228 - one of the most common logos on clothes. This icon flashes both on the street and on the Internet. And in most cases in adolescents. High school students, trying to concoct a brutal look, demonstrate T-shirts, baseball caps, hats, posing for a photo on ava. These three numbers are often heard from the loud speakers of passing cars. You can also hear them if you inadvertently listen to those rhymes that rap lovers reproduce while sitting in your porch.
Interesting?
“No, well nowadays there were young people engraved with 666 t-shirts. Strange, with long hair. But 228 is something new. Yes, and they look kind of unhealthy. Is there a disease number of some kind? 228 what does it mean at all? ” - approximately such comments are given by passers-by in various surveys related to youth problems. And no wonder. Until recently, the meaning of these mysterious numbers was unknown even to those over twenty. And this caused more and more interest in the mysterious number (all, except for the parents of the owners of this logo on their clothes).
As a result, they asked.
Interested and amazed. Just rejoiced at the disappearance of the emo subculture, as it was replaced by a new one! No less frightening.
First mention
Probably everyone ever ordered a cheap taxi or caught a crumbling ride. If a miracle happened, and there was a radio in this car, then chanson, a tuber (usually of the 90s) or a monotonous chatter like “I looked at the sky. It is which is above the earth, above my head. Handsomely!". By the way, this is also music. At least so many of our children think so. So in the midst of this “creativity” there are such rhymes like “cigarettes - two two eight”, “for those who powder their nose - be afraid two two eight” and many more moments when this number is mentioned, and that it mean.
“228-culture”, whatever one may say, originates precisely from the texts of modern rap artists.
What is it?
To date, we can distinguish several values for the number 228. What it means, what is its origin, we will consider the most famous examples:
1) An intermediate natural number between the numbers 227 and 229.
2) 228 means “incident 228”, also known as “massacre 228”. This event took place in Taiwan in 1947.
3) 228 is an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation warning about what awaits those who will be involved in the storage, distribution, sale and transportation of narcotic substances.
4) 228 - a conditional sign of those in the subject. This refers to drug addicts, drug dealers, people who have anything to do with this dirty business.
Well, it should be noted the fifth value that appeared due to the efforts of individuals of school age:
5) Youth subculture, using code 228 for its designation. What does this number mean? Adoration of nightclubs, the use of hard / soft drugs, rap art by famous drug addicts. This sign is found in adolescents aged 11 to 17 years.
If everything is clear in the first and fifth paragraphs, then the second, third and fourth should be considered in more detail. The second is for general development. The rest - in order to rip off the clothes with the logo of 228 from the offspring and throw it into the oven.
Taiwan incident
What does the number 228 mean for the people of Taiwan? In 1945, Taiwan joined back to China, since before that for about fifty years it had been in the status of a Japanese colony. Naturally, at the end of World War II, China, seizing the opportunity, returned its lands as one of the victorious countries. However, the people of Taiwan were not particularly happy about this, since they believed that the Chinese government was mired in bureaucracy, corruption, greed, etc.
Naturally, with such a mood, troubles were inevitable. All dissatisfaction spilled over on one ordinary day, when a cigarette saleswoman grappled with government officials. The incident escalated into a massacre, in which about thirty thousand civilians died. This was followed by a series of repressions, arrests, exiles and executions. What do the numbers 228 mean in this case? This is the date of the incident - February 28th (02.28).
Surely most students wearing 228 T-shirts and baseball caps thus express their condolences to the brotherly people of Taiwan. And the whites of their eyes periodically blush from choking guys about this emotion and tears.
Powder your nose - fear two, two, eight!
Now let's move on to the Criminal Code of our country. What does article 228 mean? Consider.
Article 228 states the illegal nature of the storage, transportation, marketing and manufacture of narcotic and psychotropic substances, and also includes the storage, transportation, marketing of plants containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
So, all these actions entail a fine of forty thousand rubles, which must be paid within three months. Also, violation of the article is fraught with the appointment of correctional labor for a period of about two years. Or the perpetrator is sent to community service for four hundred and eighty hours (naturally, with a break). In addition, penalties such as “conditions” or “camps” for a period of three years are also provided.
On a larger scale, the perpetrator faces a sentence of serving a sentence of three years. Plus a fine of half a million rubles.
In the case of particularly large sizes, the term of imprisonment will be from ten to fifteen years. And the fine is already from one and a half million rubles and above.
If the guilty person confessed, handed over all the narcotic or psychotropic substances that he has, or informed about the places where they are stored, and also indicated the persons who have these substances, he is presumed innocent, a criminal case will not be opened against him.
But if this repentance comes from a drug dealer, custodian, carrier during an investigation, seizure of narcotic or psychotropic substances from him, then this does not exempt him from criminal liability.
Large and especially large sizes of narcotic or psychotropic substances are established exclusively by the government of the Russian Federation.
If the detainee finds analogues of narcotic or psychotropic substances, then this is equivalent to storing the specified.
Those who are "in the subject"
This already applies to the aforementioned drug keepers, distributors and sellers. It is not uncommon for the code 228 to be found on their pages on social networks. What does this mean? In these circles, this is a kind of conditional sign. Now such personalities, who freely trade on the streets, can be met extremely rarely, for which many thanks to nationalists, athletes and simply lovers of a healthy lifestyle. It was they who at one time “pushed a hat” to the activists of this culture.
However, incognito merchants arise every day. It is extremely difficult to catch them, since they learned from the bitter experience of their injured colleagues that they observe all kinds of conspiracy measures.
The essence of their work is to offer goods via the Internet, receive funds to your electronic wallet and leave the sold (bookmarks) in a specific place. After the merchant leaves him, he communicates this place to his buyer.
Those who are "at school"
In general, if you found this symbolism in your child (especially if you yourself, through ignorance, purchased something with this symbolism), then this is not a cause for alarm.
What does 228 mean on your child’s hat? Most likely, this is just an imitation of the majority and no more. However, this sooner or later can develop into a real “worship” of this idol. It's time to talk about what is good and what is bad. The main thing is unobtrusively.
Speaking of DotA
It seems to be off topic. But in fact, it was she who got a lot more schoolchildren on her networks than spice or coke (I mean drugs).
228 in real life has a completely different character than what these numbers mean in a computer game. Here we are talking about the phenomenon of "Tilt 228", which means in "DotA" hacking system inherent in not very honest players.
Although if you look at the side that it is much more useful for a child to spend time on the street than to turn into a vegetable sitting at the monitor, then it will not be superfluous to throw the system unit out the window. Well, or discharge a whole clip of traumatic pistol into it. Choose what is best for you.
