Everyone take a drink!
Band is Probass Hardi, the single is Where are you from
Meanwhile a McDonalds copycat in Russia has applied to trademark this logo
A budding burger chain in Russia called “Uncle Vanya” is looking to grab business that has been left on the table by McDonald’s — revealing a logo that looks strikingly similar to the “Golden Arches.”
A March 12 trademark filing with the Russian government showed an image that closely resembles the McDonald’s logo turned on its side. The sketchy filing shows a Cyrillic letter “B,” which references the “V” in “Uncle Vanya,” cast in yellow against a red background.
“Trademark squatting has begun in Russia,” tweeted Josh Gerben, a prominent intellectual property attorney who was among those who flagged the filing.
The application appeared online after Russian officials indicated they remove patent protections for companies linked to countries deemed hostile to Russia — a response to crippling international sanctions and a mass exodus of Western companies in response to the Ukraine invasion.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/mcdonalds-knockoff-uncle-vanya-unveils-logo-after-russia-stores-close/
Naw the RuSSians only have enough ammo for hospitals and civilian shelters...
Ah but didn't Peter the Great kick their ar**es.
St Petersburg area was in the hands of the Swedes before old Peter grabbed it for a sea port.
Maybe it is time they started demanding it back, after all if everyone is looking for return of lands once owned by your state why not join in.
Oh and old Peter the Great wasn't so great if you were one of the thousands of peasants and serfs that were forced to build St Petersburg and ultimately die doing it.
Typical fooking Russian leader.
Ehh who are you going to sell it to ?
The Ukrainians or the Russians or do you fancy your chances of smuggling it into the EU ?
My goodness, I didn't realise the "special operation" was dominating state TV to this extent.
On the one on the right for example, you have the news at 5pm, followed by '60 Minutes' (their equivalent of Prime Time) for two and a half hours, followed by another hour and a half of news and then a political / current affairs discussion show by a well known Kremlin propagandist bringing them up to midnight.
Lithuanian govt has supplied vehicles to Ukraine (plus aid packed into them apparently)
I have always been amazed when I walk around Berlin, particularly the Wall/Checkpoint Charlie areas that people are openly selling communist memorabilia. Obviously Nazi stuff is banned in Germany but you'd think they'd treat Communist gear the same way considering all that they suffered in Berlin.
A lot of people over the years have been saying 2 sides of the same coin. Judging by the recent votes in the EU Parliament, this confirms it. They are both dangerous nutters that disagree with how they implement their nuttyness. They ultra strong state that implements their way of life upon everyone. Anyone who disagrees is a conspirator and needs to be weeded out through all means necessary. It's the exact same belief on both sides, just with little tweaks in the belief system.
I am in your debt, good sir! 👍️
I must say its really heartwarming to see solidarity has brought out the best in many countries, and the bravery of individuals who have no connection to Ukraine but yet travelled there in large numbers.
Whehey....!!!!
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Off topic, anyone else's have there twitter notifications blanked out?
Only my timeline and one other notification showing!
Has some linked clicked on from here, wiped my notifications?
About 60 or so sets of wheels there, nice one
It's shown how a lot of our petty squabbling does not matter at the end of the day. Like any family that fights, when there's an external threat, they come together as one. Or when travellers are having a fight, they suddenly unite when a garda car shows up.
Even just for scrap after the war is over. Must be worth 100k for scrap alone no?
I suspect there might be another 'delay', but we'll see.
Have my doubts alright.
Absolutely!
It just goes to show too, that good will always triumph over evil.
This is something I think Russia massively underestimated when they decided to invade Ukraine.
I like how this has become a 100% rule of thumb: Russia is always guilty of whatever it's falsely accusing another country of.
It's going to be carnage.... I hope
@jmayo Has Russia really been invaded that often in comparison to some other states?
Napoleon, Wilhelm and Hitler all in the space of just over 100 years. So, yes, they've either been at war with or invaded by a western entity in the most major conflicts that Europe has ever seen and the last one was a battle for the country's very existence.
That type of thing doesn't leave a national psyche in short order.
Putin mouth piece, Pravda, published a response to the news that the Prime Ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia went to Kiev and met Zelensky. As well as calling into question as to whether they actually did travel to Kiev, Poland was singled out for a historical lecture - suggestion of it being an illegitimate state and that its need for denazification.
Excerpt of the piece translated:
Polish politicians have taken to throwing around words, which in the current circumstances lead to escalation. History teaches the Poles nothing, they apparently want a fourth partition of Poland or just self-destruction.
Poland is a hyena of Europe.
Poland has always been the "hyena" of Europe, to quote Winston Churchill. Here are some facts that say that this is a correct characterization.
After the end of World War I, Poland occupied Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia, territories of the Russian Empire that the young Soviet state could not defend. In Ukraine in the spring of 1920, Poles carried out Jewish pogroms and mass shootings. In the city of Rivne Poles shot more than three thousand civilians, in the city of Tetyev about four thousand Jews. In Polish camps thousands of Red Army prisoners were shot. Only in 1939 these lands were liberated by the Soviet army.
In the same 1920 the Poles seized Vilnius and the surrounding area - a total of about a third of the territory of the Republic of Lithuania. The USSR returned these territories to Lithuania after the war.
Poland was the first state to sign a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. It was signed on January 26th, 1934 in Berlin, for a period of ten years.
In 1938, in alliance with Hitler's Germany, Poland occupied Czechoslovakia. Hitler took over the Sudetenland and Poland took over the Teshin area. This led Winston Churchill to say that Poland "participated with the greed of the hyena in the plunder and destruction of the Czechoslovak state."
In the first days of World War II, the Polish government fled abroad, and when Soviet troops entered Poland, de facto there was no such state. Had the Nazis entered, however, Polish Jews would have been exterminated much earlier and on a much larger scale.
Poland named after Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
After the war, Poland received the eastern regions of Germany, a third of the current territory of Poland. Only at the expense of mineral deposits in these areas, the Polish budget received more than $ 130 billion. This is about twice as much than all the reparations and compensation paid by Germany to Poland. Even more important was the expansion by Warsaw of the Baltic Sea coast - from 71 to 526 kilometers.
We can say that today's Poland is the country named after Joseph Stalin.
But Poland does not appreciate this, it considers the territory of Ukraine as its colony and is ready, like a hyena, to eat its "leftovers". It is time to denazify Poland as an accomplice of the Bandera regime. All the more so because it is begging for it.
The Nazis had one of the first TV stations going and even they showed cookery shows. 😁
I cannot wait for this.
@Wibbs Maybe they're more like the English, invaded a couple of times and still go on about 1066
They won't shut up about 1966 either.
Trying to scare them eh?
I note they make no mention of Stalin and Hitler also signing a non agression pact, AKA "let's carve up Poland". Then again they're taught none of that in school.
I'd guess they won't get 5 minutes without triggering the emergency break.
I doubt it would have such an effect - Poland has passed legislation to triple the size of their armed forces to 300,000.
Putin demanded that NATO withdraw troops from Eastern Europe and the invasion of Ukraine has had the opposite response. NATO are now considering permanently stationing more than 100,000 troops in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
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