Heard on the bus, "I shit on the mother-in-law of your sister-in-law", a fine new interpretation of the popular Spanish profanity, "Me cago en tu madre", "I shit on your mother".
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January 27th 2007 11:36
I came across this sentence the other day on a site claiming to be the "alternative spanish dictionary" (http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Spanish.1.html):
"me cago en la tapa del organo y me revuelco encima de la mierda"
it's so disgusting i won't even translate it. the funny thing is that it is translated to English as "Damn it, shit". We're just so pragmatic ...
January 27th 2007 21:33
I think mothers here must be less scary here than in other places. There's no way I'd have dreamed of thinking anything bad about my friends' mums at school, let along rolling them over and crapping all over them. Jesus.
January 27th 2007 22:14
amen
August 5th 2009 20:38
[...] “OK,” says the Spaniard. “It goes [something] like this: who’s screwing my mother’s daughter-in-law?” The Spaniard thinks about it for a moment and says, “Man, I don’t know.” [...]