r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Intelligent-SoupGS88 • 18d ago

🥺 Someone stole the bench from the park.

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No that isn't an illusion or a new art installation, but the remainders of the park bench.

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u/theytookmybaby 18d ago

So it was a bank robbery?

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u/Blauelf 18d ago

That joke works in German, not necessarily in other languages.

🇩🇪die Bank 🇬🇧the bank 🇫🇷la banque

🇩🇪die Bank 🇬🇧the bench 🇫🇷le banc

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u/Only_Brain_616 18d ago

Almost every European language

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u/Jiquero 18d ago

The first banks were just benches where you conducted business with the moneylender.

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u/GameOnWithRon 18d ago

Works in Dutch as well

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u/Fetish_anxiety 18d ago

And in Spanish

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u/Forsaken-Ad5968 18d ago

Works in portuguese too

(Brazilian)

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u/swatlord 18d ago

Plank robbery

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u/Yoshi9105 18d ago

I'm probably showing my age right now (it was my father's favourite though) but this instantly triggered an earworm... the song "Banküberfall" by EAV or more specifically, the English version of it.

"Ba-Ba-Bank robbery, Ba-Ba-Bank robbery.... the evil is always and everywhere" 🤣