"The Fig"is called "The Toffee" in South Africa....means the same.

God damn it, stop spreading that stupid urban legend. Nobody cut off anyone's fingers during the middle ages, and no curse words are derived from such. If you don't know where something came from, don't make shiat up.

It wasn't Samson in "Romeo and Juliet."

/Sampson

That was the most annoying website I've ever
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I hate these shiatty clicks.

;)

In what little I've travelled, admittedly mostly as a tourist, I've learned that you need know this in whatever place you go:

a) How to say "Hello, I am glad to make you acquaintance"
b) "Thank you."
c) "Bathroom?"
d) "Check, please!"
e) (optional) "Another beer please!"

If you can figure out those phrases in a given language, you can probably hang out with with people who will teach you:

f) "Goodbye, and thank you."

The rest of it you'll figure out.

A Namaste is one of the best and friendliest introductions / thank yous. Do that, and either people will see it for what it is, or they'll just figure you're a weird foreigner and leave it at that.

Yes, let's take a very small amount of text, and then hide some of it behind a "more" link to read the entire message. WTF.

If I say F.U. on Fark does is go around the world?

/philosoraptor
//too lazy to generate it

What's up with the pinchi slideshow, bittemitter?

jaylectricity: pudding7: I freakin' hate websites like that. If I can't figure out which domain to unblock on NoScript in under 5 seconds, then I'm out. Sadly, it seems to be more and more common.

Don't even get me started on the shiatty sites where you unblock on domain, and three more show up...

I tried earlier and couldn't get it to go. Then I tried just now and said, fark it temporarily allow all. Still nothing. Then I opened "blockable items" in Ad-Block and I found a few in the list, then suddenly the site was working.

But yeah, the sites that run scripts that run scripts from other sites that run scripts from other sites suck.

What we need are some nifty hand gestures to convey our range of feelings about crappy ad scripting.

It isn't well known, but if you scratch the underside of your eyebrow with your thumbnail in Albania it means "Your whore sister likes it in the butt".

MooseUpNorth: What we need are some nifty hand gestures to convey our range of feelings about crappy ad scripting.

It's called "The Java." You wrap your hand around an invisible mug and pour the contents onto the keyboard.

I'm a fan of the Reverse Peace. You can then combine it with waggling your tongue in between the fingers to simulate a rather crude action.

We should put these on a golden record and send it out on a space probe.

Your headlines aren't funny and the websites you link to have no journalistic integrity.

Also known as the Corna, it appears parts of Europe and South America aren't too fond of American College football. Instead of "Hook 'em,
Horns", it means "your mother has questionable morals.

I think they know that in texas. They're just assholes.

pudding7: I freakin' hate websites like that. If I can't figure out which domain to unblock on NoScript in under 5 seconds, then I'm out. Sadly, it seems to be more and more common.

Don't even get me started on the shiatty sites where you unblock on domain, and three more show up...

Yup.. fark it. Not worth the time for something everyone will comment on anyway.

bless their hearts

That website is a stillborn kitten burrito with a side of broken marriage, and an extra large cancer-cola.

That site made my computer have a series of strokes. It is now drooling uncontrollably from the cd drive.

pudding7: I freakin' hate websites like that. If I can't figure out which domain to unblock on NoScript in under 5 seconds, then I'm out. Sadly, it seems to be more and more common.

Don't even get me started on the shiatty sites where you unblock on domain, and three more show up...

HTML5 is the wave of the future. Better get used to it.

:-D

Gwyrddu: God damn it, stop spreading that stupid urban legend. Nobody cut off anyone's fingers during the middle ages, and no curse words are derived from such. If you don't know where something came from, don't make shiat up.

Came here to say this. I was actually surprised (for some reason) to see someone still spouting that ancient myth, borrowed from the old yarn about where flipping the bird came from.

At least they didn't also try to tell us that f*ck came from "Fornication Under Consent of the King".

/On top of all the OTHER reasons that's ridiculous, acronym-as-new-word-etymology is a fairly recent thing
// Anachronistic Acronym? It'd be a good screen name

I've never been anywhere in which people didn't understand "fark you" in classic American English.

I've found it much more effective to insult people's mothers

not all of them deserve it

except for you people

CitizenTed: It isn't well known, but if you scratch the underside of your eyebrow with your thumbnail in Albania it means "Your whore sister likes it in the butt".

What if you just scratching an itchy eyelid?

"He's flipping you off in 48 languages"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV1lso5Td8A


Sad that a website needs to go to a cheap mid 80s skin flick to get content

I loved that.

The "French Hole" isn't a real thing. Being half French and having never heard of it, I asked my GF if she recognizes it (she's French). She said not really, though *maybe* it was something little kids did on the playground 20 years ago.

My guess is that it's been replaced with the good ol' fashioned middle finger.

WTF_Are_You_Looking_At: CitizenTed: It isn't well known, but if you scratch the underside of your eyebrow with your thumbnail in Albania it means "Your whore sister likes it in the butt".

What if you just scratching an itchy eyelid?

Careful... in Bosnia-Herzegovina if you pull your eyelid away from your eyeball, stick your pinky finger up inside the lid and rub the back of your fingernail across your eyeball while making an OK sign with the other fingers, it means "go f*ck your mom in the shade of a fir tree that was planted in your sister's ass."

So, you know, be careful not to insult anybody in the wrong way.

I miss the old Swearasaurus.

maxheck: A Namaste is one of the best and friendliest introductions / thank yous. Do that, and either people will see it for what it is, or they'll just figure you're a weird foreigner and leave it at that.

In some cultures, the namaste is only supposed to be given twice at most to the same person in a single day. Once, when you see them for the first time that day, and again, as you are departing (and do not expect to see them again that day). In these cultures, it is not proper to use it to mean anything other than "hello" or "goodbye," and to use it more than twice a day is seen as obsequious.

It is also considered somewhat offensive when used towards members of Abrahamic religions (at least in some countries), on the grounds that it means something like "the divinity in me bows to the divinity in you," which contradicts Abrahamic montheism.

So yes, "namaste" is a great word, but it's far from a catch-all. If you're going to use it, try to use it correctly.

You are right that incorrect usage from an obvious foreigner will most like be forgiven, but it still should be avoided when possible.

But yeah, the sites that run scripts that run scripts from other sites that run scripts from other sites suck.

THIS. I don't want to go to ANY site which makes my tubes act like I'm on dial-up. WTF people?
It's 2012. HAVE U NOT FIGURED THIS OUT ALREADY??? Stop thinking you are a "webmaster" anymore
and get a real job since you have no clue how to make a website WORK without annoying everyone who goes to it.

/sheesh
//and they think it's the BOMB I bet...

To be more specific, the horns mean, "your wife is cheating on you, and you are the one person in the universe who hasn't figured this out." It suggests both questionable morals and tardly ignorance, and is far worse than flicking someone off.

My brother has a giant papier mache hand throwing the goat, which for a long time rested in his fireplace because it wouldn't fit anywhere else. He also has a picture of him as a month-old baby, throwing the goat on mom's shoulder. My wife, who is Portuguese, cannot conceive of why anyone would want to have either of these things.

phrawgh: I've never been anywhere in which people didn't understand "fark you" in classic American English.

On the other hand, "fark" is a very versatile word in English, which can get you in trouble when dealing with non-native speakers. I got into a lot of trouble with a non-native speaker when I used it as an intensifier and he took it as an insult. I said something like "Good farking luck with that" sarcastically. I learned a valuable lesson about sarcasm and idiomatic usage that day.

/Still seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle, however.

Xcott: To be more specific, the horns mean, "your wife is cheating on you, and you are the one person in the universe who hasn't figured this out." It suggests both questionable morals and tardly ignorance, and is far worse than flicking someone off.

The term for this in English is "cuckold," by the way, and the word comes from the cuckoo bird (which lays its eggs in other birds' nests).

ciberido: Xcott: To be more specific, the horns mean, "your wife is cheating on you, and you are the one person in the universe who hasn't figured this out." It suggests both questionable morals and tardly ignorance, and is far worse than flicking someone off.

The term for this in English is "cuckold," by the way, and the word comes from the cuckoo bird (which lays its eggs in other birds' nests).

Yup. The Italian word for that is "cornuto" and Italian for horns is "corni" which is probably why the two are connected.

Bedstead Polisher: ciberido: Xcott: To be more specific, the horns mean, "your wife is cheating on you, and you are the one person in the universe who hasn't figured this out." It suggests both questionable morals and tardly ignorance, and is far worse than flicking someone off.

The term for this in English is "cuckold," by the way, and the word comes from the cuckoo bird (which lays its eggs in other birds' nests).

Yup. The Italian word for that is "cornuto" and Italian for horns is "corni" which is probably why the two are connected.

Google images for "cuckold cleanup" may not be everyone's cup of tea.

pudding7: I freakin' hate websites like that. If I can't figure out which domain to unblock on NoScript in under 5 seconds, then I'm out. Sadly, it seems to be more and more common.

Don't even get me started on the shiatty sites where you unblock on domain, and three more show up...

This.