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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Does the Pope shit in the woods?

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:

      “Hey [Name], can you get this done?”

      “Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”

      “…I don’t know?”

      “Exactly 😎👉”

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      People in glass houses sink ships

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      • RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        People in glass houses should go shit in the basement.

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      • WordBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        A penny saved is worth two in the bush.

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Loose lips shouldn’t throw stones

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    • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You make a mean caucasian, Jackie

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    • dwemthy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does a bear shit in the Pope’s hat?

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    • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why you keep aakin’ me that? Where his holiness does his business, is his business.

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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sometimes

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Does he?

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    English idiom in the vein of Polish shit idioms:

    Stack wishes in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones piles up first.

    First time I heard a variation of it was Mike Nelson on MST3K.

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My family has always used “shit in one hand and wish in the other, see which one’s ready first”

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    • hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is the best thing I’ve seen online in a week.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I prefer that one to the other one that means the same thing:

      If wishes were fishes, we’d have some to fry.

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  • HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is Grandma ok?!

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, it means shit’s gonna hit the fan

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      • Benjaben@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Lmao but why? Are Polish folks especially concerned about the bathroom habits of their elders?!

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  • Zentron@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To share the best idiom from ex yu: “you fucked a hedgehog”

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    English ones:

    go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut

    it’s a cunt hair away

    to piss in the wind

    shove it up your arse

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Shit hits the fan

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Up shits creek

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    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One I like is “Not a snowball’s chance in hell”

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why don’t you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?

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  • salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The early bird in the hand that feeds is worth a thousand words

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The early bird flu catches the brain worm.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    huh? what are the original idioms? i only ever heard the boar one (but the wolf version)

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
      1. Kurwa kurwie łba nie urwie
      2. Pytasz dzika czy sra w lesie
      3. Srali muchy będzie wiosna (needed to google it as a native polish speaker)
      4. Skończyło się babci sranie
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      • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Im polish and I don’t know the last one.

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      • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Must be regional. I’m Polish and haven’t heard the first one.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        huh! słyszałem tylko drugie

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “When You’re born a whore You won’t die a canary.”

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We’ve got “shit or get off the pot”

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  • LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I definitely need context for “grandma’s sitting has ended”

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      means “I am enraged” can be said e.g. by mom to children

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      • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Are you sure? Because to me this means someone has finished spewing bullshit. Or something annoying has finally come to an end.

        Due to the respect for the elder, you let them finish, but you know it’s nonsense.

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      • LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If I’d had a million guesses I wouldn’t have guessed that and yet it makes perfect sense, thank you

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      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So Sportsfreund, jetzt hat die Oma ausgeschissen!

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My great grandmother that had one that was:

    Stop masturbating under that apple tree.

    Maybe sounded better in Polish.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you’re trying to mock English idioms then those aren’t even close to the worse.

    How about:

    “I screwed the pooch on this one”

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not the meme was sent to mw

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  • nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    1. We have the same about bears not boars (greeks) lmao
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    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same in German and actually I think I’ve heard that one in English too

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, in English we have the expression “does a bear shit in the woods?” Which is asked in response to some other question where the answer is clearly “yes.”

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hungarian idioms:

    “Szüljél sünt!” / “Go and give birth to a hedgehog!”

    “Ez még a kutyának se kell.” / “Not even the dog wants this.”

    “Az isten bassza meg!” / “God, fuck it!”

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    • seggturkasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t sugarcoat it. That is originaly “szarjál sünt”, meaning shit out a hedgehog…

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      • seggturkasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And if you want something more disturbing, how about “kutyából nem lesz szalonna!” (You can’t make bacon out of a dog). Or “itt a tavasz, dagad a fasz” (spring time is here, the dicks are swollen). “terhesen nem vág orrba a lengő ajtó” (the door wont slam in your face if you are pregnant).

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  • Sidhean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Grandma’s shitting has ended.

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    • SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      oh, it has

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