Literal translation (word-by-word) of opaque idioms will not convey the same meaning in other languages – an analogous expression in Polish is kopnąć w kalendarz (“to kick the calendar”), with “calendar” detached from its usual meaning, just like “bucket” in the English phrase. In Bulgarian the closest analogous phrase is da ritnesh kambanata ("да ритнеш камбаната", “to kick the bell”); in Dutch, het loodje leggen (“to lay the piece of lead”); in Finnish, potkaista tyhjää (“to kick nothing”, or more literally “to kick the absence of something”); in French, manger des pissenlits par la racine ("to eat dandelions by the root"); in Spanish, estirar la pata (to stretch the foot); in German, den Löffel abgeben (“to give the spoon away”) or ins Gras beißen (“to bite into the grass”); in Latvian, nolikt karoti (“to put the spoon down”); in Portuguese, bater as botas (“to beat the boots”); in Danish, at stille træskoene ("to take off the clogs"); in Swedish, trilla av pinnen ("to fall off the stick"); and in Greek, τινάζω τα πέταλα ("to shake the horse-shoes"). In Brazil, the expression “to kick the bucket” (chutar o balde) has a completely different meaning (to give up something complicated, as a bucket kicked makes too much noise, demonstrating impatience).
So hey guys apparently posting once on FB that you were annoyed with a single Q&A episode makes you right-wing, and you're also not allowed to like Hungry Beast.
Speaking of Hungry Beast, do any of you guys watch it? I love that show.
Ugh Q and A annoys me. The twitter stream at the bottom is always full of the tritest, smuggest high horsery on Television.
Wouldn't that be because the only people who use twitter are smug unistudents who think they know how the world should work after spending a gap year overseas and taking psych101?
Ugh Q and A annoys me. The twitter stream at the bottom is always full of the tritest, smuggest high horsery on Television.
Wouldn't that be because the only people who use twitter are smug unistudents who think they know how the world should work after spending a gap year overseas and taking psych101?
Would "A hyper leftie athiest smugfest" qualify as a good way to describe some episodes of Q&A?
Yeah you're pretty much right Blake, but they have some interesting stuff sometimes- in paticular when I look it all up after to validate what they say.
It's just a fun show for me, most of the time.
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there are a couple of hungry beast presenter who are actually good writers and don't try to be funny
talkin about the blonde girl and the lesbian and Marc Fennell
then you got the "hot" brunette who plays the same character every week and the hipster kid and the other hipster kid and the hamfisted "funny guy" who can all go to hell
I like the show, but it's undoubtedly at its best when its narrated infographics and that segment where they interview people on the street. The latter is actually one of the classiest and most effective examples of that style of television I think I've ever seen.
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Air NZ is flying below the ash ceiling; they're the largest domestic carrier, so it's not as bad, I think. Everyone else is grounded, I believe. My brother is supposed to be getting off a flight from Auckland now; i shoud see whether he made it.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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Second, bigger aftershock today. The first was a 5.5, followed just over an hour later by a 6. The big one in Feb was a 6.3, while September was a 7.1.
I am going to feel like a petty fuck for posting this after shit is going down over in NZ but I feel the need to vent. I hope you guys are as alright as you can be.
So I asked my brother if he could not bring a bunch of people back here to drink until 5 am on Saturday and Sunday night (he does this maybe once every 2-4 weeks and I don't normally mind, the smell of smoke in the house pisses me off but I'll live) as I had an exam this morning and needed to get up at 7am and not be kept up late or woken up for 2 nights. We aren't the only people with a house, so if he really needed somewhere for the day to drink I'm sure someone else could put him up.
He went out and met his mates last night, and I went to bed at 12, probably the earliest I ever go to bed and it is forcing it. I managed to get to sleep and a little before 2, my brother fucking knocks on my door, then comes into my room waking me up to try and buy my bottle of whisky off me.
My lights were off, so I assume he knocked to come in and take it from me without asking and maybe get back to paying me a week or so later when payday rolls around had I not woken up. Not cool.
So he offered to buy it off me and when I told him to fuck off I have an exam in the morning, he asked again. I'd have given it to him if it was at a reasonable hour, I don't give a fuck about that, but I don't want to reinforce his negative behaviour. I continued to tell him to get out of my room, fucks thrown in here and there (which I think are not overboard having been woken up at around 2am for someone to try and get something out of me) as well and he left with the snarky call "So that's no then?" acting like he had done absolutely nothing to provoke me.
He then went downstairs and outside back to his mates I presume who went off elsewhere.
The other thing? I know there was a 6 pack of coopers in the fridge earlier that night, whether he took that with him and went to a friend's place first, or went to the bar he should've been fine either way, one he would've had plenty of time to think about getting booze before the bottleshop near where he went shut, or two he would've had that in addition to a bunch of drinks at the bar.
tldr; It is not cool to try and use me as an all-night bottleshop when you know I have an exam in the morning at 7am.
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Seems like a perfectly reasonable rant to me. I hope the exam went well.
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kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
Gonna start saying "totally radical" and "out of sight" now too.
i try to mix in a decent level of clint eastwood style grumbles
Study is so fucking lame. Hurk.
Started doing something silly to help with the concentration. It is pretty damn silly, but it does seem to destress me. Which is good!
Man, that's a hefty upgrade to the Lego projectile launchers I used to make.
Somebody, anybody, get me this as soon as possible, please!
Or better yet, for Secret Satans, if it is run at all this year...
Maybe we should have an ANZAC Christmas in July Satans.
Speaking of Hungry Beast, do any of you guys watch it? I love that show.
If I ever made one of these, after the hours it took me to make it, I would 100% destroy it the first time I drew back the slide.
And so is hippie shit.
But I've yet to watch Hungry Beast.
Wouldn't that be because the only people who use twitter are smug unistudents who think they know how the world should work after spending a gap year overseas and taking psych101?
Would "A hyper leftie athiest smugfest" qualify as a good way to describe some episodes of Q&A?
To clarify, I really don't have any problem of the content, but the presenters think they are funny when they are not and it's just, bad.
Satans..... hints.....
It's just a fun show for me, most of the time.
talkin about the blonde girl and the lesbian and Marc Fennell
then you got the "hot" brunette who plays the same character every week and the hipster kid and the other hipster kid and the hamfisted "funny guy" who can all go to hell
I like the show, but it's undoubtedly at its best when its narrated infographics and that segment where they interview people on the street. The latter is actually one of the classiest and most effective examples of that style of television I think I've ever seen.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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More lines down, boulders dislodged, liqufication; possible building collapses and injuries.
Tough time of it down there. Central city is still closed from February.
Also are you guys having the same problem Melbourne is having with the volcano ash or is it still business as usual?
Satans..... hints.....
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/5136644/Magnitude-5-5-earthquake-rocks-Christchurch
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So I asked my brother if he could not bring a bunch of people back here to drink until 5 am on Saturday and Sunday night (he does this maybe once every 2-4 weeks and I don't normally mind, the smell of smoke in the house pisses me off but I'll live) as I had an exam this morning and needed to get up at 7am and not be kept up late or woken up for 2 nights. We aren't the only people with a house, so if he really needed somewhere for the day to drink I'm sure someone else could put him up.
He went out and met his mates last night, and I went to bed at 12, probably the earliest I ever go to bed and it is forcing it. I managed to get to sleep and a little before 2, my brother fucking knocks on my door, then comes into my room waking me up to try and buy my bottle of whisky off me.
My lights were off, so I assume he knocked to come in and take it from me without asking and maybe get back to paying me a week or so later when payday rolls around had I not woken up. Not cool.
So he offered to buy it off me and when I told him to fuck off I have an exam in the morning, he asked again. I'd have given it to him if it was at a reasonable hour, I don't give a fuck about that, but I don't want to reinforce his negative behaviour. I continued to tell him to get out of my room, fucks thrown in here and there (which I think are not overboard having been woken up at around 2am for someone to try and get something out of me) as well and he left with the snarky call "So that's no then?" acting like he had done absolutely nothing to provoke me.
He then went downstairs and outside back to his mates I presume who went off elsewhere.
The other thing? I know there was a 6 pack of coopers in the fridge earlier that night, whether he took that with him and went to a friend's place first, or went to the bar he should've been fine either way, one he would've had plenty of time to think about getting booze before the bottleshop near where he went shut, or two he would've had that in addition to a bunch of drinks at the bar.
tldr; It is not cool to try and use me as an all-night bottleshop when you know I have an exam in the morning at 7am.
If anecdotal evidence means anything I will have done fine.