Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.

• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle? I don’t think “Krapfen machen” means the same thing.

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  • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful

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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Truly the language of love.

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Arschlochfahren”

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…

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