region from fascism.

 

[CooterBrown 18097]

2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I work with a lot of Asians and it's common for them to go by an English first name. 

They have zero confidence in us trying to pronounce their actual names corectly.

I work with a guy named Weidong. He decided to go with  his Chinese name since the English first name his parents gave him when they emigrated is Willard.

[956 Worldwide 34966]

This is good.  OCCRP is a great organization.  Fashy right wangers, Commies, and other European baddies all hate them so you know they are good.

https://www.occrp.org/en/asset-tracker/

 

Russian asset tracker. No governments can’t say they don’t know. 

[BLKNSTY 289]

I played golf at Torrey Pines last Monday. We got paired with a Japanese couple in their 70's that had an extremely difficult time speaking English. Yet, when they introduced themselves, they were Chris and Monica. So maybe Bert is common?

This forum is wild man. I also played Torrey last Monday and know exactly who you are talking about.

hook ‘em

[Etexhorn13 3054]

43 minutes ago, Lobo said:

It’s not a real New York Post article unless it involves a tot or an angel or a hero or a bozo. 

That you, Mulaney?

[Orange&White 5557]

3 minutes ago, BLKNSTY said:

This forum is wild man. I also played Torrey last Monday and know exactly who you are talking about.

hook ‘em

Yes, this site never ceases to amaze me on shit like this.

I think we were like 11:12 am on the North Course.

[The Gimp 350]

14 minutes ago, BLKNSTY said:

This forum is wild man. I also played Torrey last Monday and know exactly who you are talking about.

hook ‘em

So are you Chris or Monica?

[BLKNSTY 289]

So are you Chris or Monica?

lol I think they revoke your passport in Taiwan if your BMI is over 20 so no.


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[elfenix 34387]

2 hours ago, Orange&White said:

I played golf at Torrey Pines last Monday. We got paired with a Japanese couple in their 70's that had an extremely difficult time speaking English. Yet, when they introduced themselves, they were Chris and Monica. So maybe Bert is common?

 

4 minutes ago, BLKNSTY said:

lol I think they revoke your passport in Taiwan if your BMI is over 20 so no.


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[InkaUtexas 26382]

4 minutes ago, elfenix said:

 

What ocean? 

[BabaYaga 15388]

Be glorious to see a UA solider with a Jav pop out from behind a sea crate and whack that troop carrier while it's still attached to the crane!

[Slacks 6921]

On 3/19/2022 at 11:23 AM, South Austin said:

How about a world NATO group?  It’d be like a super conference.

Conference Realignment talk not going away...

[BabaYaga 15388]

Big guns making some noise.  2S7 = 203mm's of fun

 

[Bevo 13653]

9 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Be glorious to see a UA solider with a Jav pop out from behind a sea crate and whack that troop carrier while it's still attached to the crane!

That looks like a fairly easy target. Russia must have a pretty big area of control there.

[BabaYaga 15388]

Just now, Bevo said:

That looks like a fairly easy target. Russia must have a pretty big area of control there.

Also thought the UA has Neptune anti-ship toys?

[Superhero 8894]

4 hours ago, Kel Varnsen said:

Is Bert a common Taiwanese name?

My dad went by Gilbert. So maybe "Bert" is a shortened version of it?

As for me, you can call me Clay. Because that's what my momma called me.

 

 

4 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

I mean, they keep their pants held up with something, right? 

   but funny

Edited March 21, 2022 by Superhero

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

3 minutes ago, Superhero said:

As for me, I go by Clay. Because that's what my momma called me.

[Immaculate Vibes 114]

5 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

So... I "know" one person from Ukraine, a model that has done some work for my company. No pics, I'm not doxxing her or me. I sent her $1000 to help get her and her family out of Kharkiv. She made it to Poland along with 2 million other refugees, where she reported that there are no apartments to rent and no jobs. She moved on to Croatia this weekend for hopefully greener pastures. I imagine this is taking place all over Europe but it's a fucking haul to get to the US. Also.... my great grandparents immigrated to the US from Khiv. I never met them, but I owe them more than I could ever imagine.

Wow sounds like she really owes you. If there was just some way she could make it up to you. 

[ATexanAbroad 627]

I made a good friend from Ukraine, who was Azov, and is in Ukraine right now fighting. Posts some cool shit on his insstagram. Was laying mine from his drone the other day. Is fighting with his former Azov buddies in Kyiv. I sent him some money for some equipment to help and his birthday is on the 26th, so he has a beef stew MRE to celebrate.

Those are some bad dudes and they fucking hate Russians. When I first met him he made me cheer shots to anti russian phrases in Ukrainian. 

Edited March 21, 2022 by ATexanAbroad

[BabaYaga 15388]

A slip of the truth, or more propaganda and we double these admission amounts?

 

[Superhero 8894]

Other side of the story from Snack's preferred news source - Financial Times:

It's not all puppy dogs and unicorns for the Ukrainian forces.

https://amp.ft.com/content/0be1bc1a-6a9e-4ae0-b7d2-1d31018f14ca

 

Spoiler

Military briefing: Russian losses mask Ukraine’s vulnerabilities

Putin’s forces may move to an attritional phase as dearth of information dogs assessment of Kyiv’s capabilities

 

Victory was supposed to be swift. Instead, the invasion began badly. The Russians massively underestimated resistance and soon found their positions and supply lines harried by an elusive opponent.

But in the end, after months of grinding warfare, Russia won the “winter war” against Finland in 1940 — an attritional campaign that analysts warned could be a template for how the war in Ukraine ends. 

The outcome is still far from certain more than three weeks after Russia launched its campaign, said a growing number of western defence officials. While Ukrainian successes have stalled Russia’s advance, US and UK military chiefs have been largely silent on Kyiv’s military problems. 

It is a major question that dogs assessments of the battle for Ukraine, given the dearth of information surrounding Ukraine’s own rate of attrition. 

In addition although Russia’s military has fared poorly its forces are regrouping and there is little sign that President Vladimir Putin is scaling back his strategic objectives.

“The winter war is a very interesting analogy. The Russians did badly but they secured a very favourable peace by their ability to counter-escalate and sustain attrition,” said Sidharth Kaushal, a military analyst at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute.

He added: “We have to remember that there are some pretty significant challenges the Ukrainians face.” 

As Thierry Burkhard, France’s chief of the defence staff, warned in an interview in Le Monde this month, Russia’s forces may yet “steamroller” Ukrainian resistance. 

Kyiv says it has lost 1,300 troops compared with an estimated 7,000 killed, wounded or imprisoned for Russia, according to US estimates. But western officials and analysts said the Ukrainian losses were likely far higher: most agreed that an equivalent loss rate to Russia was plausible, equating to about 10 per cent of Ukraine’s troops. 

Hundreds of Ukrainian tanks and vehicles have also been destroyed, said one Nato official. “I can tell you that western arms supplies to Ukraine are absolutely critical at this point,” he said. “Without them I think we’d be in a very different place, notwithstanding the incredible heroism from the Ukrainians.” 

Even the current level of supply may be insufficient. 

“Senior [Ukrainian] officials have told me that supplies of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons have slowed to a trickle and stocks are running low,” said Paul Grod, head of the Ukrainian World Congress, an NGO. “This needs to be addressed as soon as possible — otherwise Ukrainian fighters will be confronting Russian tanks with just machine guns.”

Recent air strikes have hit the Antonov aircraft works and Artem arms factory near Kyiv and an aircraft repair plant near Lviv, indicating that Russia intends to cripple Ukraine’s munitions manufacturing capacity. 

So far, Ukraine’s information dominance has masked its losses: thousands of open-source images of exploded Russian armour have been taken by Ukrainian civilians, who are unlikely to post similar pictures of their own side’s losses. This has led to a natural bias in the online content being scrutinised by many analysts. 

Russian troops, meanwhile, have had their mobile phones confiscated by commanders — a lesson from its covert invasion of Crimea in 2014, and intended to give Russia greater control over information. Instead, it left a vacuum that was filled by Ukrainian content.

Moscow is also hamstrung by its domestic need to maintain the fiction that the war is a limited “special operation”, meaning it cannot pump out images of Ukrainian losses on TV that might indicate otherwise. 

The Kremlin has nevertheless repeatedly insisted its operations are going to plan. “I have seen no evidence that its overall intent has changed,” said one western defence official.

In the south, Russia has had some success. Heavy Ukrainian losses were sustained as Russian forces over-ran positions defending the land bridge from Crimea. On flat, open terrain Russian battlegroups have also been able to deploy and advance more easily. At least one brigade of Ukrainian marines — the 36th naval infantry brigade — is now trapped defending the besieged city of Mariupol.

For Russian forces in the east and the north — where logistical problems have been most acute, because supplies come from depots in Belarus via narrow, vulnerable roads, not rail — there are signs of regrouping. 

This has been aided by increased use of drones in the past week, according to one western military official. Dozens are now flying over Ukraine and being used to hit targets and provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to Russian battlegroups. 

Nor is there any sign that Russia is scaling back its plans, despite supply problems.

“They have not determined that they need to move to a defensive position, which is the first thing they would do if they are truly worried about supplies,” said Kusti Salm, permanent secretary at Estonian defence’s ministry. “Until that happens, the Russian meat grinder will keep grinding.”

Moscow is also seeking to replenish its forces with troops from Russia’s east and foreign fighters. On April 1 the current draft of conscripts end service and they may face pressure to sign up as regulars, which would allow for their continued deployment. 

“By mid-April we could see the resumption of large-scale Russian military operations,” said Gustav Gressel, an analyst of Russia’s military at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Of course Putin has to think carefully about domestic opinion, but in theory this is a force of 100,000 or so he can draw on.” 

Perhaps Ukraine’s biggest tactical vulnerability is its Joint Forces Operation (JFO), where the bulk of Ukraine’s military assets are deployed just west of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia is seeking to encircle the Ukrainian troops, western officials said, cutting them off from Kyiv and drawing them into open combined-arms combat which plays to Russian battlegroups’ superiority. 

Crushing Ukraine’s forces in such a way would be as much of a victory as capturing Kyiv, some analysts said, invoking Clausewitz, the military theorist who saw the destruction of armies rather than the capture of cities as the fastest route to victory.

Regardless, few believe the fight in Ukraine will end soon. 

“Even under the best case assumptions, this will be a war with many operational pauses,” said Rusi’s Kaushal: “A war of fits and starts that will probably drag on for a long time.” 

 

[dimyh 1874]

Bring out yer dead! Actually a nice story about exchanging dead Russians for captured Ukrainians. Also surprising that the Russians don't have any ID'S or dog tags. Simply appears to be dehumanizing about it all.

 

https://kyivindependent.com/national/how-ukraine-swaps-living-soldiers-for-dead-russians/

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

15 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

A slip of the truth, or more propaganda and we double these admission amounts?

 

Double them. Intercepted coms are close to double.

[bolverk 29831]

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

 

 

This is what Russian settlement of the Kuril Islands looks like.

[BabaYaga 15388]

5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

This is what Russian settlement of the Kuril Islands looks like.

Sure that's not a suburb of Norman?

[Parliament 14383]

8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

This is what Russian settlement of the Kuril Islands looks like.

Is that Lubbock?

[bolverk 29831]

5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Sure that's not a suburb of Norman?

 

2 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Is that Lubbock?

A&M campus

[atomheartbevo 90078]

32 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

A slip of the truth, or more propaganda and we double these admission amounts?

 

 

[Kennythetiger 9500]

1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

Big guns making some noise.  2S7 = 203mm's of fun

 

“Get off that fucking wheat field.”

-my dad-  

[atomheartbevo 90078]

The last time the Russians published official data, it was around 500 dead and 3x that wounded, and no mention of POWs.

That was on March 2nd.  We know that was a very low number back then.

There's also this - Russia doesn't take into account casualties of the pro-Russian militias/etc.:

 

[BabaYaga 15388]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

Interdasting that it was pulled down....so maybe closer to the truth?

[elfenix 34387]

16 minutes ago, bolverk said:

This is what Russian settlement of the Kuril Islands looks like.

that's a nice looking dog there