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Anonymous

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30 Dec 2011 8:19PM

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Why do Americans call wanking... fapping?
fapping sounds stupid and retarded just like woop woop!

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Anonymous

30 Dec 2011 9:05PM

lol u mad cause all the top sites are on american servers?

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Anonymous

30 Dec 2011 9:56PM

It's not really an Americanism so much as an internet-ism. I think it came from Japanese comics originally (pervy ones, obviously), but it spread to 4chan and such places and from there to general internet lingo.

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