Latvian: Tavas kājas ir kā stirnai – tikpat kaulainas un spalvainas.
English: Your legs are as beautiful as those of a deer. just as bony and hairy.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional Latvian pickup line / joke
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Latvian: Tavas acis ir tik skaistas kā divi ezeri, tikpat zaļas un duļķainas.
English: Your eyes are as beautiful as two lakes. Just as green and foggy.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional Latvian pickup line / joke
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Latvian: Tev ir reti skaisti zobi.
English: You have really beautiful, rare teeth
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional Latvian insult joke. her uncle says it to her all the time. Play on words – word for rare also means “gaps”
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Latvian: Tu esi tik neglīts, ka pat tava mamma mēģināja pārliecināt ārstus, ka tu neesi viņas dēls.
English: you are so ugly, that even your mom tried to convince the doctors that you were not her baby.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: A joke his father used to tell him when he was a child, because he said he was an ugly baby
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Latvian: Man ir māsa. Un mamma teica, ka viena no mums ir atsitusies tēvā, bet otra pret izlietni.
English: I have a sister. My father said one is similar to him, the other was hit by a sink.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional/classic Latvian joke. Play on words – double meaning of the word for “similar”
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Latvian: Tava mamma ir tik veca, ka viņas instruktors bija dinozaurs
English: Your mom is so old that her driving instructor was a Dinosaur
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: She read it on the internet (originally in Latvian) a year or so ago and remembered it.
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Latvian: Tava mamma ir tik resna, ka viņa raud taukus.
English: Your mom is so fat, she cries lard.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: From Riga. She made it up.
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Latvian: Tu esi tik īss, ka tev ir nepieciešamas kāpnes, lai uzkāptu pa kāpnēm.
English: You are so short, you need a ladder to climb a ladder
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: He heard it somewhere in Riga, but can’t remember when or where.
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Latvian: Vai tu varētu beigt runāt? Man jau mati sāp no tā.
English: Please stop talking. My hair hurts.
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional Latvian insult joke. He heard it today at his office. Very common within his work environment – in which people work in close quarters and shared workspace
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Latvian: O, tas gan bija ļoti labs – nopirki esesā? (ss.lv)
English: Oh, that was a good one! Did you buy it on ss.lv (Latvian ebay)?
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: He heard it today at his office. Very common within his work environment – in which people work in close quarters and shared workspace