We Wear Our Hearts on Our Sleeves
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04 Jan 2016
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90670In holland when someone doesn’t close the door behind their backs we say ‘Ben je in de kerk geboren?’ which literally translates to ‘Have you been born in church?’
@useless-netherlandsfactsIn the United States we say, “Were you raised in a barn?” It’s supposed to imply that the person was raised without any manners. But as people who frequently use barns have told me, you would never leave the barn door open because then the animals could get out.
In Italy when someone walks in a room and doesn’t close the door we say “abiti al Colosseo?” (and other variants), which translates to “do you live at the Colosseum?” because the Colosseum hasn’t got doors
in Australia we say ‘Were you born in a tent?’ which so far has no official etymology but probably has something to do with swagmen and bush culture…
In German we say: “Hast du keine Türen zu Hause?”, which translates to: “Don’t you have doors at home?”
In Czech we have two versions of this. First, more polite one is “Máte doma otroky?” (Do you have slaves at home?) and then quite rude one, which is “Máš v prdeli oje?” (Do you have poles/drawbars in you ass?)
In Hungary we say “Te barlangban élsz?” Which means “Are you living in a cave?”
In Slovenia we say “A imaš rep?” which means “Do you have a tail?” and that’s pretty self explanatory.
I’m Poland we also say “do you have a tail?” - “masz ogon? ”
In Maltese we say “mela m'għandekx bieb id-dar?” which means “don’t you have a door at home?”
In Los Angeles we say “Are you cooling the whole outside?” because it’s fucking hot outside.
I’m glad the entire world is wildly frustrated at left-open doors and not just me
in new york we say “fuck off dumbass shut the door”
(Source: tome-kurata, via thehuntinghippy-deactivated2017)
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