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

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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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