Can you Drive in Russia?

[SophieSweets]

So Russia have Banned Trans people from Driving..

Apparently it's now designated as a mental disorder, along with Fetishism, Voyeurism and Gambling Addiction... (so that's gotta include some non-Trans people on here) and you can't qualify for a drivers license because: accidents...
Apparently.

Well... Other than being run by a leader who looks like Gollum on Steroids I now have a greater reason to not want to go there...
Shame really, the russian people I know are lovely...

 

[garth33]

Should have stuck to a STICK shift I guess?


sorry....couldn't resist:big hug:

Is the YUGO still around there?

peace!
g

 

[SophieSweets]

I'm just thinking of all the glorious pun opportunities you can get from Put-in...
:-D

 

[Shelter]

I'm just thinking of all the glorious pun opportunities you can get from Put-in...
:-D

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: MAGNIFICENT!!!

 

[dargelos]

I thought the only rule of the road in Russia is that when a policeman stops you, give him a pack of cigarettes and he lets you go on your way. Except for a very serious offense when a handful of US dollars are needed.

 

[james1981]

Gah. This is just so dumb. I am saddened and outraged for so many different reasons. Why is this even a thing?! My only hope is that this, and so many other similar acts, will reveal Putin's true character. It's also scary though, that people do not realize what is happening in Russia. Many people portray this as an East vs West conflict, when it's really a manufactured conflict that Russia has created and promulgated via their control of media. Sure, CNN, the Americans, and Western media are biased towards their interests, and none of these nations is without ill repute, but look at what is going on. It is frightening.

What can I do? I will try to do my part and speak more about these terrible things. I feel so sorry for those GBLT* folk in Russia. Can you imagine? The right to drive a car?! Part of me says that this is such a stupid, yet fundamental, violation that a great miscalculation has occurred. I mean, who denies someone the right to drive based on what gender they assign to themselves?! Wtf, driving is contingent on that?!

I really am scared about what is happening in Russia. It is really a remarkable country, with such a rich history in literature, war, politics, poetry, geography, Great Persons, history, and so on. Yet, the current trajectory is quite worrisome.

On a lighter note, here's Putin on a Ritz:

 

[brmstn69]

On a lighter note, here's Putin on a Ritz:

I'm sure there's a song parody here somewhere, but I'm too tired to think of it. But here's the original lyrics if someone wants to give it a try...


If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat,
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat,
perfect fits.
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper,
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz

If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat,
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat,
perfect fits.
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper,
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz

Have you seen the well-to-do,
up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
with their noses in the air
High hats and Arrowed collars,
white spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
for a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat,
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat,
perfect fits.
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper,
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas
In their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper,
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz

 

[SophieSweets]

Putin on the Ritz... Genius... The pair of you!
Did a big laugh at that...
Only parody and satire can prick such pomposity!

 

[Shelter]

Transgenders are forbidden to get a drivers license or to drive a car. That happens not in the last century but today!!! It remembers me on Nazi-Germany where Jews are forbidden to drive cars or to own a radio and theyx have to wear a yellow star as sign to b e Jews.
Well Mr. Putin may scroll in this catalogue of inhumanity of his deceased colleague A.H.

 

[dargelos]

Saudi Arabia, with its prehistoric ignorance about sexual identity, is surely even worse than Russia. Its hell for trans, hell for gays, and no woman at all is allowed to drive. But they buy our aircraft so we have to be nice to them.

 

[Otage]

I thought the only rule of the road in Russia is that when a policeman stops you, give him a pack of cigarettes and he lets you go on your way. Except for a very serious offense when a handful of US dollars are needed.

Few bottle of Vodka will do the same thing. I don't know why people complain about the corruption, cheapest tickect ever:rofl:

 

[Gruet98]

Anything to distract the Russians from the real problem.

 

[ardan]

I'm Russian, tell me about my problems.

 

[Shelter]

I'm Russian, tell me about my problems.

And you are really gay????? :thinking:

 

[Otage]

And you are really gay????? :thinking:

Well Russia is huge country with lots ot people. I'm quite sure that all that anti-gay legislation isn't really even enforced everywhere. And I have to admit, there are many laws I brake constantly without really any risk of getting caught, I trust my conscience But to not care, let things go furher and further, soon one might find out that it's too late. Russias actions against gays can't be taken lightly:no:

 

[ardan]

And you are really gay????? :thinking:

Yes. I'm gay. So what?

 

[Shelter]

Yes. I'm gay. So what?

So what???? Did I hurt your national pride??? Your "so what" sounds like a clenched hand? Why you are so belligerent? Didn't you heard anything from the anti-gay laws in your country - or are the reports about it only "western propaganda"? So what?