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Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by hooby »

While I do know both of the mentioned German/Austrian sayings: "It's sausage to me." "It's blood pudding to me." I'm not sure those actually capture the feel of "zero fucks given"...

"It's sausage to me." is rather tame, would fit "I don't care" or "I couldn't care less.". The blood pudding is the same, but feels a bit archaic/backwardly.

There's also: "This goes straight past my arse." - which might be a better match for "zero fucks" in terms of tone and vulgarity. But even that feels more like "I don't give a shit" rather then "Zero fucks given". I don't think there's a perfect German translation of "Zero fucks given" that captures all the nuances.

"The dog shits on it." (mentioned for another language) exists in German as well. Feels a bit more aggressive/confrontational than "It's sausage to me." (It's also more of a "nobody cares" rather than an "I don't care")

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by skinkestek »

Variations of "jeg driter i det" (literally: I shit in it) seems to be to be common in Norway.

Edit: A more polite one in Norwegian I think is "det blåser jeg (en lang marsj) i" (roughly: I play a long march to that. Implied that it is played on trumpet or something since blåser equals blows).

Someone who knows Norwegian and English better than be should feel free to correct.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by glandium »

d--b wrote: post #94
tduberne wrote: post #9

> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no clue what he refers to.

In the same vein, there are lot of variations. One I heard in the army is “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec une patte d’alligator femelle”. “I pat my butt with a female alligator’s leg” In fact when you search google for “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec”, google will autocomplete with “a lobster’s tibia”, “a morrocan shoe”, etc.

Je m'en fustige le cristallin avec un fémur d'alligator femelle.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by coldtea »

Some additional ones would be:

"On my testicles" (short for: "I've noted it on my testicles", i.e. I don't care about it), also said as "I write it (meaning scribled/noted) on my testicles").

"Something is going on at the gypsie camp" (as such camps are lively, there's usually always something going there. So something "going on" there would be a common occurence/irrelevant, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).

"The mare shat on the field" (as horses do that all the time, it means it's a trivial thing, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by coldtea »

ggambetta wrote: post #114
ojosilva wrote: post #87

In Spanish, in particular in Spain, "cucumber" is seldom used. The order of most used according to a recent corpus [1] and google search suggestions would be: I care a ... ("Me importa un ...") - Amaranth, "bledo" (a plant) - Penis, "carajo" - Cumin, "comino" - Bell pepper, "pimiento" - Ball, "huevo" - Cucumber, "pepino" [1] https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/

More specifically, in this context, "huevo" translates to "ball" as in "testicle", not as in "tennis ball"; and certainly not literally as "egg". In Uruguayan there's also "me chupa un huevo" , "it sucks me a ball" , which doesn't make much sense but sounds violent enough :)

>which doesn't make much sense

Err, how doesn't it make sense? Doesn't it metaphorically refer to tea-bagging?

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by WelcomeShorty »

317070 wrote: post #131
skerit wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's amazing, I have never ever heard that sentence before. And we from Flanders know a lot of Netherlands-Dutch sayings.

I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.

Correction: Kan me AAN me reet roesten.

At least in Amsterdam we use the expression like this.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by koonsolo »

317070 wrote: post #131
skerit wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's amazing, I have never ever heard that sentence before. And we from Flanders know a lot of Netherlands-Dutch sayings.

I'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.

I'm from the Antwerp region, and also never heard of that expression.

What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by dmos62 »

rejschaap wrote: post #105
tromp wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“I’ll let it rust my rectum” alliterates even more (although technically the rectum is the last part of the intestine)...

It can corrode my crack

I do not care enough to maintain this piece of crack and thus will let it rust. This is fun.
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