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  • RenaudaR Renauda

    @Mik

    Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?

    Neither. They just have a different collective attitude towards public works, monuments and edifices that reflect cultural or national pride or solemnity. The Moscow subway is such.

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    Mik
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    @Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:

    @Mik

    Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?

    Neither. They just have a different collective attitude towards public works, monuments and edifices that reflect cultural or national pride or solemnity. The Moscow subway is such.

    Nice trait to have.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

      I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?

      MikM Away
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      @jon-nyc said in Tucker in Moscow:

      I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?

      They are chained together with coin operated locks. You piut your quarter in the slot and it releases your cart. When you return the cart, you stick the lock in it and it gives you your quarter back. I really hated them at first but came to appreciate them.

      Link to video

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • LuFins DadL Offline
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        LuFins Dad
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        Who carries change with them?

        The Brad

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        • CopperC Offline
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          Copper
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          #45

          I've never seen locked shopping carts.

          We have Kroger and Food Lion here, they don't use them.

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          • MikM Mik

            @jon-nyc said in Tucker in Moscow:

            I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?

            They are chained together with coin operated locks. You piut your quarter in the slot and it releases your cart. When you return the cart, you stick the lock in it and it gives you your quarter back. I really hated them at first but came to appreciate them.

            Link to video

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            Renauda
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            #46

            @Mik

            I really hated them at first but came to appreciate them.

            My cousin’s husband was in the grocery store business for over 40 years. A butcher by trade, he worked his way into management and worked all over British Columbia over those years. He told me that the chain and coin locks were not so much to deter theft but to provide customers an incentive to keep the parking lots tidy and free of carts in the way of traffic. Shopping centre property management companies and grocery store head offices were fed up with all the complaints and petty claims they were receiving for vehicle damage caused by loose carts in parking stalls and scattered all over the lots and public areas adjacent to the parking lot.

            Elbows up!

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              LuFins Dad
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              In the other hand, in my youth I would have considered the exchange of a quarter for an entire shopping cart to be a great deal! I never would have stolen one, but buy it for a quarter? You bet!

              The Brad

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                Copper
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                Or you could offer to return the cart for little old ladies.

                $0.25 all profit, tax free.

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                  xenon
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                  I grew up in a small city in British Columbia - we had chained shopping carts.

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                  • George KG George K

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                    Renauda
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                    #50

                    @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

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                    Elbows up!

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                    • George KG Offline
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                      George K
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                      And the Bee's gotta Bee.

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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        I was only joking

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                            It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                            Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            • George KG George K

                              It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                              Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

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                              Doctor Phibes
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                              @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                              It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                              Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                              He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                              I was only joking

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                                Renauda
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                                I only took notice of him a couple years ago. I thought then he was already a yellow journalist train wreck. Nothing has changed except more rail cars have piled up behind him..

                                Elbows up!

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                                • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                  @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                  It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                  Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                  He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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                                  @Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                  @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                  It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                  Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                  He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                                  Yes, he does. And for a normal human being up until circa 50 years ago, throughout all of human history, concern for one's own society was obviously the priority. Now, it's reason to consider him unhinged.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                  • George KG George K

                                    It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                    Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

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                                    @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                    It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                    Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                    Did you watch the video? It was over 20 minutes.

                                    Education is extremely important.

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                                    • HoraceH Horace

                                      @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                      It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                      Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                      Did you watch the video? It was over 20 minutes.

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                                      @Horace said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                      Did you watch the video?

                                      I did not. I speaking in generalities.

                                      It was over 20 minutes.

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                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

                                        @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                        It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                        Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                        He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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                                        @Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                        He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                                        It is obviously better planned.

                                        We now have more than 11 million of these criminals here.

                                        Making the case that we should stop this is good, not bad.

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                                        • HoraceH Horace

                                          @Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                          @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                          It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                          Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                          He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                                          Yes, he does. And for a normal human being up until circa 50 years ago, throughout all of human history, concern for one's own society was obviously the priority. Now, it's reason to consider him unhinged.

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                                          @Horace said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                          @Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                          @George-K said in Tucker in Moscow:

                                          It's really sad how Carlson has gone off the rails.

                                          Gotta wonder how much of it is just an act and he's trying to get clicks/views.

                                          He certainly seems to consider the Mexican invasion of the US to be a lot worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                                          Yes, he does. And for a normal human being up until circa 50 years ago, throughout all of human history, concern for one's own society was obviously the priority. Now, it's reason to consider him unhinged.

                                          I don't think he's unhinged. I think he's a miserable excuse for a human being who is trying to distract us from the brutality of a despotic regime for some unclear reason of his own.

                                          He's got an agenda. I find it interesting that other people seem to be teetering around buying into his bullshit.

                                          Maybe if he saw the prices in Mexican supermarkets he'd start praising their culture too!

                                          I was only joking

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