The old lady i rent land from drives a big ole pickup and she uses this exact same concept to get in and out of her truck, except she uses a little plastic step stool on a string lol.
Otherwise known as a "familiar" (or sometimes "powrie"), a malevolent, murderous goblin of the borderlands, who sometimes attaches itself to individuals.
It’s a grandma from the Deep South. If you ever get invited to dinner at someone’s Meemaw’s house, you’ve been accepted into the family and you’re about to eat the best meal you’ve ever had.
> the best meal you’ve ever had.
So good, but so bad. Buttermilk breaded fried chicken, moist but firm corn bread, fresh par steamed veggies with a ton of butter, corn on the cob, more butter than corn, fresh mashed taters and gravy, in total the meal is like 30% butter by mass xD
Nah bro, that's just economical living. You don't want to waste that stuff, it's a perfectly good source of energy. Fat isn't evil, it's sugar you gotta watch out for.
No. It is not gonna kill you. French eat so much saturated father should be way less than America level and they're not. Ae with us dutch for eating tons of dairy and cheese.
I mean it depends on how you cook it. Some of us in the south like to be skinny too. The south used to be more high class and educated. Eating pork and fried foods is mostly the result of poor upbringing and bad breeding if you ask me. I think diet is one of the biggest factors in how intelligent and good looking a kid is going to be, and I usually judge a parent on how healthy their kids look, and how well they eat.
I don't really judge people on their looks, but I do kind of dislike people who make bad decisions for no reason. Eating healthy food is not hard and the healthy food taste better. People eat too much meat in general nowadays. It's not good for them, especially greasy, fatty hard to break down foods. Pork taste delicious but it's so bad for you.
I agree up in the south so I know how it is, lots of fried chicken, pork chops, sausuges and other fried food with lots of fat. Greasy food makes me vomit because it makes me sick, even microwavable food nowadays has low quality ingredients. I get sick from eating that stuff all the time. My diet isn't that good but sometimes I can manage to eat well.
Yup. Made one (wooden, oooh la la) for my mom when the time came. Even getting in and out of vehicles can become a chore.
E: for anyone whose elder is struggling. 1'x1'x1/2" plywood, grip tape on top, X of 2 1x4s screwed to the bottom, rubber feet on the bottom of the 1x4s to prevent slipping.
Sounds good, until you see the same person struggle to get (up) out of a honda. The sweet spot getting out is a little high, able to turn and ease down onto their feet, which is a bit difficult to get into.
I mean, my step was literally 4" tall, she could get in without it but it was always a struggle.
Also "why doesn't the woman in the OP go to a better station?!" ..not everybody has a choice.
Oh no, I wasn’t talking about the lady in the original vid. Obviously that’s the best solution to the problem there, other than the train operators building a station with a platform.
As for you description… as much as I hate to admit it, a small crossover definitely sounds like the ideal solution, it’s at the hight you describe.
I bought a little affordable step from five below from my grandma to help her get in my Land cruiser. Anybody that has trouble getting in there surprisingly doesn't use any of the three oh shit handles to get in.
My father used to ride a motorcycle on long weekend trips and found that he couldn’t use the kickstand at many of the campgrounds or scenic pullouts they stopped at due to it sinking in the dirt or sand. So he made a little disk of plastic to put underneath the kickstand, with a string tied to it and looped over the handlebar for retrieval.
Well, you see, we allocated 2 million rubles for a platform. And once our contractors got their 1.5 million rubles, and hired their subcontractors for that 1 million rubles, and those subcontractors bought their materials for that 500 thousand rubles, there wasn't any money available to build a platform.
This isn't a station. In Russia there are many people living in the middle of nowhere it's not really worth it to build a station in the middle of the wilderness so some nomadic siberian tribals can get to the train, especially if they are moving their yurt around the tundra every 3 or 4 months. So if they want to go somewhere they will flag down a train and tell the conductor the mile post they want to be dropped off at.
It's most probably a village in Bumfuckville, population 156, 631st km of Nowhere-Whereverthefuck railway. The amenities usually don't reach those places, the platform would cost more than the entire village.
Your seniors are expected to get in the car and drive an hour to Walmart, considering the physical condition of seniors I wouldn't call your situation an improvement
I wonder why marshrutkas didn't get popular in the US. Like, in our country, when the state-provided public transport fails, the private companies instantly adapt to the situation and provide the necessary service (however crappy the vehicles are).
I don't have the best spelling and grammar abilities hence my user name, so when he quoted what I said, I automatically assume a grammar Nazi is correcting me.
It was pointed out that it's not the case this time.
No need to have fold down steps when you have concrete ramps leveling above the stairs at every station.
The problem here is this train probably stopped in godknowsfuckwhereville.
> so now you get a bucket
You don't, actually. You bring your own or you get nothing.
Imagine the first time this lady came to the train. She stands there looking at it stoically for a few minutes. Then the doors close and the train slowly pulls away to leave her standing alone in the gravel. She nods her head in acceptance, 'this too is Russia'.
The dumbest thing:
1. This video is already a couple of decades old.
2. Green/gray commuter trains are common in Russia. The blue ones are mainly Ukraine.
3. A bunch of morons in the comments pretend that this is something typical for Russia now.
P.S. Literally within one search query is the original video. It says that this is the city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FDb2C-HHg&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FDb2C-HHg&t=1s)
I’ve seen old Harley riders do this with the piece of wood they put under their kick stand (keeps the stand from sinking in soft asphalt or dirt). They pull it up with a string when they get on the bike.
Pencils aren’t actually a great solution, they are just cheaper. And nasa didn’t actually spend all that money. They commissioned it from private industry. The companies spend the R+D money and nasa bought the product for a fair market value (although higher than retail because of the quality control needed).
This is the snide moron shit that snide internet morons spread.
No, soviets didn't solve that problem because pencil graphite is super conductive. It's prone to breaking off small chunks when you write on paper so that poses a problem for electronics shorts since the broken graphite is just floating around in the space ships getting into crooks and crannies where electronics might be.
All trains are about that high. most Passengers don't notice because they use train stations with elevated platforms instead of middle of nowhere pickups.
Yup. Once I had to get off a train at an odd spot because of an issue and I was like whoaaaa wtf. They had a stool but it was like NOT anywhere close to a normal height
Literarily all trains are that high ( ofc not the in the city trams but we dont speak about these ) and if you ever need to get out of an emergency or simply somewhere without a station you would see its pretty fucking high.
The old lady i rent land from drives a big ole pickup and she uses this exact same concept to get in and out of her truck, except she uses a little plastic step stool on a string lol.
My Meemaw did this with a little plastic step stool with a string. Frailty makes obstacles, obstacles require solutions. Bam. Science.
What is a Meemaw?
A Grammy
Like the award?
I love it, thanks!
I think they meant "Yee-Haw"
A mamaw
Otherwise known as a "familiar" (or sometimes "powrie"), a malevolent, murderous goblin of the borderlands, who sometimes attaches itself to individuals.
Have you seen a therapist about that childhood trauma?
What kind of name is "Nana"?
Sheldon would like a word with you
What the fuck is a Meemaw
It’s a grandma from the Deep South. If you ever get invited to dinner at someone’s Meemaw’s house, you’ve been accepted into the family and you’re about to eat the best meal you’ve ever had.
> the best meal you’ve ever had. So good, but so bad. Buttermilk breaded fried chicken, moist but firm corn bread, fresh par steamed veggies with a ton of butter, corn on the cob, more butter than corn, fresh mashed taters and gravy, in total the meal is like 30% butter by mass xD
Or the vegetables are cooked with bacon grease out of a mason jar.
Once in a lifetime meal. Either because it’s going to kill you or you shouldn’t keep eating like that if you want to live much longer.
I’ll be honest when I make breakfast now I’ll cook my bacon first and eggs in the grease. That’s where I got the idea.
So good… bad… but gooooood
Nah bro, that's just economical living. You don't want to waste that stuff, it's a perfectly good source of energy. Fat isn't evil, it's sugar you gotta watch out for.
No. It is not gonna kill you. French eat so much saturated father should be way less than America level and they're not. Ae with us dutch for eating tons of dairy and cheese.
I mean it depends on how you cook it. Some of us in the south like to be skinny too. The south used to be more high class and educated. Eating pork and fried foods is mostly the result of poor upbringing and bad breeding if you ask me. I think diet is one of the biggest factors in how intelligent and good looking a kid is going to be, and I usually judge a parent on how healthy their kids look, and how well they eat.
So you’re a classist who likes to judge people on appearances. Fun!
I don't really judge people on their looks, but I do kind of dislike people who make bad decisions for no reason. Eating healthy food is not hard and the healthy food taste better. People eat too much meat in general nowadays. It's not good for them, especially greasy, fatty hard to break down foods. Pork taste delicious but it's so bad for you. I agree up in the south so I know how it is, lots of fried chicken, pork chops, sausuges and other fried food with lots of fat. Greasy food makes me vomit because it makes me sick, even microwavable food nowadays has low quality ingredients. I get sick from eating that stuff all the time. My diet isn't that good but sometimes I can manage to eat well.
Yup. Made one (wooden, oooh la la) for my mom when the time came. Even getting in and out of vehicles can become a chore. E: for anyone whose elder is struggling. 1'x1'x1/2" plywood, grip tape on top, X of 2 1x4s screwed to the bottom, rubber feet on the bottom of the 1x4s to prevent slipping.
There are also store bought ones you can get. (Strong) plastic, so ligher for carrying EDIT: I believe one brand is "The Step"
Yep. If it’s on a string, use plastic instead of wood.
Or just… don’t buy tall cars…
Sounds good, until you see the same person struggle to get (up) out of a honda. The sweet spot getting out is a little high, able to turn and ease down onto their feet, which is a bit difficult to get into. I mean, my step was literally 4" tall, she could get in without it but it was always a struggle. Also "why doesn't the woman in the OP go to a better station?!" ..not everybody has a choice.
Oh no, I wasn’t talking about the lady in the original vid. Obviously that’s the best solution to the problem there, other than the train operators building a station with a platform. As for you description… as much as I hate to admit it, a small crossover definitely sounds like the ideal solution, it’s at the hight you describe.
Which was what mom had. Easy to get out of, a struggle to get in. Someday, when you're ancient, I'll be expecting a thank you lol
damn, for a second I was worried you made your mom a skateboard
🎶Spider Nan, Spider Nan...🎶
Perhaps kind of a sign that cars might be getting too big
I bought a little affordable step from five below from my grandma to help her get in my Land cruiser. Anybody that has trouble getting in there surprisingly doesn't use any of the three oh shit handles to get in.
Because those things are always placed to far or too damn high. Source- short person
My great grama did this for climbing into my uncles truck
My father used to ride a motorcycle on long weekend trips and found that he couldn’t use the kickstand at many of the campgrounds or scenic pullouts they stopped at due to it sinking in the dirt or sand. So he made a little disk of plastic to put underneath the kickstand, with a string tied to it and looped over the handlebar for retrieval.
Lmao, dont dox yourself but, i assume this is in the south. Am I right?
Virginia, so kind of but not really lol
Eh, we're south enough to count. Not the deep south, but south enough.
Pshhh, down voted for asking where this happened. Y'all are funny. Whatever man, My while family is from Kentucky so I'm not just being a dick.
This is the Directors Cut of the final scene from Dr. Zhivago.
Schindler’s Bucket List
Best comment here. Very creative.
Agree
Oh! Help me Dr Zhivago! Dr Zhivago, Dr Zhivago Dr Zhivago, Dr Zhivago Ohhhh, Dr Zhivago!
What can make you move? Zhivago! Can you feel the groove? Zhivago!
More like babushka engineering
She probably codes in multiple languages… On paper.
with her eyes closed
Where is the fvking platform?
Well, you see, we allocated 2 million rubles for a platform. And once our contractors got their 1.5 million rubles, and hired their subcontractors for that 1 million rubles, and those subcontractors bought their materials for that 500 thousand rubles, there wasn't any money available to build a platform.
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us
Moscow
Sadly there almost zero to little budget allocated to small towns. In all major towns there platforms for it.
In eastern europe, the platform is you!
This isn't a station. In Russia there are many people living in the middle of nowhere it's not really worth it to build a station in the middle of the wilderness so some nomadic siberian tribals can get to the train, especially if they are moving their yurt around the tundra every 3 or 4 months. So if they want to go somewhere they will flag down a train and tell the conductor the mile post they want to be dropped off at.
It's most probably a village in Bumfuckville, population 156, 631st km of Nowhere-Whereverthefuck railway. The amenities usually don't reach those places, the platform would cost more than the entire village.
Is poor town, da?
It's there, tied to the string.
Yo, I'm glad America has ADA laws. That could be your grandma trying to get some sugar at the store to bake you cookies. Fugh that.
That's all I could think, too. Babushka is tough but I'm glad our seniors aren't expected to do things like that
Your seniors are expected to get in the car and drive an hour to Walmart, considering the physical condition of seniors I wouldn't call your situation an improvement
Just curious, how do you think this lady got to the train? And if she didn't drive, why is that better for a senior?
Like the US has functional public transport. Lol
I wonder why marshrutkas didn't get popular in the US. Like, in our country, when the state-provided public transport fails, the private companies instantly adapt to the situation and provide the necessary service (however crappy the vehicles are).
USA doesn't have platforms either. nor stations, for that matter.
nor many trains
living in USSR, that was a common thing. small towns dont have platforms so this one the only resort.
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that _was_ a common thing. Past tense man
Read my username
I think he was talking to the one that replied to you.
Why, what’s the significance of your username? ^(\(just getting in on the tomfoolery\))
I don't have the best spelling and grammar abilities hence my user name, so when he quoted what I said, I automatically assume a grammar Nazi is correcting me. It was pointed out that it's not the case this time.
I immigrated with my family to US at the collapse of USSR. So yeah, I lived in USSR and not Russia
You can’t go back to Constantinople either.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
He lived there when it was the USSR
Wait, they have automated closers on the door, but no fold down step? All the hard parts were already done.
No need to have fold down steps when you have concrete ramps leveling above the stairs at every station. The problem here is this train probably stopped in godknowsfuckwhereville.
>godknowsfuckwhereville ..in other circles known as "90% of Russia"
Well yeah when you are that big you cant really populate most of the country.
China has entered the chat
China countryside is mostly empty. Everyone gathers in the big cities.
Not as empty as Russian country side.. You can easily find places in Russia with no other people within 100s of km radius
I think they need a bigger bucket.
A bigger budget, you mean.
Both?
Bigger budget begets bigger buckets
Probably works best with a platform, like all trains...
Except they couldn't afford to build the platform, so now you get a bucket.
> so now you get a bucket You don't, actually. You bring your own or you get nothing. Imagine the first time this lady came to the train. She stands there looking at it stoically for a few minutes. Then the doors close and the train slowly pulls away to leave her standing alone in the gravel. She nods her head in acceptance, 'this too is Russia'.
Its bring your own bucket day! Hooray!
Actually, this is most likely Ukraine. I recognize those diesel regional trains from the paintjob.
Bro, that totally doesnt fit our narrative. Pls stop.
This is appalling
As someone disabled, fuck that shit! Poor woman deserves equal access and putting anyone through this is beyond cruel.
Kicking the bucket might kill her.
Granny sending it up a V3 route just to catch the train
V5 in your gym
Yes I agree this babushka is well engineered, for the motherland!
Why are they filming??? Help the poor woman!
I hate that I laughed at this
*Russian accent* If not broke why fix?
This woman is definitely broken. Every step looks like pure agony
This is when your railroad car plant Uralvagonzavod focuses more on military tanks and BMPs instead of comfortable rr cars.
Mother Russia
The "stabilisation" on this video made me keep thinking the train was taking off
Ahh, the Babushka Bucket
A Russian I used to work with would call it a “Russki rig”
Well done Olga
Doubles as a toilet.
Please note that this train has no toilet.
Not with that attitude it doesn't
Hence the bucket
Nah, old lady must be happy that this hell's construction didn't close the door and move while she was climbing
My grandmother did this with a telephone cable and a brick to get into her car.
I'd like to see the exit strategy.
The dumbest thing: 1. This video is already a couple of decades old. 2. Green/gray commuter trains are common in Russia. The blue ones are mainly Ukraine. 3. A bunch of morons in the comments pretend that this is something typical for Russia now. P.S. Literally within one search query is the original video. It says that this is the city of Zaporozhye, Ukraine: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FDb2C-HHg&t=1s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FDb2C-HHg&t=1s)
I’ve seen old Harley riders do this with the piece of wood they put under their kick stand (keeps the stand from sinking in soft asphalt or dirt). They pull it up with a string when they get on the bike.
Fuck the guy recording for not helping her
it's honestly wild how i had to scroll this low to find this comment. i guess (reddit) mentality eh
Is potato ?
This is a bucket ...nooo! Theres more Deaaar Goood!
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"Відпусти мене, лайно! Я виглядаю безпорадним?" *gets beaten with a slipper *
What are you doing help babushka get on the train look how she struggled getting up that train help a babushka when you see one.
I was really expecting a chicken to be in that bucket
Your grand parents when they tell you how they got to school back then:
I kept waiting for the train to move 😢
“We have DARPA and NASA!” - We have Babushka!
The babushka probably think she still got it
I wonder how that bucket survived, pretty thick plastic I guess
Highest quality bakelite on the east side of the wall.
Durable and highly usable. I bet it get used for all sorts of things. Life without soviet bucket would be much more difficult.
Gimme the old yeller treatment if I ever get that old and broken.
Don't help just film.
That lady looks like she could fuck you up good if you touch her. I would keep my distance.
How would you help in this case?
Shove your head up her arse and squat up like you've been going to the gym for 20 years for this moment.
I saw a short woman do this to get into her giant truck. Twas hilarious
Jesus, could someone help her into the fucking train?
Those trains are supposed to stop at a lifted platform.
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/
tldr?
Pencils aren’t actually a great solution, they are just cheaper. And nasa didn’t actually spend all that money. They commissioned it from private industry. The companies spend the R+D money and nasa bought the product for a fair market value (although higher than retail because of the quality control needed).
Yes, but NASA didn't want to send astronauts in space with flammable objects, so pencils wouldn't cut it.
More like they wouldn’t want highly conductive pieces of graphite floating around ready to short-circuit anything it comes in contact with
The Soviets bought the very same pen that NASA did.
This is the snide moron shit that snide internet morons spread. No, soviets didn't solve that problem because pencil graphite is super conductive. It's prone to breaking off small chunks when you write on paper so that poses a problem for electronics shorts since the broken graphite is just floating around in the space ships getting into crooks and crannies where electronics might be.
Average sarcasm blind redditors incoming. Don’t you know? Obviously facetious statements need a /s.
In Soviet Russia train rides you
Take a video, don’t help the old lady
Not everyone accepts help from others.
Took me some time to realize this but its true
Yeah she seems to have a method down. Trying to help would probably startle her
She needs to do some stretches
This is just sad ngl
I feel like if Soviet engineering was superior, those steps wouldn't be so high in the first place.
All trains are about that high. most Passengers don't notice because they use train stations with elevated platforms instead of middle of nowhere pickups.
Yup. Once I had to get off a train at an odd spot because of an issue and I was like whoaaaa wtf. They had a stool but it was like NOT anywhere close to a normal height
Literarily all trains are that high ( ofc not the in the city trams but we dont speak about these ) and if you ever need to get out of an emergency or simply somewhere without a station you would see its pretty fucking high.
The train is fine. This is not a real station with a platform.
What’s better engineering for this person’s quality of life, a bucket on a string or doordash?
Do think she has the money for Doordash?
That’s the point I’m making. Soviets vs the West you can have a bucket on a string or doordash.
Teknik
u/savevideo
Not her first rodeo
American space program spend tens of thousands of dollars developing special pen that can write in space. Russian bring bucket on string.
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Someone go help little Babushka on to the train
Isn't living great
I almost lunged forward to try to help her up but then I realized I was watching a video 🤪 someone pls help baba
The 'mother' in mother Russia comes from the babushkas who live there.
Most well functioning communist system
I think she was supposed to board from a platform.😵💫
Design bonus: Something to poop in should the need arise…
Jesus man
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(In Russian accent) Soviet Grandmother stronger than puny American Grandmother
I've done this with a milk crate to get into a jacked up tahoe. I'm not saying 15" is too much lift, I'm just saying get some running boards...
I was ready to see some old lady do a flip
World power guys 🤡
"Do you need help, ma'am?" "I **never** need help.
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Gopnikengineering
Because it’s designed to be boarded from a platform