# What's the story with this Serbian(?) sticker?

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**Created:** [December 12, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-this-serbian-sticker/476877 "2008-12-12T14:06:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-this-serbian-sticker/476877/1 "2008-12-12T14:06:53Z")

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There’s a sticker attached to a drawer in my office. Nobody seems to know where it came from.

It shows an angry/grumpy yellow “smiley face”, with the following text below: **BAŠ SAM LJUK!**. (The final character of the first word is an S with a hacek, in case it doesn’t show up properly).

The top of the sticker is ripped but the final word appears to be **KRADU**.

I Googled the text and found [this page](http://www.dnevnik.co.yu/arhiva/26-07-2003/Strane/spec.htm) which suggests the full text is “Lažu, kradu, baš sam ljut” (there’s also a picture of a very similar logo, but with the text in Cyrillic letters).

What’s that all about? Google’s translation of the page suggests it’s something to do with Milosevic, but reading the machine-translated text makes my head hurt! It translates the sticker text as “Lazu, steal, I’m just angry”.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-this-serbian-sticker/476877/2 "2008-12-12T16:31:22Z")

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I don’t read serbian either, but I do read machine translations better than most. It appears that a Serbian political party called G-17 Plus had these stickers printed up, originally after some Milosevic-related “election theft,” and they now believe they’re relevant to the huge corruption case described in the article. The sticker says, I think, “Lying, stealing, I am very angry.”

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-story-with-this-serbian-sticker/476877/3 "2008-12-12T17:07:58Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> It translates the sticker text as “Lazu, steal, I’m just angry”.

I would guess the translation is “They lie, they steal. I’m just angry!” The only word that I’m not familiar with there is “BAŠ,” but from triangulating from a number of sources, I think “just” fits in best.