Comments by "dvv" (@dvv18) on "Life in Russia vs Georgia: 2 weeks in!" video.

  1. Teaching a Russian about Georgian food is like teaching a Brit about curry or a German about Döner.
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  2.  @Beezy1337  Yeah, but unless you yourself are ready to pave the way for Tiananmen-like tanks with your own body, your musings ain't worth shit.
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  3.  @imyarek  That's what all refugees say. Initially.
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  4. How about not just being morally indignant, but going to Russia to help them organize the resistance? Can you do that? Or complaining about the quality of infotainment on YouTube is the limit of your moral indignation?
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  5.  @paulthomas8262  Not "totally", but of course, it's not exactly the same. In fact, if you even take two random khinkalnias just in Moscow alone, they'll differ from each other. So yeah.
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  6. How the f am I seeing so many of them then?
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  7. Here we go…  @kushtalin9180 , Armenia did that like 25 years earlier.
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  8. He's got a video about how he's already dodged the draft.
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  9. Wow. Spoken like a true Stalinist.
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  10.  @remarker1233  Good thing you're not in Azerbaijan anymore. It surely bumped up the median IQ in the country significantly.
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  11. Chill. Those who can afford that, also pay taxes to the government and its affordable housing projects. Win-win.
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  12. I think you're a coward calling Roman a coward — and not signing up for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion yourself.
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  13. You have no idea…
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  14. Magic
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  15. He's from Chelyabinsk, so…
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  16. I saw a live video from Dedaena Park (დედაენის ბაღი) on the Mtkvari earlier today — hundreds of Georgians, happy faces, happy families, not a single Ukrainian flag in sight. What gives?
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  17.  @jacquecasket233  You don't say…
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  18.  @pshemko__  But you're not Russian, so you're sleeping well, having fun and partying without even going down to Georgia? Despite millions of refugees streaming over the (unfenced) border into Poland and cruise missiles hitting closer and closer to that border? Do I get you right?
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  19.  @pshemko__  You might want to talk to a professional about your paranoid delusions. And me, I'm just asking how your sleep is, and how your everyday life is going. Of course, I wouldn't mind you telling us here how you personally contribute to helping the refugees with your time, effort, and money, but I wouldn't mind if you keep it private either.
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  20. Marry him and get him a green card this way.
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  21. Pray tell us all about your own experiences standing up against an oppressive government's tanks in Tiananmen or elsewhere.
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  22. When you go first and show him the way.
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  23. Who told you about those 19%? Gallup?
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  24. None. He's got no taxable income anymore.
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  25.  @remarker1233  Millions of Russians have visited Georgia "under other circumstances". Why do you think Roman is so much different?
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  26. Let us know how it goes in the Foreign Legion camp in Lviv when you get there.
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  27. Really? No way!
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  28.  @sarahd.2677  I doubt that. I prefer more substantive ways of trying to make a difference than hot-airing in the streets safely away from the Tiananmen and the Red Square.
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  29.  @pshemko__  And yet you cannot keep yourself from coming back here again and again and again. Hmmm 🤔
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  30. It's an old Russian tradition. Just look up the big names like Rachmaninoff, Sikorsky, Nabokov...
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  31. Are you sure Roman has ever lived in Ukraine?
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  32. Internet!
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  33. Turkey, Armenia, the ex-Soviet Central Asian "stans", Dubai, Serbia, maybe India, and a couple-three others are still viable. But God only knows for how long…
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  34. No person shall be discriminated against on the ground of race, color, or national origin (The United States of America, 1964).
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  35. Georgia is really serious about its Christianity, but seriously — from what I've seen here, Roman is much more at home in Georgia than back in Russia. The only (and really big) problem is him not speaking the language.
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  36.  @IcefightFX  If it's a credit card, you call your card's bank and dispute the charge (or do it in your bank app). The charge is stricken off your bill, and it's up to the merchant to prove the charge has been legit. I haven't had a single problem with my credit cards here in the US in all of my life. Or in the EU, or Russia, or Georgia for that matter.
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  37. I've heard it different. It's not like legal legal, but the police doesn't care much. They still do raids on night clubs when they feel like it though. Or so I've heard.
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  38.  @FasadiAguriDekoratiuliAguri  Georgia is not Russia, Georgia is a democratic European country, right? You get the taxes and affordable housing programs the Georgians vote for.
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  39. Russia is a big place. There's like five times the population of Lithuania in Moscow alone. And guess what, my experience is tap water in Moscow is pretty safe and not bad to taste. Here where I live in the US, OTOH, you really want to use filtered or bottled water — and it's in a large metropolitan area on the East Coast. There are people who say that the USA is a third-world country, but you're not one of them, are you?
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  40. I just wonder why you're using Russian on this channel where everyone understands English. Seems like you get your kicks from offending people by using Russian, don't you?
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  41.  @aleksandermacias5432  So let me see how you think it works… Russians are supposed to trawl the comment sections of English-language channels for little gems of wisdom in Russian, right? What a concept…
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  42. What? Georgia was already there when the English weren't even conquered by the Normans.
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  43.  @romeisfallingagain  I appreciate you wanting to talk about me, but no, I'm not interested in your advances.
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  44. @M J And as they say in Russian, there's also elderberry in the garden, and an uncle in Kiev.
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  45. In fact, lots of Georgians have been working in Russia, sending lots of money back home. Now, with that bank sanctions thing, they cannot do that anymore. Disclaimer: I've seen that on Al Jazeera, or Euronews, or something like that. The only friends I have in Georgia are my fellow Americans who've been quite happy with their $500/mo rents until now.
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  46. He is. And Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, in case you wonder.
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  47. I wonder how you have gotten the impression Roman is a talking head politologist kind of guy…
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  48. There's this YouTube channel, Geography Now. Find their video about Georgia — that's exactly what they're saying. And not just about the writing system 😎
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  49.  @Touhou-forever  Nope. Why?
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  50.  @Touhou-forever  Nothing to apologize for, all good 😊
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  51. How is it good for Roman, again? Whatever he has in a Russian bank — in rubles or otherwise — is just some numbers in his bank app, not real money he can use in real life.
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  52.  @センナ-h4c  News flash for you — he cannot buy anything with his rubles.
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  53. He cannot, he's not in Germany and won't be there anytime soon. And his cards won't work there anyway.
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  54. Why are you doing it here where most of the audience is not Russian? You're just pretending you're fulfilling your responsibility here. Do it instead somewhere where information-deprived Russians can really get your message. Do it for real.
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  55.  @adry7777  I don't know any Russians who don't know the truth. And I doubt you'll find any in this comment section.
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  56. Depends. My experience is tap water in Moscow is pretty decent. Much better than where I live in the US.
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  57.  @sawyerbass4661  In a large metropolitan area choke full of federal contractors and such.
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  58.  @interview1296  These here United States are a big country. I love tap water in NYC, but I need to be b̶a̶d̶l̶y̶ desperately hungover to drink tap water without filtering where I live.
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  59. Do you prefer angry guys hurting you speaking in the RP accent?
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  60. Gold is just some stupid shiny metal if nobody wants it from you.
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  61.  @xwolf9913  Yeah, like I say, it's a stupid shiny metal. You go learn.
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  62.  @xwolf9913  From little known but gas-rich countries like Qatar, Norway, the United States of America…
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  63. How about you take a financial stand and send a hundred or two or a thousand or so bucks to any of the charities that help the Ukrainians?
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  64.  @aitchtea  So your life savings are not frozen by the Russian and Western governments, and you can spend your money in any way you want. Good for you, keep up the good work.
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  65.  @aitchtea  Roman's accounts are effectively frozen, you know. Are you saying he's the butcher of Bucha?
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  66.  @SantomPh  Your point being?
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  67.  @etunamunjishvili  These people are in shock because their whole life was just ruined completely. No money, no job, no homeland anymore. All they have is some cash they managed to pull from their accounts in Russian banks before the West and Putin clamped down on them in unison, and that's it. Even if they want to help Ukrainians in any meaningful way, they just don't have any wherewithal for that. So yeah, kick them out for Putin to make them his serfs and cannon fodder, or being so humanitarian and all, just pack them up into cattle cars and send them out to internment camps in Xinjiang or something.
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  68. It's TBilisi, and there's no vowel between T and B. Good luck practicing it. And Georgian has no stress — whatever syllables are there, all are equal.
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  69.  @jerry50bmg65  If you want to get really fancy linguistic, look up "consonant clusters in Georgian". Gvprtskvni is a real word in the language.
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  70.  @ებრაელივაჭარი  I'm pretty sure that if he's allowed to stay in Georgia and decides to do so, he'll be speaking Georgian in no time. He seems pretty good at languages.
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  71.  @ებრაელივაჭარი  Well, Mandarin is not a good old Indo-European language either, and yet, AFAIK, Roman is pretty proficient in Mandarin. רעדסטו מאנדארין, שלמה? 😉
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  72. How is it going for you there in the Foreign Legion?
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  73. It's not much of a problem in the hip areas of Tbilisi or Batumi. Otherwise, use your phone translator app.
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  74. Nah, it's just alright.
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  75. Tijuana is the closest he can get to there. The US of A isn't giving him a visa anytime soon.
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  76. You really want to purify it here in NoVa.
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  77. Bye. Oh, you're still here? I thought you were leaving…
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  78. OMG, is that why? Really?! No! And he said it was just because he was Russian…
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  79. It took YouTube just 20 seconds to kill a link to a dictionary entry with a Georgian pronunciation sample… Ok, I'll try to explain — the T is very much there. I suggest you go to Wiktionary, look up თბილისი and listen to the pronunciation sample. The IPA notation is also there.
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  80. Just read up on how people were fleeing farther and farther away from Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. Or from Russia and the USSR first in the 1920s and then in the late 1940s. That's how it's done.
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  81. Georgian girls are as good with their sugaring, waxing, and laser as anybody else. So who cares.
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  82.  @CharlesOffdensen  The myths are Eastern Europeans are pretty stupid and bigoted. Are they really just myths?
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  83. OMG, don't even start.
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  84. Yes?
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  85.  @TheVolginator  Well, you might've finally found the right dosage of medicine to make whatever's left of your memory work, but here's a news flash for you: most people don't need that medicine at all.
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  86.  @TheVolginator  Look up the word "sarcasm" in a dictionary. Or ask your mom if you need help with that.
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  87. Just check them NYC walk-ups out.
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  88.  @imyarek  By your logic, most of the women and children who left Ukraine for Poland, Romania, Hungary, etc, are not refugees — they are there just temporary. As for his return to Russia within a year — how much do you want to bet?
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  89. I wouldn't mind having two Balds here (never mind my bandana).
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  90. No, no funny dance moves here.
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  91.  @stephano_jvr  He hasn't "migrated". He's technically being a tourist in one of the very few countries that still let Russian citizens in. Cut from any meaningful income and savings. Which is not exactly a sustainable situation. But of course, if you have any constructive suggestions as to how to make it more sustainable, I'm sure we all here will be really interested to hear them. Otherwise, your grandstanding is just a pile of stinking shit.
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  92. YouTube does it automatically, talk to them. Or just stay at Twitter.
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  93.  @arnoldsmith6294  A big one. And that's all Putin's generals care about.
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  94.  @yes3858  OMG, you can Google?!
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  95. Who gives a fuck about your fucks when so many civilians get murdered.
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  96. What's the attitude towards sharing their medical records everywhere in Germany? Things like, you know, vaccination history and stuff?
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  97. Seriously? Just look up "Georgian cuisine".
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  98. By the time the English adopted their flag sometime during the Crusades, the Georgian "five crosses" design had been in use for some time already.
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  99. Internet!
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  100. Thanks to the sanctions, his money is frozen in Russia and still works for Putin. სანქციების წყალობით, მისი ფული რუსეთში გაყინულია და დღემდე მუშაობს პუტინისთვის.
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  101.  @Jimmerca  How did you get those 80%?
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  102. 1. Russians are not his audience. 2. Russians can still use the Internet, and they have tons of info and propaganda from all over the world.
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  103.  @patrykn.5971  The right moment for him to talk about things he's never experienced? Is it what you're saying?
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  104.  @WDOphotography  The problem with Tbilisi is that there are no direct flights there from anywhere in Russia — he'll have to do a layover/stopover in one of those countries anyway. Which is extremely stressful for a person in his (as I understand it) situation.
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  105. Georgian wine has always been readily available in Russia. At least the commercial kind.
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  106. Are you a Georgian immigration lawyer? What's your rate?
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  107.  @imeretian9446  I'm flattered by your interest in my humble persona.
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  108. Nope.
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  109.  @IcefightFX  Ehm... In the US, you can get your card transaction information pretty much immediately in your bank app. Or via text messages (you guys call it "SMS"). AFAIK, it works the same way in Russia and Georgia.
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  110.  @IcefightFX  Haha indeed. But I'm an American, and I hardly ever use anything but my credit cards or the same credit cards via Google Pay.
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  111.  @magpie1862  Unfortunately for merchants, accepting bank cards (debit or credit) is not free.
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  112.  @thelastofthehitachi972  And churchkhela. He's already made a dozen runs via the Lars checkpoint with loads of churchkhela up his butt. Now try to forget this imagery every time you're at a Georgian market.
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  113. Your mental abilities are really sad.
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