Another beautiful idiom we have in Serbian is Jebivetar, literally meaning Wind Fucker, which is used to denote a shallow an restless person, a bohemian.
The kids are all tougher than we think, too. And I, for one, appreciate the absence of any Rick Astley/Goatse mashups, please accept my thanks at least!
My son got introduced to the word due to racist graffiti, directed at my family, on the sidewalk behind my house. Weâre walking along, heâs four or five and just starting to read, and he says âDaddy, what does fffff-uh-s-k mean?â I try to think of the incident positively, you know, as a teaching moment, but honestly I had not yet planned out having âthe talkâ with him and I probably didnât do a great job.
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Lots of bible-type figures losing their clothes, surprisingly. The article mention âwhere the devil lost his bootsâ for Brazilian Portuguese, but Iâve always known it as âwhere Judas lost his bootsâ.
Alternatively, âwhere the wind curvesâ.
What? Thatâs horrible.
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A buddy of mine habitually refers to people being âout where the buses donât runâ when their grasp of objective reality seems to get excessively tenuous.
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Not to be confused with âscrewed the poochâ. 
Here are two more Serbian expressions for âmiddle of nowhereâ places:
âBogu iza nogu/kiÄme/leÄaâ -Behind Godâs legs/spine/back
"Pizdinci/PiÄkovci* - roughly translates as pussy village. As in a village named after pussy, not a village full of it.
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From your intelligent posts here, Iâm sure you did a fine job. And thanks for bringing up the teachable moment.
Iâve had this conversation often with my kids over the years, under the parental advice umbrella of: âDonât be afraid of ideasâ Whenever we hit one of those words, the conversation is similar â tell 'em what the word means, remind them that they now have a responsibility to know that the word will offend people, and to make smart decisions now that they know the word.
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wh-what does it sound like?
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Itâs not that there arenât topics here that younger people, or perhaps the child in every adult would enjoy, itâs just that there are often topics geared towards adults. BB, to my knowledge, has never pretended to be a âkid safeâ or âwork safeâ site. The presence of topics that could be considered âkid friendlyâ doesnât make the site a site suitable in itâs entirety for children. There have been âartâ posts with blatant nudity (which may or may not be acceptable pending your family, and that people usually complain about as well), and I think the floppy silicone dongs originally came from an actual topic, not user followup posts.
Hereâs a couple of not-so-kid safe things to round things out:
Batman at NYCC
SWAT team murders burglary victim because burglar claimed he found meth
and moreâŚ
And Iâve seen so many different incarnations of goatse, lemonparty, meatspin, two girls one cup etc⌠that Iâve strangely grown somewhat immune to how messed up the internet can be.
Correct. Two very different meanings.
If your kid has actually reached eight years of age in the year 2014 without knowing the word âfuckâ or its meaning, you have been a delinquent parent â either by oversheltering or failure to educate or both.
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I would say something about adult language preventing the Disneyfication of cool adult spaces butâŚ
Missing the European portuguese version of the term - âNo cu de Judasâ, meaning âAt (implicitly up) Judasâ assâ.
(Iâm guessing this being the same place were Jesus lost his sandals isnât a coincidence.)
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Good thing youâre here to set him straight, then. Your kids are how old? Just wondering.
Well, I reportedly learned worse things in kindergarten, in younger age. So he seems to be quite right.
That seems like pretty slim grounds for calling someone a bad parent. I question your logic.
