Yes.
One could express this sentiment in dozens of languages with dozens of other countries' own iconic images.
Posted on 01/18/2014 2:03:25 PM PST by RoosterRedux
A law in Russia banning "homosexual propaganda" has been condemned by critics, who say it incites hatred. But a day hunting and relaxing in the forest - and hearing some extreme views - suggests it has plenty of support.
Saunas are supposed to be relaxing but the prospect of this one filled me with dread.
I was to share it with two heavily armed Russian hunters - Yuri, a steely-eyed veteran of Russia's bloody war in Afghanistan, and Georgy, a burly businessmen who cut his teeth during the violent chaos that consumed Russia after the fall of communism.
That afternoon, with the first snows of the harsh Russian winter blowing in from Siberia, Yuri and Georgy had taken me into the forest. They'd pointed out fresh wolf and elk tracks in the snow - but there was no sign of the family of bears I'd heard lived nearby.
Yuri said our chatter had frightened off any game but he let me fire a few potshots with his formidable but fluffily-named hunting rifle, a Kalashnikov "Tigger".
As the sun set we'd dined on a great caldron of peppery soup made with pike caught in one of the nearby lakes. They'd produced a slab of what Russians call "salo", smoked pork fat which you eat raw, washed down with shots of vodka.
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How would you know, were you there?
Do you mean you like naked 1,2 and 3 year olds?
Because it is immoral for adults to want to be around naked kids for one thing. We know what adults are thinking.
I’ve never heard of a heterosexual parade before. Sounds like an incredible, fantastic idea! Wonder how many people would show up? Assume almost none in DC :p.
I bet guys like the sauna scene in “Red Heat”.
You are beginning to scare me. I was a little kid once...and I don't think the adults who bathed me were thinking anything inappropriate.
Man, what I would do for a month long safari in a Russian hunting camp.
I mean, for real.
Alaska is the closest thing we have to that, and I’m betting the Rooskies still do things the right way!
Just ask the Nooge and how he got tangled up in DC fedgov regs that almost put him in jail.
Yea Redux, I like Russia more and more too.
And I’m an old cold war guy who lived and breathed “Hate the USSR.”
We were both 1, 2, and 3 year olds at one point (at least I was). And I took a bath from time to time.
Seriously, what's going on here? Send a freepmail if you need to.
“I notice that my son’s male friends are always teasing each other about the other’s purported homosexuality.”
That kind of thing has been adolescent banter for decades.
Noo... of course... looking at a bunch of naked people and kids you are not related to is...um..er... “perfectly natural”.... those guys in the white coats are your friends...
the story is about unrelated people, you brought out skinny dipping with uncles, I was just expanding it more.
lol
Don’t you think that evil captured the world in the 30’s and 40’s with the rise of dictators like Stalin and Hitler under whose regimes many more died than are dying today?
Those in the concentration camps must have hoped and wanted for Jesus to suddenly appear and relieve them of their suffering. But that was almost 80 years ago and suffering is still part of our existence.
You might have to wait another 80 years before your wish becomes a reality. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
“The American obsession with sex has destroyed all innocent pleasures.”
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Not only the Americans obsess about sex.
My wife went to Italy to meet our sons for their graduation. They attended an American Catholic boarding school in Rome.
She checked into a hotel nearby the school but our sons were never allowed by the hotel owner to meet her in her room on the second floor. They had to meet and talk with her in the downstairs lobby.
Yes.
One could express this sentiment in dozens of languages with dozens of other countries' own iconic images.
Every county I have been in the people have treated me well. Then I went to work and had to put up with egos, jerks, and people given a badge.
How is NOT promoting something the same as encouraging bigotry and hate for something? I don’t run around promoting single malt scotch, does this mean I don’t like it? I am so sick of liberals, victim groups, and homosexual militants.
You forgot bears.
Well, that too...
It wasn't until grad school that I became aware of the postmodern conceit that anything innocent-seeming was just cover for some dirty, perverted reality. "Gay" lit crit seemed to begin the practice of seeing gayness everywhere.
The medal at her left, red ribbon & star, looks like a “Hero of The Soviet Union”, so she would have some stories to tell !
You're feeding a troll.
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