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          […] she’d be a bike*.
          Apparently, the usage of “bike” is important in that joke, because it’s a British slang for “slut”.

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            Good to know but I’m sure they’re about the same because the intention is “people ride her”

            Then again slang is slang

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              I know I’m being pedantic, but that’s the word used in the video and that’s the slang term, specifically “bike”, probably because it sounds more punchy.

              Nice bike

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                To be even more pedantic, the guy is Italian and that is relevant to the character. In Italy we say “if my grandmother had wheels she would be a wheelbarrow”. He pauses a moment before saying the joke, probably because he didn’t remember the word wheelbarrow and went for bike instead.

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      I took apart my toys and made new toys out of them all the time when I was a kid and several decades later, I appear to be a normal member of society without having committed a single murder.