Aphorisms from Conor McGregor. The most warlike peoples of Russia Which people are the most warlike

The Ural court is the most corrupt court in the world Remember, at Uralkhimmash, on the night after its seizure, both Fedulev and the side of the removed director - all waved a set of contradictory court decisions at each other? And so it was. They showed each other not fakes.

I'm not afraid of anyone! I'm ready to fight at any weight. Anyone can come out and fight me in this cage and see if they can handle it, but no one has done it yet, that's what I'm saying.

Over the past few years, Irish featherweight fighter Conor McGregor (16-2 MMA, 4-0 UFC) made a splash in his division not only thanks to his fighting qualities, but also his ability to express his thoughts a la Chael Sonnen. Having appeared in the UFC last year, McGregor managed to become the No. 1 contender in his weight class in less than 12 months. In his last fight, the Irishman managed to effortlessly stop division threat Dustin Poirier. The Irish fighter, who became a star overnight, established himself as an excellent “speaker” from his first appearance in the UFC organization. The editors of the site invite you to familiarize yourself with the most chic phrases of the Irish superstar.

We present to your attention the 10 most striking phrases of Conor McGregor:

#10: After defeating Dustin Poirier at UFC 178, the fighter's trainer John Kavanagh awarded him a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, despite the fact that the fight never went to the ground. No wonder the Irishman thinks he's very good!

“I didn’t even fight to get my brown belt! I must be the best brown belt on Earth!”

#9: McGregor may be walking around in bespoke suits now, but when he debuted in the UFC, he only had a splurge in his pocket.

#8: Injuries are part of the sport, so McGregor was willing to do anything to win his fight against Max Holloway.

“I couldn’t get out of my head for a few seconds, but remembering the past, I just should have pulled my knee out of my leg and hit him with it.” .

#7: McGregor's trash talk is truly enormous and before the fight with Dustin Poirier he had to use his entire vocabulary arsenal.

“He’s a quiet little hillbilly from some unknown hole. I guess his cousin's name is Cletus."

#6: Looks like someone watched the movie "Strangers Among Us" before the press conference.

“There are two things I love to do: kick ass and look good. I'm doing one of them right now, and on Saturday night I'm doing the other one."

#5: You can't make 500 million friends without making an enemy in Cole Miller.

“Eighteen or seventeen fights in the UFC, I don’t even know. This son of a bitch couldn't even get off Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg called him and tried to get him out of there. Nobody cares about him."

#4: You can bet with anyone that in the future this statement by the Irish fighter will be included in the golden fund of motivational quotes.

“I am bold in my forecasts. I'm always confident in my preparation, but I'm always humble after winning or losing."

#3: Everyone knows that the Irish are a very warlike people. This time McGregor made it clear that one Irishman in the field is not a warrior!

“If one of us goes to war, we all go to war!”

#2: Conor loves making money almost as much as making it. Who else would buy $5,000 suits and Rolex watches?

“These bespoke suits are not cheap. This gold watch... three people died making it. I need to get people out of my way. I need big fights. Very soon I will find myself in debt."

#1: As mentioned earlier, the Irish have war in their blood, war and only war.

Part 2

(about the life, morals and mentality of the inhabitants of its three countries: central (Germany), western (Ireland) and southern (Portugal)

It was easier for me to adapt to living in Portugal, since the Portuguese, like all southerners, in some aspects are very similar to us Russians, and indeed, to the Slavs:

They like to put things off until tomorrow (“feed them breakfast”). Therefore, most often in response to the question “When will you do this or when will it be ready?” You will hear: tomorrow - in Russian, amanya - in Portuguese, mañana - in Spanish or domani - in Italian;

Accuracy and punctuality are purely German qualities, so the Portuguese and Irish live slowly, even time flows slower for them, so being an hour or two late is the norm, as in Russian major cities, however, for a different reason, due to traffic jams.

Like the Russians, they park their car wherever they can and don’t really bother about following the rules traffic, although, by German standards, they drive more carefully than the Spaniards, Italians or Russians.

The Portuguese are not only the smallest in stature in Southern Europe, but also the quietest of the southerners. Although everything can be learned by comparison: for Portugal, summer village holidays ending at 3 am with deafeningly loud music are commonplace, like night discos on the Mediterranean coast, but for Germany this is not only nonsense, but also an administratively punishable matter. Such events in Germany are strictly regulated (only on Saturdays and holidays and until midnight), for violation - administrative punishment (heavy fine and if repeated, the license may be taken away or the lease may be denied).

The Portuguese are also very friendly and smiling people, just like the Irish. Both of them, unlike the Germans and northerners - immigrants from Scandinavian countries, are real talkers and are obsessed with football: this game is at the level of religion there, and in Ireland there is even their own kind of football - Celtic, where you are allowed to play with your hands.

The Irish are very similar to the Russians: they also love to have a drink and have fun until you drop, preferably with live music! These two deep-drinking nations alone have produced the most famous deep writers in the world, including Irish-Americans. In Irish, as well as in Russian, villages, moonshine is still distilled, only from potatoes, which is sold to tourists in specialized “points” that have a special license for this.

The Irish are a nation of people who don’t give a damn; they generally turn not caring into a way of life: a day has passed and all is well. This is probably a consequence of the fact that they lived for a very long time under English domination, in deep poverty and lack of rights. As a consequence, the westernmost island, especially on the Atlantic side (the next community is on the American continent), was long time the poorest “dead end” of the European Union, like Portugal, where the southernmost capital of Europe is located - Lisbon).

The Irish are absolutely not a warlike people; they have no sense of national superiority at all, since from ancient times they were peace-loving shepherds and fishermen, and not warriors and robbers, unlike the Vikings, who managed to get here, or their Norman neighbors, who brought not only Christianity and more progressive methods of building the same fortresses, but also endless wars, famine and slavery.

The Irish had to live for a long time under the yoke of the English colonialists (Ireland became an independent Republic only in the thirties of the 20th century). And after the famine in the mid-19th century, most of the survivors went on sailing ships into voluntary forced emigration to the United States: otherwise they would have died like flies from hunger.

On the other hand, the Irish, like any other very small nation, have a keen sense of self-preservation and pride in being Irish. Therefore, they support and preserve the language of the indigenous people - Celtic, which is state language and is compulsorily studied at school, including by foreign children, if they entered primary school before they turn 11 years old. And in the USA on St. Patrick's Day, if I'm not mistaken, in Chicago on this day green water flows in the river - the national color of the Irish Republic.

Unlike Germany and Portugal, in Ireland the postal vehicle is green, as are private cars and cottage facades, and sometimes even ultramarine. In Ireland you can also see houses in ultra pink (pink) and ultra yellow, and there are also purple ones. There is no such diversity in the coloring of house facades either in the Scandinavian countries, or in Greenland, or even more so in the southern countries!

This is absolutely unacceptable for the Portuguese: we had to spend a long time convincing the owner of the fasenda in the north of this country, which we rented, so that he would allow us to make a green edging of the roof (not tiles!) against the background of the soft yellow color of the facade of the house. A green house for the Portuguese - “replace this torture with execution.”

In Ireland, my son did not need a private teacher at home after school, as he did in Portugal, since he has already been in the Portuguese village school since the 3rd grade. primary school I started learning my first foreign language (English). In Ireland, from the 5th grade they begin to learn the first foreign language (Spanish), and then from the 7th grade French or German. My son chose French because Spanish is too easy for him after Portuguese, and he learns German in the family. Upon graduation from high school, all three countries require knowledge of two foreign languages, and before, when my husband was studying, they also taught ancient Greek and Latin. By the way, Latin is being reintroduced for teaching in German schools.

In Portugal and Germany, they study for 4 years in primary school, in Ireland - 6 years, although in all these countries the curriculum there is designed for the average middle-aged peasant, in Ireland, in general, everything is done slowly, as they say in one of the African dialects (fields). field) - slowly, slowly. But in Ireland, you can graduate from college (gymnasium) in just 5 (a total of 11) years, and in Germany there is still a 13-year course, which they are trying to gradually replace with a 12-year course, since German students are later Everyone in Europe starts studying at universities and, because of this, enters adulthood much later than their peers from neighboring countries.

Attitudes towards local residents towards immigrants:

Immigrants are the most annoying for Germans, since Germany is a country of social democracy. And it’s no secret that many people strive here, a decent portion of whom do not intend to work, but strive to “sit down and not leave” social life. But in Portugal or Ireland you cannot receive social benefits at all, which, by the way, are limited in time, without working there for at least 2 years.

Germans begin to treat foreigners with more or less respect only when the foreigner speaks German. The Portuguese and Irish don't care whether you speak their language or not, they have no innate sense of racism (Portugal even had its own colonies in Africa and South America) and nationalism.

In Portugal and Ireland, my foreign son was welcomed with open arms at primary school by both students and teachers. What a fundamental difference this is from Germany and from Russia, where they are wary of strangers, even from another region of their own country. Ignorance Portuguese language In the first months of his studies, it didn’t hurt that he almost immediately made friends in the class, and the boy a year younger from the neighboring villa actually became almost a brother.

In Ireland there are not many Russian-speaking guest workers, much less illegal immigrants; Russians here are mainly invited hired specialists, the majority of whom are intellectuals - IT specialists. Some of them, in my opinion, are too cocky, thinking they are elite even though they don't know how to play golf. And without this, in the West you cannot belong to the “top”, but they may well be the Russian-speaking emigrant elite, because they have different concepts for the “cream of society” than the same VIP pensioners from the USA or Germany.

The bulk of guest workers in Ireland are Poles and other Balts, among whom there are also Russian speakers, for example, the owner of a Lithuanian store in the town closest to us. Yes, by the way, I don’t feel any discomfort at all without a Russian store, a Lithuanian one is enough for me, as well as branches of the German supermarkets “Lidl” and “Aldi” and a German butcher (he comes from Kassel, but knows how to make such a Bavarian specialty as Weisswurst, used with sweet mustard), since Irish sausages, to my husband’s and my tastes, can be eaten, but not necessary.

In general, living abroad in the era of globalization is a pleasure, since Germans do not have to deny themselves German TV, beer and sausages, and Russians do not have to deny themselves Russian TV, bagels, black bread and buckwheat with herring in Russian or Baltic stores.

The Portuguese are somewhat annoyed by illegal immigrants, most of whom come from Ukraine, but their attitude towards them is selective, it all depends on the behavior of the already legalized guest workers themselves. Although illegal immigrants are not loved everywhere, since there is plenty of crime among them. And they don’t pay taxes, and they “steal” jobs. Hence the negativity (they came in large numbers!) on the part of the indigenous residents.

Having remade the classic, I will say: “You may not be a migrant, but you must be a citizen!” Live by the law of a given country, and not by concepts, respect customs, mentality, study the language of a given state and then you will earn respectful treatment from the local population.
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