Lost in Translation

connundrum · 17-02-2007 01:55PM #1

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 · 17-02-2007 02:41PM

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

Fanny Cradock · 17-02-2007 02:42PM

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 · 17-02-2007 05:00PM

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

Ruu_Old · 17-02-2007 05:05PM

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

Rb · 17-02-2007 06:59PM

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.

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Fanny Cradock · 17-02-2007 07:37PM

What did you say about me :mad:?

baztard · 17-02-2007 08:42PM

connundrum wrote:

Meet Gee Bag...

Hehe

baztard · 17-02-2007 08:52PM

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 · 18-02-2007 08:21AM

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 · 18-02-2007 04:42PM

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

badgerbadger · 26-03-2007 10:05PM

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

WindSock · 26-03-2007 10:19PM

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 · 26-03-2007 10:19PM

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 · 26-03-2007 10:30PM

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 · 27-03-2007 12:08AM

baztard wrote:

From Gee Bags forum. Classic lyrics

LOL quite.

Calibos · 27-03-2007 02:07AM

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 · 27-03-2007 02:53AM

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 · 27-03-2007 08:35AM

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

4Xcut · 27-03-2007 11:18AM

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

runswithascript · 27-03-2007 12:03PM

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

Jesus Wept · 27-03-2007 12:20PM

Great Thread

_blank_ · 27-03-2007 12:32PM

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 · 27-03-2007 12:36PM

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 · 27-03-2007 01:05PM

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 · 27-03-2007 01:15PM

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 · 27-03-2007 01:22PM

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

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

connundrum · 27-03-2007 01:38PM

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 · 27-03-2007 02:43PM

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 · 27-03-2007 03:11PM

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

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