There is actually a reason why you in sauna would whip yourself with specifically birch leaves: Birch leaves are rich in saponins, which is a chemical in the leaves with a soapy quality! And by whipping them like that you release them onto your skin, making it clean. It is also exfoliating🤓
@@Andris_Briedis not 20-02-2014 then, when the invasion of Ukraine (Crimea) actually started? The Loss of Crimea and Donbas (April 2014) not the concrete point of no return. Then again you apparently don't think the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which happened in 15-03-1939 was that noteworthy either.
@@davidmurrell5143 The invasion of Ukraine is only one of the "latest" crimes. Before that, there was Georgia, 2008, where it failed because the Americans threatened, as I recall, to bring an aircraft carrier into the Mediterranean. But Putin still managed to cut off a small part. Including Abkhazia, if I'm not mistaken. Before that, there was Chechnya, where it was successful. Chechnya was conquered. And anyone who protested was killed. The Internet was not so common then. And the world "missed it". Even before that, there was the blowing up of high-rise buildings in their own country to justify the invasion of Chechnya. And all this is only during "Democratic Russia". Not to mention what they did during the USSR.
@@craigpardy6204 I think original comment is suggesting Richard and Greg's dynamic is similar to Greg and Alex's on Taskmaster. I think they're saying that had this come out before taskmaster Richard might have ended up in Alex's spot and would go through all the crap they put Alex through on the show
Having been to that museum twice (before, you know...), I can confirm the Russian astronaut food is f***ing atrocious. And that the birching really does hurt as much as Greg makes it look like.
I wonder if theres any benefit to the ice shower AFTER the spa. I would have guessed one of the main benefits of a spa is relaxing your muscles and releasing tension, so a blast of cold water after would kind of undo all that work by making your whole body tense up at once.
The benefits are you get more seasoned, strong. That's why in small villages in winter they go out of the wet sauna and jump right into the snow or cold lake, so afterwards they don't get sick all winter
We can't throw away the whole of Russia because of one horse-riding maniac, it's like cancelling Germany because one man had a silly moustache and a bit too much power
well the big difference is one is happening RIGHT NOW while angry mustache model happened 70 years ago and is not an ongoing conflict. I agree discarding all of russias achievements and discrediting all its people is not the way to go (or i would have worded my original comment very differently) but it still doesn't feel right to me personally to show this video so jokingly while they're doing such terrible things.@@cazzabojangles
@@cazzabojangles oh, poor russians let's all pity them, it's only one man killing people at all of occupied territories; poor russian want only to kill and not to be killed, such a shame.
2015 (released Jan 2016). So not before Crimea but at least before the invasion. Not a good look but I can understand that British comedians don't offer the appropriate distance from Russia when even European governments failed to do it at the time.
English pronunciation is driven by usage. Steve can cry 'jif' until the end of time, but if more people pronounce it with a hard G, there's nothing he can do about it. The OED merely reflects popular usage. It doesn't dictate anything.
@@beardedemperor It's because the pronunciation of ‘jif’ is unambiguous, so serves the purpose of clarifying ‘gif’'s ambiguity. (Unless you're pronouncing it in Spanish, in which case it's ‘hif’ or ‘heef’, hah!)
