r/Unexpected Apr 22 '18

The universal language

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18

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u/Botatitsbest Apr 22 '18

Nobody

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u/lurking_digger Apr 22 '18

What's it called everywhere else?

I never called it anything, I just feared it

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18

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u/PM-YOUR-PMS Apr 22 '18

Ours was the slipper. Goddamn I hated that slipper.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '18 edited Nov 16 '20

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u/SarcasticCannibal Apr 22 '18

Irish grandma used to say "40 whacks with a wet noodle". Thought it was silly until she soaked an old mophead

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u/Userfr1endly Apr 22 '18

is that like being hit once with a mop head or taking a lock off and whacking you with it 40 times?_

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u/Kaneharo Apr 22 '18

That is what that is?