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[–] everett@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 days ago

Shockingly forward single-entendre, considering that is a chair.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It works at least in German: Stuhl is both the furniture and the term doctors use to describe poop.

[–] frog@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In American English, a stool can also mean furniture and poop. (I am guessing this comes directly from German.)

The comment, you replied to, makes sense because in American English a stool and a chair are different types of sitting furniture. The difference being a stool has no or limited back support and can be counter height.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Great to see a fellow frog in the wild!


I am guessing this comes directly from German

The German and English wikipedia have interesting information about the etymology of the English chair and the German Stuhl:

Chair:

Chair comes from the early 13th-century English word chaere, from Old French chaiere ("chair, seat, throne"), from Latin cathedra ("seat").

Stuhl:

[...] althochdeutsch stuol ‚Sitz, Thron‘ [...]

(Old high German stuol meaning 'seat' or 'throne'

Das Wort Stuhl [...] ist mit l-Suffix zur indoeuropäischen Wurzel *stā-, *stǝ- ‚stehen, stellen‘ gebildet.

(The word Stuhl is built from the proto-indo-european language by adding the suffix 'l' to the root '*stā' or '*stǝ' which means 'to stand')

So both means seat/seating or throne but chair is more a throne-like furniture (by having arm rests and/or back rest) whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use "Schemel" or "Hocker" to describe such a stool. "Schemel" seems to come from "scamilla", Latin for small bench.

I have no idea how all this information helps us, but it's interesting :D

[–] frog@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes always good to see a fellow frog!

So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.

That is interesting.

Thanks for the info.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So this meme would only make sense in Old High German.

Maybe I put it wrong, but it works even better in modern Germany: "Stuhl" means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: "Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?" So unlike in the English version, "Stuhl" literally both means "chair" and "poop".

[–] frog@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

It's probably me misunderstanding. Thank you for the correction.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

whereas Stuhl was more like a simple stool (a small foot rest or seating without any back rest or arm rests). In German we use “Schemel” or “Hocker” to describe such a stool.

So what you're saying is that the meme doesn't work in German either, because the furniture in the meme would be referred to as a "Schemel" rather than a "Stuhl"

This meme is an abortion of human language smh

No no, if you just use Stuhl it works perfectly in German. This word has exactly the double meaning that is necessary for the pun, it's not even a stretch. I'd have more trouble finding an appropriate verb for the translation.

A Schemel is really a very small seat, no taller than knee-height. It's something you sit on to milk a cow for example.

And a Hocker is a kind of chair with usually neither arm nor foot-rest of any height. I'd say it's pretty much a perfect match for the English stool. You could call a Schemel a kind of Hocker, but a Hocker can also be as tall as a normal chair or even taller at counter height, in which case we'd call it a Barhocker.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

No no, it works even better: "Stuhl" means chair in modern German. The joke/pun is well-known in German: "Darf ich Ihnen den Stuhl zurückschieben?" So unlike in the English version, "Stuhl" literally both means "chair" and "poop".

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

On the bristol stool chart that’s what we call a 2. It’s like a perfect stool in the sense that you could sit on ut, but it’s not really a stool.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Maybe he’s Dutch. In Dutch “chair” is “stoel”, you pronounce it as “stool”

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’m starting to think that this conversation was fictitious.

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You really think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and lie?

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's exactly what I said last night when I was in a hot tub with David Bowie and Harry Potter.

Anyways, it's time for me to go and see my girlfriend. You won't know her as she goes to another school, an errrm an astronaut school.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Is your gf Katy Perry?

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Oh look at Mr. Big shot over here. The rest of us can only get hootie and the blowfish in a kiddy pool. Oh well good for you.

No worries, I should get going too, my girlfriend is waiting for me in Canada.

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Oh look at Mr. Big shot over here. The rest of us can only get hootie and the blowfish in a kiddy pool. Oh well good for you.

No worries, I should get going too, my girlfriend is waiting for me in Canada.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait... That's the second version of this meme I've seen in a week. Is this... A TREND

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago

You might be in a meme loop. You could have been seeing this meme dozens, even thousands of times.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Same here. Is there a stool pushing convention I missed?

[–] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

I don't know. Can you?

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

If that were on the table, the stool would've already been cleaned out.

))<>((

Forever.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

"I'll have the saline please."

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If it goes well, there’ll be more stool to push in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

a very stool-some post!

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

She has a strong chin