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Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued!

• boomboomsubban 5y ago
  I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In my case, it was the plastic pipes of some toy my sister and I were using to pretend we were snorkeling, cut the roof of my mouth requiring stitches.
  • tablespoon 5y ago
    >>>> Cookie Monster carries a pipe in one recurring parody—and then eats it. >> Translation of "pipe", into European? Intrigued! > I assume Europeans call it pipe as well, a section of a cylindrical tube generally used to transport things like water. In the context of the warning, I think it was talking specifically about a tobacco pipe (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_pipe), not a generic pipe used for liquid transport. So it seems more of an issue of not wanting to model certain behaviors for young children that are now considered dangerous.
    • boomboomsubban 5y ago
      You're probably right. The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe and they just didn't want even the possible miscommunication to be displayed.
      • tablespoon 5y ago
        > The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe I think the bit started as a spoof of a character that I assume held a pipe. It doesn't seem too bizarre to me, so they were being true to that. Holding a regular pipe would have been a non sequitur. When I grew up, smoking was definitely presented as bad, but I still got licorice tobacco pipes at a candy store on a couple occasions (e.g. https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/ https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/). It seems like now they don't want kids to even know what smoking is.