Ah. So that’s who does that.
The next question is: why?
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Prepping for the storm, checking out my groceries. Cashier says she can’t sell me alcohol because it’s after 11 pm. I ask her what time it is. She says 11:01.
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That’s some hot gear oil and shrapnel, what you got right there.
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But…but… it’s your job to pay attention to me telling you that you’re wrong to not want to pay attention to me!
/snark
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I’ve had a cold since about the 20th. Not as bad now as earlier, but still, a lot of yellow mucous and aches and pains. I’ve been drinking tea again to cope.
I’ve also been overworking myself trying to track down online information on the Black Sea Fleet during the Civil Wars. I know that the Germans seized most of what wasn’t scuttled, but can’t find out what they turned over to the Hetmanate, when. I know that the Entente seized that, carried many ships off, and scuttled others, but can’t find out when they turned things over to the Whites…
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When things like this happen, blame the management. They’re the ones who didn’t say "exercise discretion."
Near us is possibly the biggest National Trust site in the UK. They allow dogs in the garden on leads from December to February. We turned up thinking it was November-Feb, right at the end of the month. No entry. Only after, for some reason, 3p.m. Them’s the rules. Why? “Because the staff do not have the time to deal with the consequences of dogs outside those months.” Perhaps dogs don’t poop between 3 and 5 p.m.
Once upon a time it cost so much to visit the garden and so much for the house - and once you’ve seen the house, it’s frankly boring. Now you can only buy a full ticket - so the cost of annual membership works out a lot cheaper if you’re a local who likes to visit the garden often, but with increasing restrictions the value of that membership drops.
We’ve been members for - oh, over 30 years. It’s changed from a friendly organisation to a money grubbing one, spending money on getting more visitors and then finding costs get out of control “servicing” them. And my wife says, OK, they don’t need us any more.
Organisations seem to be turning into capitalist empires for processing footfall and losing everything that made them attractive in the first place.
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Maybe obscure to most Americans. But not an alternative reality. And it shouldn’t be obscure to most Americans, because it reinforced Soviet fears of western invasion, and because American troops were involved on the other fronts.
Anyway, after the Russian Revolution, there was a Civil War in Ukraine, a German intervention on behalf of the Ukrainian Central Rada, a German coup creating the Hetmanate, a revolt against the Hetmanate, another Civil War, a White invasion, and a Polish intervention. As well as the Makhnovist insurgency. And numerous pogroms-- mostly by the Ukrainian nationalists and the Whites. Now for one of my game projects, I want to track down the strength of the rival fleets, which occasionally supported the land forces, but I’m having trouble finding adequate data for 1918 and 1919. I’ve tried working back from 1920, but I’d like to resolve some loose ends for 1918 and 1919.
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If it were me, I’d scan the alcohol first and put it on a separate tab, just to make sure it gets bought before 11. Then, I’d check the rest of the groceries.
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Yes, but you’re a thoughtful person.
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Things that grind my gears; people on crowded public transit with bad breath that’s so strong, you can smell it even standing behind them.
O_O
(I hate a packed subway car; ‘sardine city.’)
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The Blue Line will end at the Beaverton Transit Center. To continue, change to the Red Line.
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If your site hits me with animation, I am not going to sign up for your mailing list, or download your ebook, or whatever your site hits me with animation to ask me to do and alienate me from doing.
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That’s an engineering solution.
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Ah. It was the terminology that was unfamiliar. You were referring to the Українська держава, not the 17th-18th century Hetmanate. I just don’t recall ever seeing the term for the 1918 war. Perhaps I’ve just passed over it without noticing.
I will take a look at Campbell later today and let you know if it may be useful. You might also want, if you haven’t already done so, to try looking up on Yandex rather than Google.
Edit - I can see why you’re having problems. The 1919 wars were a mess, and the conventional “battles” and so on barely apply unless you’re looking at the Czechs. I suspect nobody was keeping very precise records.
Is this any help? The yandex.ru search term I used was черноморский флот 1919 год
http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/kukel_va/02.html
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As if time were an absolute! If your watch says 10:58 and theirs says 11:01, what is the correct way to determine which is ‘right’? Because in that case you’re each both right and wrong.
I think in a case like that, you should flip for it. As in, each of you has to do an actual backflip. If you can land without hurting yourself and the other person can’t, then you win. If they refuse to participate, then you win by default. If you both faceplant, then that’ll make a viral youtube video and ya’ll can split the ad revenue. It’s a win-win.
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The cashier decides, because if you give the customer a minute they’ll take a fucking hour (source: experience).
Okay, you won’t, but they don’t know you’re not an asshole.
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Thanks!
militera.lib.ru is a useful resource. I think Jonathon Smele recommends it in his book.
Kutsul narrates and defends the decision to escape to Novorossiysk, rather than turn their ships over to the Germans, and to scuttle their ships, rather than turn their ships over to the Germans.
A couple of their other books cover more of the history, but there’s still a lot of gaps.
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Not that he’s biased in any way…
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