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National holidays, dontcha just love em? Deadly.

Where's the dancing in the streets, the foodstalls, the impromptu cricket match in the park, the out-of-tune ex-Miss Slovenia hacking her way through 'I Will Survive'?

Instead, listen to some half-dead **** rattling through a few poems in a cultural centre last dusted for Tito's funeral. All the cvicek you can drink, mind.


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joel wrote:

National holidays, dontcha just love em? Deadly.

Where's the dancing in the streets, the foodstalls, the impromptu cricket match in the park, the out-of-tune ex-Miss Slovenia hacking her way through 'I Will Survive'?

Instead, listen to some half-dead **** rattling through a few poems in a cultural centre last dusted for Tito's funeral. All the cvicek you can drink, mind.


I may be no ex-Miss Slovenia but I'll sing "I will survive" any time you like mate - no bribes required. It is a bloody great song.

Cvicek though, no way, my windows are already clean.

Don't you love the way they celebrate the day their national hero died, not his birthday!

 



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 I may be no ex-Miss Slovenia but I'll sing "I will survive" any time you like mate - no bribes required. It is a bloody great song.


I'm holding you to that

 



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Can't say I've read anything by the great "figgy" as he is apparently know but I can post one of my favourite Slovene poems.

Ivan Minatti

ODKAR VEM ZANJO

Odkar vem zanjo,
imajo dnevi modre oči
in vode barvo njenega krila.
Odkar vem zanjo,
veter šumi njen glas
in rože njene besede govore.

Tako rad imam te poletne oblake:
njene korake so spremljali,
ko je čez trave večerne prišla.

Tako imam rad te vrbe ob vodi,
zamišljene v tiho,
nežno pravljico v njej.
Nihče ne ve, kaj šepetajo.
Samo jaz.
In se smehljam.

Odkar vem zanjo,
sem kot avgustovska noč;
miren, poln zvezd in daljav.

(dedicated to my wife)

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What, he dedicated that to your wife? Have 'im, the saucy git!

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Cheeky bleeder. Go round his house. This is your first big test as a husband.

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the poem was dedicated to his wife.

my post was dedicated to mine.

sadly he died a couple of years ago, so there'll be no settling of scores.

my fave bit is:

Nihče ne ve, kaj šepetajo.
Samo jaz.
In se smehljam.



I liked it the first time I read (in English) but particularly now I'm more famiilar with the general morbid flavour of Slovenian literature it seems remarkably up beat...

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joel wrote:

Cheeky bleeder. Go round his house. This is your first big test as a husband.


 



Yeh. Too right.Give him a damn good ****ting for me too.

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Trying, and struggling, to fill in the missing four letters of ****ting. Can you help?

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could be shaf but i'm guessing blat if he's being topical /in terms of potatoes (see the sunday lunch thread)

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I think it's ****.

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The first two letters of "twaddle", to make a word rhyming with "cat".

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I think Joel's probably got it. Shafting and blatting are certainly acceptable forum words.
Could, of course, have been roas - but Brad would need his brother Cameron for that.

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I'm all for campaigning to have twaddle+cat released from the bonds of censorship. It's a very useful word and not very rude anymore. You can even hear it on CBeebies sometimes.

Free the T**t!

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Yes it's the combination of letters you get by taking the 1st letters of these 4 words. The War Against Terrorism.

Not much I can do about the censorship, though I refuse to believe that anyone on CBBC has ever said ****.

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Shalom....yes I am in Tel Aviv. They also have many four letter words here that they want censored. I think Iran and ****ing *** spring to mind.

-- Edited by El Presidente at 19:13, 2007-02-08

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scottoz99 wrote:

Shalom....yes I am in Tel Aviv. They also have many four letter words here that they want censored. I think Iran and ****ing **** spring to mind.


tsk tsk goy! we are the chosen ones, zhlub.



-- Edited by El Presidente at 19:14, 2007-02-08

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Yeh, happy days when a word like **** gets scrubbed and a word like *** stays.



-- Edited by El Presidente at 19:14, 2007-02-08

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As, sadly, this thread has contained racist terms and personal attacks, I have decided to close it. Let's try and keep some decorum here everyone.

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