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?

  • @[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.

        • @[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