Comments on: 8-bit Tales – Differences between RU and EN

By: Dima Kaminskiy

Dima Kaminskiy — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:48:49 +0000

Some explanations:
1. The T71 is crushed with a Suitcase. Suitcase (Chemodan in Russian), is a slang for Howitzer round.
2. Crawfish. You have two huge pincers incapable of fine manipulation (such as precise driving and shooting) and you are walking (and doing everything else) backwards.
3. Deer. You are a dumb herd animal unable to think for himself.
4. Donkey (Osyol), symbol of stupidity and stubbornness in Russia. So the US party which took Donkey as it’s symbol is seen as VERY silly by Russians – they admit they are dumb. Stubborn as a donkey and Dumb as a donkey are common Russian sayings.

By: Jiri_Starrider

Jiri_Starrider — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:03:57 +0000

I’m going with Jackass over Donkey also.

By: VALB Wolvenworks

VALB Wolvenworks — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:41:03 +0000

maybe donkey = Jackass? not so common as tomato, but if you have time to think that’ll come up.

By: mmx29

mmx29 — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:15:51 +0000

Suitcase is because the arty shells on the Russian servers are called “suitcases” (Because of their massive size + other untranslatable folklore reasons)

By: 2goXD

2goXD — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:44:33 +0000

Rak :D

By: Mark78

Mark78 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 18:42:53 +0000

Insults I’ve heard…

Only Russians use the deer and crayfish thing…Most people probably didn’t get that in the April Fool’s game.

Jingles and QB use donkey. Circon uses Pancakes. Heard others use it. QB seems to be the only one I know that uses “like a big, floundering power donkey”. Personally I would never watch him if it wasn’t for Jingles.

Tomato is fairly common. It’s for the red color XVM gives bad players. Haven’t heard potatoes and only know of one reference I’ve came across.

When I started the game the term “Terribad” seemed to be common. Not so much right now. Personally I’ve taken to calling bad players in Russian (heavy) tanks “Ivan the Terribad” as the KV-1S seems to attracted bad players because they can one-shot Tier 4s (and still not able to do that good in it) and they seem to grind up the Russian Tree. I’ve also noticed more IS-6 bad players, playing like Lowe Gold Noobs. Maybe I just didn’t notice before. They too are “Ivan the Terribad”. And the NA server refers to anyone who plays German tanks bad and is a German tank fanboi as a “Wehraboo”.

By: Jebadiah Concubine

Jebadiah Concubine — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:52:32 +0000

I heard some nose-picking streamer used the term once or twice and now his window licking fans have started promoting it

By: cobraa1

cobraa1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:17:53 +0000

Yeah, it’s a cultural thing. It’s used a bit in the USA and likely other western countries.

A donkey is also known as an “ass.”

“Ass” is slang for “stubborn” or “foolish.”

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/donkey?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ass?s=t

By: fireabend

fireabend — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:12:49 +0000

In russian youtube wot-channels (for example Amway921), they call arty shooting ” suitcases”. Just like this:
“this is not a good position, one suitcase can come at any moment”.

P.S. sorry for my bad english

By: MolochZ

MolochZ — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:51:30 +0000

Its donkey, anyway an ass is a donkey so same thing. Its said a billion times here in Ireland. All the time.