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Post by gator3336 on Jan 15, 2009 0:14:01 GMT
I still find this a bit amusing, those of you that understand a bit of German may as well. Nothing cracks me up quicker than someone (particularly a guy) turning to me and attempting to discuss the Alabama heat by saying, "Ich bin heiss." Shall we go somewhere a bit more private, then?
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Post by xamishx on Jan 15, 2009 3:27:28 GMT
Got another new one...... "My doctor has told me to lose some weight because my BMX is too high" Really, can you still do wheelies? the wheelie comment made me LOL
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Post by xamishx on Jan 15, 2009 3:30:20 GMT
and i can't believe i forgot this, but someone i know told us that she gets her antihistimenes from the sun.
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Post by floyd on Jan 22, 2009 23:11:16 GMT
This newest addition relies on you having seen the trailer for or knowing the basic synopsis of the new movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The usual suspect secretary hears that we are discussing movies and chips in with "Ooh I love Brad Pitt but he looks awful old in his new film"
Um....yeah........makeup?
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Post by tuck on Jan 23, 2009 4:33:58 GMT
I still find this a bit amusing, those of you that understand a bit of German may as well. Nothing cracks me up quicker than someone (particularly a guy) turning to me and attempting to discuss the Alabama heat by saying, "Ich bin heiss." Shall we go somewhere a bit more private, then? Hahaha... I was once standing next to an Aussie girl in the middle of a German summer when she said that to a big group of Germans. The second the words came out of her mouth, I had to go and stand well away from her and start laughing (as about ten ugly German guys started quizzically eyeing her up and down).
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Post by estes on Jan 23, 2009 8:25:47 GMT
"Australia is part of the E.U. isn't it" That's like the American bloke I knew who listed his second preference as "New Zealand" for the European country he wanted to live in as an exchange student. (He eventually moved to the Netherlands... they're probably still trying to recover). Shortly after Obama was elected last year, I was asked by a girl at work if I voted for him. I repeated that I wasn't American, but Australian. It still didn't matter, she thought Australia belongs to the US.
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Post by kajet on Jan 23, 2009 15:05:17 GMT
Shortly after Obama was elected last year, I was asked by a girl at work if I voted for him. I repeated that I wasn't American, but Australian. It still didn't matter, she thought Australia belongs to the US. Shit, I forgot you belonged to the Queen.
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Post by dragoncat on Jan 24, 2009 21:05:33 GMT
That's like the American bloke I knew who listed his second preference as "New Zealand" for the European country he wanted to live in as an exchange student. (He eventually moved to the Netherlands... they're probably still trying to recover). Shortly after Obama was elected last year, I was asked by a girl at work if I voted for him. I repeated that I wasn't American, but Australian. It still didn't matter, she thought Australia belongs to the US. You didn't vote for Obama? You prick.
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Post by Lurch on Jan 24, 2009 22:58:03 GMT
Yeah, racist.
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Post by Lurch on Jan 24, 2009 23:00:54 GMT
Can one of you nazi sympathizers tell me what's so funny about ich bin heiss? I'm from the US - when you're #1 in everything you don't have to learn other languages.
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Post by gator3336 on Jan 25, 2009 3:35:21 GMT
"Mir ist heiss" or "Es ist heiss" are ways of saying you are warm/ hot or that the weather is warm/ hot. "Ich bin heiss" is the charming German way of saying, "I'm horny/ randy/ good to go". Something similar applies with cold, with "Ich bin kalt" implying you are dead below the waist/ impotent/ a frigid bitch or bloke. People who don't understand those subtle differences in subject/ verb agreements often find themselves on the receiving end of some very odd looks.
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Post by dragoncat on Jan 25, 2009 15:49:57 GMT
Ich bin definitely kalt.
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Post by Lurch on Jan 25, 2009 16:09:23 GMT
Ha. Tru dat dragoncat.
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Post by dragoncat on Jan 26, 2009 16:09:16 GMT
We all get a little less kalt when Lurch is around.
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Post by mikeyuk on Jan 26, 2009 17:28:11 GMT
Someone from work phoned me up this morning, and said that they needed to speak to me, as they urgently needed some information that only I could provide. "Righty-ho", says I, "what do you need?" They said they would call me back at lunch time. We clearly had a different definition of urgent.
Not having heard back at 3, I called them back, and asked if they still needed the information. "No, someone else just gave it to me".
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