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Gone full potato pancake

Gone full potato pancake

The term, “blin”, in Russian, means “pancake”. It is also synonymous with a mild Russian swear word that, more or less, translates as “dammit”, or “crap”. (As opposed to говно or черт, which translate much more closely...
Monday morning manny mauling

Monday morning manny mauling

Ah, Monday. Our old enemy. We meet again. And, if you’re anything like me, you tend to start your Mondays having to deal with the Dreaded Spawn of Billzebub – POWERPOINT. I swear, if I could pay someone a commission to just automate all of my...
Scratch-a-Nazi

Scratch-a-Nazi

It has been about a week since Gonzalo Lira, once known on TEH YOOTOOBZ as “Coach Red Pill”, for his involvement with the Manosphere movement, was arrested again by the Ukrainian SBU. Since then, to the best of my knowledge, we have heard very little of...
Friday T&A: Pea-Souper Edition

Friday T&A: Pea-Souper Edition

The past day or so has been quite chaotic in terms of Banderastan War news. For a few hours yesterday, there was all kinds of panic all over Russian Telegram channels about a major Ukrainian assault all across the nearly thousand-kilometre front line, and there were...
С праздником День Победы!

С праздником День Победы!

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the day on which the USSR declared victory over Nazi Germany, having fought all the way back from the very brink of defeat, to the storming of Berlin. It is an extremely important day for Russians everywhere, and is one of the most...
Monday morning VD

Monday morning VD

No, the headline does not mean quite what you think it does. It is in fact a reference to VICTORY DAY – which for Europeans and Americans is May 8th, and for Russians is May 9th. For the latter, Victory Day, or День Победы, carries far more emotional weight and...
Sunday Scripture: The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem

Sunday Scripture: The Lord Challenges Job

This is the bit of the Book of Job where His Hugeness weighs in, finally, after much debate and discussion between Job and his three friends. It is a fascinating exchange between the Lord of Creation and one who does not sin with his lips, but who in his heart does...
Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #2

Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #2

Gentlemen! We just concluded another round of Ask Didact Anything Day on my Telegram channel, which is your chance as a member of the community (such as it is) to ask questions to yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble Warrior-Servant. We got a really good battery of...
Friday T&A: Sinko the Mayo Edition

Friday T&A: Sinko the Mayo Edition

Back when I was living Stateside, in a part of the East Coast with a fairly substantial Hispanic population (in the Heights area, not downtown where I was), May the 5th was always this weird celebration of… something. I never managed to figure out what it was...