• @HomerianSymphony
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    2 days ago

    I googled and found it was a kind of jacket used in the Red Army.

    British people call nerds “anoraks” because of a type of sweater they stereotypically wear. (It comes up a lot in Doctor Who fandom.) I thought “vatnik” was maybe a creative way of calling me a Communist nerd, modelled on anorak.