For years, the lower classes have enjoyed eating contests with foods such as hot dogs, pies, probably White Castle hamburgers, probably lard, etc., as members of the upper class watched from the…   Read Story »

Please do not translate anything, I have all the information I need. (Via BoingBoing.)   Read Story »

Being a kid is the worst. You can't do anything and you're always getting yelled at and there's a boy in class who smells so bad and it's like the adults don't even care and Maggie is popular but…   Read Story »

I'm not sure what it is that is so compelling about watching a video from the perspective of someone climbing something very tall and dangerous. Or, I guess, I don't know why I feel like I absolutely…   Read Story »

These photos are all from a charity concert held in Russia to benefit children with cancer and eye disease. Oh, good! That is a perfectly good reason to hold a charity concert. But, also, what is…   Read Story »

Pranks are the worst. We know this. There are lots of reasons why: they are not fun, they are not funny, and variations on this theme. But one of the biggest reasons why pranks are the worst is that…   Read Story »

What? If you don't know whose team you're on, how are you supposed to know whose face to cave in?! On a sidenote: is it just me, or do you guys ever worry that Russia is TOO normal? (Via…   Read Story »

There was a period in world history when the United States and Russia were mortal enemies who spent years toeing a tense diplomatic line that threatened to topple at any moment into total atomic…   Read Story »

Aww, thanks, Trololo. Merry Christmas to YOU! (Thanks for the tip, Polythene Pam.)   Read Story »

Vladimir Putin has definitely choked someone to death before, right? Like, that's just a given? (Thanks for the tip, Bluestockings and Mary.)   Read Story »