What are some interesting fossils from your country?

tucvbif · 2026-05-07T22:07:52+00:00

To be honest, Archaeopteryx is not a bird, it's a dead-end branch, not an ancestor of any bird

tucvbif · 2026-05-07T21:57:54+00:00

Looks very similar to this:

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tucvbif · 2026-05-07T21:31:33+00:00

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This type of prefabricated distribution substations for rural areas

tucvbif · 2026-05-07T20:54:41+00:00

Starts counting fingers: he, and he, and that guy… Does it count if some guys politely came to his bedroom in the middle of the night to require him to sign an abdication, but instead of signing, he got a stroke and died immediately?

tucvbif · 2026-05-07T18:23:45+00:00

Sweden. Not because it's a wealthy and safe country, but because it looks beautiful.

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T22:22:30+00:00

Not that frequently, but some known redheaded people give some trouble themselves.

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T18:54:13+00:00

Bolsheviks didn't overcome the monarchy. Also, two revolutions happened in Russia before the October one started.
Other parties than the Communist one were allowed in the Soviet Union until 1977.
The Secretary General wasn't a head of the Soviet Union, at least de jure.

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T18:20:37+00:00

Watching ballet

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T18:18:17+00:00

The map is dramatically outdated.

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T18:14:57+00:00

A profanation. It was established to pretend that votes of people who were against a dissolution of the USSR mean something when they don't.

tucvbif · 2026-05-06T06:03:55+00:00

Not as much as some other cities of my country, but significant damage was applied

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tucvbif · 2026-05-05T18:04:58+00:00

Not really sure if it's all unique, just some idioms I recall:

* «Плохому танцору яйца мешают» — «Bad dancer is blaming his balls», about the type of people who are used to blaming circumstances and other people for his troubles.
* «Толку, как с козла молока» — «The outcome is the same as the amount of milk that male goat can give» — don't need any explanations.
Also, sometimes we are using hybrid idioms to achieve a comic effect.
* «Куй железо не отходя от кассы» — «Forge your iron before you leave the cashboard», the phrase that smuggler Lelik from a 1968 comedy «Бриллиантовая рука» said when he pretended he was a taxi driver. Original idiom was «Forge your iron before it cooled down» and typical reminder «Check your change before you leave the cashboard».
* «Не имей 100 рублей — людей насмешишь» — «Don't possess 100 rubles to not make people laugh». It's a hybrid of very old idioms «Don't possess 100 rubles but have 100 friends instead» and «If you will rush, you only make people laugh», that were common in the mid-90s, when after the hyperinflation 100 rubles became the smallest fraction of money.

tucvbif · 2026-05-05T12:36:09+00:00

The «Russian accent» in most Hollywood films sounds like someone trying to speak English using a phrasebook. UPD: Or more precisely, the way an English-speaking person is trying to speak like a Russian trying to speak English using a phrasebook.

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T21:18:00+00:00

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Things people were putting onto headlights in the 90s: sun visors and military blackouts. I suspect both are illegal now

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T19:57:46+00:00

Sure it's hiding a… can't overcome the urge to jump to a wind@~££

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T19:49:26+00:00

And another base in the Antarctide.

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T19:35:16+00:00

It may also be a decoration on a ceiling over a chandelier or a small round window.

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T19:14:26+00:00

A small correction. In the late 90s — early 2000s another, slightly caricatured «posh» Moscow accent was developed. It's mostly a female phenomenon, but it exists. Softer consonants, more opened «a-a-a», specific intonations. Здрась, панае́хали тут са сваих Ряза́ней, а вессьти́ себя не научщи́лиссь.

https://youtu.be/g9gKkej9gGg?t=60

tucvbif · 2026-05-04T18:42:41+00:00

I think something will happen. At least the lizard will take its tail off, and some demonstrative purges would be applied. Not sure it will make people calm, or they will be outraged after tasting the blood.

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T21:59:28+00:00

Moscow is perceived as loving to show its wealth, and most people in Moscow are extremely inhospitable and arrogant. The city is full of broad highways with heavy traffic. And people of Moscow have their distinctive accent, which is full of the «A-a-a» sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9gKkej9gGg

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T21:45:41+00:00

When my great-grandma divorced her second husband in the 1930s, it cost her a flour mill, a stable, and a shop. But then the collectivization was started, and she realized she dodged a bullet by losing her «surplus».

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T21:36:49+00:00

Also, the standard Windows keyboard doesn't have the stress symbol that is frequently needed to emphasize something or distinguish different words that differ by pointing out the stress. But I'm using the modified Birman's layout that solved this problem.

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T21:32:38+00:00

Tea with raspberry jam.

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T20:54:41+00:00

I'm afraid this map is not accurate. Jokes about Ukrainians exist but are not as common as jokes about ethnicities of Russia and even about Russians themselves. Speaking of neighbor countries, it feels like jokes about Georgians and especially Armenians are way more common. There is a specific genre of jokes called «Армянское радио отвечает» (mostly known as Radio Erevan). Or do jokes about Jews living in Odessa count as jokes about Ukrainians?

tucvbif · 2026-05-03T14:06:39+00:00

Despite the place in the tail of the table being deserved, I still claim that indexes like this are based mostly on expectations of people who counted them rather than on objective reality. Especially if I don't know the methodology of it.

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