The New Coffee Room

An opportunity for the Communist Party of the USA

@89th I'm pretty sure most Iranians don't want to go back to the seventies: an era in which their country was US controlled. Most of them just want to get rid of a totalitarian islamist regime.
BTW: the pics are showing what one might call 'the elite'. This scenery wasn 't as general as many folks presumed it was.

@jon-nyc
I think it's about this:

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/iran-several-aircraft-reportedly-leaving-tehran-amid-conflict-with-israel-mm11h2i8

@jon-nyc Display says 'Not found'.

@Mik You should read 'The last Shah' by Ray Takeyh'. Gives a good insight into the historical backgrounds of Iran/Persia.

Can't read the thread, but I second Klaus's answer. My dad was captured by the Soviets in may '45 near Prenzlau. His platoon commander was shot to set an example. After five days all captured soldiers had to march to Stargard, without food or water. About one third of them made it.
My father told they tried eating gras, which didn't digest (cellulose...). After two weeks in Stargard they were put on trains heading east.
My dad spent only one year in three lagers (one of which was Bobruisk in Byelarus).
He was lucky in the sense that he had the Belgian nationality and was transferred in 1946 to Romania and later on to Belgium.
Some of his companions only got back to Germany in 1956.
For correct understanding: the USSR NEVER-EVER talked about prisoners of war, they always called them war criminals. POW's fall under the Geneva conventions; war criminals don't. Think of them as cheap and expendable labour forces.

Apparently the Scots have 421 documented words for snow. For playing with marbles they have 369 words.
As to 'bullshit' I wouldn't know. Probably Trump can help us.

@Doctor-Phibes

@Renauda I should have seen the link with 'prosim' (Slovakian for please).

@Renauda 'Prosit' as in 'ein Prosit der Gemūtlichkeit'?

According to Zelenski the operation had 117 pilots each steering one drone. The operation was organised near an FSB-centre.

This is like peeing on a bully's leg and asking if that was warm enough

Did something wrong and now I can't undo inserting the comic above...

BTW, the shoes weren't made of glass.
In heraldry 'vair' (French for skin, leather or fur) was misinterpreted as 'verre' (French for glass).

@Mik I'm not a native speaker, but I do know at least 12 of them.
In particular 'doodle sack' which is 'doedelzak' in my language.

@jon-nyc I figure Bibi no longer is a good friend.

@Axtremus Not all of them. I know someone who is a fitter. His tailor is almost rich

@Doctor-Phibes 'Whom'

@Mik A deal with Putin?

@Horace Praise the Lord