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ballpoint

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  1. Three guys are fishing when an angel appears. The first guy says, “I’ve suffered from back pain for years. Can you help me?” The angel touches the man’s back, and he feels instant relief. The second guy points to his thick glasses and begs for a cure for his poor eyesight. When the angel tosses the lenses into the lake, the man gains 20/20 vision. As the angel turns to the third fellow, he instantly recoils and screams, “Don’t touch me! I’m on disability!”
  2. You don't just take your aircraft to a local mechanic and get some no-brand parts fitted to it. Everything that is done to it must be signed off by a manufacturers representative. Russia may very well keep its Western made planes flying, but when this is all over they will be refused entry to all Western countries, and when it comes time to return the planes to the leasors they will be missing vital paperwork, making them next to worthless without a complete strip down and refit by the manufacturers. This will make it highly unlikely that anyone will lease aircraft to them again for a long time. Sure, they could start their own commercial aviation industry, but that would take years to set up, and misses the point of why Russia decided to use Airbus and Boeing planes in the first place, despite the USSR being a large plane maker in its own right. (Hint, they wanted there to be a good chance that flights would take off when they said they would, stay in the air after taking off, and coming down in the place they said it would come down in). - And that's ignoring the lack of software and flight manual upgrades that are routinely delivered to airlines.
  3. Retired Russian general Evgeny Buzhinsky has replied to these comments on Russian TV: "“He (Sanders) doesn’t understand that as a result of the Third World War Britain will physically cease to exist,” Mr Buzhinsky said." Who himself doesn't understand that the chances of there being any Russian cities left should that happen being somewhere between none and zero. Putin also got in on the act, as reported in the same story: "Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a chilling threat to the West, vowing to deploy the Sarmat hypersonic missile dubbed ‘Satan 2’ by the end of the year as nuclear tensions reach boiling point." Vladimir Putin announces Russia will deploy Sarmat missile against West | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
  4. That's what's left of the Russian Black Sea fleet.
  5. This girl I gave my number to finally called me and told me " come on over nobody's home" So I went right on over. Nobody was home.
  6. Last night I ate at a Stars Wars themed restaurant and ordered the Wookie steak. It was a little Chewy.
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