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Annik Perrot 11 months ago

Mer..credi! in France because you start to say Merde! and realize there are kids around ;-))

76points

The Dark Sun 11 months ago

similar to Germany... "Schei-benkleister" instead of Scheiße!

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Awesome At Being Autistic 11 months ago

Same in America, "shoot" instead of "shït" because kids are around.

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Joshua Seaman 11 months ago

Never thought of that! Kind of like in English we say "bull-... oney"

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Gandalf the Pink 11 months ago

And like in Sweden, Jäää...rnspikar!! (instead of jävlar) :D seems like a lot of languages do this

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Ace 11 months ago

Well yes, they're mostly along similar lines. The Irish one is so common even priests use it (according to Father Ted, at least).

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Freckles 11 months ago

In parts of England, we say “sugar” instead of “shît”

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pep Ito 11 months ago

The same in Spanish. We start to say MIERda and we continue with MIERcoles

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Remi (He/Him) 11 months ago

Finnish one is like that too. You're probably going for perkele (which is the devil) and switch to the persikka after the first syllable

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Cristi nah 11 months ago

In Spain, the same, instead of Mier-da, Mier-coles

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A. López 11 months ago

Exactly same (included same word) in Spain

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laura lee 11 months ago

I imagine the same in Spain lol

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Lydsylou (she/her) 11 months ago

I'm using go scratch the armpits of an earthworm

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Marvelor 11 months ago

As someone who speaks French, people also tend to use “purée !” (Which means mashed potatoes) instead of put!n

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Nadine Debard 11 months ago

I also say 'lutin' when Christmas is coming

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Dddad 11 months ago

In Belgium, over all we just say sh*t and f^ck because we just don't care.

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Nastassja Ficko Soklič 11 months ago

it's not ''piška'' in Slovene, but ''pišuka''. Also, ''pišuka'' has no meaning while ''piška'' actually does mean chicken.

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Matthews 11 months ago

Just like some places in Brazil, Portugal has “Fogo!”, fire, because of the similarity with the F word, “F o d a”. Pretty interesting to see the use of similar sounds to tone down curse words being a case elsewhere.

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

I am swiss, but who that Gottfried Stutz is I honestly don't know. However, Gott = God, Fried = Friede / peace (I guess) and Stutz is slang for money. God peace money? I don't know and am too lazy to google atm

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devotedtodreams 11 months ago

Sometimes, when I say "Gopfridstutz!", my Mom will reply with: "Dä cha au nüt defür" (roughly translated: "It's not his fault") XD

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Queeqec 11 months ago

Austrian here. I have no clue either and I never heard anything like that.

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Verena 11 months ago

Most likely "Gottverdammte Scheisse" (god damned s**t)

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Scotira 11 months ago

🤣 I wouldn't translate that as Gottfried Stutz. I'd prob go with "god peace money" as well 😅 🧐Though upon further research: seems that it was first used somehow by students from Basel in early 1900 or so... and written as Gottfried Stutz, so... 🙄 (Gopaletti, isches doch Gottfried Stutz. Gopfriedli 🤣)

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Somebodys grandmother 11 months ago

Danish is wrong... we say: "for katten, for søren" - aka for the cat, for søren (a name)... for hulen is looooong cone....

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Robert T 11 months ago

Any subtitles on Danish TV seemed to translate all English swearwords to "pis". So I still don't know how to swear in Danish.

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Kristiina Männiste 11 months ago

Pekki does not mean fat- it means INTO the fat. And where does the human body have lots of fat - in the buttocks. So Pekki actually means up your a*s. Kid friendly would be "Kurat!" - meaning the devil. As the devil is a kinda chaotic neutral guy in Estonian folklore - strong but stupid and deathly afraid of wolves, thunderstorms and his grandmother.

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Auntriarch 11 months ago

A bit like me then

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Tucker Cahooter 11 months ago (edited)

Did the TV show "Father Ted" popularise "f.e.c.k" or was it already in common usage? (Looks like BP doesn't like it spelled out)

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Joey Marlin 11 months ago

It is so frustrating that BP censors F E C K!

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Astrius 11 months ago

i love how irish people change one letter

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Liz Reid 11 months ago

For five seconds! Is a good one to use instead of FFS!

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OneHappyPuppy 11 months ago

Notice the grey areas, yeah we don't bother covering up the curse words, the kids have already heard them a hundred times by then...

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 11 months ago

Ffs! Where did they get "flip" from?

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Kayjunmoon 11 months ago

My mother used to say flip. Maybe a little dated now.

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Lydsylou (she/her) 11 months ago

I occasionally use flip! I think it's just f**k but disguised? Also people here use shoot instead of s**t and dang instead of damn

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Elaine Van Zon 11 months ago

I say flip,or flipping heck.but I'm 60 so it could be an old thing.

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Awkward lady 11 months ago

True! I've never heard that one either!

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Cip IESAN 11 months ago

I see that "peach" in Finnish is the same as in Romanian: "Piersica".

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The Keeper 11 months ago

Heh. All of these are substitution-words.

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Gvendolina Kacirova 11 months ago

It's the same concept in CZ, you start kur... and instead of ...va you end it "nik"! :-)

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Olga Sushko 11 months ago

I assure you, not all curse words are kid-friendly in Ukraine!

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Abel 11 months ago

I am spaniard and miercoles means wednesday, nothing more!

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Brian Leahy 11 months ago

Who's Søren?

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Imadoggo 11 months ago (edited)

Féck!

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That Goth Demon (zey/zem) 11 months ago

Love how in Ireland (if my b******t geography is correct) they just sub u for e

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Zodiac 11 months ago

Hungarian curse words like "faszom, bazmeg" are definitely NOT kid friendly.

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Ricardo Ferreira 11 months ago

Looking at Portugal... "fogo"???

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Altea 11 months ago

never said miércoles in my life.

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Midnight (she/her) 11 months ago

omg i have so many things i could say about this . . . yet so little time . . .

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Midnight (she/her) 11 months ago

whats wrong with wednesday? and pancakes? the earthworm one had me cracking up so hard

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Jan Olsen 11 months ago

We do not say "for hulen" in Denmark - and they don't say "for Søren" in Norway -

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Tedishigh 11 months ago

Two countries have ‘chicken’. 🤔

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MamaPumpkin 11 months ago

Hungarian is reeeeally creative with curse expressions :D And a lot of them are by default kid friendly. We have things like "let the cat kick it", gotta love that language!

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Francois 11 months ago

Chips in Dutch translates to crisps in English. Chips in English translate to friet or patat.

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Oskar vanZandt 11 months ago (edited)

I think it's meant to "ships" instead of "sh1t" although I've not heard people censor "sh1t" as it's a foreign word anyhow and isn't considered offensive in The Netherlands in general.

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The Original Bruno 11 months ago

Are these all Bowdlerizations, or are some of these idioms? WTF, Gottfried Stutz?

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Colleen Glim 11 months ago

F**k is my go to. And the only thing Irish about me is my name

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pineapple87 11 months ago

Finn here, never have I ever heard persikka used as a swear word. Raspberry (vattu), however....

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#1 Candevil Fan 11 months ago

AUGH PANCAKE

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Harlan Sarvis 11 months ago

Go scratch the armpits of an earthworm lol

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Friendly neighborhood possum 11 months ago

Hen house? 😂

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Svea Baumann 11 months ago

Fun fact, it's Scheibenkleister because it sounds similiar to Scheiße, the German word for s**t. So you start with "Schei..." and realize there are kids listening and say "Scheibenkleister" instead. Quite the same issue in French and Spanish I guess

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Sarah Rassier 11 months ago

Classic Germany

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Mira L 11 months ago

Never in my life has any Finn ever sworn like that

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LillieMean 11 months ago

If there are children around, yes. The other one is PERR...honen or SAA..sta. I have used these expressions myself. Vittu is so fast, so sometimes it slips out. Helkatti. 🙊

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zububonsai 11 months ago (edited)

In Russian "blin" covering up the original "blyat". Wondering if and with what they cover up "shest' "

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Nina 11 months ago

Dutch I can confirm the chips. Do wonder though what is child-unfriendly in Ireland if 'F**k!' Is child-friendly?

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martymcmatrix 11 months ago

What about »Leck mich am Arm« (lick my arm) and »Steck dir einen Finger in die Hüfte« (stick a finger in your hip).....wait, I finally remembered »Armleuchter« (arm lamp)...🙋🏽

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SnackbarKaat 11 months ago

Chips, because it sounds like you are about to say 's**t'

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Min 11 months ago

I'm not sure I'd call "F**k" a kid friendly curse word.

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G R 11 months ago

F*e*c*k is a completely different word than the F word with a U in it. You can say the former in front of your granny or your priest, it's not considered a sweat term at all.

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Winnie the Moo 11 months ago

‘Go scratch the armpits of an earworm’ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 11 months ago

This one is both fascinating and quite scary. The relatively mild climate in the British Isles is, as I understand it, heavily reliant on the Gulf Stream. If that gets messed up because of climate change, we're fűcked!

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Maps are leading us in nearly every step of our way. They are reachable to everyone - just a few presses and you can see Google or Apple Maps. But that wasn’t always the case.

The history of maps can be traced as far back as 5000 years ago. The first-ever maps were used to depict small areas in pictures. And there was no set of rules on how everything should be drawn, which made maps quite inaccurate.

Later, the map-making art was taken over by the Greeks and Romans. The most notable works of this mapping period were those of Claudius Ptolemaeus. He was a geographer, mathematician, and astronomer, who came up with longitude and latitude lines. And, well, that revolutionized European geographic thinking.

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Monstarr the Divisive 11 months ago

Ha, jokes on switzerland, the biggest, most popular and most expensive city isn't even the capital.

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Annik Perrot 11 months ago

LOL, UK and Ireland...

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Milton Jones: why did I run up to doorbells and ring them, then run away? Just for the buzz...

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Then, during the middle ages, there wasn’t much progress in the map-making scene. Most of the maps that were produced during this time were of monasteries, which were influenced by religious devotion. They were heavily decorated with angels and imaginary monsters.

However, the Islamic world made some progress in the map-making area. The most notable instance is of Al-Idrisi, an Arab scholar who produced numerous world maps and geography books that heavily influenced this scientific field.

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Ellinor 11 months ago

To be honest, all French people I know think that Italians and British are the most attractive (mainly because of the accent)

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

Switzerland is a big disappointment here

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Robert T 11 months ago

Iceland seems to have drifted into the Bay of Biscay! And a lot more people watch rugby than play in the UK - unless you include those who are forced to play it at school.

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After the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg pushed the monasteries out of the dominance of map production. Also, the printing process becoming more available resulted in the growth of major publishing houses. And they produced maps that were accessible to everyone, no matter their financial status.

Even more, improvements in mapping were brought about by the accessibility of public learning and the thirst for knowledge. Increasingly, maps started having more colors showcasing various aspects of the presented place.

Also, in the late 1700s, thematic maps started showing up; for example, those showing the spread of certain illnesses or the extent of a flood.

Now, the maps on our phones are made by using satellite systems and surveying techniques. With these tools, cartographers can measure everything with precision, which was never achievable before. And due to their precision, maps have become an irreplaceable aspect of nearly everyone’s life.

Did you learn something new from these maps? Share your discoveries with us in the comments!

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Hugh Cookson 11 months ago

Oh Dear, if this all goes tits up, I'm pretty sure Russia will go down the pan - so then it's goodbye Belarus and Serbia.

32points

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Alexia 11 months ago

"Russia being your neighbor" - I feel you, Ukraine.

105points

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martymcmatrix 11 months ago (edited)

There's an eight year gap between Moscow and Madrid...

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TheGoodBoi 11 months ago

Can anyone speak any of these?

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MichelleDonut 11 months ago

Swedes grow up quick!

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Apatheist Account2 11 months ago

Not surprising, considering where olives are grown.

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Alexia 11 months ago (edited)

The percentage is higher in the Balkan countries. We just don't declare it.

58points

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Verena 11 months ago

The red area in the Netherlands indicates the huge harbours, biggest cities and heavy industry

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Scotira 11 months ago

I was confused for a second as 7:00-8:00 is usually breakfast time 🙄🙈

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WindySwede 11 months ago

Iceland is really all over the place!

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Donald 11 months ago

The Russian balaclava is spot on lol

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TheGoodBoi 11 months ago

How I sneeze: AHHHSHIT

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Lyrica Melody 11 months ago

....yet

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Zedrapazia 11 months ago

Fun short story. Company that outsourced to Switzerland wanted to enforce their policy to have at best 50% black workers, and then got very surprised and confused why this wasn't feasibly possible

31points

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OneHappyPuppy 11 months ago

Lowest Turkey? No one's heard of Turkish coffee?

29points

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Hugh Cookson 11 months ago

For my country, yes ; for the cretins that run my country, no ; those people I'd rather put them in a hole in the ground and just fill it in whilst they're alive. Wars are not started by the people of a country, they are started by upstarts, despots and chancers using those people to fulfill their own deluded ambitions - think Putin and Netenyahu at the moment ; they won't win and people on both sides of their particular countries will suffer because of those two idiots unachievable delusions.

69points

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Robert T 11 months ago

Depends on your definition of "speaks". UK schools teach foreign languages (which and whether it was compulsory varies over the years). However, they start late and are not very advanced by the time they finish. I did both French (5 years) and German (2 years) and I speak neither with any fluency.

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