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Ideas for an actual coherent post are still cooking. So meanwhile, I am going to paste this link up here so I can find it in case I ever need to use it as a stylish response in a flamewar.
http://lleo.aha.ru/na/en
You are my friends, so I am definitely not sending you people there with intent. Has no NSFW pictures, but a visible NSFW text. Also has some grammatical errors.  I find it cute.

About Reports, Ratting and Tattletales

Because my term paper is boring me to tears, despite my cunning opportunity to use "letting the dark side win the unmarked label is still a dubious decision on merely these grounds" --- during a coffee-date with ms_danson of extraordinary length without even a scrap of boredom, the topic of this blog entry by Leonid Kaganov came up, so I will translate it.

Anyone who was born in the USSR has learned from babyhood that there is no insult worse than yabeda - tattletale. The tattletale is the undisputed enemy of society. Children hate tattletales and teachers do not respect them either. Even though you'd think they should like their informers. When the children grow up, this will be called by yet another word: rat, or report-writer. And that is practically a cannibal.

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*unlike the majority of Russian words, yabeda is not multimorphemic and does not break down into simpler roots and affixes that clarify its semantics.