No. Empty Cruise is not kidding. You'd better have a sense of humour if you go there*, and pax similarly.
Having finally negotiated start up, you well may also then happily burn any amount of gas waiting for taxi. I love the "just waiting for the "xxx" ahead of you...." call : one hour later, the tug arrives (I say arrives, it has actually been parked in front of your aircraft for the whole time), followed by the crew of "xxx", etc. If you are unfortunate enough to qualify for the EU-ETS, this will give you a sense of warm satisfaction, as it completley fxxs up the politicos' rediculous pseudo-calc of CO2 burn for the route.
So fill you boots, and never say Россия-Матушка doesn't look after you...
Всего доброго!
*And I like the place. Russia, I mean, and Moscow in particular.