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I miss flying over to London on a whim. Love you guys and wish you the best.
Yes, I know Germans loved flying over London.
I aim for the stars but I keep hitting London
Go tell the cripples and widows of old London town, who owe their large pensions to Wehrner von Braun !
Well, they did build a monument to Bomber Harris, so killing civilians "is" a mark of honor over there <: )
Don't mention the war! even if we started it.
What if I mention the war? Will I start a civil war with this?
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It's 1866 all over again.
I wonder if the austrians want to participate...
It’s fine. We got Klopp. All else is forgiven
just blame austria
Twice
Sarajevo muthafuckas!
Ask if they want something to drink before the war
Steve Huffman sends his regards
We didn't start the fire oh wait..
In a train, going through a shitty part of the city. I overheard someone say "best thing to happen to this part of a city was Luftwaffe"
I love British sense of humor
Landing? Not so much.
Edit: the full joke is pretty good.
The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven." The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."
Yeah you got the joke
r/YourJokeButWorse
I do miss my UK friends dearly. I do NOT however miss the constant stream of stag do’s and lads on tour they send to the continent.
To be fair, we hate them too.
Source: UK
The hen nights aren't much fun either
Source: Liverpool
Your neighbour here, we suffer those too.
Source: Manchester.
Your weird third cousin here, we endure them too.
Source: Essex
I’m from Ireland and flights home were always British stags and hens going that way, and either the same ones hungover coming back, or an equivalent amount of Irish stag/hens going the other way
Basically what I’m saying is the flights were rowdy, and reeked of alcohol
Try London to amsterdam mate...
Aw yeah that’s so true - I’ve done Manchester to Amsterdam I think, the queasyjet one ;) Absolute nightmare- I think I repressed the memory hah
The one I was on there was like 30 white lads and one black lad in the stag group, and they’d got the black lad a tshirt saying “token”. He looked miserable - what a pack of arseholes
It's just the same cunts every time, there's probably not that many of them but they keep going everywhere being little loud mouth shits. It's so annoying
There's actually only one group of British lads that go on stag dos, they're just permanently touring around Europe wrecking the place.
Formed in the early 80's, the Lads on Tour Division is a secretive MI6 unit, trained in the art of overwhelmingly overt nighttime reconnaissance of Eastern European cities.
Yeah sorry I know you want to believe that but I’ve lived in England and I know for a fact there are shit tons of them
lads lads lads lads lads lads lads
I wish I could speak German as well as Germans speak English
I wish I could speak English as well as Germans speak English
When the US sends its people, they're not sending the best.
They bring the virus, they bring guns, they are racists and some, I assume, are good people.
How dare you assume that.
Facts don't care about your Americans.
He was jokingly being offended that you might assume some of us are good
Good until they find out its oil on your country.
As an American who’s lived in Germany, I can assure you that some German people casually say racist things that would make some loose their jobs in America.
Most are good people 😕 you have only seen reddit posts and the news
Same for english people on vacations pls.
On behalf of my country, I'm sorry. We don't speak of benidormm
Nah no need to apologize, you guys are great. Basically Czechs who speak English. Same humour, same alcohol, less racist.. but RUSSIANS.. they are.. something. A lot to take I would say
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In that case be glad you don't know what other nations say about Czechs :D (I am not sure either tho.. maybe ask some Croat, they would definitely have an opinion)
My apologies for the inbreds that frequent Spain and destroy it.
And German tourists on the Playa de Palma it seems... and music fans in Nice. People seem to want take a holiday from Corona when they're abroad.
UK guys in Spain, if you ever step into a balcony, remember: Gravity is not up to your opinion, it does exists.
gravity is an hoax. i know my rights.
With the amount of times it seems happen, I'm amazed a conspiracy hasn't sprouted up about a serial killer targeting 'tired and emotional' Brits. Like the imaginary Manchester canal pusher!
made me crack up, why do we do this. idiots.
I'll have you know we invented gravity
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There’s the English tourists who want to see Spain, then there’s the English tourists that spend a week by the hotel pool complaining that the people around them don’t speak English.
There is a common joke around Spain saying the summer starts the day the first english fella dies by jumping off a balcony trying to reach the pool. Yes, it is dark, this is due to the amount of this kind of deceases that happen every year
We're not far off needing an adult ourselves…
True dat. Here in the southwest we have been keeping the Rona at bay, now it's coming back because half the country thinks they need to bring their stinking brood down here.. burning our heath lands with BBQs.
As an American. What I'm seeing in my country right now. We could use some adult supervision. Lol
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Listed in a descending order of importance.
Listen, the tax thing is probably past the statue of limitations, and the current queen is a pretty chill lady. But insults concerning tea must be addressed before a reconciliation is possible.
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Tear down the Statues of Intimidation!
I’m not sure if implying that we’re mature adults compared to the USA is grossly naive, or if it’s intended as an extra layer of insult.
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Look at the British situation ... maybe New Zealand and Canada could adopt them?
Canadian lurker here...I would like the border with the U.S. to stay closed until things cool off south of the border.
Mexico could foster until then
They plan to build a wall to keep Americans out of Mexico.
I really wanted to drive up to Banff this summer and do some camping in Alberta. But if I was Canadian, I'd want to keep the border closed too.
I live in Alberta. Yeah, this province is *amazing* for it's nature and beauty... at least the western parts in the mountains. :P I live in an area that's as flat as a board, and is about as interesting as a toppingless pizza.
American here. I sincerely don't think we'll deserve to be let into your country for quite a while. For your safety, it should certainly stay closed for a full year.
Also American. We don't deserve to go anywhere abroad for now. Most of us couldn't even handle not getting a haircut for two months.
As an American who's lived in the UK, don't feel so badly about it, they're a dumpster fire as well.
I’m a Brit and I live in Manchester UK. My housemate is half American and half British, brought up equally in both. The poor bloke is despairing of both sides, although ever so slightly leans towards Britain
Similar. I became an American a month before Trump and didn’t have my right to vote in the UK (some expat length of time bullshit) until after Brexit. It was and is just utterly despairing to watch my home and adopted home bugger themselves and not have the right to vote in either.
Only slight consolation is have Irish citizenship so retain my EU rights. Wouldn’t mind living in a place where grown ups are in charge.
I just think it’s hilarious that we’ve done so bad in our response, and have so many idiots doing so many stupid things, that the international conversation is more about America’s relationship with Covid-19, instead of the people who actually started it with China.
I mean, for all Trump trying to constant shift all blame to them, his horrible response has actually largely pushed them out of the narrative.
UK is the America of Europe.
I'm British, I found more of a cultural shock going to the US/ Canada than I ever have with say France, Belgium or The Netherlands.
I'm also British but I 100% agree with both comments. We are definitely the US of Europe when you look at how many ignorant and unhealthy people we have but we are still much closer culturally to other European countries than the US. I've had irony and sarcasm be better understood in my broken German from apparently "humourless" Germans than from Americans in their supposed native language.
UK Guy here. I ski, a lot, when things have gone wrong be it France Italy or Switzerland, it has always been a German who is the first to help. Love those guys
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And that, friends, is how you truly win a *world* war.
Chuckles I'm in danger
We are everywhere.
And we’re smart enough to acknowledge our past, and grow. Uk and America, 5 stages of grief on repeat
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I worry they'll think I'm a socialist if I do that
good call
They don't know what is a socialist, so they are scared by it
Filthy commie!
Couldn't agree more. When I was in France and Germany I felt strangely at home, and was able to have easy light hearted conversations with most people I met. Germans especially are very easy to get along with in my experience.
The few Americans I've known have just been a bit harder to connect to. There's something fundamentally different culturally that I can't quite pin down, but detecting sarcasm is definitely a big part of it.
I can't connect to American culture that easy either. Its just kinda weird. I always have to watch what I say, kinda cant relax there. Feel unsafe a lot, cant really get used to the customs, car culture drives me crazy and i don't really trust their smiles, especially in restaurants. I mean I do try to fit in. But I feel very alien. Granted i mostly spend time in west coast. But LA is a wierd places for me that I can't connect to at all. Its better in san diego or SF. Utah was absolutely alien and wierd to me. The nature is absolutely beautiful, but the cities are like wow an interesting place. Can't place them at all. People tell me I stand out just how I dress, but i did learn how to pick up a random european tourists of the group too.
I feel at home in most of the places in Europe, but usa that was a culture shock. I thought it would be like a eh different uk, but it just kinda weird feeling that I don't fit at all. Minus the hikers and ski community, those are great everywhere.
That Germans have no humour is just a malicious rumour. We have lots of humour, we just take our humour seriously.
It's no laughing matter.
Probably why I, as a German, love UK TV shows! After only watching US TV shows for 10 years or so, the British humor was so refreshing and felt way closer to home.
Took me a while to understand your various accents, but now I actually prefer their sound to most US dialects.
I'm addicted to british panel shows. British humor is the best humor.
Humour
its a bit selfdecrepating humour. I guess it can be enjoyed from both sides
Yeah I'm not nationalistic, at all, but one thing I'm definitely proud of in the UK is film and music :)
Indeed british humor has been a first mover in europe for decades. I really like the satire and dark subtle humor.
If you haven’t watched Peep Show, I recommend it. One of my favorite UK TV shows and it’s hilarious. As an American, I love watching some of UK TV shows for the comedy, sarcasm, and banter
English humour is very self-depreciating, which fits a lot of Europe (specifically the area's with a history of Protestantism) much better than America, where this kind of humour doesn't really exist to the same extend.
Exactly. Same for France, Spain, Italy, etc.
I feel sad for UK brexit and I mean it, because I really think we are all so close culturally speaking... more than we actually think.
America is a whole different world and tbh.. I don't like it, I just don't feel at home like in France, Italy, UK, Germany.. etc.
Edit. Typo.
Totally agree, and I think Stephen Fry summed it up pretty well.
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I can't say I was 'culturally shocked' by anything in either North America or Continental Europe other than everything revolving around driving in North America.
Want to walk somewhere? Well you can't, because there literally is no pavement/sidewalk.
India on the other hand, that was a complete attack on the senses.
That's what shocked me the most to be honest. That and me arriving to Houston, having to go to my conference hotel in The Woodlands, just 10 miles north of the airport and not finding any public transportation. Just didn't exist. Like, srsly, what the fuck?
I just want to say, Houston is one of the worst places to go for walking and public transportation. For being our largest city it has the worst public transportation options.
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and more have much better options.
Yeah, it would be great to have better public transit.
This was my experience as well as a European visiting US. Go to a grocery store across the street from the hotel? Easier just to take the car. Pedestrian crossings are a mile apart from each other, and when you get to one, the lights are probably out of order.
I'd strongly disagree as an Asian who has lived both in the States and the UK, as well as the Netherlands. The similarities between the States and the UK are even more stark when you start comparing to countries like Norway, where I currently live.
And honestly it's not necessarily always a bad thing. I quite enjoyed the British/American approach towards multiculturalism, for example.
I get why Brits are sensitive to the comparison given America's reputation but honestly out of all the countries I've lived in they are by the most remarkably similar to one another. That's considering that Taiwan was a Japanese colony just 90 years ago too. The US in a couple decades could be even more similar to the UK today.
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Really? Interesting. I’ve been to London and Toronto and man they just have this similar feel to them in some spots. Perhaps someone with some more experience in either of those places could expand on this. Maybe I’m wrong tho, was in London half a decade ago (ironically during the 4th of July haha). Would love to go back when this nightmare is over.
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Yeah, in my experience, people the Anglophone countries generally feel closer to each other than to their non-Anglophone neighbors.
That's also how I personally feel, but obviously there are various facets wherein Britain might be more similar to Germany than to The US or vice versa, and how you percieve it overall is probably dependent on your individual outlook on various things.
Well, London & Toronto are both in Ontario so I’d assume they feel very similar.
I think it's time for a "Non-Americans of Reddit, what do you think of America?" question on r/askreddit because it's not been done before.
It's been at least 15 minutes
Yeah, maybe in the last 30 minutes.
Do people genuinely believe that? Have they ever been here?
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While I wouldn't fully agree with this statement I can confidently say that living in the UK explained a lot of to me unusual cultural aspects of the US.
This shouldn't be a surprise either, out of all European countries obviously the UK will have the most cultural similarities to the US, which by extension would result in OP's statement.
Pretty rich of Brits to clown on Americans over covid tbh, said as a Brit who walks around the supermarket and may see two masks the entire time.
The lack of masks in the UK shows that the US must be doing a lot more wrong because them not wearing masks clearly isn't why theyr cases are exploding.
I'm in the Netherlands and there are way less people wearing masks here than the UK
Yes, indeed. And yet, our numbers are vastly lower. I don't understand tbh...
Same here in Ireland. Many not wearing masks but daily cases are <25. I think it's because we at least took quarantine seriously when it was at its worst and didn't reopen too soon.
No one wears masks in Denmark and we're on 260 active cases. Tiny country and all, but percentage wise it is still nothing.
I guess this is old , cause it would be a little hypocritical for a Brit to write somethig like that nowadays.
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Kind of like the pot calling the kettle black, from my experience, but I get it.
Yeah, tell that bullshit to stupid drunk British tourists around Europe. They're fucking vandals.
Try visiting places like Southeast Asia and you'll quickly see that no country has a monopoly on bad tourists. Some of the worst I've seen while there were the Australians, French, Spanish, and Russians.
Wow it's almost like it's a human issue and not a nationality one!
"noooooo you can't just judge every country based on their worst examples"
r/europe go brrrrrrrrrr
until Chinese tourists arrives.
While the brits are poorly behaved tourists, generally, I find they pale in comparison with the Aussies.
I like how British vandal tourists are a stereotype everywhere in Europe
Oh behalf of the half of the country that doesn’t do shit like that, we apologise sincerely, but I know the other half won’t stop and will continue to do dumb shit for the foreseeable future.
Oh I think more than half doesn't do it. But you know, a few bad apples
to be fair we also have a lot of bad apples.
They shouldn't have sacked Rome tbf.
Of all the barbarian tribes that rampaged through Europe the Vandals were by far the least murderous and destructive, yet they get linguistically immortalised as violent burning pillagers.
The very violent and brutal Goths on the other hand now reference sedentary depressed teenagers in black jeans and spiky gelled hair.
The Romans did much to vandalise the reputation of the Vandals. Unfair I tell you.
Our British lad culture is embarrassing. It’s embarrassing seeing brits abroad.
Xenophobia is alright as long as it's pointed at Americans. Reddit moment.
what did you expect? it's reddit.
Fuck, that's so cringe. Im a Londoner... and we have a higher per capita death and infection rate than even the US- second only to Brazil. Where the fuck do we get this misplaced arrogance from?? Most people still don't wear masks! Americans are welcome
Welcome to reddit, where arrogant shitposts like this are the norm.
Just imagine the controversy if the sign read "All Turks/Poles/Mexicans/Chinese must be accompanied by an adult"
Cancel culture would interfere within the hour
Shitting on Americans is cool and trendy, thus no cancellation.
But Americans bad. Am I rite guyz?
yea, people on reddit love to ignore the deaths per 100k population numbers, or just don't realize what they mean.
The thing with the U.S. is, it's so fucking big with so many people, that even though really bad areas/cities get all the COVID news attention, the majority of the country is largely unaffected.
I'm a Londoner and I'm not particualry a fan of the sign tbh, we shouldnt be pissing on Americans like that especially since theres a lot that are naturalised Brits
Honestly it's quite funny but yeah the American bashing circle jerk can get a bit annoying
Agree. I’m just going to assume the owner of that bar is a bit of a prick
Aren't UK people burning down 5G towers because they think they spread covid?
It's the pot calling the kettle black...
Shhh we don’t mention that here on Reddit. America bad.
I find the perpetuation of national stereotypes to be distasteful, regardless of the target.
I mean tone matters. If it’s all in good fun than no harm no foul. But this sub does seem to have a particular pernicious bite in its Murica BaD theme
There has been a persistent, pretty nasty anti-Americanism in the European political left for many years. Reddit skews younger, and younger skew left-wing, so it’s pervasive on here. Most ‘centre-ground’ people tend to recognise America’s problems without making them out to be extreme or defining.
Apparently it is ok with America. you can’t be openly racist nowadays, so I guess it’s a good outlet and socially accepted to be xenophobic against the USA.
I'll bet the person who put that there would claim to be tolerant, inclusive and not a hateful person at all.
after brexit I dont think brits qualify for that anymore
They left the European Union not Europe. Britain is European, always has been, always will be.
now say that to the tectonic plates gang
British people : Nooo you can't move the UK out of the European continent!
Pro-EU tectonic plates : Haha UK go brrrrrrrrrr
more like
I can't believe you just did that diagram with just "brrrrrr"
Ireland:
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Nobody said otherwise
Didnt realise there was a rigorous qualification process to write snarky signs
Of course there is, all snarky signs need to meet the standards set in regulation EU 2007/697 and follow the snarky sign writing directive EU 2005/783.
Also known colloquially as the Sarkasmuszeichenvorschriftsnorm.
Naah it’s the official „Ordnungsdirektive der Humor-und Sarkasmusbezeichnenden Hinweisschilder provisorischer Art in öffentlichem Raum und dergleichen“
Oh look!!! GERMAN HUMOUR!!!!
Doubt this will be noticed. But this image was first posted in 2016 and is not a direct response to current events.
That’s fucking RICH coming from a Brit!
How is this shit upvoted that much?
The circlejerk around hating the US on this sub so fucking cringe.
Btw most Brits love the US and our Anglosphere brothers. This is just reddit hive mind
Yeah the comment on that blackboard was 100% written by some top knot hipster who only drinks obscure ales and hates all popular media
All Brits must be accompanied by an EU member.
And I'm sure everywhere else in Europe they're saying a similar thing about the British.
One successful rebellion 244 years ago and they still treat us like teenagers.....in reality they try to copy everything, including Donald.
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Tbf, most of Europe could say the same about us
USA BAD
I think this is what is classed as ‘xenophobia’. But it’s against America, so r/Europe thinks it’s fine.
Don't you know? This is Reddit, hypocrisy is basically a rule now.
The most cringe part is the Americans agreeing.
Yeah it makes me sad honestly. I’m an American and I love America. I’ll admit we have tons of fucking problems here, but bitching about our country on the internet for fake internet points isn’t going to do anything to fix them.
Just a thought, the fact this has made it so far up in r/all just goes to show Americans are mostly good sports