I've known it for a long time, but it's still unsettling that the word for 'Jew' in Western Slavic languages is one that exists in Russian but is offensive...

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 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bullypulpitgames/night-witches - this company makes a computer game about the Night Witches regiment. I don't play computer games, but it's Night Witches - I went to read. ... and now I am thinking. Specifically, ( Read more... )

I am reading a discussion about how Steve and Bucky in Avengers (or Marvel? I am shaky on the differences, I am not into comics) would not be into pop psychology and would not find going to a psychologist/therapist natural and helpful, and thinking "Oh yes ( Read more... )

I keep thinking about how there's such a lot of YA books and TV series about USAian high school, and how this is such a subject of instant boredom to me ( Read more... )

... a strange moment: several times when discussing the recent 'hospital prank' story here, I've encountered the attitude of 'ha-ha, these people at the hospital somehow believed that the Queen would speak with an Australian accent, how silly of them' - not even 'attitude', but actually the first reaction ( Read more... )

The most amazing mess of an opinion about manners - and yes, I see what kind of a site this is, but it's not unique in its opinion, is it?

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Russian coverage of foreign cultural/social news is so depressing, and mostly directed at ridiculing human rights movement, tolerance, LGBT acceptance etc. I never trust anything Russian mass media says and try to find English-language sources, but ( Read more... )

Maybe there should be a law about never reading fantasy based on your own culture. Because really, the _Grisha_? How dumb is that?

... maybe it's strange that the Takarazuka versions of Russian classics don't turn me off, I dunno.

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I have a cough. I am really tired of that damn cough.

In other news: this article about why poor people have the habits they have is fun and understandable, but. One thing threw me out of it ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like our country is a distorted mirror of everything that goes in the rest of the world. From a leading candidate in the elections who says that elections are dirty and unpleasant and he's not going to campaign because he has work to do, to professional psychologists who don't know the difference between sex and gender ( Read more... )