RE: I sucked at video games.
July 18, 2021 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2021 at 5:12 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 18, 2021 at 4:03 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(July 18, 2021 at 3:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Shmegegge’ is closer. ‘Schlub’ has an almost affectionate quality, a sense of someone who tries hard but tends to fail through bad luck as much as anythring. ‘Shmegegge’ carries the sense of someone whose ineptitude and persistent foolishness merits contempt and derision.
You can feel sorry for a schlub, never for a shmegegge.
Boru
And we learn yet another useful thing today.
It helps when you’re married to an Israeli. Just when I got to the point where I could suss out what she was swearing at me in Yiddish, she switched to swearing at me in Hebrew.
Boru
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