Only if they are already zombie-radiation babies born in '86 from Chernobyl.

Wow!

You know I might even be concerned if it wasn't the Wall Street Journal bringing me this information...

Sucks to have no credibility.

I thought most of them were heavy vodka drinkers anyway. Built up a lot of tolerance.

Alphax: I thought most of them were heavy vodka drinkers anyway. Built up a lot of tolerance.

They build up a lot of tolerance, then they die in their 40s from liver failure. It makes for a productive economy.

Yeah. And put Randy Quaid in as the lead role.

Wow. Bush's legacy is going to be that he brought down Russia, just like Reagan brought down the Soviet Union!


/unfortunately, he blew up our financial system to do it

I spent all last night heavily investing in vodak, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

SUBBY is retard. It's spelled vodka. Not vodak.

/Loves me some vodak
//2196584
///never forget

Random Reality Check: Wow!

You know I might even be concerned if it wasn't the Wall Street Journal bringing me this information...

Sucks to have no credibility.

doesn't matter, you still atract flies and with bullshiat

Ideological collapse in the early nineties, financial collapse in the late nineties and the population in a death spiral, but a brief spike in oil prices and all of a sudden Russia thought they were the shiat again.

/What do they think their nukes are defending? Who would want to invade that garbage heap? They have nothing worth having except commodities, and those can now be bought cheaply.

hmm...Oil prices rocket...economy sours.
Oil prices dive...

* low gas prices
* low utility prices
* savings help businesses in need
* savings allow businesses to translate lower prices to consumers
* economy is stimulated
* BONUS - pain in the ass nations suffer

I think I like this.

rogue49: hmm...Oil prices rocket...economy sours.
Oil prices dive...

* low gas prices
* low utility prices
* savings help businesses in need
* savings allow businesses to translate lower prices to consumers
* economy is stimulated
* BONUS - pain in the ass nations suffer

I think I like this.

So...our economy is being stimulated?

I'm not sure how much more of this stimulation we can take.

it isn't so spiffy, subby. you obviously don't remember who paid for them recovering from their last collapse.

Random Reality Check: You know I might even be concerned if it wasn't the Wall Street Journal bringing me this information...

Sucks to have no credibility.

Actually the WSJ is a pretty good newspaper, just its editorial page is overflowing with crap and it sometimes spills onto the rest of the paper.

rogue49: hmm...Oil prices rocket...economy sours.
Oil prices dive...

* low gas prices
* low utility prices
* savings help businesses in need
* savings allow businesses to translate lower prices to consumers
* economy is stimulated
* BONUS - pain in the ass nations suffer

I think I like this.

Prices fall, consumers delay major purchases, prices fall further, demand is reduced.
Production contracts, factories idle, business lay off workers.
They have no money, so demand is reduced, and prices fall further.

Rinse, repeat.

/Deflation (new window)

bordergirl: Yeah. And put Randy Quaid in as the lead role.

I'd like to see Fred Thompson in there as well.

russia's loss is not our gain, jerkoffs. eventually we're gonna need them to balance off china. instead they might just ally with them instead of us. yes, they're not really a democracy. have you read a history book? russia isn't europe.

sad tag. when an economy collapses, sad tag. this is old people not getting enough food and civil engineers not being paid to go to work.

\and in case it comes up, Georgia struck first.

I submitted a similar article only to point out that Russia is suffering as well as the rest of the world. Some quasi-economist suggested that we should let our economy fail like the Russians did al la late '80s and early '90s and emerge as this strong self substaining economy. Not looking good today and they have and HIV+ epidemic that may further cripple their economy.

//oil isn't enough

Il Douchey: Who would want to invade that garbage heap?

You know who else wanted to invade Russia?

Eddie Adams from Torrance: You know who else wanted to invade Russia?

Napoleon?

Why is it that all the tin-pot European dictators think invading Russia during the middle of winter is a good idea. Let's be honest, Russia is miles and miles of snow-covered fark all in the winter. Sending troops across that sounds like a great idea.

Russia is pretty much gonna go with the rest of Europe.

Stagnant economy and dying population.

I look forward to the future republic of Tartarstan.

Na Kazan!

/Obscure?

Swampthing in Korea: Russia is pretty much gonna go with the rest of Europe.

Speaking of decline, can anyone tell me if we got a greenlit thread on the NIC 2025 report? Did I miss it?

Ruz: Swampthing in Korea: Russia is pretty much gonna go with the rest of Europe.

Speaking of decline, can anyone tell me if we got a greenlit thread on the NIC 2025 report? Did I miss it?

*Checks profile for no reason at all*

You read Focault?

Goddamned Hack!

Eddie Adams from Torrance: You know who else wanted to invade Russia?

Finland?

So I have been homebrewing for a while, and want to take the next step by building a still. I figure I can make vodak of equal quality cheaper than I would pay for Grey Goose. I know that there are legal issues, but as long as I am only making it for myself and not to sell for profit I figure I will probably be fine.

Anyone have any experience with this? I have not decided whether I will use a keg, brew kettle, or make my own boiler out of copper sheets. I already have a keg so I could do it that way for cheap, but I want something that will last and will look good too.

I know I should be magnanimous, but you elect a de facto dictator who tries to put together a petro-alliance to corner the world's energy markets, and I'm supposed to be sad that it's all coming down around your ears? Yeah, not so much.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: So I have been homebrewing for a while, and want to take the next step by building a still. I figure I can make vodak of equal quality cheaper than I would pay for Grey Goose. I know that there are legal issues, but as long as I am only making it for myself and not to sell for profit I figure I will probably be fine.

Anyone have any experience with this? I have not decided whether I will use a keg, brew kettle, or make my own boiler out of copper sheets. I already have a keg so I could do it that way for cheap, but I want something that will last and will look good too.

Do your research thoroughly and don't cheap out on anything. Unless, of course, you really enjoy blindness and liver/kidney failure.

Moonshining is illegal because people kill themselves and others when they make bad product.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: I want to take the next step by building a still.

You should probably try to build something that's not going to asplode.

Alphax: I thought most of them were heavy vodka drinkers anyway. Built up a lot of tolerance.

You ain't kidding:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41J8YndHFIk



_{/not a rr.
//my liver hurts from watching that}

Alphax: I thought most of them were heavy vodka drinkers anyway. Built up a lot of tolerance.

Therapeutic anti-freeze.

FTA: The government has insisted there is no serious crisis and that Russia is much better off than Western countries, airing public reassurances on state television.

What's the Russian equivalent of Baghdad Bob?

mekki: FTA: The government has insisted there is no serious crisis and that Russia is much better off than Western countries, airing public reassurances on state television.

What's the Russian equivalent of Baghdad Bob?

Moscow Mikhail?

Drunk people with nuclear weapons. That'd make an awesome movie



Spies Like Us(1985) ?
Link (new window)

Aarontology: mekki: FTA: The government has insisted there is no serious crisis and that Russia is much better off than Western countries, airing public reassurances on state television.

What's the Russian equivalent of Baghdad Bob?

Moscow Mikhail?

Ohhh, I like. I also smell a potential photoshop thread brewing with this.

What this country needs is more vodka and cheap russian biatches.

/Russian women are farking crazy
//Great in bed, though

mekki: What's the Russian equivalent of Baghdad Bob?

I triple guarantee you, there are no Russian equivalents of Baghdad Bob! Never! They're not even within 100 miles of Russia. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Russia. This is an illusion

incendi: JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: So I have been homebrewing for a while, and want to take the next step by building a still. I figure I can make vodak of equal quality cheaper than I would pay for Grey Goose. I know that there are legal issues, but as long as I am only making it for myself and not to sell for profit I figure I will probably be fine.

Anyone have any experience with this? I have not decided whether I will use a keg, brew kettle, or make my own boiler out of copper sheets. I already have a keg so I could do it that way for cheap, but I want something that will last and will look good too.

Do your research thoroughly and don't cheap out on anything. Unless, of course, you really enjoy blindness and liver/kidney failure.

Moonshining is illegal because people kill themselves and others when they make bad product.

It is harder to get methanol poisoning than you think. Beer and wine still have all the methanol in them and no one goes blind drinking them. The only way to really hurt yourself is to drink nothing but the heads, and even then you would need to drink alot. As long as you throw out the heads and don't use lead solder you should be fine. Even if you kept everything and just mixed it all together so the methanol was not concentrated in one jar you would have to drink enough that you would die of alcohol poisoning before you had anything happen from the methanol.

The Rum of All Fears?

incendi: JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: So I have been homebrewing for a while, and want to take the next step by building a still. I figure I can make vodak of equal quality cheaper than I would pay for Grey Goose. I know that there are legal issues, but as long as I am only making it for myself and not to sell for profit I figure I will probably be fine.

Anyone have any experience with this? I have not decided whether I will use a keg, brew kettle, or make my own boiler out of copper sheets. I already have a keg so I could do it that way for cheap, but I want something that will last and will look good too.

Do your research thoroughly and don't cheap out on anything. Unless, of course, you really enjoy blindness and liver/kidney failure.

Moonshining is illegal because people kill themselves and others when they make bad product.

Not true, see the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791. Wikipedia (new window)

Moonshine is not illegal. Not paying taxes on said moonshine is. In fact, most states prohibit the sale of liquor and beer directly to the consumer to help ensure said taxes are paid.

I've gotten too used to the term "vodak". Now when I see the term "vodka" I think for a moment that it's been misspelled.

HempHead:

Not true, see the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791. Wikipedia (new window)

Moonshine is not illegal. Not paying taxes on said moonshine is. In fact, most states prohibit the sale of liquor and beer directly to the consumer to help ensure said taxes are paid.

WHich is why I am hoping the revenuers won't be coming around my parts if it is only a small amount I am making for personal use.

HempHead: Moonshine is not illegal.

Damn. That really undermines a lot of Dukes of Hazzard episodes.

incendi: people kill themselves and others when they make bad product.

Setting aside any illegality, you REALLY need to understand how to watch the still top (exit) temperature in order to lose the methanol that comes off first.

I'm sure there'll be instructions on the intertubes somewhere.

eraser8: HempHead: Moonshine is not illegal.

Damn. That really undermines a lot of Dukes of Hazzard episodes.

Making or possessing it is not illegal I don't think, but selling it is. Especially in a dry county which I believe was the premise in the show.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: So I have been homebrewing for a while, and want to take the next step by building a still.

http://www.homedistiller.org/ (new window) should get you started.

Putin will just force the Russian oligarchs to funnel 20 billion dollars into the economy at gunpoint. Again.

rogue49: hmm...Oil prices rocket...economy sours.
Oil prices dive...

* low gas prices
* low utility prices
* savings help businesses in need
* savings allow businesses to translate lower prices to consumers
* economy is stimulated
* BONUS - pain in the ass nations suffer

I think I like this.

This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on Fark. I'm honestly in awe of the stupidity shown here.

domdare: This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on Fark.

This is the first thread you've read, then?

The premier is a man of the people... but he is also a man, if you get my drift.

/obvious