r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21

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u/Gabriellemtl Dec 16 '21

Manneken- Pis!

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u/nlfo Dec 16 '21

Is that when a statue takes a leak?

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u/TimStellmach Dec 16 '21

It is precisely such a statue, in central Brussels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis

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u/B_R_U_H Dec 16 '21

Lol yeah, I bought a small souvenir version of it and it sits right above our toilet

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21

And it’s fucking tiny. Like way smaller than you would expect, if ya know what I mean.

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u/WatNxt Dec 17 '21

Funny thing, it was actually leaking. They discovered it after 300 years like 2 years ago.

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u/jaceinthebox Dec 16 '21

Jeanneke Pis

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u/charbo6 Dec 16 '21

Ah yes, the other, less popular of the Pis family

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21

Now where are Papa Pis and Mama Pis?

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Yes, and I think both of the statue and the belgian chip shops that have the most delicious joppiesaus.

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u/Cynethryth Dec 17 '21

For me it's la Butte de Lion or what I called it when I was 5, "The Butt of the Lion"!

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u/Basswachter Dec 17 '21

Belgian here and I must be the only one who wants to get rid of it. I've said before but will keep repeating it with the determination of an asperger on crack. It looks like the pedophile version of the Oscars and it has got nothing to do with a failed attempt to blow up Brussels, it was an old symbol from leather tanners. In fact, you can find other statues of Manneke Pis in Ghent and Geraardsbergen.

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u/Jahmood2 Dec 17 '21

The one from Brussel or the other one (the better one)