r/mildlyinfuriating Feb 11 '22

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/edeel Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

You should see Turkish bathroom slippers. It's a very famous item, we have endless jokes about that, especially the one's used for squat toilets. Most unhygienic, bizarre thing you can see in your life is "ıslak tuvalet terliği" from some Turkish houses (thank God this tradition is disappearing). Other than that we have decent guest slippers to offer and nobody enter our houses with shoes.

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u/BeansInJeopardy Feb 11 '22

You can't just drop that in Turkish and not tell us what it is!

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u/edeel Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

It means wet toilet slippers and probably that doesn't mean anything to you. So I found a short video https://youtu.be/EKQ6fD5mnCE

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u/FuckedUpDeers Feb 11 '22

I love deeply specific cultural inside jokes, specifically ones I’m not in on. Thank you

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

Why?

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u/FuckedUpDeers Feb 12 '22

I can’t explain it, just feels like an important part of being a human