Friday, June 28, 2013

Mary beating Satan with a hammer

One of the more violent icons I have ever seen!!

Friday, June 14, 2013

Tiftach peh - nafal banana

The Russian subtitled version of this video became a huge hit on YouTube - over 1.2M views. As the poster explains:
With 10 words in crappy Hebrew and 5 dirty Russian words - the following issues were clarified:
- Instant test of knowledge of memorial dates during 20th century
- The history of the Holocaust and the second world war
- Technologies for preparation of personal higiene by the Nazis
- Cultural Studies, Ethnography, National traditions and characteristics of the mentality of the peoples of North Africa
- Geography, Climatology and specificity of the natural reproduction of traditional agricultures in Morocco
- Use cases of personal-protective equipment by security guys
- Management techniques of hypersexuality in a limited number of members of the opposite sex
Of course, the charm of this video is lost in translation - it is the masterful way that the old Russian security guard curses at the Moroccan in Russian while abusing him in Hebrew. The classic Russian cursing style is the use the word blyat' every other word. Blyat' (or it's sloppily pronounced derivative blya) is an ancient Russian word derived from the word "to fornicate' but in common parlance it means slut. However, Russians will typically use it the same way that Americans, especially blacks, use the word motherf*cker, peppering their speech with the term and using it to somehow work themselves up... The other word we encounter often in this video is debil - a moron or imbecile. This most likely came to Russian from French, where it means weak (as in mentally). There are other random obscenities spread out throughout the video, including a truly untranslatable word - pizdetz. While it is impossible to figure out the true origin of this very versatile word, it is most likely a portmanteau of the word pizda (c*nt) and konetz (the end), meaning a truly f*cked up outcome. In this case, getting sprayed with pepper spray in the car would be a total pizdetz for the Moroccan. I have to admit that while the video was very entertaining, I was a bit puzzled by what would lead to such a confrontation. I even suspected that it was staged. However, after the Russian became a minor Internet celebrity, he gave an interview explaining the back story. Apparently, he works as a security guard at a school for children with developmental issues, and the Moroccan is a food delivery driver who has been taunting and provoking him for some time about his Russian ethnicity. That day he lost it - and the exchange was caught on a dashcam. The result is priceless.

Monday, June 03, 2013

Far-Right Extremists Chased Through London by Women Dressed as Badgers

Thank God the Brits still haven't lost the ability to come up with a good headline! Read more here:


Young women dressed in fake fur were seen chasing doughty nationalist supporters down London's Whitehall as a large number of security forces in iridescent jackets looked on from police lines.
Led by Queen guitarist Brian May, protesters in fancy dress demanded an end to the government's cull of badgers, brought in to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis. They chanted: "Smash the cull! Smash the BNP!"
 BNP candidate Clifford Le May was left with a bloody nose after being caught up in a rival enclave of human rights activists.