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You're actually right regarding where I am but what's worse is that the comms are too high in the mix so you can barely hear the stadium noise. I usually switch off the sound and fail to synch the arsenal app audio or BBC.

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The Arsenal app can't even get their foreign broadcast info right. Rights holder in Armenia is Fast TV. Saran Media doesn't even exist in Armenia.

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The great thing about living outside the UK is you don't have to listen to the garbage UK commentaries.

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Connect VPN to Armenia.

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Get a VPN and go to dzritv.com

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dwellsjournal.bsky.social @dwellsjournal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Benny Blanco overplayed (again).

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Reposted by Jj92

This Day in the History of Kindness, September 12 On this day in 1915, French naval ships were rescuing more than 4,000 Armenians trapped on Musa Dagh, a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

24 hours on X reminds me why I left. Weirdo Liverpool fans, mostly. Goodbye until the next John Williamson sponsored content.

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The shite you eat for your team. Unannounced mayofucinaise.

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Fair enough. They also barely play their champions league players in their league campaign. Kairat could have been a proper b team I guess but he doesn't care to throw games the way Wenger sometimes did.

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It's also about second legs at home, skipping the play-off, etc.

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While naming streets and roads and boulevards after talat, enver and jemal pasha, notorious genociders one and all...

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Have Napoli/Arsenal sent out away tickets yet? No news since booking 6 days ago.

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The farce of a 2 hour line in 33°c heat that starts in a sweltering tent whose canopies are not sealed from the outside, rendering the AC units completely useless. Be ready, gooners. Hydrate and wear shorts.

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can't help but think that we're now worse off in attack than we were at the end of last season with these three departures.

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What episode number is it? Can't find it on Spotify.

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nobody trusts Russia. It's as simple as that. Even the average Armenian has learnt the hard way that the colonialists from the north really are only out for themselves.

simple.as

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Jj92 @3627003.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The official arsenal app has the Napoli game on the wrong date. Impressive.

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And shouldn't be treated as such. Moreover, many eastern armenians (even those with roots much further west) would firmly reject your characterisation (this itself is sometimes problematic too since that may be more about not being associated with what is perceived to be the 'Muslim middle east'.

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That's because this is a song about an Armenian from sasun which is present day batman in turkey so a direct reference to an ottoman Armenian past. These elements were taken and reconfigured by the soviets in sometimes false and inappropriate ways btw. The point is Armenians are not monolithic..cont

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Yes there is also a Persian influence but that is more linguistic in the form of loan words that local Armenians do not know the etymology of (the same can be said of russian words whose own etymology are often not even russian, ironically).

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...quite different. This also explains why you can get very good middle eastern food in armenia, for example, but those establishments are not run by locals, they are run, typically, by recent Armenian arrivals from Syria and Lebanon.

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There is some truth in what you said because many Armenians, whether they are in Armenia today or not, have ottoman roots and survived the genocide before settling in many middle eastern countries such Syria and Lebanon but that ignores the Armenians that have always been in the Caucasus that are...

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..their cultural, social, sometimes religious and culinary customs and traditions that are often different from those of Armenians from the diaspora that I previously mentioned. We are not a monolith, just as Georgians are not.

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Many in present day AM itself have similar roots but you don't get by in Armenia without assimilation to the local culture anyway and then you have the local population whose own roots are regional (or Eastern Armenian) which is to say their lineage is Caucasian and this is reflected in ...contd

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That really isn't the question. Diasporans, often Western (meaning Ottoman) Armenian, will not feel Caucasian because their roots are from a different culture and geographical area. 1/2

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Present day Armenia is literally found in the lower Caucasus. What a peculiar statement to make. Perhaps Armenia and Azerbaijan do not meet your perceived expectations of 'the Caucasus' and that is a completely different thing.

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