I think this forklift training video is pretty funny

https://youtu.be/ja7ap6AEuYU

can't cook

Bavaria would like a word.

If anybody in Europe can't cook, it's the Poles.

If anybody in Europe can't cook, it's the Poles.

That's a wild-ass take about the people who gave us pierogi and kielbasa. Bigos and golabki are pretty awesome too.

I mostly heard negative opinions about Dutch cuisine. Despite the popularity of stroopwafel lol

I'm curious about that last part. Please elaborate.

Name something more German than wearing socks with Birkenstocks

That’s a wild-ass take about the people who gave us pierogi and kielbasa. Bigos and golabki are pretty awesome too.

Is that supposed to be food?

And have you all forgot the British exist?

Another German banger I heard awhile ago:

"Ask me if I'm a schoolbus."

"Are you a schoolbus?"

"No."

Is that supposed to be food?

I wonder what your definition of food is if these don't fit it.

And have you all forgot the British exist?

The comment that started this discussion specifically mentions their assumed perspective.

I have never heard those stereotypes about germany anywhere. Its a ragebait post so im not supprised.

Which is a style again.

I wonder what your definition of food is if these don’t fit it.

The point is that the words just sound like non-sense to anyone outside Poland.

Oh! I thought pierogi and kielbasa were better known internationally given their popularity in New York. Anyway, I'd recommend them!

I've had very good food in NL but it's pretty expensive compared with Germany

Obligatory r/germanhumour

What are we doing here? Is country bashing funny again?

I’ve met many funny germans, and then 1 german guy who so perfectly fits the stereotype that I almost think its a bit in its own right.

Lighten up a little

In western and central Europe, country bashing your neighbours never stopped being funny.

Was it ever not fun?

Hey now, the Germans take humour very seriously! It's no laughing matter.

It exists on !germanhumor@discuss.tchncs.de in all its glory too!

I've tried that, I find the socks make them too likely to slip when I walk. Don't understand it.

(edit: correcting phone typos)

Germany

Not Safe For Mental Health.

I read that as it was gay (as in happy) until they walked in.

Knock knock

Who's there?

WE ARE ZE ONES WHO ASK ZE QVESTIONS!

MAYBE YOU ARE ALL HOMOSEXUALS!

So German humor is anti-meme?

I’ve heard it claimed German humour differs from English humour due to the grammar of the German language making it harder to hide the punchline, and so largely eliminating a lot of wordplay. The humour that remains is either cerebral (conceptual satire and such) or lowbrow slapstick.

Been living in Bavaria for 2 years.

Bavarians can't cook.

Anywhere north of the Alps, cuisine had to function as a means of enduring the long, cold winter. Hence a lot of it is hearty stodge, without the joie de vivre one finds closer to the Mediterranean.

If Bavaria is any better, its proximity to Italy may be of credit.

Not so glorious...

My trouble with Bavarian food is the flavor is entirely in the "savory" section. Would you like some buttered noodles? How about just a chicken that's been wonderfully cooked but unspiced? A friend referred to it as the kid's meal section at restaurants.

I can't confirm any of that except the cooking part. There's a German restaurant near us, and the entire menu is various forms of Wurst - sausages. Apparently, their entire culinary range consists of hot dogs.

Native speaker of German here and I am not sure about that. German tends to put verbs in the end in a lot of sentences, but apart from that, it's mostly possible to use English-like word orders in German too; I don't think the difference is significant enough that it would change the entire style of humor.

People who genuinely think Germans cannot be funny should check out Otto Waalkes.

Germany has some of the best wordplay. Puns aplenty over there.

Thank you. I'd have spent ages thinking about how that could possibly be funny.

I quite enjoy Henning Wehn, especially when he appears on typically British things like (cats) Countdown or radio 4 shows like Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

Worst possible example. He is awful

Detected the French dude

unless you are 8 yrs old

German humor is usually not funny and a bit mean.

The Dutch have compensated for their neighbors with an over-developed sense of humor.

Wow, clearly someone who has never eaten Saure Zipfl, Saukopf or Presssack.

We Europeans always bash our neighbors. We're like brothers, that always fight but at the end of the day would stand in for another.
I'd kiss those silly frenchmen, that I keep on bashing, on the lips long before I'd even consider giving a yankee a hug.

That's simply a bad restaurant

Yes, a real German restaurant would also have a dozen styles of kraut to go with the hot dogs.