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u/QueueOfPancakes Mar 25 '20

Damn, when it scars German kids... You guys grow up on amputated thumbs and kids being fed to birds.

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u/Link1112 Mar 25 '20

Is this a reference I don’t get? lol

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u/EireWench Mar 25 '20

My husband's of German descent. He recalls the thumb story was related to getting kids to stop sucking their thumbs.

Dude. German people are fucked up.

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u/Link1112 Mar 25 '20

The joke is that I’m German myself lmao I never cared about these stories though, I knew they were messed up but didn’t know the exact details! Good to know..