Comments by "Betty Swunghole" (@bettyswunghole3310) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

  1. I love the term "active slacker"! 😆 I used to work with such a person. The bizarre thing is that if he'd put as much effort into working as he did into avoiding work, he'd have been quite productive!
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  2. "If you're drinking to get drunk, beer is a waste of time...". Damn! That's an accurate but cutting insight for those of us that like to pretend we're sophisticated drinkers!
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  3. In the UK, police are sometimes called "The Filth" by people who don't like them! 😅
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  4. Don't underestimate the importance of a strong agricultural sector. Here in the UK, our government is trying to destroy farming for reasons best known to themselves (personally, I suspect "insanity" may be a factor), so we're going to need to import our food from somewhere...
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  5. It all seems rather "sexless"...I mean, Western popular music is/was basically about "getting down" to a large extent. Soviet popular music seems like it was more kind of "cultural" and "cerebral".
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  6. Homer Simpson: "What country does this car come from?" Salesman: "It no longer exists, but it will do over 50 hectares on a single tank of kerosene."
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  7.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  I have literally no idea what your remark has to do with my original comment. Just to set you straight on a couple of points, though: I never said capitalism is "better"...I don't know what you mean by "better"...all economic systems have their faults. Capitalism has been willingly embraced by far more people throughout history than communism, however. Western countries utilise resources from the Third World, and in return give financial, material and educational aid to the Third World in order to drag it out of the neolithic age...generally fruitlessly, it seems. The US has the biggest national debt of any country in the entire history of the world...I don't think you can claim they have vast reserves of money.
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  8. I saw "Red Heat"! I thought every in Soviet swimming pools had to be naked!
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  9. Finns visiting Leningrad for cheap alcohol reminds me of a story from Britain: Wales used to have a "dry Sunday" policy (no alcohol sales on a Sunday), so ferries from Liverpool (in England, but close to Wales) would come over to Wales, pick up passengers, sail them to Liverpool and back again...not because they wanted to go to Liverpool, but because they could drink on the ferry! I think one of Ringo Starr's jobs before he was in The Beatles was as a steward on such a ferry.
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  10. I much prefer the Estonian original of "Honky-tonk Woman" to the Rolling Stones' cover.
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  11.  @joe_moms_lover  That's because the ones that didn't love the Soviet Union were "purged" by various brutal means...
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  12. The young woman with the peculiar hairdo seemed very impressed with RAF vans. And (after getting from point "A" to point "B"), impressing chicks is the most important function of any motor vehicle.
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  13. Nice to see that Samantha Fox (4:30) busted into the Soviet Union! 😁
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  14. You're lucky: you're still allowed to celebrate your national heroes. In Britain, all our historical heroes are being rewritten as villains by rabid "woke" haters.
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  15. We have the opposite problem in the UK: the population figures are underestimated, so we don't notice how out of control immigration is...☹
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  16. I've heard of people licking toads to get high, but I didn't know lizards also had this property!
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  17. Damn, I need a drink after that!
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  18. In Soviet Russia, dough kneads you...
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  19. It was sloppy procedures by the German military that helped Alan Turing and Station-X to decrypt the Enigma Codes.
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  20. @brainbah If we want to eat, we're all forced into a job in one way or another, regardless of what political system we're under. You know how the old expression goes: "Communism is the exploitation of man by his fellow man, and Capitalism is the exact opposite."
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  21. In Britain, the "Dangerous Razor" is called a "Cut-Throat Razor"!
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  22. Wow! Cigarettes and alcohol for sale in a pharmacy...?!? 🤯 Even the UK hasn't sunk that far (yet...).
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  23. 3.6 ounces is pretty slim pickings by Korean standards...
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  24. Was that a jet powered train at 2:37? 🤯
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  25. I guess watching Brezhnev in his dotage must have been a bit like watching Biden now...
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  26. It was his 7 Ruble note that gave him away...😆
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  27. The only time I've had to queue outside a shop was when the covid restrictions kicked in in 2020...most supermarkets in Britain had a "one out, one in" policy. Thankfully, those days seem to be behind us...
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  28. Cheaper and easier to burn out humans...
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  29. How is it possible for Americans to use 100 kilos of detergent per year...? 🤯
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  30. Totally. There's a lot more satisfaction to be had from making something useful than there is from doing the pointless "quaternary sector" non-jobs that seem to abound in many western countries these days.
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  31. I'd like to see a vid on Soviet beer...all the different styles and tastes...
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  32. My dad was an alcoholic, too. Scotch whisky was his poison of choice, rather than vodka.
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  33. The girls at 6:13 are very cute in a nerdy-chic kind of way.
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  34. The filling level of some of the bottles looks a bit variable...I guess there was a scramble to get the fullest ones...
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  35. Exactly the point I make when people question the moon landings...the Russians would have tracked the capsule all the way to the moon, and would certainly have cried "foul" at the time if it had been fake...
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  36. All them corn fields...
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  37. The main thing I've learnt from the Ushanka Show is that all Soviet young women were very pretty!
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  38. 17:05 ...I wish I had a knob that could feasibly be mistaken for a cucumber (by which I mean green and watery)...
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  39. Hard liquor really is vile poison if abused...it rots you physically, mentally and spiritually.
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  40. When my dad stopped smoking, he started using this vile product called snuff (powdered tobacco that you snort in a manner similar to cocaine)...was there anything similar in the Soviet Union?
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  41. I think you're right that one day there will be a single global language...I suspect it will be Han Chinese rather then English, though...
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  42. ...On the other hand, you were spared the horrors of "Spam", "Smash" and "Vesta Curry", like we had in the UK...🤢
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  43.  @kitkat47chrysalis95  I'd say he was poorly adapted, since he's dead now...too many smoke-breaks...
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  44. ...If you're focussing on the stereo at 8:48 then you are a VERY dedicated audio enthusiast...
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  45. This is Just Stop Oil's vision of progress...
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  46. I think it's probably a kind of badge of allegiance. We have a similar phenomenon in Britain to "gopniks" that we call "chavs"...they all wear Burberry and Rockport clothing, so they can be identified.
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  47. No football?!? On a winter Saturday afternoon in 1980s Britain, you could virtually guarantee there'd be some kind of football on TV...
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  48. You used to be able to get 3 l bottles of coke in the UK, but I haven't seen them for many years. I guess the health police stepped in...
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  49. Ironically, the BBC now spreads propaganda in Britain...
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  50. Why were dollars called "hard currency"?
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  51. We had an anecdote about Andropov in the UK, too: he was such a wanker that his 'and drop off! 😂
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  52. I recently bought some genuine Lithuanian kvass from the World Foods aisle of my local supermarket. I'm going to be blunt: it was absolutely ****ing disgusting! 🤢
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  53. The "Essex Girl" joke is a staple in Britain...Essex is a county in England renowned for its "low class" people. (And before anyone starts "hating" on me, I was born in Chelmsford...). Q: What does an Essex Girl use to keep her ankles warm? A: Her knickers...
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  54. I want to see more of the artworks featuring young, sexy, scantily-clad Soviet women!
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  55. The picture of the pretty young women with arms full of needle bruises made me sad. They didn't realise they were wasting their lives away...
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  56. Were there native guitar makers in the Soviet Union, or were the instruments Western imports?
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  57. That soap must be OK if it's endorsed by Starfleet...
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  58. I think I remember reading somewhere that the Soviet Union covered one sixth of the earth's entire land area...
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  59. The world would be a very different place without potatoes.
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  60. I always find the way you respectfully refer to your former leaders as "comrade" slightly quaint. Where I come from, we generally regard our former leaders (with the possible exception of Churchill) as complete idiots...
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  61. I'm English too (born 1974). I always "cleaned" my teeth, rather than "brushed" my teeth. Likewise, I have no memory of mouthwash or flossing until many years later (late 90s, early 00s, perhaps). I guess we were less fussy in those days!
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  62. It was obviously a CIA backed propaganda stunt. The very next week, some East German students were found to be camping in the gardens of Buckingham Palace (presumably one of the most "secure" places in the UK...). A "revenge" prank for the humiliation suffered by the USSR, perhaps...?
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  63.  @justicar5  ??? What are you talking about...??? Not the same thing as I'm talking about, it seems...
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  64. @brainbah Either you've misinterpreted what I wrote, or you have have an extraordinarily naive/idealistic outlook on life. You'll probably feel a bit different when you get your first job.
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  65. @brainbah OK - let's break this down to a level so simple even you can understand it: Tell me what you think I've said/done that's "racist". Can you do that?
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  66.  @888ssss  How public-spirited.
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  67. I've known a few girls that looked like tractors, but never any who drove them...
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  68. "Liquid Woman!" We had a "Liquid Woman" by the name of "Vaseline" in Britain! 😅
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  69. When I was at university, a friend of mine got very drunk and fell asleep. He woke up next morning horribly thirsty and found a large, refreshing looking glass of orange juice next to his bed, which he swigged down...unfortunately, it was actually 10% OJ and 90% vodka which had been prepared especially for him!
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  70. I had a toy robot very similar to the one in the vid! It shot sparks out of its chest...I guess it worked in a similar way to a cigarette lighter. It was probably a horrible fire hazard, but no-one seemed to worry about that sort of thing so much back then!
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  71. Americans are in no position to criticise anyone's pronunciation of the word "squirrel"! They say "sk'whirl", whereas properly it's "sk'wirral"! 😂
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  72. "Betty Swunghole"...?!? What a stupid name! 😆 But seriously, thank you for making the vid...it's very interesting. I think maybe one of the reasons why Soviet guitars didn't sound so good was the unavailability of so-called "tone woods"...Western electric guitars are generally made with woods like maple and rosewood, which apparently have good acoustic qualities.
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  73. I don't know the names of the pieces of music, but they sounded like the marches of John Phillip Sousa.
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  74.  @paulohagan3309  Wow! Really? What kind of gas was running through those pipes? It must have contained ethylene, or something similar in order to give a "high", I think... In similar vein, I heard that kids in southern Africa discovered that well-rotted sewage also exuded ethylene, that they could "huff" for a cheap high.
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  75.  @paulohagan3309  I'm not really sure methane has that effect, though... At the risk of being slightly crude, we'd get high off our own farts if it did!😅
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  76.  @paulohagan3309  Well, I'm certainly no chemist, so I can't really comment on the interaction between buttermilk and methane...I suppose it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it might get converted into psychoactive. The smoking of banana skins was a popular story for getting a "high" when I was at school (30 years ago). I never tried it, personally...
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  77.  @paulohagan3309  Thanks for the link...I'd actually heard this hypothesis about the Oracle of Delphi being attributed to getting high on ethylene before. Personally, I think a lot of ancient "mystical" experiences were probably due to getting high on one substance or another!
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  78.  @paulohagan3309  Very true...where I live, the wasps become particularly aggressive in autumn because they get pissed on the fermenting juice of fallen apples!
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  79. I can't lie: I found Soviet Supergirl and Soviet-Girl-asleep-on-the-passenger-seat-of-a-Lada quite alluring....
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  80. Wow! starting work at 7am is kind of rough...what time did they knock off...?
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  81. If the posters are to be believed, Soviet waitresses were every bit as tasty as the food they served! 😍
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  82. I gave up smoking decades ago (and I'm damned glad I did), but as I recall the cigarette "hierarchy" in the UK (from worst to best) was: "Triumph", "Lambert and Butler", "Benson and Hedges", "Silk Cut", "Marlborough", "Camel" and "Dunhill". Occasionally, we got hold of French cigarettes called "Gitanes"...they were horrible to smoke, but considered very "bohemian" and "classy".
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  83.  @bat9056  I'm not suggesting that we seek "self-sufficiency"...I think this is an unrealistic aim for the UK. However, to seek "total-dependency" doesn't strike me as a particularly good idea, either...especially when you consider how dependent the UK already is on imports in other sectors besides agriculture.
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  84. I've had a few disturbing experiences in my life, but I'm glad to say seeing my grandma's naked butt wasn't one of them!
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  85. Gopnik Girl at 10:42 is very cute! 😍 Gopnik Girl at 11:58 is somewhat less cute...😬
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  86. Here in the UK, we currently have a problem with rubbish collection in our own Far Left Central Asian Republic: Birminghamistan.
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  87. Duck-billed platypus.
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  88. On the strength of that advert, I think they'd have a lot more success if they made neon pink boob-tubes and leotards rather than shoes...😅
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  89. What was his crime? Currency speculation...? Brigandage...? кокаин...? 😆
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  90. "Birth Control Glasses"! I love it! 🤣 Believe me, I had a similar problem in my adolescent years!🤓🥸
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  91. The girl on the t-shirt looks like she's no stranger to handling large guns! 😂
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  92. "Brigandage" and "currency speculation" were amongst Viktor Rosta's crimes in "Red Heat", as I recall...
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  93. I doesn't look like a very comfy bed...No wonder Stalin never really slept in it...
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  94.  Jason n Brandi Taylor  In England (where I come from) "corn" can either mean "maize", or it can be a generic term for any kind of grain.
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  95. I used to work with a guy who'd had a childhood illness which meant that he'd lost his sense of smell. He was as strong as an ox, and he used to work up a powerful sweat...and a powerful aroma!
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  96. My dad used to take one bath a week... through choice... 😬
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  97. Wow! I guess the leadership didn't want the male workers distracted from their jobs by sexy women!
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  98. I wonder how much cannabis was grown as a sneaky "side crop" in those greenhouses. 😆
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  99. Where's the girl in the pink dress...??? I want a housemaid like her! 😍
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  100. I suspect the Russian guy has no particular "national identity" because he's being portrayed as the "aspirational" figure...a way of subconsciously encouraging the other republics to give up their identity.
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  101. You don't want to work on your beans too much...you'll go blind...! 😂
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  102. Was Gorby teetotal himself?
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  103. 2.2 horsepower...?!? I have (in all seriousness...) used a paper shredder that was rated at 3.5 horsepower!
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  104. The little film clip at the end is quite telling: the "honest, 'middle class' (and very 'Aryan') Russian lad" thwarting the "rough, swarthy, suspicious 'working class' type"...
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  105. Wow! I never knew that Pete Tork out of The Monkees worked at the BELAZ factory!
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  106. I made my own cider (at least, that's what I called it...some of my friends disagreed!) a few times, but I never distilled it.
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  107.  @UshankaShow  It was too sweet for my taste!
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  108.  @j3lny425  ...it was meant to be a humorous remark...don't take it seriously.
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  109. Queen Victoria used sheets of The Times as toilet paper!
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  110. I love the picture of people picking potatoes! Or more to the point, the girl with the nice ass bending over!😆
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  111. Interesting that the 1980s "mugshots" of the Labour Party shows a few faces that are distressingly familiar even now...
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  112. I find these videos very interesting.
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  113. What proportion of that vodka (and the moonshine, come to think of it...) is methanol, I wonder...? I don't mean to be rude, but I can't imagine Soviet vodka from 40 years ago underwent particularly rigorous quality control...
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  114.  @ernstwiltmann6  You can think what you like, sonny...
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  115.  @ernstwiltmann6  I'm glad you acknowledge it.
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  116. We never had separate algebra and geometry lessons...it was all rolled into one called "mathematics" ("Maths" in Britain, or "math" in America). We studied things like vectors, probability & statistics, trigonometry and calculus too.
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  117. In my local park, everyone forged a shortcut across the grass. Eventually, the council gave up trying to regrass it, and turned it into an "official" path by tarmacking it! 😅
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  118. @brainbah Judging by your woefully infantile and inept attempts at "sarcasm", I suggest you're the one getting triggered, not me. I suggest you make your explanation for accusing me of being "racist" extremely convincing, or I report you to YT. I await either your apology and retraction, or yet more farcical and damning word salad.
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  119.  @888ssss  Where are you from?
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  120.  @888ssss  Are you a communist?
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  121.  @888ssss  What is your stance, then?
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  122.  @888ssss  How do you make a living by minding your own business?
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  123.  @888ssss  How do you square this with being an "active slacker"? Or, more to the point, how do you get away with being an "active slacker" in an essential industry?
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  124.  @ForageGardener  If you want to think of "debt" as "negative money", then I guess in that sense the US does have vast reserves.
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  125. Tell us about maths and science classes in the Soviet Union. In Britain, we were told that the Soviet Union trained huge numbers of mathematicians\scientists\engineers to a much higher level than we were taught, all dedicated to the military. With the benefit of hindsight, I can see that it was a deliberate plan to get us to study hard in these subjects. I'd like to know the reality of the Soviet system.
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  126.  @smokeystover5682  I didn't quite get a handle on where the museum is, unfortunately.
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  127. I seem to think there were at least two "Carry On" films where Sid James flung open a cupboard to reveal that it was stacked full of Johnny Walker whisky...the fridge full of vodka reminded me!
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  128. I was 2 in 1976!
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  129. No mention of green vegetables from either camp...
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  130. Ahhhh! "Gopniks" = "chavs/pikeys/neds"...!
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  131. Rudolph Hess was Hitler's deputy who flew to Britain to try and broker peace.
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  132. It all makes "Secret Squirrel" and "Roger Ramjet" look a bit tame...
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  133. To be fair, even if the guy was stuttering he still needed XL condoms...
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  134. Wow! I should think the "woke squad" would have something to say about such blatant military indoctrination these days...!
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  135. Can anyone identify the 1 millionth Soviet citizen to actually own a car?
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  136. <beep...beep...beep...> "Time to feed parakeet." "What's 'feed parakeet'..? Russian for jerking off...?" 😅
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  137. Growing up in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, I always "cleaned" my teeth, rather than "brushed" my teeth.
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  138. I think Breznev died years before his "official" death, and his corpse was "robotised" and remote controlled...a bit like Joe Biden.
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  139. I think Soviets must have had very large testicles if they're routinely compared to eggs. Where I come from, they're more often compared to beans...
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  140. Why does everyone keep hating on John Wayne Cheeseburger? I knew his cousin Charleton Heston Hotdog, and he was a OK guy...
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  141. Maybe Stalin anticipated the world after the war: the decline of the European Empires, and the rise of the USA and USSR as global superpowers...he didn't want the Soviet people getting too involved with the idea of "internationalism" because he saw a chance for global domination. Just a theory...
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  142. I'm not convinced...the idea of acquiring material wealth through "luck" rather than honest work seems like decadent capitalism to me...
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  143. Was there any culture of cannabis smoking in the Soviet Union?
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  144. Sadly parallel to contemporary British universities...hotbeds of Far Left indoctrination rather than institutions of higher learning.
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  145. I went to an all-boys school...when we got older, we shared some classes with the local girls' school...we'd hardly even seen "girls" before that time! To say that we were "distracted in class" is an understatement!😍
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  146. I got most of the obvious ones (number of kids, which way's the wind blowing, how did they get there, how long have they been there, etc). I thought the water melon was a pumpkin, though! Hence, I assumed it was late October! (kind of chilly for camping, on reflection...!)
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  147. ...checking out her "books"... ...are you sure you don't mean "boobs"...? 😆
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  148. My mum used to feed us hearts (I can't remember what kind...pig or sheep, I guess). I recall that they were actually very tasty (once you'd overcome the initial "horror" factor!)...I never see them in the shops these days, though...
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  149. Q: What do you call a camel with three humps? A: Humphrey. 😅
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  150. The Chinese Government has World Domination in mind...
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  151.  @helgeschneider9069  If you can show me a better looking babe than Tamara Press, I'd be very surprised!😅
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  152. Being a fan of Ushanka Show for a while now, I feel there ought to be a picture of a young woman with long legs in a skimpy dress riding a Soviet bicycle in such a way that her skirt has flown up and you can see her panties! 😆
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