That translation is quite inaccurate. Not saying I can really do a better job but for example there’s nothing in there translating to “asshole”, that would be “trou du cul” or “trouduc” for short.

It’s really quite impossible to translate especially due to the way we string them together which doesn’t make any sense in English, we kinda just put them after each other and it works in french. Also the words have almost completely lost their original meaning, they’re just the insults now.

Nom de dieu: in the name of god/god damn

Putain: whore (used like fuck/fucking)

Bordel de merde: “mess of shit” a bloody mess that is full of shit, or something

Saloperie: from “salope” (also kind of “whore” but they don’t get paid for it).

Connard: dickhead/asshole

Enculé de ta mère: this comes as one piece, enculé means you get fucked in the ass then we add “of your mother” just because we can.

It’s criminal that ace isn’t mentioned anywhere in the article.

I knew I was finding this stupid while reading but couldn’t really pin down why, but I think you nailed it, it rubbed wrongly against my Frenchness.

This is probably not really possible. Was watching something recently about how modern cassette players are super bad compared to the ones from the peak of the technology. Like they’re bigger, offer less functionality, and aren’t as reliable etc. Because they’re not benefitting from economy of scale anymore, the old assembly lines are long gone and creating new ones that can beat the old stuff is crazy hard/expensive. So they just all use the one model available for the actual mechanism and it’s trash.

So if someone made a CRT today it probably wouldn’t beat the old stuff.

My energy provider in the Netherlands provides something kind of like this, if you install a compatible EV charger it can charge when it’s cheapest (which I assume correlates).

It’s funny how we say “because of such and such theorem” as if if some greek dude didn’t come up with his little story, the height could totally be half of base.

That’s not what I pictured when we were talking about the water wars.

I appreciate that it’s placed on the original meme background.

In that case maybe you’d enjoy some female indie singers? Try Big Thief, This is the Kit, St South, Phoebe Bridgers.

I’d still say morcheeba fits the bill though. Bit more left field but, Dido?

This list and massive attack pretty much covers what I would call close proximity (that I’m aware of). Of course there’s a myriad of trip hop sub genres more or less close to this subset, but it can veer off quite far.

I think what we find funny here is that it’s McD… You’d usually bring out fancier stuff for a head of state. You know, refined stuff made by a chef, not sloppy fast food.

Wow that has so much more impact to me, I can really visualise the endless parking lots full of them.

Yes I think a lot of people (myself included) stumble when we try to clean up and “getting hammered on Friday night” isn’t a good hobby anymore, and your old party friends all go through the same thing. Just need to replace it with “XYZ hobby on Thursday” or whatever, but that’s a bit easier said than done maybe.

They reap what they sow muahahaha.

Pédalo is the word for those pedal propelled boats you can rent in touristy spots, like with the kids slide at the back. The rest of what you said about pédale is all correct.

When we need big we get a van for all-rounder stuff, or whatever specialised truck is required for the profession.

I’ve deleted memrise and am strictly learning German through these memes, I’m confident I’ll be fluent by the end of the year.

Music in particular I would kind of consider an exception, just because of the benefits of giving early musical education can help so much with acquiring the “language” while the brain is still in sponge mode, 4 to 10 years old.

If you’re forcing your teenager to work at it day and night and to go to the conservatory etc, that’s a different story.

When a punk and a folk love each other very much, something something bees and flowers.

Wake up, but don’t be woke, obviously.