The Antisocial Socialist

I thought you might find this schadenfreude / squee-worthy: Patches for Imperial Stormtrooper "reenactors" from many nations - including Canada and Israel. There are a handful of Rebel patches as well; some Canadian, none Israeli. The Michigan one is cute, as well as the Rebel "Ghostbusters" patch.

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sabotabby

Oddly enough, I never got seriously into Star Wars. I mean, I loved the old ones as a kid, but the new ones...ugh. And as I probably mentioned a gazillion times, I went to high school with Anakin Skywalker, making it utterly impossible for me to take him seriously.

This said, the fact that there's a pink and black Imperial cog makes me utterly happy.

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Well, I thought you might be amused by Israeli stormtroopers.

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sabotabby

That and the Saudi stormtroopers.

I can see why someone would want to collect them.

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... and those from Al Berta.

Hey, not to pimp myself too shamelessly, but you haven't commented on anything since my pirate swag post and I've been on fire lately.

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sabotabby

Because there have been links. That requires clicking on things. :(

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sabotabby

To be specific -- I can't view anything lower than 10-point type on my monitor at work (and even that's a stretch), which pretty much vetos web comics.

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jaymoh.livejournal.com

New Star Wars- terrible. I thought that the last one was funny though, the best of the 3. Hayden Christiensen= worst actor ever. He's cute though in a non-sexy kinda way.

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sabotabby

Dare I ask what the Darth Maul Estrogen Brigade is?

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Probably best that you not know.

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I wonder why Arabic numerals are used with whatever script that is on the patches. "501" is universal?

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sabotabby

I'm feeling insufficiently geeky. Something must be done!

Quick, someone start talking about Firefly.

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human-loser.livejournal.com

Uuuuh, do you think Mal and Kaylee ever argue over Serenity, the way parents would argue about how to discipline or raise their children?

I could see it.

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human-loser.livejournal.com

I mean...if they were real...and had lives outside of the fictional stories we see them in....

Or maybe Nathan Fillion and Jewel Staite will actually launch into an argument like that while they're hanging out at a con and then stop and go "...Whoah..."

Whatever, it's late. goodnight.

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sabotabby

Mal and Kaylee definitely do (well, even in the show they did).

If Fillion and Staite did, I'd be a bit disturbed. Not because their fictional personas had intruded into their personal lives, but because it would force me to contemplate the actors outside of their roles, which in turn would remind me that Jayne is played by a Republican. So sad!

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What, you're surprised? Jayne is not only played by a Republican, he IS a Republican! The only reason his character is not a racist, mysogynist pig (remark, not that Democrats can't do that as well) is because of political correctness.

I mean, even Mal is the classic working-class Republican, a kind of male

ginmar. (She's not anymore, but she used to.)

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sabotabby

But actors are all supposed to be flaky liberals! It's a waste of hot!

I wouldn't say necessarily contemporary Republican for either of them. Maybe right-wing populist, given that they do identify as working class. Of course, the whole set-up is a PC version of the American Civil War, so you have political decentralization but not social conservatism, given that it's Joss Whedon and he wants us to root for them.

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I'll go with ring-wing populist...

This reminds me of when Miles O'Brien started getting more attention on TNG because the public identified with him and demanded more of him. I mean, who actually identifies with Patrick Stewart?

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sabotabby

I don't. Among the many reasons why DS9 was a better show than TNG was that the characters in DS9 were actually human, so to speak. The crew of the Enterprise were the best of the best -- and how many people do you know like that? -- whereas DS9 was full of flawed, ordinary people who fucked up on a regular basis.

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And DS9 started collapsing when the doctor turned out to be a GMO-supergenius who'd been faking it as a regular Joe. That wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, but it was all happening around the same period when you started having demon-fleets of Dominion and whatever the hell they threw in that show towards the last seasons. I stopped watching.

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It's Star Wars - there's sound in space and Han & Leia can step outside in it wearing only gas masks - and you are worried about numbers?

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Han & Leia can step outside in it wearing only gas masks

That came out wrong. ... Well, not wrong but ...

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It would have made things more interesting.

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I'll have to try Cuban rum sometime. I suppose that requires a trip out of the США.

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sabotabby

Apparently you can get it in Soviet Canuckistan, but it costs much more.

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Oh man, so much more. We brought back our 4-bottle alotment and I made the mistake of giving 2 away. If I ever go back to Cuba, I'm keeping the 4 bottles to myself and I'll find other gifts to bring back for people.

Although, we still have some left. Feel free to invite yourself here for degustation ;]

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sabotabby

Wheee! I'm insisting that Jose bring more back the next time he goes to Cuba (I think he goes fairly regularly, as he has family there). It's some good shit.

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incendiarymind.livejournal.com

S Sh A?

Is that really the Russian translation?

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Соединённые Штаты Америки = USA = США = ess shah ah

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incendiarymind.livejournal.com

Ah, the second two words make sense to me at least.

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един is single/one (similar to один, the number one), Со- is similar to the English/Latin co-, together, though I suspect it's etymologically closer to syn-, which comes from Greek. I'm pretty sure they are all originally from the same Indo-european root.

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incendiarymind.livejournal.com

How did I miss that being in there? Looks like even my twelve words of Russian are doing me no good. :)

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I was writing an essay on Chinese foreign relations in the Maoist period yesterday and I wrote down USSR vs. USSA at some point. That wasn't in the essay I handed in, but by 1966 that was China's attitude towards the two countries: interchangeable superpowers.

I think that if Khrushchev would have let Mao have his way, we would have had nuclear war. Mao was pretty much the eastern Che, without a domestic Castro to temper him!

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