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[–] don@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

“Don’t mind me, just arguing semantics in a discussion about pedophilia. Carry on.”

[–] don@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Doing a quick search on “Yorshik” (Ёршик), of the very few sources I could find on the topic, while the word does seem to translate to “brush” there doesn’t seem to be any surface connection to toilet brush per se, though naturally it may be possible on a colloquial level.

This source that deals with meanings and etymologies of Russian words says:

Слово «ёршик» является диалектным выражением, используемым в русском языке для обозначения маленькой ёлочной игрушки в виде ёлочной ветки или шишки. Это слово имеет древнерусское происхождение и связано с древними славянскими обрядами, связанными с поклонением природе и деревьям.

Which DDG translate says means

The word "brush" is a dialectal expression used in the Russian language to refer to a small Christmas tree toy in the form of a Christmas tree branch or cone. This word is of Old Russian origin and is associated with ancient Slavic rites associated with the worship of nature and trees.

The only other resource I’ve found is this 11 year old YouTube video in Russian, that I can’t really understand. They seem to be joking about something, and “New Year” is mentioned, but I didn’t hear the word for toilet.

As far as I can understand, Yorshik seems to mean “brush” or “little brush”.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh, at least two, I’d guess. But seriously, I left when the api was shut down and I could no longer use Apollo to browse. There were other signs, but that was my tipping point.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago
[–] don@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

“Oh. Oh dear. That’s a compound fracture. Oh goodness me. Better let your family know you’re not long for this coil. We’ll ease your suffering with what little we have, if we can spare it. Damn shame, that.”

[–] don@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Outfuckingstanding! Slava Ukraini!

[–] don@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

“I wish I could go back a thousand years to when things were better.” – catastrophically stupid fuck having no idea how remarkably unfuckingpleasant a millennium ago would be like for their peasant ass.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Fuckin duh.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 day ago

Excellent use of a Texan, especially one infected with the broke mind virus.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

That also works rather well.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

No, that would be the y-axis. The z-axis moves off the 2D plane from the center of the line as if it’s moving toward the “camera lens” that took the photo.

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