Best Russian Bans
 

New Hampshire Liquor stores have banned Russian Vodka.

What could you suggest , No more Caviar? No more Aeroflot?

No more AK47s. Or AA12s :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoUVeyaY_8

You do know they are made in several other countries, don't you?

No more Russian salad dressing for me. No more Black Russian cocktails, and no more "Russian" around.

No more Russian oil or White Russians.

No more nesting dolls.

Oh, Nyet!!

Hmmm, do I really have to get a divorce?

And the US never banned all of the products from China. The largest communistic country. The human enslavement of workers, organ harvesting, fentanyl etc. Where are the American morals. Less than 5% of imported sea containers are ever searched from china. Every person in the US before entering a plan is searched along with their luggage.

it does seem that there is a reluctance to confront 'the sleeping dragon' (that is now pretty much awake and stretching it's muscles)

Giggle, snort

No, surely not. Did you get it?????

Hmm, I thought the subject was Russia? China has nothing to do with the subject.

Polish vodka is better anyway.

Get what?

Zar-carh-Im…….

Figured I’d give the anti-gun-mites something to cheer about. If there ever was an assault weapon for war it’s the AA12. :shocked:

I prefer Black Russians, they are more rare… :duck:

Try Bison Grass Vodka sometime. Smooth.....Polish. Aka, Żubrówka.

Shotguns are not viable weapons for the battlefield.

I understand there is a global agreement not to assassinate world leaders. That being the case, if Putin breaks the code by taking out Zelensky, all bets should be off. In that case it would be great to see Putin banned from taking another breath of air.

porn

Exactly...hot russian babes...until they turn 40 and become babushkas....dressed like our moms

Did you watch the AA12 video?? Evidently NOT.

I know what you mean, but. . .
 

Speaking for myself. . .

A sense of humor is a study in itself. I think it is on some kind of spectrum. There is definitely a range.

Those of us who have a sense of humor know that it is very much a part of who we are as individuals.

I have known people who take everything literally because they just can’t see it any other way — no sense of humor, at all, I guess. The rest of us run the gamut from the quick and dry to slapstick and beyond, with everything in between.

And, of course, humor can be a valuable coping mechanism.

I will say though that I draw the line where others might have a need to cross it. . .

I have never laughed at a Helen Keller joke.
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I have never mocked a disabled person.

I think Ricky Gervais goes too far in his stand-up routine. I watched his stand-up one time. Never again. (cringe, shudder)

And, now, I cannot find any laughter anywhere in what we are seeing happening in Ukraine.

I have not even watched Colbert for the past few nights. I have always loved it when he skewers those who need a good skewering. But man’s inhumanity to man, orchestrated by a megalomaniac, is in a different category. (I don’t know how or if Colbert is satirizing this one. I am choosing not to find out.)

“A woman’s got to know her limitations.”

And I just can’t laugh about any part of this one.

Boomer

PS: Today, I did look up my favorite vodka Grey Goose, just to make sure — made in France.
PPS: And, btw, please do not feel the need to lecture me about what I can and cannot control. I am not naive. I limit my news time and then go on with normal things — but damn, this is HUGE, the biggest thing I have seen in my entire boomer life — so far. . .

Maybe not, but we used them in Vietnam. There are some very decent models that make very good "assault" weapons, especially for urban warfare.

How about blonde jokes? :MOJE_whot:

I have viewed on news shows people pouring Russia Vodka on the ground in protest. It’s a statement but the damage was done on purchase. Just drink it and buy no more.

Dear Boomer,
I agree that there is a spectrum of humor. This is not meant as a lecture, just conversation. I am one of those that spot a double-entendre or innuendo. Sometimes even when it isn't there. I, like you, don't mock the unfortunate, but I can see the humor in some of the situations they may encounter. Even when I am the unfortunate one, there is a humorous perspective. Example: I had cancer in my neck. Treatment was long and terrible. When I could no longer eat or drink, I had to take nourishment through a tube in my belly. When my radiation nurse saw it for the first time, she asked how I felt. I smiled and told her I was a member of the Borg collective. She laughed hysterically, not at me, but with me at my bizarre appearance.
The situation in both Russia and Ukraine is horrible. But I, for one, have no control over these events. But I, and apparently others, can find humor in the sometimes silly protests or bans that take place. Laughter is often a coping mechanism that eases the pain of horrible reality. But it doesn't change that reality.

Russia is sending in nesting tanks. They are easier to ship as 1 tank instead of 6

Humor sure is hard to explain and discuss isn’t it.

Your sharing of how you made your nurse laugh made me think about my dad. We still talk about the one-liners he could come up with, making his nurses laugh as they cared for him during a difficult and serious illness.

Actually, the situation you are describing shows you as a kind soul, using your gift of wit to make someone else’s day a little brighter. Even as you were undergoing something so hard, you brought laughter to another human being.

Humor and timing go hand-in-hand. Your timing was perfect. You made a memorable impression on that nurse, even as you were in such a scary time. Nurses need those lovely, gently funny interactions with their patients. I don’t think they get enough of them.

Even though you did not know that nurse well and will never see her again, that brief moment in time is an illustration of that famous, and so true, quote from Maya Angelou. . .

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

(That well-known quote applies to both the positive and the negative in so many different types of encounters we have with each other, sometimes even in something as anonymous as TOTV posts — and it certainly applies to how we respond to varying forms of humor.)

Boomer

So, the subject went from Russian bans to hurting people's feelings. Don't see the correlation.

Let's get back on topic.

I guess I'll have to kill myself, my sister, my mom, dad, my aunts, and all my cousins. Or maybe I just don't find any humor in this particular flavor of "cancel culture."

….except we are focusing on Russia in this thread. Diversion??

OK. It was my fault. I did the segue into the spectrum, the range, that is humor.

I broadened the topic — which is what I do sometimes in conversation with people I can actually see.

The moderator brought things back on the track that the majority want, and get, I guess.

Oh, well. Carry on.

BBL,
Boomer

Not diversion. Just a stop to let passengers get on board or not once they verify destination of this thread.

I want to see the nesting tanks.😃😃😃

I don't think I know any Russian Bands but I have heard a couple Polish bands.........:boom::1rotfl:

Tito is surely smiling right now.

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