There are more vulgar ones in Spain:
Me la suda (“la” refers to “la polla”): It makes my dick sweat
Me la pela: It peels my dick
Me importa una mierda: That matters a shit to me
Obviously, this last one is closer to “I don’t give a shit,” but it’s essentially the same sentiment.
n. I couldn’t give a flying fuck (English English)
One of the ways to say in Brazilian Portuguese: “estou cagando e andando”
Literally, “I am shitting and walking (simultaneously)”
Greek Yeah I know of that phrase but it’s not really used. It’s as funny in Greek as it is in English.
Most common is “on my balls”, the short version of I am writing it/him/her on my balls. Implying that you care so little you have the name of it/him/her written on your balls. Yeah it does t make much sense.
The lighter version (you would see in subtitles for example) is “to me there is no nail being burned”. I don’t know where it comes from. Must be something to do with nails being left behind when you burn wooden structure.
Edit: oh I remembered another; “I shat myself”.
Or a simple “Na” while pointing to your nether region will do as well.
It’s me sausage actually. And it doesn’t mean no fucks given, rather it is all the same to me.
Not really, that would translate to “Es ist ich-wurst”
“My dick hurts” - various west Balkan languages.
Swearing in Greece and across most of the whole region is hilarious. The actual “I don’t care”/“zero fucks given” phrase is to write something on your balls or dick.
So many sayings are mother/whore/balls/dick based - not offensive phrases, just common sayings.
Also in French: “it touches one (ball) without moving the other”
As famously said by a former president of the country.
I’m Dutch. Never heard of that phrase. They probably mean “It can rust on my ass” “‘t kan me aan mijn reet roesten” still never heard people using that. Is probably regional.
Flemish: kan mij geen reet schelen
It’s even in the lardass van dale: https://www.vandale.nl/gratis-woordenboek/nederlands/betekenis/reet
lardass van dale?
The fat hooligan.
I use it sometimes. We also use an equivalent of the German one: het zou mij worst wezen.
i’m american. i’m pretty sure it should say “it can oxidize on my donkey”… for no reason.
Not as obviously cool as the above, but I always liked the way Tagalog (Philippines) works: wala akong pakialam. Literally translated, it’s just “I don’t care,” but there’s a layer of passive-aggressiveness that can make it really offensive.
Hopefully interesting grammar lesson
In the Philippines, politeness is a really big deal, so big they have multiple layers to it:
- add “ho” - use for someone around your age to make the sentence polite
- add “po” - use for someone of higher status or age to make the sentence polite
- use plural form of you - makes anything more polite, and must be used w/ “po” with the elderly or people deserving/expecting respect
There are also pretty strict, unspoken rules about what is appropriate and what’s not appropriate to say in public.
Tagalog also uses prefixes to verbs for conjugation with separate prefixes for different uses of the same verb (e.g. physical action vs “internal” action, group action, habitual action, etc). The prefix here is “paki” (turns things into a request), and the verb is “alam” (to know). Literally translated, it means something like “please inform me,” though you could use other ways to communicate the same thing. My point here though is that “paki-” makes the request super polite.
To break it down: “wala” (Nothing, don’t have) “ako(ng)” (I, me), “paki-” (polite request), “-alam” (to know).
Basically, that construction throws out the entire culture of politeness while blatantly saying you don’t want anything to do with knowing about whatever that is. In many contexts, it’s more offensive than swearing at the person.
I love this. The closest I’ve come in English is replying to a huge angry text rant with “Unsubscribe”
I feel like you can get somewhat close with some english speaking cultures, youd be surprised how pissy folks from the South get when you respond to their passive aggressive BS with curt but utterly impolite responses.
Sounds like like saying “didn’t ask”
Flowers on my dick and bees all around is so mysterious
It was all the buzz in those days!
Honey, stick around; I’ve got more where those came from.
Buzz off, we don’t need you droning on.
Maybe it’s something more like “I dislike this situation”? Because I’d honestly be freaking out if my dick was covered in flowers and I was surrounded by bees. That’s how you get bees on your dick which seems objectively bad. I would give a fuck.
But bees are typically not aggressive unless you frighten them. It might even tickle a little.
- I slap my balls on it (French)
If that one sounds weird, the translation misses the point that it’s a masturbation reference. It should be “i beat my balls to it”. Compare with “je m’en branle”, litterally “i jack to it”
I think it was a translation of « je m’en bats les couilles »
(Which would translate more to “I slap my balls OF it”)
Ball grammar today… who would’ve thunk 😅
I’m also confused by the translation of the French idiom.
But then I’m also confused by the idiom itself: I think initially it’s “j’m’en branle”, “I’m wanking off of it”.
Then the hit my balls part should be similar to “beat your meat”.
Hence my proposed translation: I’m beating my balls off of it.
And yes it’s quite rude language in French too, that I’m sure!
But… There’s more !
Like many foul language in French, it can be decorated and escalated, even if it deteriorates the meaning. For the same idiom, some variations specify what you’re using to beat your balls: With a tart server: j’m’en bats les couilles avec une pelle à tarte With a french window: j’m’en bats les couilles avec une porte fenêtre
If you’re the proud owner of a vagina you would instead say: “j’m’en bats les steaks”. Steak is the same English word but here it refers to your labia. Then I guess the same variations as above can be applied.
That makes no sense to me. If you’re masturbating to something it means you care about it quite a bit!
You’re not jacking off to it, it’s more that masturbating is more important to you than whatever it is
Ah, that makes more sense. Although considering how much people seem to like masturbating, it’s not a huge insult to say you’d rather do that than something else.
I always understood it to mean “i slap my balls with it”, meaning that whatever were talking about is used to self inflict testicular pain, which is not something enjoyable
This is why I’m still on the Internet.
Same.
Less vulgar finnish version
“Kiviäkin kiinnostaa.”
i.e. rocks are also interested (about that subject)
And that’s a way more common way to say it IMHO.
“Zero fucks given” is both vulgar and not the most common way to say you don’t care about something in English. So the best equivalents should all be vulgar as well.
I get it, just pointing out that the vulgar version is not a very common way to express it in Finnish.
Makes sense. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a person say “zero fucks given” in real life, but I see it constantly online.
That was my first question: are people going around saying this?
More fitting would be German “das geht mir am Arsch vorbei” “it passes me by the ass”.
If you say so.
Mir ist das Wurst
The Dutch have this too.
Het zal me worst wezen
Google Translate puts that as “I don’t care” but I’m guessing that’s not the literal translation
It’s sausage to me
Fine. Be that way. He was only asking for the literal translation. I care a cucumber.
do you know what Dutch phrase the tweet is referring to because I never heard that
“het kan me de reet roesten”
I’ve definitely never heard of that, but I live in Belgium so that’s probably why…
“It will be a sausage to me”
More from German:
“Das ist mir X” = “It is X to me,”
where X = banane, brot, bumbel, bums, egal, gleich, latte, pisse, relativ, schnuppe, schnurz, schwanz
(banana, bread, booger, fuck, equal, same, boner/slat, piss, relative, meteor/snuff, ?, tail/dick)Wayne…
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