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Russia's too thin 'designer' uniform leads to pneumonia and flu
Telegraph ^ | 12/16/10 | Andrew Osborn

Posted on 12/16/2010 6:30:58 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

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To: Lazamataz

Oh, baby!


41 posted on 12/16/2010 7:41:52 AM PST by Allegra (I painted fuchsia stripes on my elbows.)
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To: Allegra
By the way, that's me modeling the new uniform.

Seriously.

42 posted on 12/16/2010 7:46:08 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 20 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: lurk
While cold doesn't actually cause colds, flu ect(any idiot knows that especially an old idiot like me)the lower resistance does help bring on disease. Cold weather does make germs more inactive but it doesn't kill them and in fact makes it easier to spread them as they are carried from warm place to warm place without danger to themselves.

The fact that cold does make germs inactive is borne out by the low amount of colds caught in an artic environment.

43 posted on 12/16/2010 7:48:51 AM PST by calex59
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To: TigerLikesRooster
From what I could tell, those are pretty slick dress uniforms and not BDU or other utility type gear. I can't see any troops wearing these in any other situation other than formal, much less as winter or foul weather gear.

The folks blaming the uniforms for elevated pneumonia and such are probably full of BS. Heck, I doubt if conscripts are even issued this uniform on any general basis.

Opinion!

44 posted on 12/16/2010 7:49:41 AM PST by Hootowl99
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45 posted on 12/16/2010 7:49:41 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: calex59

The fact that cold does make germs inactive is borne out by the low amount of colds caught in an artic environment.

Or is it that there just are not so many people in the Artic environments


46 posted on 12/16/2010 7:55:45 AM PST by Chickensoup (I am no longer Republican or Democrat, I am Conservative.)
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To: paulycy

Zardoz!


47 posted on 12/16/2010 8:03:35 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (NASA? Muslims? Muslims will want to go to the moon only when Israel sets up shop there.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ironic they now have the same problems the Germans had in WWII: snazzy uniforms that couldn’t stand up to the Russian winter.


48 posted on 12/16/2010 8:08:53 AM PST by DesScorp
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To: Chickensoup

Correlation does not equal causation, as this entire article may demonstrate.


49 posted on 12/16/2010 8:28:43 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Lazamataz
Those last three pics are far superior to your first pic for two reasons:

1) The model in your first pic is more appropriate for a DADT thread, and

B) The uniform in your first pic was USMC, when the thread was about Russian uniforms.

You admirably and fully compensated for the first image with your last three postings.

My eyes thank you!

50 posted on 12/16/2010 9:48:01 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: fruser1

I’d let her pat me down anytime. “Comrade, is that an ICBM in your pocket?” “No, I’m just happy to see you :)”


51 posted on 12/16/2010 11:10:17 AM PST by catbertz
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52 posted on 12/16/2010 11:13:52 AM PST by klpt
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To: TigerLikesRooster

In Soviet Russia uniform puts you on.


53 posted on 12/16/2010 11:15:22 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: calex59
I have heard it said that in winter we stay indoors, possibly in close quarters with sick people and that is the reason for more sickness in winter. But I know from personal experience that getting chilled will open you up to upper respiratory virus infections. I think the study is bunk.
54 posted on 12/16/2010 1:22:36 PM PST by Ditter
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