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Conservatives speculate who leaked the SCOTUS draft, hundred-year-old abortion laws may go back into effect in red and blue states, companies offer to reimburse employees who need to travel for abortions, and doctors stop at nothing to save a penis.
Duppers
(28,443 posts)But is reported to be true....
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/03/the-man-with-a-penis-on-his-arm-review-tv-that-makes-you-proud-to-be-british
And we think we have problems.
There are jokes coming, I'm sure.
Rhiannon12866
(245,594 posts)I couldn't help but be skeptical myself - but I should have known Trevor would pick up on an international story...
Duppers
(28,443 posts)I've thought of more jokes about this poor man's plight but they're not printable.
"Jokes coming " was enough from me.
Rhiannon12866
(245,594 posts)Duppers
(28,443 posts)Poor fellow, as they say in the U.K.
Rhiannon12866
(245,594 posts)"Scared Sober?"
Duppers
(28,443 posts)After living in England for 2+yrs, I can say that I've never seen so many alcoholics in my life.
One dear friend, an older grad student from Pakistan, said his biggest fear about returning to his country would be his inability to obtain "booze," as it's illegal in Islamic countries. Sadly, he had become dependent on it.
(Reminder to self: email Azmat.)
Rhiannon12866
(245,594 posts)I visited the USSR in the late '80s with my grandmother who joined a peace group in her NC town which had a sister town in the Caucasus Mountains. This was their initial visit and they need 17 to make the trip and people kept signing up and dropping out - so she asked if she could invite me. Having grown up believing that the Russians hated us, at first I thought my grandmother must be insane, but I couldn't say no to my Nana - so I agreed to go and it really was the trip of a lifetime. The group was compromised of experienced world travelers dedicated to peace - all senior citizens except for one lady and me. And I really came to love them all.
And I sure learned a lot - especially from the Russian peace groups. Having experienced the horrors of WWII on their own land, they wanted to ensure it never happened again. Even people we met on the street were friendly and excited to meet Americans. That's why I do not understand this war - but then Russian State Media is apparently keeping the truth from the people - heartbreaking.
And alcohol, especially Russian vodka, was plentiful. Fortunately, I had jet lag and mainly stuck to Pepsi when I could find it. I still remember one sign I saw which depicted a bottle of vodka encircling a person's brain. I've now been in AA since 2008 and I wish I could find that poster, it was haunting.
Duppers
(28,443 posts)How exciting! Bet you've had a most interesting life!
My only experience, not even coming close to your trip, was hubby & myself hosting an older Russian physicist when hubby was in grad school in the '70's. Prof. Krasilnikov(sp?) was in the US to attend a conference & hubby, because he spoke Russian, was asked to entertain him for 3 days. And so we did. He was a nice gentleman who corrected hubby's Russian when he misspoke. The professor's English was better than hubby's Russian apparently.
Strange that after our guest left, I got a visit from 2 "suits" (FBI or CIA?) one day; they'd come up with some laughable story just to be able to case our apartment & harass me, I think. Hubby was at work in the university lab or at Oak Ridge at the time. Our neighbor worked for the local newspaper and wrote a story about it. As this was in the cold-war era of the 70s, it was a local "big deal."
Below was all I could find, but not even coming close to the poster you mentioned.
I don't judge harshly because I know alcoholics are usually miserable people.

Rhiannon12866
(245,594 posts)Not to mention that the other non-senior citizen and I are the only ones left from that historic trip.
Thanks for the poster! I still hope to find the one I saw someday. It was in a shoemaker's shop, of all places, where one of the ladies stopped to get her purse strap fixed. But that's yet another story - I have so many of them from that amazing trip.