Monday, May 30, 2022

& mon., 30 may, 2022: (finnish & scots gaelic & japanese) not almost amnesia day: give us This Day our Daily Curse

     [NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FINNISH: “Kasta lippu heroiinaiin, ja mä sitten imen sitä.” 

GAELIC, SCOTTISH: Bog a' bhratach ann an heroin agus sùgidh mi oirre.

JAPANESE: もし旗をヘロに濡らしたら、俺はちゅうちゅう吸うだぜ。 Moshi hata wo hero ni nurashitara, ore wa chū-chū sū da ze. ‡

     

‡)  “Immerse the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!”  /  “Soak the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!” — attrib. to a famous former Commisssioner of Sewers  

     

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