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    Bears saved from forced vodka drinking

    KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for entertainment purposes and often forced to drink alcohol, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
    Captured and tamed bears were often used for entertainment in the Russian Empire, which included Ukraine, turning the animal into a national symbol.

    The practice appears to have also survived Ukraine's emergence from Soviet rule, but Zlochevsky said it was inhumane and unacceptable today.

    "On television, they keep showing bears suffering in restaurants and roadside hotels," Interfax quoted him as saying. "How long can we tolerate animal torture in restaurants where drunken guests make bears drink vodka for laughs?"

    Zlochevsky said his ministry was building a large enclosure in a wildlife sanctuary where it would place about 80 bears it planned to liberate.
    (Writing by Olzhas Auyezov, editing by Paul Casciato)
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    I'll take the job. They can pour vodka down me. I think I'm hilarious when I'm plastered!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 7thsfsniper View Post
    I'll take the job. They can pour vodka down me. I think I'm hilarious when I'm plastered!
    All you need is to put another 400lbs and grow hair on all your body parts to qualify for the job
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doktor View Post
    All you need is to put another 400lbs and grow hair on all your body parts to qualify for the job
    How do you know that 7thsfsniper isn't 400lbs and all covered with hair already?

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    And who's been drinking all my voddies said baby bear , and look he;s drank it allllllll up .






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    Quote Originally Posted by rickshaw92 View Post
    How do you know that 7thsfsniper isn't 400lbs and all covered with hair already?
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    6'2", 345lbs and my hairline is way back there. Hell, I'd be funnier (looking at least) than the bear!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7thsfsniper View Post
    6'2", 345lbs and my hairline is way back there. Hell, I'd be funnier (looking at least) than the bear!
    Bigfoot maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7thsfsniper View Post
    I'll take the job. They can pour vodka down me. I think I'm hilarious when I'm plastered!
    Prime example of how my mind works.

    My first reaction was to post,

    "Yeah but you just think that you're hilarious because you're plastered."

    But my next reaction was to post,

    "That's our snipe. He'll take anything down his throat....."

    But both are inappropriate to say to a guy over 300 pounds and 6 feet tall so I won't say anything....

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    Quote Originally Posted by YellowFever View Post
    Prime example of how my mind works.

    My first reaction was to post,

    "Yeah but you just think that you're hilarious because you're plastered."

    But my next reaction was to post,

    "That's our snipe. He'll take anything down his throat....."

    But both are inappropriate to say to a guy over 300 pounds and 6 feet tall so I won't say anything....
    You do know what a danger you are to yourself, eh?

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    No, I don't think he does...
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigross86 View Post
    No, I don't think he does...
    Yello also totally missed my Bigfoot statement....he's loosing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigross86 View Post
    No, I don't think he does...
    And he says these things, one would think, stone cold sober.

    I wonder what yellowbelly is like on vodka

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    Sema as orl ov uzz






    TANKIE.

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