One thing that is usually difficult when you are learning a new language and your confidence level is not quite up where it should be, is to insult someone who needs insulting at the right moment --- not hours or even minutes later when you have gone to search for the right phrase, but right now, when the comment is called for. So -- who needs insulting then, you ask?
There is a public stair case that goes down from right next to my front door, underneath Chateau Lalinde, to the river down below. Regularly the youngsters of the village go down there to do what youngsters do not necessarily want to do in front of their parents and that would be fine with me. When they make quite a bit of noise doing what they don't want to do in front of their parents, that is fine with me too. But - when they leave all their rubbish, their junk food wrappers (yes! even in France!) and their cans and bottles and their graffiti behind, it does not please me -- and when they throw their beer bottles down the staircase or smash them and when they relieve themselves against the walls, it is time for a few deftly placed and carefully chosen insults.
The following three may not be quite what I had in mind, but they are a good three to start practising with --- to set the scene, as it were........
As a child, was your cradle rocked too close to the wall?
Le réalité et toi, vous ne vous entendez pas, n'est-ce pas?
Reality and you don't get on, do they?
La police, ne t'a pas encore trouvé?
Haven't the police found you yet?
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