Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 October 2024

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Six colourful frick offs from around the world:

6. Go comb a monkey (Brazil)

5. Go ski into a spruce (Finland)

4. Go fry some asparagus (Colombia)

3. Go get fricked by a blind bear (Albania)

2. Go take it in your butt from a runaway donkey (Italy)

1. Go back home, your mother made you waffles (France)

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Another colloquial Italian phrase for telling someone to get lost, from Tuscany, is una barca in culo con i remi aperti. It means "go stick a boat up your butt with the oars out"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

A Japanese way of telling someone to get lost is 豆腐の角に頭をぶつけて死ね, which means "go hit your head on a corner of tofu and die"

• This isn't very nice because it's essentially telling someone they should commit soycide

** apologies if that tofu joke is tasteless

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

Another brutal Brazilian way to tell someone to get lost is to suggest they go "pick little coconuts" (catar coquinho) or, if you REALLY want them to frick off, you can tell them to go "pick little coconuts on a slope" (catar coquinho na ladeira)

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

The best frick off that I heard (a long time ago now) in German was geh zum Mond und backe eine puffer. It means "go to the moon and make potato pancakes"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

My favourite Polish phrase for telling someone to feck off (or shut up) is idź do parku sufit malować. It means "go to the park and paint the ceiling"

Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social):

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