Similar story! I teach Capoeira, am not Beasilian. Part of the tradition is coming up with students' "apelido", like an alias for them as a martial artist. We try to pick things that are cool, or ironically amusing (but kind).

Well there's this bigger teenage boy in my class who's getting REALLY strong. Great kid. Sings real strong too. Has been hitting the weights I think.

"Cannon". I thought. "That's badass and not too elaborate. He's loud and he hits hard. Perfect!" So I look up the translation and submit my suggestions.

"That's gonna need a change..." my Professor says with a chuckle.

"...Canhão means 'lesbian'."

Where does this slang come from?!? My research gave zero indication of this possibility lmao. SO glad he double checked me.

Similarly confusing, a lot of Capoeira songs feature the lyrics "vamo vadia" which I'm told is like, "Let's go hang out / loiter / chill." According to google translate...vadia directly means "bitch."

This beautiful language intimidates me. 😂

This definitely feels like comedically outlandish propaganda. (Which often attempts to portray opposition as a bunch of dumb backwards animals with only the basest intelligence)

...but especially given their belligerent status...it's still hilarious. 😂

Images -> "큰 가슴"

"Turns out the real Great Leader was the best friend we made along the way."

clearly has a biased motivation to seem as outnumbered and out-gunned as possible to express a need to their allied nations to give them more weapons,

Hey this is the same tactic my state's school system uses to beg for funding. "We're the 69th worst state for education in the country! :(" lol

Man there's a lot of things I forgot about growing up in the 00's, but "frantically talking heads beside 10-second looping footage of dudes on monkey bars in the middle of the desert" was definitely more a part of it than it should have been lol.

My heart hurts for how tough it is for those people...

...but this made me laugh out loud more than I care to admit lmao.

They do love their missile parades...

I actually like helping people a lot, too.

I don't think IT folks are naturally misanthropic or antisocial, but I personally got beat down so much by wanting to help and realizing they didn't care to listen, or weren't willing to learn anything. At all. Even though they came to me with the problem, it seemed they mostly just wanted me to fix it for them with zero understanding required, or to "be emotional at someone" or were lonely.

I also got so tired of being friendly and enthusiastically educational with advising my relatives or friends, only to then watch them completely disregard 100% of my advice they came to me for.

In the former job I'm still putting myself back together from, most of the public peoples who visited me would have been better served by visiting a psychologist / therapist first, but I was cheaper (free). :(

Often when it's something I do specialize in and I get all excited, that's when they choose to gloss over and I can tell they just want me to stop talking.

I hate having biases against people, but there very much are definitely "normies" who are threatened by the prospect of having to activate their neurons for the first time since they stumbled out of their highest level of education, and only learned to think when it was forced upon them.

Makes a guy feel pretty crappy. So I'm not as forthcoming with my skillset as I used to be in casual company. Lol

Stories like this are the good part about the Internet. Riotous rodent recounting tale, sir. :D

You don't need luck. You've got us! (And the Internet to verify our claims lol)

Just triple check every step, learn how to prevent ESD, and pull that useless little sticky plastic protector off the cooler before you install it! (That one gets SO many system builders).