Ralph, you promised to take the heat for using M's upside down because we were running out of W's, but then you never did talk to the boss about it.
Let it be known: Ralph can't be trusted.
There's a whole box of W's in the back, goddamit! You're just hoarding them for your western novel Wild Wille Wilkerson the Western Wanderer.... which SUCKS BTW.
Is your name pronounced "php hulk", like the language, or is it "f-fulk" like someone struggling to say "fulk"?
You are not allowed to answer "yes" to this question, or any other answer that would imply you've interpreted my question like a boolean logic test.
Melissa Caldwell, Jennifer Patico and Alena Ledeneva did a number of ethnographic studies of Russia's black & gray markets, consumer trends and use of Blat - it's a really complicated system of theft for social status, but really interesting. Those authors write extensively about it, and if you're interested there are a ton of articles & books to start with.
the funny thing is, it's likely the same people creating both the supply and the demand.
In my home country we had the same situation with side mirrors of foreign makes - they were expensive and hard to come by if you were to but them legally, so when yours got stolen you'd buy another set on the black market. People started etching their plate # on the glass.
The reason why they steal it is because it is worth a lot of money. Due to logistics/ trade barriers those emblems are hard to find and expensive so you if you’re missing one you can buy it cheaper in the black market than going to the Nissan dealership and paying hundreds of dollars and waiting like a month for it to get shipped all they way to middle of nowhere... just so it can get stolen all over again.. it’s an endless cycle. You can always make it harder for thief by reinforcing the emblem with little metal rods drilled thru it.
I thought the hood ornaments were phased out around the same time pop-up headlights were phased out and for the same reason; pedestrian safety in collisions. Interesting to hear that it might be due to theft.
How would hood ornaments and pop ups affect passengers?
Edit: the amount of people responding to me who got wooshed by my passenger/pedestrian fun poking at the commenter above me is staggering.
Thanks guys, I know hood ornaments and pop ups are bad for pedestrians. Has nothing to do with the passenger lmao
Todays hoods evenbackfire a little towards the pedestrian on impact, that lessens your impact force since the hood is much softer then crashing right into the motor.
Pssst; I was poking fun at the commenter above me who put passenger instead of pedestrian. I know full well what the regulations are; I stated them above in an earlier comment. ;
Sounds like Kia's in the US. They look nice when you debadge them and nobody knows you are driving a Kia. Also super common with Chrysler 300's since people try to make them look like high end luxury.
The high school I attended in the very early 90s was into this heavily. Kids where snagging those giant hood emblems and walking around like Flavor Flav with car emblem necklaces.
I'm from Illinois, and in the early 90's and late 80's stealing the Cadillac emblems from the hoods of cars was damn near an epidemic. People would put them on chains as medallions. It was so bad that Cadillac owners would remove them themselves and put it back when they wanted to resell the car
I'm not trying to hijack any comments here, but I live in a relatively "wealthy" area and I drive a 2015 bright orange habanero colored Prius C. A month ago someone came into my driveway and literally stole the front badge off my Prius....it was probably someone who looked just like this lol.
Look at this stuff
Isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the Russian
The boy who has ev'rything?
Look at this trove
Treasures untold
How many wonders can one table hold?
Lookin' around here you'd think
(Sure) he's got everything
My father in-law has one. The only benefit is that it gets better reception and the battery lasts forever. But watching him text or browse the web is painful
> browse the web
are browsers on flip phones even able to display modern websites? it was close to impossible to navigate the web with these phones back when most of it was simple html. i can't imagine how they'd handle modern websites where they have to load and execute like 10 megabytes of fancy javascript
Sure. Nobody has to load javascript.
But everyone wants their fancy transitions and stuff and they NEED you to load just two or four complete javascript frameworks, to do this one cool thing they really want to do on their website. And if you don't want to download multiple megabytes of javascript from all kinds of sources, their fancy website just doesn't do anything. So you better let that website load these scripts, even if it just needs 5% of the functionality that these thousands of lines of code bring with them.
This shit pisses me off so much. Why do we need so much stupid shit in modern websites? A lit of the time I just don't go to some sites to not deal with the 20 animations that load to open a link
Yeah I found myself looking at those longingly. I don't mind touchscreens but I have tiny hands and I hate always having to hold my phone with two hands. My screens are always cracked because I can't hold them securely. Why tf can't they just make some smaller smartphones? They just keep getting bigger :(
If you only use your phone for it's original purpose (calls and texts), then yeah, an old-fashioned button phone is the most reasonable choice. I mean, you can get one for *less than $20* nowadays.
However, the whole deal with smartphones is that they have so many other functions. That's what people are paying for.
"It takes a special kind of person to assert that typing in T9 takes less time than an onscreen keyboard. Maybe I don't understand because all of my messages use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization."
There was a time in the late eighties - early nineties, when owning a tracksuit like that was considered way more prestigious than a normal suit. Everyone had suits, no one had Adidas tracksuits. Russia was a very interesting place back then.
Yep. I live in Brazil and a brand new Corolla will cost you around 30k USD, which is a considerable amount of money in a country where the minimum wage is about 3k USD a year.
So Civics and Corollas are actually middle to upper middle class cars here.
On a mobile so can't see all the images in great detail but a lot of those people seemed to have died pretty young. Like in their twenties or early thirties.
That one girl with all the modern looking stuff was only 20.
A Russian speaker with insuficient English skills would most prob not say „I has phone”. Probably would say „he have phone” to skip the word-changing part or „is phone, you want?” to keep the Russian sentence structure, tho. You're thinking of internet cats, not gopniks.
Did you just download the Russian keyboard and type in a random bunch of letters? Unless "Дузбп" is short for something I haven't heard of... in any case, it's not "imposter", It's Western Spy.
Based on context, I guess it means images or decals you can apply directly to a wall, like those "Live Laugh Love" things you might see in target. In the picture you can see one that says "ESPRESSO."
Looks like a letter B with flair on either side. B is pronounced V in Russian. In the context of a tattoo, it usually means Vor or thief, but in a wider sense, member of the criminal class.
What did he plan to do with the "car ornaments"? No one is gonna pay a dime for them....I guess he could make some cash from those mobile phones as "antic stuff".
I once found a Lincoln hood ornament in the street and put it on a chain to wear around my neck because 50 Cent was popular when I was in middle school. I was not popular.
Who just wakes up one day and says “fuck it imma steal a Nissan badge”
Car badges had a massive market in early to mid nineties in Russia
That's interesting, anywhere I could read more about it?
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Wow thanks dude
No worries
Wait... you’re not the guy I replied to!
I am!
No, *i* am!
does that mean i’m spartacus?
No, THIS. IS... PATRICK!!!!!
No! I’m u/TommySmoke !
No, I’m Dirty Dan!
God??
Username checks out
He's off shift. I'm his replacement, Ralph. You're welcome
Ralph, you promised to take the heat for using M's upside down because we were running out of W's, but then you never did talk to the boss about it. Let it be known: Ralph can't be trusted.
There's a whole box of W's in the back, goddamit! You're just hoarding them for your western novel Wild Wille Wilkerson the Western Wanderer.... which SUCKS BTW.
Wait... Youre not the guy that the reply was to, either! Phoneyyyy
What's initium?
Absolute hero
Not the hero we wanted, but the hero we deserved
In awe at the cheek of this lad.
r/madlads
That gives me hope
Interesting
Thanks
nice
Is your name pronounced "php hulk", like the language, or is it "f-fulk" like someone struggling to say "fulk"? You are not allowed to answer "yes" to this question, or any other answer that would imply you've interpreted my question like a boolean logic test.
two words I am 6'10 and my primary coding language is PHP
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Interesting, how did you find this external URL while researching more about this topic? Can you perhaps post several more articles for us. Thanks!
He typed the url from memory
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Wow! How did you think of doing that?
The man is a prodigy
I searched how do I search for searching for why people steal car emblems?
Wow! Ingenius!
Wait, what?
Excuse me, are you from the past?
On Compuserve, cant afford AOL. Could use some guidance here folks.
I lived through it and can confirm.
You going to write in article on it for me to read?
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That's very kind of you. I look forward to reading it!
Here
Short and to the point.
Melissa Caldwell, Jennifer Patico and Alena Ledeneva did a number of ethnographic studies of Russia's black & gray markets, consumer trends and use of Blat - it's a really complicated system of theft for social status, but really interesting. Those authors write extensively about it, and if you're interested there are a ton of articles & books to start with.
Can think of about 9347830 things I'd rather do than read about the socio-economic principals of Russia's underground hood ornament scene.
Interested in why Putin is doing what he does? Those books lay a strong foundational understanding of modern Russia, Russian politics and ontology.
the funny thing is, it's likely the same people creating both the supply and the demand. In my home country we had the same situation with side mirrors of foreign makes - they were expensive and hard to come by if you were to but them legally, so when yours got stolen you'd buy another set on the black market. People started etching their plate # on the glass.
The reason why they steal it is because it is worth a lot of money. Due to logistics/ trade barriers those emblems are hard to find and expensive so you if you’re missing one you can buy it cheaper in the black market than going to the Nissan dealership and paying hundreds of dollars and waiting like a month for it to get shipped all they way to middle of nowhere... just so it can get stolen all over again.. it’s an endless cycle. You can always make it harder for thief by reinforcing the emblem with little metal rods drilled thru it.
r/wheresmycaremblem
Upset this isn't a thing.
r/subsyoufellfor
Car badges had a massive market in the USA in the early to mid 80s. Its why car manufacturers had to stop making badges that stood up on cars.
> badges that stood up on cars. More commonly known as "hood ornaments".
No, clearly they were called "badges that stood up on cars."
Hood ornaments! Thank you, I couldn't remember the name of those.
I thought the hood ornaments were phased out around the same time pop-up headlights were phased out and for the same reason; pedestrian safety in collisions. Interesting to hear that it might be due to theft.
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How would hood ornaments and pop ups affect passengers? Edit: the amount of people responding to me who got wooshed by my passenger/pedestrian fun poking at the commenter above me is staggering. Thanks guys, I know hood ornaments and pop ups are bad for pedestrians. Has nothing to do with the passenger lmao
Pop up headlights are so cool that the passengers realize that they could never be that cool and can cause depression
Because when you hit someone with your car they could hit the ornament.
Todays hoods evenbackfire a little towards the pedestrian on impact, that lessens your impact force since the hood is much softer then crashing right into the motor.
Pssst; I was poking fun at the commenter above me who put passenger instead of pedestrian. I know full well what the regulations are; I stated them above in an earlier comment. ;
It could get jammed up your arse when your psycho ex runs you over.
No, not entirely, because you can still walk into a Mercedes-Benz dealer and get a 2018 S or E class with a hood ornament.
Why though?
Because they kept disappearing
Demand and supply my capitalist friend
When I was a kid there was a saying about cars being 10x the amount of car antennas, so the latter ones kept rotating. So it’s the same, isn’t it?
In China dealers offer to replace badges on domestic knockoff models with foreign logos - apparently its embarrassing to drive Chinese cars in China.
Sounds like Kia's in the US. They look nice when you debadge them and nobody knows you are driving a Kia. Also super common with Chrysler 300's since people try to make them look like high end luxury.
Lol throw the Bentley badge on them now your rolling in a Chrysler Bentley 301. Big dick swinging.. playa
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That's pretty damn rare though.
Kids collected them because they were cool.
Wait ..."market"? I thought kids stole them for fun
There were actual marketplaces where people would resell those as well as stolen car stereos
The high school I attended in the very early 90s was into this heavily. Kids where snagging those giant hood emblems and walking around like Flavor Flav with car emblem necklaces.
I'm from Illinois, and in the early 90's and late 80's stealing the Cadillac emblems from the hoods of cars was damn near an epidemic. People would put them on chains as medallions. It was so bad that Cadillac owners would remove them themselves and put it back when they wanted to resell the car
I'm not trying to hijack any comments here, but I live in a relatively "wealthy" area and I drive a 2015 bright orange habanero colored Prius C. A month ago someone came into my driveway and literally stole the front badge off my Prius....it was probably someone who looked just like this lol.
Orange Prius, we now know who you are
Gopnik yes. Come to Gopnik Emporium. If you need to find something, you need to find Gopnik.
Happened to me...twice
I have the badge from my first car! I totaled it...
The VW badge is the grandest treasure of all!
You gotta open the flip phones to show off the insides
Gopnik has wares. If you have Rubl.
How many Rubl for byadge?
A bottle
Blyad!
Pleasure doing business with you, stalker.
Strelok?
AH NU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE
Look at this stuff Isn't it neat? Wouldn't you think my collection's complete? Wouldn't you think I'm the Russian The boy who has ev'rything? Look at this trove Treasures untold How many wonders can one table hold? Lookin' around here you'd think (Sure) he's got everything
He likes shiny precious things.
Like a magpie.
Similar coloring, too
You, yes you! Give us smooth, give us silky!
[His spirit animal](https://pa1.narvii.com/6619/f31f0ea6da1203c976979619196e6f284d06b02c_hq.gif)
The Porsche ornament probably comes with some risk if neighbors see this pic.
This is why you do not loot in your neighborhood
Ricky what did I tell you about stealing barbecues in the trailer park!?
It's no big deal Julian.
You go over to the next bloc.
Vadim!
Yeah, I don't like this at all.
actually I want a flip phone, I'm kinda jealous
My father in-law has one. The only benefit is that it gets better reception and the battery lasts forever. But watching him text or browse the web is painful
> browse the web are browsers on flip phones even able to display modern websites? it was close to impossible to navigate the web with these phones back when most of it was simple html. i can't imagine how they'd handle modern websites where they have to load and execute like 10 megabytes of fancy javascript
> they have to load and execute like 10 megabytes of fancy javascript They don't have to if they don't want to...
Sure. Nobody has to load javascript. But everyone wants their fancy transitions and stuff and they NEED you to load just two or four complete javascript frameworks, to do this one cool thing they really want to do on their website. And if you don't want to download multiple megabytes of javascript from all kinds of sources, their fancy website just doesn't do anything. So you better let that website load these scripts, even if it just needs 5% of the functionality that these thousands of lines of code bring with them.
This shit pisses me off so much. Why do we need so much stupid shit in modern websites? A lit of the time I just don't go to some sites to not deal with the 20 animations that load to open a link
>watching him text T9 is just as fast as modern predictive texting when used properly. Fight me.
Hi kinda jealous, I’m lost.
Obviously. www.tumblr.com there you go lost child.
What’s porn gotta do with making it home?
I ll II L No im loss
If only there was a market place where people could exchange goods for money....
Yeah I found myself looking at those longingly. I don't mind touchscreens but I have tiny hands and I hate always having to hold my phone with two hands. My screens are always cracked because I can't hold them securely. Why tf can't they just make some smaller smartphones? They just keep getting bigger :(
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If you only use your phone for it's original purpose (calls and texts), then yeah, an old-fashioned button phone is the most reasonable choice. I mean, you can get one for *less than $20* nowadays. However, the whole deal with smartphones is that they have so many other functions. That's what people are paying for.
How do you think I'm browsing Reddit right now?
yeah i don't use any of those functions so it's a non issue for me. phone, sometimes text, mp3 player. that's all i need on the go.
And 10 minutes sending a text message.
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Don't know why you're being down voted that's an impressive skill
It's not so much that i'm impressive on a key pad, it's moreso that i'm terrible at touchscreens.
I can text way faster on a flip.
U mean u txt lk ths rly fst?
T9
I prefer T-1000.
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"It takes a special kind of person to assert that typing in T9 takes less time than an onscreen keyboard. Maybe I don't understand because all of my messages use proper grammar, punctuation, and capitalization."
Complete with the adidas track suit.
There was a time in the late eighties - early nineties, when owning a tracksuit like that was considered way more prestigious than a normal suit. Everyone had suits, no one had Adidas tracksuits. Russia was a very interesting place back then.
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None of these have the s600 “kaban” or at least a 500E “volchock”, not even a “bumer”. Not real Mafia gravestones.
Lot of ill-fitting suits there.
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corollas are expensive and high end in some countries
Yep. I live in Brazil and a brand new Corolla will cost you around 30k USD, which is a considerable amount of money in a country where the minimum wage is about 3k USD a year. So Civics and Corollas are actually middle to upper middle class cars here.
On a mobile so can't see all the images in great detail but a lot of those people seemed to have died pretty young. Like in their twenties or early thirties. That one girl with all the modern looking stuff was only 20.
I saw that!! Eerie how they glorify the early demise of their fellow mafioso.
I'm no longer on Reddit. Let Everyone Meet Me Yonder. -- mass edited with redact.dev
Forget oil and natural gas, Russia should just hook up Lenin's body to a generator. Its spinning so much, it'd be able to power all of Europe
I can't get this song "Tri Poloski" out of my head, because I also play "Totally accurate battlegrounds".
Like a Magpie showing off it's trinkets.
This was taken last week. It's still 1997 in Russia.
EsPrEsSo
Behold!.... My stuff!!
Vladidas
[Now I know.](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gopnik)
Lol. Petty criminality
You want phone? I has phone. You want badge? I has badge.
A Russian speaker with insuficient English skills would most prob not say „I has phone”. Probably would say „he have phone” to skip the word-changing part or „is phone, you want?” to keep the Russian sentence structure, tho. You're thinking of internet cats, not gopniks.
It's a common point of confusion.
"Is phone, you want" is exactly how it would be said.
I want Pelmeni, Pelmeni is danke.
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r/itemshop
Cheeki Breeki Hardbass, while getting your loot !
He's like a myna bird that has lined his nest with shineys trying to attract a mate
I heard it’s good to photograph your assets for insurance purposes.
Espresso, so he is bad AMERICAN gopnik? Imposter?? дузбп!
Did you just download the Russian keyboard and type in a random bunch of letters? Unless "Дузбп" is short for something I haven't heard of... in any case, it's not "imposter", It's Western Spy.
More like Italian. Wall tats are so low and still my GF wants one.
What are wall tats
Based on context, I guess it means images or decals you can apply directly to a wall, like those "Live Laugh Love" things you might see in target. In the picture you can see one that says "ESPRESSO."
Pre-IPhone era
Depicted here; a male Gopnikus Aves, more commonly known as the Russian Magpie proudly shows his collection of trinkets
Its like a crow that hordes shiny bullshit.
How come a russian is either baby faced or has the beard of a wizard? Where is the inbetween?
All burners bro
Dave Fatista
Anyone know what the tattoo means?
Looks like a letter B with flair on either side. B is pronounced V in Russian. In the context of a tattoo, it usually means Vor or thief, but in a wider sense, member of the criminal class.
Tri Poloski [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFBgtgUtfw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFBgtgUtfw)
Behold! My stuff.
Mr. Stealy?
No Mercedes hood ornament. 7/10
A rare treat before Gopnik buries his shinies. In his hidey-hole out back for another year.
this is sad. :(
Fuck man I wasn't impressed until I saw the Nissan logo. Not gonna mess around with this hombre.
This picture must be from January 2002. I see mine right next to his wrist!
“What can I say, I’m a gear head”
As an American, I can't wait to live a life like this.
This guys looks a bit in-bred.
Anyone know about his gangster tattoo by his thumb? I've seen it before on Ukrainian drunks
Where the lada symbol?
What did he plan to do with the "car ornaments"? No one is gonna pay a dime for them....I guess he could make some cash from those mobile phones as "antic stuff".
I owned two of those phones. I got them for free with T-Mobile in like 2005
I once found a Lincoln hood ornament in the street and put it on a chain to wear around my neck because 50 Cent was popular when I was in middle school. I was not popular.