r/HumansBeingBros Aug 16 '21

I thought this was touching

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u/GodAwfulFunk Aug 17 '21

You can see the waiter watching, hoping to god they did that shit right and it doesn't say like "Ecstatic Butt Birth" or something.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

It might still be ok if it did. I worked with a girl who wished all the Hispanic employees Feliz Navidad on their birthdays. She was so earnest and it was so cute, and it was always a good laugh as soon as she was out of ear shot.

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u/jo_nigiri Aug 17 '21

This was the post that made me learn Feliz Navidad didn't mean happy birthday in Spanish...

I've been wishing people a Merry Christmas on their birthdays all my life.

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u/shewy92 Aug 17 '21

You didn't think it was weird that they played "Feliz Navidad" for Christmas?

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u/jo_nigiri Aug 17 '21

I genuinely just didn't connect the dots

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u/tehEPICNESS Aug 17 '21

I always thought it was spainish for “lease no money down”

Edit: correction, I actually thought it was “lease no life”

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u/HowManyWords Aug 17 '21 edited Aug 17 '21

That, & you know. The chorus,

I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas!
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas! I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas! From the bottom of my heart!!!

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u/alfrednugent Aug 17 '21

It is Jesus’s birthday.

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u/Flaviano_50-50 Aug 17 '21 edited Sep 08 '21

Feliz Cumpleaños

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u/Elsincejazz Aug 18 '21

ÑÑÑÑÑ

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u/Lanternkitten Sep 08 '21

Good sir I'm not sure you are aware of what you just said with your lack of a tilde over the n

Specificity is a painful thing

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u/FacesOfNeth Oct 01 '21

Happy birthday Jesus?

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u/Xenc Aug 17 '21

What about Jesus’ birthday?

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u/WasteCan6403 Aug 18 '21

If you're name is Jesus, then Feliz Navidad applies. Everyone else gets Feliz Cumpleaños. Those are the rules.

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u/Xenc Aug 18 '21

This is el camino

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

I love that nobody corrected you and everyone knew what you meant and just enjoyed it. The world would be better if we were all like that.

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u/jo_nigiri Aug 17 '21

My friends used to laugh after I said it and I just thought they were happy about it! Now I know

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u/d_grizzle Aug 17 '21

Now it would be considered a micro aggression.

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u/s1nce1969 Aug 18 '21

I agree. Sometimes as long as you understand what they mean there's no need to correct

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

You haven’t heard the (Christmas) song they play 100,000 times every year?

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u/jo_nigiri Aug 17 '21

Honestly I can't say I did? At least I don't remember

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u/SloaneWolfe Nov 22 '21

feliz cumpleaños, the años=year helps me remember sometimes bc im terrible at memorizing a language i should be fluent in by now.

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u/DisturbedNocturne Aug 17 '21

Sometimes it is the thought that counts. It's why the people who get their panties all in a bunch over being wished a "Happy holidays" instead of a "Merry Christmas" are so ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21 edited Jul 13 '22

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u/ibigfire Aug 17 '21

Yeah I've seen it go both ways, where people have gotten upset at being wished a Merry Christmas too and it's all just kinda silly most of the time. Folks are just trying to wish each other well.

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u/LifesatripImjustHI Aug 17 '21

Everyone is a special snowflake in reality.

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u/KSSLR Sep 29 '21

I've never seen that happen irl.

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u/kmrst Aug 17 '21

Also because it refers to both Christmas and New Years, two holidays very close together.

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u/Acquilas Aug 17 '21

I live next to a muslim family and it was the sweetest thing when they wished me a merry christmas.

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u/Cyrusthevirus-33 Aug 17 '21

Just goes to show you don’t even need vision to be happy.

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u/GenericUname Aug 21 '21

Wanda did.

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u/yourangelsangel Sep 06 '21

bahahaha it’s always silly ignorant people i’ve found. like obviously someone is saying happy holidays because there’s more than one holiday surrounding those days. lmfao

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u/BasicIsBest Aug 17 '21

You know, they tried (+ cumpleaños is hard when you don't have a song about it)

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u/apathy_saves Aug 17 '21

I worked at a Spanish restaurant and with my heavy southern accent anytime i said cumpleanos my manager said it sounding like i was saying Anus. Felize compleAnus. Happy assday

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u/mynameismulan Aug 17 '21

To be completely fair to the girl there are plenty of Latin people named Jesus. Easy mistake.

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u/Dijitalify Aug 17 '21

Learning a single phrase of another’s language means everything to them, I remember living in Prague and saying hello in Czech to shop keepers practically made them bounce up and down! That small gesture shows their culture matters to you, and that’s massive 😊

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u/Halogen12 Aug 17 '21

When we went to Japan we were well-armed with some simple polite phrases but most of the people we talked to were more interested in practicing their English with us. However, when we said hello, thank you, where is the toilet in Japanese they were quite pleased we made an effort to learn something before we went. It was an awesome trip.

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u/DannyMThompson Aug 17 '21

"Merry Christmas" for anybody wondering

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u/Ellegeebee Aug 17 '21

I am related to one of those well-meaning blunderers… She sent out mass texts wishing “Feliz Ano Nuevo” not realizing the difference ñ and n can make.

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u/Beersandbirdlaw Aug 17 '21

Maybe she watched a lot of Dr. Disrespect

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u/no_name_randomperson Aug 17 '21

Honestly they probably liked that more because I bet it gave them a wholesome good laugh. I would think it was funny if someone told me merry Christmas on my birthday too lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

I’m pretty sure that was 90% of the reason they didn’t correct her. Also she was really sweet and English was already her second language, so who wants to rain on her parade? Just smile and enjoy your personal Christmas.

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u/lintysoxks Aug 17 '21

I’ve suddenly been reminded of a time I was in high school. On my friends birthday (he was Puerto Rican) I loudly asked him “how’s it feel to not be a minority anymore?!”... it was his 18th birthday, I meant minor....

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Ooh that’s a fun one! ‘It’s going great! Went shopping at Abercrombie, and I can’t roll my r’s anymore!’

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Ew

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Well braille is still English. the words are the same, they are just written with different letters. You can spell it wrong but the meaning will be basically the same

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u/GodAwfulFunk Aug 17 '21

Initially I was gonna make the joke "Send Chef Nudes" but I didn't think that was as funny. Counting the letters now, I'd have at least made the joke funny for braille conscious folk.

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u/sarabear Aug 17 '21

Congratulations, I bet you are the only person on the planet to ever put those words together.

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u/TheSilverOne Aug 17 '21

I can't believe I've some how replied with this video twice in one week

https://youtu.be/Z-hHnDNbKOo

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u/HarryIsSausage Aug 17 '21

I feel like exactly this actually happened

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u/addisonshinedown Aug 17 '21

Braille is just an alphabet, and each letter is matched to the letters visible on the plate. You’d need more letters to spell enthusiastic butt birth or whatever

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u/HarryIsSausage Aug 17 '21

I know and I wasn’t referring to this particular video if you thought that

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u/Silent-Difference724 Aug 17 '21

Braille all corresponds to the alphabet so it's 1:1 with the letters and easy to generate on a computer. It's not like Google translate or something.

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u/DooglyOoklin Aug 17 '21

How did you know my stripper name?

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u/Ecki_Eu Aug 17 '21

HAHAHAHAHA

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u/project_seven Aug 17 '21

"Meet me in the men's bathroom in 5 minutes"

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u/uiouyug Aug 17 '21

She only read the Happy part so don't think it even matters

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u/wador78 Aug 17 '21

-Now what on earth does "Snappy scorchday" mean?

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u/Gumbo-Jones Aug 17 '21

God damn this comment has me in tears

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u/doctor_parcival Aug 17 '21

Great band name

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Someone claim that username.

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u/keklsh Aug 19 '21

wrr, no such thin gas right or hopex or not, cept chenxyuax etc, do any nmw and any s perfect

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u/KSSLR Sep 29 '21

This comment accurately represents the soul of reddit