Happy Year of the Rabbit!

[PeterRS]

Today is the first day of the new lunar New Year. Rather than just send everyone best wishes, i thought this pretty inapporpriate Bugs Bunny cartoon might be more fun. For those not acquainted with classical music, most of the music is from Wagner's Ring cycle and Tannhauser operas. It's very cleverly done!

 

[Riobard]

And may all of us get to roger the ones we want without being framed … and last longer than these 7 seconds doing it …

[Lucky]

Gung Hay Fat Choi

[PeterRS]

11 hours ago, Lucky said:

Gung Hay Fat Choi

Sincerely echoed, although that is the Cantonese version. Most Chinese will have been wshing their family and friends Gong Xi Fa Cai! I hope all of us older ones have prepared Lucky Red Packets with a little cash inside for our younger paramours in Thailand. So many Thais have some Chinese blood thanks to the large wave of Chinese Immigration in the 19th century.

[Lucky]

Cantonese is favored in my home.

[PeterRS]

Although I lived in Hong Kong, like many expatriates I found the nine tone levels in Cantonese quite difficult to master. Invited to a rather elegant dinner soon after I first arrived, I asked my secretary what I should say to the hostess after a good meal. Driving up to The Peak I practised saying the phrase many times. But after the meal I got the tones wrong, All the guests laughed, but no one would tell me what mistake I had made. It was only in the office the next morning that i was advised to be more careful with my tone levels. What I had said was more or less "I am a sex maniac"!

Well, sometimes one has to tell the truth 🤣 🤣

[hojacat]

1 hour ago, PeterRS said:

Although I lived in Hong Kong, like many expatriates I found the nine tone levels in Cantonese quite difficult to master. Invited to a rather elegant dinner soon after I first arrived, I asked my secretary what I should say to the hostess after a good meal. Driving up to The Peak I practised saying the phrase many times. But after the meal I got the tones wrong, All the guests laughed, but no one would tell me what mistake I had made. It was only in the office the next morning that i was advised to be more careful with my tone levels. What I had said was more or less "I am a sex maniac"!

Well, sometimes one has to tell the truth 🤣 🤣

In tone, veritas!

[bkkmfj2648]

2 hours ago, PeterRS said:

All the guests laughed, but no one would tell me what mistake I had made. It was only in the office the next morning that i was advised to be more careful with my tone levels. What I had said was more or less "I am a sex maniac"!

That reminds me of a similar story when I was learning Italian in Italy.  Each Monday morning we had to try to say what we did during the weekend.  So, I said something like, "Ho scopato tante nuove cose" - I fucked many new things - when I wanted to instead say, "Ho scoperto tante nuove cose" - I discovered many new things....

The teacher barked at me and told me to stay quiet and to sit down!!!

I never made that mistake again even if it was not far from the actual reality of my weekend  :>))

[hojacat]

12 minutes ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

That reminds me of a similar story when I was learning Italian in Italy.  Each Monday morning we had to try to say what we did during the weekend.  So, I said something like, "Ho scopato tante nuove cose" - I fucked many new things - when I wanted to instead say, "Ho scoperto tante nuove cose" - I discovered many new things....

The teacher barked at me and told me to stay quiet and to sit down!!!

I never made that mistake again even if it was not far from the actual reality of my weekend  :>))

well, the first meaning of scopare is actually cleaning with a broom, so i guess the teacher was in malafede (in bad faith).😜