To all the German speakers

[Irrungenwirrungen]

I need to know for a bit of work that I'm doing....
How do you call somebody (as an insult) a/an....
Trainspotter
Anorak
Saddo
in German?
I've never learnt them.

Cheers in advance if you know them!

[wheezer]

Anorak, Saddo? Trainspotter in the techno context or in general?

[Irrungenwirrungen]

In general...I'd never call somebody a saddo in the techno context...

[al.x.e]

langweiler, schlaftablette, ignorant, mungo, pfeffer- und salzmantel... sesselpfurzer (poss. the best)

[Irrungenwirrungen]

Danke al.x.e
Ist Sesselpfurzer ein geeigneter Ausdrueck fuer Jugendliche? Es hoert sich nicht so an.

[wheezer]

I always considered that to be a (negative) term more closely associated with someone involved in bureaucracy, schlaftablette sounds better to me...

[jukka]

you are absolutely right there wheezer, "sessepfurzer" doesn't fit for teenagers (except they are working in a buro already).

[Theindigo]

pisser

[Irrungenwirrungen]

Schlaftablette it is then......

I'm bound to have some more questions at a later date.....
Cheers for the help.

[jukka]

what does saddo and anorak mean then (as they are both insults) ??

[JE:5]

Anorak comes from the coat that trainspotters usually wear whilst standing on the train station platform with a notepad.

Anorak -

http://wintergreendesigns.com/product_image.php?imageid=8

[jukka]

ah well so its the same as in german.
in which way is it an insult then ?

[JE:5]

Because the main stereotype of a trainspotter is that they are considered to be really boring and lonely people with poor hygiene and they never leave the house only to take numbers of trains and to buy top shelf magazines from the shop. ;)

[jukka]

haha, okay thanks for enlighten me :)