"Bicycle face" was a term used in the late 19th century to describe a supposed condition affecting women who rode bicycles, characterized by a flushed or pale face, drawn lips, and an expression of weariness. It reflected societal attitudes of the time, suggesting that cycling was inappropriate for women and could lead to negative physical effects.
so ladies, strap up your whale bone corsets extra tight and stick to waddling like uncomfortable penguins. who needs to breathe when you look so dainty!
we all know schadenfreude, doppelganger and zeitgeist but german is rammed with glorious compound nouns...
die Tollwut - rabies
The ‘Toll’ in Tollwut doesn’t mean great, but ‘crazy’. ‘Toll’ is a old word for ‘verrückt’. Tollwut therefore is ‘crazy rage’.
(see also italian - rabbia, spanish - rabia and french - rage)
die Nacktschnecke - slug
This is literally a naked snail.
der Zungenbrecher - tongue twister
In German they don't twist your tongue. They break it.
das Luftschloss - air castle
This is a dream that will likely never come true.
das Kopfkino - playing a scenario out in your mind
We all have it, but the Germans call it a head cinema.
das Drachenfutter - dragon feed
What do you feed a dragon? Who is the dragon? The dragon is your loved ones and the feed is a gift you give. This is a gift given to a loved one as an apology.
das Hüftgold - hip gold
The German expression is so much friendlier than the English "spare tire" or "muffin top". The extra fat around your midsection in German is hip gold
die französische Krankheit - syphilis
This is an older word, but it was too funny not to have on the list. The French disease is syphilis.
(see also many similar in various european languages)
die Windpocken - chicken pox
While the English word is likely from a resemblance of the small red marks that a chicken would leave, if they pecked at you, the German word is about how it spreads. Wind pox are easily transmitted in the air with the wind, therefore "Windpocken".
das Fernweh - far pain
the opposite of homesickness, a desire to travel
der Kummerspeck - grief/sadness fat
Many people on the internet think this translates as grief bacon, but they are stretching the meaning a bit. It is more closely related to the word fat, as other translations for “Speck” includes “fat” and “lard”.
das Fremdschämen - foreign shame
Shame for something someone else has done
die Torschlusspanik - gate closing panic
Torschlusspanik derived from the times where cities had city walls and gates, at a certain time gates were closed overnight. If you came too late, you had to spend the night outside of the city. Nowadays Torschlusspanik describes the fear to miss something important, like marriage or having children.
der Treppenwitz - staircase joke
A joke you come up with when you are walking away from an argument
(see also french - 'l'esprit de l'escalier')
der Weltschmerz - world pain
The melancholic pain you feel when you watch the world and its state.
die Schnapsidee - schnapps idea
An idea that you have when you are drunk
verschlimmbessern - to better worsen
To make things worse while trying to make them better, a combination of verbessern (to make better) and verschlimmern (to make worse, exacerbate)
The act of regarding something as worthless or insignificant. It is one of the longest words in the English language, originating from a combination of several Latin terms that all imply little or no value.
"action or habit of estimating as worthless," 1741, a combination of four Latin words (flocci, nauci, nihili, pilifi) all signifying "at a small price" or "for nothing," which were listed together in a rule of the well-known Eton Latin Grammar.
"Is Hollywood Using A Saturday Morning Cartoon Series As Bait To Lure Christian Children Into Signing a Contract With Satan? Quite simply, The Answer is Yes.
As Hollywood prepares to release the new film, "Scooby Doo," we think it's important for Christians to understand some of the hidden messages in the cartoon series that Landover Baptist Creation Scientists and Youth Directors have spent the last 30 years of their lives uncovering. It goes without saying that most Christians already know that the term, "Scooby Doo," was adopted by the homosexual community in the late 1970's. "Scooby Doo" is Sodomite slang for "feces roll." There is no easy way of saying this, but a "feces roll" is when a group of naked homosexual “men” get together in a public park, lay out a large plastic mat, poop all over it, and roll around in it until they have orgasms or are busted by the police. Some homosexuals save their feces in plastic bags and keep them in the refrigerator for weeks to prepare for such an event.
One doesn't have to look too far to see why the homosexual community was so quick in adopting "Scooby Doo." The cartoon is chock full of decadence. It really doesn't take a theologian to see that each character in the cartoon series represents a perverse member of society. There is "Shaggy," a skinny junkie who is always sleepy, hungry, and paranoid. If you look closely enough, you can actually see the needle marks on his arms where he would inject a liquified form of "scooby snacks" which were really nothing more than a mixture of cocaine and heroin. Shaggy would even feed the dog (which is G-o-d spelled backwards and an occult way of referring to Satan) these cocktails as well. At times, Shaggy would be so high, he would even think the dog was talking to him.
Another character in the series, Thelma, the little bull-dyke, represents the feminist movement. Hollywood makes everyone's job easier here because they never try to hide the fact that feminists are nothing more than ugly-looking women with glasses who are always reading books and bossing people around. Our lone Christian mole in Hollywood tells us that executives were even considering talk show host and human hippo, Rosie O'Donnell, for the role of Thelma.
In the character of Fred, we are subjected to a cartoon depiction of the typical homosexual male. His choice in clothing alone is enough to raise the eyebrows of any concerned Christian parent. Further evidence exists in his lack of interest in the character of Daphney, a female prostitute along for the ride who never has anything signficant to offer the group other than a harlot's smile and, sadly, unclothed cartoon legs that Landover Baptist Youth Director, Richard N. Moff, reports, "cause arousal in young boys even before they reach puberty."
The characters of "Scooby Doo" travel in a van (an enclosed vehichle suggesting deviant activity occuring within) from town to town looking for ghosts and witches and consulting with people who are familair with spirits. It's always been a carefully packaged television program that introduces innocent young children to the occult. We could go on about countless Christian horror stories where grown adults fall prostate on the altar of Jesus and plead His precious blood over addictions to homosexuality, witchcraft, beastiality, drugs, prostitution, cartoon pornography, and liberalism that can all be traced back to being seduced by the Scooby Doo cartoon series as a child, but entire books could be written on the subject.
We place this message of Christian love and experience here only because we know that Hollywood is preparing to unleash this terror from Hell on an already suffering Christian Nation. We urge you to protest vocally, and protest in silence by putting the $7 you would have paid to see the film, "Scooby Doo," into the offering plate at your local Bible-believing Baptist Church on Sunday morning. Thank you."
"I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling christomorons!"
'The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA, stylized as NAMbLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.'
n. the frustration of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the burden of your own weight, which you’ve been carrying your entire life without a second thought.
- Lakota, mahpiohanzi, “a shadow caused by a cloud.” Pronounced “mah-pee-oh-han-zee-uh.”
A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center.
(which might as well have been on the moon according to some)
i got two tickets and was happy enough to gift one (when none of my rubbish mates were up for it/were too poor) to that sweet curious welsh chica i had worked with
where i couldnt understand a word callers were saying
and had to say some greeting in cymraeg
(which must have sounded hilarious in a strayan accent)
Mỹ Sơn is a stunning hindu temple complex in central vietnam built between the 4th and 14th centuries by the cham people, whose champa empire lorded it over large parts of vietnam for nearly 2000 fucking years.
nb the infants were NOT known as babycham and champa was not their daddy!
it is situated less than 40 kms from funky hoi an town, where you can buy natty clathes, see pretty glowing indentified flying objects, admire the pretty fusion of vietnamese, japanese and chinese architecture, eat great food, chat in english with friendly students and laze about in the pool of a yellow hotel long after check out time!
unfortunately due to pigrizia and pig ignorance i didnt know about Mỹ Sơn, so i didnt get there when in hoi an. che rimbambito!
so if you ever find yourself enjoying the delights of central vietnam, heed my words and go on my son and hãy đi xem nhé! !
which remains one of the cleverest and most amusing films of the last seven thousands years.
there was always the danger that this would not live up to the lightning in a bottle (where the fuck did that come from?) of the first movie.
no pressure then...
allora, its nowhere near as staggeringly smart or funny as the original (what is?)
tuttavia, it is a delight and highly enjoyable and most certainly doesnt do a disservice to it.
dunque, if you loved the original (and if you didnt, you are fucking dead inside) watch this, its top notch, is faithful to the canon and adds richness to the tap universe in a lovely, diverting manner.
and you cant go wrong by crushing elton john with (full sized) menhir!
A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the end of a sentence or phrase comes as a surprise, forcing a reinterpretation of the first part. The name comes from the Greek for "against expectation". This rhetorical device is often used for humorous or dramatic effect
now go and throw around some paraprosdokians at your next Debate the Trevor Club meeting.
An abecedarius is a special type of acrostic in which the first letter of every word, strophe or verse follows the order of the letters in the alphabet.
now go and make an abecedarius with the names of the songs by your fave band, put it in a flask and send it into space. (unless you have awful taste, if so, follow steps 1 and 2, then shove it violently up your behind.)
nb. para los miles de hispanohablantes entre ustedes, no es lo mismo que un abecedario, que es una lista del alfabeto. es un AMIGO FALSO!
como muchas cosas CHIDAS, el nombre viene de mexico!
(raremente, este nombre es muy parecido a la palabra italiana con el mismo signficado - 'micio' (pron. 'micho'), pero no son relacionadas porque vienen de familias linguisticas muy distinctas.)
step 2 - leave on internet window sill to disseminate
rando fact - Raymond Pettibon, the man behind multiple Black Flag album covers, based his drawing on a pre-existing photograph. The couple in the image is Maureen and David Smith, the sister and brother-in-law of Myra Hindley, the notorious Moors murderer. Along with her partner Ian Brady, Hindley killed five children, sexually assaulting four. Much to David Smith’s horror, he witnessed the murder of the couple’s final victim after he was invited to their home. The following day he informed the police, leading to Hindley and Brady’s arrest in 1965.
the vice girls inc.(2000) left to right - lairy spice, nutty spice, munter spice, nosh spice and (front) ooh baby baby spice.
The Vice Girls inc. were an English girl group assembled by besuited twats in 1994. Sadly, they have sold over 100 million shite records worldwide, making them the best-selling girl group/marionettes of all time. With their cynical, contrived "girl power" bullshit, the Vice Girls inc. management redefined the girl-group concept by targeting a young female fanbase with banal, corporate garbage. They 'led' the nonsense teen pop resurgence of the 1990s, were a major part of the comically misnamed "'Cool' Britannia" era, and became popular culture icons of the decade, despite being an utterly dire marketing scam for lowest common denominator, mindless drivel.
