Like Joe for coffee.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I don't touch that stuff, fish fuck in it!

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    Council pop is such a term, but is very UK.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    In Finland we call it "non-alcoholic vodka"

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago*

    Adam's ale. What my grandpa used to jokingly call it. Edit: someone beat me too it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_ale

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Water is the nickname. We forgot its real name

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    I fucking love the etymology of animal and food words. My favorite is deer, which is related to the German Tier, and originally meant “animal,” because I imagine early Germanic speakers looking at a deer and thinking “this is it, the quintessential animal.” I get it, honestly.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Not really early Germanic though, because every other Germanic language kept the meaning of "animal". It's only modern English (since the 1500s) that narrowed it all the way to one specific species (or family of Cervidae).

    My guess would be that the language gained the word "animal" from French and "deer" was pushed from its niche and forced to specialize?

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    The modern English word "bear" originally came from a proto-Germanic word meaning one of "brown one" or possibly "wild animal". There was an actual name for bears, but speaking it was taboo in case it caused a bear to appear, so the euphemism eventually replaced the real name.

    When I learned this originally, I was taught that the true name was lost to time, but Wikipedia just says it was "arkto" so whatever.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    In Dutch its gemeente pils, which translates to municipal pilsner.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Adam's ale (also referred to as Adam's wine, especially in Scotland; sometimes simply called Adam) is a colloquial allusion meaning water. It alludes to the idea that the biblical Adam had only water to drink. This inference gained popularity around the beginning of the 19th-century temperance movement.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Water?

    Never touch the stuff.

    Fish fuck in it, doncha know?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's got a 100% mortality rate too - think about it

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So does every other drink for that matter.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    "Council Juice" in N. Ireland.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Adam's Ale" is in my thesaurus as a synonym for water. I've never heard that one before. lol

    There is also Dihydrogen Monoxide.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Recently heard that cup of Joe comes from the Navy. The guy that banned alcohol on Navy ships and replaced them with coffee was named Joe.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    In French we call it "Chateau Lapompe" which sounds like a wine name but is literally "castle the pump".

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  • “Now that’s good quality H2O”

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I'll just have a cup of rain, thanks.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A nice tall glass of raw ice, please.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We call it Corporation Pop here.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Morning brown, morning brown

    Get yourself a cup of morning brown

    Morning brown, morning frown

    What the heck is morning brown?

    Well, morning brown is great, you get it

    in a cup

    Add cream and sugar, then you stir it all up

    It comes from beans, have it hot or with

    ice

    In a day, I'd say, only drink it thrice

    Morning brown, I'm still not sure

    Can you please explain it some more?

    It's coffee, ya fuck

    Oh, right, yep

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Although i know the implications of calling it Jill.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Might want to hold off on telling people that you were thirsty and drank a tall glass of Jill: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jilling

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Sky Juice in Malaysia

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    In Chicago you sometimes get a “Lake Michigan on the rocks”

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Council pop

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    Over here we call it Council Juice

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    "Wah-wah": Am I a joke to you?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Some southern Slavs call tap water "technical" because it's technically safe to drink, but definitely has a lot of stuff in it that you don't want to drink... You complain as you chain smoke.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    For sparkling, it's commonly referred to as "homeopathic lager" among colleagues - i.e. without any active ingredients.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I dunno, man. I've heard it being referred to as "aqua-cola". I've also heard it's incredibly addictive, which makes sense because not a lot of time has to pass at all before I start to crave more of it. It's practically impossible to resist.

    Should've never been started on that shit. I dunno why it's so normalised in society...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    well in my country it's called : sprite for the poor or sprite without soda

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Desalinated saline

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "Gänsewein" - goose wine in germany

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    given that stars are mostly hydrogen, and rust is oxide.

    I often call water "rusty star"

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    A glass of some High Koala-Tea H2O courtesy of The Waterboy

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    Liquified comet farts

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It's "Château Lapompe" in french to mimic wine brand ;)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The moist maker

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