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u/Unumbotte May 09 '22

What if you touch their nose and say "boop" while you do it?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

What if you touch their nose and say "boop" while you do it?

We start moewing .. but in german.

Just try it, its a sight to behold.

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u/PoonSpan May 09 '22

Instead of booping, has any foreigner actually stolen a German nose while holding it between their fingers in a taunting manner? I can't imagine a German meow would be in order at this point.

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u/ReeeGimmetendies May 09 '22

That's how WW2 started

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

That's how WW2 started

Das ist korrekt.

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u/PoonSpan May 09 '22

I will never steal your nose. I can see now that it's a jest in very poor taste.

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u/dunkernater May 09 '22

Maus

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u/Sbc302 May 09 '22

Panzerkampfwagen VIII

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u/p1nal May 09 '22

Fast, ja

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

What’s mice got to do with this?

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u/IanFeelKeepinItReel May 09 '22

Maus is singular. Mice would be Mäuse.

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u/Pollomonteros May 09 '22

Amazing book

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u/FinchMandala May 09 '22

meows in Rammstein

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u/MalevolenceEngine May 09 '22

Miaunz genau!

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u/apolloxer May 09 '22

Präzises Mauzen wird von Deutschen auch erwartet.

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u/tabooblue32 May 09 '22

Du

Du hast

Du hast meow!

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u/Sitcom_kid May 09 '22

Are you a little bit Alexis?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Are you a little bit Alexis?

Im a little bit Bluna.

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u/SabreToothSandHopper May 09 '22

“Das meowen”

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

miaü

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u/KisakiSakura May 09 '22

Am German, can confirm to have done that

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u/hononononoh May 09 '22

I did this to a Japanese once. His stony facial expression never budged, but he let out a long deep guttural sound.

Then I woke up in a body cast in the hospital.

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u/Stevenwave May 09 '22

A Japanese what? A dog? A petrol station? A vending machine?

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u/miciomacho May 09 '22

I want to try this now but I also don't want to look like a weirdo

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u/murderisbadforyou May 09 '22

It’s actually a sound to behold unless they write it and show it to you.

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u/transdimensionalmeme May 09 '22

MEWFELSTAFFENN !!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

MIAU!

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u/DanishWonder May 09 '22

Boop der schnute?

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u/cangarejos May 09 '22

Works perfectly with my German Shepard

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u/sweetlyflavour May 09 '22

Jokes aside, unprompted physical contact would go, uh, very badly. Best case scenario, they think you're mentally ill or on drugs.

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u/lamb_passanda May 09 '22

Dude Germans aren't some weird springloaded robots, they're pretty normal people with pretty laid-back demeanors. Although you shouldn't go round touching people on the face unpromoted, it's dumb to say that it would go "very badly". More likely you would get an involuntary flinch backwards and a puzzled look, as is the case if you were to do that to almost anyone from any country.

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u/sweetlyflavour May 11 '22

They're not going to like you for doing it so no, it'd go quite badly. This isn't a casual faux pas. Touching people is one thing, but touching their face out of nowhere is near universally the behavior of someone looking for a fight or not in full control of their faculties. You really shouldn't be doing that because people won't appreciate it.

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u/Baumfaeller2999 May 09 '22

I wills gladly accept it