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[–]lizzykins97 12 points13 points ago

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I'd rather have the chefs be French and the lovers be Italian.

[–]Aargauer 13 points14 points ago

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Swiss here. This makes me happy, then very very sad.

[–]logicalrationaltruth 1 point2 points ago

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It's ok. Swiss girls are hot.

[–]pixartist 29 points30 points ago

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Well, I'm not trying to kill the joke, but German police is generally very mild-mannered. Spanish and Italian police have way worse reputation in their respective countries.

[–]GrowleyTheBear 2 points3 points ago

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This is a pretty old joke, it's likely to have come into being back when the Germans had the Stasi - or possibly even the Gestapo.

Not exactly the most cuddly police forces on the planet.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Bavarian cop to my friend who he just caught smoking weed from afar: "Hey you...go smoke that shit somewhere else."

[–]pixartist 1 point2 points ago

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I've been caught with a friend, building a joint. The police officer shone his Flashlight into our faces, looked at us angrily, and asked if we had seen someone running by. We replied "nope". He went away. So cool :)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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i love it man, it's the "we got better shit to do" mentality.

[–]Eekafreak 4 points5 points ago

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Thats because this joke is from the 1970's. Back when the siblings of the kid that reposted this were nothing more than wet patches in his dads bed.

[–]NonAmerican -1 points0 points ago

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That's because those jokes are always nationalist drivel.

Germans can have very funny comedy and have some pretty crooked mafia in their business. e.g. check their Siemens scandals lately.

Or check the "manners" of the common folk in England. They're not all Lawyers and the Queen.

[–]Matthias21 6 points7 points ago

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Screw you, im the Queen.

[–]flclreddit 2 points3 points ago

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Screw you, no you're not, nice try mousey.

[–]Crandom 0 points1 point ago

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Redwall!!!!

/downloads Redwall and Mattimeo onto kindle

[–]OneFootInTheDave 2 points3 points ago

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You're right, we're not all the Queen. Some of us are just lowly Earls and Dukes.

[–]MrBagnall 5 points6 points ago

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But that's why we call them the "common folk". It's so people don't mistake them for humans. We also call these beasts "chavs" and feed them a rich diet of frozen food from Iceland (the shop not the country) and Special Brew

[–]thelittlebig 0 points1 point ago

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The Siemens scandal might have been the most German form of corruption ever. They put marked boxes on forms that said: "put sticky notes here!" The sticky notes would then contain the illegal info. No joke, they were so organized that they changed the format of their forms.

[–]Babbahaft -2 points-1 points ago

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German police, mild-mannered? You my friend have never been on a demonstration here.

[–]pixartist 5 points6 points ago

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Ahhh, I knew this was coming. I wanna see you throwing rocks & bottles at cops in another country. You won't just get a stream of water in your face, or a hit with a baton. You will be beaten half to death and go to prison for real.
German police also was a LOT stricter in the 70s. Back then they surrounded Aggressive people in demonstrations for hours and hours for example. Today they have a lot more defense approach. Sure there are some bad apples, but the majority just act as everyone expects.
Have you seen how they handled the Anti-AKW protesters ? They carried them peacefully away. U.S. cops would have simply fired rubber bullets and tear gas at them.

edit: And yes, I have been to demonstrations in Hamburg, and my father was on Demonstration in the 70s/80s.

[–]jandemor 16 points17 points ago

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Guess the Spaniards are just laying around doing nothing, as usual.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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The one Spanish word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana--'tomorrow' (literally, 'the morning'). Whenever it is conceivably possible, the business of today is put off until mañana.

—George Orwell

That was from 1936. Some things never change, I guess.

[–]PeteyWheatstraw 3 points4 points ago

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One time the Greek ambassador to Spain was having lunch with his counterpart.

The Spanish ambassador said "Hey George, you know, in my country, everything is mañana. You need something done, eh, we do it mañana. How do you say that in Greek?"

The Greek ambassador puts down his fork and thinks for a moment, then says "You know, Rodrigo, I don't think we have a word to express that level of urgency."

[–]hmc94 -5 points-4 points ago

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As a Spanish guy, fuck you

[–]jandemor 0 points1 point ago

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As a Spanish guy myself too, fuck you también, gilipollas! :)

[–]hmc94 0 points1 point ago*

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Lo siento, pero es que no soporto pues estereotipos. Supongo que ahora tiene un poco más de sentido.

[–]DaftGinger 5 points6 points ago

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Actually I think Hell would be where everything is done by the Greeks.

[–]failbus 14 points15 points ago

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Heaven is Greek food. Hell is Greek banking.

[–]ofacup 2 points3 points ago

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there was once a week when i visited reddit and didn't see this posted. it was 2 years ago...

[–]rainbowshabmagic 1 point2 points ago

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HETALIA! :O

[–]corcyra 1 point2 points ago

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That joke is sooooo old!

[–]aJarofDirt 1 point2 points ago

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Hell is where the police are American, the chefs Korean, the mechanics Mexicans, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized by the US Government.

FTFY

[–]lrdwnstnrk 1 point2 points ago

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Remember when the British police shot that guy in the subway for carrying some wire?... anyone?

[–]EvilMonkeySlayer 8 points9 points ago

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I think you're referring to this guy.
I'm often not a fan of the police for things like stop and search.. but in that case it was in the month of the suicide bombings, first on the 7th of July. Then a couple of weeks later there were attempted bombings on the 22nd of July the day before De Menezes was shot. So, there were four terrorists yet to be identified and arrested running around the capital.
The police were at maximum alert and they had pretty much anyone and everyone who was allowed to carry a weapon out on the streets. Whilst I think it was definitely wrong to have shot him you have to take into context the atmosphere at the time which was one of very high tension for the police force and public in general.

[–]lrdwnstnrk 3 points4 points ago

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I appreciate your attention to detail (upvoted), but it was just a joke. I remember it happening pretty vividly.

[–]Blue_Bi0hazard 3 points4 points ago

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If I recall he also ran when he was told to stop.

[–]whocaresanyway 0 points1 point ago

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Well that shits like totally wrong.

[–]OJSlaughter 0 points1 point ago

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The UK or Germany hasn't been downgraded...This has been reposted loads of times before... OP is obviously a douchebag...

/Sarcastic (I love RPs, they are cuddly)

[–]hopy921 0 points1 point ago

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I have a picture on the wall in our kitchen that says the same exact thing!

[–]assumetehposition 0 points1 point ago

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Haha, I've never been to Europe.

[–]UpvoteKing_ 0 points1 point ago

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REPOST

[–]Fluffinpuff 0 points1 point ago

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Am I the only one who immediately thought of Hetalia?

[–]Punchbowl_Trent -2 points-1 points ago

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Hell is America

[–]Robonia 2 points3 points ago

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Knew I'd find this somewhere +1 point for Robonia

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[–]holyerthanthou -2 points-1 points ago

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Nationality=\= race

[–]wOlfLisK 1 point2 points ago

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Still racism though. At least, according to the UN.

the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

Source

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[–]iMini 0 points1 point ago

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Xenophobia?

[–]marissa7592 -1 points0 points ago

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But everyone in this is white...

[–]Chelecossais -2 points-1 points ago

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-Heaven-

"the police are British" - Ian Tomlinson, Jean Charles de Menezes,

"the mechanics German" - the Hindenberg,

"the lovers French" - Dominique Strauss-Kahn

"and it is all organised by the Swiss" - Organized Switzerland

.....

-Hell- "the chefs British" - oh, COME ON!

"the mechanics French" - the TGV, the Concorde...too many things to mention here

...and I can't be bothered to find a cool German cop, a Swiss lover or an amazing Italian feat of organization, I feel I've made my point.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points ago

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Mais franchement. France is the best you English bastards.

[–]ebenezer11 2 points3 points ago

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Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-uh.