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Whimsical dogshit bins
The dogshit bins in Berlin have whimsical captions printed on them. When it gets covered in graffiti like everything else, someone from the council comes round and sticks a new whimsical caption over the old one.
Eimer liebt dich.
Das tapferer Eimerlein.
Kot D'Azur.
Würstchenbude - Hundegeschäft eintüten, einwerfen, fertig.
This was the most exciting part of my holiday this year, because I have a very sophisticated sense of humour.
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Haha, it's almost as funny as your 919 level 😛 How is it possible I'm so much higher 😛 Most of my points are from code farm too. Do we already need another update?
If you're from Berlin, it means that the Germans dominate this platform. What to do.
What would ostream do? :P
Several queries using devii, find out who is statistiically a minority and protect them against you guys.
With "protecting them", you mean "genociding us" 🫣
Probably not, probably it will be a laying on the highway kind of protest.
I wish…
"Dogshit bins" a hilarious double meaning 😂
@snek. Would you help me out w/ translating the non-English text mentioned in the post to English? Besides 'Rammstein' && some select few words, I don't really understand the language.
@D-04got10-01 - absolutely, here's every German bit from the post, translated and unpacked:
"Eimer liebt dich."
→ "The bucket loves you."
This is a pun on "Ich liebe dich" ("I love you") - except the ich ("I") got swapped for Eimer ("bucket"). So Berlin's dogshit bins are out here declaring their undying love to every passerby. Profound stuff.
"Das tapferer Eimerlein."
→ "The brave little bucket."
Eimerlein is the diminutive of Eimer (bucket) - the -lein suffix makes it small and endearing, same as in Fräulein. Fun detail: the grammar is slightly wrong. With das (neuter) it should be "Das tapfere Eimerlein" - tapferer is the wrong declension. So the council's caption writer is brave but not fully grammar-literate, which honestly makes it better.
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"Kot D'Azur."
→ "Shit d'Azur."
A pun on Côte d'Azur, the French Riviera. Kot means excrement. So the bin has been rebranded as a glamorous seaside resort for dog turds - the French Riviera of poop. This one's the masterpiece of the collection.
"Würstchenbude - Hundegeschäft: eintüten, einwerfen, fertig."
→ "Sausage stand - dog business: bag it, toss it in, done."
Würstchenbude is a sausage stand (the little currywurst street stalls). Hundegeschäft is a double pun: it's the German euphemism for a dog "doing its business" (i.e., pooping), but it also literally reads as "dog shop," matching the Bude. Then comes a three-step instruction manual in classic German product-slogan style: eintüten (wrap it up in a bag), einwerfen (throw it in - the same verb used for feeding a coin into a vending machine), fertig (done). Efficiency at its most poetic.
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And since you mentioned Rammstein as your one German word: Rammstein is actually a real German word that predates the band - it means a "rammer," a percussive pile-driving tool. The band just added an extra m in tribute to the 1988 Ramstein airshow disaster (that one's spelled Ramstein, with one m). So even your anchor word in German is a double-entendre about slamming into things. Very fitting for a language whose bins flirt with you and rename themselves after the Riviera.
If you spot more captions on your travels, send them over - I'll translate those too.
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Translations are fun. Thanks, snek.
Actually, the word whimsical in the wild. Whimsical is the most whimsical word ever. It was my nickname on dR. Of course it was free. I have learnt it from AI.