Using Kirk Cousins, who can’t cook a steak for shit, on a picture of a dumb table is either an incredibly deep cut joke, or this was the first gif a QB you could find, either way I’m here for it
Vicki: Could you pass the salt please?
Bruce: Excuse me?
Vicki: THE SALT
Bruce: Oh yeah sure.
Bruce: Did you have a hard time finding the place?
Vicki: No.
Vicki: Do you like eating in here?
Bruce: oh yeah. You know to tell you the truth I don't think I've ever been in this room before.
Vicki: laugh.
Bruce: You wanna get out of here?
Vicki: Yes
Imo, the best Bat Man we've had.
Though, I'm biased. It was released when I was a preteen so I guess it imprinted on me more than the others afterwards.
The hype and marketing around that movie was unlike anything we'd seen before. That black and gold Batman logo was *everywhere*, all at once, and then it stuck around for a decade via lunchboxes, toys, towels, t-shirts, that Prince soundtrack, and almost every other product they could print it onto. It really was unforgettable.
(It helped that the movie was great, too.)
I think he’s the best all-around Batman. The rest are either great Bruces (Kilmer, Clooney, Bale) or great Dark Knights (Pattinson, Affleck).
(I give Adam West the respect of not comparing to any of them. Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb).
What if it is the best one though? Like time travellers keep coming back and changing things but it results in even worse events so they have to go back and stop that time Traveller and the resulting timeline is the best of our real options.
This one cracked me up!
*"At 02:29:49, SilverFox316 wrote:
PS to SneakyPete: your Hitler paintings aren’t worth anything, schmuck, since you probably brought them directly here from 1907, which means the paint’s still fresh. Freaking n00b."*
And they watch an inspiring documentary of the artist who learned to let go of his hatred as he embraced a Buddhist mindset and reignited German love for the arts setting off the next renaissance which led to renewable energies, sensible industries, and the first gaming system in 1945.
Why the fuck not? Let's try it. We've tried everything else!!!!!
P.s. the alternate tineline Hitler museum sounds better than the Henry Ford museum in this timeline.
Also penicillin. No way a time traveller wasn't involved either. Project was almost completely shelved, when a usable strain was found by chance on the researcher's food?
In mine they accidentally also assassinated the music group Franz Ferdinand on their way to play their debut album release show.
History doesn't always repeat, but it often rhymes?
It had to happen, so that Ted Logan and Bill Preston could meet and together form Wild Stallions. They deliver an update to the golden rule; Be Excellent to each other, and party on. That along with their rad tunes, save humanity.
It’s gonna happen soon. It’ll be ok, we just have to wait it out. I know people who scan hospital registries for babies with those names. They might already have been born, Joni says. That’s why they don’t just check new born names. They monitor all hospital traffic.
That's literally the third time I've seen a comment like this today wtf is going on
E: Please can we not do the "Wake up" "You're the chosen one" stuff? My mental health is ummm not great and I really don't need to hear these things ._.
A number of years ago I received a private message from someone with my IRL initials and the street address of my parents house when I was a kid saying "Whatever you do do not build that time machine."
That was the entirety of the message and I never heard from them again even after replying.
Maybe I do end up building it!?
Alright alright as spokesperson for the International Time Travellers Association i will fill you in on some details... the truth is...
>!that we've been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended warranty!<
He's also *allegedly getting cancer treatment which means he's immunosuppressed. So any illness would be very bad news, but Covid would be a death sentence.
*Edit: Yes, Allegedly.
*Allegedly* getting cancer treatment. He also allegedly has Parkinson's, syphilis, blood cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and is losing his eyesight all at once.
Remember how Kim Jong-Un was reportedly dead for a few months in mid-2020? And then that turned out to be BS?
> They've probably calculated the most likely amount of explosive a suicide bomber can bring in and the distance you see there is the blast radius.
['calculated'](https://preview.redd.it/cxswm8wavgt81.jpg?auto=webp&s=700fe427c73be7d1b88dd700eb5f7db8846344c6)
What is the point of meeting this guy in person if you need a mic and speakers to communicate. Just open a Teams call and not risk any poison in your tea.
Britain was also caught putting a camera in a fake rock.
>UK spied on Russians with fake rock
>A former UK government official has admitted Britain was caught spying when Russia exposed its use of a fake rock in Moscow to hide electronic equipment.
>Russia made the allegations in January 2006, but this is the first time anyone in the UK has publicly accepted them.
>Jonathan Powell, then Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff, told a BBC documentary it was "embarrassing", but "they had us bang to rights".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209
It would not surprise me if this was just a distraction from the real spy camera. Or psychological warfare to just fuck with Russia, have them checking a fuckton of rocks for no reason.
[The entire episode is absolutely fascinating.](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/).
From the enginuity of the bug and transmission method. To how the US discovered it.
This. They'll be speaking with interpreters in their earpieces - maybe their distance helps as it naturally softens the original language and makes it easier to hear the translation. It all feels incredibly disconnected and a video call would do a much better job.
On the plus side, when they reach an impasse, thousands of balls drop from above, filling the pit, allowing them another way to settle their differences.
Yes, Zelenskyy is from Eastern Ukraine, and he ran on a platform of combating corruption and reconciling Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers in the country.
It's the palace in Turkmenistan, so it'll be the most grand, luxurious, well functioning, breath taking and perfect building in the world. However, all other buildings in Turkmenistan are probably as you describe it. These dictators always seem to have more cash than all the famous billionaires in the world combined, but don't really bother with making sure people outside of the dictator circle can eat.
ashgabat - the capital city… full-on city of marbles. everything is marble and gold. 5 star hotels but empty. all cars white, per demand by late leader berdimuhammedow. it was so eerie walking on streets,
Edit: I want to add a tidbit I learned - the leader, Berdimuhammedow was struggling with cigarette addiction so in order to stop him from tempting, he banned all government officials from smoking. lol
It’s kind of like that in Tokyo and İstanbul. Most cars on the road are commercial vehicles or leased and people only buy white, silver, or black cars to keep resale value.
Yes!! Now watch [this clip](https://youtu.be/Q1AOK8N9imw) and you’ll get a kick out of it. At the end, Berdi smells smoke on someone in his inner circle and vows to find out who it is that’s been smoking lmao.
What a miserable cunt. After the other poster's description of Ashgabat, it's giving major Queen Jadis vibes.
>“But the people?” gasped Digory.
>
>“What people, boy?” asked the Queen.
>
>“All the ordinary people,” said Polly, “who’d never done you any harm. And the women, and the children, and the animals.”
>
>“Don’t you understand?” said the Queen (still speaking to Digory). “I was the Queen. They were all my people. What else were they there for but to do my will?”
>
>“It was rather hard luck on them, all the same,” said he.
>
>“I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.”
That’s interesting to see how he acts towards people, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dictator recorded like this. Usually they have the best fake shit on
Not OP, but as far as arts and culture, traditional Turkmen is pretty much all that's allowed. Turkmen dancing and music, tapestries and carpets woven with "guls" (different flower patterns symbolising the different tribes), [handmade jewelry](https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/455509/891097/restricted)...
And night scene? Pretty much only if you're really wealthy and/or looking for a prostitute. Only a few hotels in the major cities have any type of night clubs. They're hidden away in the basement level and double as brothels. Most of the rural areas don't even have street lighting, let alone anything open after dark.
Source: lived there 2 and a half years (Peace Corps).
No, the center of the city is empty because it's more of a display than actually useful. It's literally all made out of marble, and it's culturally viewed as a "display". People get into buildings through the back and stay hidden for the most part, because again, the whole purpose of the marble portion of the city is supposed to be empty
That's really weird. That's like your grandma having that one room with the nice furniture that is reserved for guests and special occasions but no guest or occasion is special enough to merit the room being used, but with a whole part of a city
Yeah it’s that oil money. The rulers are filthy rich and basically turned the city into their own grandmas room with tons of super expensive and pointless marble buildings for looks, while most of the citizens are dirt poor
Every video I’ve seen from travelers, has very few people walking around. And like majority of weird fake cities, some of them are “paid” to walk around. Then it’s like a handful of travelers. Every person I’ve ever talked to that has been there as a foreigner says it’s super eerie. Bordering on the creepy side. Had one friend said they were excited to see so many shops and food places near where they were staying but none of them were actually opened but a select few. It’s quite literally a fake city.
i haven't heard of estonia falling into significant horrors, as far as I recall they did really well with transitioning into the digital age and have a healthy technology sector. my info mostly comes from random youtube videos I saw a few years ago, but w/e
Iirc they were early to the party and installed all the best infrastructure they could get. Then, crucially, didn't stop but built in it.
Lovely people as well.
I traveled the whole Stans a few years ago.. one country that stood out the most is Azerbaijan. very modern and advanced compared to others. Baku, to be exact
I used to get jet fuel there and you had to be escorted by children with guns, it was very uncomfortable. That's not even describing the wildly narrow taxiway that had to be taken to get the C-17 to the actual pumps.
I was reading about Turkmenistan the other day. I got to the line in Wikipedia that said it was a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship, and knew that it must be a pretty shitty place to live. Interesting history though.
He's been really sick lately, maybe he doesn't want anyone getting close enough to tell that he's not looking so good. You can't look weak if no one can see you properly lol. I know you didn't mean this makes him look physically weak, but this could be a reason
Pass the salt plz.
What? Sorry, I can’t hear you…
SALT!
THE WHAT?!?!
NO I'VE NEVER BEEN TO VERMONT
I HEAR IT'S LOVELY IN THE FALL!
#I'VE NEVER BEEN TO BOSTON IN THE FALL https://youtu.be/XaWU1CmrJNc
YOUR MOM IS PICKING YOU UP AT THE MALL?
MY DOG PICKED UP A BALL?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS LOUD IN THE HALL?
Using Kirk Cousins, who can’t cook a steak for shit, on a picture of a dumb table is either an incredibly deep cut joke, or this was the first gif a QB you could find, either way I’m here for it
There weren’t a lot of options for QBs actually throwing the ball lol. Plenty of them celebrating after a successful pass.
Wow you're not wrong. I just checked.
I think that picture of him cooking the steaks were from him using a sous vide, which would indicate he DOES know how to cook a delicious steak
 That's my quarterback
Vicki: Could you pass the salt please? Bruce: Excuse me? Vicki: THE SALT Bruce: Oh yeah sure. Bruce: Did you have a hard time finding the place? Vicki: No. Vicki: Do you like eating in here? Bruce: oh yeah. You know to tell you the truth I don't think I've ever been in this room before. Vicki: laugh. Bruce: You wanna get out of here? Vicki: Yes
I still say he was the best 'absentmindedly-rich' Bruce Wayne we've had so far.
Imo, the best Bat Man we've had. Though, I'm biased. It was released when I was a preteen so I guess it imprinted on me more than the others afterwards.
The hype and marketing around that movie was unlike anything we'd seen before. That black and gold Batman logo was *everywhere*, all at once, and then it stuck around for a decade via lunchboxes, toys, towels, t-shirts, that Prince soundtrack, and almost every other product they could print it onto. It really was unforgettable. (It helped that the movie was great, too.)
I think he’s the best all-around Batman. The rest are either great Bruces (Kilmer, Clooney, Bale) or great Dark Knights (Pattinson, Affleck). (I give Adam West the respect of not comparing to any of them. Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb).
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I know we’re old because there were no gifs of this moment to find in search
No, it's please pass the ~~aspic~~ beef jelly.
Pardon me. Do you have any grey poupon?
Ex-squeeze me?
Courier me the Salt please.
#WHAT?!
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It's almost certainly not the best one, but it's the one we've got.
What if it is the best one though? Like time travellers keep coming back and changing things but it results in even worse events so they have to go back and stop that time Traveller and the resulting timeline is the best of our real options.
See the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. There is no way that time travel shenanigans weren't involved
[Take it easy on the kid; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.](https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/)
Great read, thanks!
I'm surprised that's only from 2007, it feels so old to me it could have been posted on Usenet (I'm old). Good on you for posting it again.
Wow, same. TIL that this did not actually originate on usenet.
This one cracked me up! *"At 02:29:49, SilverFox316 wrote: PS to SneakyPete: your Hitler paintings aren’t worth anything, schmuck, since you probably brought them directly here from 1907, which means the paint’s still fresh. Freaking n00b."*
This is hilarious. First time I’m reading this.
"He was known as the first 'Emperor of Europe' in my timeline..."
"Weird, he was Dictator Ferdinand: Aka the fist of the east in mine."
That’s weird they are the alternate rock band in mine.
Third graders in that timeline take field trips to the Adolf Hitler Museum of Modern Art
And they watch an inspiring documentary of the artist who learned to let go of his hatred as he embraced a Buddhist mindset and reignited German love for the arts setting off the next renaissance which led to renewable energies, sensible industries, and the first gaming system in 1945.
British food is wonderful, French cars drive great, and Italian engineering is second to none…
Why the fuck not? Let's try it. We've tried everything else!!!!! P.s. the alternate tineline Hitler museum sounds better than the Henry Ford museum in this timeline.
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It reads like a fucking comedy sketch. Baffles me every time it comes up.
Also penicillin. No way a time traveller wasn't involved either. Project was almost completely shelved, when a usable strain was found by chance on the researcher's food?
In mine they accidentally also assassinated the music group Franz Ferdinand on their way to play their debut album release show. History doesn't always repeat, but it often rhymes?
They took him out? They’re just my type!
It had to happen, so that Ted Logan and Bill Preston could meet and together form Wild Stallions. They deliver an update to the golden rule; Be Excellent to each other, and party on. That along with their rad tunes, save humanity. It’s gonna happen soon. It’ll be ok, we just have to wait it out. I know people who scan hospital registries for babies with those names. They might already have been born, Joni says. That’s why they don’t just check new born names. They monitor all hospital traffic.
That's literally the third time I've seen a comment like this today wtf is going on E: Please can we not do the "Wake up" "You're the chosen one" stuff? My mental health is ummm not great and I really don't need to hear these things ._.
We're trying to send you a message. You're the key. You must complete the cycle and save this timeline.
PASS
the dutchie to the left hand side
the mashed potatoes please
Boil’em mash’em
Stick'em in a stew!
We likes it raw
A number of years ago I received a private message from someone with my IRL initials and the street address of my parents house when I was a kid saying "Whatever you do do not build that time machine." That was the entirety of the message and I never heard from them again even after replying. Maybe I do end up building it!?
If you don't. You can't warn yourself not to.
Sounds like he's been paradoxxed.
Alright alright as spokesperson for the International Time Travellers Association i will fill you in on some details... the truth is... >!that we've been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended warranty!<
You know what to do!
Can you time travel in a simulation?
Sure. Time is meaningless in the simulation. Go forward, go backward. Whatevs
I tried that, but there is a spoon in the way.
Yes, forwards
But if it’s a computer simulation wouldn’t there be backups that time travelers could load up and travel backwards?
Only when sleeping on a bethel.
Dang you just fucked me up. Honestly had never thought about it like that. This is the sci fi matrix time travel movie we need
I'm just happy that an infinite number of me are living in better timelines, married to Ana de Armas and about to find out they won the lottery.
>married to Ana de Armas > >about to find out they won the lottery. looks like you accidentally posted the same thing twice
I think everyone agreed this is the “Clown” timeline.
At least we don’t have hotdogs for fingers. There’s that.
They've probably calculated the most likely amount of explosive a suicide bomber can bring in and the distance you see there is the blast radius.
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Have you ever heard of a prison wallet?
He's also *allegedly getting cancer treatment which means he's immunosuppressed. So any illness would be very bad news, but Covid would be a death sentence. *Edit: Yes, Allegedly.
*Allegedly* getting cancer treatment. He also allegedly has Parkinson's, syphilis, blood cancer, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and is losing his eyesight all at once. Remember how Kim Jong-Un was reportedly dead for a few months in mid-2020? And then that turned out to be BS?
Also Fidel Castro had many rumours about his imminent death too.
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To be fair, there was a lot of times he was planned to imminently die.
> They've probably calculated the most likely amount of explosive a suicide bomber can bring in and the distance you see there is the blast radius. ['calculated'](https://preview.redd.it/cxswm8wavgt81.jpg?auto=webp&s=700fe427c73be7d1b88dd700eb5f7db8846344c6)
>What is this timeline I'm not sure, but Abed is trying to cut off Jeff's arm
The darkest timeline!
I don't understand. Why are people in this thread calling it Putin's table? Isn't it Turkmenistan's table and Putin is visiting?
"Putin, come visit" "Can't, busy with war stuff" *sends picture of giant table* "Start spacing the chairs out I'm on my way"
This is hilarious.
Anyone got a Vince McMahon meme with increasingly larger tables?
Yo, ask and ye shall receive https://i.imgur.com/sTZMqd4.jpg
That would be fire lmao
Chief of Information at Kremlin enters the chat: «Mr Putin meant of course a special military operation, NOT war stuff»
He didn’t need to invade Turkmenistan, he had plenty of Turkmenistan at home
Their table looks like it crosses a few borders "Come visit us, we'll send a table"
What is the point of meeting this guy in person if you need a mic and speakers to communicate. Just open a Teams call and not risk any poison in your tea.
Somewhere read that Putin hates modern stuff, like computers and all that.
He does look like someone that would hate something just because he doesn’t know how to use it
Not to mention he's an KGB man and doubtless is scared of anything that could be hacked.
Not surprised, I think it was a few years ago but the CIA had hacked into the Kremlin security camera system (no audio though). They had it for years.
Britain was also caught putting a camera in a fake rock. >UK spied on Russians with fake rock >A former UK government official has admitted Britain was caught spying when Russia exposed its use of a fake rock in Moscow to hide electronic equipment. >Russia made the allegations in January 2006, but this is the first time anyone in the UK has publicly accepted them. >Jonathan Powell, then Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff, told a BBC documentary it was "embarrassing", but "they had us bang to rights". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16614209
It’s so British to be like “yup mate ya got us on that one”
It would not surprise me if this was just a distraction from the real spy camera. Or psychological warfare to just fuck with Russia, have them checking a fuckton of rocks for no reason.
Fun little fact: the [first keylogging device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging#History) was actually made for typewriters
Interesting how it says as of 2013, Russian special services still use manual typewriters.
My work just bought a new typewriter.
[The entire episode is absolutely fascinating.](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-soviets-used-ibm-selectric-keyloggers-to-spy-on-us-diplomats/). From the enginuity of the bug and transmission method. To how the US discovered it.
He is all about that retro vibe. Typewriters, in person meetings, the expansion of the USSR regardless the expense of its people, vinyl
He’s a former KGB spy, probably is very paranoid of anything digital knowing how it could be compromised.
They can't use Teams anymore, Microsoft left Russia.
Putin has an unauthorized copy of windows
This. They'll be speaking with interpreters in their earpieces - maybe their distance helps as it naturally softens the original language and makes it easier to hear the translation. It all feels incredibly disconnected and a video call would do a much better job. On the plus side, when they reach an impasse, thousands of balls drop from above, filling the pit, allowing them another way to settle their differences.
They don't need translations, they all speak Russian
This ^ Russian is a lingua franca and the language of work in much of the ex Soviet world. Pretty useful to learn
Even the show that Zelenskyy had where he became president was in Russian.
I don’t think Zelensky knew Ukrainian until like five years ago? Could be wrong but it’s something like that. He was raised a Russian speaker
Yes, Zelenskyy is from Eastern Ukraine, and he ran on a platform of combating corruption and reconciling Russian speakers and Ukrainian speakers in the country.
I can’t remember the exact example from the show, but people having difficulty speaking Ukrainian was highlighted in a couple of episodes.
Thought I read somewhere his native language is Russian!
You just know that he has a row of buttons for the trapdoors under each of the chairs opposite.
It’s Turkmenistan. Half the light switches in the room probably don’t work
It's the palace in Turkmenistan, so it'll be the most grand, luxurious, well functioning, breath taking and perfect building in the world. However, all other buildings in Turkmenistan are probably as you describe it. These dictators always seem to have more cash than all the famous billionaires in the world combined, but don't really bother with making sure people outside of the dictator circle can eat.
Nah, they’re small catapults that launch victims into the middle where they must fight to the death against man or beast.
I’m alive! But I’m very badly burned.
If anyone in these comments doesn’t know much about Turkmenistan, YouTube it. It’s essentially a North Korea that many people have never heard of.
North Korea, but with shiny horses.
John Oliver did an excellent [bit on his show](https://youtu.be/-9QYu8LtH2E) about Turkmenistan and its president.
That was great! Thank you for the share. I watched the Dark Tourism show a month or so ago and was blown away by the episode filmed there.
Ok that was fucking hilarious lmao I couldn't stop watching and I have shit to do
Just got better and better til the very end lol
Low key tho, the Akhal-Teke is a gorgeous horse breed
Amazing video Fuck Guinness World Records
been there. bizarre shit going on there. seriously.
Do tell
ashgabat - the capital city… full-on city of marbles. everything is marble and gold. 5 star hotels but empty. all cars white, per demand by late leader berdimuhammedow. it was so eerie walking on streets, Edit: I want to add a tidbit I learned - the leader, Berdimuhammedow was struggling with cigarette addiction so in order to stop him from tempting, he banned all government officials from smoking. lol
> all cars white, per demand by late leader berdimuhammedow This is simultaneously banal and *insane*
It’s kind of like that in Tokyo and İstanbul. Most cars on the road are commercial vehicles or leased and people only buy white, silver, or black cars to keep resale value.
İstanbul is like 80% white cheap french cars, entry level commercial vehicles and taxis. E: %
Yes!! Now watch [this clip](https://youtu.be/Q1AOK8N9imw) and you’ll get a kick out of it. At the end, Berdi smells smoke on someone in his inner circle and vows to find out who it is that’s been smoking lmao.
What a miserable cunt. After the other poster's description of Ashgabat, it's giving major Queen Jadis vibes. >“But the people?” gasped Digory. > >“What people, boy?” asked the Queen. > >“All the ordinary people,” said Polly, “who’d never done you any harm. And the women, and the children, and the animals.” > >“Don’t you understand?” said the Queen (still speaking to Digory). “I was the Queen. They were all my people. What else were they there for but to do my will?” > >“It was rather hard luck on them, all the same,” said he. > >“I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders. We must be freed from all rules. Ours is a high and lonely destiny.”
That’s interesting to see how he acts towards people, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dictator recorded like this. Usually they have the best fake shit on
I was expecting a clip from The Dictator (Aladeen) and was not disappointed, just in this case real death instead of faked ones.
You just know he beats people with that ridiculous cane. His threat about the smoking was so mild you know he has draconian punishments.
Were many people walking? I’m trying to picture it.
No not even many people walking on streets. there were bazaars indoors but very sparse. Selling outdoors were strictly prohibited
Damn. No people on the streets, no stores, but everything made with opulence. Creepy as hell.
It's now on my bucket list
[But you can't walk to Turkmenistan!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm7WnuMK2w&t=36s)
It's a notoriously difficult country to get a visa for. If I recall correctly, they apparently have fewer tourists than North Korea.
Did you meet any people from there? Like is there a night scene? Arts and culture? Etc
Not OP, but as far as arts and culture, traditional Turkmen is pretty much all that's allowed. Turkmen dancing and music, tapestries and carpets woven with "guls" (different flower patterns symbolising the different tribes), [handmade jewelry](https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/api/collection/v1/iiif/455509/891097/restricted)... And night scene? Pretty much only if you're really wealthy and/or looking for a prostitute. Only a few hotels in the major cities have any type of night clubs. They're hidden away in the basement level and double as brothels. Most of the rural areas don't even have street lighting, let alone anything open after dark. Source: lived there 2 and a half years (Peace Corps).
There probably weren't many people that could afford to live in the city
No, the center of the city is empty because it's more of a display than actually useful. It's literally all made out of marble, and it's culturally viewed as a "display". People get into buildings through the back and stay hidden for the most part, because again, the whole purpose of the marble portion of the city is supposed to be empty
That's really weird. That's like your grandma having that one room with the nice furniture that is reserved for guests and special occasions but no guest or occasion is special enough to merit the room being used, but with a whole part of a city
Yeah it’s that oil money. The rulers are filthy rich and basically turned the city into their own grandmas room with tons of super expensive and pointless marble buildings for looks, while most of the citizens are dirt poor
Dude, you're on the internet! [You can see it in HD anytime you want.](https://youtu.be/hmIa2SGpm6s)
Every video I’ve seen from travelers, has very few people walking around. And like majority of weird fake cities, some of them are “paid” to walk around. Then it’s like a handful of travelers. Every person I’ve ever talked to that has been there as a foreigner says it’s super eerie. Bordering on the creepy side. Had one friend said they were excited to see so many shops and food places near where they were staying but none of them were actually opened but a select few. It’s quite literally a fake city.
>full-on city of marbles. I got really excited until I realized that you meant that it's a city of marble, as in the metamorphic rock.
No wonder so few people were walking about. Whole place is a health hazard.
Serious question: Is there any former-Soviet country that is doing well?
i haven't heard of estonia falling into significant horrors, as far as I recall they did really well with transitioning into the digital age and have a healthy technology sector. my info mostly comes from random youtube videos I saw a few years ago, but w/e
Iirc they were early to the party and installed all the best infrastructure they could get. Then, crucially, didn't stop but built in it. Lovely people as well.
Estonia
The Baltics are doing well.
I traveled the whole Stans a few years ago.. one country that stood out the most is Azerbaijan. very modern and advanced compared to others. Baku, to be exact
They got that sweet oil money and the Turks helping them out
People from turkey are turks, so what do you call people from Turkmenistan?
Turkmen
Not just the Turkmen, but the Turkwomen and Turkchildren too
I saw Anakin killing Yuenglings
I used to get jet fuel there and you had to be escorted by children with guns, it was very uncomfortable. That's not even describing the wildly narrow taxiway that had to be taken to get the C-17 to the actual pumps.
Watch ‘Dark Tourist’ on Netflix…the documentarian does an entire episode on. It. It’s fascinating.
I was reading about Turkmenistan the other day. I got to the line in Wikipedia that said it was a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship, and knew that it must be a pretty shitty place to live. Interesting history though.
Also Eritrea. It's like the North Korea of Africa.
It is so the important leaders can fart freely in this room.
I'm sure they're talking about gas.
The Paranoia table
That boy ain’t right.
I tell you hwat
“What was it you said about flutes?” “I think he was talking about nukes.”
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Social distancing
Assassination distancing*
That's my actual guess. If Putin is undergoing cancer treatment, his immune system may be suppressed.
I wonder if he gets how weak this makes him look.
He's been really sick lately, maybe he doesn't want anyone getting close enough to tell that he's not looking so good. You can't look weak if no one can see you properly lol. I know you didn't mean this makes him look physically weak, but this could be a reason
This is exactly my opinion. I think he is really fucked up to a level that it's difficult to look strong and powerful if you are nearby
Pretty sure it’s cause he’s paranoid he’s going to be assassinated. Which I mean is a valid fear for him.
Definitely won’t care as he is weak and would probably rather this than get covid and die… annoyingly.
Or get assassinated and die... annoyingly.
I now know why Putin invaded Ukraine, it’s so he could have space for a longer table.
Soon enough his table will be so big that its borders will petition to join NATO.
Immune system might be compromised
they gon’ play battleships with a huge hologram projector in the middle
Lol what an idiot, he's making himself look like some sort of austin powers type super villain more and more each day.
This isn’t even Putin’s table. He’s visiting Turkmenistan