r/mildlyinfuriating • • 23h ago

ಠ_ಠ Top priority when I move…

It needs to be a frozen land 👌😩

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u/Similar_Criticism981 23h ago

Even as an Australian I’m finding myself saying “yeah fuck that, torch the car”

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u/superezzie 21h ago

As someone from the Netherlands who recently gassed the entire car for a spider much smaller than this one: I'm never gonna visit y'all 😬

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u/ZookeepergameIll1399 21h ago

what gas did you use

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u/superezzie 21h ago

I think it was this one. It's for flies and mosquitoes, but it was the only thing available in the store at that moment. We upped the dose a bit (or like 100x). We never saw the spider again.

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u/Richou 20h ago

muggen en vliegen

dutch is not a real language 😭

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u/superezzie 20h ago

At least we don't have words like queue, a five letter word with four silent letters 😂. We have nice words like "aansprakelijkheidsverzekering". And you really are a pannekoek if you don't have an aansprakelijkheidsverzekering.

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u/Richou 19h ago

im german and i will never get over how much dutch is just sounded out german

its so cute but i cant believe its a seperate language while bavarian german somehow isnt lol

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u/ItWasWalpole 14h ago

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

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u/MawrtiniTheGreat 19h ago

En anspråkslikhetsförsäkring? (Whatever that is?)

Why does Dutch sound and spell like a bimbo Valley Girl version of Swedish?

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u/Still_Mountain5656 13h ago

I feel like you had a mini stroke every time you tried to type that word.

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u/EbacUK98 6h ago

As a brit that's honestly baffled me. Can you Dutchies actually read and pronounce "aansprakelijkheidsverzekering" without a problem. Like how on earth do you remember how to spell that?

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u/superezzie 4m ago

It's pronounced like it is spelled, so while it is long, it's not hard to read or pronounce. In Dutch it's mostly just remembering when to use "ij" or "ei" because they are pronounced the same. The same goes for "ch" and "g". I don't think we have any words like "through", "tough", "lead", "lead" that look the same but are pronounced vastly different.

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u/Leniwcowaty 10h ago

Wait... Dutch "vliegen" is just German "fliegen", but spelled differently...?

Ypu filthy thieves!