Comments by "turquoisestones" (@turquisestones) on "Oneindia News" channel.

  1. 4:18 - Here the translator didn't handle well the funny exchange between the moderator and Putin (you can see everyone's laughter at that point) and the following funny joke that Putin said: Moderator: "It's good that finally the government started doing something. But what bothers me is that the government started getting its act together only after the rooster pecked them." (This is a reference to a Russian saying "the peasant won't move his finger unless the rooster peckes him", meaning that people are generally lazy and will only start doing something important and meaningful when a real danger comes. The translator rendered it as "only after the thunder struck" instead. The moderator here refers to the fact that the government started doing a lot of good and effective things after the West started imposing sanctions on Russia, especially after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine) Putin: "Well, as far as the rooster is concerned, I think we will just consign it to be cooked in soup. After all, it's not doing its business any more. It has stopped riding hens!" (The translator here rendered it as "Well, we will overcome every circumstance, every difficulty, you know.") This is really funny because in Russian the word "rooster" is also a ephemism for a male who has become gay. In other words, Putin is hinting at the fact that the West has diviated from its original traditional values and by doing so has appointed itself to be good only for being cooked, that is, to be cooked in the battlefields in Ukraine.
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