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Well, how many?

edited to add -

so you know how in English, the rooster says cockadoodle doo, but in Spanish it’s kikiriki?

Does a train make different sounds in other countries? What a stupid American question to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it’s vibes-based, repeat until it feels right and you need the sweet release of a choochoo train-shining

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

hell yeah just chugga till it feels right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I feel like this is an alternate explanation for where babies come from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes you gotta build up a big one. I really like 16 chuggas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also fun to find a friend into trains so you can chugga together, the sound gets more train-like the more people you add, and the anticipation of never knowing when you or a partner is gonna choochoo really adds to the chugga chugga pleasure

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

8 with emphasis on alternating chuggas. CHUGGA chugga CHUGGA chugga CHUGGA chugga CHUGGA chugga CHOO CHOO

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think a minimum of 8 but above that multiples of 4 are acceptable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Exactly, and I think it's also acceptable to only emphasize the first, fifth, and every next fourth until the choo choo

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

this is the way, comrades.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

6^[1][2][3][4]^

it-is-known

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will chugga forever, you cannot make me choo choo

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Any less than 4 is a sin against (presumably) the child you're entertaining

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s a lotta chuggas.

Nobody got time for 12 chuggas

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s actually 10 + 2 choo to make up a 12 bar blues progression. The 2 choo are commonly referred to as the turnaround.

It’s technically a call and response structure, meaning the other participants get to decide when to choo, with 10 being the most common tradition.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

anything less is an unprofessional railroad engineer playing with the steam whistle.

we gotta get serious and make up the time we lost slowing in Telluride to get that Marshal's dispatch before we hit Lost Canyon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There’s no time for games chuggas are serious bidness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

we can't slow down now. this here's El Malpais. all you find are scorpions, snakes and desperados.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why would you stop Chugging? Never stop Chugging. You can Choo in large comical exhalations when you sleep.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

chuggers stay winning

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

12, full stop. There are no other options, suggesting otherwise is revisionist and counter-revolutionary.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

i've depicted myself as the sleek 4 chugga bullet train and you as the weak environmentally dangerous 16 chugga coal train.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

you need exactly 12, with emphasis on the first CHUGGA of each of the three sets of 4, and the CHOO CHOO must be pronounced most vociferously.

trust me, its very important to keep this in mind for the ritual to work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The more chuggas you do, the more the choo choo is powered up

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

randint()%exp(10, randint()%100)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

chugga chugga chugga chugga nerd nerd!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Some power of 2

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

as many as it takes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I get it 8 when I do it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

3 shows a lack of commitment, while 5 is an odd number, and you need to keep a ratio of 1 up-chugga : 1 down-chugga.

6 and above are overkill, and each additional chugga after 5 demonstrates your lack of security in the 4 original chuggas.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the train set from World of Warcraft. You placed it on the ground and all characters within 10 meters would do the /train emote "chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO" every 10 seconds or so for the duration the train set was active (like 5 minutes, with 10 minute cooldown). So naturally I would find the place with the most players packed together (Orgrimmar auction house) and drop it down right in the middle of the densest group I could find, making a whole bunch of characters do the train emote at once, all loud as hell because there's like 50 of them packed together. Really annoyed the hell out of people, I loved doing that shit.

Eventually they nerfed it so that it only worked on people you were in a party with. RIP train set.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What about Chuggo and his smash hit C'mon Fucking Guy?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I"m always impressed when someone gives an objectively wrong answer to a subjective question.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Its not 1920 comrade, we don't need to ration the chuggas.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Twelve proving to be the correct answer

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The amount of anger in this thread at the wrong answers is hilarious 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Four chuggas and I will die on this hill

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2, 4, and 6 all seem acceptable to me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Any even number is acceptable.

If you encounter someone who employs an odd number of Chuggas, drop everything and run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

My natural count is at 12

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I typically do 8 but I do think DirtyPair's rendition is proper. According to a mentalfloss article (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51996/12-onomatopoeias-around-world) in Korea they say chik chik pok pok, for the clackity sound on the tracks. I read 'chuff' in British English for the train steam sound but I'm not sure it's used onomatopoeiatically.

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