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The Worst Asian Curse Words ft. David So & Tim Chantarangsu

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0:00 He gone TO BAN CHODE CHUTIYA ████ YOU SISTER ████ WAIT, YOU actually know this? >> So, my parents store was next to an Indian travel agency. And so, the the neighbor and also also like the liquor store guy would always ████ around with us and just teach us random ████ So, I learned a lot of random Hindi curse words. Welcome back to another episode of Careful Boys. Today, we are going to talk about the worst curse word in every Asian language. Oh. Let's see how well we know these, okay? What's the Okay, for Chinese, what's the worst curse word you could say? I guess in Cantonese, it probably be like the ole lo mo, which is like ████ your mom. And then like in Mandarin, it's very polite. It's probably like gun or tao and that's like like aw

0:50 shucks. Mandarin is so polite. Yeah, Mandarin is like there's like there's no no bad words really. >> What is uh what is this one? Oh ████ what the ████ That ain't nothing but some chicken scratch. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? CAN YOU HAVE HIM SAY IT? >> APPARENTLY, that's kao ni zu zong shi ba dai. It is something me. >> Believe that, dude. What the ████ ARE YOU PEDOPHILE? I LIKE A RIDDLE, BABY. BABIES ARE MY FAVORITE FLAVOR. Is is there a way to press play? There's the what's this phrase? ni ████ your ass. ████ your ass TO THE 18TH GENERATION. WHY 18TH GENERATION? APPARENTLY, this is the like the That's

1:41 the most offensive like curse you can say in Chinese. shi ba dai shi ba dai oh yeah. HE'S LIKE DAMN. OH. BA DI BI OOH. OH, 18? DAMN. It was all okay until the last big bong. The last big bong got HIS ASS. IT'S MORE COMPLEX THAN BIG BONG, DUDE. TAKE THAT BACK. THIS IS NOT GOOD. TA-TI-TA, ping pong. Yeah, it's all worth IT, PING PONG. THEY WHAT? CHING CHONG CHING? NO, SECOND CHING DID IT. YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THAT. Why

2:32 specifically 18th generation? Like >> The part that threw me off, it was first it's like like kind of hood, right? Like like like ████ you and your homies. And then all of a sudden it gets formal. So it's like and you're like paternal genetic ancestry >> Your ancestry, like what the ████ Oh ████ THIS IS REAL ████ NOW. WHAT THE ████ YEAH, IT WAS CRAZY. It just like flipped the script on you halfway through. Can you say that in the intended inflection that it's meant to sound like? >> I never even heard it before. >> If you had to If you had to Like what does that sound like aggressively said? >> said it like my mom, maybe? Yeah, say it like your mom. Gong ni zu zong shi ba dai. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, THAT SOUNDS BAD. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. >> EVEN WORTH a dumpling. You probably say that ████ if like That sounds good, dude. I don't know, you you ████ your

3:24 your son came home late or something. I don't know. 18 Is there any significance with 18 generations? Why that specific number? Not even six. They just love the number eight, dude. They just add anything whatever they can. Then why not eighth generation? Why 18th? >> only 18th just holds more weight. >> Okay, what's the What's the worst Japanese curse you can say to somebody? It's like Mandarin. There's not that many bad words. There's bakatare, there's like What's that? Oh, it says death in there. That's in kanji, dude. Oh, when the mosquito got in the That ████ is ████ You say my one more word, I KILL MYSELF. WHO DIDN'T I SHOW UP TO WORK? YOU'RE 10 MINUTES LATE. WHO COMES TO WORK AT 30 SECONDS LATE? This guy.

4:14 WHO'S ARMS UP? APPARENTLY, THAT JUST MEANS THAT JUST means die. Shini Shine, yeah, Shine. Yeah, that's like that's like not bad. That's not that bad? What about team team A? Team A? Team A. All right, I order I order my clothes from there, yeah. It came out polyester. But they're all like it's the tone that makes it rough and ████ up. It's not like you could say it in language, yeah. Cuz the the the words are weak. It's like stupid or like go die or like How about that? So that so like it's like ████ It's like eat ████ Yeah, eat ████ Eat ████ So these are like these are not really that bad like to say? >> Yeah, I don't think so. >> So like in like a a Yakuza movie, it would be how they say it?

5:04 >> It's the aggression and the tone and the intention and like Say this with that ingression. So crap. That sounds pretty cool, I guess. You guys Have you guys seen like Terrace House? So there was a girl that actually she got she got bullied online and she ended up ending her life, right? But there was a scene where the producers were kind of forcing her to have conflict with somebody and that's why the show got canceled. It was actually one of my favorite reality TV shows. So you'll see her speak throughout the whole show and then when she gets into a confrontation, it sounded like Japanese anime. Like when they had the gangsters in it. So it was like regular words, but like he's saying it's just they roll their Rs a lot more fiercely. Yeah. Yeah. And it sounds kind of Korean. Yeah, it does. It's just regular Korean. English Japanese is regular Korean. So like it's like this like if you're aggressive like cops and gangsters would roll their Rs

5:55 and then it'll say it that way. Nanya konna like konnyaro like like that, right? And then but if you're saying it without it, it's nanna konnyaro. Oh, so like if you're like negging a girl? Or like you're just saying it in a more like the tone's different and the If you don't suck my dick, you die. Yeah. He's so badass. Throws it away. I'll never be able to change him. All right, Korean. You guys know that. That's a classic, right? >> got some bangers. >> Yeah, you guys have a lot of bangers. >> You know what? Korean, just like I think in any Asian language, it's not the individual word, it's what you string it together with. It's the combination. >> What What does kkaeseki mean like literally? >> you son of a dog. Oh, son of a dog. What's this What's that word? Huh? Naeguma? What? >> Naeguma. Naeuguma?

6:46 I don't know what that is. change the A to a E R. See if it changes it. Ooh, wow, dude. Wow, bro. Hard N, hard R. The hard R A N. Hard N R. That Do you Can you read that? I don't know what that is. It says uh Oh, wait. Nae Naeguma Nae Naeemi. This This This roughly means your mother is a prostitute. >> I've never heard of that. I don't think that's a thing, dude. >> That's like some chat GPT cuss words. Yeah, that's some chat GPT translations, dude. Cuz if you want to call somebody a hoe, you call them a kollegatnyan. Kollegatnyan? You call them a dirty rag. Like you're you're a used rag. Yeah. Is it rat or rag? Rag. A used rat. You are a used rag. Yeah, it's a kollegatnyan. That means like a used rag. Like you've been wiping your ass with all day. >> That's another classic that I've heard so many times in my life. You want to die, right? >> See, and that's not much of a curse word, right? They say that to their

7:36 kids, their husband, their wives. It doesn't really matter, right? It gets passed around. >> Common place. So if you wanted to say something like more gangpe like, you go "Do you want to die?" It's like you Do you want to ████ die? Right? So, like like teja is like a more harsh way of saying die. Right? Chugullae is very It's okay. Is there like a very harsh thing to say that's not even really a curse word, but it's just a harsh expression to say to >> No, I mean this The Korean words are very descriptive, right? So, my mom used to say this phrase, which is not a common thing, but she's from an area called like Cheollado. And like Cheollado is a little more country, so they curse at each other a lot, which I didn't know until I moved to LA. I didn't realize how s█████ my Korean was cuz I'm only speaking whatever my mom says to me. So, I'm speaking very informally to people, right? So, if you if you say stuff like like like the or like something like that, right? It's very common, but if you say no

8:26 that's super harsh. What does that mean? Yeah, what's the equivalent? It's like if I said It's like you want to get hurt or It's like Is there a difference between saying you want to get hurt or do you want to ████ die? It's like those two differences. >> Damn. You know what I mean? So, my mom would say that to me. She's like "Yeah, do you want to die?" Like if I do something wrong, she's like "I'll ████ kill you right now." So, how my mom speaks to me is not common at all. And I only found out when I came to LA. Oh. Yeah. >> So, she speaks like a hillbilly ghetto ████ >> ghetto ████ dude. That kind of reminds me of Cantonese cuz Cantonese is very country sounding. >> Oh, yeah. So, if you're at like a restaurant or like "Hey, boss, come over here. How much is the price of lobster? Oh, ████ your mom. You can't make it cheaper. She's such a ████ ████ Okay, fine. Your mom's not a ████ I'll make the lobster more expen- uh cheaper or whatever." And they're just like "What the ████ Why are they talking to each other like that?" It's like "Yeah, you crazy son of a b████." She would say this phrase to me. She

9:16 would She would say uh "You ████ shibal놈 ddi." You know what that means? That means you ████ hanging piece of dog ████ She would say that to Hanging? Yeah, dingleberry. She would call me a dog's dingleberry, right? Or she'll Yeah, she'll say ████ like that. >> That's if you get an A+ or something or No, that's when she's happy. That's why you're so creative, though. Yeah, you don't ddi got the shibal놈 ddi. It sounds It sounds nice. It sounds poetic. Yeah, right? >> She would also call me a a Like a lot of Korean people don't know this phrase. It's called She'll call me a jong-ga-nan saekki. And jong-ga-nan saekki means you're the son of a slave. Wait, so she's saying that to you? >> Me. Which I'm like, you're Calling yourself a slave. Yeah. You know what's crazy? David would tell all his stories like on the podcast or whatever, and then people started leaving comments like, is David okay?

10:07 Like, David should Maybe Maybe David should like talk to somebody cuz his stories are not normal. Here's the difference, guys. We all hashed it out, though. These are all A lot of them are old stories. You know, it's like when you're younger. But I do realize that a lot of like Asian kids don't hash it out with their parents. They just let it sit and they ignore their parents their whole lives. My Our family, we ████ you know, hey, stop that ████ and then we'll battle it out. It's been I haven't fought with my parents in like 3 months. Wow. >> Crazy, dude. That's progress. It used to be daily or what? >> It would be every time I see them with my ████ eyes, dude. Except for the The last time your dad was cutting your curtains. Yeah, dude, he was cutting my curtains. He was taping my lights in the house. That's a reason to fight, though. You know, I haven't argued with my mom in 2 months cuz they've been in Thailand, so It's been great. >> Hey, speaking of Thailand, what's that?

10:57 >> Oh, you know what? It's so funny cuz that was like the only one I could think of. >> Really? So, that's common? Uh No, it's So, it's Hia. Yeah. Hia. So, it's almost like you would say Come over here. A lot of A lot of Come here now. >> Come here. NO, A LOT SO, WITH THAI WORDS, WHEN IT'S >> THAT'S THE TOURISM BOARD. COME TO BANGKOK NOW. >> If you WANT TO LIVE. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO THAILAND? YOU HAVE TO GET OVER HERE. It's actually pronounced IT'S ACTUALLY PRONOUNCED LAOS. OH, NO, THERE'S THAILAND AND THEN THERE'S LAOS. So is this Is this true? No, that's a real cuss word. Um so you would you would say like a e e here e here or like e e is like a something you

11:48 put in in the beginning of something like this this this this ████ right? So e here is like like this ████ or this this this ████ idiot, you know what I'm saying? That's like the worst I I I hear it a lot with my parents like just talk Oh. like when they would be complaining about something like e here like you know, ████ didn't even I don't know. Didn't even uh uh Open the door for me or whatever. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> saying get a load of this guy? No, it's it's worse than that. It's worse than that. Is it Is it true that the Is it true that the literal meaning of this is monitor lizard? What? What the hell? That's what it says. >> I have no clue to >> be pissed if somebody called me that, dude. ████ monitor lizard. >> not that many cuss words or like insults or like >> Not Korea level. Oh, Korea got it like a poetry. >> Yeah, exactly. They got a whole book of that ████ Like Thai I mean, I don't know if it's cuz my parents shielded me

12:38 from them. There's only a handful that I I can kind of think of off top. Um to the point where um Do you remember this one? Which one is this? Kwai. Does that mean Is that a a body part? >> I It said It just says it means penis. Ah, yeah, yeah. >> ever say that like Everything is ████ Arnold, dude. Suck my kwai. THE GIRL WITH KWAI. Lady boy. That's like explain it at the end. No, I'm glad he did cuz I didn't get it at first. I would NOT DENNIS KWAI. EVERYBODY KWAI KWAI KWAI Kwai down. Kwai down. Um Yeah, kwai. What is Yeah, it's like it's like saying dick, you know what I'm saying? It's like just

13:28 a a harsh way of saying penis. >> There's also this one which says it means buffalo. Why? >> Oh, kwai. Yeah, exactly. >> Oh, yeah? Yeah, so Thailand is super tonal. You say things in a different pitch and it means a different word. >> It says that like if you call someone a buffalo it's insulting cuz buffalo are used for manual labor. Yeah, it's like to call someone a heifer, you know what I'm saying? Uh like just a big old fat heifer, yeah, kwai, you know what I'm saying? Oh, here's a really >> Kwai, you know? Here's a really good one that uh maybe you would you would be able to translate. Oh, ████ I know. What is What is I didn't know ████ Thai was this

14:18 Arnold speaking English, dude. That's crazy. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL YOU. OH my god. So dumb. That's the dumbest. THE WHOLE TIME? WE'RE THE FIRST TO DISCOVER IT? WE CRACKED THE CODE, DUDE. That's crazy. I'VE BEEN FOUND OUT. WOW. YOU JUST SAID KILL YOURSELF in Thai. Why? What? >> just kidding. Oh, I thought I was talented. So this is the literal meaning apparently is I hope your father dies. Oh, ████ Aw, paw. So paw means dad, so this is like saying your father dies. Why is there a ph? You know, when when they translate um phonetically it it gets a little weird. Um I don't want my daddy to die.

15:10 Is there a Thai? This is die. Die. >> Die, which means die. What, die means die? Yeah. Die. All Arnold still. Die. Die. Paw Paw is daddy. Daddy Daddy won't die. Don't want Daddy die. Oh, die. Oh, it's like It's like yeah, it's it's just saying I want her dad to die. Yeah, but Aw, that's so mean. It's so formal. Yeah. Would your father pass away, please? That's very mean. Okay, this one uh That's the other one. How do you say that? Yet yet Mhm. yet they yet my yet my yeah, yet my I'm not exactly sure what this translates to. I think it's delicious. Yet my it's yet my

16:02 YET NOT YET MY Um yet I I'm pretty sure yet is a similar I'm probably wrong, but it's it's similar to like uh like just like ████ >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? It just like it means ████ your mother, basically. Oh, okay. Okay, word. Word. All right. Now now these ones no one's going to know, but try to guess. These This is Indian. Okay, this is uh Oh, they even here This fool knows. This is This is Hindi Hindi Hindi Hindi. This fool might know. Ben chode. HE DOES KNOW. HE GANDU BEN CHODE CHUTIYA ████ YOU SISTER ████ WOW. DUDE, THAT'S GOOD, MAN. WAIT, you actually know this? >> So, my parents store was next to a Indian travel agency. And so, the the neighbor and also also like the liquor store guy would always ████ around with us and just teach us random ████ So, I learned a lot of random Hindi curse words. It's crazy.

16:54 >> a vast knowledge a vast knowledge. >> that one? Uh I don't know that one. Uh It's It just means um that you're born from a rotten vagina. >> That's hilarious, DUDE. WOW. >> SAY THIS THOUGH, in like Hindi curse words 10 times better than Korean. Really? They're ben chode is so funny, DUDE. BLOODY BASTARD BEN CHODE. ████ YOU, BLOODY BLOODY BLOODY ████ YOU, BLOODY. >> It says that It says that they just say BC now instead of like they abbreviate it. >> Cool, dude. My bad, dude. Ben Cho BC? What about that one? Ben Cho got it. I I've heard this. I don't know what this one means though. As it translates to sister's penis. Oh, there it is. Yeah. That is right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. That's gay. They're obsessed with sisters. Hindi looks dope though. Oh, you know what? You get insulted in Sanskrit. That's crazy. Last one, I want to see if any of you

17:44 guys would know this. This is Mong. Mong, I don't know any Mong. I actually never heard of Mong language. Why is it completely develop it? No, high salute Dave. High salute Dave. I didn't know anybody spoke German. Very Norwegian, dude. No, no, doc. This is just um center table at IKEA. Where you should place your drink on the high salute Dave. High salute Dave. High salute Dave. And then you go to a Mong house and like, "What you say TO ME, DOC?" WHAT YOU JUST SAY? BEN CHO. IT SAYS that this means dog talk or you call someone a dog. Yeah. >> Like they're so dumb they speak dog or some ████ >> Maybe. I don't know how I wonder how it's used. Huh. High salute Dave. Sounds Sounds pretty tight. Never actually heard the Mong language. I'm pretty sure it's similar to Laos and Thai though, right? >> It definitely doesn't hit as hard as Ben Cho or whatever you say. Juttiya gandu, that's all my ████ right

18:36 there, doc. So, you would just hear those all the time? Yeah, they would just ████ around with us cuz they would teach us wrong word, bad words. So, we just I didn't know what the ████ I was saying. Ben Cho. Yeah, Ben Cho. Well, let us know in the comments if you know any other curse or even worse worse curses than this. Uh put them in the comments below. We still haven't even done Ben the Maze, Cambodia. And uh help us expose um Yeah, help us expose Arnold for his uh secret Thai language that he's been speaking this whole time.

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