plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agoSPD arc?hexbear.netimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up197arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareSummerIsTooWarm [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoCould someone please enlighten me on why this is funny? I’m too germ*n-brained to understand
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 months agoThe same term you use for city or town (directly from Hamburg) is now used to refer to a German-derived American meal… Thus, burgerkrieg just sounds like burger war, and we all know how we now refer to Amerikkkaners as “burgerbrains”?
minus-squareSummerIsTooWarm [any, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoAhh okay thank you, though Bürger translates to citizen.
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoOh, I just got the impression cuz of city names like Pittsburgh and Hamburg
minus-squareSaeculum [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoIt’s similar to English words like Farmer, Lawyer, Bowyer, Sawyer and so on, where they’re a person that works in that craft, though for cities instead when it was much more unusual to live in one.
Could someone please enlighten me on why this is funny? I’m too germ*n-brained to understand
The same term you use for city or town (directly from Hamburg) is now used to refer to a German-derived American meal…
Thus, burgerkrieg just sounds like burger war, and we all know how we now refer to Amerikkkaners as “burgerbrains”?
Ahh okay thank you, though Bürger translates to citizen.
Oh, I just got the impression cuz of city names like Pittsburgh and Hamburg
It’s similar to English words like Farmer, Lawyer, Bowyer, Sawyer and so on, where they’re a person that works in that craft, though for cities instead when it was much more unusual to live in one.