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      Family member: “what’s so funny?”

      Me: “snort titta”

      (I didn’t show them the comic I have self respect)

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    One of my friends read this very same greentext back then when it was new and he told it to our friend group like it happened to him. Everyone laughed their asses off and had him as a person that knew how to laugh at themselves. Years later, while doomscrolling, I ended up watching a Instagram reel of a standup routine with this very same joke. We were devastated when I broke the news that our humble friend spun a web of lies.

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    I liked when Bert told this one better in his comedy routine. I saw it on YouTube because it’s everywhere.

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          I met a cleaning lady in London who couldn’t speak English.

          It happened last year in a nice hotel, and I found out as tried to ask for a towel.

          Tbh it was kind of funny to think about it later, the one place you would not expect this to happen is London, yet it’s the most logical place that this would happen due to the insanely high demand for workers for these jobs.

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            I wouldn’t really stress the “a lot” there, really.

            You won’t have to go far to find an English speaking country in Europe as there are over 370 million English speakers out of about 450 million EU residents!

            Granted that is the EU, not Europe in general, but it’s also people in general, of all ages, and not adult people who work a service job. Sure, in some backwater Russian town that is technically in Europe you might have a problem with getting understood in English, but “problem” is “Проблема” in Russian. And that reads as “problema”. “Toilet” is “Туалет” = “tualet”.

            So I really can’t imagine a scenario in which you can’t communicate “a problem with the toilet” without dragging someone in to the loo and shoving their face in your pile.

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              Well, if we reduce the requirements from knowing English to being able to understand “toilet! problem!” then of course.

              Non-english speakers are not evenly distributed in different countries, that is why it still depends a lot on where you are searching, and in places where there’s almost no demand for speaking English, there will be much less people working in services speaking English.

              English proficiency map showing more than half of Europe has moderate average proficiency in English

              For instance, you can take a look at Wikipedia’s list of countries by English speaking population, Italy has ≈13% of speakers, Spain has ≈22%, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Portugal all fall between 25–27%%

              And it’s not like you can just go and every fourth will be speaking English fluently, I would expect most of them to be in big cities or capitals.

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                Wow, the UK and Turkey (I’m not spelling it that way) have the same proficiency in English! /s

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    As someone that used to be tasked with clearing other people’s shit at work, here’s how you fix a clogged toilet without a plunger:

    first of all DO NOT FLUSH! Stay tf away from the handle on the toilet until the clog is cleared. shutoff the water if possible, there should be a valve between the toilet and the wall that you turn 90°. Even then there’s still water in the tank, so I repeat do not flush!

    If the clog isn’t 100% and some water can slowly drain through, leave it for a few minutes and come back. You want the water level in the bowl as low as possible. Next, fill a small trash can with hot water. not boiling, just the hottest you can get from the tap. Now dump that hot water in the toilet bowl. Be quick about it, but not so quick that you can’t stop yourself from overflowing

    The hot water and large volume helps break things up. manually pouring you can dump a lot more water in the bowl a lot faster than flushing normally will without the risk of overflowing.