Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A Good Sign ?

I was reading the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidene, when a photo caught my eye.
It was taken during the riots in Copenhagen over the demise of a squatter house where scads of young people used to hang out, and whose owners finally decided to clean it out and tear it down.
Funny enough, when the police booked some 300 persons they had arrested, it turned out that two thirds were foreigners, called in to swell the ranks of the protesters.
Anyway......the sign that caught my eye said:

POLITISSEMÆND
HJEM

And I thought, well now, they can be tough and throw cobblestones at the police, but in essence they are still kids.....let me explain to those who do not speak Danish

The first word is a combination of POLITI ( POLICE ) and TISSEMAND ( PENIS ) but the thing is, this is the kind of word it is perfectly all right to use in polite society, in fact mothers oftentimes refer to the penis of their male off springs that way. It is a nice word. Unlike others one could think of.
The second line is the obligatory GO HOME
So my point is, screaming and throwing rocks are for grown-ups and according to the sign these rioters made, they are still kids who prefer the nice word for penis to the million of nastier and much more vulgar ones they could have chosen.
A good sign ?
Anyway, it had me smiling.

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