GR translation: give him a heavy time about skin

[Mike Jing]

You are right. It's probably not that extreme.


On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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