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volkischexe January 15 2010, 15:04:57 UTC
Where'd you get that radtastic santa hat on your user icon thingy?

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the Santa hat azurelunatic January 15 2010, 15:11:02 UTC
As the result of being baffled, asking questions, then poking around in the most appallingly illiterate of fashions.

It's a Nokia advertising stunt on the Russian side. To get it, I turned the Cyrillic Services tickbox http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=display in my settings on, waited for the system to realize that I *had* turned it on (it took about 24 hours, but I didn't bother logging out or clearing cookies/cache/restarting browser), then poking the balls on the Flash-based tree at http://www.livejournal.ru/nokia2010/

As my command of written Russian is limited to Да, спам, and ЖЖ, and the page is Flash-based and doesn't let you copy the text and shove it in Google Translate, that process was pretty entertaining.

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Re: the Santa hat volkischexe January 15 2010, 15:51:06 UTC
Awesome!

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Re: the Santa hat pauamma January 15 2010, 16:44:53 UTC
As my command of written Russian is limited to Да, спам, and ЖЖ,
Does that mean you can't say "no"? :-)

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Re: the Santa hat azurelunatic January 16 2010, 01:47:25 UTC
Нет.

(There may be a slash fanfic joke in here that I'm a little too headachey to make.)

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Re: the Santa hat pauamma January 16 2010, 13:59:22 UTC
Probably a good thing (not that you are/were headachy, but that you didn't make the joke), as it would have most likely been wasted on me.

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Re: the Santa hat shutter January 16 2010, 11:04:43 UTC
yesssss, i got one.

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Re: the Santa hat estelle January 16 2010, 19:26:17 UTC
me too! And I still have no idea what I was doing there :)

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Re: the Santa hat schpydurx February 1 2010, 07:52:07 UTC
Love the pic. Very colorful.

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Re: the Santa hat estelle January 16 2010, 19:30:21 UTC
Thank you! Too bad I didn't know that when it was actually still santa time. Eh well, maybe it will stick around until next year. Holy smokes, maybe it will stay like that forever now. And transfor into bunny ears for easter? I'd like some bunny ears please.

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Re: the Santa hat azurelunatic January 17 2010, 02:04:43 UTC
If there's a red text message in the top right corner of the screen, in the navigation bar, the system hasn't realized you've got Cyrillic Services turned on yet.

I think the box that says you got the hat has two buttons rather than one.

Other than that, I was copying letters from the Wikipedia chart of the Cyrillic alphabet, and pasting them one by one into http://translate.google.com

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Re: the Santa hat azurelunatic January 17 2010, 17:35:33 UTC
I think it might? I was just button-mashing by that point, and I think I clicked the left button.

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Re: the Santa hat bb January 20 2010, 03:51:08 UTC
Nevermind, I got it! :D

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