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Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:42:47

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jonnythan said:
It's a *very* popular urban legend in the US. I've heard about it dozens of times and never looked it up before now. Turns out it's one of those things that's "common knowledge" that's totally wrong.

Love the common knowledge things that turn out to be wrong.. apprently on the BBC news last week they said that we dont use 10% of our brains.. its apprently alot more..

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treebee said:

My cat has a fetish for leapordskin, i have a blankey with the print on it and if he sees it he runs up and makes ferocious bread on it.

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:45:00

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jonnythan said:
DU...

DU HAST!

DU HAST MICH!

DU HAST MICH GEFRAGT!

I have no idea what that means, but I want to keep it that way. It probably sounds a hell of a lot cooler when you don't know.

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treebee said:

My cat has a fetish for leapordskin, i have a blankey with the print on it and if he sees it he runs up and makes ferocious bread on it.

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:45:33

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Damn you!

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:51:27

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jonnythan said:
Damn you!

Ah, but that's just the literal translation. It's actually a cool play on words in German.

You see du hast (you have) and du hasst (you hate) sound exactly the same.

It's also the German wedding vows, to which he responds "nein" instead of "ja".

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Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:54:35

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Bastards, the lot of you.

Here I am deluding myself into thinking it's a song about something hyper-masculine, like bombing raids or murderous rampages or something.

But no. It's a play on wedding vows. Awesome. I love banging my head to wordplay and weddings.

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:55:04

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treebee said:

My cat has a fetish for leapordskin, i have a blankey with the print on it and if he sees it he runs up and makes ferocious bread on it.

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:56:06

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jonnythan said:
Bastards, the lot of you.

Here I am deluding myself into thinking it's a song about something hyper-masculine, like bombing raids or murderous rampages or something.

But no. It's a play on wedding vows. Awesome. I love banging my head to wordplay and weddings.

So I shouldn't point out that most Rammstein songs are kinda twisted love songs then?

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Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:56:55

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stumblinthrulife said:
So I shouldn't point out that most Rammstein songs are kinda twisted love songs then?

What's German for "die, jerkface"?

Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:57:30

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Or that in Sonne they are singing "here comes the sun"

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Jan 07, 2008 @ 16:58:49

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Or that part of Mein Hertz Brent is taken from a childrens show called "The little sandman"?

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Jan 07, 2008 @ 17:02:44

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jonnythan said:
What's German for "die, jerkface"?

Sterben sie, ruck-gesicht

Doesn't translate too well, since ruck is the literal for jerk as inthe movement to jerk. Not sure if there's an equivalent German insult.

Ah, and I guess you'd be less polite, so

Sterbst du, ruck-gesicht.

A german would probably think you wanted to kill them by shaking their face.

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Jan 07, 2008 @ 17:15:07

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