Sunday, March 2, 2008

"Get Lost Asshole!" or "Piss Off Poor Idiot!" ?


Sarkozy

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has been caught on video during his visit to the yearly agricultural trade show in Paris insulting a visitor who refused to shake his hand.

Shocking!
Yes, but since Sarkozy has been elected president in May of 2007, he has been on the front page of every French people magazine and his life has been commented as if he was a celebrity.
So, in France, people are getting used to his controversial ways:
He announced his divorce from Cecilia a few month after the election, but remarried Carla Bruni only 2 months after his divorce (who gets married after 2 months? ...). He already lost it while visiting striking fishermen, and dared one of the man to come and explain himslef face to face. Got drunk with Putin and then gave a press conference, and so on...

Of course this new incident has been reported for days in France and comments have varied. Some said it was a shame the president couldn't control himself, some said it showed a macho exchange between two 'real' men, some said it was just one more mistake by our president, and some don't really care.

Whatever it is, it has started a craze, the "Casses toi pauvre con" move.
Now the problem is to translate the comments correctly in English and other languages so that everyone can be amazed at our president.
The original altercation goes:
- Ah non ne me touche pas tu me salis!
(Don't touch me, you're making me dirty!)
- Casse toi alors, pauvre con!
('Get Lost Asshole!' or 'Piss Off Poor Idiot!' or 'Then get lost, you poor jerk!' or 'Get lost, you stupid bastard!' in English.
In Italian: '
Ai via, vai via, allora, povero coglione!".
In Spanich: '
Rajá, pobre pelotudo!'
In German: '
Dann hau doch ab, Du armseliger Dummkopf!' or 'Dann hau doch ab, du Blödmann!'.
In Polish: '
Spieprzaj dziadu!'.)

Is this that big of a deal? I don't think so.
As the president we expect him to be flawless, but let's be realistic, everyone know he was a feisty little thing before he became the president. I don't think there is any surprise here, the man is not going to change, but his approval rate has sinked from 67% in July of 2007 to a tiny 37% today. Not good!!



3 comments:

Debgo said...

Glad to see another country is having concerns with the image of their president. Why should the USA be the only one?

Solveig said...

Very interesting blog! I follow the European news also quite a bit as we don't get much of it by default here.

Sandi said...

Mon Dieu où est Segolene Royale quand nous avons besoin d'elle ?