Category Archives: Riga Janks

Janks collected in Riga, Latvia on January 8, 2016

010816026

Latvian: Tu esi tads muļķa desa.
English: You are a stupid sausage
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Traditional/classic Latvian insult. “Stupid sausage” is a single word

010816024

Arabic: خنفسه شافت عيالها على الحيط قالت ده لولى ملضم فى خيط
Khanfasa shafet ‘ayalha ‘ala al-hayt, qalet da luli mladdam fi khayt
English: Your mother is like a cockroach who saw her children on the wall but mistook them for beautiful pearls
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Egyptian insult joke, in Arabic. Usually said by grandmothers as a way to call someone ugly. The (very) literal translation is: “A beetle saw her kids on the wall and said pearls connected by a string.”

010816022

Latvian: Esmu tik priecīgs, ka starp mums kaut kas ir! Un tā ir siena!
English: I’m so happy there’s something between us, and it is a wall!
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: Someone told it to her recently. A modern Latvian joke.

010816021

Latvian: Tu esi tik resna, ka guli uz vienas krūts, bet apsedzies ar otru.
English: You are so fat, that you sleep on one of your boobs, and use the other as a blanket
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: She heard it from her friend.

010816020

Latvian: Tu esi tik resns, ka pamosties pāri abām gultas malām.
English: You are so fat, that you wake up on both sides of the bed
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: She made it up with her friend.

010816017

Latvian: Tavs IQ koeficients ir tik zems, ka tas pat ir zemāks kā Donaldam Trampam.
English: Your IQ is so low, it’s lower than Donald Trump’s
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: He made it up.

010816016

Latvian: Tu esi tik stulbs, ka IQ koeficients samazinās visai ielai.
English: you are so dumb, when you speak you lower the IQ of the whole street
collected: Riga, Latvia (08-01-2016)
origin: This is based on something he heard on Sherlock, the British television show