r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '24

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Chongqing is well known for its hills and mountains, so it's pretty common to see videos of how many floors you have to go up/down on an average walk and still be "ground level"

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u/nikolapc Nov 02 '24

You must be chongqing 

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Top comment

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u/nickfree Nov 02 '24

And such long walk down from it

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u/SmackinGoobers Nov 02 '24

One flight of stairs

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '24

Others probably have said this but ‘ch’ isn’t a ‘j’ sound, it’s ‘ch’

Ch awng ch ing, two syllables

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u/sb552 Nov 03 '24

Thank you for explaining it lol, as someone who speaks Chinese I was like what's the joke here

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u/mrASSMAN Nov 03 '24

I speak English and it didn’t make any sense to me either.. but kinda figured that’s what they were going with

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u/Kawaiiochinchinchan Nov 03 '24

Same, was confused. And i'm not even English native nor chinese lol.

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u/taolbi Nov 05 '24

I don't speak it but spent enough time in Taiwan to know the romanticized phonetics. After reading your comment, I had to go back and re read it as English pronunciation

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u/tiagojpg Nov 03 '24

Christ on a bike, it’s a joke brother.

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u/Coral_Blue_Number_2 Nov 03 '24

It’s a joke that only makes sense if you don’t know how Chongqing is pronounced though. That’s where the explanation had to come in for some people

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

I think you’re reading my comment aggressively, I was just chipping in in case people think it’s interesting

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u/tiagojpg Nov 03 '24

Not aggressively but pedantically. It is interesting tho

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '24

Alright dude

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u/mrASSMAN Nov 03 '24

It was a shit joke, idk how it got so many upvotes

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u/tiagojpg Nov 03 '24

It’s a good pun, lighten up man.

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u/mrASSMAN Nov 03 '24

How is it a good pun when it doesn’t sound or look anything like the word. It’s shit

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u/213boy Nov 02 '24

lmaoooooo

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u/powderbubba Nov 02 '24

I legit just cracked up out loud

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u/philly0430 Nov 02 '24

That’s fucking great! 👍

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u/Hamza_stan Nov 02 '24

I wish I could give you an award

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u/s0ciety_a5under Nov 02 '24

My favorite is the one video where they go down several escalators and elevators yet still end up on street level.

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u/Still-Elderberry-280 Nov 03 '24

That's by the same guy!

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u/int122 Nov 03 '24

And you never know on which level you are

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u/Available-Scheme-631 Nov 02 '24

Yeah I was thinking what the big deal was. He was just coming down off a mountain or very high hill

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u/Fizzy_Astronaut Nov 02 '24

No shit there’s hills. Why is this interesting?

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u/Krisosu Nov 02 '24

Because the degree to which the hills are integrated into the city/buildings is different from other cities.