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We may call chronic masturbators tugboats but we still call a spade a spade.
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Mar 24, 2021 04:50
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In my country a 'goon' is a 'spede'
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Mar 24, 2021 05:34
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Mar 24, 2021 05:36
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I went to the McDonalds in Shelbyville the other day. I know, I'd never heard of it either, but they have 2000 locations in this state alone. But, it's the little differences. At McDonalds, you can get a Krusty Burger with cheese, but they don't call it that.
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Mar 24, 2021 05:37
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In Canada, they call a check a "cheque" and a garage a "garage".
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Mar 24, 2021 05:38
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We call ours a "car hold"
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Mar 24, 2021 05:40
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If someone says, "I'm gay" in Australia or the UK, it means they've come out of the cupboard. Also elephants have boots, not trunks.
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Mar 24, 2021 05:42
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One thing that's always bothered me is when people in other countries use the phrase "it's like comparing apples and oranges" which is an incredibly offensive racial slur where I'm from.
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Mar 24, 2021 05:47
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In Japan they call playing cards "trump" (toranpu). No, they're not referring to a certain type of card game, just the standard 52 card deck itself. No relation to the reality TV show host/steak salesman.
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Mar 24, 2021 08:43
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Nevermind.
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Mar 24, 2021 08:46
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In Finland they have recently Introduced fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King. However while appreciating the spirit of rampant and vapid consumerism they haven't quite gotten the finer details. For example, fries are instead called "potato sticks", milkshakes are "flavour milks" and the venerable Big Mac is "double beef fried sandwich".
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Mar 24, 2021 08:50
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In my town we call our friends Tom or Emily or Sarah or Will or Melinda and we call our enemies Jason or Greg.
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Mar 24, 2021 08:56
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For some reason teenage boys in europe and the us need different names for this.
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Mar 24, 2021 09:06
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Jippa posted:For some reason teenage boys in europe and the us need different names for this. Holy poo poo, this entire time I've been assuming that when Americans talk about Axe they're talking about some brand that doesn't get exported over here, like Hershey's but for body spray.
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Mar 24, 2021 09:11
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It's silly isn't it. I don't even understand why they would have to be different. I know they changed the "jif" to "cif" because spanish(?) people had problems pronouncing it. That makes sense.
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Mar 24, 2021 09:16
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Whybird posted:Holy poo poo, this entire time I've been assuming that when Americans talk about Axe they're talking about some brand that doesn't get exported over here, like Hershey's but for body spray. Pretty sure Hershey's is American body spray.
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Mar 24, 2021 09:20
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Waltzing Along posted:Nevermind. That's interesting, but you forgot the rest of the post! We're all waiting to hear what you apparently call Nevermind in your country...
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Mar 24, 2021 09:30
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Mar 24, 2021 09:32
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in my country a bundle of sticks is known as "OP"
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Mar 24, 2021 10:08
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unpleasantly turgid posted:in my country a bundle of sticks is known as "OP" That's what they call a cigarette in my country.
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Mar 24, 2021 10:45
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In my country we don't have a specific word for a bundle of sticks because that's for book learning queers. I have a lot of specific words 
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Mar 24, 2021 10:48
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In my country "duck tape" is known as "gaffa tape".
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Mar 24, 2021 11:22
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Mooey Cow posted:In my country "duck tape" is known as "gaffa tape". In my country, Jaffa cakes are known as ‘what the gently caress is a Jaffa cake’
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Mar 24, 2021 11:26
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rooty tooty point and shooty
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Mar 24, 2021 11:27
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To some people smarties are chocolate with a candy shell, to other people smarties are tart little discs that crumble into powder when you chew them
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Mar 24, 2021 11:33
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I remember being incredulous when I visited my relatives in Canada for the first time and found out that Wall's, the ice cream brand is known as "Good Humor" over there. because lol what kind of brand name is that
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Mar 24, 2021 12:49
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Vanadium Titanium Gallium Palladium Zirconium Americium Americans: Alumin...Um.. loving Stupid.
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Mar 24, 2021 13:37
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Butternubs posted:Vanadium Supposedly this was some kind of dictionary error or something that stuck?
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Mar 24, 2021 13:43
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gas station are called petrol bunks and it’s fun to say, especially in an exclamatory way
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Mar 24, 2021 13:46
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In the UK they call libertarians "nonces"
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Mar 24, 2021 13:53
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Mar 24, 2021 13:54
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Hammerite posted:I remember being incredulous when I visited my relatives in Canada for the first time and found out that Wall's, the ice cream brand is known as "Good Humor" over there. because lol what kind of brand name is that That's Unilever's "heart" brand of ice cream. It's what they replaced whatever local ice cream brand logo with in the 90s and 2000s when they went around buying literally every ice cream brand in the world, and now that heart can be found everywhere but with different names. They usually have a selection of common ice creams like Magnum or Cornetto, plus some local ones from the absorbed companies.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:06
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Mooey Cow posted:That's Unilever's "heart" brand of ice cream. It's what they replaced whatever local ice cream brand logo with in the 90s and 2000s when they went around buying literally every ice cream brand in the world, and now that heart can be found everywhere but with different names. They usually have a selection of common ice creams like Magnum or Cornetto, plus some local ones from the absorbed companies. 
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Mar 24, 2021 14:10
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Bula Vinaka posted:Supposedly this was some kind of dictionary error or something that stuck? The guy who identified it as an element was American; aluminum was the original name. Europeans decided they liked aluminium better. The original guy later decided alumium would be better but by that point the ship had sailed.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:29
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Bogus Adventure posted:We call ours a "car hold" The line is "Car hole" ya dweeb
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Mar 24, 2021 14:32
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Mar 24, 2021 14:38
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Man, for being English, the English are really bad at English.
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Mar 24, 2021 14:55
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC the name for raccoons in Chinese is 'wash bear'. 
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Mar 24, 2021 14:59
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What kind of coke do you want?
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