I know I should stop reading them, but honestly there is only one women's weekly that is being delivered to my door, and it's actually the only one I read... I usually keep it next to the toilet as well, because it's the best place to read it. But the one of this week has got a funny article (don't they always) about what turns men and women off sex. Quite interesting... one of the things listed in the men's list is women who send text messages or who make phonecalls during sex. Why the hell would you start to send text messages!!?? OK, call me old fashioned, but I really don't get the deal about wanting to update your friends while you're at it. What would you send them?? "Hi, it's me, I'm coming"
And then, how do you react when you get a message like that?? "uuuuuuuuhhh, I didn't know that you were coming, did we have an appointment?"
I have the entire messaging thingy in my head now...
A: "no no, I'm co-ming"
B: "I forgot we were supposed to meet"
A: "NOOOOOOOOOO, I'm coooooooooooooooming"
B: "What are you talking about?"
A: "Nevermind, my man's turned off anyway..."
B: "Ah, you were coming"
A: "No, I'm in bed already, did we say we were gonna meet up?"
B: "No, I meant that you were coming"
A: "I'm sorry, I think I forgot, but I don't think I'll make it..."
B: "Noooooooooooooo, you were coooooooooooooooooooooooming"
A: "I'm sorry no, but I'll call you tomorrow to rearrange"
any other situations are more than welcome! ;)
Thursday, March 15, 2007
To epibrate
It's becoming a real hype, I read somewhere that it's a generation thing, that generation X were hard workers, generation Y yadeyadeya...
Anyway, everywhere you look around, people are in fact epibrating. That's why they created a word for it. In Dutch that word is epibreren, in German it's called epibrieren, in Spanish they use the verb epibrir or sometimes epibrar. The origin of the word is found in no other country than The Netherlands, yeah, where else!? However, it was created there because they named an Island "Epibreren".
But the verb has a meaning, and I bet you've all been doing it, probably on a daily basis, but never really knew that there was a word for it, I didn't up until about 19 months ago, my boss discovered the existence of the word at the exact same time as I did.
To epibrate means (Lars, I bet you already know, because if you didn't already know the meaning, you'd have already looked it up, haven't you? ;) ): to be busy with doing absolutely nothing whilst looking like you are busy with your work. (this is a free translation from the Dutch meaning) f.i. you are working around on the work floor, just spending your time, but you want people to think you are busy with work, so you take a work related piece of paper (or just some papers with testfaxes on them) and walk around with that, if you start a conversation with your colleague that has absolutely nothing to do with work, you put the papers in between the two of you; look at them, go through them, point at them, while you continue the discussing when you'll meet at the pub or so.
If you knew this already, I'm really sorry that I've wasted your time. If you didn't, you now know that there is a word for what you have been doing the past years ;)
Anyway, everywhere you look around, people are in fact epibrating. That's why they created a word for it. In Dutch that word is epibreren, in German it's called epibrieren, in Spanish they use the verb epibrir or sometimes epibrar. The origin of the word is found in no other country than The Netherlands, yeah, where else!? However, it was created there because they named an Island "Epibreren".
But the verb has a meaning, and I bet you've all been doing it, probably on a daily basis, but never really knew that there was a word for it, I didn't up until about 19 months ago, my boss discovered the existence of the word at the exact same time as I did.
To epibrate means (Lars, I bet you already know, because if you didn't already know the meaning, you'd have already looked it up, haven't you? ;) ): to be busy with doing absolutely nothing whilst looking like you are busy with your work. (this is a free translation from the Dutch meaning) f.i. you are working around on the work floor, just spending your time, but you want people to think you are busy with work, so you take a work related piece of paper (or just some papers with testfaxes on them) and walk around with that, if you start a conversation with your colleague that has absolutely nothing to do with work, you put the papers in between the two of you; look at them, go through them, point at them, while you continue the discussing when you'll meet at the pub or so.
If you knew this already, I'm really sorry that I've wasted your time. If you didn't, you now know that there is a word for what you have been doing the past years ;)
Spielerei
It's amazing how many foreign words have made their way into the language we consider ours (Flemmish), even though it's not an official one, but a bastard version of Dutch.
Up until now I've mostly noticed French and English words, but for a really odd reason people have started to use more and more German words. It's amazing how many times I hear the word 'Spielerei' during a week. What does that mean anyway? Ok, I know what Spielerei means, but why don't we just use the words we have?? What's gonna happen to the language our ancestors fought hard for???
Up until now I've mostly noticed French and English words, but for a really odd reason people have started to use more and more German words. It's amazing how many times I hear the word 'Spielerei' during a week. What does that mean anyway? Ok, I know what Spielerei means, but why don't we just use the words we have?? What's gonna happen to the language our ancestors fought hard for???
Monday, March 12, 2007
Gorillas gave us lice
According to today's Metro, and an article I found on the internet, and which you can read here, Gorillas gave people pubic lice. So if you are ever misfortunate enough to catch the buggers, you might as well assume your partner has brought a wee visit to the zoo and slept with the gorillas ;)
Happy Birthday Donald
According to today's Metro, Donald Duck is celebrating his 73rd birthday today! (At least, if I counted correctly, he was born in 1934, if I miscalculated, please feel free to correct me in a(n) (im)polite manner ;p)
So this one's for you Donald, because all through my childhood you've made me laugh (and quite frankly, you often still do :) )
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