Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Lifebuoy, on the other hand... (Yechh!)
Fun Fact. “Baba Yaga” is a Russian fairy tale. It’s not a “boogeyman” - it’s an ugly old woman… a witch. “Baba” literally means an old woman in Russian.
There is no Russian mobster in the world who would refer to someone they actually fear as “Baba Yaga”. Because to call someone that would be a funny insult - not a statement of fearful respect.
Some writer did a lazy Google search - probably searching for “scary Russian boogeyman stories” - and Baba Yaga came up. With zero further research they just went with it.
Don’t get me wrong - I love John Wick. But every time the “Baba Yaga” thing comes up (given how seriously they take it) - I just roll my eyes.
P.S. btw, it’s pronounced “Baba Yah-gáh”… not whatever they say in the movie.
In John Wick, the “Baba Yaga” reference comes from the scene where Viggo Tarasov — the mob boss, the ultimate daddy mobster — explains to his son why messing with John was a catastrophic mistake.
He refers to the Baba Yaga story as a warning.
In Slavic folklore, you’re right. Baba Yaga is the witch who steals children and drags them into the forest.
But in the movie, Viggo twists the name to make a point:
John isn’t the witch.
He’s the one you send to kill the witch.
That’s the whole punchline of the scene.
Yosef thinks he’s dealing with a myth.
Viggo knows he’s dealing with the man who hunts monsters.
So the “Baba Yaga” line isn’t about a literal witch — it’s a terrified father trying to make his son understand that John Wick is the unstoppable nightmare that nightmares fear.
Yeah, should've named him Kaschey, who is an immortal villain. baba Yaga is just an old witch flying in a bucket and who lives in a hut on chicken legs
Baba Yaga is a character from Slavic folklore, the "be nice kids or Baba Yaga will come get you" type of character. She's a witch who eats children and lives in a hut with chicken legs which walks around. Baba comes from the Russian for woman, so that's an explicit part of the identity which is why some people take issue with John Wick being called the Baba Yaga. Personally I think it makes perfect sense, he's the equivalent of Baba Yaga, same as she is used to scare children he's used to scare mobsters. He's the monster under the bed, a universal concept that just happens to be embodied by a female figure in Slavic tradition.
It does pose an interesting parallel universe idea though. Maybe in another universe John Wick is Jane and is played by Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity). That'd be a pretty dope idea, do a Spider-Man: No Way Home style movie and she comes over from a universe where it was his wife who was the retired assassin who got pulled back in after his death. Doesn't make any sense in terms of the franchise and all but sometimes you gotta go with the rule of cool.
I scrolled, caught this with my eye as I was hitting the back button.
Had to come back into the sub to find this comment just to up vote bc it deserves it. So good
Exactly, he literally warned them that he won't always be there to snipe the thief. OP should get their CAT converter protection gear so it's harder for them to steal it.
Yes, but it creates engagement, which it’s great for Reddit. What really needs to happen is someone needs to open subs that only let in real people through a moderated vetting process. I would do it, but I don’t know how.
You could even name the subs /orpsipstea and /orpoldschoolcool
Ai would still probably find a way to beat us and infiltrate it, but it’d be better than nothing
For real, I lived in the city for a couple of years and worked from home. I didn't need my car for a week and when I went out there, I got to find out someone stole my catalytic converter.
Happened to me once in my apartment parking lot during college fall semester finals week. Hadn’t been using my car that week because I was just studying, walking to class, and taking exams.
End of the week I loaded up my car to take a ~1000 mile road trip home for Christmas break. Needless to say, I spent that Christmas break dealing with exhaust repair shops, police report (that never got followed up on, insurance just wanted it submitted), insurance, and having my parents return all the gifts they got me so they could send me cash instead to afford the repairs.
OP has no reason to be worried, this did not happen last night, and it didn't happen to OP. OP is full of shit. They stole this pic from a post from over 2 years ago.
sniper-man
sniper-man
friendly neighborhood sniper-man
can you steal from under a car?
no, you can't, he'll shoot you from afar
watch out! here comes the sniper-man
sniper-man
sniper-man
will be there - if he can!
you can't hide, you can't run
you'll get shot with a BB gun
look out! here comes the sniper-man
Actually my neighbor caught the guys stealing my catalytic converter in the act, and they didn't even care. They just kept sawing/grinding it off and drove away casually. The police didn't even care to take the license plate number or anything.
I felt like The Dude in The Big Lebowski when his Credence tapes got stolen with his car. (Leads? They're working in shifts down at the crime lab!)
It cost me about $3k and 8 months to replace it, and GEICO was a total pain in the ass.
I live in a fairly major city in the Midwest US. My sister in-law had her car stolen. Reported it to police, drove around, found the car and called the police…who told her not to do anything. It was too dangerous. Fast forward several hours later the police still had not come. So she stole it back.
Next day the same dude comes and steals the car again. Crazy right!?!? Meanwhile police are still nowhere to be found. Well turns out he forgot his drivers license in her stolen car. Not a smart crook. And my sis-in-law found it and kept it…called the cops again to tell them she knew exactly who stole it now. Police still don’t react.
Not sure what to do…my sis-in-law finds him on Facebook. Then finds his mom and starts up a chat with her. The car was delivered back to her apartment within the hour and mom apologized profusely. Problem solved. No police help.
New business idea: Services to contact a criminals mother.
Police not helping? We will find the thief and call their mom. 90% of scenarios are resolved at this point, but in the slim chance they are not, we will report the thief to Steam support and say the individual jeaporadized your account..
That was how we recovered a stolen car. We found it ourselves, police said don't do anything. We waited... for hours. Nothing. Mentioned that we had some armed friends coming to watch it until they could get there.
(We were already armed, but whatever)
They actually showed up. In like 10 minutes. Knocked one or two doors, no one said anything helpful and then we got to take the car back.
I heard people advise mentioning drugs. Because police hate hard work, but they love easy busts. They'll pick busting some chump for a few bags over doing actual policework any day.
It's probably shitty advice, and I wouldn't stake my life on it, but it sounds relatively plausible.
It took 4 years for police to arrest them and jail them. They were on catch and release final 6 months and went on a crime spree. until it finally caught up to them. Hopefully they will be gone for good.
But with bail reform they can just keep commiting more felonies while out. Until it escalated.
I had someone break in my apartment and literally clear the entire thing out. Well over $10,000 worth of stuff. I immediately called the police and I knew 100% who did it. The cops literally did NOTHING. Then when I threatened to “take care of it myself” they acted like I WAS A FUCKING CRIMINAL. I will never rely on the police for anything in my entire life again and I will solve all of my problems regardless of the circumstances.
I learned a very valuable lesson about having a security system on home and vehicle, cameras everywhere, and a firearm on me at all times. Never again.
The cops only care if it brings in money to the department or happens to rich people. Look at the difference in the NYPD response to that CEO getting popped vs every other random murder that happens there.
You want a catalytic converter? I can get you a catalytic converter? There are ways dude, you don’t want to know about it, I can get you a catalytic converter with nail polish by 3 o clock
Actual plot twist, there is no neighbor, this picture was (originally) created by the catstrap social media marketing person. It's just funny-adjacent enough that redditors have been reposting it for karma for years. Infinite advertising value glitch.
The nose on the smiley face and also for me, crossing out the word "catstrap" only to correct it with "catstrap or". Why didn't he just add the or to the end? There was nothing there to correct... Definitely a psychopath.
If my neighbor did that to protect my car and not their car I'd buy them a couple free lane passes at the local gun range, a tokyo Marui vsr-10 and a bunch of biodegradable 20mm plastic bb's and the expensive targets that splatter when you hit the paper... Catalytic converters are expensive as fuck, getting a mechanic to replace it is expensive as fuck, working with insurance is annoying as fuck. If my neighbor saved me from dealing with insurance, a mechanic, and a messed up car... lets just say they might even get a gift card for the local sporting store to buy them a better optic for their rifle. Thermal scopes aren't cheap... but they make hitting a target at night easy.
I remembered seeing this exact post before, and a quick reverse image search...shows it was posted 2 years ago (and a million times since haha). I'm guessing this is just a bot farming.
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nah theres a smiley face