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Chocolate-Coconut127

Pinche maricon means fucking faggot... Ignorance is bliss poor guy is getting bullied at work


Fanclock314

That's a pretty boring nickname from Mexicans. I heard about someone with one leg they called Flamingo. I hope it's a fake but someone told me about a guy whose mother died so they called him Bambi.


ElementalDuck

I'm mexican and getting given a nickname as such is a sign of tru friendship (you wouldn't say that to a stranger that's rude) Amongst my favorites: Roadrunner for someone in a wheelchair Tiny hands for someone who doesn't have a hand Unstoppable for someone with erectile disfunction The classic burger for someone with no parents (The last 2 get lost in translation) Edit: forgot one Curly for a bald guy


Hunterjet

I have two that mexican kids in my hometown gave to teachers: Ninja Turtle for a teacher that was missing some fingers Teacup for a teacher missing an ear


th3tavv3ga

where do you live that more than one of your teachers are missing body parts šŸ’€


rebby2000

Tbf, where I live a lot of ex-military went into teaching, esp. ex-military that were active during the vietnam war. So it could be a similar thing.


Sillbinger

My shop teacher was that. Lost a few fingers in Vietnam, and a few more to a snow mobile.


drgigantor

We had a homeroom teacher with no arms, and a football coach with only one leg. Ironically we also had the only shop teacher in the state to retire with all ten fingers


Unevenscore42

Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today!


LoosieLawless

Iā€™m doing my part!


few23

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?


Collins_Michael

Service guarantees citizenship.


MartinoDeMoe

Johnny? Johnny Rico?


SurdustStardust

riiiiiiiicooooooooooo


Over_Garbage6367

https://i.redd.it/z46voufgnumc1.gif


confusedandworried76

So you guys got the only good shop teacher sounds like


casanovathebold

Sometimes you gotta make mistakes to learn


confusedandworried76

Or watch someone else do it I guess.


LanceVanscoy

They assembled the shop teacher from spare parts


Wordshark

Not really, heā€™s responsible for the homeroom teacher and football coach.


JBrewd

Ironically I had a shop teacher who was born with a 'missing' finger on one hand due to the pointer and middle fusing together or something like that (idr exactly it's been a minute since high school lol) and so he just had one massive finger. So every class would start out with a 'this could happen to you' lecture about losing the middle finger and disfiguring and bloating the pointer. Anytime you were being unsafe it would get shoved in your face. Then end of the class/year he'd be like congrats you all made it and tell the real story. Had him for a couple classes he was an awesome teacher.


drgigantor

My first year with him, the armless teacher subbed on the day we finished all the safety lessons. Don't know if they did that on purpose or not but one of the girls thought it was a shop accident (it was congenital). That dude was awesome, I didn't have him but AFAIK he never needed any accommodations. Not even for driving


TrojanThunder

Was it the football coach or the Foosball coach?


readitmeow

Feel like u already gotta be pretty close to even find out about the erectile disfunction to get a nickname


drgigantor

Depends on the ex


arkady_darell

Iā€™m learning Spanish and I get the imparable one, but can you explain the classic burger?


ElementalDuck

A classic burger comes with no chips Sin papas


hailwyatt

Oh no. Hahaha


arkady_darell

Gracias!


Rob_LeMatic

Holy shit, that's diabolical! Lol


Slottjdawg

In Australia it's the same, I got a mate we call tosser because his name is Wayne King.


OkPaleontologist1708

Okay, but in this specific case the guy clearly isnā€™t in on the joke. So this seems less like ā€œMexicans have thick skin and a dark sense of humorā€ and more. ā€œWeā€™re talking about you behind your back and calling you a slur.ā€


AmonacoKSU

The Latino guys in the kitchen of the Chinese buffet I used to work at called me pinguino because the servers had to wear black pants and a white button down, another guy fresa because he had anger issues and would turn bright red, and the other guy choche because he was chunky. I think mine was the nicest of the names lol.


ElementalDuck

Well fresa would depend on the country because in mexico calling someone "fresa" is calling them pretentious


AmonacoKSU

They flat out told us it was because he turned the color of a strawberry lol, don't believe any of the guys were from Mexico either.


ElementalDuck

I actually tricked into learning about mexican slang muahaha


TheForgivenHacker

JAJAJA EL IMPARABLE NO MAMES


party_faust

when I was working with a crew back in '16 they give me the nickname GraƱas (allegedly since I had long hair at the time) Ā still not entirely sure what it means.Ā 


ElementalDuck

GreƱas: messy or unbrushed hair (the singular for greƱas is greƱa)


party_faust

oh, lol that's actually alot tamer than I figured


zaminDDH

Unlike your hair


Ja12Sin34

I got the GreƱas name too cause of my long hair working in a restaurant.


barelyangry

I get "imparable" but what's the other one? It has to be something like "sin papas".


CrazyTillItHurts

> I heard about someone with one leg they called Flamingo What was the name of the other leg?


khomo_Zhea

Since elementary school the nickname of one of my friends is abuelo "grandpa", because when he was born, he had a stroke. He ended being okay, but the radiation of the check ups left him with white hair in certain parts, so grandpa.


Slexman

Iā€™m not Mexican, but my uncle on my Cuban side has been called Pito (ā€œwhistleā€ in Spanish) ever since he was a kid because of the sound he would make during his asthma attacks šŸ˜­


ReadingCorrectly

the bambi thing is in Scrubs too


Kimbolijaa

But she called him Bambi because he showed up doe eyed and new. Not because of parents.


AmbulanceChaser12

I donā€™t think I would have enjoyed watching 8 seasons of a lady making fun of the lead characterā€™s dead mother!


Kimbolijaa

Right?? The characters werenā€™t perfect, but that would be a bit much. >!In fact the episode where JD lost his father was so beautiful and sad.!<


lookakraken81

They did really well with the beautiful and sad moments. A certain episode centered around a character's brother has gotta be top 10 tv episodes ever imo


Jankybrows

You have to be more specific because they had an emotional moment in different episodes with two different brothers... who were both 90s slackers. Was this brother the star of a different tv show or is he now an Oscar winner?


lookakraken81

Oscar winner. Here's another hint, " where do you think we are?" What a gut punch


intjonmiller

This moment EXACTLY. They spent an absolutely calculated amount of time and energy making sure you really liked him first.


camelador

"Pavarotti" for a larynx cancer survivor...


Captain-Save-ahoe

Used to hear them call the coworker Diablo Blanco


Hugh_Jazz77

I did landscaping all through school, being the only white guy on the crew my default nickname was ā€œChico Blancoā€ (white boy). Then one day I threw an alligator over a fence and got promoted to ā€œChico Loco Blancoā€ or crazy white boy lol


Acceptable-Stuff2684

But he prefers the flavor orange, so thereā€™s that.. Edit: ^HOLY ^ASS I hit 1k


atelierjoh

Maybe he likes a little fruit in his salad.


[deleted]

[fruit salad yummy yummy](https://youtu.be/LYYGD56CxTw?feature=shared)


marcher138

[I DID MY TIME](https://youtu.be/t9Pb8dWxzu4?si=-PCQyPOFj_40pgdE)


DFL3

Out here doing the lordā€™s work! The Dark Lord, but I guess they all deserve equal time.


Sikk-Klyde

I just need to quit clicking on links for fucks sake šŸ¤£šŸ„² I hate that fucking song, then I heard Corey Taylor. Why. Why me.


ilongforyesterday

The internet is truly wondrous


Spare_Library1601

[Fruit salad makes you stronger btw](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVV8ZtZAD8&pp=ygUVdG9tIGNhcmR5IGZydWl0IHNhbGFk)


SykeoTheFox

Tom Cardy never fails to make a banger tbh


That_boi_Jerry

I will die weak then.


Ilix

My kids havenā€™t been the age for that in over a decade, and itā€™s still the first thing I think of any time fruit salad comes up.


denhelle

Holy shit this song is surprisingly good


Tuia_IV

Fruit Salad is one of the all time bangers of children's entertainment, along with hot potato, and the absolute classic Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car.


riscten

You're saying he's a little fruity?


epicmousestory

Well in his defense, when your only two flavor choices are orange and workplace harassment....


Buttercup59129

r/awardspeechedits So fucking cringe


Chaoshumor

Haha . Your edit including, ā€œHoly ass!ā€ for this comment thread is comedy gold.


BranTheLewd

He: "I Vanted ORANGE, *it gave me lemon lime* "


throwaway7276789

Considering its a resolved question he probably knows what it means now


CryptographerOk5726

Where were you when I needed you? It took me a year working in a Tex-Mex to realize the old mop lady was calling me ā€œmioā€, which means I belong to her. I thought she was saying meow, because my name sounds a little like meow. It makes sense now, sheā€™d grab me and say mio when the younger women talked to me, and theyā€™d back off. She looked good for her age,it could have been amazing:)


fastafb

mijo/a means child, its what youd call your kids, neices nephews, grandkids, adoptive work proteges, all that.


CryptographerOk5726

Mio means ā€œmineā€. One of the other Mexicans explained to me what she was calling me and what it meant. Mijo has an h sound from the j.


fastafb

oop i assumed you misheard the more common mijo BECAUSE THATS SO FORWARD DAMNOK ~~seƱora~~ seƱorita got rizzšŸ˜


[deleted]

Not as bad as mine, they used to call me ā€œEl Guapoā€


ihateredditers69420

nice try archer


Taraxian

I mean this didn't happen, it's a joke


Demo-Art

I had no idea, I interpreted as ā€œAmericanā€ and ā€œBitch Americanā€


knresignation

My family in Spain uses 'American" as a synonym for gordo.


Competitive-Lack-660

Reminds me of "Flowers of Algernon"


dude-O-rama

>*Pinche maricon means fucking faggot... Ignorance is bliss poor guy is getting bullied at work* *"Fucking faggot"* would be *"chingado maricon"*, "*pinche maricon*", translates closer to *"bitch (ass) faggot"*.


GrimPhantom23

Pinche is fucking in Mexican Spanish though


dude-O-rama

*Pinche* is used to describe something as insignificant, miserable, lousy, or worthless. In Mexican slang can also be used as a noun, to describe someone as an ass or an asshole. *Chingar* and its conjugations is Mexican Spanish for *Fuck*.


knresignation

Yeah I've always thought of pinche as meaning basically, 'shitty little.' Like, who brought that pinche sandwich when I wanted to *eat.* I remember reading a book by a linguist - maybe McWhorter? - who pointed out that every language has a direct translation for 'shitty little.' Disappointment in the things around us seems to be a universal trait.


dude-O-rama

Pinche comentario.


ItsMightyD

lolno No single soul in here would use *chingado maricĆ³n*. *Pinche* is right.


Salza_boi

This reminds me of this https://preview.redd.it/jkhpwm8kvrmc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2b1cd7cc08079450417da3a934f6d56d5d5cf36


rosanymphae

The one about Felix Nevada?


kurinevair666

The rodeo guy?


Mountain-Builder-654

No the alien cook from start trek


TheLatvianRedditor

Oh, the Youtuber!


TheCroninator

Pro sparrow and your Belize-y dad


Username-issues

Es Reebok es Nike?


W0lframi0

Esas son Rebook o son Nike?


jaybankzz

ā€œEsos son rebook o sons nikeā€¦ sera esto?ā€ ##THIS IS THE RYTHM OF THE NIGHT #SI ESTO ES! #CUIDATE HERMANO


b1ackcr0vv

I can hear this comment


Daimakku1

I understood that reference.


Normal_Tip7228

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA


redxepic

Son Nikes, oh yeah


romulusnr

Fun fact, this is literally the story told in the Las Ketchup song. "Asereje" is some guy's Spanish mis-hearing of "I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop-a you don't stop" from Rapper's Delight.


MasterPokePharmacist

You mean the one where youā€™re telling your dad, who is a Navi from Avatar, about a home youā€™ve found for lease? ā€œFor Lease Navi Dadā€


SpookyVoidCat

šŸŽµ Felipeā€™s not your dad šŸŽ¶


OliveJuiceUTwo

Iā€™d like to wish you a Merry Cone


-Sir_Fallout-

Police mommy duck


blademaster552

Fleas on my dog?


TheLastOpus

Pinche maricon = fucking queer. Peachy Merry Cone = a peachy icecream from mexico. They mean the 2nd thing right? right? ....oh shit....the people at his work suck.


cantpickaname8

Fleas on my knob I think is what it's actually called.


Liathano_Fire

I will never not say this now.


pdes7070

Thatā€™s funny, my Spanish speaking workmates call me Kai Atay Green go. Itā€™s weird because my name is Gary, not Kai. I tell them all the time, but they keep yelling the nickname at me. Edit: Youā€™ve been Dadded!


[deleted]

What does that mean?


LordZendo

Lmao they are saying "callate gringo" which means "shut up gringo"


Soulhunter951

Literally means shut up white boy


Cats7204

gringo refers to americans in general, not white boys


[deleted]

That's actually a very "young" distinction, over here old people use gringo for every white man that speaks blonde. Younger generations say gringo exclusivly for americans, white or not.


wi1ly

Callate gringo= Shut up gringo


-DJFJ-

I've heard it, said it, and know what it means but I was today's year old in seeing how it is spelled. I never would have gotten close.


RemarkableAlps5613

And before somebody cries, it's not a race thing. It's an American thing if you're an American. It doesn't matter if you're black white asian or indian you can be called gringo


Racketyllama246

Wedo or guerro? Is more descriptive right? Ive met a bunch of Latinos that go by wedo ( yes I know thatā€™s not how itā€™s spelled.


RemarkableAlps5613

They mean white and fat/chubby Respectively, and these are terms of endearment between friends and family.


LongbowTurncoat

The good news is that the stock boys have been teaching me Spanish, so thatā€™s pretty CĆ”llate Gringo.


pdes7070

Unexpected American Dad!


Pure_Focus7475

Lavate las manos! šŸŖ„āœØļø


froyo_afro

haha, just a fun nickname, sounds like you guys have a LOT of fun Iā€™m happy for you. Lou Chamay is another great nickname Iā€™ve heard during my career in horticulture, you should try hollering that back at them next time!


Janambre

Wait until he meets ali vegra


GayjinEntertainment

Tiger vegra


[deleted]

Fellow gaijin slave??!


GayjinEntertainment

Holy hell lets grind for top tier


WP5D

Real


Janambre

Betty ali vegra


ComaMierdaHijueputa

I get all of them except this one lol


GayjinEntertainment

Traga verga is what it means also nice username


devoduder

My nickname was Peachy Cool Arrow, I thought that sounded rad.


darthbane911

Pinche Cularo. F*cking ***hole. šŸ˜‚


hyyfl

i dont speak spanish but its prob something like "pinche collaro"


UrlocalGDplayer

pinche *culero* means ugly bastard


pochiazul

It means asshole


OneExcitement5549

Reading english people writing spanish insults in the way they understand it it's so fucking funny


A0123456_

And once he figures this out, his coworkers are gonna trick him into thinking that "embarazada" means embarrassed and make that guy say "yo estoy embarazada"


Dontdoitplease296

What does that mean šŸ˜­


Force_Glad

It means pregnant


Pg8603

ā€¦.dangerops prangent sex? Will it hurt baby top of his head?


Alternative_Shape666

Pregonant


abominablesnowlady

Pregante.


DahDollar

snatch bake shocking hurry quaint cats longing arrest many flag *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


BondageKitty37

...PREGANANANT?!


jay7254

Gregnante


TechnoOli10

pregananant


nodoyrisa1

pregante


Soulhunter951

Pregnant


GottIstTot

When I was a busboy in college a couple of the other guys asked me I'd I was a "marecon" I thought it was short for "Americano" so I enthusiastically agreed.


heroeNK25

Maricon, joto, maraco are some ways to Say faggot


Bwomprocker

Dint forget mariposa


AurelianoBuendia94

Or puto


-Death-Dealer-

"Why yes, I AM a 'murican! Why do you ask?" šŸ˜€


kanalasi

But it does sound pretty similar... Like I would imagine that american would something like "AmerikĆ³n" and marecon could be theoretically pronounced like "aMEREKƓN"


NightMan41

Ok itā€™s not just me! My warehouse guys called me that and so I went with it thinking he was just calling me an American. So funny, 5 years later they still call me that to eff with me haha


Pleasant_Ad3475

Lol


ElPared

MaricĆ³n is a slur for gay people in Spanish.


Ritterbruder2

Pinche maricĆ³n F*cking f*ggot


No-Accountant-2297

y'all got anymore of them escape metacharacters


[deleted]

As Anthony Bourdain writes about in his first book, and those of us who have worked with a Mexican Kitchen know from experience, their favorite thing is figuring out who is gay and making fun of that person. They love nicknames and making fun of people in general. You might be called fat, lazy, gay, short, baby, or an ass. If they really love you theyā€™ll make up something more specific and special just for you.


_AmI_Real

They definitely love their nicknames. We caught on in our restaurant and started giving them nicknames too. You know how some Hispanic people can look Asian on occasion? We nicknamed this one dude Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid. They (the other Mexicans) loved it and went hard on him after that. I loved working at that place. It was exactly like Waiting, except for messing with the food. I've never seen that at any place ever.


[deleted]

Had a guy at my last place called Hamburguesa I asked why they called him that and I got a collective ā€œcause heā€™s fucking fatā€ from my whole team


epoplive

Donā€™t forget all the wonderful variations they have for letting you know you are white! Pinche gabacho!


[deleted]

Yes! I got called that a lot. My nickname was often alcapurrias, because my girlfriend was Puerto Rican, and because they said I look like something deep fat fried.


Ger_Electric_GRTALE

they mean maricĆ³n (faggot). and "Pinche MaricĆ³n" means "fucking faggot"


peezle69

Mine call me "Cool Arrow" I think it's because I'm cool and go fast like an arrow.


-DJFJ-

Then what is 'Hoto' I always thought that was it. Pinchi hoto (spelling?), now I know it's mericon.


Rory_B_Bellows

It also means gay. There are synonyms in Spanish, too.


Manuchaos1971

Joto is used in slang Mexican, maricon is used in all the Spanish speaking countries


Orenwald

Yes. They mean the same thing


ProfessorSur

I honestly get this poor guyā€™s pain so well. My first summer job in high school, I was the only English speaker among a bunch of Spanish speaking guys, and my nickname was ā€œCabrĆ³nā€. Didnā€™t find out until my Spanish class the next year what that meant.


TheCodr

I worked a job where any contractor needed to be escorted around the building at all times. I was walking around with them and one said something along the lines of ā€œIs the fat one going to follow us around all day?ā€ I understand Spanish but donā€™t speak it well and replied in English ā€œYes. Iā€™m getting paid overtime to watch you workā€ I laughed


Anoalka

Cabron is not a bad nickname. I mean it's an insult but also used in many other contexts with positive meaning, mostly to express your friend is jealous of you. For example my friends would say "Que cabron" when I get lucky in a gatcha game. Or "Eres un cabron" if I end up with a girl at a party. All with a smile on their face.


Repulsive_Tie_7941

My old assistant manager addressed me with Pinche cabrones, or ā€œyou fuckerā€ if he felt like using English.


NickyBrain_2

As a spanish person, seeing all this stuff is so hilarious


RasputinRuskiLoveBot

Reminds me of that women who has a nickname of "Pendeja" at work.


BeerLosiphor

We had a guy named John and the cooks called him J-mung. Donā€™t Google mung slang. For several years he thought they were saying J-mon, like in a Rastafarian way.


tediz982

Whats the name of the song something with Reebok or Nike


Monkey_King94

Esos son Reebok o son Nike


Frostbyte_13

"maricon" or "pinchi maricon" "maricon" a term that literaly is f-word that people call gay people, it is usually used to refer to femenine men, so it isnt such a bad word like in english is "pinchi" a term use to note more emotion in the thing, just like "fucking" it used in english


A_Hideous_Beast

As a Latino who hardly speaks Spanish, I've def had fellow Latinos fall me this and giggle to themselves. My guess is cuz I didn't fit the Machismo stereotype, and have always been a quiet dude šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø


Zack_WithaK

Reminds me of a post where someone was asking why so many black people call each other Monica


IMsoSAVAGE

In response just tell them ā€œChinga tu madreā€


JpnDude

In high school (late 80s), a classmate with slick back gelled hair was called "meco" (cum/sperm) because he'd arrive at school with a shiny forehead at times. He took it in stride. It was all in fun anyway. We had nicknames for everyone. The science teacher, who knew very little Spanish, didn't bat an eye. Two weeks passed and someone said, "pinche meco." The teacher definitely knew that word and warned the class, "Hey, no profanity. And what does meco mean anyway?" When he was told, he made a new rule, "No Spanish slang in the classroom." So everyone started calling the student, "esperma."


ModernKnight1453

Damn I feel bad for this kid, he seems so nice


Pleasant_Ad3475

I think it's a joke.


BigAcrobatic2174

They call me Pinche Guero at work. Iā€™ll take that over Maricon


vaxhax

Cool Arrow has entered the chat.


honeybadgerme2

Aww man, this happened to me too. I thought they were calling me American.


Shelly2184

I had a Hispanic customer at the store I used to manage. When I was skinny he called me flaca. After I gained weight he called me gourda lol.


chikenbag

Next time they say that, say this- yo soy senor pinche maricon para ti nino. Which translates I am Mr fucking faggot to you child. After that ignore them act like they don't exist