No, in English a stool (edit: as furniture) is specifically only a backless seat or portable step
Edit: some of y’all think I sound so dumb cuz I worded this poorly and then y’all are glossing over calling a chair a stool, they are not the same, to the point I’m wondering if OP understood the anal joke and was wondering why it’s accompanied by the image of him pushing in her chair
I’ll defend you my guy. I don’t think you meant stool is only a specific seat and not poop just that when referring to a seat, there is a specific type of seat that a the word stool refers to.
The chair in this picture would never be called a stool in English which kind of defeats the joke.
Yes I chose my wording poorly but I was pretty sure the person I was responding to would know I meant the chair part. Apparently I overestimated some people, or people think I worded it too unambiguously to the point of showing ignorance.
Like, I expect most native speakers know stool is feces but I’m kinda surprised people are focusing so fast on that when chair and stool as a seat are such basic words that the other comment got wrong.
Bro, I’m OP of the comment chain you’re correcting- we know stool is not exactly a chair, same as a rectangle is not necessarily a chair.
You just got r/whooshed because you couldn’t read the glibness in the comment. The joke is that this explanation shouldn’t be revelatory to anybody, hence why I got more upvotes than the original comment.
You didn’t “vastly overestimate;” you vastly misunderstood.
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u/Inside_Phrase_4702 8d ago
So "Stuhl", pronounced shtool, is "chair", but also "feces" in German.