@@kasty4255 oh I have seen a lot of them. About half of the French jokes in country slanders are about surrender joke. The rest are about eating frogs, mostly
Europe is like a class in school. Everyone thinks everyone else is strange until you go on a trip and see the other classes and suddenly you’re the strongest connected class to ever exist
@@mgi-ck7suMost jokes like that get the name wrong and make something that can't exist in Polish or go with the classic "Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz" so this one is a nice change of pace.
But it's TRUE though... Let's put it like this... I have 0 interest in Brazil what so ever, but even I have heard recent news about the elections there. And then you got Portugal, I read the news daily and I cannot recall anything about Portugal in years...
As a Portuguese person, I also laughed, and it’s pretty true! At the same time though, Brasil is the biggest country in South American, so it would make sense that it would be more politically relevant than our small country.
The Finland-Estonia thing is too goddamn accurate. Me and my dad were there two months ago and we both intentinally underpacked so we could fit all the liquor in the suitcases. Then my mom and dad went to the only other city in Estonia, Tartu, and returned with a 28-can case of Saku and 7 bottles of liquor. The tobacco is also ridiculously cheap there. (also nice detail of actually having the port of Tallinn in the meme)
For what it's worth, this American knew you existed! Assuming "Maltese" is what you call people from Malta. .... Look, it's better than nothing, right? ... sorry. I'll just leave now.
As an Irish person, I agree with this. The only thing people know about us is that we are a tiny green land with leprechauns It’s funny because half of it isn’t even true
@@akaiomugai3685 a bit unrelated but don’t let Scottish Gaelic die, once you’ve achieved independence (or maybe even before) your government should work on bringing back the language, hopefully doing a better job than the Irish government is doing rn lmao I hope both Irish and Scottish Gaelic get to return properly, Éirinn go Brách
My German teacher once told me this joke a German told her when she was working in Germany:"The reason why us Germans are so serious is because our language is so complicated we have to use all our brainpower just to speak".
As a Greek, 2:28 is the funniest thing because it's from an old video of a Greek dude literally ranting about what he owes in taxes and banks and saying he won't pay a dime
For those wondering, he is pretty much saying the equivalent of "Hello, my name is John [surname i forgor], I owe 10k to the country in taxes and I give no fuck. I owe [another amount] to [another service like electricity or something] and I give no fuck. Let them suck my balls, my colleagues." in Greek (numbers might not be accurate). It was so funny because he said it so calmly but you could smell his hate.
@@user-Prometheus And let’s not forget the other Hellenistic empires. I would say the greatest Greek empires were: Macedonian Empire (359 BC - 168 BC) Seleucid Empire (312 BC - 63 BC) Ptolemaic Empire (305 BC - 30 BC) Byzantine Empire (610 - 1453) There were a few other Greek states (like the Empire of Trebizond) but they pale in comparison to these great states. [Note I’m only counting the Byzantine Empire after 610 when Heraclius took over and made Greek the official language]
@@blede8649 Britain: Ordered?! What are you on about? I've never been bossed around- Portugal: Aftermath of the Suez crisis? Britain:... Britain: Ok but-
@@magnagermania9311 Bulgarian people are proud of their country,tradition history and many more which cannot be equaled anywhere,sadly the people leading the country are doing their best to ruin it as it has been for the last 50 years,that's who they run from.
I fucking know right?? I assumed he the channel must have been Greek for a while but he's spoken in other videos and doesn't have a Greek accent. So this is God tier research.
As a Russian, I totally agree that the majority of our citizens have zero understanding of how it's possible to live in small countries... Like... Even I'm sometimes completely surprised that you can drive across some countries within a couple of hours... It's insane... I can't comprehend that some of countries have smaller size than some of our regions, American states, or Chinese provinces... For instance, where do you build new houses?
And yes, I'm still amazed how accents and languages change in some countries... Switzerland , the UK,etc... Where you may not be able to understand people from a nearby city or town... Just this fact drives me crazy. In Russia, accent barely changes across several thousands of kilometres. I live in the European part of Russia, and the accent of people from the Kamchatka and the Sakhalin barely changes, just some words that are not common in use differs
@@devararog We got the Soviet educational system to thank for that. The Ministry of Education folks went out of their way to make sure that the Russian language (along with everything else) is taught consistently and uniformly from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. I was raised in Dagestan. You will hear it from my accent, but you'll have no trouble understanding me.
That first Finland part is 100% true. In fact, that's what we did to homeless people for preparations to the 1952 olympics. However, we dropped to homeless people from the van to a mansion turned retirement home.
@@shukes4645 because there are more houses than people, and the fact that everyone wants to live in big cities of the south, leaving most apartments in the smaller towns empty.
Not gonna lie, a lot of Germans are actually really funny, it's just a different type of humor with much more sarcasm, irony and darker jokes. So some might not even realise when Germans joke xD
There really is more than one way about German humor. There are entire genres of absurdist and anti- jokes that derive their humor entirely from playing on the expectation of there being a punchline, or pulling the rug out by anticipating your expectation and subverting it. Then there are dirty jokes, of course. A broad selection of commentary on political events with often a lot of bite against politicians. The most extreme case being Jan Böhmermann slandering the president of Turkey for several minutes on live TV, then celebrating the inevitable lawsuit in which he not only got away with absolutely clear-cut defamation on a technicality, he even got a whole paragraph removed from the German law on defamation. Then, of course, there's cabaret which reaches from harmless fun to emotionally exhausting assaults on the audience's comfortable life and self-image. Pispers makes you feel bad, Sumuncu makes you feel bad for laughing. And of course there's the great German comedy genre of watching FOX News. Nothing funnier.
As a romanian , I can agree that we bump into people for SURELY no reason at all like believe me when I say this , it is just an instinct. We also do it guaranteed if he's rich
The first time I visited Edinburgh, it was actually a very warm and sunny day in August. When the sun shines, the city and the surrounding mountains are beautiful.
Well the UK also had tons of oil but instead of investing it and using it to help it's people they privatised it and wasted it on tax cuts for the rich (due to Thatcherism). So "socialism" (Norway actually has social democracy) did make Norway rich because they used the oil in the interest of the people and nationalised it.
Thank you! Was waiting for this comment. Yeah, it isn’t just oil that makes a country rich, just look at places like Venezuela. You need to actually be smart, and save up and reinvest the money you get from that oil into your economy and your people, else you’ll become extremely more unequal than you already were!
@@12D_D21 Venezuela? Look at Russia. Because of its resource mismanagement, corruption and everything else that happened in the past 20 years it turned from a land of promise into a Mordor.
Here in the Netherlands we basically wasted the natural gas, and now we're more reliant on gas than ever while it's running out and we can't get more because it causes lots of earthquakes. We should've done it like Norway instead.
Tax cuts get more money into hands of the people (when you pay less in taxes you have more money + more innovation becouse private sectror is more innovative than goverment). Also privatizing oil will increase production and efficiency decrease prices.
@@martincingel7095 If you give it in the form of tax cuts, it'll disproportionally go to the rich, as they pay more taxes and thus their tax gets reduced the most. Also, directly giving everything away doesn't seem like a great idea, it's better to make a national investment fund which will grow and will be useful for a long time. Largely nationalizing oil production but partially working with oil companies like Norway did also works well.
As a (poor) French student,I assure you that it’s incredibly true all I eat every single day is those god damn pasta and I am wholeheartedly thankful to my Italian side to make me able to not die of overdose of pasta.
@@thegreedykrab7857 You earn more through salaries than we do on Europe. The purchasing power is especially low and going lower on the poorest European countries such as Spain (my country). In the case of Spain there's also an extreme amount of taxes very inneficiently handed for very low salaries, extreme high public debt (over 120% of GDP), high inflation lowering the purchasing power even more while salaries don't go up in the slightest, very strict working sector that makes it very difficult to switch jobs which is why everyone's dream job is to become a public servant and have a safe, stable job working for the state (which in the USA is a sign of low ambition). Not to mention that the public healthcare in Spain has you wasting 3-6 months for SIMPLE attendance to clinics and don't get me started on HOW LONG it takes to have surgery on anything important (life or death scenarios even in some cases). So not everything is good or everything is bad, there's always a middle point. I cannot judge the USA because I don't live there so I probably only see the ''good aspects'' which may also happen for an USA citicizen to praise other places like Europe for example without knowing the bad stuff.
The one about Greeks not paying taxes is the funniest because the video of the old man talking is an actual viral video of a guy name Giannis who goes on a rant about refusing to pay some thousand euros he is in debt with
Its clear you dont know anything about Slovenia, becuase there are no femboys here. The joke was created by jealous Balkans because Slovenia has the best economy in Balkans!
God No the EU is an absolute Desaster and once Germany will inevitably lose its strong economy that holds the Union together because of self destroying progressive politics the Thing will collapse.
