BS: Was my face red

Subject: BS: Was my face red
From: Bert
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 01:03 AM

I may have told this story before but I was reminded of it by stories in the race traitor thread.

I was working in Bahrain with two Arab Guys, Mohammed and Hussain of course. Well they were trying to teach me Arabic. They didn't succeed, 'cos they'd start teaching me a word and spend the rest of the day arguing about it.

Evidently Arabic is the combination of two languages and has survived as different dialects, urban and rural.

Well one day, just as we were leaving at the end of the day, Hussain tells me to say 'fetchek abd'; after a few tries I got it down and said 'what does it mean?' He laughed and went home.

As I said it was the end of the day and there weren't many people left in the offices. So I looked around for someone to ask; the only person I could see was Bilal, the guy who ran the print shop.

Now Bilal was as black as you can get, he was the very person they had in mind when they coined the phrase 'Black is Beautiful', his skin shone with colored highlights like a blackbirds wing.

So, all innocent like, I go up to him and say "Hi Bilal, what does fetchek abd mean?"

Bilal broke up laughing, he was rolling around holding his stomach.

When he finally recovered, he said "it means, Go and get fucked by a black man".

Hence the title of this thread.

YOUR TURN.

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Joe Offer
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 01:56 AM

No, Bert, I don't think anybody can match that.

Worst I can recall is when I was a young Catholic seminarian in 11th grade, trying out naughty words. I called a classmate a bastard, not quite knowing what the word meant but wanting to try it. Then I noticed that Father Fleischmann, the Chemistry teacher, was standing right behind me. True to his gentle nature, Fr. F. said nothing. I was embarrassed enough.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 04:00 AM

I have very stupidly over the years taught my husband quite a few swear words in English, which he uses in private and also with his village football team. I also told him about the 'n' word, and said proudly that in UK and USA, this word is now totally forbidden out of a respect for black people and their sad history. He smiled but said nothing. Now however, as soon as I hear his car coming back from his work I brace myself, because he invariably opens the front door and bellows cheerfully, "Daaahling, your f****** n***** is home!" Every blessed evening, at 100 decibels, and the more I cringe the louder he does it, the little beast.

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 05:55 AM

That's quite amusing: a certain person has dubbed me "cuddly oyibo".

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 07:20 AM

LOL Richard! That's Yoruba for white man. It means literally 'no skin'. In much of W Africa, they call one Toubabe, which is much the same thing. I'm intrigued - you must have a Nigerian admirer!

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 07:33 AM

Yes, I know what it means. And yes my girlfriend is Yoruba. As she puts it herself, "a Junoesque Nubian goddess". But I don't think I will ever get the accents and diacrytics and tonalities in the Yoruba language right. My attempts at pronouncing "oko" caused some hilarity as one version of the pronunciation means - er - well - ask your husband!

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 08:03 AM

During an argument with a friend I issued the standard parting shot, "F... Y...!" In return he issued what I thought was a fitting comeback. Naïve, young, heterosexual man that I was I employed this clever comeback a number of times before its meaning finally sank in. The phrase was: "You'll never go back to women!"

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 04:00 PM

Richard, sadly my husband is a Senoufo and only speaks Malinke, French and some English; he doesn't know any Yoruba. How lovely that you have a Nigerian girlfriend, good for you!

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 07:05 PM

Eliza, I say again, what a lucky lady you are to have such a lovely f...... n..... for a husband!

Enjoy!

luv [2U both!]

❤~M~❤

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 07:26 PM

On, E, I assumed from your comment about "oyibo" that you had direct or nearly direct knowledge of Yoruba.

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: gnu
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 09:01 PM

"My attempts at pronouncing "oko" caused some hilarity as one version of the pronunciation means - er - well - ask your husband!"

Oh now! Ya gotta spill the beans eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Mrr at work
Date: 27 Mar 14 - 09:34 PM

Waving and waving at somebody who isn't who you thought...

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 01:20 PM

Richard, I don't actually know one word of Yoruba, but my husband's parents used to rent a little shack thing in their courtyard to a Nigerian family. He calls them Anango, which I think just means 'Nigerians' in Malinke. (This is getting complicated!) He knew their word for 'white person' (oyibo) as before he left to come to England, he told them he was marrying me, a Toubabe. I've looked up 'oko'( LOL.)
It seems to mean quite a few things, but one of them is a willy!!! Reminds me of Cantonese (of which I speak a little tiny bit), a tonal language. 'Ma' can mean 'horse' or 'Mother' depending on the inflection of the voice. Happy Horses' Day?
Michael, thank you so much for your good wishes!
Mrrzy, I've done that so often. I'm always waving at complete strangers, and even going up to someone in the supermarket, and feeling a right nit when it's obvious I've made a mistake. But it's better than ignoring a friend isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 01:31 PM

Yes, you have it, Eliza. Quite a tricky little word!

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 01:33 PM

It also means "husband" - or "car". I guess the Yoruba got the E-type Jaguar nailed!

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 01:38 PM

Oko nla - Big farm/plantation/home
Oko nla - Big stone
Oko nla - Big husband
Oko nla - Big vehicle
Oko nla - Copulatory Organ

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 02:01 PM

So, is meaning number 5 NOT big?

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: gnu
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 02:08 PM

So, our Canuck PM would be a BIG oko? In the 'dick' and 'prick' senses, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 03:34 PM

No Topsie, "nla" means "big".

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 04:47 PM

Once when my son was about 4 years old, I was out driving with him. I almost ran a red light. No harm done; I caught myself at the last second and slammed on the brakes, but I said, "Oh, shit!" in the process.

Now, I didn't want my son to imitate me, lest he do it in the wrong context, so I thought I'd better have a talk with him about language. So after pondering what I was going to say for a block or two, I said: "You know, I said a bad word back there."

"You did? What was it?" he asked.

"Didn't you hear it? Well, if you didn't, then it doesn't matter. Never mind."

"No! I want to know what you said!" he insisted.

I still resisted telling him, but he wouldn't let it go. He continued: "Did you say, 'stupid'?"

Let me explain: Sharon, his day-care provider, had a rule that the kids were not allowed to call each other stupid. I endorse that rule, but it had left him with the impression that 'stupid' was a dirty word. So be it. It could be worse.

"No, I didn't say 'stupid.' " I answered.

"Did you say, 'fucker'?" he asked.

I'm sure if I'd had a mouthful of coffee, I would have sprayed it on the windshield at that point. I said, "Will! I didn't know you knew that word!"

He said, "I know tons of 'em. I hear 'em in day care."

Will is 26 now. I told him that story just a couple of weeks ago. Naturally he had forgotten the incident entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Was my face red
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Mar 14 - 05:23 PM

LOL Jim! This reminds me of something my sister in Scotland told me. She had taken the little bus from her village into Dundee. A very posh man got on with his little girl. The chap told his daughter where to sit, but she replied, " I don't WANT to sit there. I want to sit at the back, stupid!" He was cross and told her, "You mustn't call Daddy stupid, it's vairy, vairy rrrude!" Whereupon the wee lass scoffed, "No, Daddy, that's not vairy rrrude. FUCK is rrude!" Everybody on board choked with laughter. The poor chap's face was as red as a beetroot.