The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a fist of straw compared to the strain of the republic.
The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a fist of straw compared to the strain of the republic.
well i’m sorry, fucko, you’re completely wrong.
they have english in a lot of places these days, england for one.
yeah but who the fuck cares about your Russophobic island you call “Great”. It’s all been bought up by Russian and Arab oil men anyway.
Fantastic, another brave campaigner against national stereotypes using xenophobia to argue their point.
Also, the ‘great’ in great britain was put there to distinguish it from brittany.
Also, I’m not British, so you too are wrong and an asshole.
This is hilarious, let’s see how many more xenophobic babblings we can get out of the ‘rolcats are racist’ lobby before they guess someone’s nationality right.
my point is: it doesn’t matter where you’re from – you think like a redneck. And the fact that most English colonies have descendents from the same racist morons only strengthens that point. And I knew you weren’t American, coz no one here says ‘Arse’
Nah, that wasn’t your ‘point’. All you’re doing is flailing around trying to hit on a suitable xenophobic epithet to try to offend me. Not getting any closer, by the way. I’m not of British descent, either.
Keep it up though, you’ve now written off a very significant proportion of the world population as racists, based on their nationality. Go for gold and throw in a couple more continents.
Silence your bickering comrades! What the old cat speaks is true. We must all do our part to ease the strain of our glorious mtoherland.
I don’t care where you are from personally. When I said: these COMMENTS and JOKES are xenophobic that was my point. And that didn’t imply that I myself or Russians as an ethnicity are squeeky clean, in fact we are a pretty dam racist bunch trust me I know that. Just pointing out the fact that whoever came up with these is not much better. It’s like calling all GERMANS – Nazis, all ARABS – terrorists, and all Black people – gangsters. Now do you see the correlation, my cosmopolitan comrade?
For non-Russians studying the language, the most significant point in this caption is in the third line:
“i MORDU borozdyat morshciny”
(And the FACE is furrowed with wrinkles)
“Morda” (морда) means essentially the same as “litso” (лицо), namely “face,” but the latter word is used only when speaking of humans, and the former only in reference to non-human animals, like “snout” or “muzzle.” (If you use “morda” for a human’s face, it’s like “ugly mug” in English.)
Similarly, in English, both animals and humans can “die” and become “dead,” but in Russian a room-temperature dog is дожлый (verb: дохнуть) while a room-temperature human is мёртвый (verb: умирать) — and confusing the two sounds either disgusting or ignorant.
Then of course there’s the excellent term-of-abuse мудак (“mudák,” pronounced like “moo-DOCK”). It more or less translates “asshole” or “dickhead,” and thus could be applied liberally to someone like Harold. But to be more specific, “mudak” comes from a word that means “the male genitalia of a non-human animal.” So it’s roughly like calling someone a “dog-scrotum” as an insult.
There are a number of other examples where Russian tends to make a stricter distinction between humans and other animals than we typically do in English, but these are the first few that came to my mind.
@comrade
the correlation is that everyone enjoys stereotyping, including you – so stop moaning, you tedious cunt.
the only remaining correlation that I fail to see is between a “tedious cunt” and a “arsehole”, you fat fuck.
the correlation is that you are both, you tedious cunting arsehole.
Well here’s some Russian folk wisdom on the subject for you, pathetic shit, that comes from before the age of LOLcats.
Опа, опа, срослась пизда и жопа!
Этого не может быть – промежуток должен быть!
Go do some research.
does it say ‘do not feed the trolls’? good advice.
This is an example of a “chestushki”, short poems that usually contain profanity. This particular one goes something like
“Oops, oops, a c*nt and an a%%hole have grown together!
That simply cannot be – separation there must be!”
Probably true of Western and Eastern idiots too, as I’m sure we’ve proven there’s plenty in both societies.
None of the “linguists” so incensed and posting here get the reason for the Russian text. Translation clearly isn’t the point. The translation *points*, and what it points to is 1) the fact that an orientalist version of Russian humor is what’s funny here, and 2) the direction of HOW we’re supposed to take these jokes and what tone they take (see #1), NOT what is actually being said.
Max: Hmmm, does Russian have a word equivalent to the American slang “taint”? That is, the region that “separates” the genitals from the anus — so called because “iT AIN’T the pussy/balls and iT AIN’T the asshole.” (Note that it’s a unisex term.)
Anyway, here’s my suggested translation for the chestushki above:
Alas, alas, her cunt’s fused with her ass!
There should be space betwixt — one hopes she’ll get it fixed.
@Max: “I don’t know where the number 20mil comes from, most files from that era talk about 2-3mil Gulag deaths.”
The “20 million Soviets killed by their own government” claim presumably includes those who died in the Ukrainian famines under Stalin. (I’m not asserting that 20 million is an accurate number; I’m just saying that it reflects the deaths by famine in addition to those who died in the Gulags.)
Following up to my previous comment: the figure “as many as 10 million” is pretty widely circulated in the West as the estimated number of Ukrainians who died in Stalin’s deliberately planned famine of 1932-33.
Of course, this number is problematic because — as with all genocide claims — the politics involved are so bitter and passionate.
This is about KITTENS, not genocide. Go somewhere else with your numbers. Blek.
Robert,
Of course Russia’s official answer to Ukrainian claims of genocide is their own famine at the same time all throughout the Volga region up to western Siberia, which basically says “we couldn’t have taken it from Ukraine because we were starving ourselves”… Like you said, there is so much politicking around the issue that real truth is the first casualty.
Btw, one common misperception in the West is that Stalin was a RUSSIAN dictator, while he was actually ethnic GEORGIAN who russified his name, so Russians naturally get the blame for “all those people Stalin ordered killed”.
Props on the translation lol Exciting to find a Westerner who knows the “Опа, опа, Америка – Европа” genre lol Do you study Russian?
Are you familiar with Barkov, a 18th century writer who wrote profane poetry that grew into modern common jokes, the Anekdoty?
and no, I don’t know how one would say “taint” in Russian, sorry lolol
Ha ha ha……WHOOOOOOOOOOSH
Historians nowadays pretty much agree that the Golodomer (~death from hunder) was not deliberately planned.
Great translations btw