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petunia

14:00 / 09.06.06

"Va te faire foutre" would be the french.
Or "Va te faire enculer" would be "go fuck yourself up the ass", which I find nicely expressive.

On a sidenote, I recently found out that the French for "are you taking the piss?!" is "tu me fout de la gueule?!", which translates literally as "are you fucking me in the mouth?!".

I love French. Such a romantic language.

gridley

13:08 / 12.09.06

There was a flash mob at Geno's saturday to protest their "Speak English" sign.

Everyone in the group apparently ordered in either French or Spanish. Many were not served at all. Police were called, but without incident. (Geno's has a very tight relationship with the police, but nothing the mob did was even vaguely illegal.)

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

13:45 / 12.09.06

A friend of mine recently went into a chip shop in Leicester. For reasons best known to himself he decided to order his fish supper and curry sauce in a generic Eastern European language (TM). The owner of the shop then tried to charge him a good £3-£4 more than the meal cost on the price boards. At which point my friend dropped back into his normal English accent and poionted out the outrageousness of the intended fraud. This all happened in a very white part of Leicester, a town where the local rag, the Leicester Mercury are trying to stir up hatred against immigrant workers.

Anyway if your bored try ordering food in foreign accents, apparently it's a bit of an eye opener.

Dead Megatron

18:35 / 12.09.06

If this was Head Shop or the Switchboard, I wouldn't say, but since this is Convo...

You know what would be funny. If a flash mob went to Geno and started ordering in archaic english, or "Shakespearian" English, or some abnormally weird "foreign" accent (like some cartoonish version of a Scot or a Brit or some country that doesn't even exist), and them watch them trying to understand and saying "Speak Philly" or something. But archaic would be the funniest

Ans then complain in a howling fashion and take a shot of tequila if Vento says "provolone"...

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