drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Found out something funny today  ....
Paja directly translates to English as "straw", used in farms for cattle and other animals to lie on. In South America and Panama hacerse la paja means to masturbate. In most parts of Central America to masturbate is to pajearse. In South America and Spain is more often used as hacerse una paja. Pajero, or Pajillero in Spain, is a masturbator (wanker) and also can imply a weakling or a fool, due to cultural beliefs that masturbation created mental weakness.
Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors has a sport utility named Mitsubishi Pajero. The original intention was to call the car after a South American wildcat, but the company's failure to check other uses of the word caused many chuckles. In the Americas and in Spain, the vehicle was rebadged as the Montero. (It has since been replaced in North America by the Mitsubishi Endeavor.)
"So, what car do you drive?"
"Ummm, the Mitsubishi Wanker"
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Kif
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You have some random shizzle
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Robin
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drunkenfool
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quote:
Originally posted by Kif
You have some random shizzle
I'm looking up the different uses of spanish swearwords and how their meanings change depending which country you are in, quite interestingfrom a linguistic point of view, but also quite funny
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MarkM
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Registered: 11th Apr 01
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My dad owns one for work...
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