Y u no Mamaleek

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  • They made it into a quasi-Reddit like fifteen years ago. Back then, Reddit was mostly text posts, while Imgur only ever had image posts and later videos (including screenshots of text, of course). These days that’s not as much of a distinction — however on Imgur, short quippy comments always prevailed, and lots and lots of gif comments. After a while, this sucked even ten years ago when I used Imgur for a while, and I don’t imagine the situation improved lately.

    Anyway, when uploading an image to link it elsewhere, you can just not publish it for others on the site to see it and comment.

    P.S. Gotta say, though, the most fun I’ve ever had on social media is when people browsing by ‘new’ on Imgur decided that for one day they would upvote anything and everything that comes by. As a result, exceptionally weird stuff actually made its way to the main feed. I haven’t seen such abundance of weirdness and quirkiness even on the early 2010s Tumblr when it was still fresh and hip.










  • Welcome back to the USSR.

    Four people are travelling by train, in the same compartment. They share a few drinks, and start talking trash about the party and the government. One of them decides to play a joke on the others: he finds the car’s conductor and asks them to bring four cups of tea to the compartment at exactly eight o’clock.

    Meanwhile, the others in the compartment continue to insult the authorities.

    “Aren’t you afraid to criticize the party so openly?”, asks the first guy.

    “Who will hear you here?”, responds one of the others.

    “All compartments in the train are bugged, you know”, says the guy.

    “Don’t bullshit us like that”

    “You don’t believe me? Okay then. Comrade colonel, please send four cups of tea to the fifth compartment”, speaks the guy loudly.

    A couple minutes later, the door opens, and the conductor brings in four cups of tea. The others in the compartment fall silent, and hurriedly go to sleep.

    In the morning, the guy wakes up and discovers himself to be the only one in the compartment. When the conductor comes around, he asks: “Where have the others gone? They were supposed to be travelling further than me.”

    “I don’t know about that”, responds the conductor, “But comrade colonel really liked your joke.”


  • ‘Angina’ in Latin means tonsillitis, i.e. throat inflammation. It was borrowed in this meaning into Slavic and some Romance languages. Somehow English missed the note that ‘angina’ already means a particular disease, and borrowed the other sense of the word: ‘choking, suffocation’, and uses it mostly for angina pectoris, i.e. crushing chest pain caused by myocardial ischemia.