Yiddish Curses
Posted by Ray @ 7:49 amA delightful, colourful list of curses in Yiddish. Instead of shouting crude profanities to your enemies, tell ‘em “You should be a lamp, to hang by day, burn by night and be snuffed out in the morning.”
A few of my favourites:
God should bestow him with everything his heart desires, but he should be a quadriplegic and not be able to use his tongue.
He should have a large store, and whatever people ask for he shouldn’t have, and what he does have shouldn’t be requested.
God should bless him with three people: one should grab him, the second should stab him and the third should hide him.
(via Metafilter).
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hahaha!
Comment by jt — Tuesday, November 22 2005 @ 7:05 pm
Hey Ray, while we’re on the subject of cursing, this pisses me off. Majorly. Argh. I mean, seriously. Argh. Does it piss you off too? I thought it might.
Joao
~~~ begin pissing off here ~~~
At dawn on December 2nd 2005, Singapore hanged a citizen of Australia, despite a plea for clemency from the United Nations. Whilst Putfile is not a human rights campaigning organization, we believe that if a country must have the death penalty, there is no need for it be barbaric. It is enough of a punishment, and a deterrent, to take someone’s life in a painless manner, without having to be barbaric about it. Putfile prefers to not continue to provide our free uploading service to a country that executes prisoners by hanging, a method of execution which can take up to six minutes to painfully execute the victim.
For this reason, we are at this time terminating all service to users from Singapore. We shall be happy to restore service following any positive move from the government of Singapore towards abolition of hanging as an execution method.
Goodbye Singapore,
Putfile.
Comment by Joao — Wednesday, December 7 2005 @ 2:42 am
I don’t personally use putfile, so I wouldn’t know. Also, I’m in Australia and Putfile lets me through just fine. But if this is true, several thoughts occur:
1) Hanging is barbaric and takes up to 6 minutes to kill the victim.
Right and wrong. Hanging is barbaric, in the same way lethal injection, electrocution, gassing and firing squad are barbaric. You’re taking somebody’s life in cold blood. Of course it’s barbaric.
And our hangman has never botched his job. All of his prisoners died when their neck snapped. The same cannot be said for the US: witness this long list of botched executions. These are absolutely brutal. Tales of sizzling flesh, prisoners still breathing after multiple electric shocks, prisoners still alive forty minutes after they were supposed to be dead.
Why doesn’t Putfile bar the entire United States from using their services, too?
2) Blanket discrimination is so last century. Enough said about that.
3) Somewhere, at the back of their minds, these people think they’re actually making a difference.
Yes, I’m sure our Government will listen to you, because our Government really cares about what a foreign- and internet-based company thinks.
In the end, I don’t really think it matters; the internet is a place where startups bloom like desert flowers after rain. Singaporeans will just use another service when it turns up, Putfile will have lost a tiny fraction of their userbase, and everyone will be sorta-happy.
Comment by Ray — Thursday, December 8 2005 @ 12:14 am