Thread: Как будет по-русски "No sh*t, Sherlock"?

And, incidentally, we also say "Is the Pope Catholic?" and/or "Do bears shit in the woods?", but these are in response to questions with a very obvious "Yes" answer, not statements or predictions:

JOHN: "Do you think that Supreme Court Justice Scalia will vote against same-sex marriage?"
MIKE: "Do bears shit in the woods?"

JOHN: "I expect that Justice Scalia will vote against same-sex marriage."
MIKE: "Duh!"

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

JOHN: "Do you think that Supreme Court Justice Scalia will vote against same-sex marriage?"
MIKE: "Do bears shit in the woods?"

Well, like I said -- bears shit in the woods, the Pope is Catholic, and the sun rises in the east:

WASHINGTON — In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
[...]
In a second dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia mocked the soaring language of Justice Kennedy, who has become the nation’s most important judicial champion of gay rights.

“The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” Justice Scalia wrote of his colleague’s work.

Actually, I more or less agree with Scalia in an abstract legal sense -- I don't think there is a Constitutional right to same-sex marriage -- although I obviously disagree with his homophobic tendencies.

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

And, incidentally, we also say "Is the Pope Catholic?" and/or "Do bears shit in the woods?", but these are in response to questions with a very obvious "Yes" answer, not statements or predictions:

JOHN: "Do you think that Supreme Court Justice Scalia will vote against same-sex marriage?"
MIKE: "Do bears shit in the woods?"

JOHN: "I expect that Justice Scalia will vote against same-sex marriage."
MIKE: "Duh!"

This might just explain the attitude towards same sex couples in Russia - well, if you ask there, "is bear sh*t in the woods", you might not expect the duhing silence, but rather "what, it's in the streets man!", meaning not everything you normally expect to be obvious is that obvious in certain areas. =))