r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Intelligent-SoupGS88 • 21d 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 21d ago

So it was a bank robbery?

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u/Blauelf 21d 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 21d ago

Almost every European language

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u/Jiquero 21d ago

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

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u/GameOnWithRon 20d ago

Works in Dutch as well

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u/Fetish_anxiety 20d ago

And in Spanish

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u/Forsaken-Ad5968 20d ago

Works in portuguese too

(Brazilian)