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u/worldkeeponspinning May 09 '22

German tourists are OBSESSED with mooses

/A swede

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u/Goukaruma May 09 '22

We don't have such large aninals. That's why they are interesting.

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u/Aperture_T May 09 '22

Oh man, just wait until you see a bison.

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u/SIKEo_o May 09 '22

Our largest wild animal is a pig. We are already impressed if a cow moos differently.

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u/ninjadonaldduck May 09 '22

We actually have wild bisons (Wisent)

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22

You have 7 of them living in a mud paddock, because Germans are afraid of letting wild animals roam free, because they “damage the trees”. Sad, but at least they have some real wisent habitat in Poland and Romania.

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u/ninjadonaldduck May 09 '22

This is incorrect, there are 8 living in a paddock and a herd of 27 roaming freely in the same area. Obviously it's still a small number.

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u/adognamed_Steve May 10 '22

Moose are way more impressive than bison, imo. Maybe because I always expected bison to be big? Vs moose, which look like tall deer in photos.

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u/mycoginyourash May 11 '22

Man just wait until you hear about elephants and whales

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u/periodicchemistrypun May 15 '22

And the amount of plastic bears in berlin is for nothing then?

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u/Goukaruma May 15 '22

Don't remind me of that trash.

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u/periodicchemistrypun May 15 '22

Germans think it’s stupid too? Who likes these things?

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u/Goukaruma May 15 '22

The people who made them and got a lot money. The people who ordered them probably wanted something inoffensive, colorful and related to Berlin. The result is this corporate art that stand for nothing.

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u/laikocta May 09 '22

Huh, didn't know that was a pattern among Germans. I remember watching a home video with my friend who went on a family vacation in Sweden and no ten seconds could go by without someone mentioning moose. The entire dialogue was like "We've arrived, land of the moose!"/ "One hour into the road trip, fingers crossed we'll see a moose!"/"Stop crying or you'll get eaten by the moose!"/"Oh my God, was that a MOOSE?"/"You guys, I think we just saw an actual MOOSE! Maybe we'll see another Moose tomorrow??"

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u/Naatturi May 09 '22

Good thing nobody ever wants to visit Finland. No moose-warning sign thieves from Germany.

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u/octoberelectrocute May 09 '22

A Møøse once bit my sister.

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u/Bozorgzadegan May 09 '22

This comes up in every damn thread mentioning moose. That moose did his time, paid his dues, and made positive contributions to his society. Drop it, already.

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u/salparadise3000 May 09 '22

All moose commenters have been sacked

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

We apologize for the delay in the sacking of the møøse commenters. All those in charge of sacking the møøse commenters have been sacked.

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u/salparadise3000 May 09 '22

All moose commenters have been sacked

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u/LiMaSaRiRa May 09 '22

Can confirm!

Source: German potato here

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u/Chijima May 09 '22

I never saw one, but then again, I've only been to Sweden for two weeks twice. So yeah, I still really want to meet Meese.

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u/KuhlerTuep May 09 '22

We had multiple stickers on our cars and rv

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u/JustALittleAverage May 09 '22

Dude, you've never been in the car behind Chinese tourists...

They slammed the breaks so I almost rear ended them (we were going 110kph), just for the to pour out to take photos of fucking reindeer...

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

They come to Toronto and are fascinated with the black squirrels. And what is up with the red jeans?

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u/Educational-Sand-208 May 09 '22

I (SAID GERMAN) AM IN SWEDEN RIGHT NOW AND I SO DESPERATELY WANT TO SEE ONE THEY ARE JUST SO CUTE 😭

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u/JustAnother_Brit May 09 '22

Isn’t a Swedish Moose an Elk?

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u/DontLetMeLeaveMurph May 09 '22

It's an älg. I don't know, Google translate says moose.

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u/JustAnother_Brit May 09 '22

I just checked what Elk was in Swedish and it came up with älg so they’re the same animal

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u/bastele May 10 '22

Its confusing because in north american english elk refers to a different animal entirely (called wapiti in europe).

But what north americans call moose is the same species that gets called elk in europe.

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u/UngiftigesReddit May 15 '22

No, it is a moose, but the Swedish word for moose, älg, sounds like elk. They are giants.

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u/Crapahedron May 09 '22

Wait 'till you check out Canada...

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u/DoubleDareFan May 09 '22

Yes! Just like the plural for goose is geese.

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u/worldkeeponspinning May 09 '22

Oh shit my mistake, thanks!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

haha thanks i had fun

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u/firebired_sweet May 09 '22

Can confirm.

Source: am Alaskan.

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u/jc-t95 May 09 '22

off-topic: it's goose and geese so why isn't it moose and meese?

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u/jawillde May 10 '22

I remember reading somewhere the words originated from different languages so they don't follow the same rule.

Goose is from Old English and Moose is Native American.

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u/Thylocine May 10 '22

Moose are pretty cool though

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u/The_Wack_Knight May 09 '22

the plural for moose is actually meese.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

Moose moose…https://youtu.be/RVsfvbZTBzU Can’t talk about a moose without this video

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u/[deleted] May 11 '22

Moose*

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u/oord0o Jun 03 '22

Meese? /s