Reply #147: câline de bine!

[iverglas]

They didn't actually teach me to swear in French in all those many years of studying it ... I'm an autodidact. ;)

Spanish ... unable to tolerate any more of the harassment from random men in cars as I cycled around Cuba a couple of decades ago, I schooled myself in spitting. Having determined that the standard North American hand gestures meant nothing, and being as yet only vaguely familiar with the workings of the Spanish language, I asked the English teacher I was dating how to say "shove it up your ass". He looked shocked, and said "you can't say that!" so then I knew it was exactly what I did want to say.

I got as far as "your father's a dog" in Farsi.

That spitting thing ... the first time I tried it, I scored a direct hit on the man in the passenger seat of the car that wouldn't leave my side. Made a quick turn the wrong way down the one-way street my friend lived on, being fortunately close to home, and hid in her house for a couple of hours. The second time, I was stopped at what I knew to be a very very long red light on an industrial road, with a truck driver beside me kicking up a ruckus. I adopted a bored and disdainful expression, and turned my head and casually and contemptuously spat off to my side ... and hit my leg. And sat there for the two long minutes with spit trailing down my thigh, hoping I was the only one who had noticed.

Why am I regaling you with my boring tales? Well, I've been banned from the genealogy board again.

I seem to have the signal distinction of having received two suspensions at the same time, 3 days and 4 days, to be served concurrently. And had the very first locked thread ever encountered on the board, a puzzlement to everyone there. Then the thread saluting me (I've won over even the old British bores with my charming ways now) got locked too -- same rule as here, no discussing suspended members, no challenging management's decisions. And by noon GMT today a revolution was brewing, with people starting threads alluding to me with the aim of getting a lock/suspension. One out, all out! But management started ignoring or deleting instead, and it fizzled.

And why did I get banned? For posting rude horoscopes. Even though I used asterisks where appropriate, and cited the source.

VIRGO
You are the logical type and you hate disorder. Your constant nitpicking is sickening to your friends. You are cold, unemotional and often fall asleep while screwing. Virgos make either good bus drivers or pimps.


So somebody entertain me, eh?


typo, typo


btw, I'm sure I could expect similar solidarity here should management ever make the mistake of taking disciplinary action against me ...