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ChicagoKid said:
The only thing I trust to get from Russia is sauna stuff and caviar .
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There are a lot of quality products and things in Russia. For example food, clothes, medicine are WAY better than in the US,not only "sauna stuff and caviar" . And sauna is in Finland, in Russia traditionally there's banya (which is a bit different from sauna).
Foreigners usually don't last long when it comes to traditional banyas' rituals such as a bath broom for example (someone literally "hits" your body strongly with a broom in the hot air):
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Plus in banya there's much higher humidity and also another difference (this passage is taken from Google):

"Saunas typically utilize cool showers or lakes. Banya culture takes it to the extreme by jumping into freezing cold plunges, rolling in the snow, or dousing yourself with buckets of ice water immediately after the heat."
 
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Yulia said:
There are a lot of quality products and things in Russia. For example food, clothes, medicine are WAY better than in the US,not only "sauna stuff and caviar" . And sauna is in Finland, in Russia traditionally there's banya (which is a bit different from sauna).
Foreigners usually don't last long when it comes to traditional banyas' rituals such as a bath broom for example (someone literally "hits" your body strongly with a broom in the hot air):
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Plus in banya there's much higher humidity and also another difference (this passage is taken from Google):

"Saunas typically utilize cool showers or lakes. Banya culture takes it to the extreme by jumping into freezing cold plunges, rolling in the snow, or dousing yourself with buckets of ice water immediately after the heat."
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+ Humour (comedy shows,stan-up etc) and literature are also way better than western ones. Also serials during last 15 years are also much better than stupid western ones (no-one just translates them into different languages, foreigners would have been surprised how Russian serials are cool)
Although who am I explaining to all those things on this forum...🥱
to sum up: vodka,sauna,matryoshka and balalaika!
 
Welsh Exile said:
Russians aren’t funny. I refuse to believe they even have 3 stand up comedians let alone funny ones.
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I would share with you some examples,but I guess you don't speak any foreign language including Russian so you won't understand it :(
As examples of my favourite comics : Pavel Volya,Daniil Poperechny, Ruslan Beliy, Ivan Abramov and some shows of Evgeniy Chebatkov (but for him I have 50/50, sometimes I laugh to tears, sometimes it's less funny).
Also there are some incredibly funny bloggers who observe Russian and Western films. My favourite is Bad_Comedian (really recommend to those who speak Russian).
Absolutely love his videos,for example like that one observation of a Western popular movie "50 shades of grey" 🤣


Will stop here,cause it's all off-top already. :)
 
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Obviously this is art so it’s totally subjective but joking aside, I don’t think Russia is in the same universe, let alone same league, as the west in producing movies and TV (as well as comedy)

Each to their own, though.
 
Yulia said:
There are a lot of quality products and things in Russia. For example food, clothes, medicine are WAY better than in the US,not only "sauna stuff and caviar" . And sauna is in Finland, in Russia traditionally there's banya (which is a bit different from sauna).
Foreigners usually don't last long when it comes to traditional banyas' rituals such as a bath broom for example (someone literally "hits" your body strongly with a broom in the hot air):
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Plus in banya there's much higher humidity and also another difference (this passage is taken from Google):

"Saunas typically utilize cool showers or lakes. Banya culture takes it to the extreme by jumping into freezing cold plunges, rolling in the snow, or dousing yourself with buckets of ice water immediately after the heat."
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There’s a Russian style banya near my house. They make the best soups. You are right, it gets so hot you start to black out.
 
Welsh Exile said:
Obviously this is art so it’s totally subjective but joking aside, I don’t think Russia is in the same universe, let alone same league, as the west in producing movies and TV (as well as comedy)

Each to their own, though.
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Russian tv series of last 15 years are way better than Western ones. Much more original and with a deeper sense I would say. Plus,there's a huge rivalry between online platforms producing tv series that pushed the quality significantly. I'm surprised not that many of them were translated/adapted in Western countries to be honest.If you're interested, I can make a kind of observation on my favourite/most popular series in another thread.
Regarding movies, it's hard to compare,but basically it's more or less the same level of quality and during recent years they started to produce much more in almost every genre (before they were more oriented on popular genres), so people almost stopped watching Western movies.
 
ChicagoKid said:
Musk the first trillionaire. Incredible.

With that level of wealth, hopefully he can transform our planet and solar system.
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He did a great job with DOGE, and I’m not at all concerned about him amplifying right-wing political views on a platform he owns. Other than that, I’m very optimistic.
 
ChicagoKid said:
If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?

I’d purchase Wales, turn it into a US state and let it produce rugby players for the eagles.
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1. Id putnit all into a wharehouse that looks like a castle, in coins and swim through it daily.

2. Im sat here ready to short the **** out of this, after the IPO retail offer this week, im hoping it balloons, i sell with 25% profit then short. Fingers crossed.
 
ChicagoKid said:
You'd better hope it lasts. You’re running out of petrol.
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Who's you're?.... cos I'm not running out.

My boss went and bought $7k of diesel right at the height of the prices lmao. Got like 3000L sitting in the yard, in a 2000L tank and a 1000L tank. Neither of which have pumps on them anyway, so its utterly useless lol
 

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