I have a new favourite picture
May 15, 2011
The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire.
Click on it to enjoy the huge version – I love how much they’re all enjoying themselves!
And what are they doing? Well, wikipedia explains it, but basically they’re writing one of the rudest letters in history to Sultan Mehmed, who’d sent them a letter ordering them to knock off fighting him and surrender. So they gave him a long and loving earful of Piss Off, Stick It Up Your Arse Sideways and Your Mum, winding up with the glorious:
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. Thou wilt not even be herding Christian pigs. Now we shall conclude, for we don’t know the date and don’t have a calendar; the moon’s in the sky, the year in the book, the day’s the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!
Now that’s the kind of political discourse I want to hear more of!
