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Monday, 29 November 2010

Eugh, you're such a shower.

Me: What a douchebag.
Dee: What does that actually mean?
Me: Well, it's like a dick, isn't it? Let me google it.

Here is what wikipedia informed me:

Douche usually refers to vaginal irrigation, the rinsing of the vagina, but it can also refer to the rinsing of any body cavity. A douche bagis a piece of equipment for douching—a bag for holding the fluid used in douching. To avoid transferring intestinal bacteria into the vagina, the same bag must not be used for an enema and a vaginal douche.

Cheerful stuff, I hear you cry. It goes on to explain that:

Slang uses

Douchebag, or simply douche, is considered to be a pejorative term. The slang usage of the term originated in the 1960s.[5] The term usually refers to a person, usually male, with a variety of negative qualities, specifically arrogance and engaging in obnoxious and/or irritating actions, most often without malicious intent.


This, I read out with gusto. And, as my father agreed, it was 'suitably edifying'. We had a good lol at 'a variety of negative qualities'. Gotta love Wikipedia's wording.


So now you know, as I know, that being a Douchebag is quite similar to being a dick in its use, and therefore, to avoid the awkwardness of ever discussing this again, I declare 'like a dick, isn't it?' to be the official definition.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Nonsense.

मों < फॉर सम रासों आईटी हस देसिदेद तो ट्रांस्लाते माय ब्लॉग इन्तो Hindi.

Anyway, now THAT little problemski is fixed, let me tell you why I am here. My good chum Sunshine showed me a commentary she wrote (as I have to jump through the old commentary-hoop for uni, so thought it would be handy if I had an idea of what I was talking about...) and we found this rather obscure little mot 'non-sequitur'.

This is wikipedia's spectacular example of aforementioned:

"Q: How many surrealist painters does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fish."

(Oh, how we laughed!)

I am now able to define absolute nonsense in an excellent and latin-based way- hurrah for that!