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one thing i wondered during the last episode is whether the machinery they’re using is actually soviet stuff. i can’t tell if the mi-8 helicopters they’re using are real or cgi, but if they’ve found a bunch of old soviet cars/trucks/helicopters (including the heavy equipment at the coal mine) and are using it, that’s awesome.
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Chernobyl's great. Their cars, trucks, telephones, etc, is that typical Europe for 80's? Or is it like its own thing? Everything seems a little weird.Comment
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I think there was a pretty big dividing line between the USSR and Western Europe in the 80s. To this day, every single former West German state has higher per capita income than every single East German state.Originally posted by jay santos View PostPart of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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Oh man no the Soviet Union was so backward. Even in the mid-90s the cars, phones etc. in the former Soviet Union were like 1950s USA technology. I rode in Volgas (Soviet sedans) and Ladas (Soviet compact cars) hundreds of times and those things were total pieces of shit. All the household appliances and elevators etc. were 1950s style with no updates. That’s what socialism does: freezes or at best immensely slows progress. When my parents came to pick me up from the mish they said it was like being transported back to their 1950s childhoods in a lot of ways.Originally posted by jay santos View PostComment
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For some reason, Russian cars made it to Guatemala. There were quite a few Lada Nivas rolling around there circa 1999. They worked well in Guate because they offered the gas economy and size of a compact car but also had 4-wheel drive and off-road tires.Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
The consensus was they were pieces of crap, but if you could gut most everything under the hood and retrofit a Toyota or Nissan engine, they were great.
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Been binging Deadwood for the first time ahead of the movie. Love the show so far, but I have to say that Timothy Olyphant is just terrible in it. I don't know if it is the acting or the writing (or a combination), but I find him unbearable. Strange, since I loved almost every minute he was on screen in Justified. Thank God for Ian McShane though ... that man can act.Comment
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I was wondering about the dialogue on that show and whether people talked like that 150 years ago (other than all the f-words which I find very hard to believe). I rewatched Ken Burns's Civil War documentary and it seems like Deadwood does a pretty good job of replicating the manner of speech from back then.Originally posted by UVACoug View PostPart of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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Originally posted by Donuthole View PostFor some reason, Russian cars made it to Guatemala. There were quite a few Lada Nivas rolling around there circa 1999. They worked well in Guate because they offered the gas economy and size of a compact car but also had 4-wheel drive and off-road tires.
The consensus was they were pieces of crap, but if you could gut most everything under the hood and retrofit a Toyota or Nissan engine, they were great.
Those look pretty cool. I hear these is quite a market for late model Toyota trucks there.Comment
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The showrunner/writer of the Chernobyl series was the same guy who wrote the last two Hangover movies and something called The Huntsman and the Identity Thief.
He was also freshman roommates with Ted Cruz at Princeton and hates his guts, lol.
I'm trying to figure out how the guy who wrote the last two Hangover movies gets greenlit to make this Chernobyl series. Not that I'm complaining, he's hit it out of the park.Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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Two episodes into Chernobyl. Um, yeah, it is solid. That scene with the volunteers in the water with the increasingly loud dosimeters is riveting."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
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I watched the first episode of Catch-22 tonight. It's been quite a while since I read the novel, but the show feels very true to the book. Funny and terrifying at the same time with a very good cast.Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
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GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!Comment
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Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
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that’s the whole point of the show man!!!!Originally posted by myboynoah View PostTe Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.Comment
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Chernobyl is the highest rated show on IMDb now. What a fantastic show. Loved it. Coach recommended the Chernobyl podcast as a listening guide. It follows the episodes and features the creator. One thing he said at the outset of the first episode of the podcast is that this is more about the heroes of Chernobyl and not the state politics. That really brought into focus how much worse it could have been and how many gave their lives to mitigate even further catastrophe.
Also, Russia is planning their own miniseries on Chernobyl focusing on how the CIA is responsible the disaster."Nobody listens to Turtle."-TurtlesigpicComment
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Those damn satellites - used lasers to breach the core. Death to USA.Originally posted by Surfah View Post
Of course you know more about that than anybody - or do you?
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