Ten Things that you can do in Russia but Can t do so in the United States.

vannrox | 4-27-02 | VANNROX

[vannrox]

Ten Things that you can do in Russia

but Can’t do so in the United States

Own an Automatic Rifle without a Permit.

Smoke in any Restaurant you visit.

Drive without a seatbelt.

Buy chemicals for your chemistry set.

Put up a “Girly Picture” on your Wall at work.

Drink a beer at your desk at work on Friday.

Buy Codeine-Enhanced Aspirin over the counter.

Pay only 15% in total taxes instead of 60%.

Smoke a fine cigar at a work meeting (Ash trays in all the rooms).

Be a Male Chauvinist.

[Travis McGee]

I was a Russian Studies major. Learning the new alphabet is trivial; you are given a handout sheet at class #1 and are expected to have it memorized by class #2. The least difficult thing about learning Russian is learning the alphabet.

[tpaine]

I grew up in the 40's, early 50's. It was good.

But my father & grandfather insisted the 20's were better, and the 1890's the best. -- History agrees.

Amazingly, -- FR's neocon's disagree. To them, it's just now getting good. -- Why, -- just a few more years of big government, & we'll see a workers paradise!

[tpaine]

At times I do not know who to fear the most. The elitist-moralist-statist-heavily armed evangelical Jimmy Swaggert types, or the fire breathing-Cuba sucking-egalitarian-politically correct-income tax as a social engineering tool-gun grabbing-power to the State-Boxer/Feinstein types.

I'm coming to the realization, that depending on the axe they are grinding, they are two sides of the same coin. -- We have have elitist-moralist-statist-politically correct- gun grabbers posting to this thread.

There are few here at FR that understand the true intent of most constitutional principles, imo.

[sneakypete]

(Hint: "They" are Russians.)

Yeah,but THEIR "Independence Day" is also either July 4th or some date REAL close,like July 2nd.

[sneakypete]

Own an Automatic Rifle without a Permit.

I'm pretty sure you still need a permit,even though Yeltsin make firearms ownership a Constitutional right.

Smoke in any Restaurant you visit.

While generally true in Moscow,don't try this in Yoshkar-Ola.I don't think there are any actual laws against it,but they just don't allow it in normal(non-nightclub/bars) restaurants.

[sneakypete]

So that's why all those Russians are lining up to emigrate to the United States.

Or to quote a elderly Russian woman refugee who now lives in Brighton Beach in NYC,"I have free rent,free medical care,and the government sends me a check each month to pay my remaining bills and live on. This is just proof that communism really works."

[sneakypete]

Drink a gallon of Vodka, pass out in the street in a puddle of your own vomit, and not have any government agency take you away and clean you up.

You make that sound like a bad thing?

[sneakypete]

And, with such a resource-rich nation as theirs, and with their highly-educated populace, Russia will become the land of opportunity, with Americans emigrating to this newfound Land of Freedom.

Yup,it's inevitable. If I didn't have health problems,I'd already be living there.

[sneakypete]

Don't forget the hot water blackouts!

Big deal. Buy a hot water heater.

[sneakypete]

It's not Putin but the farmers that don't want land reform. Otherwise, they will have to compete with each other. Going to happen anyways...but they'll slow it down.

Maybe the Russian collective farms should hire Bob Dolt to come and run for the Russian Duma? I'd help pay his airfare if he would take Giddy with him.

[weikel]

I feel like moving low taxes and men are still men eh.

[joathome]

Buy a hotwater heater?

Have you been to Russia? Virtually everyone lives in flats, where the heat and water temperature is set by the local government! I just stayed in a flat for a week, and I promise you, I could NOT adjust the temperature in the flat, other than to open a window. (And the heat seemed to be on full blast!)

[mc5cents]

Now, the trigger point is $3000, and you just don't give a name and SS# anymore. Your address, DOB, race, eye and hair color, height, weight, build, etc. etc. are listed on a form, which is presumably given to the IRS/DEA/FBI/INS, et al.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

When I read stuff such as this it sure makes be wonder if it does.

[Stavka2]

Maybe Ukraine, but then again it went to crap the moment it left Russia. Russia: go to the market (any market, they are every where) pick up a loaf of very good bread that costs you $.15 American. Insult your boss and leave and find another job. True the apartments are small (hell, look at NY apartments) but most people have something out in the country side to get away to. And most are remodelling even the little ones. But then again, there is a world of difference between Russia and the Ukraine.

[Stavka2]

The the Russophobic bunker underground has crawled out. What happened, the bunkers get to hot this time of year? You should install airconditioners.

[Stavka2]

Should 5 year olds smoke? Purchase a pistol? Should 10 year olds buy liquer at the bar, while their 13 year old brothers/sisters are snorting coke? Hell, why not let 7 year olds drive and 9 year olds vote? How about letting the kids decide if they want to go to school or not? Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE CHILDREN...and unless you follow that liberal crap about treating them like adults and rationalizing with them...children lack the worldly experience to make informed decisions. Why do you suppose so many commercials are made to glamerize things, aimed at CHILDREN!

[Stavka2]

Rodina means Motherland. The most cherished of all things, that all sons of should be more then honored to surrender their lives in defense of...and even more honored to kill the ugly bastards who stepped on Her in the first place. Russia is the Holy Land of the Third Rome.

[Stavka2]

First of all, most flats are not owned by the governments but are under control of residents' councils...kinda like many American neighborhoods and apartment buildings. As for the heat, better then freezing.

[techcor]

Only because they have fewer communists than we do.