Collecting Foreign Language Idioms

I'm collecting foreign language idioms for a project.

I need the Idiom in the original language, translation into English and some description of why you like it and any other personal things attached to it.

If I make use of it you won't be identified.

An example

Finnish Idiom

tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen
to make a bull out of a fly

Means same thing as "Don't make a mountain out of a molehill"

I find the visual image much more amusing of a bull with insect wings flying round my kitchen.

Please leave any suggestions you have as comments

Government Plans the Abolition of Scotland

“We will use what we have learned in the Chagos Islands and move Scotland's population to a new town in East Anglia. Scotland will then become a great wilderness park which we will ask the UN to protect.”

Not quite certain why this hasn't come out on WikiLeaks yet

Please God I hope a Shark doesn't eat me Today...

The empirically-estimated "PROBABILITY OF DEATH EACH YEAR" is:

• 1 in 3.3 million (0.00003%) (for Western civilians at the hands of jihadist terrorists post-1985);
• 1 in 3 million (US citizen being killed by a shark);
• 1 in 4 million (US citizen being electrocuted);
• 1 in 6 million (US citizen being struck by lightning);
• 1 in 500,000 (0.0002%) (US citizen at the hands of jihadists in the 21st century);
• 1 in 10,000) (0.01%) (from car accident in the US);
• 1 in 1,250 (0.08%) (under-5 year old infant in Australia from all causes);
• 1 in 1,000 (0.1%) (from cigarette smoking-related causes in the US);
• 1 in 38 (2.6%) (under-5 year old infants in UK-US-occupied Iraq);
• 1 in 17 (5.8%) (for under-5 year old infants in US-occupied Afghanistan).

This is lifted directly from:

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17012

But I guess 5.8% of Afghan children is a price worth paying for ... uh what is it paying for. Doesn't matter really ..God bless you Mr Blair God Bless you Mr. Bush thank you for the rivers of blood.

Who Want's to Call in the IMF?

Great new idea for a gameshow. A bit like a cross between Eurovision Song Contest and Who want's to be a millionaire.

Each EU country sends an economic expert to the show who starts out with 1 Billion Euros. At the end of the show they can take that back with them to their country of origin and put it into the treasury. 

As the show runs weekly they can augment their coffers by up to 50 Billion Euros a year.

So what do they have to do?

All they have to do is answer 20 ecomonics questions correctly dealing with the scenarios presented to them. However for each one they get wrong they lose 100 Million Euros.

Unfortunately if they get all of them wrong they will leave the show owing 1 Billion Euros. The first country's incompetent economic experts to lose so much on the game show that their country effectively goes bankrupt becomes the laughing stock of all the other competitor countries (who will nonetheless quickly follow them) and has to call in the IMF.

Show is sheduled for a one year run initially but currently fear will not have enough solvent competitors by then.

Ireland is currently acting as the consultant for this show.

Copyright YetiTV 2010

showreel (low res)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtEosQCnEsE

Website

Holding Page

New Customers

War at any cost

Everything Blair did, including trying to get a new resolution was to make war possible. Nothing was done to try to avoid war or find a peaceful solution. Everyone is missing that point.

Blair Speak

This was compiled some time ago but perhaps worth a read...

http://www.blairfacedlies.com/

Apple iPad conectivity

 $14.99 /month or $29.99 ! AT&T No contract

International by June
wow from $499

Apple iPad pics

Apple iPad - iBooks

Apple iPad EA Sport

Live sports with stats

Apple iPad pics

Games from EA

Apple iPad pics

 Where's The Sun....

Apple iPad

Apple iPad games

All the iPhone apps can run double pixel to be full screen


Facebook...

Full web page browsing

Browsing and pdfs

Apple iPad as it happens

This is the locked screen - wow - want one

Apple iPad

Mac OSX with iPod background??

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Apple iPad

So heres an iPad

A chair

Someone should sit here and show us something Apple....

Hazel Blears in tears in Salford...
 

 

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SMS

On my phone on the 3 network I have set up e-mailing so it works in the same way as Text Messaging. I just select a contact, write the message and do the attachment and then send. Alternatively I can take a clip and then turn it into a message

Most smartish phones can do email. This is a Google Blog and currently sms to blog is not supported in the UK. Third parties exist to do this but is it really necessary?

Apples

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples
then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will
have two ideas." G B Shaw

Test blog

 

Test of email.

 

But what about text messages?

 

PORSTMOUTH N: CON SAY LOOKING GOOD

 

 

 

 

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Video Contribution

This is a video emailed as an attachment from my mobile phone.

This is just using a small image to identify a contributor

With the end of the recession people are partying in the street with champagne and caviar and playing the new national pastime of I can gazump you.

Serious Disorder in Rural Areas

Mr Carnival is ritually burned once again to loaud applause. The police were nowhere to be seen.

Extroardinary Scenes as Blur is arrested

The former Prime Thingy Toby Blur has been arrested for an act of gross indecency at the Irap enquiry.

This is a Post Written from my PC

Up and down the country the main parties are being staggered by the surge in support for the Green Party. It may be a landslide of seismic proportions.