"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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Swearing failAs a young teen I happened to learn how to say a wide array of bad things in various languages. It gave me the ability to curse like a sailor in front of my mom and other adults, secure in the knowledge that they had no idea what I was saying. This led to a habit of cursing in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and German on a regular basis.
As an older teen I worked in an amusement park. You're supposed to be polite all the time to the customers, of course, so if someone really pissed me off I'd say a few words in something other than English.
One day a guy did something that angered me (I don't remember what) and I muttered "Chingada tu madre, maricone." A passerby understood Spanish and reacted predictably.
Bad things ensued.
Just because it's not commonly used doesn't mean that others won't understand a foreign language.
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Wanderer, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 19:56,
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allways...be careful what you say.
Me and my female boss both speak Portuguese, we were getting a coffee at Gatwick airport a few weeks back. The coffee baristas were having a full conversation in Portuguese about how hot my boss was "especially her arse" one added without thinking that anyone would understand them.
Safe to say I found it fucking hilarious ^_^
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