I'm going with a definite "yes", Megan, especially as winter is over (however ugly Spring may yet choose to be)
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DebetEsse - Apr 09, 2006 9:48:08 am PDT #9694 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Consuela - Apr 09, 2006 9:48:23 am PDT #9695 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, you know, if I'm going to eat plain oatmeal, I won't go the instant route.
Still, weird.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 9:52:29 am PDT #9696 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay, anyone got any theories about why my very nice but completely unintelligible Chinese next-door neighbor just tried to give me a box of instant oatmeal?
I'm vastly amused by the way she speaks to me so earnestly, and yet clearly has to know that I don't get a word she's saying. This must be what it is like to have American tourists in a non-English-speaking nation.
considers
I am your Chinese next-door neighour. Only less generous with my foodstuffs. And more given to profanity.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 9:57:46 am PDT #9697 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Now I am picturing Fay as the Chinese guy from Deadwood because the only colloquial English phrase he knows is "cocksucker" Well, at least, I can entertain myself after all.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 10:03:51 am PDT #9698 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ibna Kelba.
(Arabic for son of a bitch. Which is very, very, VERY offensive indeed. Slightly less offensive is Ibna Kelb, which means son of a dog.)
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2006 10:17:27 am PDT #9699 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Fay Jay! A cab driver said insh'allah (sp) to me yesterday and I knew what the hell he meant!
(I'd said 'have a good day' or 'hope the weather breaks' or somesuch)
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 10:29:29 am PDT #9700 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ojala in Spanish means about the same thing...one of the lasting leftovers of the Moorish influence in Spain.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 10:30:44 am PDT #9701 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Cool!
Salaam alecum (Peace be upon you) is a most excellent multipurpose Hello/Goodbye phrase to employ in such circumstances. And the Arabic word (well, at least in Egyptian Arabic) for yes is "Iowa".
Topic!Cindy - Apr 09, 2006 10:41:45 am PDT #9702 of 10001
What is even happening?
I get a kick out of seeing young Muslims online, discussing the Prophet and putting "PBUH" in parentheses, after. It took me a while to realize that was essentially religious l33t for "peace be upon him."
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2006 10:44:50 am PDT #9703 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I learned 'sweetheart' in arabic a while ago. Now I'm up to, like, four words.