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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by Lacerda69 on Monday June 19, 2023 @05:39PM (#36396812)
Uhren sounds fine to me, now if it was Huren i would understand
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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by triyambakam on Monday June 19, 2023 @06:25PM (#36397217)
It was probably frequently pronounced like "urine"
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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by jacquesm on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:43PM (#36397860)
What's wrong with renting?
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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by Lacerda69 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:21AM (#36401558)
Its a slur for prostitutes in German ;-)
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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by animinog on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:09AM (#36405128)
And with that in mind, you may want to re-read the post you replied to.

(That's about as close to explaining the joke as I'm willing to go.)

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Re:Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search by Lacerda69 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @03:03PM (#36408897)
Haha gotcha, but Huren also means renting in Dutch (with no other connotation AFAIK)
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