Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

Those rankings can kiss my ass, Bobko Bobkovich. I guarantee you someone with the wide breadth of reading and thinking about the works you were exposed to has a greater capacity to think critically by inferring a broader base of reference than your grad from some high-ranker polytech.

I saw a program about a highly esteemed techincal university in India that educates its students in various tech disciplines. They are brilliant engineers, but about as creative and imaginative as a Saharan pond.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

That reads like a checklist for drudgery.

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]


Agghhhh, sh!t! I guess I won't encourage the spawn of my loin to look at Columbia afterall.

Moscow State, you say? That could cause some serious consternation for my father-in-law. Any ither suggestions?

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

@Bobko

Thanks for the link. When I went into college that type of curriculum was what I was looking for. I had to sort of create it myself with the help of a few good profs- the beauty of the independent study course.

I had a certain affinity for Columbia because of Mark van Doren and Thomas Merton.

I thought Columbia started to abandon or dilute this curriculum, I must have mistaken it for another school. Glad to hear it's still alive. I might encourage my kids to give it a look-see. Plus, you still have a guy like McWhorter teaching there, so that's a plus.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

To do something else to distract your attention from the drudgery of the game? :D

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]


Oh, that's VERY good to hear! Those type of core curriculums are falling out of fashion.

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@GefreiterKania

I can imagine the way we do it is weird to you Euros. It's this difference that has made my new found love for soccer so interesting .

As it is now, I'd prefer to see a live pro soccer match than any other pro sport in America. Going to one tonight.

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@GefreiterKania

Yeah, you could paint your house, go on a cruise, and discover a new element for the periodic table within the expanse of a match.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

Thanks. So the transfer fee is basically one club paying the other club the fee to allow the player to move. Interesting set-up. This is virtually unheard of in non-soccer pro sports in US. It's a completely different and foreign approach.

@Novichok

Ahhh... the crusty buzzard speaks. :D

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

@Bratwurst Boy

Poor guy! At least there's abendbrot!

Pssst....what's abendbrot? A bratwurst?

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

@jon357

:D:D

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

@GefreiterKania

Haha! Yeah, I'm thinking "atheist" is a Russian code word for Southern Baptist. :D

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

With that, it's official: Bobko Bobkovich Bobkonov is my favorite Russian.

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

The whole football transfer market is befuddling to me.

Barcelona offered 35 mil Euros to Bayern for Lewandowski. Bayern has rejected offer saying Lew is valued at 50 mil.

Lew is still under contract with Bayern, correct?

If Bayern accepts Barca's offer of, say, 45 mil, does Bayern get the 45 mil? If so, what does Lew get? Does his contract with Bayern simply transfer ownership rights to Barca and Lew continues getting paid according to said contract until it expires?

Is there a free agency in footbal: a player's contract expires and then he's open to sign with any club without consideration owed to previous club? I'd assume there is but is it very common and robust? It seems every report I read about a player moving to another club, that player is always still under a club.

Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]


That was funny. Some Polish babe must've broke his vulnerable Latin heart.

Pretty much everything Crow says is funny, but it's more like skit comedy. His indefatigable yearning and buoyant rallying of slavdom is pure art. How he addresses fellow slavs, regardless of the degree of chasmic disconnect, as dobre brate keeps me reading his tortuous and matrixesque posts.

If beauty is a mangled disconnected collection of conspiratorial meanderings tethered to a thin, yet constant, theme, then Crow is the Rembrandt of PF.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

@GefreiterKania

Post #278 gets a basketful of amens, as well!


Yeah, and that's the problem. I think your President is 90% sh!t and 10% admirable but, for crying out loud, Russians have plenty of redeeming qualities, except the Russian who replaced my roof-he has none (but that's another story)

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


Amen! A-freaking-men!


A-freaking-men, again!


Can I get another amen?!?!

do we want to find ways to solve problems that lead to a tolerable environmemt or just continually perpetuate grievances and seek retribution? This idea that Russia is an irredeemable bunch of Slavic barbarians will only perpetuate grievances.

Certainly this unjust invasion should be condemned and confronted, but all of this dispatching Russia and Russians to the frozen wilderness outside the civilized world is self-righteous pride that could end up biting us in the ass down the road.

* off soapbox

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

@Cojestdocholery

Huh? What the hell does that have to do with my post?

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


Bobko Bobkovich Bobkonov is committing war crimes in streets of NYC?

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

@Bobko

I stand corrected, you are a hun....only kidding. :D

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

But, are you traitor when you speak against the actions of leadership when you see that those actions may ruin the country you love?

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


I don't think that's true, I think the Russians are irredeemable orcs or huns trope is getting in the way of some pro-uke posters. He is, however, providing a valuable Russian perspective, whether that perspective is agreed with or not.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

@Bobko

That line of reasoning sounds like an unquenchable, perpetual, and eternal recipe for not only global discord but conflagration. May as well erase the word "sovereignty " from the lexicons of the world.

Life / Poland's birthrate on the decline [480]

Ladies:

How do you view the man/ woman relationship? Do you see it as competitive or complementary or something else?

Do you think femininity and masculinity have distinct characteristics? Do these characteristics complement one another? Do these characteristics serve particular roles?

Life / Poland's birthrate on the decline [480]


But, is that true? In most true market economies, education is accessible to any who wish to avail themselves of it by way of public subsidy or taking on debt.

Granted, cost of an education (not to mention extra-curricular and other things ) has increased dramatically and has an economic impact (on the student who assumes the debt ), but that is independent of family size.

I wonder if the real cause for a decline in births in the developed world is radical materialism and pursuit of luxury. In other words, a sort of radical self-absorption.


And, most importantly, those things typically mean economic growth.


Yep!

India is one of those countries that shows just how important those other factors are, ie political stability and governmental policies. They have immense potential that has to be realized. It's going to be interesting to see how their renaissance of hindu nationalism plays out for them economically as well as geopolitically.

Life / Poland's birthrate on the decline [480]


Is that true, though? Certainly, in a modern urban setting, children are significant net drain on family resources, but has that necessitated poorer outcomes in both education and career or standard of living for those children?

There is compelling data that would indicate that population growth is a factor in economic growth. The greater the population the greater the opportunities for innovation and an increase goods and services, as well as hard capital. Granted, other factors contribute to economic growth, but population growth does appear to play an important part. Do you agree?


But those progressive provisions depend on funds. I am unaware of any developed nation's social welfare system that is not funded by the taxes of active workers. Most western countries, including Germany, and China are facing a current or looming social welfare crisis because of an aging population.


:D :D. You are quickly becoming my favorite Russian.

Life / Poland's birthrate on the decline [480]


But, GK's idea of leaving a better future for your children is very much an American idea, as well. American culture was always about building a better tomorrow. On a micro-level that meant a better future for one's children. Only recently is that becoming less prominent in the US, which might be a contributor to some of the decline we've had over past two decades.

It's not fatalism, at all; rather it's a constructive optimism and a sense of duty to enduring prosperity and well-being. So, I'd say GK has some American in him already. :)

Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

The return on investment benefits contractors and the venue owner. It's decades of loss for the taxpayer.

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And, thank the good Lord my fair city was passed over as one of the venues.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [437]

Rarely a sauvignon blanc dud comes out of Marlborough. Chile produces some very high quality sauvignon blancs as well. A few months ago I had a sb from South Africa that more than held its own. Kim Crawford winery out of Marlborough makes a sb that has a strong grapefruit note that I really like--if you come across it in Poland give it a try. Pair it with salmon and you might combust.

Last week I had a Massaro Del Fondo Apassimento 2019 from the Puglia region in Italy. Primitivo grape was the dominant grape. Had very juicy berry and cherry notes with a certain tanginess I find in many of the apassimentos and governos I've had. Personally, I love Italian wines--especially those using dried grape techniques.

As I'm writing this I'm imbibing, no, poetically drinking a 2019 Domaine Chanson Pere et Fils Chablis. This wine is just damn good. It has the minerality of a champagne and acidity that brings the mouth happily alive. I'm getting a pear and apple note. The texture is full...and the minerality, man oh man, the minerality.

This is one to buy again and again.