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1. Graphic designers who think that using the Cyrillic alphabet wrongly to 'Russianise' something is cool beans. A case in point recently - there were a couple of really nice faux Soviet propaganda posters up on Tumblr, one for Winter Soldier and one for Black Widow. Good use of design and restricted colours but the graphics! *flails*
Russian has letters English doesn't have. Also the Cyrillic alphabet (the block version at least) has letters that are shaped differently to the Roman alphabet. So, anyone 'ironically' using the Cyrillic backwards-R (which actually represents 'ya') or the Cyrillic capital D (which kind of looks like a squashed capital A) is actually making a real dog's dinner of things to anyone who can read even a little Russian.
See also: use of other non-Roman alphabets to exoticise text, as I've also seen the same thing done with Hindi.
2. Door to door salesmen who are apparently unable to read the sign on my door which basically tells them to bugger off (politely). I don't want to buy stuff on the doorstep, if I need a quote for something I am able to organise that myself and I definitely am not going to give you my bank details. Not even for the starving children.
3. Speaking of the starving children, there's the plague that is charity collection bags. I don't know if they do this outside the UK, but I regularly get 2-3 a month, sometimes more, begging me to put out stuff (usually clothes) for a variety of charities. There surely has to be a law of diminishing returns for these, that the more we get the less like that particular charity is to get anything at all? And yet still they come...
4. Ridiculousness on the internet - some days you just need something dumb/entertaining, hence my now following WorstCats on Tumblr, as well as Orkney Library (@OrkneyLibrary) and My Sad Cat (@MYSADCAT) on Twitter. All 3 are recommended!
5. Rampant creativity all around me. I might be about as creative as a bag of pondwater at the moment (at least that's how it feels) but that doesn't stop all sorts of things going on around me, both in fandom and in the wider SF community. Whether it's Patrick Rothfuss planning to kiss a llama for charity or singing chickens, action figure theatre with Star Lord and a velociraptor or lots of really good fic (pro and otherwise), all human life is there, on the interwebs. ;)
1. Graphic designers who think that using the Cyrillic alphabet wrongly to 'Russianise' something is cool beans. A case in point recently - there were a couple of really nice faux Soviet propaganda posters up on Tumblr, one for Winter Soldier and one for Black Widow. Good use of design and restricted colours but the graphics! *flails*
Russian has letters English doesn't have. Also the Cyrillic alphabet (the block version at least) has letters that are shaped differently to the Roman alphabet. So, anyone 'ironically' using the Cyrillic backwards-R (which actually represents 'ya') or the Cyrillic capital D (which kind of looks like a squashed capital A) is actually making a real dog's dinner of things to anyone who can read even a little Russian.
See also: use of other non-Roman alphabets to exoticise text, as I've also seen the same thing done with Hindi.
2. Door to door salesmen who are apparently unable to read the sign on my door which basically tells them to bugger off (politely). I don't want to buy stuff on the doorstep, if I need a quote for something I am able to organise that myself and I definitely am not going to give you my bank details. Not even for the starving children.
3. Speaking of the starving children, there's the plague that is charity collection bags. I don't know if they do this outside the UK, but I regularly get 2-3 a month, sometimes more, begging me to put out stuff (usually clothes) for a variety of charities. There surely has to be a law of diminishing returns for these, that the more we get the less like that particular charity is to get anything at all? And yet still they come...
4. Ridiculousness on the internet - some days you just need something dumb/entertaining, hence my now following WorstCats on Tumblr, as well as Orkney Library (@OrkneyLibrary) and My Sad Cat (@MYSADCAT) on Twitter. All 3 are recommended!
5. Rampant creativity all around me. I might be about as creative as a bag of pondwater at the moment (at least that's how it feels) but that doesn't stop all sorts of things going on around me, both in fandom and in the wider SF community. Whether it's Patrick Rothfuss planning to kiss a llama for charity or singing chickens, action figure theatre with Star Lord and a velociraptor or lots of really good fic (pro and otherwise), all human life is there, on the interwebs. ;)
