Comments on: The Motherland Needs a Word With You

By: Danno

Danno — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:04:42 +0000

“Maybe if everyone read The Gulag Archipelago, eh?”
-Good grief. Where is my fucking brick? Ya’ll put your big girl panties on and stop bitching.

By: Ian Ridley

Ian Ridley — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:12:23 +0000

Wow, I didn’t really know those (what appeared to me to be) stylized letters in those fonts were actually Cyrillic. Now I’m really conflicted because, while I can’t help but drool over that propaganda poster aesthetic, it is indeed really dumb to mush together two different alphabets.
It just looks so cool!

By: Daniel Gorringe

Daniel Gorringe — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:46:59 +0000

I think that aggravation over appropriation of culture misses two salient points:
1) No matter what artistic methods (in this case, cultural appropriation) are used by large advertising and film promotion, it will be cheap and offensive.

2) There’s a failure on the behalf of the Russians here to grasp the essence of English-speaking culture; theft. Our cultural motto is “I like that. That’s mine now.” Or should we still be wearing night shirts instead of pyjamas and speaking pre-goidelic Celtic?

By: Because

Because — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:53:08 +0000

And in answer we have this comic: http://wondermark.com/d/188.html

And in answer to that comic, we have this shirt: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=WON-ELEPHANT&Category_Code=WON

(Hope the links work.)

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:06:24 +0000

i entirely agree. You raise very many interesting points here, and i enjoyed reading them.
The girls in that photograph look absolutely ridiculous, so much so it actually irritates me. Speaking of irritating, Cyrillic abuse is aggravating and ignorant. People constantly get away with abusing culturally symbols like that, and i find it endlessly annoying.
Thanks for writing the article, it was great to read.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:59:58 +0000

I tried to do something red and black and Cyrillic for the trailer to ‘The Hunt for Red October’ (1990) – but it it didn’t fly.

By: Mz. Red

Mz. Red — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:29:46 +0000

Here are some real ones…
http://0rchid-thief.livejournal.com/658885.html

By: paul blume

paul blume — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:07:27 +0000

a question for Meredith:
‘vegan’ fur coat?
this intestests me…
does it mean fake fur or the fuzz scraped off vegetables that have been in the refrigerator too long?

By: BlueAnchorNatasha

BlueAnchorNatasha — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:22:30 +0000

Two points. The first being, that while I actually do read many entries, I have yet to comment. Its usually because Im so overwhelmed by how many interesting articles there are here. One could quite literally learn something new every day. Coilhouse is also a love letter to the literate. As far as Russia-love, I have to say that even though I am a bit guilty of heritage flaunting, even going so far as to name jewelry pieces after various members of the Romanov family and periods of Russian history, the moment I saw the Borat logo font, I wanted to slap some sense into everyone involved in the film. I still have not seen the film and have no intention of doing so. Cyrillic abuse is ignorant, its irritating and its just as bad as the American misuse of the German word ‘über’. Its not cute people, its grammatically INCORRECT. It makes me think, thats ok though people, you can make a jackass of yourself, Ill just pretend you dont exist. If theres one thing that sets me off, its misuse of foreign languages, whether it be whole words or phrases or the font in general. Cultural ignorance? Ohhh, dont even get me started on that one.

Over and out!
Natasha

By: Mer

Mer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:11:01 +0000

Buh buh… but I WUB mah furry hat…

(It’s vegan! Does that make me less of a douchenozzle?)