How do you say 'cheeky sod' in French?

[yello]

I've just had a bloke come round asking me if I wanted to sell some old wooden stairs that are sitting in our garden.

We'd be talking some time (in French) when he asks me 'Who is it that speaks French, you or your wife?' I looked at him thinking he was making a joke. Nope, he was completely serious. Obviously not sodding me is it?

Talk about a put down.

 

[vernon]

con

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Agincourt? Trafalgar? Waterloo? .....Merde off?

 

[Aperitif]

Peut-etre tu crois que je suis un connard mais, quand tu a parlé comme la betise, celui fait pas une difference entre nous!

dunno? Bring him up to your level perhaps, Andrew?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

C'est une drôle de question! Ce serait complètement con de me poser la question en français!

 

[Adasta]

Peut-etre tu crois que je suis un connard mais, quand tu a parlé comme la betise, celui fait pas une difference entre nous!

Shouldn't etre be in the subjunctive?

 

[PpPete]

Faut etre con pour poser une question comme ca?

 

[Adasta]

I'd prefer "Quelle canaille!" although it's not frequently used.

 

[Aperitif]

Shouldn't etre be in the subjunctive?

Fu knoese!

 

[yello]

jees, there's a lot of clever folk on this forum innit? Or should that be con même?

I'd never dare use con, connard or pauvre con etc... I think you have to be really know your French to get it right.

 

[Baggy]

I think you have to be really know your French to get it right.

But you do speak French, right?

 

[dan_bo]

Le jambon sur le table!

 

[yello]

Hell no!! Case of the more you learn, the more you realise what you don't know.

Where I live, the local accent/dialect is Berrichon. Fiendishly difficult to understand. Someone told me it's the Geordie of France! Suffice to say, Parisians (for example) do not understand it either.

 

[Adasta]

I generally prefer Quebecois swear words.

"Crisse de con" is much more pleasing.

 

[Aperitif]

'putain de merde' gets the ball rolling in most places...