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Any Russian readers out there?

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Can anybody tell me what this t shirt says?

http://www.russian-t-shirts.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/e64b03096dbcf8eb6402baf316cfe420.jpg

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  1. wear and forget

    but the "and" just looks like a B in russian but i'm guessing it's an unclear symbol for and

    nosi i zabivai  


  2. Nadya is right.

    "Носи и забивай"

    носить means to wear; забивать means to drive, to hammer.

    to drive, hammer a nail — забивать гвоздь

    There is also a slang version of забивать, for example

    Забей! means Forget it! Pack it in! Leave it at that.

  3. It's a nice joke, but it's hard to explain it. It's a kind of a two-level joke, you must know alot to understand why it's funny.

    First, it was a soviet symbol: "hammer and sickle" that was intended to symbolize "the union between workers and peasants". At the end of soviet times it was a popular joke to read this symbol as "коси и забивай" ("cut and beat" - its' clear "cut" for a sickle and "beat" for a hammer). The fun is that in youth slang it mean "avoid and ignore". I.e. the main symbol of soviet propaganda was read as "avoid and ignore [soviet propaganda]" :)

    These guys at your link replaced "коси" (cut) with almost similarily written "носи" (wear). A joke over joke. :^)

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