Lost in Translation

connundrum

Meet Gee Bag, a rapper based in the UK. Link.

The other obvious breakdown in communication is when you as an American how the craic is.

Any other interesting bits where you say tomato and they say tomatoe?

Terry

That cracked me up.
He will never be taken seriously in Ireland.

Fanny Cradock

Poor old Gee Bag

I checked out his forum and it has something like 15 posts. From my brief look most of them (from people with names lik 'oh my jasus' - Irish I presume) were insulting him by cleverly using his name as an insult. Still, it made me laugh... the gee bag.

Binomate

Despite the name I actually quite like the song 'None of them'.

Ruu_Old

Hah, good find.
Never mind tomato, people do get confused when I say rubbish. "Do you mean garbage?!?!" *hits wall*

Rb

Terry wrote:

That cracked me up.
He will never be taken seriously in Ireland.

Lol,think he'll be taken seriously anywhere?! Bar non-English countries of course...

Good find Connundrum.

Heisenberg.

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Fanny Cradock

What did you say about me :mad:?

baztard

connundrum wrote:

Meet Gee Bag...

Hehe

baztard

Oh my jasus wrote:

yo yo yo homey dog home boy!!

yo im grabbing me nuts
while im looking at me muts
id love to **** him up them up the butts

I like to keep my dobermans cock
stuffed deep in my sock

yo yo yo uh uh uh uh pop a cap in yo ass yo

your such a ****in gee bag
im gonna make you lick my ball bag



WOOOOOOOOOOORD NIGGA!
****IN GEE BAG

From Gee Bags forum. Classic lyrics

cooker3

I worked in a hotel in the states 2 years ago. The electricity had gone in 1 of the rooms so I went into the back room and asked manager for a torch. She looked at me like I had 2 heads. I soon found out that torch has differant conotations to them. Note use the word flashlight if your ever in the states or you maybe arrested for attempted arson.

Schlemm

referring to the rear part of a car as the 'boot' seems to cause mass confusion stateside...

badgerbadger

they pronounce words differently like pasta and salsa
and they have diferent slang

WindSock

connundrum wrote:

Meet Gee Bag, a rapper based in the UK. Link.

Hahaa. i hope it is pronounced like gee and not jee

Edit: Mitsublishi Pajero. From what I'm told, pajero is Spanish for chicken choker

Voodu Child

Hows about the Ford Pinto, which didnt do terribly well in Latin America, because 'pinto' means 'small willy'

Or the toyota MR2 which had to be changed to just MR in france because its name sounded like 'sh1t' when pronounced by the frenchies :rolleyes:

fricatus

My Spanish friends' jaws are forever dropping at the name of the Mitsubishi Pajero, which means t0sser, or wank3r!

Mitsubishi make fine cars (I drive one) but you'd think they'd invest in a dictionary, especially given that the name is supposedly, eh, inspired by the Spanish for bird (pájaro). Could they not have got it right?

Unsurprisingly, the 4x4 in question is called the "Montero" in Spain. That just happens to be the street in Madrid that's best known for prostitution! Hehehe, they just can't win!

runswithascript

baztard wrote:

From Gee Bags forum. Classic lyrics

LOL quite.

Calibos

Ruu wrote:

Hah, good find.
Never mind tomato, people do get confused when I say rubbish. "Do you mean garbage?!?!" *hits wall*

Don't get me started on people coming in and asking me for refuge bags (they mean refuse!)

"Refuge bag ya say? Who are ya hiding from?"

....and its not from "package a crips" knacks either. Most of the time its well dressed, well spoken, seemingly educated people!

runswithascript

Calibos wrote:

Most of the time its well dressed, well spoken, seemingly educated people!

How dare they, you should belittle their education as we all know you can take the high ground here because it takes alot of education to work at the local Centra!

The_B_Man

haha i've jsut been laughin me face off readin them posts! ur man is clueless!

4Xcut

What i'm wonderin' is how the op managed to stumble across a rapper called Gee Bag;)

runswithascript

Are you implying it takes one to no one? Because I certainly am

Jesus Wept

Great Thread

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What, exactly, is a Gee Bag anyway.

Makes no sense.

A bag for carrying a detachable gee in?

A bag to put around a gee?

A bag for many gees?

Jesus Wept

seansouth wrote:

What, exactly, is a Gee Bag anyway.

Makes no sense.

A bag for carrying a detachable gee in?

A bag to put around a gee?

A bag for many gees?

well, who knows?!

He is pronoucing it G-Bag (why didn't he just call himself this :eek: )

And a 'G' is slang for $1000, maybe its something to do with that...

runswithascript

I think it might be a condom. You'd first thing a rubber is a bag for the cock but it's kind of a bag for the gee relatively speaking?

zuutroy

Don't forget all the promotional material that was never released for 80's computer giant Wang....Apparently they had a warehouse full of 'Wang Cares' merchandise.

stovelid

I think there was a rapper or rap group called The Nonce.

Sure they didn't flog any records in the UK.....

connundrum

4Xcut wrote:

What i'm wonderin' is how the op managed to stumble across a rapper called Gee Bag;)

dusf wrote:

Are you implying it takes one to no one? Because I certainly am

Ask me arse, ye gee bags

ejmaztec

A few years ago, a member of some UK band in the US told the audience that he couldn’t half do with a fag. Needless to say, the audience became very quiet, until he explained that where he came from, it meant cigarette.

Degsy

Aparantly the Triumph Acclaim couldnt be released in Germany as the literal translation of the name was "seig heil!"

Nevyn

Lads do ye know nothing ?

A Gee-bag is a stanatry towel, a female hygine product, also known as a jamrag, Think of the bodyform ad and replace the word with Jamrag or Gee-bag and you have the idea. It's a gee-bag before it gets sullied and a jamrag when it is used.

A scum bag is a used condom.

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Wow.

Them sanitary towels aren't very bag-like though. Not the ones I've seen anyway.

Hard Larry

Thaedydal wrote:

Lads do ye know nothing ?

A Gee-bag is a stanatry towel, a female hygine product, also known as a jamrag, Think of the bodyform ad and replace the word with Jamrag or Gee-bag and you have the idea. It's a gee-bag before it gets sullied and a jamrag when it is used.

A scum bag is a used condom.

I always thought a Gee Bag was just some nosey aul'one? It is around my way anyway.

I suppose it could be related to the American slang Douche Bag. {Used for hygienic maintenance of Ladies bits}

What gets me everytime is that someone probably discovered this guy by typing rude words into a search engine. Boredom is priceless

Someone mentioned the Mitsubishi Pajero....did anyone ever hear the rumour that Mitsubishi misspronounced the Starion?

It was released in a line of cars named after horses around the same time as the Colt and I think the Lancer as well. But I'm no car expert so I'm sure I'll be debunked on that.

Japenese pronounciation of Stallion would sound like Starion

Nevyn

seansouth wrote:

Wow.

Them sanitary towels aren't very bag-like though. Not the ones I've seen anyway.

Back in the when the term was coined sanitary towels were not the envlope thin sleek descrete with wings as they are today.
They didn't even stick to your knickers they were 2 inches by 4 inches of cotton which was 1/2 an inch thick in a string hamoch you attched to a sanitary belt was like a suspender belt and had hooks that hung front and back to hold it in place.

http://www.mum.org/sussmith.jpg

When finally they did get adeshive pads they were still made off the same large bulk of cotton and looked like this.

http://www.mum.org/nwfrpd71.jpg
http://www.mum.org/nwfrpd2.jpg

Which was a bag with a lump of cotton in it which you stuck to the gusset of you knickers and wasn't that aborbant. Hence a gee-bag a bag of cotton for under your gee and when it was soiled or bloody it became a jam rag.

Hard Larry

Altogether now....

'Its my Life!...Its my Life!'

or even

'Whoooooaaaaaa Bodyform....Bodyform for yooooooou!'

dr.bollocko

Thats very informative thaedy.
Thanks!

Nevyn

Tis always funny the stuff the people don't know cos of the gender differences.

zuutroy

You have sanitary towels, we have the offside rule.....seems fair.

dr.bollocko

Thaedydal wrote:

Tis always funny the stuff the people don't know cos of the gender differences.

Clueless indeed we are. But also willing to sap up all handy information relating to the opposite gender. Its just a pity that some of it isnt released more freely!

WindSock

The-Rigger wrote:

well, who knows?!

He is pronoucing it G-Bag (why didn't he just call himself this :eek: )

And a 'G' is slang for $1000, maybe its something to do with that...

Yo G means Gangsta. G.

I thought gee bag was a bag o gees. I wonder where the word gee came from? I know it also means butter in Indian, Always gives me a giggle in restaraunts.

runswithascript

Nothing like a bit of gee on toast tbh.

darkskol

From what I heard the word "gee bag" comes from the irish word "gaoth" bag which basically meant to call someone a windbag

WindSock

hm. So a gee fart is a windfart?

fricatus

boreds wrote:

Yo G means Gangsta. G.

I thought gee bag was a bag o gees. I wonder where the word gee came from? I know it also means butter in Indian, Always gives me a giggle in restaraunts.

Yeah, check it out:

"Ghee can be reheated for deep frying or drizzled over dishes like a syrup or sauce"

It's never quite so good reheated I find...

connundrum

The Scientist wrote:

Excellent....
American sitcoms using 'fanny' is another one...

Hmmmm...

boreds wrote:

hm. So a gee fart is a windfart?

So in America a fanny fart is a normal fart

Wierdos

stovelid

Thaedydal wrote:

Lads do ye know nothing ?

A Gee-bag is a stanatry towel, a female hygine product, also known as a jamrag, Think of the bodyform ad and replace the word with Jamrag or Gee-bag and you have the idea. It's a gee-bag before it gets sullied and a jamrag when it is used.

A scum bag is a used condom.

We also used to say gee pad for this. Must be a variation.

Nevyn

dr.bollocko wrote:

Clueless indeed we are. But also willing to sap up all handy information relating to the opposite gender. Its just a pity that some of it isnt released more freely!

There are still taboos and periods and what goes with them are still one of them.

Shiminay

connundrum wrote:

Hmmmm...



So in America a fanny fart is a normal fart

Wierdos

Queef they call it...