Sinister: le pastie

[Mark Iles]

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>From: "Karine Alexandra Poivey" <Karine.Poivey at xxx.fr>
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>> what the hell does "le pastie" mean?
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>It doesn't mean anything in french.According to the official site
>(and one of the videos apparently but I didn't see then-are they
>broadcast on some french TV ? ) "Le pastie de la bourgeoisie" is a
>graffiti they found on a bakery in Glasgow.And they think the one who
>had wrote it thought it means "bakery" in french.But it doesn't.

I thought it was supposed to be a mishearing of l'apathie de la
bourgeoisie, meaning 'apathy'. So either the person who graffitied it (is
graffitied a word?) got it wrong or wrote it as a joke on the side of this
bakery.


                                Mark


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