Thread: Exercise for to have / to not have and genitive and a short text for the cases

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

LOL! The humor doesn't work very well in translation, because the joke is that the uneducated worker doesn't know the "trendy foreign word" хобби, and has misunderstood it as a slang term for the penis -- thus he answers with a boast about its size. (Russian has several rude words for the penis that all begin with the letter х. The mildest of these is probably хрен, which is semi-euphemistic and literally means "horseradish root".)

I guessed it was a penis joke, but I wasn't sure, because to be fair 30cm in length would be pretty damn impressive too