Mongolia. My new favourite country.

[Rantanplan]

Why?

Cos it has.....

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-Gobi-2f-N-K.jpg

hot chicks

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-Kar-1Dem.jpg

masked funnyman

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-M-Gobi.jpg

Camels

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-baby-q.jpg

Djingis Khan jr

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/mongolei.jpg

Funny little Horses

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-Gobi-2r.jpg

Funny little people riding the Horses

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-Gobi-Gaz-grl.jpg

Bambi

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-m-yak-mts.jpg

Yaks

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/edelweiss.jpg

Edelweiss fields!!! (Achtung!!!)

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-Nad-1m.jpg

pimps (kewlesT bliNg bliNg eva1)

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-M-NadamR.jpg

Tom of Finland fanclubs

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-AcroGirl.jpg

Freaks

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/WW-M-Na-BogFr.jpg

Armed Women

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-M-terelj-1.jpg

Flowers and Rocks

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-M-Cash-goats.jpg

Goats

http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/ww-M-yaks.jpg

Did I mentioned Yaks?

So, isn't this the most beautiful country ever?

[Eat a bullet]

Ooooo flowers and rocks, I want more flowers and rocks!
http://www.pahof.de/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_7801/w-M-terelj-1.jpg

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Mongolians are liars. I met a Mongolian boy called Paddy a few years back. He sold me car which turned out to be a couple of cows stuffed full of popcorn.

[Rantanplan]

No Mongolians are the best people on earth. And Paddy sounds Irish! Those Irish are snakes!!!

[Count Lippe]

WTF, Rantanplan, has Macs hacked your account?rofl
Mongolian wrestlers and archers pwn!p-)

[Eat a bullet]

Stop the chit-chat and make with the flowers and rocks, f*cker!

[Rantanplan]

No more flowers and rocks for you pee pee man.

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

. And Paddy sounds Irish! Those Irish are snakes!!!

****! I'm always confusing the two.

Just last night I ordered a Mongolian coffee by mistake. I don't want to go into details over what happened. But lets just say the doctor said he hadn't seen a prolapse like that since Elton Johns honeymoon.

[Rantanplan]

****! I'm always confusing the two.

Just last night I ordered a Mongolian coffee by mistake. I don't want to go into details over what happened. But lets just say the doctor said he hadn't seen a prolapse like that since Elton Johns honeymoon.

Lucky Bastard!

[Chuckie]

More importantly, How is the **** in Mongolia? I can just imagine some of the titles:

Debbie does UlaanBaatar
Ghenghis Bukkakee
Two Men and a Yak.

[Rantanplan]

More importantly, How is the **** in Mongolia? I

Note the goat pic.

[Rantanplan]

Oh I forgot, without Mongolia we wouldn't have the best band in the world.

http://moskaudance.ytmnd.com/

[askDNA]

Don't forget

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gwkwok/bushmongolia1.jpg

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gwkwok/bushmongolia2.jpg

[Rantanplan]

Wow, Bush could get some great tips, how to burn down ... erhm ... I mean pacify Baghdad, from the Mongols.

[LaoSexMachine]

Had two friens that were their 3 years ago and they loved it. They said the people are very friendly and the landscape is surreal. One of them wants to buy land and live there

[askDNA]

THey keep knocking down City Wok's wall in south parkp-)

[Knutsen]

Rantanplan, can you sell me some weed of that you smoke?

Best thread ever!

[Macs.]

Random Fact:

Mongolia was build as a set for the famous movie "Lord of the Rings".

After the movie was done, the set was given to homless Pakistani Windmill-owners.

[americanbychoice]

My father once out-drank a whole cadre of Mongolians on a business trip to inner Mongolia (the Mongolian autonomous region in the PRC).

I was very impressed.

[Rantanplan]

thats unpossible

[Digital Marine]

Best thread ever.

[Rantanplan]

Mongolia, **** yeah!

[MainPump]

dont underestimate mongolia
they could kick all your germanic asses

[Rantanplan]

jIBBA! jIBBA! jIBBA! I'm troll whore! please pay me attention!

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[seventy6er]

Fo sho, pin-man

Btw: Rant, you did it again. Great thread! rofl rofl rofl rofl

[MainPump]

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idiot
thats not what i said

[EvanL]

idiot
thats what i said
i know it is

[Macs.]

jIBBA! jIBBA! jIBBA! I'm troll whore! please pay me attention!


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[Chuckie]

Do they have cucumbers in Mongolia?

[Macs.]

Thats a redicoulouski question, Sire.

[Rantanplan]

The biggest and hardest cucumbers in whole Eurasia

[Ratamacue]

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1815/mongolarme7wg.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Rantanplan]

wait.....


@MainPlump

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/5311/mongolarmen00b7ha.jpg

[SAPPEROIF]

The Mongolians are awesome. I rolled with some of them in Southern Iraq....very tough, if you get to close to a post and you look like a possible threat...they let you know, lol.

[zealot]

" it kinda reminds me of texas "

[Ghostwolf]

Well done Rant, best thread ever!! rofl rofl rofl rofl
What's next, Tajikistan?? rofl rofl

[Raptus_regaliter]

Mongolians invented beef jerky... tis true.

[Rantanplan]

Tajikistan is allready a part of greater Mongolia. So, noes.

[Schizo]

Tajikistan is allready a part of greater Mongolia. So, noes.
**** you!
I disagree.

[Hullebullen]

What kind of country does Mongolia play? Bluegrass? Folk?

[Rantanplan]

What kind of country does Mongolia play? Bluegrass? Folk?

They've got both kinds of musik.... Country AND Western.

[Hullebullen]

They've got both kinds of musik.... Country AND Western.

Wouldn't it be country and eastern?:|

[Rantanplan]

Tzz tzz tzz, Easterns are Kung Fu movies

[seventy6er]

I liked Kung-Fu-Hustle

[Rantanplan]

I liked Kung-Fu-Hustle

Thats why you karateed you kids face?

[seventy6er]

Thats why you karateed you kids face?

I told you once, and I'm gonna tell you again, Nazi: I dwarf-threw him in the garden!! :bash:

http://www.minbu.connectfree.co.uk/dwarf.jpg

[ed316]

By George Lewis
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 2:38 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2005


ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — When I told friends that I’d be going to Mongolia to do some stories about the country in advance of President Bush’s visit here Monday, the reaction was almost unanimous:
“Wow! What an adventure!”
No doubt they imagined me in some sort of exotic outpost — the country of Genghis Khan, of lonely nomadic people herding their animals across the vast hillsides, of camel caravans crossing the Gobi Desert.
Mongolia is all those things, but they are only part of the picture in this intensely interesting land. As I traveled, I continually encountered surprises and paradoxes that go a long way to shatter stereotypes about a remarkable country.
Surprise number one:
The Mongolians love Americans.
As we journeyed into remote areas to photograph the way people live — in traditional felt tents called "gers" — nomadic families insisted on inviting us inside and sitting us down for tea and bread. In a land where the average income is only about $500 a year per person, the fact that people would share their food with us was touching.
Surprise number two:
This former communist country now has a freely-elected government and a multi-party system and is an unlikely ally of the United States in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
Although the Mongolian armed forces are only 11,000 strong, the government has sent several hundred troops to support the United States.
“We are trying to contribute to the global effort to combat terrorism,” said Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Mongolia’s Harvard-educated prime minister. That and self-interest — some commentators believe Mongolia is trying to curry favor with Washington because this landlocked country, sandwiched between China and Russia, needs a powerful “third neighbor.”
The gesture is being reciprocated — the U.S. is helping Mongolia’s military to the tune of $18 million this year, according to the Pentagon, and many of Mongolia’s officers have trained at U.S. bases. Meanwhile, American troops have been assigned to Mongolia to act as advisers.

Which leads to surprise number three:
When we arrived at the Mongolian Army's Five Hills Training Center about 40 miles outside the capital, we encountered U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Silva Perez.
Perez, originally from Ponce, Puerto Rico (a much warmer place than this), is one of a half-dozen Marines sent to Mongolia to help train local armed forces in marksmanship and other military skills.
As the wind chill factor hovered around the zero mark, Perez talked about the toughness of the Mongolian troops.
“They get up every morning and do P.T. [physical training] in the cold,” he said, noting that when he arrived from Okinawa and didn’t have proper winter equipment the Mongolians generously shared their gear.
“They make sure I’m well fed, that I’m not too cold,” Perez said. “They’re taking good care of me.”
While Mongolia and the United States are forging a close military relationship, not everyone here is happy with involvement in the U.S.-led coalition in the war on terror.
“Our party and myself didn’t think that the war in Iraq was a good idea,” said Oyun Sanjaarsuren, one of five women in the 76-member Mongolian parliament and a leader of one of the opposition parties. “The decision to send troops was not openly discussed with the public.”
Oyun (most Mongolians call her just by her given name) is one of the more fascinating figures in Mongolian politics. A geologist with a PhD from Britain's elite Cambridge University, she is the mother of a young son and has a black belt in karate and is mentioned as a future prospect for the prime minister.

[Count Lippe]

Mongolians are friendly to everyone, it's part of their culture to welcome guests and give them the best treatment.

[MARINO]

Mongolia is a beatifull country, as all eatern russian and eatern es USSR republics.

[bloddyaxe]

Mongolia is so cool I wish I was there right now.. except that its cooler there right now than in summer... so I would need to wear thicker clothing...

[Ratamacue]

Wouldn't it be country and eastern?:|
Country and western are two different genres of music. Similar, but different.

[Hullebullen]

Country and western are two different genres of music. Similar, but different.

Meh, it was a joke...Mongolia...in the east...get it?p-)

[scrybe]

Mongolia gave us General Tso's Chicken. Without General Tso's Chicken I would have no reason to live. Mongolia gave me life.

[Knutsen]

Surprise number one:
The Mongolians love Americans.
As we journeyed into remote areas to photograph the way people live — in traditional felt tents called "gers" — nomadic families insisted on inviting us inside and sitting us down for tea and bread. In a land where the average income is only about $500 a year per person, the fact that people would share their food with us was touching.

Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

[ed316]

Mongolia gave us General Tso's Chicken. Without General Tso's Chicken I would have no reason to live. Mongolia gave me life.

the General is Mongolian? My life has just been turned upside down. Until now I have walk through life thinking the General is a Chinamen. What next? Muslims eat with their right hand?

[molly747]

Mongolians are some of the best horsemen and -women on the planet. Children are usually put on a horse when they can sit up by themselves.

It is also believed that the "Amazon women" legend originated from Mongolia, where foreigners were amazed to see women riding and fighting alongside men.

[scrybe]

the General is Mongolian? My life has just been turned upside down. Until now I have walk through life thinking the General is a Chinamen. What next? Muslims eat with their right hand?

Upon further research it appears he was indeed Chinese. I'd like to retract my previous comment, we can now commence the bombing of Mongolia.

[FutureMcDonaldsEmployee]

mongolian bbq is pretty good

[askDNA]

Mongolia's drinking epidemic


By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
BBC, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
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Heavy drinking in Mongolia is nothing new. Genghis Khan was reputed to have consumed huge quantities of alcohol after vanquishing his enemies. But today, alcoholism is reaching epidemic proportions, driven by cheap liquor and wrenching social and economic change.
I visited a young man lying on an old iron bedstead in a bare white room inside an Ulan Bator hospital. The man was an alcoholic and this desolate room was his last resort.
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Into his right arm an intravenous drip was pumping a mixture of drugs that will, he hopes, help cure him of a disease that is destroying his life and distorting his mind.
"Alcohol makes you feel courageous," he said. "It makes you think you can do anything, take on anybody, even threaten to kill them. I have done these things. I've beaten people, humiliated them. I've even done it to my own family," he said.
This young man's story is far from unique.
Mongolia is today in the midst of an epidemic of alcoholism. On the streets of Ulan Bator you do not have to go far to see its effects.
Ulan Bator railway station, even at 10am in the morning, was already crawling with drunks, many of them already so intoxicated they could hardly stand.
On my left I could see a group of what looked to be middle-aged drunks, many of them in a very bad state indeed.
Just across the road there was another group of young men, perhaps in their 20s, and they all seemed to be knocking back what looked like bottles of clear alcohol.
Now the point is, these people were not just isolated bums. More than half of Mongolia's adult population is now reported to be drinking too much.
Economic ills
Mongolia's appalling level of alcoholism is, quite literally, a Soviet hangover.
When the Russians left in the early 1990s they left behind two things - cheap industrial strength liquor and a collapsing economy. It has turned out to be a lethal cocktail.
Tumendemberel once had a good job as a teacher in an Ulan Bator college. But in the early 1990s, when the Russians pulled out, the college slashed its staff and Tumendemberel lost his job.
Unemployment quickly spiralled into depression, and drinking. He ended up on the streets, where he spent the next eight years.
"When the socialist system collapsed it caused lots of social problems, especially unemployment," he said.
"Many Mongolians just don't want to face these problems, so they drink to escape them. But far from escaping their problems, alcohol has made them much worse.
"You can see the effects today on society. Crime is getting worse and worse. Muggings are now common on the streets of Ulan Bator. Illness and disease is spreading too. It's all caused by drinking," he said.
Tumendemberel finally escaped from alcohol and from his life on the streets. He found salvation at Mongolia's first group of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Each week one group of around 30 former alcoholics comes to a church hall on the edge of Ulan Bator to confront their addictions.
One by one they stand up to tell their story. The process is painful - all the more so in Mongolia with its macho culture.
It is a leap that most of the young men hanging out at the Ulan Bator railway station will never make. Instead they will remain trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, alcoholism and violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3138806.stm

[americanbychoice]

thats unpossible

It's like a tradition to drink at banquets/big business meetings over there. So they take you by the arm, and you have to drink with the guys at each table. Somehow, my Dad impressed the Mongols with his drinking to the point where they refused to refill their cups before he stopped asking for more of that rocket fuel that they drink.

[Rantanplan]

Mongolians are some of the best horsemen and -women on the planet. Children are usually put on a horse when they can sit up by themselves.

It is also believed that the "Amazon women" legend originated from Mongolia, where foreigners were amazed to see women riding and fighting alongside men.

Not mongols but Scythians, Caucasian nomads from south russia/ central asia that invaded europe and the near east in the 1st half of the 1st millenium B.C. But its most likly that over the centuries they where assimilated by asian nomad hordes, like Huns or mongols... .

[Hullebullen]

Genghis Khan once asked his men what was the greatest joy in life. One replied: Falconeering. Genghis said: "No, the greatest joy for a man is to hunt down and kill his enemy, take all his riches, hear the lament of his family, ride his horse and use his women to your liking."

Pretty hardcore...

[Rantanplan]

I think Conan the Barbarian said this too. ;-)

[Count Lippe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3138806.stm
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Sad story.:-(
Alcohol is destroying many native cultures all over the world. Those people can't handle it and fall to it much easier.

[ed316]

Genghis Khan once asked his men what was the greatest joy in life. One replied: Falconeering. Genghis said: "No, the greatest joy for a man is to hunt down and kill his enemy, take all his riches, hear the lament of his family, ride his horse and use his women to your liking."

Pretty hardcore...

I heard Bush said this too

[Esszett]

Sad story.:-(
Alcohol is destroying many native cultures all over the world. Those people can't handle it and fall to it much easier.

AFAIK have the Mongols always been pretty strong drinkers, even when they used to invade the whole known world back in the days.
It's not as if Mongols didn't develope alcohol-producing techniques themselves.
(Think they have some booze made from Yak-milk (?))

[Rantanplan]

Horse Milk I think

[Raptus_regaliter]

Horse Milk I think
Yes, their national alcoholic drink is airag, which is fermented horse milk... supposed to be rancid-tasting.

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

Genghis Khan once asked his men what was the greatest joy in life. One replied: Falconeering. Genghis said: "No, the greatest joy for a man is to hunt down and kill his enemy, take all his riches, hear the lament of his family, ride his horse and use his women to your liking."

Pretty hardcore...

To which the man replied " :roll: then why ask?"