What's Spanish for asshole, anyway?

just wanna be first...?
and to say - WHO CARES? This guy's opinion and my interest don't intersect in this universe.

Not a "major league" asshole?

What a turd.

He doesn't even approach the level of President Bush's toe jam in stature.

Evariste

I believe it's "culo"

OT,

At the Oscars, Fiskie nominee Michael Moore got stomped by a CGI oliphaunt from LoTR in Billy Crystal's opening film spoofs... it was truly a Rachel Corrie moment.

Fun!

#1 evariste
#5 NTropy

culo = ass
pendejo = asshole

Damn! I knew pendejo, I've called people that, but I didn't realize it meant asshole! Thanks Tasty Beverage :-)

Mexican Spanish Insultmonger

#6 Dar ul Harb

I saw that and damn near busted a gut. It pissed my wife off because I laughed so hard I woke up my daughter from her nap, but it was worth it.

This is truly one dumb shit.
Our President for all his faults has bombed the stuffings out of the Taliban, chased Saddam into a dirt hole and has made life miserable for Osama.
How much encouragement would it take to get President Bush to send a Delta Force Team down there to oust him permanently?

NTropy - I love that link. It's definitely in my favorites now.

Somewhat OT but maybe Hugo should be paying attention --

Aristide flees, heads 1st to panama, then "somewhere in Africa"

Chavez is just trying to look tough to bolster his own position and keep his LLL fan club worldwide stoked and impressed with him.

Thing is though, if you are a wanna-be strongman dictator in Latin America, it would probably be a good idea to NOT go out of your way to spit on the United States, the big kid on the block. Chavez is going to quickly go the way of Allende if he can't at least keep his mouth shut. Thing is, it won't be a CIA sniper that gets rid of Chavez. His own people will do it, with just a little nudging from us.

And before any leftist trolls get their dander up about Venezuela, give me one shred of evidence the U.S. had any involvement in the attempted coup in 2002, before you come on here raving about "evil American imperialism." I have yet to see any.

Quickly now, what's that instrument that Sting is playing?

Oh, too late.

It was shaped like a fat mandolin and had a hand crank on its base.

Its a gironde, not sure about the spelling

I was asking the same question Dar...

Google has the answer.

It was a hurdy-gurdy.

I'm just a regular George, with a regular job
I'm your average White House urbanite slob
I like football and pretzels and starting a war
I've got a big Texas ranch with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, My twins and my car
My finger on the button and some coke on the bar
But sometimes that just ain't enough
To keep a man like me elected
So i've gotta go out
and have fun at the UN's expense
I motorcade really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane
I'm an asshole!
I'm an asshole!

French theaters won't show 'Passion'

Last year, Paris police were forced to
set up a dedicated unit to deal with anti-Semitic crimes. Schoolteachers complain they face a hostile reaction among Muslim students when trying to teach the history of the Holocaust, which some equate with Israel's actions against Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Obscene.

Laurence Simon, LOL!

Another good hurdy-gurdy link

So left-wing freaks are the same the world over.

Classy.

Is the asshole comment supposed to hurt? Sometimes the best way to answer is, "Why, yes, I am, aren't I. And a damn good one, too, bioootch."

As my five year old would say, "Sticks and stones..."

But at least she just SAYS sticks and stones instead of actually throwing them.

Had to fling that one out there.

Hey Hugo, ring up John F*cking Kerry - the two of you should do coffee.

Hugo and Kerry - Two left wing potty mouthed children - whining about how their left-wing utopia might be sabotaged by a Texan. heh heh.

Chavez misses the Clintons and Dhimmi Carter who never met a commie they did not like

Bush should sign out some of the Government's petty cash & buy Venezuela out from under Chavez. ;-D

I'll bet GWB is laughing his ASS off. HHHhhahahahha! I am.

#30,

Big time!

What's Spanish for asshole, anyway?

"El Assholo."

Not a "major league" asshole?

That would be Daryl Strawberry.

Billy Crystal is just all full of GWB wisecracks tonight, but miracle of miracles, Tim Robbins didn't get political accepting his BSA Oscar.

I didn't say it because my wife was in the room, but that dress Maria Menounos was wearing made her look very hot.

After the best set Oscar, I decided I had more important things to do .

In Houston area Mexican slang, I've heard a word pronounced "way" (maybe spelled "hue", if I had to guess) used in such a way as to suggest it probably means a-hole or d!ck.

OT

Witches cry witch hunt!

U.S. Muslim Charities Complain of 'Witch Hunt'

What a bunch of idiots! The religion of infiltration wails.

In the category of Best Performance By An Arab Government, the Iraqi Governing Council has reached agreement on a basic law.

SoCalJustice #3 - Adam Clymer (NY Times DC Chief - retired) IS a 'major-league' asshole. Pre 9/11 he asked me what I did for work - I said 'theater missile defense'; his reply 'like we need to protect Broadway'. However, and I've said this before, his wife is a lovely person and that speaks well for him.

'Vamos a coger' is one of my favorite Mexican phrases. I don't know if it works in Venezuela.

"Strengthened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias tells George W. Bush to back-off; keep his nose out of Venezuela's domestic political affairs"
"On Monday, March 1, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. at the Federal Building downtown LA, located on the 300 North Los Angeles St. Los Angeles, CA 90012.
* TO JOIN THE MARCH 1ST. WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY MOBILIZATION WITH VENEZUELA DEMOCRATIC ELECTED GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT CHAVEZ!"
[Link: www.vheadline.com...]

Chavez pissed off the wrong people here; SAIC isn't called the 'evil empire' for nada. Just kidding. Really.
"What does Iraq have to do with Venezuela?
A lot … principally about oil and who wants to control it, but with a twist called SAIC."
[Link: www.vheadline.com...]

In other good news, it looks like the U.S. will get to close the noose in Pakistan.

Maybe this is what they've been hinting about all this time?

Hey, Hugo!

Bush craps bigger than you.

... it looks like the U.S. will get to close the noose in Pakistan.

That's good noose! Stay safe, reaganite.

Oscar Watch
Let's see it's half over, and there have been 6 digs at Bush, and the latest was Errol Morris winning the Michael Moore Oscar for Documentary films, stated that while millions died in Vietnam (Fact checker for the documentarian, pleeze!) then launched into how we are now going into a hole (just like Vietnam). Interestingly, the camera panned the audience - many of whom sat with arms folded...
maybe they were just acting...

#7 and #8,

pendejo means pubic hair. Sorry to use such words on a pubic, er... I mean public forum.

Documentarian Errol Morris makes the first political comments of the Oscar telecast, saying in reference to Vietnam "we went down a rabbit hole" and "millions died", and that he feared we were going down another one. Polite contrast to Mr. Moore last year.

Pendejo could be translated to ASSHOLE
as a Venezuela I should know.

I'm glad we Venezuelans made it to LGF!!
Even if it's thanks to that asshole Ch'avez.

A LOT of us are hoping chávez goes the same way as Aristide.

for an objective blog about what's going on in Venezuela, go here:
CaracasChronicles

me again,.
Couple of interesting facts about chavez:

1- Chavez was the only president in the WORLD to actually VISIT Saddam Hussein in person in 10 years !!! (and he did it AFTER 9-11)

2- Saturday he praised Zimbabew dictator Robert Mugabe !!! check it out here:
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2- 11-259_1490385,00.html

Too bad there's so much oil in Venezuela or USA would have left him to rot a long time ago.

damn oil..

From a recent conversation at work,
I think that in LA and Mexico, the word
means asshole, but in Venezuela it
means pubic hair, get it BUSH.
The man was making a small joke.
Meeting with Mugabe and Saddam and Castro however,
is not a joke and calls for a JDAM.

Sounds like the Mouse that Roars. A Peter Seller's movie in which a tiny country wanted American aids by declaring war on America. They knew that after they were defeated, American money would pour in.

ic #47 - Mohammed and Omar have it covered (read the comments for the Mouse that Roared):
"Dumb... and dumber!"
"There’s a joke here in Iraq... when America invades another country, she will later leave this country in prosperity and great development, an example is Germany and Japan. So the idea is illustrated in declaring war against America to persuade her to come to invade the country and push it to advance and flourish. Just right here, one member shouted: “OBJECTION!, AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE WON THE WAR!?”
[Link: iraqthemodel.blogspot.com...]

IIRC, Intesa was the largest IT organization in South America. And everyone knows how much the US hates it when Commie despots expropriate US corporate assets. BTW, SAIC used to run the Internet (it spun off Network Solutions).

"Venezuela´s information technology company INTESA a Science Applications International Corp.'s-SAIC subsidiary, is declaring bankruptcy after its principal client an local partner Venezuela´s oil company PDVSA canceled its services contract..."
"The net result of PDVSA's actions has been to expropriate SAIC's possessions in Venezuela..."
[Link: www.petroleumworld.com...]

I remember seeing an interview of Chavez during the 2002 strike. He looked into the camera and claimed the opposition was indeed inserting subliminal messages on t.v. broadcasts. Went as far as to explain how they are faster than the human eye. Did anyone else see this?
What a funny guy!!

This just means that Chavez knows he's next, and after him, Lula.

Now now... Let's be culturally sensitive and call it Venesu-ELA with the first 3 syllables read very very fast and the ELA read slower.

So el presidente Tcha-VEZ of Venesu-ELA has called our President a pen-DERrrro (roll your r's here). I'll bet he was put up to it by Nelson Man-DELA or South A-FRRRICA.

[Link: www.aynrand.org...]

He ought to get into Australian opposition leader Mark Latham. He called our PM an ass-licker.

get into

Oh my gosh, that sounds so gross! I meant "get into touch with".

left-wing freaks are the same the world over. The whine the loudest when they are close to defeat! Be encouraged!

Nice that LOTR swept the Oscars! Disappointed that traitors Penn & Robbins won though.

It's so sad. Venezuelan Democracy is dying, but because the story is complex, the US press pays almost no attention at all until the president swears.

Guys, we're getting tear gassed, rubber pelleted and shot at every day in the streets of Caracas for trying to stop Castro II's path to unchecked power. It's not fun.

do have a look at my blog: [Link: www.caracaschronicles.com...]

ft

Interesting that VDH called the 2002 thing against Chavez as being comprised of oil 'elitists'. I thought basically the same thing happening in theocratic Iran was happening in leftist Venezuela

Chavez just doesn't like Bush because he's against terror. According to The Cuban-American news link, he and Fidel host a terror pow-wow, and invite Baathists, Fatah, and other scum of the earth. Ye shall be known by your enemies..

#59 Francisco,

I knew you were a LGF lurker! How do I know? I faithfully read you weblog and I have come across some expressions only used by lfr readers.
By the way, thanks for the great job you are doing in making Venezuela's situation known to non-spanish speakers.

#44 RG.

De que parte de Venezuela eres? Yo soy guayanesa.

To other blogs for those interested in reading about the present situation in Venezuela:

The Devil's Excrement
[Link: blogs.salon.com...]

Venezuelan News and Analysis
[Link: www.vcrisis.com...]

Pendejo literally means "pubic hair". Figurativley it it usually means something like "fool". Culo is literally your asshole, but I dunno what the Spanish equivalent of calling someone an asshole in English.

#60 piso mojado,

I am a venezuelan and I have never heard of pendejo meaning pubic hair but I could be wrong.

asshole= estupido, mongolico, idiota, retardado, imbecil...take your pick.

#56 F. Toro

Thanks for the link! I would like to think western media would give some attention to Venezuela, but Chavez is a champion in their eyes. Hope all the best and will pass on your link to those I know.

From your link:

After five years of highly divisive rhetoric, President Chavez has managed to fracture the country into two highly emotional sides, and has gone out of his way to teach his supporters to hate his opponents. Today, his explosive strategy of class resentment, calculated division and endlessly escalating provocation has left Venezuela on the edge of a civil war.

The tactics sound awfully familiar. I wonder if Kerry has been taking notes?

I'd urge any Spanish-speaking LGFers to try to catch a Chavez speech on television some time. The man comes across as completely demented.

As to the translation of "asshole", according to this article in the Venezuelan daily "El Universal", the choice word in question was, indeed, "pendejo". But not only Bush draw 'da wrath of Hugo. Referring to talk of the Organization of American States sending a mission to intermediate, he's also quoted as saying:

"Aquí no vendrá la OEA ni nadie (...) ¡Bastantes cojones hay aquí para defender a la patria de cualquier extranjero que pretenda humillarla, carajo!"

"Neither the OAS nor anyone else will be coming here! We have more than enough balls here to defend the fatherland against any foreigner who tries to humiliate it, goddammit!"

Quite the statesman.

Bush's retort was:
" I know you are , but what am I
I know you are but what am I ,
I know you are but what am I ?
Infinity!"

Pendejo means dumbass.

Dumbass.

there have official us gvmnt warnings to venezuela about hosting al 'queada and giving them venezuelan nationality.

#59 SA
I'm from Caracas but live in Miami, FL.

A "pendejo" is a flaccid penis, a "good-for-nothing" a "can't get-it-up.

Lit. "pendulous"

In practice, It's an all-purpose insult.

I for one have been utterly dismayed that this issue hasn't gotten WAY more attention. I guess its just that like in most things, everything comes to South America 10 years later than the rest of the world, including Cuban subversion, which in this case comes 30 years behind the times.

The tinhorn Chavez is blatantly trying to "Cubanize" Venezuela. He has improrted thousands of Cuban "Doctors" and "Educators", effectively re-nationalized the country's oil company PDVSA along "socialist" lines. He has organized commie style "block committees," he has characteristically appropriated (and forever tarnished) the name of the Great Liberator Simon Bolivar for his ridiculous "Bolivarian Revolution" which is nothing more that the same old Cuban/Che Guevara Bullshit in a new bag.

Venezuela, and especially Caracas is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, the Venezuelans are some of the most talented, industrious, educated and truly decent, fun-loving people on the planet, and they deserve much better than Hugo Chavez and his obsolete class-warfare comunism.

It is to thier credit that the Venezuelans have not yet turned to armed rebellion. Venezuela has one of the longest traditions of democratic rule in South America.

However, if (I should say WHEN) Chavez makes the predictably stupid mistake of invalidating the referendum against him this year, we will see Venezuela explode.

The question is whether or not the Venezuelan military will shoot thier own people. After 6 years of leftist class-hatred brainwashing from Chavez, it's an open question.

Saludos a todos los Venezolanos que aprecian la Libertad. Que no pierden la fé. Que tienen muchos amigos por todo el Mundo que estan siguiendo la situación, y que te apoyan.

Viva Venezuela Libre
Viva Cuba Libre

Muerte a Socialismo !

Que Hugo Chavez se vaya a la chingada!

#68 Martin-Sobieski: Chavez is an inept, would-be dictator, who is hostile to U.S. interests.

That being said, what are we doing promoting and trumpeting democracy around the world, and then supporting a coup against an elected leader in Venezuela?

Hypocrisy, thy name is GW Bush.

There is an old story about how a Bolivian general, after overthrowing the previous government, promptly committed outrages against the British consul and the few British interests within Bolivia (they had supported his predecessor).

Queen Victoria was apprised of the situation. She consulted her globe, and noted that Bolivia had no seaports which the British navy could bombard in retaliation. She then took a pen, marked an "X" through Bolivia, and stated, "then Bolivia no longer exists."

Maybe we should consider doing the same thing, at least rhetorically, for rulers like Hugo Chavez.

I know slang has endless local variables, but I always thought pendejo was a cuckold, which then makes sense when taken together with post #67.

#69 Gordon

You are ass-backwards as ususal.

I'll bet you think that Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussien were "elected" Presidents because they won 99% of the vote in thier last "referendum."

I'll bet you think that Salvador Allende was an "innocent victim" and that he wouldn't have led Chile to utter poverty and desolation just like Cuba.

Hitler himself was "elected" before he siezed dictatorial power you dumbass.

As for "supporting a coup" When did the U.S. Government ever endorse anything other than respect for constitutional measures in Venezuela? The U.S. neither supported nor (officially) encouraged the coup against Chavez, and could easily have prevented him from coming back if it had been our intention to do so.

Now, I personally believe that it would have been the right thing to do, and would have prevented the bloody debacle which is about to explode over there.

Instead they sent inept, leftist crusading, Castro-Kissing, embarrassing failure of a President and all-around loser Jiminy Carter over there to preside over the referendum.

Only the severely logic-impaired LLL could equate that with "GW Hypocrisy"

Get your facts straight (oops, I forgot, LLL's are factophobes)

#71 PM

You are correct sir.

/puts new Spanish Thesaurus on to do list*

If the US had acted on getting Chavez overthrown, I rather think he would have been overthrown. I don't have the respective force numbers, but I think the Chicago Police Department could take Venezuela on their day off. Maybe just the Traffic Police and the meter maids, they're pretty tough, too.

Here's the skinny on the Venezuelan Military. They might be tad much for the Chicago PD to handle, but The NYPD would definitely hand them thier asses.

Allrefer-country-guide /venezuela military

Just got off the phone with my suegra (mother-in-law) in Caracas. She is staying right now in "La Florida" a neighborhood in Caracas proper, and reports that they are stocking up on areparina, arroz and other staples, since the situation is really getting out of control. The other day when we were on the phone we could hear the gunfire and pot-clanging (anyone who knows Venezuela will know what I am talking about, it's when people open their windows and start banging together pots and pans to create as loud a noise as possible) clearly on the other end.

Chavez's embrace of Khatami and Mugabe is right on par with his previous expressions of culo-licking love for Saddam & Fidel. He has done more to foster terrorism on this side of the Atlantic than anyone in the past few years. Just look at the presence of Hizbollah and other cells on Margarita Island. The only thing that he hasn't seemed to embrace yet is anti-semitism, but with a small yet well-off Jewish population the handwriting is on the wall.

The fact that the media here is more interested in Haiti than Venezuela is mind-boggling. Let's face it, Haiti's story is tragic, but it's not nearly a direct threat to the U.S. economy like what is going on in Venezuela. Just remember that next time you are paying $3.50/gal for gasoline this summer.

As for the American media: they are either ignorant dupes or willing collaborators who see Hugo as the "voice of the Venezuelan downtrodden masses" fighting against corruption and injustice. Not to mention they (the mainstream media) are probably saying the same things about GWB on a daily basis.

Oh, and BTW, a great source of information for news from Caracas can be found on Venezuela Today.

The definitive word on the definition of "pendejo" (this from the Diccionario de la Lengua Española of the Real Academia, the Spanish-speaking world's equivalent of the O.E.D.): The literal definition is, indeed, "pubic hair". The colloquial definitions vary from country to country, but generally are either asshole/jerk, coward, fool, or (in Peru) someone who is crafty but unprincipled.

#78 Occasional Reader

Mi mujer sez it means "dingleberry"

You go argue with her...

#79 papijoe: Here's what you do--adopt your best haughty Castilian accent, tell your wife, "pero coño! Qué barbaridad!", and then direct her here. Haughty Castilian liguists will then inform her (after a word search) that the non-colloquial definition of "pendejo" is, and I quote:

1. m. Pelo que nace en el pubis y en las ingles.

man, you keep going on about the definition of pendejo you nerds???

what's the definition in the dictionary of ASSHOLE???

probably an "orifice where excrement comes out" THUS it's not an insult but a biological term???/

DAMN IT,
IN VENEZUELA IF YOU CALL SOMEONE PENDEJO YOU'RE TELLING HIM HE'S AN ASSHOLE. DESPITE WHAT THE FREAKING CASTILLAN LINGUISTS SAY.

occasional reader.. you stupid pendejo... you

NO SEAS PENDEJO, rolitranco de guevon, co~no de tu madre... look that one up in the dictionary !!

Say it with me, . .

Joder, que pinche-culon-pendejo-hijo-de-su-madre-puta-barata- chingada-perra-de-la-calle-medio-peso-de-mierda-ma ricon-fregado, coño !

Now three times real fast!

No mames guey.

Just don't call him "Cabron."

Hah ahahahahahahahhhaaa ! *LOL*

Rolitranco de Guevon ! HahAHahHAhHahaHaha

that's a good one !

#81 RG:

DAMN IT,

[etc.]

Did you actually read what I wrote, huevón? Nobody disagreed that the colloquial meaning is "asshole". Yeah, so papijoe others and I had a discussion about the LITERAL meaning of the word--what the fuck is it to you, joputa? Y me dices a mí "pendejo"? Si no tienes la capacidad mental de seguir el argumento y participar en este foro, perfecto, me importa un pedo, en todo caso dicen que eso es el resultado de tener padres que son primos hermanos, así que no te culpo para nada.

Cheez, now I know what it feels like when I'm speaking Arabic to someone here!

#80 Occasional Reader -

Las ingles

Er, what do English women have to do with this?

#85 O.R. -

I always liked the sound of "me vale sorbete".

{tapping "shave and a haircut" on my horn, to whomever}

Ed Moran

In Houston area Mexican slang, I've heard a word pronounced "way" (maybe spelled "hue", if I had to guess) used in such a way as to suggest it probably means a-hole or d!ck.

From what I understand it means that the subject of the epithet's wife or girlfriend is unfaithful. i.e. he's a cuckold(sp). The person that one's wife is unfaithful with is called a Sancho, which isn't really a pejorative.

Chavez is the best thing to happen to the New World since Dr Martin Luther King took a stand against the imperialist greed and inherent racism of the US, and Castro prevailed in the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Haiti is just a bitter response by a bunch of dumbass yank imperialists upset by their inability to get rid of the man of the millenium (so far).

Chavez called Bush a 'pendejo' which in the context said can be interpreted to mean 'asshole'. Pendejo is a pubic hair from that area. It also means idiot or moronic. It depends how it's used. The Venezuela crisis is extremely complex and is being under-reported in the U.S. media. Venezuela is today governed by thugs and criminals and the opposition is made up mostly of decent people who have no chance at removing this 21st century dictator from office. For more information please visit VENEZUELATODAY.NET