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January 10, 2013

Words We Don't Have In English That We Probably Should
— Ace

Via Instapundit, some good words English just doesn't have word for.

A few examples:

2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude

Kind of convoluted but I know what they mean, I think, or at least something like that. I've been in the situation, trying to ingratiate myself to a girl, of suggesting we do something I'm guessing she'd like, and she agrees, thinking that's what I'd like, but in fact neither of us wanted to do this thing at all, so now here we are, trying to mutually please the other and both failing at at and now mutually displeased, eating a joint of mutton at Medieval Times.

Well no not Medieval Times but something.

3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

Seems useful but I think maybe spelling it out in words is even better: "A face badly in need of a fist." Not sure I want to cut that down into a one-word thing.

5 DesenrascanÃ§o (Portuguese): Â“to disentangleÂ” yourself out of a bad situation (To MacGyver it)
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9 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid

That idea exists in the English-speaking word but I don't know how you'd say it briefly.

11 LÂ’esprit de lÂ’escalier (French): usually translated as Â“staircase wit,Â” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it

I think maybe we have that, now: "Jerkstore."

22 Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively

Very useful -- we talk about this when we talk about preference cascades.

Posted by: Ace at 10:12 AM | Comments (291)
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1 And foist

Posted by: Foist at January 10, 2013 10:13 AM (kf0rM)

2 Of course "arigata-meiwaku" simply is "thanks" and "inconvenience". But it's a great word still!

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 10:15 AM (FsUAO)

3 We'll just steal their good words, like schadenfreude.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 10, 2013 10:15 AM (evdj2)

4 Oh no it's not. It means "There is difficulty annoyance". Ok it's less straight forward.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (FsUAO)

5 2 Arigata-meiwaku.

This happens to me. I keep telling people, "Please don't buy me Christmas or birthday presents. I don't need anything. If I do need something, I go out and buy it, instead of hinting around that someone should provide it."

But I still get presents. And I still have to say thank you (which I do sincerely). And the cycle continues. I hope I don't sound like a dick, cos I'm not, I just don't want to get presents.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (P7hip)

6 Cuomo: A face badly in need of a fist

Posted by: Foist at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (kf0rM)

7 Obamahitler.

Posted by: George in Texas at January 10, 2013 10:16 AM (msPO3)

8 An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude

oh, a fruit cake , oh dear, you shouldn't have. Oh you would like to have some now. ?
oh really you shouldn't have.

no i mean Really you shouldn't have, this is such a large cake, , yes the family will be surprised , thank you .

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (nqBYe)

"3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist"

See also: "Piers Morgan"

Posted by: Jaws at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (4I3Uo)

10 There should be a word for accidentally shitting your pants in a really nice place. Something that conveys that it's totally understandable and kind of cool when you think about it.

Posted by: Al Roker at January 10, 2013 10:17 AM (+lsX1)

11 #11 is showing up in books a lot these days. Of course I can't think of any right now, but I've read the term multiple times in the last year or so.Never heard it said aloud, though.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (ZshNr)

12 Guanxi: "Connections." or "Pull."

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (BIJKO)

13 Currently, most if not all of our government officials and media betters have (or are?) Backpfeifengesichts.

Posted by: DangerGirl - feeling empty at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (IpwkJ)

14 10 There should be a word for accidentally shitting your pants in a really nice place. Something that conveys that it's totally understandable and kind of cool when you think about it. Posted by: Al Roker at January 10, 2013 02:17 PM (+lsX1) I made a Roker.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (FsUAO)

15 You painted my car Pink? uhm, well yes it's a lovely shade of pink, but, well , er i certainly won't lose that car in the parking lot.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:18 AM (nqBYe)

16 a face that's wanting a fist. I like that way to say it too, but people would look at you funny. I think Christmas presents are a great example of that japanese one.

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (LCRYB)

17 I'd love to see a similar list of words that English has that are rare in other languages.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (xSegX)

18 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist" See also: "Piers Morgan" There was an entire thread dedicated to this: http://minx.cc/?post=334053

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (evdj2)

19 There should be a word for attempting to kill people with your thoughts. *Mike Hunt Mike Hunt Mike Hunt* ...Is it working?

Posted by: JDTAY at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (a0nis)

20 The entire corpus of the English language has been estimated between 800k and 1 million words.

Chances are that English has had words for these concepts but they fell out of favor and were forgotten.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (djdc7)

21 Isn't #11 also called "20/20 hindsight"? Or "I shoulda said..."?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (P7hip)

22 "3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist"
See also: Al Gore, Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Hugo Chavez, Vladimir Putin, and Michael Moore.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (KnIgz)

23 "Arigata-meiwaku" Here's a better example: I don't like chocolate or sweets in general. When my birthday comes around, someone will insist on making me a cake. I tell them not to go to trouble, but thank them for the offer anyway. I don't feel like answering a million questions about what's wrong with me for being born without a fully developed sweet tooth, so I sidestep the issue. Then the person decides to surprise me with a chocolate cake anyway. Naturally, I'm forced to eat an entire piece or else it'll hurt that person's feelings. I hate chocolate, cake, and feeling like I owe someone a favor, so you can imagine what this does to me.

Posted by: CC at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (A+Su2)

24 "Taarof" in Farsi is such a word. I characterize it as "a whole bunch of rapid fire passive aggressive behavior, dressed up in the context of polite manners, that prevents me from getting that last piece of meat because you gave it to that bitter old lady." Wikipedia says: It is a way of denying your will to please your counterpart, however the will is only denied because of the custom and not to please the counterpart. But there are situations where tarof persist upon a request to make the counterpart genuinely satisfied. Tarof often causes misunderstandings between both parties and is a source for awkward situations in a social setting.

Posted by: Wooga at January 10, 2013 10:19 AM (AuMXb)

25 3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

I thought that was Austrian for Obama.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (UOM48)

26 Baracked - while appearing competent and sensible, managing to fool everyone and completely fuck up, but able to successfully cast the blame onto others in stealth.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (GQ8sn)

27 >>>#11 is showing up in books a lot these days. Of course I can't think of any right now, but I've read the term multiple times in the last year or so.Never heard it said aloud, though. I haven't heard it but I'd *guess* people said it after the first Obama-Romney debate, when people were saying Obama thought of all the things he should have said the next morning.

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (LCRYB)

28 Arigata-meiwaku.

When my sister was in the hospital waiting for her second child's lungs to develop enough he could be yanked out (some complications in the 8th month, he's awesome now) my mother re-arranged all her kitchen cupboards. When she got home, she couldn't find anything.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (ZKzrr)

29 Medieval Times does half chickens, no mutton. To my shame I have been there three times. It seems like every time someone comes in from out of town they want to go there.

Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (53z96)

30 Okay, how do I pronounce them?

Posted by: levi at January 10, 2013 10:20 AM (5V/0T)

"...trying to mutually please the other and both failing at at and now mutually displeased, eating a joint of mutton at Medieval Times."

So, Ace, do you "joust"? If so, maybe we should get together, IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Bawney Fwank at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (/Mla1)

32 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

is this where we say, well bless your heart?

esenrascanÃ§o (Portuguese): Â“to disentangleÂ” yourself out of a bad situation (To MacGyver it)

Honey, No, he was just looking at my earlobe!

Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively

The rations will be larger today!

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (nqBYe)

33 Equity and political capital are versions of Guanxi. They are a bit more specific than the Chinese version in that they do not apply to every situation. Equity is often used when someone screws up but understands they have built up a lot of equity on the job from past successes etc...

Karma is another word we use for a similar sentiment.

BTW, I think the Germans always make new words by just combining other words. IIRC a glove is something like a handshoe. Not the most poetic of people that lot.

Posted by: Voluble at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (qYvEa)

"Very useful -- we talk about this when we talk about preference cascades."

If you like, you can talk about preference cascades. After the 2012 election, I never want to hear the phrase again.

Posted by: troyriser at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (vtiE6)

35 I think CC has the first example right, Ace. Sounds like what you're describing is the Abeline Paradox.

Posted by: Libertarianjim (team #letitburn) at January 10, 2013 10:21 AM (y5sPI)

36 Pena ajena - Watching the British version of The Office.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 10:22 AM (FsUAO)

37 Well no not Medieval Times but something. 3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist _____________________ We have a word or two for this in English, it's- Ezra Klein.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:22 AM (r2PLg)

38 Arigata-meiwaku = Fiscal Cliff

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:22 AM (KnIgz)

39 Racism : any criticism of the president by republicans

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (Rq+Vo)

40 "2 Arigata-meiwaku" sounds like what I call pathologically nice. They try hard with good intentions but screw everything up.

Posted by: NacRadDoc at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (phAHG)

41 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

Is that because it's roughly the sound someone makes when they have a fist in their mouth?

Posted by: yinzer at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (/Mla1)

42 Abilene. Sigh.

Posted by: Libertarianjim (team #letitburn) at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (y5sPI)

43 slow news day? we've always known these words

Posted by: true conservatives!!!! at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (iqn8w)

44 Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively This one you face every single day. People politely nodding and smiling, and really they are thinking "what a dumb mother effer".

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at January 10, 2013 10:23 AM (FsUAO)

I think Cracked.com had a list very similar to this not too long ago. The great thing about english, of course, is you can blend foreign words into everyday language without batting an eye; unlike, say, french, which HATES having to incorporate english terms like "email."

Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively

Also known as, "I'll act like I'm happy to have this strange person in my onsen because it's the polite thing to do, but I really don't like him at all. He's loud and smelly and foreign."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (4df7R)

46 Desenrascanço (Portuguese): Â¡Â°to disentangleÂ¡Â± yourself out of a bad situation (To MacGyver it) ... Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid We have words in Engrish for them: Redneck Ingenuity & Sucker.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (GFM2b)

47 BeckoningChasm - You are in luck. I just so happen to have an address where your loved ones can send your presents. I will even see to it that a Thank You card is sent... all for a modest fee.

Everybody wins with capitalism...

Posted by: Voluble at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (qYvEa)

48 Lafayette Escadrille French meaning suckers.

Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (53z96)

49 There should be a word for the boner you might get when you get really angry or have a near death experience or some other adrenaline inducing event. Fear-boner or rage-boner just sounds too crude. Needs to be something more sophisticated like maybe "adrenalrection."

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (+lsX1)

50 22 Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively ______________________ Hypocrites aka Liberals.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (r2PLg)

51 this is a good one. thanks, ace.

Posted by: L, elle at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (0PiQ4)

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 02:18 PM (ZshNr)

It was on the ONT fairly recently.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:24 AM (wbeNt)

53 >>>There should be a word for the boner you might get when you get really angry or have a near death experience or some other adrenaline inducing event. Fear-boner or rage-boner just sounds too crude. Needs to be something more sophisticated like maybe "adrenalrection." hah! All I can think of (or maybe I first read it this way) is : "We need a word for the triumphant erection you get after murdering a hitch-hiker."

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (LCRYB)

54 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid

Don't we all have a friend like that , You NEVER want them to do anything for you because it will never be forgotten or you will Never have paid them back enough?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (nqBYe)

55 Guanxi = goodwill

Posted by: Ep at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (bSWzX)

56 9 Guanxi That idea exists in the English-speaking word but I don't know how you'd say it briefly. I do, it's called Lobbying or bribery, if you prefer.

Posted by: flmom at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (nSjrf)

Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

Punchably smug, or Obama

Posted by: acethepug at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (OQhDd)

2 Arigata-meiwaku

Badly performed, but earnestly attempted, sexual "favors"

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (BAS5M)

59 Aunt-Jemima-Itis : a condition brought on by the repeated rejection of the "pancake move".

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (Rq+Vo)

60 Guan Xi is "juice"

you get juice in the military by doing favors and acquiring poguey bait the mark needs....

never enough to be a "bribbe" just a lot of "help"

"juice"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:26 AM (LRFds)

61 I'd love to see a similar list of words that English has that are rare in other languages.

"Disingenuous". Try to explain the meaning of that word to someone.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (KXm42)

62 Looks like Ace has been hitting the videos of that chick with big tits that gives us our Japanese word of the day.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (gKwHR)

63 We have been doing these on the news thread every day

Luftmensch (Yiddish) An impractical dreamer with no business sense. Literally, air person.

Posted by: Vic at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (53z96)

64 Who was the dem leader before Reid? From Utah, I think. Anyway, I always wanted to slap him whenever I saw his smug face on TV. Didn't even have to open his mouth. Pretty sure he'd be the definition of "Face needing punched", although Piers Morgans is certainly a stron contender.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (wbeNt)

65 a Dick'd Hiker?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (nqBYe)

66 "An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude" ObamaCare.

Posted by: BuddyPC at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (jfUIE)

67 Is there a word for words that we only ever see in print, so have no idea how to pronounce them. I had never heard the name Hermione until the Harry Potter books came out.I can't even remember how I was pronouncing it in my head until the movie came out. I wasn't even close.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (ZshNr)

68 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker.

hhmmm. Tough one. Hobo-adrenal-rection?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:27 AM (KnIgz)

69 This happens to me. I keep telling people, "Please don't buy me Christmas or birthday presents. I don't need anything. If I do need something, I go out and buy it, instead of hinting around that someone should provide it." But I still get presents. And I still have to say thank you (which I do sincerely). And the cycle continues. I hope I don't sound like a dick, cos I'm not, I just don't want to get presents. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2013 02:16 PM (P7hip) I say that alot to my wife and kids since they use MY CREDIT CARD to by it!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (9Bj8R)

70 We have number 2. The road to hell is paved with good intentions

Posted by: SmileyNH at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (hlZx/)

2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese):

This is like the thing they do in many countries where it's customary for a host to give their guests a gift, which the guest is then expected to respond to with a gift of equal or greater value. Turning down the gift is considered very, very rude, just as it's rude to not repay the gift. I've known at least one person who was dreading visiting family in... was it Taiwan? Because she KNEW her grandmother was going to do this, even though she'd asked her not to, and she didn't want to deal with the social etiquette of receiving a gift she didn't want and hadn't asked for, that would probably be quite expensive, and which she'd then have to repay in some way without offending her grandmother.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (4df7R)

72 Not the most poetic of people that lot.
Posted by: Voluble

Essen Sie mich.

Posted by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [/i] [/b] at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (djdc7)

73 "Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe and what you actually believe, respectively" Cognitive dissonance Figured you guys would be really familiar with that one.

Posted by: palooka at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (5oz7R)

Posted by: CC at January 10, 2013 02:19 PM (A+Su2)

I lived on the campus farm whole in college. The lady in charge of the boys units brought me a german chocolate cake for my birthday. After all the other residents left. To my bunk.

When someones asks me if i want a cake for my birthday, yes, german chocolate please.

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (ma1sf)

75 You guys want pet names for your erections--and we aren'y even at 100, yet?

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (r2PLg)

76 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker.

That's easy: hoboner

Posted by: yinzer at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (/Mla1)

77 ah! All I can think of (or maybe I first read it this way) is : "We need a word for the triumphant erection you get after murdering a hitch-hiker." Hoboerecto?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (GFM2b)

78 Guanxi = Favor Bank. Favor bank works better.

Posted by: Evi. L. Bloggerlady at January 10, 2013 10:28 AM (4kTo2)

79 "Disingenuous". Try to explain the meaning of that word to someone.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 02:27 PM (KXm42)

Flowery fibs?"

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (nqBYe)

80 Werenotcomingtotakeyourguns.

Communist for "We're totally, like, coming to take your guns."

Posted by: The Lone Wanderer at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (yvLd8)

81 "Punchably smug"

I think Pink Floyd sang about that, didn't they?

"I........have become--
Punchably smug"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (P7hip)

82 "We need a word for the triumphant erection you get after murdering a hitch-hiker."

Yeah, exactly. Calling it a murder-boner is just crass.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (+lsX1)

83 73 Palooka,

Oh we are.

//Democrat party

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (LRFds)

84 2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese) Occurs because of 9 Guanxi (Mandarin) aka Karma And the proper response is Thanks alot, asshole.

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (UZQM8)

85 I hate chocolate, cake, and feeling like I owe someone a favor, so you can imagine what this does to me.

You just gotta be blunt sometimes. It'll save you a lot of aggravation.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (KXm42)

86 68 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker. hhmmm. Tough one. Hobo-adrenal-rection? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 02:27 PM (KnIgz) Ewokawood.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:29 AM (r2PLg)

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 02:18 PM (nqBYe)

Much like the time my F-i-l scrubbed my kitchen sink and was clearly hurt at my lack of praise. It wasn't that he did a bad job, he did a great job and clearly put a lot of effort into it, it was just that I didn't *care* if my sink was scrubbed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (wbeNt)

88 Backpfeifengesicht is actually 3 German words just run together. Germans do that.

Posted by: Mike Hunt at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (ZjRcD)

89 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker.

hhmmm. Tough one. Hobo-adrenal-rection?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 02:27 PM (KnIgz)

Hobo-Chub.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (GQ8sn)

90 Id like a word for liberal pseudo-philosophers and professors who purposely dont dress properly, comb, cut their hair or shave (purposely disheveled) in order to give off the appearance of being too busy pondering man's deepest questions to be distracted by such silly notions as grooming... as a cover for sloth.

Posted by: ElKomandante at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (mM141)

91 >>>Guanxi = goodwill

Beat me to it. Yes we call this goodwill in the English convention. i.e. I've built up a lot of goodwill with Bob, time to call in a favor.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (0q2P7)

92 Seems useful but I think maybe spelling it out in words is even better: "A face badly in need of a fist." Not sure I want to cut that down into a one-word thing.

---

I'm thinking EdSchultzFace.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (XUKZU)

93 84 Reality Czech,

Hey fucknuts we're observing how long the American people can be subjected to bullshit before they figure out it ain't caviar.

Ogabe's trillion dollar coin trick may be the mark

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (LRFds)

94 hobogasm?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:30 AM (nqBYe)

3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist

There are just so many to choose from...

Is there a word for "A face badly in need of a fist, but which you're scared to punch for fear your fist will disappear into the face's fat folds like the Blob and you'll never get it back?" For example, Michael Moore.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (4df7R)

96 Elkomandante, slothophylic?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (KnIgz)

97 "Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude"

I thought the English word for this was "Obamacare"?

Posted by: MrCaniac at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (Zd/NW)

98 >>>"We need a word for the triumphant erection you get after murdering a hitch-hiker." A "Patrick Bonerman" Now go return some videotapes

Posted by: Wooga at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (hUbRl)

99 90 Id like a word for liberal pseudo-philosophers and professors who purposely dont dress properly, comb, cut their hair or shave (purposely disheveled) in order to give off the appearance of being too busy pondering man's deepest questions to be distracted by such silly notions as grooming... as a cover for sloth. ----- Garofolic? From the root, Janeane Garofolo?

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (b+8h9)

100 And "douchefreude"!

Posted by: rdbrewer at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (Iyg03)

101 What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (9Bj8R)

102 Words that we don't have in English: Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin

Translation: Mega Skittles

Posted by: ontherocks at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (aZ6ew)

103 Hobo Delayed Stimulus

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:31 AM (r2PLg)

104 "Awkward".

That word has got to cover about half a dozen of these indescribable "emotions".

Posted by: looking closely at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (6Q9g2)

105 Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 02:30 PM (LRFds) Eh??

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (UZQM8)

106

Posted by: AmishDude at January 10, 2013 02:19 PM (xSegX)

My mom said that one of the things that troubled her about Spanish was that there was no way to differentiate between ways of obtaining wealth. If you earned it, won the lottery or stole it the word was the same. Is that sort of what you mean?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (wbeNt)

107 Ace, Yesterday you wanted a new descriptor for our "elites" and I think I have a word for you. Peacock. Think about it. They're overly aggressive and showy as all fuck. They try and give the appearance that they're something spectacular, but in the end they're all just stupid fucking birds. What is typical liberal elite? Somebody who is overly aggressive with their views and makes a big fucking show about it trying to prove how great they are and how much better they are than you. But beyond all the agression and fluff, they're nothing more than irrespectable little shits. Also, peacock has the word cock in it. So that's something, I guess.

Posted by: taylork at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (ppNDn)

108 Ewokawood ------------- Coffee on Keyboard again, thanks a mil.

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (41VCE)

109

Private Pyle, that was some arigata-meiwaku! - Sgt Carter

Sur-prize! Sur-prize! Sur-prize! I knew you would like it Sgt. Carter - Private Gomer Pyle, USMC

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (BAS5M)

110 What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested?

Sexlatergaze.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (GQ8sn)

111 What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested?

"Marriage"?

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (ryAWr)

112 "Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid"

So basically, one "Oh Shit" equals one hundred "Atta Boys".

Posted by: MrCaniac at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (Zd/NW)

113 Reality check : the ability to type with your head up your ass

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (Rq+Vo)

114 @101 In our house it's called dinner.

Posted by: lincolntf at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (ZshNr)

115 What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested?

Everyday.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 10:32 AM (ZKzrr)

116 What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested? Yesdear?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (GFM2b)

117 Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 02:30 PM (LRFds)

Eh??

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 02:32 PM (UZQM

Disappeared trolololol post.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (GQ8sn)

118 66 "An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude" ----------- The best I can come up with is "a really-shouldn't-have". Maybe a clusterfavor?

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (b+8h9)

119 Arigata-meiwaku We don't have one word for this but seems to be the same concept as "The pathway to hell is lined with good intentions."

Posted by: Long Island at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (hl8SI)

120 Much like the time my F-i-l scrubbed my kitchen sink and was clearly hurt at my lack of praise. It wasn't that he did a bad job, he did a great job and clearly put a lot of effort into it, it was just that I didn't *care* if my sink was scrubbed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:30 PM (wbeNt)

I know !

i always want to say to spouse that actually might actually put his own clothes in the hamper, "what, you want a cookie!"

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (nqBYe)

121 105 Cajun Carrot,

one of the dial a trolls is calling out Ewok-6 on "preference cascade" and America still loving them some Ogabe.

I think the fucking moonbat will see it with Barry's trillion dollar hustle.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:33 AM (LRFds)

122 Isnt' 'guanxi' just the same as favor-banking?

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (ZMzpb)

123

Ewokawood

davidcarradinepenis

Posted by: Red Hot Billy Pepper at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (ma1sf)

124 3 Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist ---- That's "Biden" in Indian. Dot Indian.

Posted by: Y-not at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (5H6zj)

125 This is like the thing they do in many countries where it's customary for a host to give their guests a gift, which the guest is then expected to respond to with a gift of equal or greater value. Turning down the gift is considered very, very rude, just as it's rude to not repay the gift. I've known at least one person who was dreading visiting family in... was it Taiwan? Because she KNEW her grandmother was going to do this, even though she'd asked her not to, and she didn't want to deal with the social etiquette of receiving a gift she didn't want and hadn't asked for, that would probably be quite expensive, and which she'd then have to repay in some way without offending her grandmother.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:28 PM (4df7R)

--------------------------------------------

Sounds like Christmas to me.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (gKwHR)

126 The road to hell is paved with good intentions

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The road to hell is paved with failed progressive do-gooder policies that were designed to make the low information voter think that the progs care and that the progs are fixing the problem.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (XUKZU)

127 Seriously. . .half these things are like "sniglet" emotions.

"Spotenfreude" : The indescribable sense of glee you get when someone pulls out of their close to the front parking space in a crowded lot right in front of you.

Posted by: looking closely at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (6Q9g2)

128 Stupid question time. Let's say that Obama manages to achieve the plan to mint platinum coins to back the debt. What if he gets the bright idea to totally remove the gold in the Federal Reserve, place a neat, small stack of Platinum Obamacoins in their place, and sell off the gold?

Here's why I think that might be a possibility. Politicians love to take things of intrinsic value and trade them for promises. Eg they trade tax increases now for the promise of future cute. Or they traded Social Security's funds with IOUs.

Two questions: One, would that change anything? Two, if this hare-brained plan to back debt with phony-value coins works, why isn't my scenario likely?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (44jNh)

129 "douchefreude"! We had some good ones, but gosh damn, this is just...beautiful. Im going to insert douchefreude into conversation at the next opportunity.

Posted by: ElKomandante at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (mM141)

130 >>>94 hobogasm? Makes me think if "a hobo having an orgasm, in the peculiar manner befitting a hobo, tramp, or bum." Which is very disturbing. A great word nonetheless.

Posted by: Wooga at January 10, 2013 10:34 AM (hUbRl)

131

Fakesauce Philosophers.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:35 AM (4df7R)

132 >>What's the word for staring at your wife while she babbles on about something you have no interest for and yet you still have sit there with a smile on your face looking and sounded interested?

Survival Instinct

Posted by: ontherocks at January 10, 2013 10:35 AM (aZ6ew)

133 Ewokawood ------------- Coffee on Keyboard again, thanks a mil. Yeah. I have to admit that's a thread winner right there.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:35 AM (GFM2b)

134 ah RC's post was nuked....

apologies.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:35 AM (LRFds)

135

Posted by: Voluble at January 10, 2013 02:21 PM (qYvEa)

Yes, a glove is indeed a "hand shoe". My kids find that one particularly amusing.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:35 AM (wbeNt)

136 122 Emperor of Icecream,

yeah sorta the Chinese were a lot more ritualized in the parameters of what was and was not Juice though.

I love Sinoculture.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:36 AM (LRFds)

137 Or would that be Iknockawood?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:36 AM (KnIgz)

138 Disappeared trolololol post. Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 02:33 PM (GQ8sn) Ahhhh, must be that unobtanium membership feature were I steam roll said posts

Posted by: cajun carrot at January 10, 2013 10:36 AM (UZQM8)

139 Words that we don't have in English: Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin

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Unicoins.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (XUKZU)

140 Stupid question time. Let's say that Obama manages to achieve the plan
to mint platinum coins to back the debt. What if he gets the bright
idea to totally remove the gold in the Federal Reserve, place a neat,
small stack of Platinum Obamacoins in their place, and sell off the
gold?

He wouldn't. The gold actually represents the value in their full metal weight. The stack of platinum coins doesn't, even though it's stamped at $1T each. He'd be trading something with real value with something that doesn't have it.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (GQ8sn)

141 If you get an erection after killing a transient does that make you a hobosexual?

Posted by: Voluble at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (qYvEa)

142 Arigata-meiwaku for me would be this neighbor of mine who knows I can't stand him, but he stalks me in a way. I ALWAYS run into him in the hall, no matter whether I'm diverging from my schedule or not. Anyway, he finds an excuse to talk to me and make me be nice to him by sorting the mail for the building and leaving mine on my doorstep, something I really wish he wouldn't do. But I find I've seen a lot less of him since I told him to go fuck himself.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (7h5MH)

143 Words that we don't have in English: Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin
===

Obamacrock.

Posted by: looking closely at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (6Q9g2)

144 90 Id like a word for liberal pseudo-philosophers and professors who purposely dont dress properly, comb, cut their hair or shave (purposely disheveled) in order to give off the appearance of being too busy pondering man's deepest questions to be distracted by such silly notions as grooming... as a cover for sloth.

Unabomber?

Posted by: L, elle at January 10, 2013 10:37 AM (0PiQ4)

145 When someone brags about fulfilling some ordinary obligation, a la Chris Rock's "I take care of my kids!" that should be a "cookiebrag" because the only appropriate response is "What do you want, a cookie?

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (b+8h9)

146 "Spotenfreude" : The indescribable sense of glee you get when someone pulls out of their close to the front parking space in a crowded lot right in front of you.

Posted by: looking closely at January 10, 2013 02:34 PM (6Q9g2)

-----------------------------------------

Bosenfroh: The joy of seeing some really nice tits.

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (gKwHR)

147

Bad example. Not that I can think of a better one of the top of my head, but that is a bit different I think, than 2 people both doing something they think the other likes.

It's more like "help" that doesn't help and isn't wanted, but you have to act grateful for it even though it fucked your shit up worse, because you know the stupid idiot was trying so hard to be helpful when he made everything worse.

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (TULs6)

148

"An act someone does for you that you didnÂ’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to ~~do you a favor~~ fuck up the healthcare system like a goddamn accident and make your country even more bankrupt than before, and then things went ~~wrong and caused you a lot of trouble~~ exactly as planned, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude because not doing so would be racist n' shit.

ObamaCare.

FTFY

Posted by: Armando at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (5iuEW)

149 Several other countries need a word equivalent to our "SCOAMF".

Posted by: somebody else, not me at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (nZvGM)

150 What happens if you succumb to Sinophilia?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (KnIgz)

151 Words that we don't have in English: Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin

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Unicoins.

Brilliant!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (QKKT0)

152 140 EC,

as opposed to his brilliant venture socialism moves?

Hell the bullion theft would be if anything more honest.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (LRFds)

153

Much like the time my F-i-l scrubbed my kitchen sink
and was clearly hurt at my lack of praise. It wasn't that he did a bad
job, he did a great job and clearly put a lot of effort into it, it was
just that I didn't *care* if my sink was scrubbed.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:30 PM (wbeNt)

This happens withmy mother ALL THE TIME. She'll look around and say, "Don't you want to move all the stuff from this closet to that closet? It would free up some room and your clothes won't be so crushed."

"No, it's fine, mom."

"Are you sure? Isn't it hard to get at yourclothes?"

"If it was hard I'd have done something by now. It's fine, mom."

"But look, you don't even WEAR half of these things. You must forget you own most of them."

"MOM! It's FINE!"

God forbid you walk away and leave her alone near something she considers "untidy." Oh God.

"I rearranged your closet so that you can get at your clothes easier."

"WHAT THE HELL! All of the things I wear are in a completely different room now?"

"That way you can find things easier."

"I COULD FIND THEM JUST FINE!"

*facepalm*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (4df7R)

154 >>>"We need a word for the triumphant erection you get after murdering a hitch-hiker." If the hitchhiker is a young boy, the word you are looking for is: "erection"

Posted by: Harry Reid at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (hUbRl)

155 Schadenfreude is still the most cromulent word.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 10:38 AM (VtjlW)

156

ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker.

stiff stiff?

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (ZMzpb)

157 Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin
===

Vaporcash.

Posted by: looking closely at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (6Q9g2)

158 Which Reality Check is it. The one that is obsessed with the Masons, or the idiot from the other night that thinks everyone here is a neo-con and is too much of a coward to admit what other names it has posted with.

Posted by: buzzion at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (GULKT)

159 Bosenfroh: The joy of seeing some really nice tits.

I'd call that AnnaPumaLinka.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (GQ8sn)

160 Ket-ah-Wah-ta-Ket-ah-Wah-ta-Keh-ta-Wah-Hay-oh. _ Korean word for that time when you "go and come back and go and come back and go and come back" between two places (e.g. kitchen - dining room) all in the space of around 15 seconds while accomplishing nothing. _

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (RuUvx)

161 9 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid

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I was thinking that this was like karma.

Posted by: RoadRunner at January 10, 2013 10:39 AM (BvTwT)

162 150 Anna Puma,

You hear mandolins in your country music other than on Firefly?

Heh...

hey a gift...

http://threekingdoms.com/

"empires wax, empires wane"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (LRFds)

163 Arigata-meiwaku for me would be this neighbor of mine who knows I can't stand him, but he stalks me in a way. I ALWAYS run into him in the hall, no matter whether I'm diverging from my schedule or not. Anyway, he finds an excuse to talk to me and make me be nice to him by sorting the mail for the building and leaving mine on my doorstep, something I really wish he wouldn't do. But I find I've seen a lot less of him since I told him to go fuck himself.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 02:37 PM (7h5MH)

>>>

Rick Moranis' character Louis in Ghostbusters

Phil Hartman's character Ted in Jingle All The Way

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (BAS5M)

164 From the article >>6 Duende (Spanish): a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art, which might be fulfilled in flamenco dancing, or bull-fighting, etc.<< I thought duende meant elf?

Posted by: votermom at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (pFtxQ)

165 @133 hobogasm is right behind it,

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (41VCE)

166 He wouldn't. The gold actually represents the value in their full metal weight. The stack of platinum coins doesn't, even though it's stamped at $1T each. He'd be trading something with real value with something that doesn't have it.

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 02:37 PM (GQ8sn)

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Whoa!! We've never thought of that. Brilliant!

Posted by: Timmy and Baraka, united at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (gKwHR)

167 It's more like "help" that doesn't help and isn't wanted, but you have toact grateful for it even though it fucked your shit up worse, because you know the stupid idiot was trying so hard to be helpful when he made everything worse.

"Hi honey! While you were at work, I washed your sweaters. They're in the dryer!"

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 10:40 AM (ZKzrr)

168 What happens if you succumb to Sinophilia?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 02:38 PM (KnIgz)

You always end up feeling hungry again half an hour after you eat.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:41 AM (4df7R)

169 Just for you EC and your linkdiction
http://youtu.be/z0rwAWz7K0o

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:41 AM (KnIgz)

170 "Arigata-meiwaku" This sound like the entire Obsma "reign of terror"

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at January 10, 2013 10:41 AM (NokrH)

171 hobknobed?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:41 AM (nqBYe)

172 164 votermom,

it does....

fun with homonyms....

Duende is also the base for the Shadowrun universe slur against elves "dandelion eaters"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (LRFds)

173 re: the erection/hobo thing. German, it turns out, has a word for this: dieErektiondurchdieErmordungeinesObdachlosenverursacht _

Posted by: BumperStickerist at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (RuUvx)

174 Which Reality Check is it. The one that is obsessed with the Masons, or the idiot from the other night that thinks everyone here is a neo-con and is too much of a coward to admit what other names it has posted with.

Posted by: buzzion at January 10, 2013 02:39 PM (GULKT)

Isn't the latter Hector? I think hector and Reality Shirk are different trolls. But who can tell anymore, when all trolls are Average Joe?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (4df7R)

175 Best word? Schadenboner. BOOM! *drops mic, walks off stage*

Posted by: Professor Marius Von Totenkopf (formerly Hoss Fuentes) at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (kLunK)

176 Just for you EC and your linkdiction
http://youtu.be/z0rwAWz7K0o

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 02:41 PM (KnIgz)

Bless you!

Posted by: EC at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (GQ8sn)

177 Id like a word for liberal pseudo-philosophers and professors who purposely dont dress properly, comb, cut their hair or shave (purposely disheveled) in order to give off the appearance of being too busy pondering man's deepest questions to be distracted by such silly notions as grooming... as a cover for sloth.

---

I see a good deal of resemblance between myself and the character Kurt Wallander on Wallander, a sometimes series featured on PBS's Masterpiece Theater (which I watch because I'm an intellectual and shit). So the other night old Kurt was bumbed because he had to kill this guy who had it coming but he was still a guy so he had let his personal hygiene deteriorate. He finally went back to his boss at the police station and told her he wanted to come back. She told him that they would try it but that he literally stunk. He went into his office, sniffed under his arms, removed his shirt, then used the drapes to mop up any excess perspiration. I thought, yes, they have captured the real me.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 10:42 AM (XUKZU)

178 173 bumperstickerist

now THAT is a bumper sticker

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:43 AM (LRFds)

179 It's sucks being bored to death by someone you want to have sex with.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 10:43 AM (KXm42)

180 Bumperstickerist, Gsuendheit

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:43 AM (KnIgz)

181 Three letter word - "jobs".

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 10, 2013 10:43 AM (msPO3)

182 MWR, heh, My mother was a neatnic, I am also a neatnic, she actually (in jest) once came to my home with a white glove!

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:43 AM (nqBYe)

183 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker.
stiff stiff?

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 10, 2013 02:39 PM (ZMzpb)

Killwood.

Posted by: Invictus at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (OQpzc)

184

That idea exists in the English-speaking word but I don't know how you'd say it briefly.

Ingratiation. Clientelism (in a political context). Quid pro quo (OK, that's latin). "Social networking".

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (TULs6)

185 Maybe the first one should be called a "back-handed favor" the way that an intended compliment, which really insults you, is called a "back-handed compliment".

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (b+8h9)

186 Why wasn't Romney talking about this last week?

Posted by: (That Reality Check?) at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (/YJYi)

187 179 eleven,

You just summed up the human condition friend.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (LRFds)

188 I have 500 different words for snow. Or is it my Eskimo neighbor? I can never remember.

Posted by: polynikes at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (m2CN7)

189 I wonder how many of these concepts that we're discussing could be found described in a pithy fashion on TV Tropes?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:44 AM (4df7R)

190 172 - thanks. jumping into the trillion dollar coin discussion, Obama should totally mint that in plutonium, not platinum.

Posted by: votermom at January 10, 2013 10:45 AM (pFtxQ)

191

>> Not sure I want to cut that down into a one-word thing.

Germans have such a hard on for taking a bunch of little words and making one big motherfucker out of it.

Related: If only the French had a word for entrepreneur.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at January 10, 2013 10:45 AM (Jm7mj)

192 McListening: What the drive-thru order taker does when you give your order the first time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 10, 2013 10:45 AM (QKKT0)

193 Client Golf.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 10:46 AM (BAS5M)

194 191 Dave in texas,

they do "extinct"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:46 AM (LRFds)

195 Btw, whenever there was an issue, this guy would point out that he sorts the mail. Actually, the super hates that, too, because this is one of his courtesies he performs extra diligently around the holidays, or tries to before this douche steps on his holiday tips. But that was one incident... My BFF helped her BF move on Christmas Day one year, and he dumped her right after. She came to my house afterward, and I told her she could smoke in the hall since it was raining out. (I get awful sinus infections from cigarette smoke now.) This guy knocked on the fucking door and complained. On Christmas. And I shit you not, he brought up the mail sorting. "I'm a nice guy, I sort the mail." Then I asked the landlord to ask him and his friends to take their party indoors when it ran close to midnight, because they were drunk and sticking their heads into my skylights to look at my apt and they were loud. Again with the sorting the mail, at which point I told him to shove it up his ass for all I cared.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 10:46 AM (7h5MH)

196 Fist urging face?

Posted by: Temper Tantrum at January 10, 2013 10:46 AM (AWmfW)

197 MWR, heh, My mother was a neatnic, I am also a neatnic, she actually (in jest) once came to my home with a white glove!

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 02:43 PM (nqBYe)

Hah!

My sister in PA is terrified that the next time my parents go down to visit family in NJ they'll swing by her apartment. "I haven't cleaned in months! Mom will kill me with Windex and a Swiffer!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at January 10, 2013 10:46 AM (4df7R)

198

"Hi honey! While you were at work, I washed your sweaters. They're in the dryer!"

Exactly.

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:47 AM (TULs6)

199
The 9 is karma. ish.

The 22 is moby.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 10, 2013 10:47 AM (p/cQy)

200 There are 9 coins with trillion forged by Turbo Timmy and they were given to the various creditors of the US. But unbeknownst to all a tenth coin, an amalgam of platinum/silver/gold, was created by Lew just for his dread master Obamron which would negate and control the other rings.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:47 AM (KnIgz)

201 Kind of convoluted but I know what they mean, I think, or at least something like that. I've been in the situation, trying to ingratiate myself to a girl, of suggesting we do something I'm guessing she'd like, and she agrees, thinking that's what I'd like, but in fact neither of us wanted to do this thing at all, so now here we are, trying to mutually please the other and both failing at at and now mutually displeased, eating a joint of mutton at Medieval Times. **** The Abilene Paradox

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 10, 2013 10:47 AM (piMMO)

202 Oh this will get the media in a tizzy.. http://alturl.com/wjmwp

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (41VCE)

203 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:38 PM (4df7R) Mommy has been banned from my apartment for this reason. I'm messy, not dirty and I don't care if there are stacks of books and papers and dvds and piles of laundry. It doesn't bother me. Drives. Her. Nuts. So then she cleans and then I get mad because I didn't want her to clean and I don't want her to feel like she has to clean and DO NOT OPEN THAT BOX MOMMY NO NO NOONONO. Basically, it's this - http://youtu.be/WFQ7Nzlzgbk

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Seriously, Sheldon/Penny to the end. at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (VtjlW)

204 I wonder how many of these concepts that we're discussing could be found described in a pithy fashion on TV Tropes?

That "favor that fucks everything up" has been on every sitcom ever.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (ZKzrr)

205 Remind me again what "Boehnered" means.

Posted by: Fritz at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (w3+gB)

206 "thinking that's what I'd like, but in fact neither of us wanted to do this thing at all, so now here we are, trying to mutually please the other and both failing at at and now mutually displeased,.." Yes, it's called "marriage."

Posted by: mare at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (A98Xu)

207 The spanish lady who painted Jesus the Monkey might be an example of Arigata-meiwaku except she fucked it up so bad and hillariously that hardly no one felt compelled to even fake gratitude.

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:48 AM (TULs6)

208 163 Arigata-meiwaku for me would be this neighbor of mine who knows I can't stand him, but he stalks me in a way. I ALWAYS run into him in the hall, no matter whether I'm diverging from my schedule or not. Anyway, he finds an excuse to talk to me and make me be nice to him by sorting the mail for the building and leaving mine on my doorstep, something I really wish he wouldn't do. But I find I've seen a lot less of him since I told him to go fuck himself. Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 02:37 PM (7h5MH) >>> Rick Moranis' character Louis in Ghostbusters Phil Hartman's character Ted in Jingle All The Way Posted by: Count de Monet at January 10, 2013 02:40 PM (BAS5M) Yeah, the annoying neighbor is a comedy staple, till you live next to him and just want to staple his mouth shut.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (7h5MH)

209 156 ace, word for triumphant erection upon murdering a hitch-hiker. stiff stiff? Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at January 10, 2013 02:39 PM (ZMzpb) ___________________ You need a moderator-- Stiff-stiffy.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (r2PLg)

210 Fashionista: a meaningless throwaway noun used to describe gay men who dress weirdly or straight women dressed very badly by gay fashion designers. Best examples: Liberace, Elton John, and Michelle Obama. Fashion victims: subset of women dressed badly by others. Best examples: Malia and Sasha Obama.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (0pme7)

211

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:38 PM (4df7R)

I was LoLing repeatedly as I read that. Still am in fact.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (wbeNt)

212
No doubt that "A Roker" is going to become a verb, or a noun, or both.

The Jets season was a total roker

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 10, 2013 10:49 AM (p/cQy)

213 Murdered hitch-hiker is a stiffler?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:50 AM (KnIgz)

214 >>>his happens withmy mother ALL THE TIME.

Oh it's my MIL. I had to tell her at one point. "If you take soap and/or water to my cast iron cookware ONE MORE TIMEÂ® I will permanently ban you from my household."

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at January 10, 2013 10:50 AM (0q2P7)

215

I think everyone of those definitions can be attached to the root of a single word.

Narcissistic.

Posted by: polynikes at January 10, 2013 10:50 AM (m2CN7)

216 The first one reminds me of the Abilene paradox. None of the group wants to go, yet the group somehow decides to go.

Posted by: Deathknyte at January 10, 2013 10:50 AM (hlRl3)

217 I think the French have a name for it-- Hobo-petard.

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:51 AM (r2PLg)

218 If only the French had a word for entrepreneur.

---

I don't think you can make nouns past tense.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 10:51 AM (XUKZU)

219 French do have a word for entrepreneur - Deypardeuz sil vous plais

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 10, 2013 10:52 AM (KnIgz)

220 207 The spanish lady who painted Jesus the Monkey might be an example of Arigata-meiwaku except she fucked it up so bad and hillariously that hardly no one felt compelled to even fake gratitude. Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 02:48 PM (TULs6) Then she wanted money for it, too!

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 10, 2013 10:52 AM (7h5MH)

221 218 If only the French had a word for entrepreneur. ----- Ex-pat?

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:52 AM (b+8h9)

222 Stuffing Stiffs Stiffy. (okay I gotta stop.)

Posted by: tasker at January 10, 2013 10:52 AM (r2PLg)

223

Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ (BAN ALL THE THINGS!) at January 10, 2013 02:40 PM (ZKzrr)

You forgot the all important modifier "wool". It's one of the reasons I don't make my nice handspun stuff for my kids. Guaranteed to end up in a pile on the floor and get bundled into the wash with everything else.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette, still a Hobbit at January 10, 2013 10:52 AM (wbeNt)

224 126 The road to hell is paved with good intentions --- The road to hell is paved with failed progressive do-gooder policies that were designed to make the low information voter think that the progs care and that the progs are fixing the problem. Posted by: WalrusRex at January 10, 2013 02:34 PM (XUKZU) More than just the roads to hell, it seems, have been paved with good intentions: http://ktla.com/2013/01/10/la-city-council-considers-pothole-tax/ "ThereÂ’s no question the revenue streams that come in that is dedicated specifically for streets has been depleted,Â” he added. For every $100,000 in property value, taxpayers would pay an average of $35 more per year." How's your "American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" been working out? DesenrascanÃ§o!

Posted by: BuddyPC at January 10, 2013 10:53 AM (jfUIE)

225

If only the French had a word for entrepreneur.

They do. They call them 'L'criminel"

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:54 AM (TULs6)

226 How about a word for: A vajayjay badly in need of a ____. You fill in the blank.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at January 10, 2013 10:54 AM (O8DFT)

227 alex, i get frazzled if the house is topsy turvy, i mean i won't be able to sleep unti it resembles some sort of organization.= calm.

no I"M NOT obsessive!

maybe slightly. i can hhave a small amount of disorder If i know i can clean up in 5 minutes or so.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 10:54 AM (nqBYe)

228 226 Waldo truth,

Fluke

Posted by: sven10077 at January 10, 2013 10:55 AM (LRFds)

229 218 If only the French had a word for entrepreneur. ----- That brings to mind something else---we need a word for when you invent something and then watch it become the exact opposite of everything you stand for. For the French, it's apparently "entrepreneur". And their word for "millionaire" is apparently now "Russian".

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 10:55 AM (b+8h9)

230

Then she wanted money for it, too!

That's when arigata-meiwaku becomes guanxi.

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 10:55 AM (TULs6)

231 It's sucks being bored to death by someone you want to have sex with. If she can still formulate words, you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 10:56 AM (GFM2b)

232

Yiddish is full of these great words. My daughter was looking for a word last night to describe a man she thought was just an all-around great guy, somebody you knew you could count on, who did good deeds, etc. I said "you are talking about a 'mensch.'" I love that word, "mensch," because it looks like sort of a modified version of "man," and that's exactly what it means! A superlative man.

Meshuga, shlemiel, and even schmuck really do not translate into English precisely.

Posted by: rockmom at January 10, 2013 10:57 AM (NYnoe)

233 226 How about a word for: A vajayjay badly in need of a ____. You fill in the blank. Washing? I wanted to say Flukeym but it's been taken

Posted by: gigg at January 10, 2013 10:57 AM (41VCE)

234 That "favor that fucks everything up" has been on every sitcom ever.

I think King of Queens has done that one about 30 times.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 10:57 AM (KXm42)

235

Right now I am looking for a word to describe how I feel after looking at my first paycheck for 2013 and finding that it is lighter by over $100, despite me supposedly getting a raise.

Motherf*** just doesn't seem to quite convey it.

Posted by: rockmom at January 10, 2013 10:59 AM (qE3AR)

236 gigg, That brings to mind, Meg McCain, i actually liked her word strictly dickly

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:00 AM (nqBYe)

237 rockmom. think compassionate conservative

laughing.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:01 AM (nqBYe)

238 sitzpinkler - another German word, this one refers to a male who pees sitting down, i.e. Justin Bieber or John Boehner.

Posted by: OregonMuse at January 10, 2013 11:02 AM (9GaPd)

239 Why don't we hock the Statue of Liberty. We could make a ton of cash, and avoid false advertising lawsuits.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at January 10, 2013 11:02 AM (0q2P7)

240 I wonder if ebt cards went up that hundred?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:02 AM (nqBYe)

241 Remind me again what "Boehnered" means. Caving at the most in-opertune moment?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 11:02 AM (GFM2b)

242 Honne is also a Norse god who beheaded another Norse god named Mimir so Odin sent him to live with the faggy swedish Vanir.

Posted by: Entropy at January 10, 2013 11:03 AM (TULs6)

243 Mike, That almost made me laugh. Now i feel maudlin.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:03 AM (nqBYe)

244 Guanxi: "Connections." or "Pull."

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 10, 2013 02:18 PM (BIJKO)

An attempt at a serious English equivalent: "social capital".

Not so serious: "brownie points".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 10, 2013 11:04 AM (29+x5)

245

Another school shooting. No one killed. Some wounded.

Watch the MFM howl. Oh, and this time it was a shotgun.

Posted by: Timmy and Baraka, united at January 10, 2013 11:04 AM (gKwHR)

246 >>>236 gigg, That brings to mind, Meg McCain, i actually liked her word strictly dickly Posted by: ette- It's not her word. She rolled a couple of queers in West Hollywood and stole it from them. She's a fag hag AND a thief.

Posted by: Waldo Truth at January 10, 2013 11:04 AM (O8DFT)

247 So, is the big pow wow between Joey and the big bad NRA done?

Posted by: Waldo Truth at January 10, 2013 11:05 AM (O8DFT)

248 Another school shooting. No one killed. Some wounded. Watch the MFM howl. Oh, and this time it was a shotgun. So sorry duck hunters. YOUR motherfucking turn in the barrel!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 10, 2013 11:05 AM (GFM2b)

249 Off, off, shitweasel sock!

Posted by: Soona at January 10, 2013 11:06 AM (gKwHR)

250 Another German word for a face waiting for a punch is "Feuermelder" which are those little fire alarm boxes...

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at January 10, 2013 11:06 AM (0It32)

251 As long as we are discussing weird, useless, and tacky stuff...gangnam. What the fackety fack is it and why is it Hot? I sort of get Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and Beiber---good looking kids with minor talents and HUGE marketing plans. The Psy guy is ugly with zero talent.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at January 10, 2013 11:07 AM (0pme7)

252 speaking of staring and nodding as she babbles... What's the word for doing this, but then realizing five minutes into the babbling that there is actually a point to it, and now you have to ask about things said four minutes ago but you weren't listening so you're embarrassed to have to admit "I wasn't listening for five minutes, assuming it was your typical drivel, but now I have to ask what you said five minutes ago because I need to catch up?"

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 11:08 AM (LCRYB)

253 Waldo, thanks for that info.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:09 AM (nqBYe)

254 daydreaming?

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:10 AM (nqBYe)

255 "I wasn't listening for five minutes, assuming it was your typical drivel, but now I have to ask what you said five minutes ago because I need to catch up?"

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 03:08 PM (LCRYB)

or lackanookie

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:11 AM (nqBYe)

256 244: Guanxi is obligation - in the same way we used to say "much obliged" instead of "thanks", or the Portuguese say "Obrigado" as thanks. Whenever you accept a favor you also accept an obligation. DC runs on this.

Posted by: votermom at January 10, 2013 11:12 AM (pFtxQ)

257

The definition provided for Tatemae - Honne is not the single, one-and-only definition. It's certainly accurate, but there are important variations on this definition. The whole concept of the Tatemae - Honne dichotomy is culturally quite central to Japanese life.

It's all hugely bound up with the imperative to maintain broad-based "Wa" or harmony, whether within or across groups. Careful cultivation and manipulation of the Tatemae - Honne construct helps to preserve "Wa" in Japanese society.

I heartily recommend Bob Whiting's aptly-titled book about Japanese baseball (and American Major Leaguers crashing it), "You Gotta Have Wa," for a great and non-mystical explication/illumination of this whole phenomenon.

(I've lived off-and-on in Tokyo since 1988, a dubious accomplishment flowing from my 4 years of formal Japanese language coursework in undergrad.)

Someone on this thread mentioned that this dichotomy is suggestive of hypocrisy. In some cases, yes, yes it is.

But consider hypocrisy a matter of Free Will: You can choose to not merely pay lip-service, or to suck up to some one or some group, or whatever.

In contrast, the Tatemae - Honne dichotomy has mostly evolved out of a straitjacketed social circumstance, indeed out of a historical tendency in Japan towards benevolent dictatorship in terms of social roles, responsibilities, stratification, etc. In short, limited to no free will, or at least the expression of what one truly wants (as opposed to what one is obligated to perform, submit to, etc.) limited to a very small, trusted, and like-minded in-group.

The twist on this more "nuanced" view of the Tatemae - Honne dichotomy is that some people, while not openly rebelling against whatever given situation creates an expectation of obedience, do manage in some cases to very artfully finesse the lip-service expected of them in the immediate term, while in the medium-to-longer term actually maneuvering people and processes to go the way that their Free Will would have them exercise -- just not openly in a Japanese setting. So they get their way, and those expecting adherence to the Tatemae surface-level-only approach are also mollified if neutralized.

Posted by: RamonAllones at January 10, 2013 11:14 AM (3lLli)

258

Posted by: RamonAllones at January 10, 2013 03:14 PM (3lLli)

I'm sorry, what were you saying?

Posted by: jwest at January 10, 2013 11:15 AM (ZDsRL)

259 I want a word for sending a guy to one specific store to buy one specific thing required to allow dinner to be finished...but, then the guy goes to another store, which never has the thing in question and he strolls in and says I went to Store X and they did not have it, so when will dinner be ready. So far, all I have is justifiable homicide, but, that is two words.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at January 10, 2013 11:15 AM (0pme7)

260

>>What's the word for doing this, but then realizing five minutes into the babbling that there is actually a point to it

DOOOOOM.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 10, 2013 11:16 AM (SUKHu)

261

>>But I find I've seen a lot less of him since I told him to go fuck himself.

I giggled way too much at that.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 10, 2013 11:17 AM (SUKHu)

262 Pungeoned again.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 10, 2013 11:17 AM (5FHfg)

263 Michellepraise - overly praising the beauty of a woman who while not a complete gargoyle is none the less is rather plain to somewhat ugly.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 10, 2013 11:18 AM (UgFxe)

264

Posted by: ace at January 10, 2013 03:08 PM (LCRYB)

Wool-gathering, as in, 'Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me, I was wool-gathering. You were saying?'

It's a great word. It implies that your mind was busily at work but not focused on the discussion at hand.

Posted by: troyriser at January 10, 2013 11:19 AM (vtiE6)

265 Psy guy is ugly with zero talent.

I think that's the point. Ironically cool.

Posted by: eleven at January 10, 2013 11:20 AM (KXm42)

266

Y'all can send your mothers who organize and clean over to my house any day.

Don't care if I can't find anything ever again. I probably won't miss most of it.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 10, 2013 11:21 AM (SUKHu)

267 What's the word for doing this, but then realizing five minutes into the babbling that there is actually a point to it, and now you have to ask about things said four minutes ago but you weren't listening so you're embarrassed to have to admit "I wasn't listening for five minutes, assuming it was your typical drivel, but now I have to ask what you said five minutes ago because I need to catch up?" ---------- ADHD.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 11:22 AM (b+8h9)

268 I want a word for sending a guy to one specific store to buy one specific thing required to allow dinner to be finished...but, then the guy goes to another store, which never has the thing in question and he strolls in and says I went to Store X and they did not have it, so when will dinner be ready.

So far, all I have is justifiable homicide, but, that is two words.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at January 10, 2013 03:15 PM (0pme7)

spouse.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:22 AM (nqBYe)

269 Posted by: RamonAllones Ace has the best commenters on the net.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 10, 2013 11:25 AM (evdj2)

270 Y'all can send your mothers who organize and clean over to my house any day.

Don't care if I can't find anything ever again. I probably won't miss most of it.

Posted by: Mama AJ at January 10, 2013 03:21 PM (SUKHu)

haha my mother wouldn't actually Clean my house, she would 'suggest' what i might work on.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:25 AM (nqBYe)

271 Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wilde Wrepublican Wench at January 10, 2013 03:15 PM (0pme7) ----- You call that "hunger". It can also lead to the "lackanookie" mentioned before. Or "unfinished-dinner-on-shirt".

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 11:25 AM (b+8h9)

272 dejavumiliation: Making a brilliant observation or pun in a blog comment section that someone made ten comments earlier.

Posted by: Average Joe at January 10, 2013 11:26 AM (1CULz)

273 haha my mother wouldn't actually Clean my house, she would 'suggest' what i might work on. ----- Also fun is when they bring you books about how to clean/organize. Just in case you didn't know what she thinks of your house.

Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at January 10, 2013 11:28 AM (b+8h9)

274 Jenny, Thankfully she missed that idea.

Posted by: ette- at January 10, 2013 11:33 AM (nqBYe)

275 "Arigata-meiwaku" sounds like the plot line for many a sit-com.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - sees the gods of the copybook headings on the horizon at January 10, 2013 11:37 AM (hLRSq)

276 Schlimmbesserung - (German) a rare, but useful German term to designate an effort to make something better that actually makes things worse.

Posted by: nx99 at January 10, 2013 11:43 AM (ht8D4)

277 9 Guanxi (Mandarin) aka Karma

Don't think karma quite captures it. Karma involves some sort of universal accounting system where your actions get you what you deserve.

Guanxi literally means relationships. A friendship is under guanxi, but is certainly not karma. Connections, influence, goodwill, those are words that better map its meaning.

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at January 10, 2013 11:46 AM (IrbU4)

278 #9 - it's called "the favor bank"

Posted by: headhunt23 at January 10, 2013 11:47 AM (1Rj18)

279 "LÂ’esprit de lÂ’escalier (French): usually translated as Â“staircase wit,Â” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it" L'esprit de escalier is "the spirit of the staircase" where what you should have said occurs to you as you are leaving and it's too late to be of any use. And it's not really a word. It's a whole phrase that describes a thing where your muse came through but only just when the argument was over. So French doesn't really have that "word" anymore than English does. French people had to build a phrase just like English people do. "Ooh burn, but way late dude. " Guanxi (Mandarin) is "brownie points" or "goodwill" or the old concept of "marker". Germans just glue conglomerate words together into new words which could be done in english but would look stupid. We do some lame tries at it like 'skinny jeans' or 'shit eating grin' but it looks stupid when we literally copy the technique directly as in " hatobviouslyworn just tohideabaldspotfromtheyoungwomenatthecoffeebarthatdoesn'tfoolanybody"

Posted by: Cackfinger at January 10, 2013 11:55 AM (CCHli)

280

I'm surprised the Moron Horde went this far (almost 300 posts) before someone mentioned this one

4 Bakku-shan (Japanese): A beautiful girlÂ… as long as sheÂ’s being viewed from behind

I think it's close to "butterface"

Posted by: RightWingProf at January 10, 2013 11:59 AM (IC6Er)

281

Guanxi sounds like 'favors'.

"I'm calling in a favor."

Posted by: Mikey NTH - sees the gods of the copybook headings on the horizon at January 10, 2013 12:01 PM (hLRSq)

282 Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at January 10, 2013 02:38 PM (4df7R)

No shit...my parents were visiting and of course, Mom 'tidied up my kitchen'. Of course, it took me twenty minutes to find the fucking salt. I am really sick of friends and family 'helping' me when not asked. Today, this neighbor of mine asked if I wanted anything from Costco since she was going. I said sure, thanks, I could use x, y and z. No timeline indicated. Was napping and heard and ignored the phone. Dog started barking so I got up and said neighbor threw all the stuff on the front porch and started screaming at me about helping her unload the groceries. I was still groggy while I took the stuff in the house, but managed a 'thanks, same to you' without looking at her as she stomped off. Bitch.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 10, 2013 12:16 PM (7xPCu)

283 90 Id like a word for liberal pseudo-philosophers and professors who purposely dont dress properly, comb, cut their hair or shave (purposely disheveled) in order to give off the appearance of being too busy pondering man's deepest questions to be distracted by such silly notions as grooming... as a cover for sloth.

Tenured

Posted by: Peregrine Took, Hobbit S.O.B. at January 10, 2013 12:19 PM (erlzv)

284 If we're voting, I agree with Anna Puma that the proper english translation of "Backpfeifengesicht" is "Al Gore".

Posted by: MTF at January 10, 2013 12:22 PM (+GpbP)

285 "9 Guanxi (Mandarin): in traditional Chinese society, you would build up good guanxi by giving gifts to people, taking them to dinner, or doing them a favor, but you can also use up your gianxi by asking for a favor to be repaid."

The English word for that? Politics - at least, politics Chicago-style. Edward C. Banfield's book "Political Influence" uses cases studies in Chicago politics to describe how political influence, or "clout", is a commodity that can be accumulated, measured, and redeemed.

In fact, "The Lisle Letters", which describe politics in the England of Henry VIII, people are continually giving gifts and otherwise doing favors for each other, in the hope of getting a share of the booty. Much like the Obama administration, actually - minus the beheadings (so far, at least).

Posted by: Brown Line at January 10, 2013 12:52 PM (VrNoa)

286 Preference Cascade - The idea that Romney will win an election, even though the polls show Obama is ahead.

Posted by: Beorn at January 10, 2013 12:58 PM (dGF4J)

287

"Arigata-meiwaku"

No here is truly a good example.

I returned from college to find that a parent had done me a "favor"(without asking) by taking my cheapo road bike to the local bike shop to have it tuned up/spruced up with the intension of surprising me with it on my return. Of course, they didn't have a proper discussion with the bike shop on the work to be performed and its cost, and refused to pay the bill. I returned home to have it explained to me that my bike was being held by the bike shop till the bill (more than the bike was worth) was paid by me.

Arigata-meiwaku!

Posted by: Prindle at January 10, 2013 01:42 PM (2Ynt1)

288 I know I'm late to the discussion here, but that first Japanese phrase, for when someone does something you didn't want them to do, that pisses you off, and then they expect you to be grateful, forcing you to beat your head against a wall for the nth time, that describes my first marriage.

I may have slightly re-defined "arigata-meiwaku" a little for my purposes. Maybe his current fiance, future ex-wife #4, can use it.

Posted by: Mayday at January 10, 2013 01:48 PM (F3s39)

289 I saw a word on a similar list (the word was Japanese, I think) for a woman that's attractive-looking from behind but less so from the front. Great concept.

Posted by: notthatGreg at January 10, 2013 05:21 PM (norkA)

290

Backpfeifengesicht (German)-Seems useful but I think maybe spelling it out in words is even better: "A face badly in need of a fist." Not sure I want to cut that down into a one-word thing.

Depends how often you need to use it. If you used it alot, like the Germans maybe did once-upon-a-time, you'd see the utility of having just one word.

Posted by: Speller at January 10, 2013 09:08 PM (J74Py)

291

It's probably not 1 word persay. Germans have a habit of trying to smush their entire language into 1 giant compound uberword.

Posted by: Entropy at January 11, 2013 06:48 AM (TULs6)

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