magnkarl Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 16 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: Here is that Bono Poem in full: Oh, Saint Patrick he drove out the snakesWith his prayers but that’s not all it takesFor the snake symbolizesAn evil that risesAnd hides in your heartAs it breaksAnd the evil has risen, my friendsFrom the darkness that lives in some menBut in sorrow and fearThat’s when saints can appearTo drive out those old snakes once againAnd they struggle for us to be freeFrom the psycho in this human familyIreland’s sorrow and painIs now the UkraineAnd Saint Patrick’s name now Zelensky https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-nancy-pelosi-read-u2-bono-poem-about-ukraine-at-st-patricks-day-luncheon/ War is hell. He’s had a few too many green beers. That wouldn’t even be good with a very samey guitar riff from a guy named after a cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ml1dch Posted March 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2022 Diplomacy should always be done like this. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 What happened to the reports of explosions in Belarus’ cities yesterday? I’ve not heard or seen anything further since the initial reports. Did they really happen? Or was it just fabricated Twitter rubbish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 23 minutes ago, It's Your Round said: What happened to the reports of explosions in Belarus’ cities yesterday? I’ve not heard or seen anything further since the initial reports. Did they really happen? Or was it just fabricated Twitter rubbish? I think some reported explosions, what was actually reported was a noise like a explosion which apparently was from Ukraine borders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 17, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: Here is that Bono Poem in full: Oh, Saint Patrick he drove out the snakesWith his prayers but that’s not all it takesFor the snake symbolizesAn evil that risesAnd hides in your heartAs it breaksAnd the evil has risen, my friendsFrom the darkness that lives in some menBut in sorrow and fearThat’s when saints can appearTo drive out those old snakes once againAnd they struggle for us to be freeFrom the psycho in this human familyIreland’s sorrow and painIs now the UkraineAnd Saint Patrick’s name now Zelensky https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-nancy-pelosi-read-u2-bono-poem-about-ukraine-at-st-patricks-day-luncheon/ War is hell. Oh, Bono, not you too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted March 18, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2022 40 minutes ago, blandy said: Oh, Bono, not you too. He's offered to do legal work for them for free - he's a professional. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted March 18, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2022 5 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: He's offered to do legal work for them for free - he's a professional. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I wonder what drone is used here, considering the rkg is a Soviet made anti tank grenade and probably won't work on the BT2. Is Ukraine modding their own UAV's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 25 minutes ago, magnkarl said: I wonder what drone is used here, considering the rkg is a Soviet made anti tank grenade and probably won't work on the BT2. Is Ukraine modding their own UAV's? You can why the soldiers that survive have PTSE, strolling around knowing that you can be blown to bits at any seconds of the day or night with zero warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I find the videos of people getting blown up set to dance music really disturbing in a dehumanising way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 5 minutes ago, LondonLax said: I find the videos of people getting blown up set to dance music really disturbing in a dehumanising way. I find the videos of Russian troops getting conventionally defeated when they're shooting civilians, bombing schools, hospitals and bomb shelters, being fully aware that this is a crime against humanity and not doing jack to stop quite cathartic. At this point there's no one in the Russian army groups placed in Ukraine that can misunderstand what they're doing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 **** me, it's started..... Brokedonaldov has opened... Fast-food chain with suspicious logo to 'replace McDonald's in Russia' (msn.com) Soon to be followed by Starbuckov, Aeroflop and many more chaingang stores. I find Russia's behaviour quite pathetic and childlike. From Putin to Kadyrov the mentality is very babyish and distorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 18, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2022 29 minutes ago, LondonLax said: I find the videos of people getting blown up set to dance music really disturbing in a dehumanising way. I know, dance music is awful, isn’t it. Quite puts me off gawping at all the gore and death. I think I might start a Twitter hashtag about it, or something. Much better to use traditional music, like the 1812 overture, or even some death metal. I just think it captures the mood better and it really brings out the artful side of war.* *I don’t think any of that, I’m trying to be satirical- it’s the people being blown up that is the horrible dehumanising thing. Sharing videos of it, manipulated with whatever music or none, is gross. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Genie said: You can why the soldiers that survive have PTSE, strolling around knowing that you can be blown to bits at any seconds of the day or night with zero warning. Post Traumatic Stress Erections are the worst. Sorry. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 34 minutes ago, blandy said: it’s the people being blown up that is the horrible dehumanising thing. Sharing videos of it, manipulated with whatever music or none, is gross. Sure, but I feel like there are levels of dehumanisation going on with the addition of music or funny emojis or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted March 18, 2022 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2022 So back to China, these things are always subtle but Chinese State Sponsored TV in the US has started showing destruction in Ukraine on TV and apparently they have started to do so in a limited way in China too. They hadn’t done this at all before yesterday. These shifts always have more significance than they seem to have on the surface 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 3 minutes ago, bickster said: So back to China, these things are always subtle but Chinese State Sponsored TV in the US has started showing destruction in Ukraine on TV and apparently they have started to do so in a limited way in China too. They hadn’t done this at all before yesterday. These shifts always have more significance than they seem to have on the surface It’ll be interesting to know which context they are showing it. Unprovoked Russian invasion or Necessary special military operation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hippo Posted March 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2022 The toy bridge. Romanian border police and citizens have turned the pedestrian bridge linking Ukraine and Romania at Sighetu Marmației into a toy bridge. Each child who comes from Ukraine can take a toy from there, to enter the country with a nice thought. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 As long as Russia hasn't collected the bodies they can hide behind that the soldiers are lost\pow's. My guess is that this is a deliberate tactic to avoid turbulence back home. Body bags from Afghanistan contributed heavily to USSR's fall so Putin is probably fine with the bodies of Russian young men being left in the country he's trying to pulverise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Day 1, there was a Ukrainian woman asking the Russian soldiers to put sunflower seeds in their pockets, so something good would grow where they died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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