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“Zero fucks given” in other languages
- thih9 5y agoIsn't this mostly well-timed content marketing? > As we’re entering last-minute Christmas shopping time, it’d be remiss of me not to mention I have a book of lists like these
- baby 5y agoaren't most blogposts and articles shared here well-timed content marketing? Does it matter?
- tluyben2 5y agoYou can assume that most trending content on the web is intentionally well timed and trying to peddle something to you. Doesn't matter though; still fun.
- wombatmobile 5y ago“Fun” is subjective. I found much of this material not interesting or fun. Im just replying to you whilst walking my dog, hoping to trigger a raucous debate for the sake of it.
- tluyben2 5y agoHaha! Nice, I'm replying to this while doing AoC day 22. Let's start the debate! But no, it was not 'that' much fun, especially without the original phrases included (mildly interesting what it is in English, but they missed a lot of nuance, of course, by probably going Google translate -> Google translate or something). But often I see interesting content which is blatant sales/marketing material for a book, SaaS or coaching/consultancy product. I recognise that most things people put a lot of time in are somehow to 'make them money' in some way, especially if that is their job (like evangelists of corps often have very elaborate and interesting articles, videos, etc but they are created with targets in mind).
- mjhagen 5y agoYou found it not interesting you say? In other words, it could oxidize on your anus?
- qwertox 5y agoI often see people using their screens while walking their dogs. It bothers me a lot. Isn't this something that is supposed to be done together? The dogs look like they have the feeling that they are a nuisance to their owners, as if the owner is trying to communicate to them that he is forced to walk them. Then there are those owners who interact a lot with their (and other) dogs during the walks, and those dogs have a happy attitude on them, they seem to be more awake.
- vasco 5y agoI walk my dog twice a day every day (just myself) - sometimes I will be on my phone because twice a day every single day means at some point I'll think of something to google or check on an email or whatever. Do something outside twice a day every day for a year only and report back if you've never pulled out your phone. That being said I do prefer keeping attention on him and enjoying the outside quiet time. I would recommend being less bothered by other people using their phones out in the world though, or you'll be constantly bothered.
- qwertox 5y agoYou are right. But I do get outside for at least an hour a day to do sport, everyday. While I don't do calls or google around, I stop for taking photos with my phone. But you are right.
- wombatmobile 5y ago> The dogs look like they have the feeling that they are a nuisance to their owners, as if the owner is trying to communicate to them that he is forced to walk them. Uh, no. Dogs don't take their owner's phone usage that seriously or personally. They are more opportunistic and free spirited than to get hung up about other people's behaviours. The fact that you interpret things that way probably tells us more about you than it does about dogs. I imagine you are a considerate, thoughtful person (who doesn't know much about dogs).
- coldtea 5y ago>Isn't this mostly well-timed content marketing? Well, Hacker News was created as content marketing for a VC company...
- rich_sasha 5y agoIn Polish, it’s “mam to w dupie”, or “I have it up my ass”, which actually sounds painful/rather a lot of effort about something you’re indifferent to.
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- inglor_cz 5y agoIn Czech, we have two forms: "A dog shits." (Sere pes.) or "It is by my ass." (Je mi to u prdele.) It seems that once again, the Czechs have chosen a less painful way of doing things than our Polish brethren ;)
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- thih9 5y agoSounds like an elaborate way of saying "it's shit.".
- phoe-krk 5y agoThe first thing I actually thought of was "mam wyjebane", which is absolutely untranslateable literally.
- wwilim 5y ago"I have the f*cked-out on this" doesn't quite have the same ring to it
- dvh 5y agoSlovak: mám v piči (mám to v piči) = i have (it) in vagina Môžem (to) jebať = i can fuck (that) Jebem na to = fuck on that Môžem osrať = i can poop on it Serem na to = I'm pooping on it Sral to pes = May dog poop it out Kašlem na to = I'm coughing on it
- konart 5y ago>It’s horseradish to me (Russian) Well, that's a one way to say it for sure, but that's almost the most delicate way, lol.
- john_moscow 5y agoI am assuming, they meant "ну и хрен с ним", that is better translated as "let him have the horseradish" i.e. "let him get fucked".
- laluser 5y agoSame thing in Spanish. ‘Me importa un pepino (cucumber)’ is pretty tame. Most (region dependent, of course) would say ‘carajo’ instead.
- aasasd 5y agoIt's also definitely a ‘minced oath’ for ‘похуй’—which involves the dick and a prefix/preposition that is basically random, as usual for abstract idiomatic expressions in various languages. For general absence of fucks, there's also the suitable ‘it doesn't fuck me’.
- roveo 5y agothere's also "да не ебет", which means roughly, "well, it doesn't fuck me"
- konart 5y agoI mean... you can put it in many different forms in russian.
- hamstergene 5y agoThat's a completely effortless translation. I am pretty sure that "мне по хрену" is a parody on "мне по плечу" (literally "fits my shoulder" but means "doable to me / within my powers"). Russian people coin new expressions with such witticisms all the time. So, reproducing the same parody in English, one could say "fits my wiener". Horseradish here being an obscenity-avoiding euphemism for c*ck (like English "wiener"), not the plant (just like all the sausages and cucumbers in the other languages).
- jgilias 5y agoScrolling down a bit in the thread the list of collective nouns of people is pretty hilarious. 'A slick of lawyers' 'A notherweek of builders'
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI think most of these examples are I don't care about the thing under discussion whereas zero fucks given is a more all encompassing level of not caring about anything that might get in the way of what the person who is giving the zero fucks wants to do.
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- raxxorrax 5y agoIt is a bit of an oxymoron though, since this "not caring" is pretty explicitly communicated.
- someotherperson 5y agoAddition in Arabic: > I'll talk to her for you Or, possibly better, "tuz" (or "tozz") which just means "salt" in Turkish. There's a story behind it[0] but it's universally used across the MENA region to express indifference. [0] https://arabicway.tumblr.com/post/45019281929/a-lot-of-people-think-that-the-word-%D8%B7%D8%B2-tuz-is https://arabicway.tumblr.com/post/45019281929/a-lot-of-peopl...
- jarenmf 5y agoAlso: like my feet متل إجري and like my ass متل طيزي I'm sure there are many other examples in other Arabic dialects
- shimonabi 5y agoThe ex-Yugoslavian analouge is: "My dick hurts." It is commonly also used by women.
- tduberne 5y ago> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no clue what he refers to.
- ggrelet 5y agoYou know, it's someone saying something on the Internet, so it must be true... Never heard of this one either (I'm also French).
- dakotian 5y agos’en badigeonner les testicules avec le pinceau de l’indifférence
- rich_sasha 5y agoBy my pre-coffee count, 19 syllables of indifference... a lot of words to say “meh” :)
- dakotian 5y agofrench pronounce 1 out of every 5 syllables
- baby 5y agothat's how poetic French people are
- MayeulC 5y ago"Je m'en fous" is the short version. Using a longer version is obviously done for fun, and to tell at great lengths how much you don't care. Usually people will spice it up with a version of their own to add to the comical effect.
- WastingMyTime89 5y agoGallic shrug Why talk when you can physically convey the idea. I must say that this discussion makes me somewhat uncomfortable with the centrality of not caring in my culture.
- tluyben2 5y agoWhy doe these not have the original language version behind the English one? Or am I missing that (dunno what Nitter is). Like the Dutch one is: 'Het zal me aan mijn reet roesten'.
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- jraph 5y agoNitter is an alternative frontend to Twitter (same content).
- rich_sasha 5y agoIs that the “oxidise in anus” bit? What a curiously delightful curse.
- tluyben2 5y agoYes ; 'roest' means rust so oxidising. Also I think 'reet' means more crack (literal meaning of reet is is tear as in the crack, not the hole) or butt than anus. Which is why it would be nice to have the original sentences there so they can be dissected.
- jbverschoor 5y ago"reet" means ass. It shall rust to my ass.
- tluyben2 5y agoIt is hard to find the exact meaning of ass though; always ends up with donkey; asshole is anus, but ass would be butt then? My point is ; reet != anus.
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- Lukabuz 5y agoThe Georgian version is “Its hanging on my dick” or the more polite version “Its hanging on my legs”
- jmnicolas 5y agoI'm French and while the first one he's mentioning is very common, I never heard the second one.
- sodimel 5y agoI found a 2007 quote on the french equivalent of bash.org [0], and the only source on wiktionary is a post on the Dofus forum from 2016 [1]. [0]: https://danstonchat.com/5948.html https://danstonchat.com/5948.html [1]: https://www.dofus.com/fr/forum/1003-divers/2178644-avis-sabre-atcham?page=1 https://www.dofus.com/fr/forum/1003-divers/2178644-avis-sabr...
- willbudd 5y agochar buf[255]; strcpy(buf, user_input);
- tannhaeuser 5y agocat complaints.txt > /dev/null
- wedn3sday 5y ago$ cat fucks cat: fucks: No such file or directory
- dilawar 5y agoIn Thulu (dialect of Kannada), ajji shunti (grandma's ginger) is kind of saying "I don't give a rat's arse."
- iypx 5y ago> 6. I don't give a frostbitten onion (Romanian) Never heard anything even close. The usual is "ma doare-n pula" which translates as "it hurts in my dick", or, "da-o-n pula" = "put it / send it in dick" if you're talking about something/somebody. Or you can just say "pula" (dick) in the correct context would translate the same. EDIT: Forgot to mention the "censored", non-vulgar version: "ma doare tare" = "it hurts much", or just "ma doare" = "it hurts".
- 4ad 5y agohttps://dexonline.ro/definitie/a%20nu%20face%20nici%20cât%20o%20ceapă%20degerată/517105 https://dexonline.ro/definitie/a%20nu%20face%20nici%20cât%20...
- madflame991 5y agoI've never heard about the frostbitten onion before and I am Romanian as well - maybe it's particular to some regions? "It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it hurts in my ass" (the ass would be a place you wouldn't care if you hurt or not); more vulgar because "pula" (erect penis) is more vulgar than ass. The next level of not giving a fuck after that is "it doesn't even hurt in my ass" which I find amusing - to which someone can reply "well, when it's gonna hurt you'll realise how bad it is" in the sense that "you will wake up someday and regret it". The least vulgar variant is "it hurts in my elbow" - elbows being usually bumped into things and not hurting much (unless you hit that special spot where the nerve lies)
- yholio 5y agoThe frostbitten onion one is "o ceapă degerată", worthless. The suggested form here is "nu dau nici o ceapă degerată" which is used, but less common than the painful dick/ass variants. My favorite is "it breaks my dick" - "mi se rupe pula". Then there is the euphemistic "it hurts somewhere", with the reader left to guess where exactly. The elbow variant is another euphemism for ass, due to lexical similarity "cur" vs "cot".
- bitwize 5y ago> "It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it hurts in my ass" (the ass would be a place you wouldn't care if you hurt or not); more vulgar because "pula" (erect penis) is more vulgar than ass. Oddly enough, "butthurt" is a modern English expression for nearly the opposite sentiment.
- riffraff 5y agoAs an italian from (near) Rome, I feel offended we're not getting the recognition we deserve for this! The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :) There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall: When God finished making the world, God was looking at his creation and some people showed up: - Lord, we'd like to ask for Power - Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the Kings and Queens and Emperors Then some more people showed up: - Lord, we'd like to ask for Power - The Powerful already have that - Well, we'd like to ask for the Wealth then - Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the rich people. Then God saw the Romans walk by and yelled at them - Hey folks, I'm sorry, there's neither Power nor Wealth left! The romans looked at each other in confusion, and replied "sticazzi?" God thought about it a bit: - Let it be granted!
- EugeneOZ 5y agoRoman Empire acquired almost every piece of land in Europe, so that story is not quite accurate about the power and wealth ;) But it's entertaining, of course - thanks!
- skrebbel 5y agoYou'd be surprised what 2000 years of living at a global center of wealth and power can do to the spirit of an average joe. For inspiration, see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639486
- NicoJuicy 5y agoAs mentioned in the thread, it's more like it's an ad for a book. Including cross posting it here. Knowing the thread, i don't really see a correlation ( and it seems te exagerated + coincidence considering the timing in the reddit thread - ~4 hours between)
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- edem 5y agoI think Hungarian (not present on the list) is also nice: _Leszarom_ > Meaning: I shit on it. Another one is: _Baszok rá_ > Meaning: I fuck on it (which makes no sense in English)
- yosito 5y agoI'm not a native speaker, but the phrase that came to mind for me was "A faszom tudja" ("My dick knows"/"I have no fucking clue") It's a little bit different, but I feel like I've heard other similar phrases too.
- edem 5y agoThere is also > "Fasz kivan" (My dick is out) when you're fed up with something or > "Elmész a faszba" (You go to the dick) when you don't want somebody around. The best one is > "Lófasz a seggedbe" (Horse dick into your arse) though which you use when somebody says something that you don't like and/or stupid and/or they want you to do something and you want to say that you don't agree with it and/or you don't want to do it.
- npteljes 5y agoAs long as we're on the fasz topic, there's also the phrase "faszt érdekli", literally "only the dick's interested", which is a pretty confrontative way to tell someone that you're not interested.
- edem 5y agoOr when you're upset you can say > "Faszomat már!" meaning (My dick already!) which also makes no sense in English
- darkwater 5y agoAs an Italian, never heard the alleged Italian version about talking to a horse. "Ne parlo col mio cavallo"? WTF?
- ccorvi 5y agoSame.
- jauco 5y agoThe dutch one is better translated as “I’ll let it rust my crack” (as in buttcrack) rather than anus. It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word crack for “railtrack embedded in the pavement” as used by trams (streetcars). To let the crack oxidize is to not do proper upkeep on that section of the track. Though no one uses crack to refer to railway track anymore. So the translation is definitely the connotation that modern day dutch speakers would hear.
- Beldin 5y agoAs a modern day dutch speaker: can confirm the connotation. Never heard about this alternative use of "reet" before. As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("rust" is "roest" in dutch). As an aside aside, the expression is passive in Dutch. A more direct translation would be "that can rust to me arse". The "to" there is also weird in Dutch ("aan").
- jaclaz 5y agoBeing Italian, I find queer that I never heard anything even similar to the two cited sayings: >I will talk about it with my horse (Italian) >I don’t give a cabbage (Italy) EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.
- 1_player 5y ago"Non me ne frega un cavolo" is pretty common in Northern Italy, though I'd often go for the more vulgar "non me ne frega un cazzo." (I don't care/give a dick) Never heard the one about the horse either.
- riffraff 5y agoMight be a regional thing, like most things Italian, being from Lazio I also never heard those.
- wruza 5y agoOne could make a list comparable to that by simply focusing on Russian variants. We have a pretty rich variety of ways to not give it. As you may have guessed, many of them refer to having diverse sex or other obscene acts (feel free to fantasize) with a subject in different ways, to not having a desire to do that, or a subject being claimed as not really fitting this purpose.
- scoopr 5y agoFor Finnish, I think the more common expression is "The rocks are interested too". Its easier to quip in discussion. Of course the listed one is a bit more lively, so more fun in lists like these :) Also, some years ago it was almost a meme to use "EVVK", short for "couldn't care less", in so much that it got spelled as such spoken language too. I don't hear that as much anymore.
- manceraio 5y agoSome more Spanish in Spain: It sweat my dick. I care a milk. I care a shit. I care a pepper.
- genezeta 5y agoIn Spanish, I'd say "me importa un pepino" ("I care a cucumber") shares as much popularity as "me importa un pimiento" ("I care a pepper"). Personally I've heard/used the second one a lot more, but I guess it may depend on the region or something. But there are other, more explicit, expressions equally popular. There is "me importa una mierda" ("I care a shit"), and the most vulgar one is probably "me suda la polla" ("it makes my dick sweat") or, for short, "me la suda".
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- onion2k 5y agoThe formal British English equivalent is "That's very interesting."
- Xophmeister 5y agoOr, more succinctly, "I see."
- pndy 5y agoI can hear Maurice Moss saying it
- manmal 5y agoShortened Austrian version for „This is sausage to me“ is roughly „muh sausage“ („mia wuascht“).
- BurningPenguin 5y agoSame in bavarian. Hello neighbour. :)
- d--b 5y agoIn French, the one with the paint is not common. However “je m’en branle” (I wank myself with it?) and “j’en ai rien à branler/foutre/secouer” (I have nothing to wank/jerk/shake with it) are _very_ common.
- dgellow 5y agoHaha, I came to the comments to say exactly this. These idioms are really very, very common in spoken French. I would add "rien à battre" to your list.
- southerntofu 5y agoFor precision, "foutre" is actually cum (semen). Although younger folks are not familiar with this meaning and use it like the verb "do". Tu fous quoi? = What are you doing? (literally: what are you cumming?)
- ojosilva 5y agoIn Spanish, in particular in Spain, "cucumber" is seldom used. The order of most used according to a recent corpus [1] and google search suggestions would be: I care a ... ("Me importa un ...") - Amaranth, "bledo" (a plant) - Penis, "carajo" - Cumin, "comino" - Bell pepper, "pimiento" - Ball, "huevo" - Cucumber, "pepino" [1] https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/ https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/
- ggambetta 5y agoMore specifically, in this context, "huevo" translates to "ball" as in "testicle", not as in "tennis ball"; and certainly not literally as "egg". In Uruguayan there's also "me chupa un huevo", "it sucks me a ball", which doesn't make much sense but sounds violent enough :)
- coldtea 5y ago>which doesn't make much sense Err, how doesn't it make sense? Doesn't it metaphorically refer to tea-bagging?
- ggambetta 5y agoIt might, I had never thought about it. It doesn't make much sense as in "doesn't imply 'I don't care about this'", but then again, very few of these examples do!
- sharikous 5y agoIn Hebrew it can also be "מעניין את הביצה שלי" "It's interesting to my testicle"
- ojosilva 5y agoPortuguese is apparently missing in the thread, here are 2 of the most popular: Brazil: I'm not even there ("Não estou nem aí") Portugal: Would I want to know ("Quero lá saber")
- pdpi 5y agoAlso the more vulgar “I’m shitting myself (a little)” (“estou-me (um bocado) a cagar”)
- kinow 5y agoWe can go down a bit more, "estou cagando e andando"
- dalmo3 5y agoPTBR: - It is as much as so much it has been (Tanto faz como tanto fez) - I'm barely sanding myself (Estou pouco me lixando)
- hgamaral 5y agoAlso BR: - I'm shitting and walking ("estou cagando e andando"); - My as* doesn't even itch ("meu c* nem pinica"). - What about Kiko? ("e o Kiko?" -- trust me this one is hard to explain). EDIT: formatting
- rfrezende 5y ago"Kiko" comes from "O que é que eu tenho a ver com isso?" (Something like "What's it got to do with me?"). When you pronounce this phrase fast in Brazilian Portuguese it sounds like "Ki ko tenho a ver com isso?" and then became the slang "kiko".
- INTPenis 5y agoIn Swedish it's not as harsh as Zero fucks given but reading some of those others I'd say "intresseklubben antecknar" is the phrase we'd use when I was growing up in the 90s. It translates literally to "the club of interested people is taking notes".
- drcongo 5y agoThis one is beautifully sarcastic.
- Daunk 5y agoTackar! Came looking for this heh.
- jezze 5y agoA suggestion for a more fluid translation could be "interest groups are taking notes"
- SahAssar 5y agoI'd say that looses some of the sarcasm, since the point is that the "club of interested people" is no-one.
- kgeist 5y ago>it's horseradish to me (Russian) "Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick" (a similar sounding word). There's a different, original variant which has "dick" instead of horseradish. When you want to say "fuck you" you say "go [and sit] on the dick". The original phrase for "zero fucks given" therefore, means more like "it is around the area of the dick".
- isakkeyten 5y agoIn Macedonian we say "ne me boli kur" or the more prevalent "me boli kur" which mean "my dick does not hurt" or the latter more ironic version "my dick hurts".
- maze-le 5y agoI always thought the french had a flowery yet descriptive language, but the greeks seem to top it all...
- marcomourao 5y agoSome expressions used in European Portuguese: - "Caguei e andei." (I shat and walked) - "É igual ao litro" (It's equal to the litre) - "É para o lado que durmo melhor" (It's the side that I sleep best)
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- karmasimida 5y agoThe closet Chinese translation would probably be: As relevant to me as fart (关我屁事)
- _RPL5_ 5y ago"Horseradish" aside (lol) my favorite Russian euphemism for this is: "[I] spun [this] on my dick" (на хую вертел). Spun as in "to spin", "to rotate", "to twirl." The imagery is a bit absurd, as is the case with most of these. The Greek one with the flowers and the bees is 10/10 as well. I had a good laugh. Thanks, author.
- thelittleone 5y agoIn Australia: "I don't give a rat's arse" or "couldn't give a flying fuck"
- hooby 5y agoWhile I do know both of the mentioned German/Austrian sayings: "It's sausage to me." "It's blood pudding to me." I'm not sure those actually capture the feel of "zero fucks given"... "It's sausage to me." is rather tame, would fit "I don't care" or "I couldn't care less.". The blood pudding is the same, but feels a bit archaic/backwardly. There's also: "This goes straight past my arse." - which might be a better match for "zero fucks" in terms of tone and vulgarity. But even that feels more like "I don't give a shit" rather then "Zero fucks given". I don't think there's a perfect German translation of "Zero fucks given" that captures all the nuances. "The dog shits on it." (mentioned for another language) exists in German as well. Feels a bit more aggressive/confrontational than "It's sausage to me." (It's also more of a "nobody cares" rather than an "I don't care")
- skinkestek 5y agoVariations of "jeg driter i det" (literally: I shit in it) seems to be to be common in Norway. Edit: A more polite one in Norwegian I think is "det blåser jeg (en lang marsj) i" (roughly: I play a long march to that. Implied that it is played on trumpet or something since blåser equals blows). Someone who knows Norwegian and English better than be should feel free to correct.
- coldtea 5y agoSome additional ones would be: "On my testicles" (short for: "I've noted it on my testicles", i.e. I don't care about it), also said as "I write it (meaning scribled/noted) on my testicles"). "Something is going on at the gypsie camp" (as such camps are lively, there's usually always something going there. So something "going on" there would be a common occurence/irrelevant, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it). "The mare shat on the field" (as horses do that all the time, it means it's a trivial thing, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).
- thenewrohirrim 5y agothe greek one sounds great, but as a native greek speaker i've never heard of it
- yrizos 5y agoOh, I've heard it - a lot :) But it's probably not used as much anymore, it's been a long time since I last heard it.
- chrisxcross 5y agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_fucks_given https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zero_fucks_given needs some love
- salawat 5y agoThe fun thing about Romance languages. What is Latin for Witness? Testis. What is the central message of "zero fucks given"? I have seen it, and am unmoved. I am not at all surprised there seems to be a high correlation with phraseology involving testicles/genitalia and the message of having more important things to attend to. Much more interesting is the variance in terms of how some of these turns of phrase are associated with (the speaker|something else in the world|some situation in the world) as subject. I'd go on, but I'd have to deposit 25 fucks for the next five minutes, and I'm fresh out.
- czard0mn 5y agoAlso French(From a Brits perspective, probably) I fart in your general direction
- webmaven 5y ago"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
- Causality1 5y agoI feel like these have been translated in an over-technical way to deliberately make them seem more ridiculous. Is It can oxidize on my anus not really "it can rust on my ass"?
- TacticalCoder 5y agoIn french there's "je m'en fous comme de l'an 40" or "je m'en moque comme de l'an 40": "I don't care, as if it was year 40". But the funny thing is nobody really knows about which year 40 this is. It's not 1940 for the saying goes back at least 200 years. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/se_foutre_comme_de_l%E2%80%99an_quarante_de https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/se_foutre_comme_de_l%E2%80%99...
- southerntofu 5y agoNative french speaker here. Never heard that one before, but that's an interesting (historical) one!
- mgbmtl 5y agoIn the 90s in Montreal it was a very common expression. Haven't heard it in a while. I avoid it because people might think 1940s, and that would be disrespectful. These days: "on s'en câlisse" (most cursing is church-based because it is unlikely to offend anyone).
- lkuty 5y agoI used/heard it a few times in Belgium (province de Liège). Or we could use a simple "rien à foutre" == "don't give a fuck" or more vulgar "rien à branler" which could be translated as "I don't give a wank".
- zivkovicp 5y ago> 1. Flowers on my dick and bees all around (Greek) Honestly, this would be a cause for concern.
- js8 5y agoIn Java, I just say "null".
- antender 5y agoJava is for pussies, in Javascript you don't even give ***** if it is literally "null" or "undefined".
- snickerer 5y agoI try to translate another two popular German sayings that were not mentioned here before: The first one is for the intellectuals: - This is not tangent to me. The second one is more difficult to translate. I try: - This is not tangent to my ass. - This does not touch my ass. - This in an anus fly-by.
- ivolimmen 5y agoDutch here. We also like to say (at least where I am from): "Je kunt mijn rug op en mijn reet af" -> "You can go on my back and off my ass". BTW: the translated part from the Dutch "It can oxidize on my anus" is in Dutch: "Het kan aan mijn reet roesten"
- pndy 5y agoI ain't bovvered
- kuon 5y agoAs we are discussing the delicate art of slang :) I'll add this video [1] which is a popular meme around "We slaps our balls" in french. There is also the gorgeous expression "On s'en tamponne le coquillard" [2] which is one of my favorite. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDY9vFAaG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDY9vFAaG8 [2]: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_tamponner_le_coquillard https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_tamponner_le_coq...
- PedroBatista 5y agoPortuguese: "Estou-me a cagar para isso" - I'm shiting for that.
- trenchgun 5y agoIn Finnish: "Ei kiinnosta vittuakaan". Translation back: "Even cunt would not be interested"
- flipdot 5y agoI believe there’s also Russian/Ukrainian “It’s as high as my dick”.
- deelly 5y agoYep, yep.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoSome additional French delicacies: - Rien à foutre : "Nothing to cum for" - Ca m'en touche une sans m'en faire bouger l'autre: "It touches one of my balls without moving the other one". Actually popularize by French President Chirac :) - Je m'en branle : "I wank about it" Seems like involving sexual organs is pretty much international.
- timothevs 5y agoA bit crass, but in Punjabi (India), we used to say “Bund ni maardey”, literally translated to “we don’t do it in the ass”. Not sure why it became synonymous with “we don’t give a fuck”.
- Kipters 5y ago
- bluepoint 5y agoIn greek it is actually, “i have it noted on my testicles”, or in short “on my testicles”. I don’t think the one posted is used very much.
- YeGoblynQueenne 5y agoI had never heard it. Slang.gr gives it as "στον πούτσο μου λουλούδια και γύρω-γύρω μέλισσες". Sounds a bit rarefied to be sure.
- thunkshift1 5y agoOk, what in the world is a blood pudding