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[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with that slang (only know servilleta to mean a literal napkin) and Google wasn't helpful--could you explain it?

[–] Bakzik@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Of course.

In spanish:

-Servicios de inteligencia = Intelligence Services = Intelligence Agency

-SERVIcios = Services

-SERVIlletas.

And that's why we call them "napkins". Is just the similarity of "Servicios" with "Servilleta". No deeper meaning.

Sorry for the late response.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation! I guess it'd be like if we called feds "fedoras" in English (although I think "napkins" is funnier since they're such trivial objects).

And no worries--wasn't time sensitive or anything!