Slovenians have a colorful way of swearing that involves the use of sometimes absurd and often inexplicable metaphors. Jebela cesta, roughly translated to “white road” is one of these swears. “The trick,” my friend Didrik claims (though I have no etymological evidence to back this up), “is that jebela sounds close to jebena which means fucked.” Hence, f…
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