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Economically, yeah, there doesn't seem to be much of an effect on our everyday lives as of yet. Food prices have jumped somewhat but nothing most of this current generation that lived through 1998 hadn't seen before.

It will be interesting to see what happens when/if the debt default happens as currently the government has the money to pay its debts but has no means of doing it because of the sanctions. How that will affect our lives is impossible to tell tbh.

My work has already dried up due to this whole mess and I've never been in this much debt in my life. Not sure I can handle much more of that.
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Sorry to hear that Artie. What do you do for a living?
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EvilC wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:10 pm Sorry to hear that Artie. What do you do for a living?
Technically I'm a freelance translator but I've been working for the same patent firm for about 15 years now, translating patents for them. Naturally, the stream of patents from the West is not what it used to be, I'd probably be completely without work if it wasn't for China.
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And this poor sod :thdn: :thdn:

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MB wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:01 pm
Not saying this is fake (no idea who the guy in the photo is) but Pavel is a first name in Russia, never really a surname. So at the very least, whoever posted this didn't get the name right.
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MB wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:01 pm
Gonna need a bigger tank
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Reminds me of when Neil Ruddock joined Swindon and they had to order him some larger shorts.
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When someone said earlier it takes however many thousands of bullets to kill a russian solder, I see it now.
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Great Pie Eating Mystery solved.
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I am the walrus.
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Looking forward to watching this episode of Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away.
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alf git wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:25 pm Gonna need a bigger tank
Russian state media reports this story as - the Russian front in Ukraine continues to expand
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Dunno about scraping the barrel looks like he's standing in it
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Hundreds of kilometres from the frontline. Reports saying two missiles which seems to rule out this being a mistake.

Just bloody awful.
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Probably timed by Putin to send a message during the G7 summit.

Another war crime committed by this sick maniac and his lackeys.
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I think I heard on the news that Russia has moved some cruise missiles to Belarus, and the ones that hit Kiev recently came from there. A clear escalation, I wonder what "The West's" response will be?
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MB wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:49 pm Hundreds of kilometres from the frontline. Reports saying two missiles which seems to rule out this being a mistake.

Just bloody awful.
Targeting population centres.
It's what they do.
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