An example of what I mean:

I, in China, told an English speaking Chinese friend I needed to stop off in the bathroom to “take a shit.”

He looked appalled and after I asked why he had that look, he asked what I was going to do with someone’s shit.

I had not laughed so hard in a while, and it totally makes sense.

I explained it was an expression for pooping, and he comes back with, “wouldn’t that be giving a shit?”

I then got to explain that to give a shit means you care and I realized how fucked some of our expressions are.

What misunderstandings made you laugh?

  • @jplate8
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    286 days ago

    What’s the real phrase?

    • @ieatpwns
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      616 days ago

      Whores bath. It’s when you hit up the bathroom to freshen your junk before you get busy

        • @Zombiepirate
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          6 days ago

          Wow, that’s insanity. I don’t particularly like the word, but come on.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 days ago

            The censor hits any substring, rather than trying to heuristically guess whether the substring is being used as a slur or not, it assumes users are smart enough to pick up on the context.

    • @JustAnotherKay
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      96 days ago

      “Whore bath” is how I’ve heard it

    • @[email protected]
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      56 days ago

      People are trying to post the answer and it’s getting censored lol. The term is “core’s bath,” but replace the “c” with “wh”.

      • snooggums
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        286 days ago

        It isn’t censored on most instances.

      • @glimse
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        136 days ago

        Lemmy.ml censors the word “whore”???

          • @[email protected]
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            5 days ago

            I’m quite impressed by the elaborate regex for the n word

            ni((g{2,}|q)+|[gq]{2,})[e3r]+(s|z)?

        • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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          56 days ago

          I mean, I can kinda understand it - socialists/communists/anarchists generally prefer ‘sex worker’, because ‘whore’ has some pretty terrible connotations due to being used as a slur for so long.

          But still, censoring it instead of just deleting/blocking the handful of pricks who still say it as an insult seems… well, par for the course for .ml tbh

          • @glimse
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            66 days ago

            I don’t understand it at all when it’s not nearly as bad as some of the shit that gets said on there.

            Pretty pathetic that they feel the need to censor words