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Get your British citizenship, <expletive deleted>

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 04:37:19 PM EST
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The country where you can't call kids "obese" in letters home to their parents?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 04:43:42 PM EST
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Once she has it she can move freely within the EU, to a more potty-mouthed country.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 04:44:46 PM EST
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Which ones are the more potty-mouthed countries?

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 05:36:46 PM EST
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I remember most of the cuss-words from Spanish, and Mig can fill in the blanks.

We'll make it work.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 06:22:44 PM EST
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I remember vaguely reading somewhere that the Russian language had the largest number of inventive expressions  of that type

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 07:59:03 PM EST
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Finland is fairly potty-mouthed with an all-gender predilection for cursing about fecal matter, female organs and the devil. Male organ cursing comes rather low down the list. Strangely, the use of the word for the Finnish mythological god of thunder - Perkele - is still frowned upon, though common, as it it can be pronounced with a satisfying elongated roll of the central 'r'. The English F-word is also a recent trend, with swearing in English becoming generally acceptable - even in the mainstream media.

Here's my good friend (also host for the Finnish TV version of 'Have I got news for you') and complete anglophile, Peter Nyman, using the C-word.

Naturally it carries no burden outside of Finland.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Feb 26th, 2010 at 05:01:07 AM EST
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But we don't have groups agitating for them to carry guns legally.

dimensionally challenged is better than packing

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 04:46:24 PM EST
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That's true.  Stabbing them to death with knives and beating them with pint glasses is much better.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.
by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Feb 25th, 2010 at 06:30:55 PM EST
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