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Posted: January 07 2017 at 07:53
Catcher10 wrote:
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Most people work for one company all their lives and never come close to becoming President/CEO of that company...not even close!
Presidents/CEOs are that because they have worked to that position in the business world, that's why companies hire away CEOs from other companies all the time.
You (will) never see any companies hiring a former US President to run their business(es), because they are not qualified to do that, other than being a professional politician, which I don't know what that is either.
These are the type of non-factoids we have become used to under the new era of Breitbartism. Most of what you are saying here has no basis on fact and require logical leaps.
1, A quick search will find plenty of data refuting the one employer statement. Maybe in 1955, but not for some time now has the single employer career been the norm. 2. Most people do not have a huge amount have daddy capital to start their own companies. Nor the confidence that daddy will bail them when they fail. To my knowledge, Tweety has only CEO'd his own companies, so the "hired away from other companies" upshot doesn't work. 3. Most ex-presidents don't apply for CEO jobs. As a matter of fact, tend to be retirement age or older, and sometimes even dead before leaving office. "Not qualified" is a baseless assertion.
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Posted: January 07 2017 at 17:37
micky wrote:
oh yeah... for not getting upset about yesterday. You would have been right to have been haha. I was the main culprit so an apology is in order for f**king with your thread and going all political on it.
Everybody is surely free to write here everything in every thread. But my point was that there could be visitors who would really want to discuss the topic without discussing the Trump's st(u/a)ff.
If you thought you had to write here about politics, welcome. Why should I judge you? Really.
Thanks for your attention to my posts and threads.
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Posted: January 08 2017 at 09:34
siLLy puPPy wrote:
I studied Russian language in college and loved visiting there. Great topic. Here's some Soviet era music as an intermission :P
The song is really one of the best sung by this Russian pop star. But I must add that this is the post-Soviet song, it is from 1998 if I'm right. Still, thank you, it is a great song indeed.
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Posted: January 08 2017 at 16:24
Woon Deadn wrote:
siLLy puPPy wrote:
I studied Russian language in college and loved visiting there. Great topic. Here's some Soviet era music as an intermission :P
The song is really one of the best sung by this Russian pop star. But I must add that this is the post-Soviet song, it is from 1998 if I'm right. Still, thank you, it is a great song indeed.
Ah, you're so right. This song is 1998 but Alla Pugachova was the biggest pop star of the Soviet Union and was their equivalent to the Beatles. Most of her biggest hits came before the collapse. Silly me, i should've posted something that came before like this, her biggest 70s hit:
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Posted: January 08 2017 at 17:02
siLLy puPPy wrote:
Woon Deadn wrote:
siLLy puPPy wrote:
I studied Russian language in college and loved visiting there. Great topic. Here's some Soviet era music as an intermission :P
The song is really one of the best sung by this Russian pop star. But I must add that this is the post-Soviet song, it is from 1998 if I'm right. Still, thank you, it is a great song indeed.
Ah, you're so right. This song is 1998 but Alla Pugachova was the biggest pop star of the Soviet Union and was their equivalent to the Beatles. Most of her biggest hits came before the collapse. Silly me, i should've posted something that came before.
Alla was great. I would say she was Soviet singer Madonna, though.
I love these two of her songs especially:
When you're leaving, do leave!
This world is not invented by us [think of the Queen's song released later, if I'm right!]
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Posted: January 08 2017 at 18:00
^ I've heard the second one. I actually have a 15 CD boxed set of her stuff and i am simply amazed that i love almost everything on it. Yeah, a few duds but more gems than not. Yeah, maybe she was like Madonna in personna but her music was much more sophisticated pop than anything Madonna has put out and therefore i would gladly place her music more in comparison with The Beatles myself.
Sorry to distract from the theme of the thread. Perhaps another thread could be started simply about Soviet era music. I have a little bit of it including Vladimir Vysotsky, Nol, Zhanna Bichevskaya, Mashina Vremeni and Akvarium. Great stuff!
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Posted: January 09 2017 at 12:38
dr wu23 wrote:
Hmm, Soviet cartoons...I didn't know that Russians had a sense of humor.
Speaking of humour, here is the splendid, outstanding version of Treasure Island, a mixture of animation and movie. You could watch it in the USA, but the American variant omitted all movie-parts songs and changed the music.
Watch the original, everything is translated in the subtitles, including the lyrics:
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