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lördag 30 juli 2011

Gonorrhée, also in France

I should really go to sleep now but I just remembered something funny from last weekend. We where having a dinner at the Tearoom in Brooklyn. We where a mix of Scandinavians, a Colombian and a Frenchman including the Frenchman's shadow who joined us later, never said hello and then disappeared with out saying goodbye. Anyway the food was totally ok, borderline-ing on good. But as with such restaurants you don´t come to get feed but to indulge your self with stuff or food that you do not need. There where some funny controversy on the Colombian trying to get away cheaply while I in my counterfeit grandeur tried to advocate a splitting of the bill. Counterfeit because it actually did not matter to me I would have been paying roughly the same amount anyway. But it was so funny to go at our Colombian friend in a very unswedish manor. But I am digressing. This story is really about the Frenchman.  
But still I have to mention the funny party who where seated next to us: about eight or so males mostly Swedish dressed up for a Pripps Blå ad! They where to perfect: tanned, tall, modern haircuts, stubble, white t-shirts and blue shirts. All of them! They must have coordinated it somehow. Imagine one guy waking up like: "OK so we are doing advertising in NY, we are mostly Swedes. What could be better than throwing a Pripps Blå-party with the boys? I'm just saying you must have a blue shirt, man!" That it looks totally ridiculous and that one guy could hardly be separated from the others that is not important. They probably ended up doing some orgy with a woman who likes Pripps Blå and tripple penetration. But again I am digressing from the actual story. (Even though I admit that my projection of how the Pripps Blå party ended is tantalizing we are going to leave that now since I have no proof of anything happening for those guys other than it being totally weird and should have been posted on this blog:
http://hurricanevanessa.com/that-awkward-moment-when-you-pitch-up-at-work-wearing-exactly-the-same-as-someone-else-has-its-own-tumblr-of-course/
If you never saw the ad or can not remember it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oQM6e_BHh0
So back to our French, but taking the detour passing by our Colombian. As always when hanging out with Colombians the Burro-discussion comes up and a little later we start to talk about Gonorrhoea, because that is how they say hello to one another in Bogotá. So our Colombian asks the Frenchman how to say "gonorrhoea" in French and the Frenchman in turn looks like he has never heard anything like it and I remember that I thought that he would joke and say that they do not have that i France. And before I know it he says without any trace of irony that they do not have that and that their women are very clean! I do not even know where to begin on this one... It is just so... totally... wrong and... or should I change that to French and chauvinist? During the whole night, however hard we tried to explain what Gonorrhoea is we failed to learn the word for gonorrhoea in French. So I looked it up: and I am not surprised just a bit spiteful now that I can spell it out: Gonorrhée. Which with normal French-speaking rules probably means you pronounce it "Gonorr"... over and out must sleep now.

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