Brian of London is not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Since making aliyah in 2009, Brian has blogged at Israellycool. Brian is an indigenous rights activist fighting for indigenous people who’ve returned to their ancestral homelands and built great things.
4 thoughts on “We Milk The Goat Even If It’s Male”
Norman_In_New_York
Are you sure it’s “milk” and not some other four-letter verb or is MEMRI being polite?
I’ve been reading that a few Americans have been sneaking into Syria and Iraq to fight for the Kurds. These guys are heroes and if they are single, I wish them a war bride among the freedom fighting Annie Oakleys of the Kurdish forces.
I don’t think MEMRI is censoring. But I have been wondering: does the Kurdish phrase about milking the male goat imply stupidity (“These ISIS folks are so dumb that they can’t tell a billy goat from a nanny goat”) or something far less polite?
I’m Kurdish, basically when we say “they’re milking goat even if it’s a male” it means they’re so cruel and closed minded, although they know it is a male one and there is no milk! but they force it and they insist to get milk, in another way it means someone who is too dumb that they want whatever it comes to their mind regardless of it’s logic or not!
Are you sure it’s “milk” and not some other four-letter verb or is MEMRI being polite?
I’ve been reading that a few Americans have been sneaking into Syria and Iraq to fight for the Kurds. These guys are heroes and if they are single, I wish them a war bride among the freedom fighting Annie Oakleys of the Kurdish forces.
I don’t think MEMRI is censoring. But I have been wondering: does the Kurdish phrase about milking the male goat imply stupidity (“These ISIS folks are so dumb that they can’t tell a billy goat from a nanny goat”) or something far less polite?
I’m Kurdish, basically when we say “they’re milking goat even if it’s a male” it means they’re so cruel and closed minded, although they know it is a male one and there is no milk! but they force it and they insist to get milk, in another way it means someone who is too dumb that they want whatever it comes to their mind regardless of it’s logic or not!
cheers
Payam, thank you! There’s something similar in English — the idea of trying to get blood from a stone.