GR translation: give him a heavy time about skin

[Mike Weaver]

I was going to include that but then remembered it was hard not heavy 
and deleted it. I think it's more Marcel doing his thing rather than 
being critical of Maximilian, though Max might not have felt the same!

On 11/12/2025 22:44, Mike Jing wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas, Mike.
>
> I thought it was somewhat similar to "give sb. a hard time", and here 
> it basically means lecturing him.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     Without going all Marcel on you here are some possibilities
>
>     Marcel goes into the subject with such intensity and detail, the
>     protagonist's head weighed down with information overload.
>
>     Also heavy is used to describe something as alarmingly serious, or
>     seriously significant.
>
>     Stoned hippy in response to some paranoid rant: "Heavy, man, that's
>     really profound" - is that Neil in the Young Ones?
>
>     cheers Mike
>
>     PS You are right about Maximilian.
>
>     On 11/12/2025 13:49, Mike Jing wrote:
>     > V675.22-30, P688.28-36   (imagine what happened the first time
>     Maximilian
>     > come hi-de-hoing in the door with one finger jivin’ in the air sees
>     > metal-ebonite-and-plastic young Marcel sitting there and say,
>     “Hey man
>     > gimme some skin, man!” well not only does Marcel give him a
>     heavy time
>     > about skin, skin in all its implications, oh no that’s only at the
>     > superficial level, next we get a long discourse on the concept
>     of “give,”
>     > that goes on for a while, then, then he starts in on “Man.”
>     That’s really
>     > an exhaustive one. In fact Marcel isn’t anywhere near finished
>     with it yet).
>     >
>     > What does "give him a heavy time" mean here?
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