A MUST READ!!

I hope Justin will allow/forgive me posting this. It's a must read and IMHO BRILLIANT!!!

http://spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12862#12862

Tish, thanks for posting this link. Smiley and I are fervent members of the Cynical Party, and we want this guy on board too. I think he should write our manifesto!

Just in case anybody missed it, here it is again:

http://spanishpropertyinsight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12862#12862

Quote from the post linked before:

"...you will know Spain well, when....

....- you have a social network that extends to more than just meeting up
with June and Ted down the 'Union Jack' bar in Torremolenous
- you know your local area so well, that you know where the neighbours
dog urinates every morning on his daily walk (Give yourself an extra
point if you also know where the dogs owner urinates every evening on
his way home from the Union Jack bar.) "

I just want to say, before Smiley gets smart, that I don't know June and Ted, and I have never been  to the "Union Jack" bar (if one in fact exists) in Torremolinos (or even Torremolenous!)

I learnt the word "Punto" from an article where a nameless computer manufacturer used this as a trademark name on computers that were destined for the Spanish market.

BIG mistake...................you can look this one up in your dictionarys..............!!!

Bloody Hell, any minute now Juan Panzon is going to come on-line and take the p*ss out of us Brits unmercilessly.

I think maybe you need to change the "o" to "a" as well as dropping the "n", as in comPUTA???? At least we've cleared up the cojones issue, but Smiley, jodidamente? I think I know what you mean, but is this spelling right? Not in my dictionary.

Hola, here comes the Panzon,

The right spelling for the "nickname" is COJONES, and for you guys it sounds like "cohones" but with a somewhat harsher "H".... there you go...

But cojones has many "acceptions" and not only reffer to the male anathomy..

For example... if something is incredible, or you can not accept it for being to weird... you can say "Mánda cojones "!

If somebody is giving you a hard time, you can say "no me toques los cojones" ( do not touch my jewells)

If something is great, fantastic, you can say Tiene cojones" ! ( It is "jewelled" ) or "cojonúdo" ! 

If you didn´t dare to something... " no tuve cojones..."  (I had not jewells....).

There is an essay on the use of the "Cojones" word in the Spanish language made by Arturo Perez Reverte ( the author of "Alatriste" ) which is absolutelly hilarious, I will se if I can find it and share it with you after some translation.

Also, there is a Spanish book called "From lost to the river" ( an expresion that means.... we were few... and grandmá had a baby.... more and less...) which tries to make an english spanish phrase book but just based on phonetic.... it is fantastic and I sincerily recomend it. Anybody interested? please by MP as I have an electronic copy. But you have to buy a copy in exchange !

Cheers,

With  regards to the original link to that quite funny post on another forum..... all I can say is that naming these people as Spanish State agents is a bit unfair.... as in this companies...... nobody speaks Spanish...

A lot of people made good use of the "coast fever".... those stories are the work of rascals that are not longer in the business or they are about to go extinct...... just today called a client in Hong Kong to whom I sold 3 apts in a development and one into another... the 3 he paid 150,000 more an less.... I called him today as one of his apts still appeared for sale in the IN system and he told me he had sold it, and he was selling it for 240,000.- I sold to the guys in GOOD developments....... responsibly..... and he still picks up the phone from me and tells me his family story..

I am very sorry a lot of clients fell beyond their means..... and I feel ashamed of some called sales people..... I am sure theres a rotten rat everywhere.. but in the majoryty, sales people are honest people or they do not survive in the industry because their colleagues start to mistrust them.

If I pointed to a future Cabopino comercial centre.... there it is, if I said when selling Mimosas de Cabopino that I was buying there... I am living here and seeing my clients every day.... if I said there was going to be a park in front of Jardines de Casares, there is the park..... If I said that my colleagues were buying in Don Juan, well, two of them actually did....and they have their apartments there.

Not ever one is a rat, there is rats everywhere......but not al of them have rabies.... for every rat there are 10 hard workers.

Cheers,

Continuing the theme of Spanish language, here's a really useful resource. (actually, I think it's completely pointless but it is quite fun for about 10 seconds)

http://www.oddcast.com:80/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk

Move your cursor around the picture to make the eyes and face move, while listening to whatever you type. You can even set it to say Spanish words in an Argentinian accent!