High School Humour
One popular joke among the school scallywags here is doing a lazily excecuted salute while brightly exclaiming "sex!" It seems that, being an English speaker, they though I would find it especially funny, but the most it has gotten out of me was an "Ee-wah?" the first time they did it. Yesterday I walked past a group of such scallywags and as they let fly with their witticism I realised I could make it a bit more interesting my teaching them some obscure Finnish power words to bellow out. Then I thought I could make it funny by teaching them "power words" such as "flower" in Finnish; which they could then shout all they like while I chuckle quietly to myself. I'll let you know when I hear someone shouting "flower!" at me in Finnish.
There's another, genuinly clever and actually quite funny antic worth mentioning. It would seem that having fun at the teachers' expense by disrespecting them would not be wise, so instead they have fun by upping the ante on politeness. It's great fun to see a teacher pass a group of these fellows, all of them doing several perfectly excecuted bows while shouting "Konnichiwa!" in the sharpest military tone they can muster. Then follow this with a similar barrage of greetings to their friend who has just come from the toilet. I wouldn't know but it seems to teachers find it quite amusing too - everybody wins!
Sakari
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I think that you have some good time with your nakama in school but i have a proposition try to teache them some words in frenche i think that they'll like it, then let me know how it was!
They find it hard enough to pronounce anything English.. never mind French.
Haha thats really funny.
Reminds me of a few years ago with something very similar where every male teacher was referred to as Sir and female as Ma'am in stereotypical British accents.
Reminds me of our principal in lower secondary school. She was usually greeted by nazi salutes behind her back after she had passed. A bit tasteless, though...