“Zero fucks given” in other languages
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The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :)
There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall:
When God finished making the world, God was looking at his creation and some people showed up:
- Lord, we'd like to ask for Power - Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the Kings and Queens and Emperors
Then some more people showed up:
- Lord, we'd like to ask for Power - The Powerful already have that - Well, we'd like to ask for the Wealth then - Let it be granted - said the Lord, and those became the rich people.
Then God saw the Romans walk by and yelled at them
- Hey folks, I'm sorry, there's neither Power nor Wealth left!
The romans looked at each other in confusion, and replied "sticazzi?"
God thought about it a bit:
- Let it be granted!
Knowing the thread, i don't really see a correlation ( and it seems te exagerated + coincidence considering the timing in the reddit thread - ~4 hours between)
Depends on what you mean by "almost" and "Europe" I guess. They never conquered (all of) present day Germany, Poland, Scotland or Ireland. None of the entirety of Scandinavia, or the Baltic states, etc.
At the peak of the Roman Empire, the Iron Age had been going for about 400 years in Northern Europe, so it was clearly inhabited and not completely backwards: and if anyone feels like making the argument that there was nothing "worth" conquering in these parts anyway, consider that 1) you're just parroting what the Romans themselves would have said and 2) if that is true, why did the Romans ever attempt to conquer the Germanic Tribes? It's not like present-day Germany was a bastion of so-called "civilization" compared to present day Scandinavia. The simple answer is that the Romans couldn't.
So without taking anything away from how absolutely gigantic the Roman Empire was, I can't agree with the statement that they "acquired almost every piece of land in Europe" -- not that it really makes that much of a difference since many parts of the Roman Empire were firmly outside of Europe.
The power of the Roman Empire was extraordinary - that was my only point.
Thank you!
If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no clue what he refers to.
Why talk when you can physically convey the idea. I must say that this discussion makes me somewhat uncomfortable with the centrality of not caring in my culture.
Never heard it either.
German "das ist mir Wurst" is also a lot weaker than "zero fucks given", at least use something stronger like "das interessiert keinen Arsch" (no asshole cares). Also "zero fucks given" in the sense of "irresponsible, he just does it and doesn't care who gets hurt" doesn't really have an equivalent idiom. Maybe "als druff" (just go full power straight ahead) or something.
No (female) pig cares about it / No sow cares about it
But none of them is an exact match as there's no perfect overlap for all situations to which "zero fucks given" can be applied. Which isn't too surprising as most idioms and even most words don't map 1-to-1 between languages even when they share a common root.
[1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_badigeonner_les_...
It exists as an entry in the https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_badigeonner_le... but I don't think I ever heard someone uses it. The non vulgar original version seems to be "s'en brosser le nombril avec le pinceau de l'indifférence" (To brush one navel with the brush of indifference) and found it's origin in the comic strip Achille Talon.
My own personal favorite would be (it's very inelegantly translated) it touches one [of my testicles] without making the other move (maybe invented by former president Chirac, at least made popular by him). It's well known and understood and has the advantage to be vulgar enough without actually making an explicit reference to testicles.
Isn’t this quite long if you don’t care?
One I heard in the army is “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec une patte d’alligator femelle”. “I pat my butt with a female alligator’s leg”
In fact when you search google for “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec”, google will autocomplete with “a lobster’s tibia”, “a morrocan shoe”, etc.
Also, "I slap my balls on it" is probably the translation of "je m'en bats les coulles", but a better translation would be "I slap my balls with it".
It is sometimes shortened as "j'm'en balec" or even just "balec".
Although these swears seem extremely mild, they are actually quite heavy in Québec, even though no one goes to church anymore, because of how dominant the Catholic Church was until the sixties. They would be censored on TV, for example.
It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word crack for “railtrack embedded in the pavement” as used by trams (streetcars). To let the crack oxidize is to not do proper upkeep on that section of the track.
Though no one uses crack to refer to railway track anymore. So the translation is definitely the connotation that modern day dutch speakers would hear.
As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("rust" is "roest" in dutch).
As an aside aside, the expression is passive in Dutch. A more direct translation would be "that can rust to me arse". The "to" there is also weird in Dutch ("aan").
As for English "rut", that word comes from Middle French "route", ultimately leading back to a Romanic origin which funnily enough also has a meaning related to "to break, tear" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...).
So, although the two are not directly related, their origins are surprisingly close to each other.
At least in Amsterdam we use the expression like this.
And although I too only know the expression with the word "aan" in it, the translation by jauco at the start of this thread seems to suggest they also use it without that word.
What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.
The saying is also used with comino (a cumin seed), pimiento (a pepper), rabano (a radish), all rather vegetarian, and culo (ass), and possibly other regional variants.
The "reet" in the Dutch expression of course also returns in "dat interesseert me geen ene reet".
> As we’re entering last-minute Christmas shopping time, it’d be remiss of me not to mention I have a book of lists like these
I found much of this material not interesting or fun.
Im just replying to you whilst walking my dog, hoping to trigger a raucous debate for the sake of it.
But no, it was not 'that' much fun, especially without the original phrases included (mildly interesting what it is in English, but they missed a lot of nuance, of course, by probably going Google translate -> Google translate or something). But often I see interesting content which is blatant sales/marketing material for a book, SaaS or coaching/consultancy product. I recognise that most things people put a lot of time in are somehow to 'make them money' in some way, especially if that is their job (like evangelists of corps often have very elaborate and interesting articles, videos, etc but they are created with targets in mind).
Then there are those owners who interact a lot with their (and other) dogs during the walks, and those dogs have a happy attitude on them, they seem to be more awake.
That being said I do prefer keeping attention on him and enjoying the outside quiet time. I would recommend being less bothered by other people using their phones out in the world though, or you'll be constantly bothered.
Uh, no. Dogs don't take their owner's phone usage that seriously or personally. They are more opportunistic and free spirited than to get hung up about other people's behaviours.
The fact that you interpret things that way probably tells us more about you than it does about dogs. I imagine you are a considerate, thoughtful person (who doesn't know much about dogs).
Well, Hacker News was created as content marketing for a VC company...
It translates literally to "the club of interested people is taking notes".
Never heard anything even close.
The usual is "ma doare-n pula" which translates as "it hurts in my dick", or, "da-o-n pula" = "put it / send it in dick" if you're talking about something/somebody. Or you can just say "pula" (dick) in the correct context would translate the same.
EDIT: Forgot to mention the "censored", non-vulgar version: "ma doare tare" = "it hurts much", or just "ma doare" = "it hurts".
"It hurts in my dick" is just a more vulgar way of saying "it hurts in my ass" (the ass would be a place you wouldn't care if you hurt or not); more vulgar because "pula" (erect penis) is more vulgar than ass.
The next level of not giving a fuck after that is "it doesn't even hurt in my ass" which I find amusing - to which someone can reply "well, when it's gonna hurt you'll realise how bad it is" in the sense that "you will wake up someday and regret it".
The least vulgar variant is "it hurts in my elbow" - elbows being usually bumped into things and not hurting much (unless you hit that special spot where the nerve lies)
My favorite is "it breaks my dick" - "mi se rupe pula". Then there is the euphemistic "it hurts somewhere", with the reader left to guess where exactly.
The elbow variant is another euphemism for ass, due to lexical similarity "cur" vs "cot".
Oddly enough, "butthurt" is a modern English expression for nearly the opposite sentiment.
But there are other, more explicit, expressions equally popular. There is "me importa una mierda" ("I care a shit"), and the most vulgar one is probably "me suda la polla" ("it makes my dick sweat") or, for short, "me la suda".
"It's sausage to me." is rather tame, would fit "I don't care" or "I couldn't care less.". The blood pudding is the same, but feels a bit archaic/backwardly.
There's also: "This goes straight past my arse." - which might be a better match for "zero fucks" in terms of tone and vulgarity. But even that feels more like "I don't give a shit" rather then "Zero fucks given". I don't think there's a perfect German translation of "Zero fucks given" that captures all the nuances.
"The dog shits on it." (mentioned for another language) exists in German as well. Feels a bit more aggressive/confrontational than "It's sausage to me." (It's also more of a "nobody cares" rather than an "I don't care")
> I'll talk to her for you
Or, possibly better, "tuz" (or "tozz") which just means "salt" in Turkish. There's a story behind it[0] but it's universally used across the MENA region to express indifference.
[0] https://arabicway.tumblr.com/post/45019281929/a-lot-of-peopl...
I'm sure there are many other examples in other Arabic dialects
I care a ... ("Me importa un ...")
- Amaranth, "bledo" (a plant)
- Penis, "carajo"
- Cumin, "comino"
- Bell pepper, "pimiento"
- Ball, "huevo"
- Cucumber, "pepino"
In Uruguayan there's also "me chupa un huevo", "it sucks me a ball", which doesn't make much sense but sounds violent enough :)
Err, how doesn't it make sense? Doesn't it metaphorically refer to tea-bagging?
Well, that's a one way to say it for sure, but that's almost the most delicate way, lol.
For general absence of fucks, there's also the suitable ‘it doesn't fuck me’.
I am pretty sure that "мне по хрену" is a parody on "мне по плечу" (literally "fits my shoulder" but means "doable to me / within my powers"). Russian people coin new expressions with such witticisms all the time.
So, reproducing the same parody in English, one could say "fits my wiener". Horseradish here being an obscenity-avoiding euphemism for c*ck (like English "wiener"), not the plant (just like all the sausages and cucumbers in the other languages).
As I native, I would assume that "мне по хрену"/"мне похрен" is an euphemism of the more rough variant "мне похуй" (it is up to my dick, same height as my dick).
«На хую вертел» is one of the multiple creative ways to express «don't give a flying fig about something».
The story goes that it came from chemistry, where a litmus paper is purple in a neutral liquid, so a person does not react in any way.
- "Caguei e andei." (I shat and walked)
- "É igual ao litro" (It's equal to the litre)
- "É para o lado que durmo melhor" (It's the side that I sleep best)
Edit: A more polite one in Norwegian I think is "det blåser jeg (en lang marsj) i" (roughly: I play a long march to that. Implied that it is played on trumpet or something since blåser equals blows).
Someone who knows Norwegian and English better than be should feel free to correct.
"[I] spun [this] on my dick" (на хую вертел). Spun as in "to spin", "to rotate", "to twirl." The imagery is a bit absurd, as is the case with most of these. The Greek one with the flowers and the bees is 10/10 as well.
I had a good laugh. Thanks, author.
- Rien à foutre : "Nothing to cum for"
- Ca m'en touche une sans m'en faire bouger l'autre: "It touches one of my balls without moving the other one". Actually popularize by French President Chirac :)
- Je m'en branle : "I wank about it"
Seems like involving sexual organs is pretty much international.
Brazil: I'm not even there ("Não estou nem aí")
Portugal: Would I want to know ("Quero lá saber")
- It is as much as so much it has been (Tanto faz como tanto fez)
- I'm barely sanding myself (Estou pouco me lixando)
- I'm shitting and walking ("estou cagando e andando");
- My as* doesn't even itch ("meu c* nem pinica").
- What about Kiko? ("e o Kiko?" -- trust me this one is hard to explain).
EDIT: formatting
It is commonly also used by women.
My dick hurts.
My dick fractures.
My ass hurts.
Or, more euphemistically:
It pains me someplace.
It fractures mine.
My elbow hurts.
"On my testicles" (short for: "I've noted it on my testicles", i.e. I don't care about it), also said as "I write it (meaning scribled/noted) on my testicles").
"Something is going on at the gypsie camp" (as such camps are lively, there's usually always something going there. So something "going on" there would be a common occurence/irrelevant, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).
"The mare shat on the field" (as horses do that all the time, it means it's a trivial thing, and by extension, we don't give a fuck about it).
>I will talk about it with my horse (Italian)
>I don’t give a cabbage (Italy)
EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.
Never heard the one about the horse either.
In Tuscany, it would be the "(but) I care (or don't care) a (beautiful) saw"->(ma) (non) m'importa una (bella) sega)
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/j%E2%80%99en_parlerai_%C3%A0_...
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/et_ta_s%C5%93ur_%3F_elle_bat_...
https://www.expressio.fr/expressions/est-ce-que-je-te-demand...
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/se_foutre_comme_de_l%E2%80%99...
These days: "on s'en câlisse" (most cursing is church-based because it is unlikely to offend anyone).
Or we could use a simple "rien à foutre" == "don't give a fuck" or more vulgar "rien à branler" which could be translated as "I don't give a wank".
Testis.
What is the central message of "zero fucks given"?
I have seen it, and am unmoved.
I am not at all surprised there seems to be a high correlation with phraseology involving testicles/genitalia and the message of having more important things to attend to.
Much more interesting is the variance in terms of how some of these turns of phrase are associated with (the speaker|something else in the world|some situation in the world) as subject.
I'd go on, but I'd have to deposit 25 fucks for the next five minutes, and I'm fresh out.
Hello neighbour. :)
"A dog shits." (Sere pes.)
or
"It is by my ass." (Je mi to u prdele.)
It seems that once again, the Czechs have chosen a less painful way of doing things than our Polish brethren ;)
mám v piči (mám to v piči) = i have (it) in vagina
Môžem (to) jebať = i can fuck (that)
Jebem na to = fuck on that
Môžem osrať = i can poop on it
Serem na to = I'm pooping on it
Sral to pes = May dog poop it out
Kašlem na to = I'm coughing on it
Read as it is in Polish, would mean "with cheese on it" lol
- wisi mi to [i powiewa] = it hangs of me [and waves around]
- mam to w nosie = I have it in my nose
- to nikogo = this [matters to] nobody (this is actually pretty funny but can't translate it to English, the joke is that nobody in this particular case only applies to several possible verbs, only a few of them apply to groups of people, and the case also encodes negation - so saying "nikogo" (nobody in a particular case) is enough to deduce the full sentece)
- tak bardzo mi wszystko jedno = it's so very much whatever for me
- srał to pies = a dog shat on it
- mam [na to] wyjebane = I have it fucked-out [on it]? fucked-through? Phrasal versions of "fuck" really don't translate to non-Slavic languages
- jebie mnie to = it fucks me
- kładę na to lachę = I lay my staff (meaning dick) on it
There's also rather polite: wali mnie to which would be "it bangs me"
(Another less vulgar, if somewhat irrelevant, alternative is “ani ziębi, ani grzeje”, or “it neither chills me nor warns me up”).
"Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick" (a similar sounding word). There's a different, original variant which has "dick" instead of horseradish. When you want to say "fuck you" you say "go [and sit] on the dick". The original phrase for "zero fucks given" therefore, means more like "it is around the area of the dick".
Also, some years ago it was almost a meme to use "EVVK", short for "couldn't care less", in so much that it got spelled as such spoken language too. I don't hear that as much anymore.
Tu fous quoi? = What are you doing? (literally: what are you cumming?)
Honestly, this would be a cause for concern.
There is also the gorgeous expression "On s'en tamponne le coquillard" [2] which is one of my favorite.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDY9vFAaG8
[2]: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/s%E2%80%99en_tamponner_le_coq...
The first one is for the intellectuals:
- This is not tangent to me.
The second one is more difficult to translate. I try:
- This is not tangent to my ass.
- This does not touch my ass.
- This in an anus fly-by.
Also I think 'reet' means more crack (literal meaning of reet is is tear as in the crack, not the hole) or butt than anus.
Which is why it would be nice to have the original sentences there so they can be dissected.
It shall rust to my ass.
I only know a variation of the Dutch one, "het kan me de reet niet roesten", which is the exact inverse. I guess we have our own "I could care less/I couldn't care less", how fun!
'A slick of lawyers' 'A notherweek of builders'
An overflow of coders
A platform of engineers
A tower of architects
A backlog of managers
[0]: https://danstonchat.com/5948.html
[1]: https://www.dofus.com/fr/forum/1003-divers/2178644-avis-sabr...
$ cat fucks
cat: fucks: No such file or directoryAs relevant to me as fart (关我屁事)
_Leszarom_
> Meaning: I shit on it.
Another one is:
_Baszok rá_
> Meaning: I fuck on it (which makes no sense in English)
It's a little bit different, but I feel like I've heard other similar phrases too.
> "Fasz kivan" (My dick is out)
when you're fed up with something or
> "Elmész a faszba" (You go to the dick)
when you don't want somebody around.
The best one is
> "Lófasz a seggedbe" (Horse dick into your arse)
though which you use when somebody says something that you don't like and/or stupid and/or they want you to do something and you want to say that you don't agree with it and/or you don't want to do it.
> "Faszomat már!" meaning (My dick already!) which also makes no sense in English
Translation back: "Even cunt would not be interested"
I fart in your general direction
"Estou-me a cagar para isso" - I'm shiting for that.
It sweat my dick.
I care a milk.
I care a shit.
I care a pepper.