I think the college fraternity has more to do with the names for Greek letters, trying to sound mysterious I think.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternities_and_sororities

All people on this earth have a lot more in common than they think especially Russians and Americans. I think your Vatnik MAGA comparison is spot on. Being a stupid asshole is now a political ideology.

A few great examples can be seen in this video: https://youtu.be/wtr5XXHufuk?si=KQXW12BidmQZGioN

It’s a long one but very interesting. There are several times he shows peoples cars and boats covered with Zs. Very reminiscent of trump supporters I see around here with all kinds of bullshit on their cars.

This guy’s channel is great. He explores areas of Russia that no one talks about. This video I found especially interesting as Kaliningrad (originally Koningsberg) is where my maternal grandmother was from. It’s fascinating to see what the land is like. I doubt I’d ever be able to see it in person regardless of the war.

My great grandfather on my dad’s side was from Ukraine. I’ve always been very interested in Eastern Europe.

Good on your parents. I wish I spoke at least some Spanish as that’s the main 2nd language around where I live. There are also quite a few Russian and Ukrainian immigrants in the area. So much so that all the signs at the food bank have those languages in addition to Spanish. It always warms my heart to see the Babushkas loading up on beets and turnips alongside the older Hispanic ladies!

I wish you health and safety in this increasingly turbulent and uncertain world.

Shit can basically mean anything good, bad, ugly, or beautiful. It’s really an amazing word.

I just speak American English, so nothing too crazy. There’s the term fuckin’ a. It’s used by older generations I’d say. I’ve always just assumed the a stood for ass, which would be strange to censor ass after you said fuck. I recently looked into it and the a is for affirmative, and the term comes from military radio chatter. It basically means emphatically affirmative.

Another old time one is the whole shiterie, Meaning the whole thing or collection.

Another fun one is a brick shit house, meaning overly well built for what it’s used for.

There’s also shit on a shingle aka sos, which was a really basic diner food consisting of gravy on toast.

No it doesn’t. I can’t believe you’d say such a thing. Those were all well thought out and valid replies.

/s

My post was mainly a joke, however, I find your comments extremely interesting and well worded.

That last example “забил хуй (zah-beel khooy)”. I find very amusing and I can grasp the feeling. Google translates it literally to being “Hammered the dick”.

Is that accurate?

I think slang and vulgar terms are fascinating and tell a lot about the culture that produced them. I even go so far as to say, swearing is one of the most illuminating things there is to language.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Speaking of the ongoing war, did you catch this video?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/y5l3vi/ukrainians_intercepted_communication_between/

(Sorry for the Reddit link, it’s the only place I’ve seen it.)

How would you rate the translation of the subtitles?

No, we just have to get into a pedantic and derivative argument and we should be all good!

Tell ya what, you up vote it and I’ll down vote it and all should be right in the world.

I’ve been saying it for years, what is a dickshit?

Really profoundly unnecessary there pal.

That’s interesting and all, but I don’t think it qualifies as world news.

Yes I definitely did some save scuming, cuz I didn’t want to miss anything, but ultimately I think it’s best to just let it play out as it will. I need to do another run for sure.

Bodied.

Disco Elysium is probably one of the greatest works of art this century.

Yup that’s the one! Thanks.

Oh word. I was wondering what the fuck was going on. I’ll fix it. English major habits die hard lol.

Welfare queens I’ll tell ya waht.

They really will just fuck us to death if we let them.

I think there are guides that gently point you in the right direction, without too many spoilers.

I definitely got stuck on a few things.

Damn, it’s so much sharper that it cut me.

This fucking guy. It’d be great to never hear about him again.