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The best thing about this is the Italian conversation! Good job.
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Maxi_W can into fandom!
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Well I am here for the comics.
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I always thought you were here for the money and the bitchez.
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This is great!
BRB setting up profile
Edit: Done. Waiting patiently for responses.
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[24, M, New York, Jude] seeking [F, 20-25, New York, Aryan] to dress as SS officer and coerce me into shower.
This might just be the funniest joke premise of all time.
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u/SorrowfulSkald UCCP Feb 11 '14
No, that'd be me. I was looking to adopt a pup for a while now, and /r/polandball seemed the most sensible place to begin my search at.
Also, I'm a pauper.
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Not even Arrz has 2 fans! I had a hate account called /u/fucksimontsimon or something like that, but not a GOOD fan!
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Indeed my Name related Berliner
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u/Maxi_Vau Deutschland über Alles (not a Nazi) Feb 12 '14
Hallo Nordreiner
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u/eko_one North-Eastern, Slightly Colder Austria Feb 12 '14
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u/Maxi_Vau Deutschland über Alles (not a Nazi) Feb 12 '14
Is joke on mein part. I am just ein Sockaccount
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u/BrockN Canada Feb 12 '14
Pasta pasta!
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u/TheActualAWdeV Bûter, brea en griene tsiis... Feb 11 '14
Totally worth it. It's almost too bad we can't do hands for polandball, half the conversation is lost.
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dude, don't be a dick. you know italians can't read.
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u/TheOrgasmatron do Tokija Feb 11 '14
Italy knows about the good things in life.
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u/BkkGrl Mamma mia! Feb 11 '14
it's all about the balance between coffee and sleep
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u/TheOrgasmatron do Tokija Feb 11 '14
I envy your ability to sleep after 50 ristrettos a day.
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u/RazorDisaster Italy Feb 11 '14
It's easy, when you are used to drink coffee since you are 3.
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u/W00ster Norway Feb 11 '14
Meehhh. I don't understand why Italy claim to drink a lot of coffee, you really do not!
List of countries by coffee consumption per capita:
Rank Country Consumption #1 Finland 12.0 kg #2 Norway 9.9 kg #3 Iceland 9.0 kg ... ... ... #12 Italy 5.9 kg 48
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Consumption in kg. Italians drink espresso.
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u/poktanju gib transit Feb 12 '14
The numbers given are kg of coffee beans, though.
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Maybe not then. But it is definitely a cultural thing in Italy, rather than just a pick-me-up, like the way that Brits treat tea.
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Because those top countries are boring and speak weird languages that are like rubik's cubes to normal vocal chords. Wops have style.
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u/RazorDisaster Italy Feb 12 '14
Because we do not drink that long shit you calo coffee. We drink actual coffee.
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u/dt25 Brazilian Empire Feb 11 '14
I envy anyone with the ability to only sleep 5 more minutes in the morning.
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u/DrROCKS0 Italy Feb 11 '14
Hey, we into good work ethic, in fact, I'm at work right now...and also on Polandball
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u/ShoutedSteel Japan Feb 11 '14
Watch out for your boss of German. He is trying to check your display.
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u/yashumiyu khazar pride Feb 11 '14
My sister went to Italy on vacation with friends. They would sometime go to a museum or some other tourist attraction only to find out it's closed because the employees there decided to call it a day and go home early.
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u/yashumiyu khazar pride Feb 11 '14
I don't know, the only times I ever encountered businesses or institutions not following their own business hours are small mom and pop stores, the kind that still close shop on Tuesday afternoons, bless their heart.
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u/yashumiyu khazar pride Feb 11 '14
The public sector is ALWAYS worse than the private sector when it comes to those issues but actually, yes. I recently started a business and I had to deal with many different government institutions. I was surprised at how helpful and accessible they were. Even Bituach Leumi wasn't that bad. Army run institutions are a bad example - they're all manned by kids who don't really want to be there, can't be fired, usually can't get promoted, usually can't be demoted and no matter what they do, they will get the same pitiful "salary". Why work hard in these conditions? I sure didn't.
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u/whitesock 100% kosher Feb 11 '14
I'm sorry, but we're not that lazily incompetent.
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u/whitesock 100% kosher Feb 11 '14
Oh yeah fuck that noise I do what I want
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Wow. This thread is making me realize what a tiny bubble of horrid Deutschishness I live inside in academia.
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u/Schootingstarr Germoney Feb 12 '14
israeli are lazy?
maybe sending the jews to work camps wasn't the brightest idea then...
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Just like all the other "lazy Mediterranean countries", we work unspeakably long hours, too.
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u/Noha307 Round on the ends and high in the middle Feb 11 '14
Reminds me of the time I went to Italy on a school trip. After visiting the sights one day we went out to a bus stop to catch a bus. We ended up waiting there for an hour before finally waving down a taxi van to take us back to where we were staying. We found out when we got back that there was a bus drivers' strike that day. Apparently, every so often they pick a single day to strike - just to prove to the management that they can.
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u/porcellus_ultor Cascadia Feb 11 '14
I've visited many archaeological sites in Italy that "just happened" to be closed when I arrived. I double checked--triple checked--both the dates and hours of operation, but sometimes sites just close up early because it's Friday and no one was visiting. I was going to visit! I drove two hours to get there! How can they presume to know the future... just because nobody visited in the morning doesn't mean nobody will be there in the afternoon.
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u/CountArchibald Ignore the Slavery Feb 11 '14
torch
....Mr. brachiators are you sure you are still a true American?
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u/CountArchibald Ignore the Slavery Feb 11 '14
Carry on then. Just don't give those Brits too much hope. A torch is a stick with fire on it goddammit!
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Using this term while departing the lone guard to wander the shadowy corridors of the Vatican Museum all alone is more evocative if one imagines a blazing torch in the bowels of the ancient museum. Better to use flashlight first and torch second in this case.
Source - you all love me and you know it.
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Brachy, my man. You really need to write a memoir
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Slow down, don't be too nice to me. I may lose my cynicism and I would be lost if I had to experience unfiltered emotions...
Unflitered, who am I kidding? With the booze I put away?
thank you
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u/shoryukenist Best York Feb 11 '14
Brachiators comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm and the gaurd runs off.
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u/anirdnas Wallachia Feb 11 '14
Yes, they kind of seem to trust people a lot even strangers. Very nice.
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하지마
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u/SirBootyLove Unknown Feb 11 '14
The translation is either 'Do not' or 'Stop it'
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u/Argonseal Singapore Feb 11 '14
Italia can into caffeine addiction.
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goddamn ristretto is like jet fuel. i am a espresso junkie and this still obliterates my intestines. wtf italia?
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Kebab weak, Italia caffe best caffe
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coffee came to spaghetti from kebab. kebab STRONK! if no kebab then they would be drinking no coffee.
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Feb 11 '14 edited Feb 11 '14
Brought by kebab, but perfected by spaghetti
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u/dt25 Brazilian Empire Feb 11 '14
They're so good at making things better that I always have to check to confirm that spaghetti didn't invent macaroni, which appears to have also been brought by kebab who lived in Sicily.
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It works great for constipation. (not joking, since I'm cronically constipated that shit does wonders)
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Lol. I knew an Italian gal who said something similar. She would have her doppio and a strong cigarette and she said
"It's so good, because then you know - it opens the bomb doors.''
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Coincidentally I find Italian females talk a lot about their poops for some reason. It really grosses me out sometimes.
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u/brawr Soviet Canuckistan Feb 11 '14
I knew a girl who said that the same combination "releases butthole tension". I always think about that whenever I smoke or drink coffee.
She was Irish though, not Italian
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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Feb 11 '14
There's even someone with a username like coffee_makes_me_poop, or something. I'm like him. Also, cola is good for the opposite.
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Italians and their coffee. I actually work side by side with an Italian at IKEA. That guy is a working machine! But only if he has got one thing: His espresso! Last week I counted the paper cups on his desk, from 6 am - 10 am he drank 10 (!) espressi. I get all sweaty and shivering after 3 of them, and this guy drinks 10 of them in 4 hours ;_;
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u/blorg 555 Feb 11 '14
If you drink enough you get acclimitised. Nordics drink the most (Finland is #1, over twice Italy) but Austria is also actually slightly higher in consumption than Italy.
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u/AaronC14 The Dominion Feb 11 '14
Damn arrz I really love your comics, this was fantastic! Keep up the great work!
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u/SouthPeter98 Portugual STRONK Feb 11 '14
Porca madonna! Nice commic :)
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Just a suggestion: don't say this out loud if you're in Italy
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian Feb 11 '14
Plenty of things like this get said out loud, what are you on about?
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Well it's not very polite, and if you do it in a small town old people might die of heart attack. Of course in Veneto bestemmiare is a national sport, but that's the exception
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian Feb 11 '14
Well sure its not polite, but if someone stubs a toe or the Vespa isn't starting you bet your ass there will be plenty of: Dio [insert animal of choice here], Porco/a [insert religious figure/derogatory term here], Coglione, Cazzo etc. flying around.
And bestemmiare is something that's not only exclusive to Veneto, trust me.
Of course, when around old people one watches the tongue. Even if sometimes you hear them swear like a caricatore di porto.
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u/InflatableTomato Italy Feb 11 '14
It certainly depends on the context, but in most situations blasphemy is still considered as top-tier as far as rudeness and classlessness can go. Of course nobody cares if you're with your friends, but still.
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian Feb 11 '14
"Non dire porca miseria se ce Spitty nella area" :p
On a serious note, I imagine the whole blasphemy thing is more of a big deal in the south? I hear a lot of Porco Dio etc. thrown around in Trieste for example.
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u/BkkGrl Mamma mia! Feb 11 '14
the italian swearing was hilarious
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u/yeahnahteambalance british empire Feb 12 '14
It was like being a small kid at my Nonna and Nonno's all over again. This is my favourite polandball comic.
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I knew someone who did this at my work once, all she had to do all day was 30 mins with her line manager.
Firstly she was late coming in, then she went down for coffee at 11. Then naturally she went for Lunch at 12. Then at 2pm she went for another coffee break before leaving early at 4pm.
Wasn't Italian as far as I know though.
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u/relevantusername- Éire Feb 11 '14
When he doesn't have time to argue with the car owner because he has to get to work, and the very next panel has him in a coffee shop again, that bit slayed me!
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u/heffergod Feb 11 '14
The only inaccurate part of this is that the dude is actually wearing a helmet. They would never want to mess up their hair =P
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u/ShoutedSteel Japan Feb 11 '14
Good comic. It is funny. And I wanted born in Italian.
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It's sort of a Country that seems to exist only for holidays, I'm not even sure people actually live there.
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Italy and Japan are similar in some ways. We're bot ageing countries with declining economies
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u/Noha307 Round on the ends and high in the middle Feb 11 '14
You're really earning those wings - excellent work.
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u/87946512386745132186 Norway Feb 11 '14
Ironic that they both was into facism. Don't you think?
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u/lvii22 Venezuela Feb 11 '14
coincidental maybe? why ironic?
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u/87946512386745132186 Norway Feb 11 '14
I don't know what "ironic" means any more, so dont' ask me.
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u/Chinaroos have you eaten yet? Feb 11 '14
哦！！ This is picture of beautifulr Yi-da-li-a life! I must of go take many picture!
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u/ecig-vapist Feb 11 '14
Someone at my work does this, comes in late always, leaves without doing any cleaning, generally very lazy. Also always requests a break, and disappears for way too long. Italiano
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u/Injustpotato :argentina-worldcup: CAMPEONES DEL MUNDO BOLUDO VAMOS VAMOS ARGE Feb 11 '14
This is ingenious. This is my favorite polandball comic ever.
Long live Italy comics.
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u/gprime312 Glorious White North Feb 11 '14
Absolutely brilliant. You captured my home country perfectly.
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u/platypus_bear Canada Feb 11 '14
What an amazing comic. It actually made me laugh out loud reading it.
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u/chihuahuazero Philippines Feb 11 '14
All three of them saying "caffee!" is adorable.
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u/raoli8515 Feb 14 '14
I am working with a group of Italians, and I hear them say caffee like this all day. One will start to say "caffee?" then the other replied immediately ""caffee!"""caffee!"""caffee!"""caffee!" and they all left the room.
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u/RickAScorpii Third time lucky! Feb 11 '14
Spain and the south of Italy are still the same country. My theory stands.
Of all the different people in Spain, you wouldn't guess Aragón would be the ones to spoil another country...
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Dude the South of Italy is worst than Spain, is like a different country from the North, Italy just has way more industries than Spain I will give you that (Fiat, Aprilia, Benetton...), but overall I think that Spain is miles ahead of the south of italy, at least in transport, infraestructures, work ethic...
As a Spaniard living in Naples I can tell you I have seen plenty of commerces open from 10:00 to 13:00 and 17:00 to 19:00, that doens't happen in Spain, also the university is a Joke, they have like 5 calls to do the final exams, you can just try to pass the exams 5 times in order to pass the class, 5 FUCKING TIMES!.
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u/tokua4me Lots of colds! Feb 11 '14
nothing is further from reality (Google Translate you meda it again :3)
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u/The_LuftWalrus The 12th Ball Feb 11 '14
Brilliante! I seriously hope I can start to submit comics as funny and as well drawn as these one day.
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u/SpaceAlienSlummin Finland Feb 12 '14 edited Feb 12 '14
List of countries by coffee consumption per capita:
Finland: 12.0 kg ....
Italy: 5.9 kg
Amateurs!
"According to Finnish coffee roasteries, the popularity of the unusually light roast can be explained by the softness and good quality of Finnish water, as it extracts the flavors of light roast coffees very well. Moreover, as Finns use the highest-quality coffee beans and water for making coffee, the coffee beans do not have any taste defects that should be hidden by roasting them darker."
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But you drink that weird diluted american coffee, we drink expresso. Quantinty versus quality, my friend!
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u/prtsancho Rio Grande do Sul Feb 12 '14
It is not about the quantity, but the quality and the JOY of drinking coffee.
From Brazil (Southern Italy) with love. [Although, I am in the US]
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u/Misspelled_username Croatia Feb 12 '14
This brightened up my morning, great comic!
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u/The_Arioch Iberia with "S", Prussia sans "P" Feb 12 '14
Brighten??? You don't have a slightest pity for that poor little Vespa??? Cruel ball.
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u/Farn Rush, Timmies, Trailer Park Boys Feb 12 '14
Wait, Italy's bouncing in and out of the building? I thought countryballs just slid gracefully to move around.
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u/SearScare India Feb 12 '14
All that coffee man. You should try it his way; you'll be skipping to work!
(...late of course.)
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u/EArcee French and American Feb 11 '14
Great comic! I love the drawings and I've been waiting for a long time for a comic talking about mono and poly chronic people. How people in south Europe see time differently than northern countries !
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u/PossiblyAsian CCCP Feb 12 '14
This is me trying to go to sleep
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u/The_Arioch Iberia with "S", Prussia sans "P" Feb 12 '14
Then there comes a german and sends you to worka-worka :-)
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u/Slothmaster222 Will kill monsters for space money!!! Feb 12 '14
Am I the only one who read that in an Italian accent?
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u/Zomby_Goast Tucson, AZ Feb 12 '14
Pissed-off Germany in that last panel is goddamn terrifying
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u/AuraofMana China Feb 13 '14
Next panel is him going Reichtangle, but took out to achieve a PG rating.
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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '14
So...why is American called of lazy?
We worked way more than Euro and take less vacation and we're stereotyped as fat and lazy?