justTripn wrote:YOU are responsble for "crunked" ? Wow.
Well, not personally, and not solely...at least I don't think so!!


Also about insults being universal. Not quite. I got into big trouble once in Thailand. One of my housemates, who was Thai, brought a dog into the house (without asking anybody first) to babysit for several weeks. A pain-in-the-butt dog who peed on bathmat. Every morning at about 5:00am, she would get up to take care of the dog, who would then start barking furiously and she would shout at him for barking, and her shouting (right outside my bedroom door) was worse than the dog's barking. So one morning I told her, in Thai, "Stop barking like the dog." I thought I was pretty clever. She didn't speak to me for ONE WEEK. It turns out it is a horrible insult in Thailand to compare someone to a dog. So since we worked together and she was so obviously not talking to me, people would say, "What did you do?" And I would tell the story and they would gasp and then go, "Well, still, you didn't know . . ."
That's pretty crunked up!!

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

Insults aren't necessarily universal, no...but the biggies involving sex and elimination, pretty much!