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DotDamo t1_iwiubyz wrote

My partner is from the Philippines so I was learning some Filipino. We went away with some of her family, and I thought it polite if I refer to her family with Filipino titles.

I was calling her Aunty and Uncle by the titles, Tita and Titi. Tita translates to Aunty, but Titi doesn’t translate to Uncle.

Tita = Aunty; Tito = Uncle; Titi = Penis.

My partner didn’t tell me until after we left.

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Steven1789 t1_iwir9h8 wrote

About 50 years ago my family was visiting my uncle and his family in the Miami area. My uncle (dad’s brother) was doing his residency (he’s an oncologist still) and had several friends who came from overseas for their medical education.

One of the MDs was from India, and while he was near fluent in English, he was completely perplexed when my father, telling everyone we were headed back to our hotel, declared that we’d be “hitting the road.” A quick idiom lesson later, and the friend had learned a new phrase

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Cloudpostmodernlegal t1_iwiqlul wrote

Cut habaneros last month and washed hands like crazy thinking it would be fine. then my spouse wanted to get spicy together with specificaly my hands and immediately they are in spicy spicy pain. Then because they were still horny they asked me to have sex with them and then we were both in terrible pain and had to stop and our junk hurt for like a whole day. It was so dumb

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