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He dead?

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:22, 1 reply, 11 years ago)
Yes
Nice guy. Pro-Europe, worked hard to get UK investment into his beloved country. Didn't seem the kind to protest. I honestly don't know what to think.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:26, Reply)
Sorry about that.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:28, Reply)
I'll sit quietly and remenisce about a long sunny Sunday afternoon we spent...
...Drinking in a 'working men's club' (don't know how to spell the word in Ukrainian) with a cross-section of people. Young guys & Girls that wanted to practice their English, war veterans with some heart-rending stories of battles and occupation and just ordinary people who wanted to know what it was like in the UK.
One of those times where the day passed slowly and I counted my blessings to have been born free and relatively wealthy, sitting and shooting the breeze with foreigners who were just people with their own stories to tell.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:36, Reply)
I really liked Kiev when I went there. Particularly sitting in the early evening sunshine, playing chess with some bloke I'd never met before in a beer garden whilst sipping a pint or two.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:04, Reply)
When you live in a secluded and insular democracy you can't know what to think
We do - and we're not confronted with what is ultimately going to result in a civil war.

Think that your colleague was a brave man.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:33, Reply)
Bad times, sorry about that.
Make sure its not Russian vodka, aye.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:34, Reply)
I'll try to find Hetman vodka

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:37, Reply)
Noble way for him to have gone. It's a good thing that people give a fuck about these things
and don't just brush it away because it's not happening here.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:43, Reply)
It could be such a rich country
And a real asset within Europe. I felt strange when I saw the protests because I knew the landmarks when they were shown on TV, it's come a bit closer now.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:46, Reply)
It's a shame and no mistake.
He's a bit of a dictator that Putin chap.
We are too domesticated for it to happen here. we are kept subdued with money and things and freedom.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:55, Reply)
The Romans did the same thing
Bread and Circuses.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 18:57, Reply)
I generally and genuinely like you, GJ. I think you're a good person.
But the above is the most poncey, trite and hollow comment on a serious crisis I can imagine.

Delete it, then you'll loose this post as well.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:00, Reply)
*lose

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:02, Reply)
I dont go into depth on here, more than likely because of my lack of subject knowledge.
and secondly because I will be picked apart.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

if you read that as hollow, aint my problem.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:09, Reply)
shallow rather than hollow
And trite. And naive.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:10, Reply)
Don't you start.
I was trying not to get too sombre.
I'm not shallow or malicious or any of that.

Anyway, blah.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:13, Reply)
thick

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:16, Reply)
I don't do the news. it's depressing :(

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:19, Reply)
oh dear

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:19, Reply)
Well, I do. But it's a skim read.
Im rubbish.
No tabloids though!
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:23, Reply)
You can't simply abrogate the world around you.
Actually I suppose you can - red tops and commercial radio let you do that and validate it.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:24, Reply)
Trust me, I am in absolute certainty of how naive I am about some things, the things that matter.
I do stick my head in but I hate reading about it. It's never good news. Constant hatred, murders, wars, crises.
Im a pretty upbeat character and this brings me down.

If it was the 70's Id be a hippy.

I am very aware of my nonchalance.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:29, Reply)
Might it not be a good idea that you didn't comment upon issues that you don't really understand then?

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:31, Reply)
I'd be fuckin' mute.
Hows about you just don't take things on this ridiculous site too seriously?
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:38, Reply)
Potentially we're stepping into the most significant crisis in Europe since Princip's nicely aimed bullet.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:17, Reply)
Vladimir Poo-tin!

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:18, Reply)
Bender

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:19, Reply)
You're still conscription age
I'm not.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:20, Reply)
Conscription isn't going to happen

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:23, Reply)
7 quid it is now. and that's on the NHS!

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:24, Reply)
It wasn't going to happen in 1914 either
That was a silly comment on my part. There are some very scary parallels though.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:27, Reply)
Quite.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:23, Reply)
and now the US and CaMORON are fuelling the fire by getting involved and stopping cash flow.
That selfie Cameron took was fucking ridiculous. "Oh hai, on the phone to Obama about Ukraine... SELFIE"

prick.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:23, Reply)
The prick here is you.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:24, Reply)
I think we already know that I don't care what you think of me :)
and I know you think Im a prick.
Saying it over and over again won't mark me.

Prick.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:25, Reply)
Yeah but you unironically said 'CaMORON

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:25, Reply)
and you're definitely a knobber

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:28, Reply)
DAILY FAIL HAHAHAHA GORDON CLOWN HAHAHAHA TONY BLIAR HAHAHAHAHA
ED BALLS
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:30, Reply)
'NICK' CLEGG!!!!!!!!
'PRICK' GRIFFIN!!!!!!!
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:32, Reply)
No I did it on purpose.
but thanks.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:30, Reply)
yes, we know you did it on purpose

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:33, Reply)
Wot u on about then?

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:37, Reply)
it was cliched and unfunny

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:38, Reply)
So why did you say it then?

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:39, Reply)
oh jesus, how thick are you?

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:39, Reply)
This trolling seems to be snowballing dear.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:42, Reply)
you're too stupid to troll effectively

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:44, Reply)
^^upset

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:25, Reply)
nope. Defensive.

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:31, Reply)
Cameron isn't going to impose too heavy economic sanctions
Putin knows that.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:34, Reply)
Putin knows he can pretty much do what he wants

(, Thu 6 Mar 2014, 19:35, Reply)

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