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Urbane Guerrilla · 05-13-2006, 12:46 AM

You still don't. Those ten years were US Navy -- NAVSECGRU -- and the NSA, which is Department of Defense, not State. Time was, I made my living speaking, reading, and writing Russian. I've still got some Soviet-era publications stashed in storage boxes. Lots of people said it was windy and tendentious and lying propaganda, and hey, what I read was windy, tendentious, et cetera... imagine living your whole life where the textbooks and reference material are all in bureaucratese, and heavily leaning to the passive voice.

One of the worst things about collectivist totalitarianism is that at bottom, it's fucking boring. And by all accounts, the Russians are not great lays either. Funny, you'd think those long cold nights would give them the opportunity -- but they'd have to lay off the drink. That might be it.

05-13-2006, 12:46 AM	#3
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	You still don't. Those ten years were US Navy -- NAVSECGRU -- and the NSA, which is Department of Defense, not State. Time was, I made my living speaking, reading, and writing Russian. I've still got some Soviet-era publications stashed in storage boxes. Lots of people said it was windy and tendentious and lying propaganda, and hey, what I read was windy, tendentious, et cetera... imagine living your whole life where the textbooks and reference material are all in bureaucratese, and heavily leaning to the passive voice. One of the worst things about collectivist totalitarianism is that at bottom, it's fucking boring. And by all accounts, the Russians are not great lays either. Funny, you'd think those long cold nights would give them the opportunity -- but they'd have to lay off the drink. That might be it. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.