Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.

• TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s some serious donuts they’re making! Is there a German idiom for driving rapidly in a circle? I don’t think “Krapfen machen” means the same thing.

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    • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Germany, they don’t say “driving rapidly in a circle,” they say “Was soll der Scheiß? Pass doch auf, verdammt!” and I think that’s beautiful

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      • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Truly the language of love.

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    • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, but it’s no problem to spontaneously invent one, so I call it “hochgeschwindigkeitskreiseln”

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Arschlochfahren”

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You never heard about Kennedy in Berlin, eh?

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I heard he claimed he was a kind of jelly-filled donut, but not that he went joyriding.

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Self-limiting system. As you black out, the circle gets looser, the Gs fall off, you wake up more, turn tighter, the Gs build again…

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