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What is a “Slow Cheese,” an “Environmental Pig,” or a “Cardboard Skull,” you might ask?

Well, if you read on, I will tell you!

A little while back, I posted some illustrations of bad, but funny, translations of Norwegian words here on Bored Panda.

You people seemed to like it, so I decided to make yet another post with weird Norwegian idioms as well.

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Layla Corman
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother always called us "hard heads" or Gabadost. I still use both.

Charlotte
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's funny, both hard and soft adjectives as head descriptions can mean "stupid".

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Charlotte
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thick, thicko, thick-skulled, thick as two short planks, couldn't think your way out of a damp paper bag, bird-brained, pea-brained, lack-wit, empty headed, air-head, the lights are on but nobody's home, Trump.

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NoYFB
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cardboard head, pahvipää is used in Finnish language.

Nubis Knight
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know the German "Dappschädel", I'll know using it as "Pappschädel".

Night Owl
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somehow I expected to see a cat in it (probably because of the cat posts - comics and photos......not that I mind, of course)

Pille P
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Estonian there is puupea - wooden head :D - someone who's head is so hard that they have trouble learning new things

Kaisa Koo
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In finnish there's just cardboard withouth a skull=stupid. Not so used term nowadays. There's also cardboard-brain, or was.

David Retsler
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds nicer than my wife calling me "you focking retard!"

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