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08-21-2024, 11:38 PM
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instead of praying for the trucks?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qgyenzwzyo
Quote:Russian priests bless fire trucks as huge blaze continues after Ukraine attack
Quote:Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a huge fire at a fuel depot, which continues to burn three days after being set alight in a Ukrainian drone attack.
More than 500 firefighters have been tackling the giant blaze at the Proletarsk oil storage facility in the southern Rostov region.
About 20 of 74 storage tanks were on fire, local authorities told the RIA news agency.
On Wednesday, local Orthodox priests said prayers next to the fire engines and brought an icon to the scene in support of firefighters' efforts.
That will do a lot of fucking good.
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08-22-2024, 01:37 AM
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You just want to see an immolation.
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08-22-2024, 01:38 AM
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Ha! Throw the icons into the fire and see if that helps! Stupid priests would have been more helpful if they brought a few fire extinguishers!
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08-22-2024, 01:50 AM
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(08-21-2024, 11:38 PM)Minimalist Wrote: instead of praying for the trucks?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qgyenzwzyo
Quote:Russian priests bless fire trucks as huge blaze continues after Ukraine attack
Quote:Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a huge fire at a fuel depot, which continues to burn three days after being set alight in a Ukrainian drone attack.
More than 500 firefighters have been tackling the giant blaze at the Proletarsk oil storage facility in the southern Rostov region.
About 20 of 74 storage tanks were on fire, local authorities told the RIA news agency.
On Wednesday, local Orthodox priests said prayers next to the fire engines and brought an icon to the scene in support of firefighters' efforts.
That will do a lot of fucking good.
I know what we'd have said -- "Get your asses into your bunker gear and start humping hose."
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08-22-2024, 03:18 AM
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Kind of looks and sounds that the russkies could use some of your expertise, Thump, as opposed to more of this praying horseshit.
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08-22-2024, 03:30 AM
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(08-22-2024, 03:18 AM)Minimalist Wrote: Kind of looks and sounds that the russkies could use some of your expertise, Thump, as opposed to more of this praying horseshit.
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We were much too busy fighting the fire to get on our knees. That wasn't expertise, that was just TCB.
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08-22-2024, 04:19 AM
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Yeah, it's pointless.
But so long as they're spending time on this rather than, say, trying to ferret out members of the community who are in violation of Russia's anti-LGBT laws, I'll call it a win.
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08-22-2024, 06:12 PM
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Yikes. If I were a russian firefighter I'd want to keep the shamans and their magic spells as far from my kit as possible. Just look at what happened to all those tanks in ukraine.
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08-22-2024, 06:19 PM
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Obsolete tanks and obsolete fire-fighting equipment.....bad combo but at least the firemen don't get blown up.
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08-22-2024, 06:20 PM
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They're russian. They'll find a way.
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08-22-2024, 06:21 PM
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When all their trucks are gone they'll give them muskets and send them to Ukraine as cannon-fodder.
Ever see what they did with the fire crews at Chernobyl?
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08-22-2024, 07:08 PM
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I get the feeling I'm going to be appalled, amused, and unsurprised.
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08-22-2024, 07:15 PM
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Why don't these two assholes fight the fire? you ask.
Well I'd guess it's because under all those rags they're wearing,
they're moral cowards who know that when the cards are down
their purported god will, in actuality, do sweet fuck all to protect
them. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Oh... and if they're of Russia's compulsory 12-month conscription
age—18 to 30—they can get an exemption, as priests.
They totally lack the courage of their convictions.
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08-22-2024, 07:16 PM
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There was a great mini series on Chernobyl... you can probably find it on Solarmovies or some other such site. Shows them sending "volunteers" out on the roof in what look to be rain coats with brooms to push high radioactive debris from the exploded core off the roof with shovels and brooms.
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