I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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Drinking gamenot so much something ive run with for years but still a smile politely and nod situation
being the president of a university sports team one of my jobs over summer was to secure sponsorship. me and my drinking buddy/housemate were visiting a part for a meeting on such sponsorship. now were a welsh university (aberystwyth) so obviously the standard 'drunk at the bar' was a welsh drunk at the bar. an old fella who was always there and always more pissed than any of the students you see passed out in the gutters. we had to wait for the guy we were meeting so while looking around aimlessly we caught his eye and politely said hi. he nodded back at us and raised his drink
then he turned to face us........ fuck!
he then proceeded to have a conversation with my mate an i entirely in welsh with neither of us speaking a word of welsh. we picked up on the bits where he leaned forwadr expecting a response and boucned back with "yeaah hah ahhah huh huh"
the only things we really picked up were where he was quoting what we gathered must have been from a time he was at the bar. he would point of into the distance and shout "jock drink, paddy drink, taffy drink" etc then continue on with explaining his story to us fully in welsh with the occasional laughter which we mirrored
we in the end decided he was telling us about a drinking game he came up with and since then have occasionally brought it out of the back pocket to play
its great because only me and my mate know the rules we made up so everyone loses apart from us
win
(, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 18:30, Reply)
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