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Why did the exercise machine call me a slut?
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The gym I use has some exercise machines set to display English, others Dutch, and a few in French. Yesterday I was using one in Dutch and when I finished my 30 minutes it promptly displayed:
SLUT!
And then as it cycled through the distance, calories burned and such it displayed this:
SNITT FART
Still not sure if someone was having a little fun with the machine or those are the appropriate Dutch words.
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Originally Posted by Atheist 
The gym I use has some exercise machines set to display English, others Dutch, and a few in French. Yesterday I was using one in Dutch and when I finished my 30 minutes it promptly displayed:
SLUT!
And then as it cycled through the distance, calories burned and such it displayed this:
SNITT FART
Still not sure if someone was having a little fun with the machine or those are the appropriate Dutch words.
Those are appropriate words, but I forget what they mean.
Oisín can tell you, though.
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I think it may have been set to Swedish.
Slut means end and snitt means average. Not sure what fart translates to.
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I'd be worried.
How the heck did the exercise machine err on your gender ? 
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Originally Posted by subego
I think it may have been set to Swedish.
Slut means end and snitt means average. Not sure what fart translates to.
Swedish? Hmm... I just assumed Dutch since that's the official language here. Although I rarely ever here it spoken... just as I NEVER see the official currency (Netherlands Antilles Guilder). It's all English language and U.S. currency. This place is so Americanized you'd think it was part of the USVI.
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Originally Posted by Atheist
SLUT!
And then as it cycled through the distance, calories burned and such it displayed this:
SNITT FART
You know you've blown your cover if your exerciser calls you an average ride.
You slut.
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Originally Posted by Atheist
I just assumed Dutch since that's the official language here. Although I rarely ever here it spoken...
I've heard, though I have no idea if this is true, that the Dutch would rather learn your language rather than suffer through your failure to speak Dutch properly.
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Originally Posted by subego
I think it may have been set to Swedish.
Slut means end and snitt means average. Not sure what fart translates to.
This is true. Fart means ‘speed’.
I had a hunch this might have been the case before even opening the thread.
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Originally Posted by Atheist
Why did the exercise machine call me a slut?
Well, let the question be asked. Are you?
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Originally Posted by Tiresias
Well, let the question be asked. Are you?
Who do you think you are that you can ask that kind of intimate question ? 
The exercise machine ?
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Hehheh... slut and fart!
On elevators in Denmark (and Sweden, perhaps?), there’s a little sign by the buttons that lights up when the elevator is in motion. It says, I FART (which literally means ‘in motion’).
There’s an urban legend that they covered all these little signs with duct tape when Queen Elisabeth visited Denmark.
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I'm-a trying to wonder, wonder, wonder why you, wonder, wonder why you act so.
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