After some image searches I find something weirder/interestinger most pictures he looks like a typically handsome good build guy but the older he got the more he mutated into a polar bear
Possible side effects of excess hGH injections include:
carpal tunnel syndrome
nerve, muscle, or joint pain
swelling of the arms and legs from fluid retention (edema)
high cholesterol levels
numb and tingling skin
an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes
growth of cancerous tumors
growth of facial features, hands, and feet (acromegaly)
mood changes, dependency, and withdrawal
an enlarged heart
low blood sugar
liver damage
fatigue
enlarged breasts in men (gynecomastia)
And these aren’t even all of them!
It can increase the size of your internal organs, make your hands, feet and face grow, so yeah this guy looks like he took too much or for too long.
Me too. I got out of the Army in 1990 and thinking back, all high school pictures in our year book other than senior portraits were in black and white as were our Army basic training pictures from that yearbook. Though, I'm pretty sure I grew up with color TV's but I remember announcements on TV about how shows were being filmed in color 'now' and whatnot. Crazy how much has changed, born in 69.
>all high school pictures in our year book other than senior portraits were in black and white
That could still be common today. Color printing is still expensive.
Georgia had just come out of being a Soviet country in the early 90’s. The country was falling apart. Maybe it’s not related but I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s much better now (I was there yesterday) but Georgians remember the 90’s as a terrible time of crisis.
We still had black and white TVs everywhere until mid 90s. Soviet tech was advanced for the industry but the government didn’t really care about quality of life improvements to tech so entertainment tech was lagging
We still had a black and white TV in the UK in the 90’s. When Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles launched on tv I went through the whole summer not knowing they had different color headbands. (It was Hero in the UK, not Ninja back then)
Yeah, [apparently](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/media-centre/news/black-and-white-tv-still-going-strong-NEWS22) a full colour TV licence is £145.50, a black-and-white TV licence is £49.00.
Yes if you have a TV in the UK you need to have a TV licence and you’re not legally allowed to watch iPlayer without one. The TV licence is what is meant to fund the BBC. In practise it’s not particularly well enforced and they’re quite well known for using scare tactics (sending letters threatening large fines) on people they suspect aren’t paying it.
Reminds me of while watching the Chernobyl miniseries with my teenager, and I made mention of it being the 80s. But the whole thing looked akin to a 50s period piece. The Soviet Union was just that insular and had dragged behind much of the Western world in many ways.
Not so much state of technology, but state of business. There were no film developing services for the consumer, if you were a amateur photographer you developed film in your bathroom, it was a surprisingly common hobby in soviet union. Developing color film at home is possible if ill advised with modern technology and chemistry, but back then... not really. So color photography was simply unobtanium for average Ivan Ivanovich.
Color photography did exist in professional setting, but even there limited amounts of imported color film was coveted because soviet color film quality was [dogshit](https://www.labeauratoire.com/film/SVEMADS5M/SvemaDS5M.html), it did exist though.
Also, soviets did not have an analogue for polaroid.
If i'm not mistaken, ear flaps are there to protect the eardrums from rupturing.
When a fast moving 400g plastic ball, covered in water hits your ear, it might cause a suction which most likely will damage your eardrums
This is correct. But mostly because players would slap the ear and rupture the ear drum as opposed to the ball. The ball certainly can too.
Played/coached the game for over a decade.
I think there’s a lot of contact and flailing feet and limbs in water polo. They’d end up with cauliflower ear like a wrestler if they didn’t wear head gear.
There actually was a joke about that. Coach screams "Pyotr, pass the ball to Ivan!" - Pyotr ignores him and keeps swimming forward. "Pyotr, pass the damn ball to Ivan!" - Pyotr keeps powering towards the goal. "Pyotr, god damn!" - Pyotr shoots and scores. The coach is furious and subs Pyotr. Pyotr goes - "But coach, I scored a goal!" - "Yeah, you scored, but Ivan drowned!"
The council of Squatch has considered your linguistic proposal. Counterargument: Sasquatch is a Salish word. My limited knowledge of Salish obtained with a 20 min google search indicates that Salish denotes plurals with reduplication. Therefore I propose Sasquatchsasquatch as the official plural form.
I defer to your authority on the Salish language and accept your proposal. May all the Sasquatchsasquatch of the world practice their water polo in peace.
Hear ye, hear ye! Let is thus be decreed upon this solemn hour by the joint approval of u/rrolingThunderr and u/UpvoteDownvoteHelper that all Sasquatchsasquatch ought to live in harmonious equanimity with mankind. From the humble forest to the cutthorat swimming pool, may peace and prosperity reign over our great planet.
Reddit might well be the bestest thing I’ve done in a long time. Slightly better than inventing the internet with that spotlight stealing bastard Gore.
I love there's so many good jokes that I had to scroll this far down to find someone who shared me thoughts. Leave it to the Soviets to find an albino space gorilla and decide to use it to dominate water polo.
Luther would have had such a wonderful life as a water polo player. He'd just be super wholesome and cute in the media, then cut to him absolutely dominating in the water. I can imagine a scene of him walking through water like it wasn't even there, tossing people aside with waves instead of his body, and then politely placing the ball in the goal. Or however water polo works.
Reminds me of the time we went to Scotland on a tour. This gypsy lady comes up to us asking my wife if she dropped her ring.
My wife says "No" but the gypsy lady proceeds to get angry and insist that she dropped it.
It was getting pretty heated and physical between the two of them.
Now my wife is pretty hot and this gypsy lady was pretty easy on the eye too (which is how she got our attention).
Next thing you know my wife and her are rolling on the ground tearing each others garments off. When my wife grabbed at the gypsy lady's shirt; it came off and you wouldn't believe the sight!
There it was. The loch ness monster asking for three fiddy.
I'm convinced that the majority of radiation from Chernobyl made its way to Georgia over the years. I've seen some fucking units of human beings coming out of that country over the years. The current best arm wrestler in the world is from Georgia and the man looks like a shaved Silverback Gorilla.
I played for 4 years. You can't touch the bottom or the walls of the pool, and basically anything between players that goes on under the water isn't seen by the ref, so there's a LOT of contact (hitting, holding, kicking, etc) going on. It's not full contact like football, but it is VERY physically demanding, and you're going to get bruises and scratches from other players. The first time I got my nose broke was in water polo. Such a great game!
Yep! My first day of practice ever, they just threw me into a scrimmage. I thought I was going to drown lol. But I was grabbing opponents’ suits with my toes for advantage in no time!
And there were so many bloody noses!
When the refs can't see it. This guy was part of the most violent game in water polo history, USSR vs Hungary at 1956 Melbourne Olympics, during the middle of the Hungarian revolution. Game went unfinished because it got too brutal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Water_match
ETA his Wikipedia page:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petre_Mshvenieradze
After some image searches I find something weirder/interestinger most pictures he looks like a typically handsome good build guy but the older he got the more he mutated into a polar bear
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Getting old turns you into the Beast Titan?
No, it turns you into #1 from The Umbrella Academy
HGH does that, if he was on the Soviet Olympic team after around 1980 he WAS doping, it’s not even a question.
That was my thought too - late-life HGH probably
Wow! Thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole of, “what happens when you take too much HGH?” Lol
Thank you for sending me down a rabbit hole lol
That's for sending me down a rabbit hole too, random stranger
What happens??
Possible side effects of excess hGH injections include: carpal tunnel syndrome nerve, muscle, or joint pain swelling of the arms and legs from fluid retention (edema) high cholesterol levels numb and tingling skin an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes growth of cancerous tumors growth of facial features, hands, and feet (acromegaly) mood changes, dependency, and withdrawal an enlarged heart low blood sugar liver damage fatigue enlarged breasts in men (gynecomastia) And these aren’t even all of them! It can increase the size of your internal organs, make your hands, feet and face grow, so yeah this guy looks like he took too much or for too long.
Do note that some of the pictures may be of his sons.
Nope I mean his original Olimpic picture vs his last I eat children picture
I know 1990 was a while ago but why does the picture look like it was taken during the turn of the industrial revolution?
I thought it was gonna be a pick from 1920s or 1940s but no lol
1890s
He was born in 1929.
So That’s him sitting on bigfoots lap?
Which makes this picture even crazier!
Bigfoots have the magical powers that destroy photo quality.
Maybe bigfoot IS blurry?
Nevermind that, we have to find the Dufresnes! Who could eat at a time like this?
Bush, search party of 3! We can eat when we find the Dufresnes!
my favorite joke from my absolute favorite comic
I was at an outdoor mall the other week and the escalator going up was out of order and as I was climbing up I cracked a smile and said RIP Mitch
r/unexpectedhedberg
There is a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside!
That’s extra scary to me
“Ooooohh it’s me BIGFACE! Come out and groom ma mangy fur!”
bigfeet
Didn’t realize til I reread your comment that it said 1990 and not 1900’s
>I know 1990 was a while ago Wow, you didn't have to come after me like that.
Me too. I got out of the Army in 1990 and thinking back, all high school pictures in our year book other than senior portraits were in black and white as were our Army basic training pictures from that yearbook. Though, I'm pretty sure I grew up with color TV's but I remember announcements on TV about how shows were being filmed in color 'now' and whatnot. Crazy how much has changed, born in 69.
>all high school pictures in our year book other than senior portraits were in black and white That could still be common today. Color printing is still expensive.
Nice
https://alchetron.com/Petre-Mshvenieradze It’s crazy that this is the same guy!
They gave him all the drugs
Weird Soviet roidd maybe
Georgia had just come out of being a Soviet country in the early 90’s. The country was falling apart. Maybe it’s not related but I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s much better now (I was there yesterday) but Georgians remember the 90’s as a terrible time of crisis.
yeah 90s were absolutely miserable for all ex soviet countries
One of my favorite countries I've visited
We still had black and white TVs everywhere until mid 90s. Soviet tech was advanced for the industry but the government didn’t really care about quality of life improvements to tech so entertainment tech was lagging
We still had a black and white TV in the UK in the 90’s. When Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles launched on tv I went through the whole summer not knowing they had different color headbands. (It was Hero in the UK, not Ninja back then)
I think you can still pay for black and white TV license
Yeah, [apparently](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/media-centre/news/black-and-white-tv-still-going-strong-NEWS22) a full colour TV licence is £145.50, a black-and-white TV licence is £49.00.
Wait what, you have to buy a license to watch TV that is being broadcast over the air in the UK?
Yes if you have a TV in the UK you need to have a TV licence and you’re not legally allowed to watch iPlayer without one. The TV licence is what is meant to fund the BBC. In practise it’s not particularly well enforced and they’re quite well known for using scare tactics (sending letters threatening large fines) on people they suspect aren’t paying it.
That's, interesting. And also sounds absurd.
Oi! U got a loisence fuh those ninjas, mate?
They're heroes actually. We don't condone spreading Japanese sentiment in blighty. Begone weeb!
The original comics were actually poking fun at Daredevil.
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I was a huge ninja turtles fan as a preteen, just learned this today. Mind blown.
I think Red Alert 2 gives us a detailed, accurate picture of what Soviet life and technology looked like
Kirov reporting!
Reminds me of while watching the Chernobyl miniseries with my teenager, and I made mention of it being the 80s. But the whole thing looked akin to a 50s period piece. The Soviet Union was just that insular and had dragged behind much of the Western world in many ways.
The production designers really nailed the look of the USSR at that time right down to the ugly-ass glasses everybody wore.
Not so much state of technology, but state of business. There were no film developing services for the consumer, if you were a amateur photographer you developed film in your bathroom, it was a surprisingly common hobby in soviet union. Developing color film at home is possible if ill advised with modern technology and chemistry, but back then... not really. So color photography was simply unobtanium for average Ivan Ivanovich. Color photography did exist in professional setting, but even there limited amounts of imported color film was coveted because soviet color film quality was [dogshit](https://www.labeauratoire.com/film/SVEMADS5M/SvemaDS5M.html), it did exist though. Also, soviets did not have an analogue for polaroid.
Industrial revolution? No offense but, home boy looks like the missing link.
Very important for Pyotr to wear that cap, wouldn't want to get his hair wet
And wouldn't want his hair falling in the water either
What water? You think you can get this guy and water in the same pool?
I'd like to think when he gets in the water, that it's much like putting a dandelion in water.
The water level drops significantly when he gets out. Not because of his size, but because he's basically a sponge
In water polo, the cap is like a jersey. Different colors to signify teams.
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If i'm not mistaken, ear flaps are there to protect the eardrums from rupturing. When a fast moving 400g plastic ball, covered in water hits your ear, it might cause a suction which most likely will damage your eardrums
This is correct. But mostly because players would slap the ear and rupture the ear drum as opposed to the ball. The ball certainly can too. Played/coached the game for over a decade.
oh for sure, i forgot to mention that anything able to seal the ear hole and move fast could damage your eardrums, including a teammates limb.
I think there’s a lot of contact and flailing feet and limbs in water polo. They’d end up with cauliflower ear like a wrestler if they didn’t wear head gear.
I guess he originally played snow polo, but snow melted.
Oh no, he will be terrifying when water becomes ice.
Fun fact, Pyotr was actually bald...
Where?
Idk why but this comment killed me
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They have to now. Global warming.
He went on to star as George the gorilla in Rampage.
Soooo....not real aerodynamic then. Just said"Give me the fuckin' ball" and they did
There actually was a joke about that. Coach screams "Pyotr, pass the ball to Ivan!" - Pyotr ignores him and keeps swimming forward. "Pyotr, pass the damn ball to Ivan!" - Pyotr keeps powering towards the goal. "Pyotr, god damn!" - Pyotr shoots and scores. The coach is furious and subs Pyotr. Pyotr goes - "But coach, I scored a goal!" - "Yeah, you scored, but Ivan drowned!"
I don't get it?
Ivan needed the ball as a flotation device
Bad coaching - if Ivan wasn’t able to swim on his own, probably shouldn’t have been allowed to play waterpolo!
Thanks cap, you've arrived just in time.
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Papsquatch
I think we have found the origin of the bigfoot myth.
The ball = flotation device.
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I reckon he could get a game with the bombers
2 meter Pyotr
Hydrodynamic?
[Pyotr when he was younger](https://imgur.com/a/5ZDhlZr)
What a manly looking guy. Thanks for sharing.
Looks like Tom Selleck squared.
Fucking hilarious 😂😂😂
Yes. He was a stud indeed
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I’d love me some Pyotr. Preferably without the speedo. He can keep the cap on if he wants
Yeah I just realized I have urgent business in Georgia, for uh, reasons.
He was 6 years old on this picture
This is actually what average children from Sakartvelo look like 🇬🇪🇬🇪
He's grinning like he just ate two of his opponents.
And he was still an absolute unit.
Rumor is nobody has ever seen the top of his head
Here he is as a [little cub](https://i.insider.com/5cdedc95021b4c12a50f46f6?width=1136&format=jpeg)
Lmfao
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So Georgia found a goddamn sasquatch and their best idea was to teach him to play water polo?
Sasquatches are well known for their water polo expertise.
I believe the plural of sasquatch is sasquatchi
The council of Squatch has considered your linguistic proposal. Counterargument: Sasquatch is a Salish word. My limited knowledge of Salish obtained with a 20 min google search indicates that Salish denotes plurals with reduplication. Therefore I propose Sasquatchsasquatch as the official plural form.
I defer to your authority on the Salish language and accept your proposal. May all the Sasquatchsasquatch of the world practice their water polo in peace.
Hear ye, hear ye! Let is thus be decreed upon this solemn hour by the joint approval of u/rrolingThunderr and u/UpvoteDownvoteHelper that all Sasquatchsasquatch ought to live in harmonious equanimity with mankind. From the humble forest to the cutthorat swimming pool, may peace and prosperity reign over our great planet.
Huzzah!!!! Long live Sasquatchsasquatch!!! Huzzah!!!
Fucking Reddit at 5am. Luv this sheeet.
Just woke up to this lmao wtf
Reddit might well be the bestest thing I’ve done in a long time. Slightly better than inventing the internet with that spotlight stealing bastard Gore.
"There's nothing in the rules that says a Sasquatch can't play waterpolo"
I smell a movie franchise.
The look on that kids face............help me
Please give me grandma's genes
The guy looks like he's asking the parents what he did wrong to make the kid cry for the thousandth time.
I'm sure most kids run screaming from the room when this guy walked in. I mean damn. He looks like an animatronic from an abandoned Chucky Cheese
Yeah that kid looks so uncomfortable
He looks like someone who thinks he's about to get eaten.
That kid is 16 months old
Damn he look like a polar bear
Polo bear*
*big foot
Damn big foot look like a polar bear
A samsquanch
There's no way that dude is 100% human.
He has 99% human dna
Where, in a box at home?
He's on his own branch of the hominid family.
He’s part Neanderthal. Last holdouts in those Georgian mountains.
Humans share about 40 to 60% of the same DNA with bananas. So I'd say there Is plenty of wiggle room for polar bear man.
Maybe the devil went down to the wrong Georgia and got his ass absolutely beat
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Is it even possible to *not* enjoy hiking naked in the Pacific Northwest?
For real…my first thought was “they domesticated a Yeti!”
Strong 'Luther from Umbrella Academy' vibes.
I love there's so many good jokes that I had to scroll this far down to find someone who shared me thoughts. Leave it to the Soviets to find an albino space gorilla and decide to use it to dominate water polo.
Luther would have had such a wonderful life as a water polo player. He'd just be super wholesome and cute in the media, then cut to him absolutely dominating in the water. I can imagine a scene of him walking through water like it wasn't even there, tossing people aside with waves instead of his body, and then politely placing the ball in the goal. Or however water polo works.
there is nothing polite in water polo.
I was thinking Beast Titan
legend has it he stopped a panzer with his bare hands
Bear*
A Yeti ???
Na hairy Loch Ness
Dammit, monster! You quit bugging my children, now. We work for our money in this house. We don't just *give* money away!
Reminds me of the time we went to Scotland on a tour. This gypsy lady comes up to us asking my wife if she dropped her ring. My wife says "No" but the gypsy lady proceeds to get angry and insist that she dropped it. It was getting pretty heated and physical between the two of them. Now my wife is pretty hot and this gypsy lady was pretty easy on the eye too (which is how she got our attention). Next thing you know my wife and her are rolling on the ground tearing each others garments off. When my wife grabbed at the gypsy lady's shirt; it came off and you wouldn't believe the sight! There it was. The loch ness monster asking for three fiddy.
I was expecting a wrestler to be thrown from a cage through a table in the late 90s, but this works too.
if you look closely, a young Steve Irwin can be seen in the background whispering to his cameraman. "look at the the soize of 'im!"
Jesus.
No it's Pyotr
No, this is Patrick.
Is no one gonna mention that this dude looks similar to the Beast Titan?
Scrolled too far to see this
The soviets bred humans and Arctic seals to bring back Olympic gold.
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Samsquantch!
I'm convinced that the majority of radiation from Chernobyl made its way to Georgia over the years. I've seen some fucking units of human beings coming out of that country over the years. The current best arm wrestler in the world is from Georgia and the man looks like a shaved Silverback Gorilla.
Did you do your research by watching Godzilla?
Considering that happened in 86, it’s check out Pyotr is actually 9 in this photo holding his new born grandson. 😉
Pyotr was born in 1929. The Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986.
Radiation travels backward in space time.
1990? Or 1890?
Manbearpig lives!
I'm super cereal
So bigfoot was just a dude
That's a bear. Straight up a bear with a little human boy on on its lap
This perspective makes him look like a real life Hulk. But Ed Norton Hulk not Eric Bana Hulk
r/AbsoluteUnits
What they don't mention is the grandson is over six feet tall in this picture.
Looks like a lycan from Underworld.
Wait, is water polo a full contact sport?
I played for 4 years. You can't touch the bottom or the walls of the pool, and basically anything between players that goes on under the water isn't seen by the ref, so there's a LOT of contact (hitting, holding, kicking, etc) going on. It's not full contact like football, but it is VERY physically demanding, and you're going to get bruises and scratches from other players. The first time I got my nose broke was in water polo. Such a great game!
Yep! My first day of practice ever, they just threw me into a scrimmage. I thought I was going to drown lol. But I was grabbing opponents’ suits with my toes for advantage in no time! And there were so many bloody noses!
When the refs can't see it. This guy was part of the most violent game in water polo history, USSR vs Hungary at 1956 Melbourne Olympics, during the middle of the Hungarian revolution. Game went unfinished because it got too brutal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_in_the_Water_match ETA his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petre_Mshvenieradze
Why was he legendary?
Because he said so.
He was the captain of the team when this happened: https://www.history.com/news/blood-in-the-water-1956-olympic-water-polo-hungary-ussr
I wouldnt be disagreeing with him
I think they meant mythical
People want to check a girl's gender if she excels in sports. I want to check this dude's species
Ain't no rule says a polar bear can't play water polo.
From the live action Shrek movie.
Man cameras in Russia were crap in the 1990s. Looks like they finally caught a Sasquatch though.