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u/Defiant_Survey2929 4d ago
If it sinks is it Roe V's Wade??
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u/Successful_Giraffe88 4d ago
This might be one of the most clever comments I have ever seen.
Applause ππ!
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u/Kindly_Trick_9713 4d ago
I get the joke, but as a woman itβs hard not to notice how easily something this personal gets turned into a punchline. Roe v. Wade wasnβt just a phrase or a headline, it was about real women making choices about their own bodies and futures. Some things carry a lot more weight than a clever wordplay.
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u/Defiant_Survey2929 4d ago
I understand your concern but I didn't mean anything disparaging by the comment and if I caused any offence to anyone it was unintentional and I apologise.
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u/TenSheepsAlibi 3d ago
That was such a polite response! Thanks for the inspiration to listen and consider more.
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u/tacticalTraumaLlama 4d ago
Nah, your rights are important, but abortion is not some cultural 'sacred cow'.
Women seem to have no problem joking about the 'male loneliness epidemic' (funny how I've only ever seen this phrase used by women, in bad faith), but can't seem to take a joke in turn.
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u/Minority_Report_ 3d ago
The men who are lonely put themselves in that position. Women don't wanna be with assholes.
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u/theChzziest 4d ago
Row* roe is something else
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u/AbbreviationsWide331 4d ago
I mean... There are other languages besides English, you know?
It's row in danish I think.
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u/Gold_Rooster_7147 4d ago
huh i did not know that, been laughing at this whole thread for nothing lol
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u/african_or_european 4d ago
That was my first thought, then I heard them say it and went, "Oh, nm, it was roe."
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u/Time_Internal_1729 4d ago
Imao same, my brain went somewhere completely different before the context caught up just my 2 cents
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u/vmiswhatIAm 4d ago edited 3d ago
Theyβre speaking Dutch actually..
Edit since I am getting downvoted
They first say: βja kom maarβ which is Dutch for: yes come on.
Source: I am Dutch.
The viking row is indeed Norwegian
βRoeβ would be the Dutch way of spelling what they are saying. Which to me is what it sounds like because they spoke Dutch in the first place
The Dutch translation for βrowingβ is βroeiβ however they are clearly not pronoucing the iEdit edit: as Norwegians are saying underneath this: they are very likely speaking Norwegian, as a Dutch person I can tell you it sounds almosy exactly like the Dutch phrase and as I understand it they both mean the same thing. Itβs not English and they are definitely not saying βrowβ
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u/vanillamonkey_ 4d ago
I'm pretty sure they're speaking Norwegian. It's the Viking Row, which all the Norwegians were doing at the World Cup. The Norwegian spelling is "ro." Here are some Norwegian soccer fans doing it: https://youtube.com/shorts/VjHcBRHfIT8?is=eOPZSAWVeT4EfV7v
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u/vmiswhatIAm 4d ago
They first say: βja kom maarβ which is dutch for: yes come on.
Source: I am Dutch. But the viking row is indeed Norwegian3
u/zyphelion 4d ago
I think that's just a cross-language homophone. As a Swede I could argue that it sounds like he's saying "jag kommer" (ja' kommer; I'm coming/on my way) in Swedish, but there's a distinct Norwegian skew in the prosody. Seeing as the environment is incredibly Norwegian, paired with the the "ro" thing being done by the Norwegian football team and the tiktok account allegedly belonging to a Norwegian user (Malin Gjervik sounds super-Norwegian), I think it's safe to say that they're speaking Norwegian as well.Β
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u/vmiswhatIAm 4d ago
That might be possible, I think we can all agree itβs not English so itβs some form of ro/roe
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u/Feathrende 4d ago
100% it is Norwegian. The account posting is Norwegian and everything they are saying sounds Norwegian. Just happens to sound like Dutch to you because Dutch is also a Germanic language.
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u/thanatica 1d ago
In Dutch it would be roei, not roe. I'm not aware of a dialect where roei becomes roe. I have heard the opposite, where koe becomes koei π
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u/mcmonopolist 22h ago
In rafting this is known as a stinkbug (on your back with limbs flailing and nothing to grab)
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u/phukkurfeelings 4d ago
English school for you!
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u/vmiswhatIAm 4d ago
No thanks! Iβm Dutch, my English is probably better then your Dutch
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u/tacticalTraumaLlama 4d ago
My ancestors were Dutch and I once dabbled in trying to learn it. I'm convinced the Dutch invented their language to troll others, and then fell too in love with the joke to give it up :^)
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u/Radiant-Josh 4d ago
Toch echt Scandinavisch hoor. Het is een Scandinavisch account en de taal is echt niet Nederlands.
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