PapaUbu
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Done that.
Jul 1, 2017 9:29 AM
PapaUbu
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Done that.
RyanForehand
It's terrifying to experience
railgap
Man, the French have a phrase for everything.
CaptGunpowder
"Split second"?! Bitch this is my life
ImNotUsuallyThisErect
Medically it's called an Intrusive Thought. For people with anxiety, they focus on the meaning of it and it lingers.
SayHelloToMyLittleWaitWhatDidYouSay
So it is not only me. Pheeeww! Relieve.
vvonneguts
the void has been calling me for a very, very long time
TheGreatElipitcalTransformationJefferson
I can't go an hour without these thoughts
Nic8721234
It last a lot longer than a split second
khazaria
Did you know "the call of the void" translates as "L'appel du vide"?
ltsDizzyD
What if that thought lasts like 15 minutes?
DerelictBuildings
Bonjour, je m'appele Le Vide
Chevalpuant88
Bonjour je suis ton voisin l'écho ;-)
SecondToNine
It's called intrusive thoughts, it's a common form of OCD which results in people having spontaneous horrifying thoughts, out of character.
aegis27
From what I've read, it's the bodies way of understanding danger. Imagining the worst possible outcome. Not necessarily a sign of suicide.
macandcheese21
Before we evolved to stand upright, our ancestors were tree dwellers. The urge to jump is supposedly a vestige of swinging from branches
Rystefn
Swinging from branches is the shit
VultureTX
anxiety management, so you don't freeze or panic when it does happen.
fluhatinrapper
This really helped last time I stuck my dick in a bansaw. It's all about visualizing success.
Builgus
Omg my whole life. I've always wondered. I called it "my worst case scenario brain"
ByDownvotingMeYoureAgreeingThatYoureWrong
Or just plowing through cars whenever you're stuck in traffic
goodjobmyfellowman
Hello Darkness, my old friend
daendusk
huh the void calls me way too often ..especially when i'm in traffic
Lokopixow
Its funny to see how many of you joke about french words.. im french and you can be sure that many english words are fucking nonsense for us
Lokopixow
For example, "bite" in french mean litteraly "cock", "Dick" or wathever you want, i have many other examples if you want ????
lintwizard
Whatever you say, cockbite
uowaep
Oh I joke about english words too. I'm not a bad speller, but it really drives me crazy how many rule exceptions there are.
Lokopixow
My post wasnt angry, sorry ^^'
uowaep
Not taken as angry. Just saying, we hate our language too. ;)
twerksforfish
what if you have those thoughts all the time? whats that called
aShogunNamedMarcus
What's the French for when you are at the exotic produce section and the jackfruit is calling "shove me up your ass"?
lintwizard
I am Jack's fruit suppository?
LarvaLamp
Lorsque vous êtes à la section des produits exotiques et que le jackfruit appelle "me pousser dans votre cul"
Lokopixow
tehPhreakmang
High place syndrom wasn't it? (To Google!)
tehPhreakmang
"high place phenomenon" found it lol
urbestfox
Every day
AgamemnonsMemes
Also called 'intrusive thoughts' where you suddenly have a thought you wouldn't normally want, like throwing yourself down stairs or whatev
pilomotor
I think that's broader, and can include randomly remembering stuff that makes you cringe, like a mohawk you thought made you look so cool.
HD226868
No, I think intrusives are defined as the violenty ones.
pilomotor
Huh, Wikipedia says they're thoughts of "inappropriate things at inappropriate times". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought
vestahound
I get these a lot, but mostly towards harming others. I never hurt anyone before, but the thoughts disturb me.
Mithi
What if we exist in a giant VR and those calls of the void are just exit points?
SisterBliss
Wooooooooaaah
tittysprinkler
Bro
VultureTX
Turns out it just the chat feed on your stream screaming for you to RIP in HardCore.
expertinlife
L'appel du Chtulhu.
deadcell
Ia! Ia!, motherfucker!
secretoaster
The only true god
AnnoyingFrenchCorrector
Wrong : L'appel de Chtulhu.
TheresAGermanWordForThat
Hastur?
everythingiseverything
de*
Leithoa
*Plays electric guitar in French*
expertinlife
Paint me like those french elder gods?
Highwired
No lives matter! The Great Old Ones call to you all! All hail Cthulhu!
Solidblueness
Oh God, you've gone from holding ruined signs and yelling at my car to being on Imgur. On second thought it's not that big a change.
Highwired
Spare change? Never mind, I'll check your back seat floorboards!
theUniverseMomentum
Cthulhu fhtagn!
expertinlife
Iä! Iä!
PleaseMindTheGap
We we
LannistersSendTheirRetards
I think I have the opposite: where you have split seconds you don't want to do that
thebirdbiologist
I feel you. Gotta embrace that nihilistic viewpoint and push on, though.
fluhatinrapper
Say what you will about the social tenants of pascifism, at least it's an ethos. Ohh boo hoo, who's the fuckin nihilist here!?
Toodleypops
L'appelle de vivre
findinganentrancewheretheycan
Hahaha. Genuine lol that time.
LadyWidebottom
Are you ok man?
TheThoroughbredOfSinBadHorse
I'm not
ryanjoseph666
If you need to talk to somebody message me
filthybarbarian
Have you eaten?
TheThoroughbredOfSinBadHorse
Not hungry
TheThoroughbredOfSinBadHorse
Thanks
RowdyAndTiberius
It only took me 18 mins to read all the comments.
Dpjb89
I think of putting my hand into the circular saws at work. Then think hmmmm maybe not.
gargolito
I'm pretty sure it's "hmmm" not "hmmmm".
3verybodyPantsNow
It requires an extra m because of the darkness of the thought...
UninformedImgurian
"sometimes I think I can do crystal meth, then I think: hmmmmm, betta not."
fluhatinrapper
Just one crystal meth?
MyMiddleNameIsLiterallyJoy
At first I thought you wrote straws, and I thought "that's not so bad." Then I realized it was saws. Yeah, don't do that
Jamsteri
Thanks dude, now I started thinking about pouring concentrated sulfuric acid on my hands...
Jamsteri
Hmmm...maybe not
TerenceTurner
So glad its not just me. And pinching the router bit to stop it like putting out a candel :/silly brain......no.
obizues
What the actual fuck?
nipaxon
I've thought on my way to work in my car, ' I can end it right here if i chose to" it's a scary thought.
LarvaLamp
When I was a kid, it was the fan belt of a running engine.
OrdoXenosAgent
I think about driving into parked cars on the side of the road, those ones that are for sale. Then I think, 'nah'
allofthat
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT DID THIS SHIT
Shardikprime
dude you missing the memo apparently the french do too. And a lot for them to have a phrase for this shit
TruthBehindTheLies
Hell if you do it maybe you'll make some money haha
fluhatinrapper
Do it. I double dog dare you. Okay, maybe noy.
Bloxyboi
While I'm riding my motorcycle, Sometimes I have a "I wonder how people would react if I crashed right now" thought. 1/2
Bloxyboi
I swear I'm not suicidal. 2/2
RhymingEverything
I just want to test it and see how fast it is (with my finger)
fluhatinrapper
Fast enough ;)
pragmatao
I think of stabbing my family with knives while I'm doing the dishes.
truthsmiles
I picked up a sledgehammer the other day and for a fleeting second I thought about bashing my dog with it. Horrifying.
NonExistingName
I've thought the same with my cat, though I love that bastard... It's so weird. Why does it happen?
truthsmiles
I'm no psychologist, but I think it has something to do with our brain constantly exploring options, occasionally outrageous ones.
uowaep
I always want to touch my finger to the blade as it spins.
fluhatinrapper
How will you know if you don't try. That's my motto.
uowaep
You mean what happens or if I'll find out I like the way it feels?
truthsmiles
You can with the right saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYoBbEZwlk
metzershmit
And break your saw.
truthsmiles
Meh. $60 cartridge in a $2,000 saw isn't really breaking it. In any case, way better than losing a hand.
metzershmit
And the saw blade as well. I like the saw, but I wouldn't want to just waste the money replacing that stuff.
BrushesofDoom
I smell a knee meme trend of "hmmmm maybe not" coming on
kwansue
At work we have these big k-12 saws. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to take one in the thigh. Never going to find out thought
alancake
Husband lost the top joint of his middle finger to a circular saw. The bone was atomised.
snowfork
"How badly would I need to hurt myself in order to get off work?"
SolarDildo
I have the same, it's just when I use my blender.
Cal1te
Or thinking about just not braking when someone pulls out in front of my truck... 44tons...I'd be fine...
fluhatinrapper
U might be.
yomo133
Sometimes at work, I have to restrain myself from shoving my hands in the fryer
fluhatinrapper
Dooo itttt
pizzapanman
Used to look at the heating element at the bottom and say "I bet I could grab that..."
bb2b
This is stupid. They're called intrusive thoughts. Nothing profound about them, just an unfettered curiosity asking 'what if'.
DukePhelan
What if? Well if you jump off a fucking cliff you going to die when you reach that sudden stop at the end. Humans are wired weird.
SnailCat
That doesn't mean we can't have words for things.
RowdyAndTiberius
Boobs
AgentObvious
I don't know. Sometimes I think that, but when you're there in the moment, it's not about curiosity, there's a powerful urge to just jump...
AgentObvious
...That's hard to explain. You want to jump for the sake of jumping.
Naygas
I think it's the lizard people controlling us so that when we jump they can feed on our corpses and the ones who survive become sex slaves
AgentObvious
????
Yuken
They are called intrusive thoughts in english, which is not the only language in the world.
samrevem
I think his point is that there is nothing extraordinary about there being a term in French. There's probably one in most every language.
bb2b
True. But flower-y prose never appealed to me, I like the simplicity of English, ha.
LizardsInTheSky
As someone with several close international friends, you take for granted that English was your first. Shits hard yo
bb2b
It was my second language, technically. I started out speaking Cree very early on. But, stopped when I moved into town for school.
LizardsInTheSky
I was more talking about being raised with it, not necessarily the order in which it was learned. My friends started at age 7 and didn't
marteron
We have this phrase in English too, it translates to "call of the void"
noemi24
Passive suicidal ideation.
Koshunae
This definition was copy and pasted from Wikipedia and rewritten like a freshman paper. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27appel_du_vide
Inusitus
Was looking for this comment
Twiggeh
elementaryschoollibrarian
But is sounds much cooler in French.
LizardsInTheSky
It says that in the post
LizardsInTheSky
They're also commonly referred to as "intrusive thoughts"
LizardsInTheSky
Woah I'm genuinely curious why the downvotes here.
Knillis
Have a few updoots
ArchMagos
They are also called "Intrusive Thoughts" in psychology. But that covers a bit more than just random suicidal thoughts.
anonymouse08
I get those sometimes. Usually on Saturdays for some reason. They're seldom about suicide, fortunately.
MintMoths
As someone with OCD, I'm happy you knew this lol.
fantasticjack
They're the worst. People say "think positively" I'm like I literally cannot control what my brain is thinking
Flyndaran
Most people with anxiety disorders have them, but strangely no matter how extreme my attacks get, I don't have such thoughts.
ohdeepthought
I have thoughts of more self destructive behaviour like sleeping with a fuck boy and getting pregnant but I'd never sink into that void. 1
ohdeepthought
Or buying a bunch of flowers even though I'm allergic to pollen but they would brighten my home up a bit.
fantasticjack
I eat a lot of dairy even though im lactose intolerant but ice cream makes me feel better
brumbievan
Could you just take off the bits with the pollen? You could "dust" the flowers with a can of air or something to get extra pollen off.
Wombatish
Invasive thoughts can also be pervasive and repititious. They are similar, but more on the same gradient than 1:1 comparison.
Yalldntve
The french have a lot of phrases for weird shit. Deja vu for one, and now this. France, are you okay?
MyPasswordIsDickButt
as a french guy, just don't believe what's written on the internet, most of the time it's b*llsh*t
AllHailTheSpaceDuck
We also have 'dépaysement' for the feeling when you're not in your element. It translates as "uncountrysement'
EnvelopeOfDoom9000
For me that evokes the original meaning of "bewilder"... feeling like you've been dragged off and abandoned in the wilderness. No immediate
EnvelopeOfDoom9000
sense of direction, no easily accessible exits. Like being lost in a big green grocery store with no employees or fellow customers.
TotalSmartAss
Francis Bacon
Disculpeme
Folie à deux. Shared psychosis
kungfufil
Ménage à trois, love triangle or threesome.
LetumComplexo
Ennui - a sense of dissatisfaction with the world stemming from boredom.
MemeDissector
France is the emo of language. Germany is the nerd with a word for everything.
WilliamJLePetomane
Joie de vivre - they have phrases as good as they have bad
erelyes
Yeah, their language has a certain je ne sais quoi
FragileReality
So fucking expressive. I love languages.
GuardsmanMiku
The french have a lot of phrases for weird shit. Deja vu for one, and now this. France, are you okay?
copingcabana
They call potatoes "ground apples."
OrphanOfSanity
Another one is La douleur exquise, which translates to exquisite pain. The context is something many people can relate too
Arsikere
sounds like they think a lot
AlexEnginering
As a french myself, yes, for the moment, we are okay. Btw, works in reverse too : parking, camping car, burger, all taken from the english.
arwenslartibartfast
Also jamais vu (never seen, when something familiar seems unfamiliar) and presque vu ( almost on the tip of your tongue)
Batmandeadparents
Yeah I'm fine, you ?
iPreferBeingCalledSB
The replies are epic too. Need to dot!
GradiustheFox
The french have a lot of phrases for weird shit. Deja vu for one, and now this. France, are you okay?
dejavutoyoutoo
Ne rien savoir faire de ses dix doigts.
TheArchangelLord
So do the Japanese, hell they have a word for giving your liver a break after a week of drinking
VVulf
I like Dave Barry's translation of the word etiquette ... "wrong fork stupid".
Germankipp
So do Germans, schadenfreude
miidnightbleus
Are you saying you never imagined these things happening to you?
qindje
They also have a bunch of words/sounds that overlap and mean the same thing. They are also weirdly refer to 90 as FourTwentiesTen. Lunatics!
Sirepoutine
There is also "rendez-vous"
rockchalker73
PPontiac
*drags on hand rolled cigarette* We make do, chéri.
Yalldntve
Don't call me Chérly.
PizzaSlutForever
Bien, bien ...
fantasticfurry
Español es más bien que francés
Inappropesmagotes
Omelette au fromage
millanbel
I was about to correct you on the second word but then I reread. Well done!
CptCameltoe
We make go* on fait alller...
PPontiac
yes, except "to make do" is proper english grammar and it's actually how you'd translate "faire aller"
madcore
nous nous rendons
AmericanGh0st
Do you need to add "compte" to this? Truly wanting to know... with compte, doesn't this become "we are aware/realize"? Not sure as is...
Cofrane
I don't know if you are being ironic but to answer : yes you right. But without "compte", this sentence means "we surrender".
Cofrane
More precisely, I think it would mean "we are realizing... Something"
AmericanGh0st
Thanks, I learned something today!
Cofrane
Welcome!
Jimmmydickgun
They're a bunch of baguettes
SoloHarty
Yes but... /a/H3g4O
arthurfuckingpewtey
C'est toi la braguette
downofathistle
l'esprit de l'escalier - the spirit on the stairs... It's like when you think of a comeback several days later.
tavadis
steps later. sinon: ni esprit, ni escalier
AnnoyingFrenchCorrector
Slight correction : L'esprit d'escalier.
maladiiii
I learned it that way too, but apparently 'esprit' also means 'wit' so it's just 'staircase wit.'
downofathistle
Double entendre? ;) haunted by those missed comebacks...
maladiiii
Je vous entends. That's still how I think of it :)
DanceDanceRepression
In French "Déjà vu" on its own doesn't mean what you're using it for. It's closer to "une impression de déjà vu" but it still doesn't 1/2
DanceDanceRepression
convey the exact same meaning. It's more often used to describe things annoyingly familiar. 2/2
MBumBum
But while it may be more used to describe something unoriginal, it still can mean the exact same thing that in english
MexicanCatFur
Do you mean like things that you swear remember doing even though they are happening just as you say deja vu?
ilikethiswebsite
For instance a situation you dreamt about happening in real life.
Inappropesmagotes
Do you mean like things that you swear remember doing even though they are happening just as you say deja vu?
erelyes
Do you mean like things that you swear remember doing even though they are happening just as you say deja vu?
fhatpotatou
Jamais vu (not knowing what you're seeing, even though you've seen it before) and presque vu (tip-of-the-tongue).
arwenslartibartfast
I just typed the same thing in pretty much the same way. I scrolled down and thought " Why does it have someone else's name on it?".
fhatpotatou
Rip
arwenslartibartfast
https://goo.gl/images/8W4YZA
AnnoyingFrenchCorrector
Yes about the "jamais vu", the other one is absolutely non-french (at least in France).
pipicacaboudin
Presque vu? Jamais entendu parler
fhatpotatou
I don't speak croissant very well.
fhatpotatou
Pomme de la terre, which translates directly to "Earth apple," but means "Potato."
Elodrico
no, it's "pomme de terre"
fhatpotatou
Same difference
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ThisIsTheLastTimeIChangeUsernamesIPromise
No we don't
StonesOnTheHill
Most of us call the potatoes. They're just calls earth pears in some local dialects.
bobstallone
There's a saying for this comment too. Je suis une symphonie d'omelette avec des problèmes d'engagement.
AnnoyingFrenchCorrector
That's beautiful.
G0ldunDrak0n
Mais oui c'est clair !
Docretier
Deja Vu, I've seen this before
LaBotte
https://youtu.be/M8XQV0PYf3c
bpetersen
Deja entendu - already heard
Tratosian
[Eurobeat intensifies]
MisterDildy
Higher on the street
LipMyStockings
La petite mort (little death) is sometimes used for orgasm
Mithi
Learned that from Cutting Crew - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOwHzCHfgA
canadianunicorn
No it's not
BatLadyRielle
I make a joke about this in games when we wipe-"everyone needs a little death once in a while" but no one gets it =(
Lokopixow
True, but we never say "you are dead Honey ?" During an orgasm ????
GeneralBullshit
Sudden mort, utevo gran mas mort, exori mort... Just some spells from tibia, I think, haven't played it for years
Booleanfeeder
What? No. Sauce: I'm unfortunately french.
foxracing254
CodeIsLoveCodeIsLife
Whoever that man is, he deserves a medal.
MrShieldy
Yeah, I wonder that all the time, who is this guy?
foxracing254
It's from the music video for blink 182s "first date"
feawen
It was the same in english around shakespeare/John Donne, ~1600
BaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaBATMAN
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Leithreas
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
Xorlarin
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer.
PureLoveMachine
This takes on a whole new, and fucking amazing meaning in French I guess
AsAHistorian
Fear is the orgasm that brings total obliteration.
electrotoxins
I'm gonna start calling my dick "fear" now.
3RsReadingRitingRithmatic
Its because back in the day on midgets were allowed to finish.
BustyCrustacean
Cashoes
And then the midgets were executed
tattooedpotato
This is so not true, I've NEVER heard someone say that expression, no one use it anymore it's from the 19th century. (Source : I'm French)
Ajierene
I have friends that have used this phrase
tattooedpotato
For real ?? All of the people I've asked about this didn't know it...myself included. Are they students in litterature ?
Ajierene
Bit late in reply but my friends that have used this studied French, and majored in a variety of subjects in college.
WifiBee
That's because it's old, i can confirm this is a saying.
tattooedpotato
Ok I've seen that it's a real expression but my point is that veeeeeeery few french-speaking people know it nowadays.
Hamncheezsandwich
Wrong again, I hear it on French TV quite often as slang.
Hamncheezsandwich
Sure is. Source: also French.
wronaldweasley
I think the point was that it's sometimes used in literature to mean that, not that people actively say it
tattooedpotato
Even if it was just in litterature we would know what it means, but I first heard this expression on english speaking sites.
azertyxtra
Well I'm french, not old, and using this expression
tattooedpotato
Well, fuck me, I was wrong.
KickAssFactsMachine
Makes sense to me considering the female brain goes almost completely inactive during an orgasm
lintwizard
She lied to you.
FactCheckerExtraordinaire
I might be wrong, but that sounds like of those dubious claims like us using only 10% of our brains.
theplayahaterball
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2011/11/18/brain-imaging-captures-female-orgasm-in-action/ - pretty much the opposite is true
WhenIGrowUpIWannaBeAnAardvark
“Secondary to an epileptic seizure, there’s no bigger brain networking event,” said Wise.
ralmoly
There should be an option to pin this sub-comment to the top.
Sinjai
More inactive?
magnetude
+1 from me tho
TheUsernamewastaken
Whats wrong with those guys? Its probably a joke stop being so sensitive
bananasinpyjamas
Lol, you can tell this was a good comment by how many downvotes you have
Sinjai
I can't even see what this was in reference to because Imgur's app needs work.
RwizCat
So "edward makaroni fork" is the best comment on imgur?
shhep
As a translator, most languages have crapload of that stuff, chances are you just don't notice that in English. cat shitting out a peach pit
Strongharbour432
I know my home has a shitload of weird and near nonsense things that only really make sense to those from the same town
Treblaine
Yeah, we want to have our cake and eat it.
TheBestRussian
Retournons a nos moutons is a unique French phrase rooted in interesti f history. That's what I like about slang - cultural&historical roots
perfectbosom
What does it mean?
BatLadyRielle
They're idioms, not slang.
TheBestRussian
Idioms, yes, that's what I meant, thank you
shhep
"that's not a hill I want to die on", not to mention classics such as cacoethes - urge to do something inadvisable, presenteeism - spending
shhep
a lot of time at work even though you're SICK, GO HOME KAREN, mumpsimus - dumb tradition everyone respects. The list goes on and on.
ThisIsTheLastTimeIChangeUsernamesIPromise
classic Karen
zeros000
Covfefe?
LaronX
Well American english does lack a lot of those things mainly because a lot of the population didn't speak it around 4-5 Generations ago.
shhep
As a matter of fact, no. AmEn is a mix of foreign import and rather old English. Your language for some 100, 200 years evolved much slower
shhep
than BrEn. As I said, you just don't notice it. It's what many fail to realize. You don't expect to know fermi's grand theorem is just
shhep
because you count on your fingers. Similarly, you can't expect to notice many linguistic nuances just because you speak the language.
srs00
Come on down south and we'll show you a few
srs00
Where the summers are hotter'n a couple mice fuckin in a wool sock
CthulhusGreasyBallsack
That'd make me more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Hogek
France. Call me. I'll listen. But loose the accent, please.
DoctorCoktopus
And the dogs of waaaar!!!
Cofrane
Keep hoping... Even if we are trying, too damn hard!
Hogek
#fight
ThisIsTheLastTimeIChangeUsernamesIPromise
How loose do you want it?
Hogek
So loose that i can't get my family to like it.
Pipistrelle
I've been trying my best to get rid of my accent until I realised guys find it cute. Not even making a single effort now
Hogek
Vive la france! Or atleast their gorgeous ladies!
Violethostel
Non
Hogek
Hon hon hon *laughs in baguette"
Itworks10
No way I'm losing the accent. It's even worse without it.
Hogek
Be yourself. Stay strong.
Gouzigouzi
We're trying man. Most of us at least...
Hogek
Zokalwe
I'm not trying. If a cop pulls me over I'll even exaggerate it. (living in the US)
Hogek
Hehehe
arthurfuckingpewtey
Does it help at all?
Zokalwe
Only got warnings, so I guess it does.