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“…their ‘prissy’ cleanliness habits…”? Is Nabs not showering now?

Way back when, there was this PC program from Hallmark where you could write your own greeting to one of their cards. It was fucking great.

STFU and eat your extra charred Musk steak.

That's pessimistic even for IB shenanigans, and knowing how soul crushing her job can be, it's a bit much. But, of course, you're right: I don't speak for her and maybe she's really cool with it. (For the record, I wasn't talking about the old part either.)

Bro..... that really kinda sucks.

I think it most likely that he simply underestimated the response he was going to get by invading, and he got cornered. He seized the Crimea only a few years ago with little resistance and only a marginal response from the West. The amount of weapons pouring into the Ukraine have certainly changed the tide in a drastic way... enabling the undermanned Ukrainian forces to be more effective and to bolster public resistance. It can't be overstated how the West's response to Russia's provocations were far more unified and resilient than anyone would have expected.

Most people don't "realize their mortality" by starting a psychotic and a potentially world war. Desperation has to be coming from a more immediate cause.

There has been talk about his health, but nothing substantive.

Happy Birthday!

I think so, too. He might be referring to Arpeggio of Blue Steel.

Now we're never getting he clown react for sure. Better just stick with the tea-bag react.

Happy Birthday Ghosty.

Post a pic for us Nabby.

I never cared for the show personally, but there was a lot of buzz about how unlikeable Ross was.

David Schwimmer's career stalled because of how he was typecast by the role of Ross.

Fixed that for you... It does help, but it isn't feasible. The currency is artificially propped up after its value since the Crimean occupation (and resulting sanctions) has been unstable. There's no particular reason for someone not in Russia to use the ruble or, more importantly, accept the ruble Even if the rest of OPEC decided to band together and begin insisting on ruble as a payment for petroleum, nobody in the financial world (outside of Russia) is going to follow suit and lend in rubles. The stability that comes with trading this critical industrial commodity in a limited use currency is mitigated by it being a simple transactional exchange. To put it another way, a currency is only as viable as its underlying fundamentals.

Also.... love it when white people get confused by the whole two tortilla thing on street tacos.

Can confirm... those tacos look awful.

I did not.

In all seriousness... this extract has a distinct orwellian tone that somewhat belies the horrors of the decades immediately preceding this textbook

There is no particular advantage to the average person for having a global currency.

Why would you need to stabilize a currency that is used globally?

You used "stabilization" in the context of Russia's currency manipulation. You don't need to stabilize a global currency. If it is no longer a global currency, then the US government would manipulate it if it needs to be stabilized.

Sounds even less appealing.

Isn’t that basically just recorded phone sex?