Re: You'll have to share some of those Vietnamese swear words with us...
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Originally posted by GeneChing
On the toilet, eh? Talk about getting caught with your pants down!
So, I'm a little confused. You had someone repeated unscrew/steal light bulbs, prior to this?
Well some of the Vietnamese swear words consist of (I was born and raised in Australia so my Vietnamese spelling and pronounciation is really bad) du ma (I think that roughly translates to f*ck your mother), con cac (cac is d*ck and con is son, I dunno what the two words together is suppose to mean) and thats all I really know and remember from the night.
Well we have this little security light in my backyard connected just outside my room. And I think you're confused because these aren't JUST light bulbs, they're security lights that turn on whenever someone is near.
Well about a few days before the actual attempted break in, my parents had came home and found the actual light unscrewed and just left there on the lawn. So my dad screwed it back in and tested if it still works. Second time around we found the light was missing from the socket (I think thats what you call it). So we just assumed they stole it as we couldn't find it anywhere else around the yard.
"con cac" good one dodger87!
I wish I had checked in on this thread before dinner last night. I went out to dinner with a vietnamese student and it would have been a good one to drop on him. :p
We've been thinking about a dog, but a puppy. My kid wants a puppy. It'll be good for home defense in about four or five years.
I completely understand about the gun thing with a lot of you. I'm still not at the point that I'm going to buy one. Too much trouble. Actually, the swords are too much trouble. I was reassessing what I would lose if someone stole stuff in my home and there's really not much more than the swords. We have a really cheap TV and computer. I have a lot of Shaolin collectibles, but it's stuff that only Shaolin people would appreciate. The swords would be worth something, but that would be so hard to carry off. I had to give a talk on Chinese weapons at Stanford a few weeks back and it was such a bother having to transport all those weapons, and I have some good cases to carry them in. It would be really troublesome for a burglar, not to mention trying to explain running down the street with an armful of swords. Most of my weapons are of sentimental value - not very expensive. Of course, I'm not saying that it wouldn't be a major bum out to get robbed, of course, but I really don't have too much to steal anymore.