Forgive My French

pick one’s nose to make more space ~ je ne sais quoi ’s not one little trace

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Terry Flood

Date: 8/22/2023 3:41:00 PM

Question… why do people, French or otherwise, think that a car’s windshield is a cloak of invisibility. I often think that if they crashed into a wall, they would die with their index finger protruding from their cranium. Such a fun write, Mon ami.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 8/22/2023 1:49:00 AM

Your French is pardoned. I forgot mine the day I stopped its studies.

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/22/2023 2:31:00 AM

Thank you Victor, I’m a little rusty myself, but I may just have gotten away with it here, cheers David

Di11y Da11y

Date: 8/21/2023 9:54:00 PM

Haha I was just transported back to a time (childhood!) where I'd claim to be 'just scratching' my nose when questioned... most of the time it was true :)

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/22/2023 2:30:00 AM

Oh you were a roller as well, perhaps you do have that, (je ne sais quoi) after all lol!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 8/22/2023 1:21:00 AM

That does elevate the gross factor, obviously I started in childhood and am now quite a sophisticated nose picker, I've not rolled anything between my fingers for decades - I'll leave that to the amateurs :D

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/22/2023 12:47:00 AM

Ha yeah I think we’ve all tried that excuse as children, I was just saying to Lin below, seen a guy doing this today, well yesterday now, kept looking at his finger each time he extricated something, it gets worse, gross out! Cheers David

I Am Anaya

Date: 8/21/2023 5:13:00 PM

I see your hands in the right place. Le plage o Le Montana? It's all I remember. Lol I do know zee esspreson, parden my French, wee wee? Oh that's not good;D

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/22/2023 12:37:00 AM

Heya Anaya, yeah there’s a few variations of the title forgive/ pardon/excuse my french, but I think the international language for nose picking is, don’t do it in public, lol! (non non) cheers David

Yann Rolland

Date: 8/21/2023 4:11:00 PM

don't know about this expression, it is interesting really, thanks for sharing

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/21/2023 4:20:00 PM

Oh sorry you’re french Yann, it’s basically an English expression sometimes said, when one is about to use bad language, nothing disparaging to the French at all, cheers David

Lin Lane

Date: 8/21/2023 3:48:00 PM

‘S not one I’d embrace. There’s a time and a place to pick one’s nose. Nice play on words, David.

Lin Lane
Date: 8/21/2023 4:27:00 PM

It’s yucky and we DO know that. Lol

David Kavanagh
Date: 8/21/2023 4:14:00 PM

Me neither Lin, but a driver stopped at the traffic lights today was going at it with relish, dirty oul b’ard, yeah I used a bit of the french language myself lol! Cheers David