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.

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?

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

I’ve picked up hitchhikers. Hey what are you saying?!

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Same as my first word. Shit.

I’d say it’s a tone and context sorta thing.

A few years back it snowed in Seattle, which is uncommon. I saw a video where folks were having a snowball fight, as you do. A snowball entered the partially open window of a driver. The lady proceeded to Hop the curb, and drive up some embankments trying to hit people with her car.

For a fuckin snowball.

I’ll have to try that. Thanks!

Propane is very cold. If you’ve ever had some squirt out on your fingers when hooking up a tank you’ll know how cold.

At my job we have a propane powered forklift. When it’s anywhere close to freezing out, it’s a bear to cold start. It will behave how you describe, runs for a moment then dies.

As a result we have a plug in heated magnet we throw on the throttle body to preheat the system. Even then once you get it rolling you have to give it throttle until the engine reaches operating temp. Kinda like using a choke but the forklift is fuel injected, so an adhoc choke.

I’ve heard folks with propane car conversions will run the engine on gas to heat everything up and then switch over to the propane. If that is possible with your generator that would be the next thing I’d try.

The reason your cooking gas works is because inside where the ignition is happening is presumably warm and also less complicated than running an engine.

I’m guessing your generator is outside/in an uninsulated space and the engine is having a hard time reaching operating temp with Sub-Zero propane feeding it. Keeping the tanks warm may help, but I think engine temp is a bigger factor.

I have no idea about run times on propane vs gas. I have heard that propane is less efficient, but cleaner burning.

I am far from an expert, but these are things I’ve seen and dealt with. Best of luck!

I think they’re fixated on a Chihuahua and a Great Dane getting it on.

Maybe they only eat raw egg.

Why the hell would it work better?

These are two very different flavors of thing we’re talking about. No doubt you could soak booze up with a hardboiled egg. But why the fuck would you want to?

Bury them in lye!

https://youtu.be/yUYgguMz1qI?si=h_85r9wFSY-rH_qA

👀

The backside of my balls is smooth and soft like you say. They’ve been that way for as long as I can remember. I do not cycle regularly.

I don’t see why not. I often joke about doing so, and have once or twice gone around and around, but the thrill quickly wears off after two or three passes.

I would love to watch someone commit to the bit and keep on until the authorities take issue.

What I’ve noticed with the summarizing is that it’ll pull a quote that says something close to the search term. When in context of the article the quote is a rhetorical question and often goes on to say, “No, actually the opposite is true.”. Of course the second part of the sentence is left out of the summary.

Wild shit!