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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:32 am    Post subject: RusskiCanadian23 wrote: jo jo 7 wrote: yorbcbud wrote: jo jo 7 wrote: Thank you for the compliment, that was nice of you to say that.....Bud, you need to go to Russia. You are still young. You miss the freedom? You live in Canada and surrounded by beautiful country...there's your freedom...everybody has responsbilities. What is stopping you from going to Russia for a few weeks or wherever? I am going, regardless!!! I may come back broke or I may not come back...maybe I might make some new friends and decide to stay. Responsibilities are exactly what stops me. I have friends in pretty much every country in the world. I just have to pay for my life, and it's not cheap. Plus, I really like where I am. I have traveled all over North America, because it's easy. I really don't have a month or two to spare, for an overseas trip, although it would definitely be nice. But, we'll see. Just go for a few weeks. Go see Russia! If you want a real adventure, go to Pripyat. It's an abandoned city in Ukraine, really close to Chernobyl... once was a striving community of 50,000... now just 50 soldiers and 13 dogs... Damn Gorbachev! Anyways, you get to stay in an abandoned apartment, where everything is exactly as people left it when they evacuated. It's fucking scary! My brother went once, it gave the chill of his life! If you're into extreme tourism, Pripyat's a place for you! That's the place with the radioactive potatoes, isn't it? Doesn't every home also have a Geiger counter? I saw a documentary on that place. In the doc, there were people in the country who still wouldn't leave. Is that the place?
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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:35 am    Post subject: jo jo 7 wrote: Just go for a few weeks. Go see Russia! Lets hope you have some great travel stories, I'll be waiting to hear how much fun you have. Hopefully you don't spend all your time, and money, buying new European fashions.
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RusskiCanadian23 Lounge Wizard Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 1104 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Ванкувер, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:46 am    Post subject: yorbcbud wrote: RusskiCanadian23 wrote: jo jo 7 wrote: yorbcbud wrote: jo jo 7 wrote: Thank you for the compliment, that was nice of you to say that.....Bud, you need to go to Russia. You are still young. You miss the freedom? You live in Canada and surrounded by beautiful country...there's your freedom...everybody has responsbilities. What is stopping you from going to Russia for a few weeks or wherever? I am going, regardless!!! I may come back broke or I may not come back...maybe I might make some new friends and decide to stay. Responsibilities are exactly what stops me. I have friends in pretty much every country in the world. I just have to pay for my life, and it's not cheap. Plus, I really like where I am. I have traveled all over North America, because it's easy. I really don't have a month or two to spare, for an overseas trip, although it would definitely be nice. But, we'll see. Just go for a few weeks. Go see Russia! If you want a real adventure, go to Pripyat. It's an abandoned city in Ukraine, really close to Chernobyl... once was a striving community of 50,000... now just 50 soldiers and 13 dogs... Damn Gorbachev! Anyways, you get to stay in an abandoned apartment, where everything is exactly as people left it when they evacuated. It's fucking scary! My brother went once, it gave the chill of his life! If you're into extreme tourism, Pripyat's a place for you! That's the place with the radioactive potatoes, isn't it? Doesn't every home also have a Geiger counter? I saw a documentary on that place. In the doc, there were people in the country who still wouldn't leave. Is that the place? That is Pripyat. Or what once was Pripyat anyway: Is that the place you saw?
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RusskiCanadian23 Lounge Wizard Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 1104 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Ванкувер, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:51 am    Post subject: If you want to see more pictures, or just learn more about this place, just go to this website: http://pripyat.com/en/ It was founded by former residents of Pripyat. Gotta warn ya though... some of these pics make grown men weep like babies, me included!
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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:53 am    Post subject: Looks like it. That's so terrible, what happened there. And apparently, they wasted a lot of time that could have been used to evacuate more people. Is that the Chernobyl Reactor, far in the background? In the doc, they were outside the city in the farming area, and those people wouldn't leave. They had to check all their food for radiation. I couldn't believe that they would stay, after that disaster.
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RusskiCanadian23 Lounge Wizard Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 1104 Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada/Ванкувер, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:58 am    Post subject: yorbcbud wrote: I couldn't believe that they would stay, after that disaster. A lot of these people had nowhere else to go.
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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: RusskiCanadian23 wrote: yorbcbud wrote: I couldn't believe that they would stay, after that disaster. A lot of these people had nowhere else to go. I know, that's what they said. But still, I wouldn't stay. The government should have made them relocate to somewhere else.
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jo-jo-7 Just Starting Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 6	Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:57 pm    Post subject: RusskiCanadian23 wrote: If you want to see more pictures, or just learn more about this place, just go to this website: http://pripyat.com/en/ It was founded by former residents of Pripyat. Gotta warn ya though... some of these pics make grown men weep like babies, me included! I saw these photos. This is sad. I don't like seeing abandon places that were once lived in by families. This was 20 years ago? Doesn't the radiation leave or disintegrate after so many years like that? Couldn't this be cleaned up and lived in again? Surely, not all of Pripyat would be lost. I wonder about those that stayed. I am sure their health is not good.
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yorbcbud Lounge Wizard Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 4903 Location: Сорренто, Британская Колумбия, Канада	Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:00 am    Post subject: jo jo 7 wrote: RusskiCanadian23 wrote: If you want to see more pictures, or just learn more about this place, just go to this website: It was founded by former residents of Pripyat. Gotta warn ya though... some of these pics make grown men weep like babies, me included! I saw these photos. This is sad. I don't like seeing abandon places that were once lived in by families. This was 20 years ago? Doesn't the radiation leave or disintegrate after so many years like that? Couldn't this be cleaned up and lived in again? Surely, not all of Pripyat would be lost. I wonder about those that stayed. I am sure their health is not good. Quote: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was a tragic event for its victims, and those most affected suffered major hardship. Some of the people who dealt with the emergency lost their lives. Although those exposed as children and the emergency and recovery workers are at increased risk of radiation-induced effects, the vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences due to the radiation from the Chernobyl accident. For the most part, they were exposed to radiation levels comparable to or a few times higher than the natural background levels, and future exposures continue to slowly diminish as the radionuclides decay. Lives have been seriously disrupted by the Chernobyl accident, but from the radiological point of view, generally positive prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail. http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
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surfguy Lounge Wizard Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 6979	Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:01 pm    Post subject: yes that place is scary and sad and depressing...too though aren't there a lot of abandoned cities all across the USSR? People are very tall in the Ukraine...just wondering if Chernobyl had anything to do with it? After all we've seen the nuclear cabbage and pumpkins etc.
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MrSpice Lounge Wizard Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 3431	Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:27 am    Post subject: jo jo 7 wrote: I saw these photos. This is sad. I don't like seeing abandon places that were once lived in by families. This was 20 years ago? All women in this town turned into redheads because of the radiation. Predictably, men left town shortly after. After a while, women got very horny without men and also left.
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jo-jo-7 Just Starting Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 6	Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject: MrSpice wrote: jo jo 7 wrote: I saw these photos. This is sad. I don't like seeing abandon places that were once lived in by families. This was 20 years ago? All women in this town turned into redheads because of the radiation. Predictably, men left town shortly after. After a while, women got very horny without men and also left. You are such a horn dog. I cannot believe you sometimes. Maybe, YOU need to get some. Are you always like this?
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Miami WayToRussified Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 340	Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:58 am    Post subject: Here's a good book about the Chernobyl exclusion zone, including Pripyat. One of the intereting things about the book to me was to read about the way nature and wild animals are taking hold again throughout the zone. It has become a defacto wilderness area which is very beneficial to nature. There aren't many large blocks of wilderness in Europe, so in a way it' very helpful, if you want to look at it that way. http://www.amazon.com/Wormwood-Forest-Natural-History-Chernobyl/dp/0309094305 Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl (Hardcover) by Mary Mycio (Author)
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Miami WayToRussified Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 340	Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:58 am    Post subject:
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