Paved Roads: Riga Style
That’s how they pave roads in Riga, Latvia. See the next photo for the details..
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Day in and day out we see how common sense is not a norm in old Russia.
since when is Riga in Russia?
Since when do you assume that ‘old Russia’ doesn’t mean USSR?
SInce when does anyone doubt that “old Russia” is a universal notion and actually spans the whole world?
Whenever you see anything ugly, it should be that old Russia.
Especially in Riga.
Since around 10th December 2010
Oh, really?
Pray that you do not see peace-keeping forces in Red Square.
Heh!
There is a saying “Do not spit into the well you are going to drink from”.
If oil prices drop and social turmoil begins in Russia, some day I well might be the one who will hand a piece of bread from UN humanitarian aid truck over to you.
Such generosity
Isn’t it?
maybe in few years….but now we are giving aid to USA.Russia plans to give USA 500billion dollar to keepthe dollar stable. Because inmost banks of world the secondary valuta is in dollars, so if dolalr drops the amount of money of these countrys drop too.In russia 60% inbanks is in dollars.
Oh! How nice of you! USA shall be grateful to you for saving them from collapse!
I guess that is a good deed in return for “Bush legs” (chicken legs sent to Russia in early nineties as humanitarian aid from USA)!
Wonderful! I am deeply moved!
Applause!
it’s a pleasure
Oh thats bullshit. We both know little luthania will be annexed to Russia very soon. Also, what would you send in aid to us? We would have taken everything youres aleredy mate.
Lithuania will soon be forced into submission by its rightly master country, allmighty Russia. We send peacekeepers, to keep peace in the neo russian emprie you dumb shit.
I’m turning 20 on that day…… how exciting ~
10 dec 2010
Congratulatons! (In advance)
Nice to see Latvians being critisized, now they don’t feel so clever against Russians anymore, keep up the good work.
First!
Great to see the lack of initiative is being replaced by the lack of intelligence
You wouldn’t recognize greatness if you stepped on it, so shut up silly wooden shoe. And when was the last time you took an initiative bigger than taking a crap ?
Look at it this way - they saved themselves the costs of towing!
That car was standing there for a LONG LONG time and the construction workers cannot legally touch the car, or tow it away for that matter, without going through a lengthy process including a waiting time to see if the owner shows up. Probably pressured by deadlines, the construction workers decided to just bury it , thinking “its not our problem”. Love the proletariat at work!
Yeah, the car was obviously left abandonned - it has no identification plates. Possibly the owner was loath to pay for its ecological disposal.
After all, it is only an old priceless Opel (GM for Yanks).
There is a poetic saying, something like this: “In dark, moist autumn evenings, when red leafs are falling to the ground, you can hear … how Opels are rusting in the neighborhood”
Igor is a baldy fag !
Just drive out.
I agree.
Seems like the car looks a little better now - its art people! Its a paved car art! Seems like the men who did this deserve a raise! Think positive people!
Stupid fucking morons. I quess russians are right to call latvians slow. I bet one of the worker woke up in the morning and realized that it was his car
Please read my comment above.
Thank you. I guess it’s not only me who has noticed that latvians generally seem be quite slow. I wonder if it’s genetic?
Naughty, naughty!
Be careful, my “anti-fascist” friend!
One more step and you will find yourself yourself in realm of Dr. Mengele, preaching of genetic superiority of certain groups of people over the others!
The goat’s hoof of real you just stuck out a bit for the world to see.
P.S.
In accordance to latest genetic studies (it was on TV like about a month ago), most of population of North-Eastern part of Russia genetically are of Finnish-Ugric ancestry.
Also, there are many toponyms of Baltic origin around Moscow (not surprising, as proto-Balts migrated from the area of Urals), which means that many Russians in European part of Russia have at least some portion of Baltic blood.
Like many chauvinists, you seem to overlook the difference between genetics, language, ethnicity, culture/ideology and nationality (citizenship) and seem to believe that it is all the same. Just like Nazis did!
Yo-ho-ho!!! Justin is Nazi!!!!
Look everybody!!!
Justin is Nazi!!!!
Beaver, I am afraid no one can clame your place as englishrussia’s most prominent racist and antisemit. You are simply unbeatable. As for Justin being a Nazi, well…
Got e-mail notification about reply to “Justin’s” comment and came running to reply to it?
Naughty, naughty, Boris!
Talking beaver, has anyone ever tried introducing DUCT TAPE to you?
Do you expect an answer?
I am interested though, would you hate me in real life if you would find out that I am Russia?
That was some ridiculous question.
Of course not.
LAST!
at least they pave the roads in Riga, not like mighty Russia
Now doesn’t that make feel better?
“you”
I agree.
Чиво?
Crazy Russians!
I just watched Russian TV news program VESTI.
They bitched as hell, more than usual.
The subject was European “hot spots” in context of Kosovo independence declaration.
Believe it or not, the narrator named Estonia as one of the possible source of weapons and armament to Irish Republican Army!!!
“Estonian extremists” he said. It is not really clear to me, as the only real extremists in Estonia are Soviet nostalgic “Russian speaker” (whoever they are) revanchist organizations. But I guess that is not what he meant.
This reminded me a story popular like about 5 years ago about so called “White Stockings”, an army of Baltic female snipers, told to assault Russian soldiers in Chechnya. There was even article about it in Russian edition of “Soldier of Fortune” and one Russian high ranking officer very seriously was telling about it on Russian TV. Needless to say no one ever has actually seen such female snipers as they did not exist and it was “all in the head”. (Some say it was implementation of eternal male dream about women and arms, seen also in legends about Valkyries)
Damn! If there is a real “Arkham Asylum” type madhouse in the world, it’s name is Russia! Just plain crazy!
I don’t think it is in the interest of Russians to do this kind of things in Estonia when they are already trying to push the Estonian Russians out.
You did not get my point.
Russian TV was telling that that Estonians are arming IRA. They (Russian TV) are completely out of their mind.
Though it was not the first time they are making their audiences to believe total bullshit. Like that off-the-ceiling White Stockings, Nazis in Baltics etc.
“Gebel’s otdyhaet” (Dr. Goebels is sucker comparing to them)
1) No one can beat Dr. Goebels and his NAZI entourage in their propaganda war.
2) Russia is not the only exception, politically you can find propagande everywhere, all the companies that sell goods in capitalist markets use propaganda after all. I agree that it may be a bit worse in Russia but things seem to be impoving slowly but steadily.
I am not at all shocked. What’s the big deal with this photo? These roads are not that bad. They look this shitty in Michigan, USA. That’s just someone being lazy putting down coldpatch, getting it on a nearby car. If you drive over the crap, it flings up all over your car anyway, and now you have asphalt on your car.
Oh, yes. Totally stupid. Unbelievable!
Now some considerations:
1)
This is not unique. Seems that there is a difference between genetics scientists and redneck road workers in any part of the world. As an example see dead raccoon on a road painted over in USA: http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/roadkill.raccoon.lemont.2.340214.html .
2)
Latvia (and Estonia) had been under German domination for almost a millennium (since Northern Crusades until eve of WWII) it leaving deep traces in society (and sustaining a feeling of resentment towards German oppressors, but that is a different story). In Tsar times Baltic provinces used to be the most developed part of Russian Empire. Even after gaining independence from Russian Empire in 1918 some German influence remained in new democratic countries until “repatriation” of Baltic Germans in 1939.
One of the landmarks of this influence is what is illustrated by popular Latvian saying “Kārtībai ir jābūt!”, which is a direct translation of German “Ordnung muß sein!” (literally: “Order must be!”). Which means, basically, whatever you do – do it well (or better stay away from it at all).
Unfortunately, due to Soviet occupation in 1940 and later re-occupation in 1944 this saying, until restoration of independence in 1991, was gradually giving place to another saying - Russian “И так сойдет” (“I tak soydet” - “That will do as it is”), which was very popular in USSR and was basically one of the cornerstones of Soviet popular thinking. Meaning, basically, that you have to imitate activity and to do something just for the sake of being able to report it as done, not caring to the smallest extend as of the actual quality, reliability or usefulness of your work. I have heard stories about people in Soviet Army building fences during winter time by freezing-in fence poles in water-filled holes instead of concreting them in. Because when the spring came and everything fell apart they would be already gone. That kind of attitude.
This continues the earlier conversation about debilitating effects of Soviet rule in comments to article about “Parking vandalism”.
3)
If I were you I would not hurry so much to go jumping around of joy about “stupid Latvians”. Why? Because: (a) Due to Soviet colonization efforts share of Latvians in Riga city is still under a half; (b) Due to low education level of large part of post-WWII Soviet immigrants and often, by social inheritance, of their offspring too (including such key factor as lack of knowledge of the language spoken in the country) the low paid jobs which do not require any other skills aside from ability to “operate shovel” are in majority done by Russian-speaking folks.
So, putting together (a) and (b) we see that probability of this mess having been caused by Russian speaking team of redneck Soviet immigrants might be reasonably evaluated at a level of about 80-90%.
P.S. If you think that I am overly critical, please try to understand, that Soviet/Russian takeover of Latvia was similar to an imaginary situation where huge and aggressive North Korea the size of China invades and takes over Sweden, destroying the society and economics, killing people, installing their own ideology, way of life, language, hieroglyphs. Imagine what would Sweden or Denmark look some 50 years after being incorporated into North Korea the size of China. They would look pathetic.
P.P.S. Talking about Korea – Look at the North and South Koreas. That is difference between Latvia with and without Soviets. Besides here we skip the fact that Latvia was promising, well doing North-European country before being visited by them in 1940.
I’ll quote myself from one of the previous posts…
“Beaver, I think we both know exactly where you are going with this. Although, you rhetoric has changed from this- Estonia 4 Estonians, Russians and Jews out! to this - Latvians were lucky in a way that they got under the boot later than other of the peoples of USSR the basis of your arguments are still very much the same, i.e. - Russian are more aggressive, less culturally developed, more prone to crime, and other xenophobic racist garbage that you normally come out with.
I will have to say, that I strongly disagree with you. Even more so, I find what you say, or rather skilfully infer, to be the complete opposite.
I was lucky enough to have travelled through most of the Baltic States and have visited Russia on more then one occasion. I wont go into all those negative aspects that I have experience in druring my stay in Baltic Countries such as, racism, intolerance, glorification of fascism, etc, but I would like to mention how much I loved Russia and Russian people. I found then to be much more hospitable, open, tolerant, kind, better educated, better mannered and much more ambitious then people in Latvia and Estonia in particular. I too having been feed with all the anti-Russian propaganda for many years and had naturally made some stereotypes and preconceptions, but frankly, they were almost all dissolved in less then 24 hours. Apart for the one, of course, how much Russian people like to drink nevertheless, after my initial visit I came to Russia again and again. I dont know perhaps I was lucky during my visits to Russia and unlucky in Estonia and Latvia, who knows, but these were my observations.
Also, I dont know if I had told you this before, but I manage a hotel in Norwich. And as you probably know UK hospitality industry is now full of workers for the ex-soviet states, including the Baltics - our hotel is not an exception. We currently employ about 7 eastern-European workers. A receptionist and a second chef from Poland, two waitresses from Latvia, a bar tender from Lithuania (I think, if not Estonia) and two cleaners from Ukraine. So as you can probably imagine I have had first hand experience in dealing with the eastern-Europeans. Sadly, besides the good ones, there also were some very negative experiences.
The two waitresses from Latvia, besides being incredibly lazy and slow (in a more then one sense) where also incredibly xenophobic and racist. Quite a few times I walked in on conversation between them and our head chef Adam. The subject were always about the two Ukrainian cleaners. I specifically heard these two sentences I hate those stinky Ukrainian bitches - they are worse then fucking Russians and They are all so dumb. Of course I could never tolerate any form of racism, and I gave then buy that time my second official warning. The third and the most unpleasant incident happened with a new black girl who was hired part-time to help out in the kitchen during large functions. Now I was not there when this particular incident occurred, but a substantial amount of witnesses confirmed that one of the waiters for Latvia had been persistently racially abusing this poor black girl with words like fucking nigger and get away from me you monkey, you might have AIDS. Of course I didnt have a choice but to give her an instant dismissal. Thankfully, the other racist bitch also got her third and final warning when she turned up to work an hour and half late totally drunk.
On the other hand, about two years ago, we had a very nice Russian boy working for us also part-time as he was a student. After conducting my first interview with him, I really had to ask him - is this a job that you really want?, because to me he seemed far too smart and ambitious to work in restaurant. Sadly, we couldnt have offered him a higher position at the time. I really couldnt believe it. He really was the best employee I have ever had! He was never late, always hard working, responsive, incredibly polite, charming - I mean everyone loved him, and being around him. Sadly he left about two or three month later because he was planning on taking a masters degree in Darby University. Of course we kept in touch. And believe it or not, he now holds a very high position in Highland Gold Limited (a huge joint British-Russan gold mining venture)
Also, in general, at least in the UK, a vast majority of Russians are extremely successful people; this could be especially said about Russian Jews. They drive expensive cars, invest in property and make huge amounts of money, and are in general very respectable members of Society. General public perception about people from Baltic States is very much different. They hold low-skilled, underpaid jobs, frequently commit petty crime, get drunk, have fights, etc. In fact many of our regular customers complain about how they are scared to walk the street alone because of the aggressive eastern-European yobs. Now I am not you, beaver, therefore I will not make stereotypes and claim that all Balts are like this, even though I have a some good reason to do so. Of course I understand they need to come to UK to feed their families and help out their friends and realities because their government would rather spend the state budget on erecting Nazi monuments, but I can also sympathize with those old people who are sacred to walk the streets alone because of the increasing numbers of Baltic thugs.
So before you make yet another groundless attack on Russian minorities, why dont think about how your countrymen are behaving other countries.
Good day.”
Order may be? Yes order indeed, Hitler kaput! Russian people are have gentle souls but firm resistance. It’s much easier to ask them nicely than try to take them by force.
1)
St. Petersburg + Moscow = 2 cities.
And not provinces.
“Wanted to modernize russia (not estonia, latvia)” - sure. Because he took Estonia and Latvia from Sweden and they did not need any modernization.
You might want to try to remember were the first Russian tank, car and (I guess) airplanes were built.
2)
“you are still trying to blame russians for this”
I would not even mention this unless your mass media and Mr. President personally would not be siting on our neck. I do not even mention all those Moscow supported political forces constantly shitting in the country were they live.
3)
“cant you just accept that there are dumb latvians / estonians”
I am very well aware of this. Do not worry…
Amen!
Complete nonsense. Especially that “rhetoric has changed” part. What are you smoking? Stop that!
Now you should try to sell your story to some Russian-speaker newspaper in Russia or in Baltics. Their editors normally also drive expensive cars, invest in property and make huge amounts of money, you know, and they like this type of heart breaking, wild stories to stir up their “oppressed” audience. Story about catching two Nazi bitches in you kitchen would fit the mood. You just shall add that they tried to rape you. After all - this is Valentine’s day.
Justin, where you’ve seen two latvians gossiping in English?? Or you do understand Latvian? Or maybe - they spoke Russian? Whole idea of giving shit to someone in different country is being able to speak language they don’t understand. I know it is very immature, but pople just like it
I’ve seen so many Russian people abroad ubusing this, they should be very careful what they say, so many who understand Russian 
1) no. that is not what I am saying.
2) well. idea is that Russian pressure and constant attacks provoke this kind of teasing.
3) we live in a real world, dont we? (Maybe escept for Justin/Boris Abramov)
Poor
Don’t make up porky stories about Ruthenians and “Whatch yo momma gave you - shake!”
I believe I made it specifically clear that the waitresses were speaking with Adam (in english).
I guess the common fault of “constructed” stories is that they look like Picasso drawings.
Sorry to butt in, but I would like to yet again challenge talking beaver into giving me ONE example of russia exerting pressure on baltic states. So ar all that talking beaver spews out seems to be nothing more but a groundless nazi demagogy.
Well, funny videos. It was not exactly so from my perspective.
Your information looks more like of nineties-and-later origin, after mania of restoring the GREATNESS begun in Russia. And was mostly dictated by bitterness about those who left the friendly bear’s hug of Mother Russia.
In short, in pre-Gorbachev USSR Russians were the Big Brother, the Greater People and most Equal amongst the Equals. Everyone else were equally second grade. Yeah, the Russians were the Great Ones and others had to be grateful to Russians that those have “helped” them, “liberated”, “brought culture” or something of the sort.
Ethnic jokes generally were told about Chukchas, some time about Jews (Rabinovich), but most often about Russians themselves (Like “Russian, American and German enter the bar…”). Though there were some “Southerner” jokes like “Armenian Radio” series and others. But all those jokes were friendly. Even about poor Chukchas who were portrayed as simple-minded “children of the Nature”, but smart and cunning in a way.
Common, you don’t expect to behave that way when someone tells you to! Politically there are all sorts of tails but the truth remains the truth, people dont’s choose friends by race. You don’t expect ordinary Russian people back then walking about the streets talking to each other of the political nonsense.
However I must disagree on that one; the hierarchy is as follows in my opinion: Your parents, your older brothers or sisters, you, your younger brothers or sisters, your children.
Heh!
That is OK, no problem. Just be so kind now and butt out!
But before that let me remind you one historical detail (in regard of demagogy): When USSR attacked Finland in 1939, right into the middle of the Winter WAR, USSR declared, that they had PERFECT RELATIONS with Finnish government. You see, they did mean puppet government of Otto Kuusinen they themselves had created to install in Finland after it would have been conquered.
Today Estonian authorities are also keen on humor, such as this: “Why do Russians wear straw hats? because you always must hay on manure” Or “what is the most wide spread animal in Estonia? Russians” which they promote in Estonian schools as part of the curriculum.
http://www2.yousaytoo.com/user/Ganza/4010
Yes… they are the fuure of Estonia.
And I feel that this ‘GREATNESS’ begins when you stick your head up your ass.
I guess you can’t answer his question then? Well, I wouldn’t expect you to. After all, this is just Nazi demagoguery.
Why you had to repeat the same stupid stuff twice?
Ah, OK!
Carry on then!
By the way, just for record, there were no Polish jokes in USSR.
At least not in Western part of USSR after 1980.
OFF-TOPIC:
Actually, this is funny.
Wikipedia is a very interesting, important and valuable source of information, but it may be very unreliable.
To illustrate this:
- I have myself contributed to various parts of Wikipedia.
- Now you say you trust Wikipedia and not me.
So what I could do is to go and make correction in Wikipedia that suits me (as anyone can edit it), thus adding to “credibility” of my statement and then refer you to it.
This is the “referring to authority” trick used in both commercial propaganda (advertising) and political propaganda.
Curious…
Heh! I am happy you mentioned this verrrry interesting case again.
Funny, it seems that no one except the “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” (Moscow Young Communist), where this “newsflash” seems to have originated, is aware of such a thing.
After you so generously have forwarded us to a home page of some fella who is very keen of keeping excerpts form Moscow Young Communist paper, would you equally generously quote to us something from Berlin Young Nazi newsletter about how Jews are oppressing them?
Do you have some more paranoid nightmares to share with us?
I will give you 10 bucks if you stand there when they lay another patch?
Do we have a deal?
Oh, you can not do a lot with 10 bucks here either, except to buy few beers or maybe have funny videos stand in a way of a steam roll.
As you say. This is standing offer. If you change your mind, let me know. Maybe I will throw in free lunch.
What about game? I would suggest balls of Boris Abramov in flaming spirit!
As of Baltika - no, I never use it, though it is available. I prefer local brands.
Hello there, Kapitan!
- Care to elaborate?
- Do you mean Russians by “Ruthenians”?
- I am not making up stories (like Boris Abramov is). I am just intentionally being Politically Incorrect.
- I did not get that “Whatch…” joke. Should be some local folklore…
What was all this verbal cocktail supposed to mean?