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(10,749 posts)Itll make your day.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)And who said Germans don't have a sense of humor?!?
Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)DFW has posted a translation several times here on DU.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1098792
triron
(22,023 posts)And the caption?
Yonnie3
(17,491 posts)I'm sure the Colbert show has those sort of resources.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,095 posts)Fla Dem
(23,765 posts)DFW
(54,445 posts)First of all, any German speaker would have recognized her accent as Austrian. Second, she was reading an article about women whose profession it was to "scratch eggs." Whether or not it was about engraving drawings on new eggs, or removing debris from fossils, this was never made clear. But German slang for testicles is not "balls," but "eggs," and the news item she was reading said that women who were good at scratching "eggs" were few and far between, and THAT is what cracked her up (understandably enough, I'd say).
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)But it's still hilariously funny with those subtitles.
DFW
(54,445 posts)There was a German film based on the life of Hitler's personal secretary through the last days of the war. There is a scene in the Führerbunker where Hitler is rating madly about how everybody is betraying him and nothing is going right. That scene has been given more different sets of subtitles than Trump has lies.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)Cha
(297,722 posts)Link to tweet
Was her laugh infectious or WHAT?!!!
Two words.. pee pee tape.. ok 3
Mahalo, triron!
P.S. I don't care where or what it's from.. It's Priceless as is.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)All but a large chunk of clueless America.
Mira
(22,380 posts)"The cultural values are threatened with extinction, we can only find very few ladies who are masters of the technique but in case one truly searches for active ball scratchers then the available choices are very small"
Then she goes into the laughing fit and after that a vernacular and pronunciation I'm not that familiar with so I don't really catch the rest well enough to translate.
But the first part is a verbatim translation.
I think you also should be howling...
DFW
(54,445 posts)"Egg scratchers" not ball scratchers. It's "ball scratchers" only if you translate slang to slang, which was not the original intent.
There actually is an art of "egg scratching:"
It is an old art of Easter Egg engraving, and that is the art that is dying out.
I used to do a bit of egg scratching myself when it came time to celebrate the resurrection.
The correction heightens the hilarity when all is considered.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Some outsiders with good intentions have gone into Poverty stricken African communities and have given them the tools to do this. The people helping then pay the people for them and sell them elsewhere. Sometimes some machining is involved and the outsiders will have that done before or after the designs are done.
I have a beautiful ostrich egg made in one such community.
Ezior
(505 posts)"That's the worst thing I ever had to read!
And it's your fault, I didn't even notice!"
Edit: "Das ist das Schlimmste was ich jemals lesen hab' müssen! Und du bist Schuld, mir war das nicht einmal eingefallen!"