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[Lord Shonus]

Lord. If there was a window of time between 'too soon' and 'I don't get the reference' to be making 9/11 jokes, I must have missed it.

9/11 was 21 years ago. "Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" hasn't been anything but a meme (as in, nobody in any quantity seriously believes it)for at least 15. Memes have a limited lifespan.

[Il Palazzo]

Thank you, mr. obvious.

[hector13]

That’s Pan Oczywisty to you.

Unless internet translators lie.

[Starver]

Моє судно на повітряній подушці повне вугрів

[Random_Dragon]

Моє судно на повітряній подушці повне вугрів

...google translate tells me that says "My hovercraft is full of eels" in Ukrainian, and "My ship is on a pillow on the top of the hill" in Russian.

[MCreeper]

Former is true. What it refers to, though?

[Starver]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook

(Yeah, "ship on a pillow" sounds like a likely technical term, but obviously only the particular one in common use in Ukraine, then. (Russian seems to be судно на воздушной - "ship on air"?) The relationship with eels (Russian: угри) and being on the top of hills (Rus: вершина холма?) currently escapes me. Though the cathedral city of Ely (sometimes, and problematically) is ascribed to being named as the "District of Eels", within which the settlement is sat upon its hill... And we all know how much Russians are so culturally attached to random details of English cathedrals, right?!?)

...we now return you to your regular programme.

[Strongpoint]

Please, anyone, make Elon Musk shut up... I am tired of seeing him (and people discussing his idiotic war-related messages) on my Twitter feed

If Elon will, in fact, buy Twitter, I'll delete my account on day 1...

[martinuzz]

If Elon will, in fact, buy Twitter, I'll delete my account on day 1...

You don't need to wait for Elon to take over. Twitter is utter shite as it is. Just delete your account right now.

[ChairmanPoo]

I find twitter to be pretty good to keep up to date on certain topics, actually. Just avoid the temptations of following up on inflammatory tweets

[Random_Dragon]

Please, anyone, make Elon Musk shut up... I am tired of seeing him (and people discussing his idiotic war-related messages) on my Twitter feed

If Elon will, in fact, buy Twitter, I'll delete my account on day 1...

[Laughs in not having a twitter account in the first place]

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Though all the artists who post NSFW art there that gets flagged as not viewable without an account does sometimes get me tempted, it really ain't worth getting immersed in the cesspool.

[Strongpoint]

If Elon will, in fact, buy Twitter, I'll delete my account on day 1...

You don't need to wait for Elon to take over. Twitter is utter shite as it is. Just delete your account right now.

For me, Twitter is the best social network and I enjoy it quite a lot. It is a really fast way to get information, it has a great pool of memes and it has quite liberal and fair moderation.

[MaxTheFox]

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook

(Yeah, "ship on a pillow" sounds like a likely technical term, but obviously only the particular one in common use in Ukraine, then. (Russian seems to be судно на воздушной - "ship on air"?) The relationship with eels (Russian: угри) and being on the top of hills (Rus: вершина холма?) currently escapes me. Though the cathedral city of Ely (sometimes, and problematically) is ascribed to being named as the "District of Eels", within which the settlement is sat upon its hill... And we all know how much Russians are so culturally attached to random details of English cathedrals, right?!?)

...we now return you to your regular programme.

A hovercraft in Russian is called a "ship on an air pillow". Суддно на воздушной подушке.

[Starver]

A hovercraft in Russian is called a "ship on an air pillow". Суддно на воздушной подушке.

...I'd say that the recent (incomplete!) research on the subject, and your clarification, has taught me something new. But mostly I'm going to forget almost all this again quite quickly, sorry.

(About the only thing I cannot forget, apart from mostly reading Cyrillic as if it's Greek (which I then mostly read as algebra!) is the very very old joke about the visitor to Russia who thought the word for "Restaurant" was pronounced something like /Pek-toe-pah/.)

[King Zultan]

I forgot why do we need to know how to say hovercraft in Russian?