[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.]
CATALAN: ¡Mira el caganatio! ‡‡
‡‡) “Look at the shitting log!”
NOTE: Not an insult if pointing at a Catalunya Xmas display. (However, if pointing at a specific person... If the foo shits, wear it, as the saying goes.) El Caganatio = Lit., “The shitting log...” — (El) Caganatio is another Catalunya Cath. Xmas trad. A log with a face carved or painted on it is swathed in a blanket. On Xmas eve the children shout at & abuse the log, exhorting the log to shit their Xmas treats; when the blanket is removed the Xmas treats are found, treats obligingly shat out by the coprocopia known as (El) Caganatio.
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