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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on April 19, 2013, 07:08:17 PM
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One of the funniest nadin threads in a long, long time!
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 03:51 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
About Chechya, and the other Caucus republics
Until relatively recently all we knew about them, is the home of the very brave warriors who served first the tsar's, later the Red Army. These are the lands of the Cosacks[sic].
Russian experts do not necessarily know much, outside of Russia. And while we know from news accounts that there is a separatist movement, we almost know jack and shit. So when we have all these experts coming out of the woodwork... Take that grain of salt.
I was tempted to re-read the chapters on that area in my History of Russia, but that book was written at the height of the Cold War....so, pretty useless, really.
That is all.
(For the record, I hope there are experts out there who are qualified, and do not have an axe to grind)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022713340
She's a trained historian, dammit, not a spelling bee champion!
Check out this exchange:
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:39 PM
FarCenter (12,674 posts)
4. "Cossack" has nothing to do with "Caucasus"
The Cossacks were essentially Russian and other east slavic frontiersmen.
Response to FarCenter (Reply #4)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:41 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
5. And some came from the Causasses[sic]
The what?
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #5)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:46 PM
FarCenter (12,674 posts)
6. Only after Russians had subdued the Caucasian ethnic groups and settled in the area.
Think "Cossacks" = Indian fighters, and "Chechnyans, etc" = Indians.
Response to FarCenter (Reply #6)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:48 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
8. Yes, I just made a simple point
Most Russian experts really know Butkus of it.
Russian historians don't usually claim to be football experts.
Response to RZM (Reply #14)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:04 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
16. I remember some were from the caucuses
From a graduate level course in Russian history.
But I fear the experts that will surface
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Response to RZM (Reply #14)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:04 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
16. I remember some were from the caucuses
From a graduate level course in Russian history.
But I fear the experts that will surface.
Were they in Iowa?
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What is this shit?
Until relatively recently all we knew about them.....
Speak for yourself, cousin nadin.
Some of us have known a great deal about the region for a very long time now.
Just because you're an ignorant sloth, cousin dear, doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Geezuz.
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Causasses :lmao: :rotf:
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Response to RZM (Reply #14)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:04 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
16. I remember some were from the caucuses
From a graduate level course in Russian history.
But I fear the experts that will surface.
Experts...like YOU?
and a "graduate level course in Russian history?" How could you have taken that and yet spell: caucuses.
Nads, you ignorant slut...
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Experts...like YOU?
and a "graduate level course in Russian history?" How could you have taken that and yet spell: caucuses.
Nads, you ignorant slut...
Pretty sure that even stevenumbers would pass Nads up.
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You mean to tell me cousin nadin took just one course in Russian history?
Damn.
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Experts...like YOU?
and a "graduate level course in Russian history?" How could you have taken that and yet spell: caucuses.
Nads, you ignorant slut...
She took that course right after graduating from EOD training. I know for certain that all of us, who actually *did* graduate from EOD training, had to take graduate level Russian history courses.
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Russian historians don't usually claim to be football experts.
:rofl: Mr. Butkus is not pleased, and probably know bubkus about Russia.
jack and shit
I've had jack and coke, jack and dr. pepper, jack and sprite. A plethora of combos, but I've never heard of, and certainly never consumed "jack and shit."
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If someone were to squeeze her skull it would pop like zit and leave the same kind of mess behind.
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If someone were to squeeze her skull it would pop like zit and leave the same kind of mess behind.
Air doesn't make a mess.
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Air doesn't make a mess.
The vacuum contained inside would collapse an entire room.
Think "explosive decompression" in reverse.
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I was tempted to re-read the chapters on that area in my History of Russia, but that book was written at the height of the Cold War....so, pretty useless, really.
Now, clue me Commander McBlob; just how does an event in history nullify other written history?
Just how many box tops were required for that training in the field pf History and, this is important, are Captain Crunch box tops worth more than Alpha Bits?
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Response to RZM (Reply #14)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:04 PM
nadinbrzezinski (118,885 posts)
16. I remember some were from the caucuses
From a graduate level course in Russian history.
But I fear the experts that will surface.
Hey gnads I knew the man that taught classes like that at Yale and GWU.http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n26/story12.html He would have slapped you upside your misshapen head for spewing crap like that. Besides if you even made it into one of his classes he would have made you look like the fool you are then failed you.
Oh and he absolutely adored President Regan. :tongue:
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Don't auger wit Nadin, she is an expect on the Causes and Causeessee's ethanol pebbles of that airy.
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Don't auger wit Nadin, she is an expect on the Causes and Causeessee's ethanol pebbles of that airy.
I think she got into the milk on the shelf again.
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Now, clue me Commander McBlob; just how does an event in history nullify other written history?
Just how many box tops were required for that training in the field pf History and, this is important, are Captain Crunch box tops worth more than Alpha Bits?
Well, even as Nads can screw up a soup sandwich, she still knows more Russian history then I do. Never fear, I believe we will get a crash course in all the twists and turns in the politics of that part of the world.
Fox interviewed an older man that seemed to know a thing or two about history. He, and I only caught the tail end of his views, believes America is a hot bed of sleeper cells from every country in the world.
For want of a better name Muslim Land.
We are so ignorant of what is going on in other parts of the world, we have no power to stop Foreign Embassy's from printing false ID's or counterfitting our money.
Big business in NYC for the young that have been here for only a few years to sell drugs to get money to buy arms to be sent to their so called Freedom Fighters over seas.
Some wealthy Americans will sponsor young men into the country, get them a job and charge them 25% of their pay check------Always keeping hanging over the kids heads the threat of deportation.
They get iffy if their kids get friendly with Christians or American citizens as I found out when I had a young man bring his sponsor to visit me. Very odd visit, up shot was I saw this young man just once more when he came to visit bringing gifts for hubby and I and said he was going home to Indonesia to become a Freedom Fighter. I was his American Mother so a hug was allowed.
Strange world out there, one that Americans seldom see or interact with. I am so relieved to be retired and not having to face 10 hours a day 5-6 days a week, interacting with people that for all I knew came from Mars. Had it been just ONE ethnic group no problem but we had people from all over the world, all different with different traditions. So much to learn the taboos of each culture especially for a female.
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bike man (167 posts)
21. One would think that a poster suggesting
"Most Russian experts really know Butkus of it." is implying that they (the poster) does, and if so, surely some of that information the poster has would include the correct spelling of Caucasus - which in this case was incorrect in two different spots, and differently in each.
zappaman (8,092 posts)
22. Why would you argue with a trained historian??? n/t
Dreamer Tatum (7,051 posts)
9. I think you are attempting to seem authoritative
when you sort of aren't.
:lmao:
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Dreamer Tatum (7,051 posts)
9. I think you are attempting to seem authoritative
when you sort of aren't.
:rofl: