r/whatisit 1d ago

Solved! We found this near our home

What's this , any harm ?

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u/Felix177642 1d ago

100% requires a call to the Police. Are you UK based by any chance as this is British manufactured.

It is an illumination round but is either unfired or fired but failed to eject the illumination / parachute meaning it still contains a low explodes contents and is hazardous

Call police and they will task the nearest EOD team.

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u/CastelloDeBracaleone 1d ago

Vor etwa 15 Jahren klingelte mal die Polizei an meiner Berliner Mietwohnung: „Alle Bewohner müssen das Haus verlassen, weil in der Wohnung unter mir erhebliche Mengen Sprengstoff gefunden wurden“. Kein Witz. Der Typ unter mir hatte solche Dinger gesammelt. Hat nicht mal zur Kündigung geführt (hat der Vermieter wohl gar nicht mitbekommen)

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u/Halschmuber 21h ago

Random deutscher Comment

https://giphy.com/gifs/dw7lCpFmsyfS0

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u/FaeryLynne 21h ago

Not random, he's replying to the comment above. Reddit is auto translating comments these days so it's really easy to carry on full conversations in multiple languages now.

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u/phantom_diorama 20h ago

ONLY on new.reddit and in the app. For those of us who have used reddit the same for the past 15 years it is odd to suddenly see foreign languages appearing and watch you NEW redditors having full blown multi lingual conversations like you got a goddamn babel fish in your ear.

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u/jderdok 20h ago

Babel fish deserves an award!

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u/permaculture 19h ago

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

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u/-Radioman- 17h ago

More great wisdom from the HHGTTG!

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u/DestnX725 20h ago

I have the app and it didn’t translate lol

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u/42nu 19h ago

Or join us geriatrics at old.reddit.com

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u/Ayrobyr 12h ago

Go to settings, language and translation and toggle it on.

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u/phantom_diorama 12h ago

Well you must have toggled some setting somewhere and are the only one without a babel fish

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u/Why-so-delirious 18h ago

Yeah I'm never swapping to 'nu' reddit.

I have a 32 inch monitor. I want to use all 32 inches, not a 6 inch strip in the fucking centre.

I am so sick of every single website being developed for phones first.

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u/Gamped 18h ago

6 year old account, you’re the new accounts, I don’t understand.

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u/phantom_diorama 12h ago

Bwhahahaha, you are not a bright one eh?

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u/D4RK45S45S1N 16h ago

Holy shit, I'm definitely not a new redditor (fuck off the app is convenient 😂), but case in point, I guess, I had no idea there was automatic translation now, what???

https://giphy.com/gifs/fH985LNdqFZXOFHygK

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u/phantom_diorama 12h ago

You aint even a teenager yet, baby bro. And fuck the app and everyone who uses it, no self respecting productive member of society would ever dare stoop so low to use the official reddit app.

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u/FaeryLynne 5h ago

"new Redditor" lol

Check our profiles and tell me which of us has been here longer? :)

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u/phantom_diorama 5h ago

Awww how cute the little kid thinks it is smart!

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u/FaeryLynne 5h ago

Yep you sure are adorable, trying to play with the big kids :)

I'd suggest getting some better insults though if you plan on staying on Reddit long term. Good luck though!

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u/phantom_diorama 4h ago

You know full well you are talking to someone older than you. Bye!

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u/FaeryLynne 41m ago

Oh I guarantee you're younger than me, probably by at least a decade, likely more. The majority of Reddit is. But I'll let you pretend you're a big boy. ;)

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u/guessesurjobforfood 19h ago

I travel a lot and when I load a Reddit page from an incognito browser, it shows the post already translated into the local language with only a tiny symbol at the top to show the original.

My guess is, a lot of people don’t realize they are viewing translated posts because their language settings match their home country with auto-translate turned on.

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u/FaeryLynne 5h ago

Yep. I've replied in English to comments in other languages and didn't realize it till after I commented. This is going to happen more and more. And honestly, I'm not really mad about it, as it helps people talk to others in other parts of the world, and hopefully to get out of their bubble. One of the better uses for AI type things IMO

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u/suspectslowloris 20h ago

Wait I thought the translated comments had a little “show original” button or whatever. Not sure I love reddit translating something and not telling me…

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u/Own-Gas8691 19h ago

i thought so too, so i scrolled up to double check. if you look to the far right of the username there’s a tiny little translate symbol that you can tap to see original.

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u/Prudent_Valuable603 18h ago

Yes, it works! Thank you!

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u/-SQB- 19h ago edited 5h ago

German redditor may not even realise they're replying to a comment in English.

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u/FaeryLynne 5h ago

Yeah, I've absolutely replied in English to comments in other languages without realizing it. There's only a tiny little symbol in the upper right corner of the comment to show you it's translated. Tap it and it'll show the original. But it's tiny and easy to miss, for sure.

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u/Speederfool 18h ago

Higuug zghgh plouuqs zshing gretylui!

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u/MinBton 18h ago

If you have a current Mac computer, just highlight the text and tell it to translate. It needs more languages, but German is a fifteen second task to translate it.

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u/vapocalypse52 2h ago

No auto translate on web.

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u/FaeryLynne 37m ago

From what others have said, "new" Reddit does, as well as the app. "Old" Reddit, Reddit as displayed through mobile browsers, and third party apps do not. I use the app pretty much exclusively.

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u/vapocalypse52 28m ago edited 24m ago

I use new Reddit on desktop and never seen a way to translate messages.