German pool time

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[u/Zebrafish96]

Korean ver.

Although not taking place in the office, this comic is actually a part of my Polandball office series. In my PBOffice universe, when the September comes and Lesser known September event starts on the subreddit, the members who are on the banned list for LKS go on a vacation and those who are not remain in the office. However, I did not have any ideas to make comic about the vacation members nor LKS-compliant members during the September, so I couldn't make any PBOffice comic during last month. Now the September has been over for 2 weeks, only now I have an idea about them. Estortoise me.

[u/redracer555 → u/Zebrafish96]

"Estortoise me."

Okay.

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Not sure why you wanted that, but there you go.

[u/Pochel]

I feel every language says it

[u/Zebrafish96 → u/Pochel]

I think it's probably only a thing in Europe. We don't have that saying.

[u/KotetsuNoTori → u/Pochel]

At least not in Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien. (Just to make sure, Germany is saying it won't dissolve in the rain, right?)

[u/Extaupin → u/Pochel]

In France, the saying doesn't relate to sugar dissolving in water but being fragile( "je suis pas fait en sucre" - "I'm not made of sugar" - "I'm not going to get hurt by this").

[u/MrRamRam720 → u/Pochel]

In the uk you just say skin's waterproof

[u/Lord_Gelthon]

Did you perchance watch Uyens short about it? It's very recent and basically the same story. Great work as always!

[u/Zebrafish96 → u/Lord_Gelthon]

Ah yes, I watched this reel on instagram.

[u/OriginalUseristaken]

Yeah, you're already wet from the neck down, so why bother hiding as long as it's just rain.

[u/bigboys4m96 → u/OriginalUseristaken]

I’m wet from the crack down.

[u/BvAlmelo]

In Dutch we also have that saying.

[u/FiercelyApatheticLad → u/BvAlmelo]

Same in French.

[u/cool_username32123 → u/BvAlmelo]

Same in Portuguese

[u/josegfwe1945 → u/BvAlmelo]

Same in czech

[u/BoomKofe → u/BvAlmelo]

Russian has that too

[u/[deleted] → u/BvAlmelo]

[u/[deleted] → u/BvAlmelo]

[u/marcopolo2207]

People also say that here when it's raining, especially parents when their children have to go outside and their parents don't want to drive.

[u/Epic_Sunset]

As long as its not a thunderstorm its fine. You are already wet, so it doesnt matter.

[u/Big_ShinySonofBeer]

Missed opportunity to have a Reichtangle towel reserving one of the spots.

[u/Rod7z]

I'm Brazilian and we also have that saying, but I'm from a region of Brazil with extremely high incidence of lightning strikes, as in every rain cloud is likely to be accompanied by lightning. So we tend to avoid swimming when it's raining. Playing football is fair game though (so what if it's more dangerous than swimming?).

[u/ZhtWu]

I second those saying it's pleasing to swim in the rain; As long as it's not a thunderstorm, it's quite pleasant.

[u/annoying97]

I loved swimming in the rain. Im already wet, I can't get any wetter. Why stop enjoying the pool because it's raining!?