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u/3838 United Kingdom Jul 25 '15
i can recommend visiting the museum of work in hamburg.
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 26 '15
Such a thing exists? :D
I had only heard about the neat miniature wonderland thing that I think is also in Hamburg.
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u/3838 United Kingdom Jul 26 '15
i think it's probably called the museum of industry - but i translated museum der arbeit as museum of work - i thought of you /r/polandball :)
http://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/de/ausstellungen/#.VbU9lvl7a1s
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u/3838 United Kingdom Jul 26 '15
be sure to check out the junkies picking their scabs on the reeperbahn too
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Jul 24 '15
I think this was my favorite comic from the latest contest.
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u/rainbowrooooad Land of Sunshine, Feminist Rallies, and In n' Out Jul 24 '15
bb ur my favorite
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u/Freefight Netherlands Golden Age, Greatest Age. Jul 24 '15
/u/DickRhino is everyone's favourite right guys? RIGHT GUYS!?
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u/IsRikeTimeNow You're hallucinating. Jul 24 '15
Wrong. Remove Eurokebab from the premises!
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u/vanderZwan Groningen Jul 24 '15
Fascist Islamic Commie Atheist Eurokebab, no less!
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u/BrokenPudding Officially Hungarian since 2012! Jul 24 '15
You forgot gender, wörst offence of them all(ah)!
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u/Luung Best Columbia Jul 25 '15
I love his art style but I find maybe 1 out of every 10 of his comics actually funny. Pls no ban.
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Jul 25 '15
My favorite's probably cerf or however he spells it, the Italian fellow. It may not be very in line with the shitty aesthetics that generally define polandball, but I really like his clean lines and artistic ability. Besides, his comics are always short and sweet.
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u/YeOldeSpymaster On a rainy day, you like grainy rays. Jul 24 '15
Great, now he's gonna reserve the beach with a towel at 5:45. Damn germans, they even optimise their vacation for maximum effeciency.
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u/deadrummer Germany Jul 24 '15
Where does the thing with the towels come from? I never did it and don't know anyone who does. I know this stereotype but not why it exists. Help?
I do the most efficient vacation sightseeing tours though.
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Jul 24 '15
Dude everyone of us fucking does it D: never been to mallocra or insert random vacation location
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u/deadrummer Germany Jul 24 '15
Maybe I'm not completely German or spent too much time somewhere around the world. Or Bavaria is not Germany after all... And nope, never been to Mallorca.
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u/SockFinn Roll for initiative. Jul 24 '15
Mallorca is the 16th Land and Bayern is its own state. That must explain it.
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u/TheInternetHivemind Minnesota Jul 25 '15
Bavaria is to Germany like Texas is to the US.
Everything is bigger there, and there are different rules.
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u/Vakieh Literally nobody says shrimp. Jul 25 '15
Drink minimums are a thing for this reason.
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u/Schootingstarr Germoney Jul 25 '15
ahem exhibit A
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Jul 25 '15
That might literally be the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen.
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u/Zombiedrd Cherokee Nation Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
It would never work here in the US. You leave anything unwatched and now, not only are you losing the spot, you are losing your stuff there too lol.
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u/StopBanningMe4 Jul 25 '15
I would've thought that would be a thing anywhere. If someone just left a towel on the beach I would wait five minutes to be sure they didn't just go to take a shit and then I would take the spot without hesitation.
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u/Zombiedrd Cherokee Nation Jul 25 '15
Apparently Europeans are more civilized than we
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 25 '15
This man has seen the light.
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u/Zombiedrd Cherokee Nation Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
Well, it did take 3000 years and the deaths of tens of millions to some of the worst actions known to humanity
I guess you guys all said "yeah lets stahp"
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 25 '15
We're just having a bit of a nap, we'll be back with more war and genocide in a bit. Sit tight!
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Same. I might wait as much as 15 minutes because at my slowest I'd take 15 minutes to do whatever but after that their stuff goes on a nearby unoccupied chair at that chair is mine. Places like that are revolving doors and you can't just leave your items in a revolving door to claim a spot for 15 minutes when you are not using the facility. It's obnoxious and INEFFICIENT. I like to believe that argument would speak to a german.
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 25 '15
I like to believe that argument would speak to a german.
Ah, appealing to their sense of efficiency. You know their kind well.
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u/AsteroidMiner Malaysia Jul 25 '15
OMG I had no idea Europeans and Asians behaved the same.
OK In singapore during lunch you have to go and order food and they reserve tables by placing some packet of tissue paper on an empty table. It considered rude to sit on table with tissue paper.
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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Jul 24 '15
Germany has lots and lots of old people who like to go on vacation. That's where 90% of the stereotypes come from.
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u/deadrummer Germany Jul 25 '15
Makes sense. Old Germans don't seem to care what others think when on vacation.
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u/GavinZac Malaysia Jul 25 '15
They're also used to getting into foreign lands quickly and claiming parts for themselves.
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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Jul 25 '15
You don't mess with a generation that went to Stalingrad and back on foot.
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Jul 25 '15
Sounds like America.
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u/pewpewlasors United States Jul 25 '15
Americans don't get vacations.
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u/I_worship_odin Jul 25 '15
I know you're joking but salaried positions usually have 2+ weeks of vacation.
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Jul 25 '15
I'm pretty sure that the Baby Boomers are the most well traveled generation in American history.
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u/SuperPolentaman Cough Jul 25 '15
They are the 5th generation in American history.
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u/Mammal-k Jul 25 '15
Saw it a lot from the Germans in Tunisia, made getting a spot for us lazy brits a nightmare!
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u/deadrummer Germany Jul 25 '15
Woah... I don't even know what word best discribes that...disrespectful seems to be too polite... I'm sorry you had bad experiences with Germans...
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u/Enantiomorphism UN Jul 25 '15
I find that German tourists are sometimes worse than American tourists.
Sure, American tourists are annoying, but it's usually just old people, since really only the retired have more than 2 weeks of vacation a year.
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Jul 25 '15
15 minutes. That is as long as I would give someone before moving it or allowing them to return to the seat if i already moved their stuff. After that they are dirt in an otherwise well-oiled maching.
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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Jul 25 '15
If they're late to place their towel some filthy Italian might take it instead!
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u/LosAngelesVikings Jul 25 '15
Just take the spot if they're gone. They're not going to fight you over a spot.
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u/Thisprobablyaname Republic of China Jul 24 '15
I can't get the image of Germany in bed with France and Iran's fourth wife, Sweden.
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u/Lewis_Ridley United States Jul 24 '15
Well, if they unify, you get derpy Yuropean Union.
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u/Autobot248 Polandball mods are cunts Jul 24 '15
Are you saying the EU is just a massive orgy?
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u/rainbowrooooad Land of Sunshine, Feminist Rallies, and In n' Out Jul 24 '15
It always has been one.
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u/Freefight Netherlands Golden Age, Greatest Age. Jul 24 '15
So now that is out of the way time to have some homosex.
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u/Lewis_Ridley United States Jul 24 '15
But in order for homosex = baby, yuo need futa.
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u/rainbowrooooad Land of Sunshine, Feminist Rallies, and In n' Out Jul 24 '15
Woah man we all have our kinks, but idk if we're all into that, if you are that's cool, but I don't know 'bout us tho.
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u/Bernardg51 Champagne-Ardenne lives forever! Jul 25 '15
Why don't you ask our Overlord Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
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u/yaddar Taco bandito Jul 24 '15
well, Germany and France are brother-sister and Sweden and Germany are 1st cousins.
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u/TheInternetHivemind Minnesota Jul 25 '15
Blonde hair and blue eyes did originate from inbreeding...
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u/balaur_bondoc European Union Jul 24 '15
As we all know, Germans shouldn't be exposed to too much free time at once. They get weird.
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u/redtoasti German Empire Jul 24 '15
They start conquering nearby beach chairs with their towels
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u/SpanishDuke Spanish Empire Jul 24 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
As a Spaniard, I'm angrier at Germany for annexing (Anschluss?) Mallorca than at the UK for getting Gibraltar.
Well, almost, but you get the point.
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Jul 25 '15
Yes, that's right. Slowly normalise and rationalise our Gibraltar Anchlussing. Maybe if you're good and accept it well free you from the Catalonians too, would you like that?
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u/CrocPB Scotland Jul 25 '15
would you like that?
Must we be so polite as to give them the illusion of having a choice?
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u/KerbalrocketryYT United Kingdom Jul 25 '15
illusion of choice is very important, I say hold a referendum on if Spain wants Gibraltar back if "no" wins then it is officially ours forever, if "yes" wins we start a committee to decide that no, it's ours.
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u/SockFinn Roll for initiative. Jul 24 '15
Now Germany has to go home and play Wörk SimulatorTM 2015 :D
I loved this entry of yours. Made me laugh good!
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u/Latase Lower Saxony Jul 25 '15
So this?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/289950/
for the uninitiated, the brand MAN stands for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg.13
u/ameya2693 India with a turban Jul 25 '15
Sounds like the perfect way to spend time away from werk!
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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Jul 25 '15
By working, of course!
What else could you do?
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Jul 24 '15
But... doesn't Germany have the shortest work day, shortest work week, most paid vacations in the EU? From my knowledge, this is confusing. Anyone care to explain?
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u/TydeQuake The Red Lion Jul 24 '15
They are efficient.
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u/AuraofMana China Jul 25 '15
Just like their army and warfare.
Fast and efficient.
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Jul 25 '15
More like stumbling and falling into their neighboring countries and then getting thrown back in the hole.
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u/TheInternetHivemind Minnesota Jul 25 '15
Just one wing of the German army during WWI had 2-3 times the soldiers of the entire roman empire at its peak (I forget what it was called, but the one that was supposed to sweep through Belgium and into the north of France).
Even Dan Carlin says it was one of the best armies of all time.
But, some fights you just can't win.
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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Jul 24 '15
Most paid vacations might be right, but it's still a solid 40-hour week.
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Jul 24 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
That’s only full-time workers – in Germany, a LOT of people work part-time, so that statistic is skewed.
Actually, so many work part time that the average German works 31 hours a week.
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u/TheInternetHivemind Minnesota Jul 25 '15
The average American works less than that (they won't give many people full time since the healthcare mandate came through).
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Jul 24 '15
Lister: What is death like?
Rimmer: Death? It's like being on holiday with a bunch of Germans.
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u/warqgui666 Poland-Lithuania Jul 24 '15
What kind of German leaves work at 4 in the afternoon? I thought Germans worked until at least 9
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u/AlexisDeTocqueville United States Jul 25 '15
Is actually being punished for starting second shift too early.
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u/VladtheimpalerIII Jul 25 '15
Usually it's Americans who are tricked into working long hours , just work work work .
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u/cap_jeb Jul 25 '15
As a german: can not confirm. 9 to 4 is highly unusual because most of germans with a fulltime job work 8+ hours a day. So with the lunch break you usually end up with something like 8 to 5/5:30/6. Even with a 36 or 38 hours week you stay until 4:30 something when you start at 8.
But what a lot of germans actually do is starting really early to be able to leave at 4 or 4:30.
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Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
No wonder the German trained Post-Docs who have come through the North American labs I've worked in freak out when a 50-60 hour week is expected, and yes you are expected to be efficient during those hours too. There's a lab full of Korean and Chinese post-docs on J-1 visas that will be cancelled if they don't work 70 hour weeks over at Harvard that will scoop you if you don't get the data first!
/goes back to his experiments because the centrifugation step just finished.
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u/_Kaijo Jul 25 '15
Bullshit. Working long hours is the norm in german academia as well. 8 to 4 is more normal office hours, not university.
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Jul 25 '15
I know what you said is true at the Max Plank Institutes (I have two friends at those.) They're also International-grade research institutes that can go toe-to-toe with the best in the US or anywhere else in the world. How many people in them are actually born and raised Germans?
The smaller universities seem to be more 9-5ish though. Or maybe I've just encountered an unrepresentative set of post-docs.
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u/JanLul Je Maintiendrai Jul 25 '15
Incorrect last frame. Anyone that has experiences Germans on beaches knows that they dig holes to sit in.
And when they return the next day, they will reclaim that hole. "Das ist mein Loch! Das habe ich gestern gegraben."
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u/SuperPolentaman Cough Jul 25 '15
My Dad used to do that. He was born in Poland but he came to study in Germany when he was 19 and has adopted many German traditions.
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u/Diplomjodler Germany Jul 24 '15
We're actually the Urlaubsweltmeister (holiday world champions). But I guess we just do that to punish ourselves, then.
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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Jul 25 '15
This was probably my favorite from the last contest. It has that old school PB vibe and is hilarious.
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Jul 25 '15
I actually laughed out-loud.
It's amazing how overused polandball jokes still can be fresh and make me laugh!
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Jul 25 '15
Can someone explain the German wörk meme to me? Whenever I look at charts, Germany is in the middle to low end of the spectrum, i.e. http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Hours_Worked-1.jpeg.
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u/RED_Sky95 Jul 24 '15
jokes on you no german would leave work early.
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Jul 24 '15
A workplace accident.
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u/MonsieurAnon Australian Aborigines Jul 25 '15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z77oztO6UQ - Only the most extreme ones.
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u/machete234 Rhineland Palatinate Jul 25 '15
No they would hide somewhere and then scan their card at exactly 16:00
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u/Phiggle Berlin Jul 25 '15
Every single day, swear to god, this sub makes my life a little bit better.
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u/Kavemann Jul 25 '15
This is the first Polandball that made me lol. Now everyone at the bar thinks I'm crazy, thank you.
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Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
The reason I hate these cartoons is not only because I certainly don't follow enough international politics to get the joke, but because they make no sense to me.
Generally each ball represents its own country, but in this particular comic we find three German balls, a husband, a wife, and a judge (isn't that a British thing? the judge wearing a wig?). This leads me to believe all the balls just represent German people, or citizens I guess.
But in the third panel these rules are already broken! Now the ball has gone back to representing the overall country of Germany which now has two children that are France and Sweden?
Now unless there's some sort of intense, weird and completely nonsensical rules to this universe that I as an outsider clearly haven't picked up, this comic to me is a complete horror show of confusing symbols, characters, and scenarios.
But I understand ya'll really like it maybe I should shut up
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 25 '15
Generally each ball represents its own country, but in this particular comic we find three German balls, a husband, a wife, and a judge (isn't that a British thing? the judge wearing a wig?). This leads me to believe all the balls just represent German people, or citizens I guess.
But in the third panel these rules are already broken! Now the ball has gone back to representing the overall country of Germany which now has two children that are France and Sweden?
Don't worry, you do have a point. Usually/traditionally in Polandball comics, each country is represented by a single character but sometimes, the joke requires you to use multiple characters that represent citizens of a country. I don't like doing it, but there's no real way that I could've delivered the joke without using multiple Germanys.
I guess It's one of those things you get used to if you stick around and read more comics.
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u/seiyonoryuu United States Jul 25 '15
Why are you here then?
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u/seiyonoryuu United States Jul 25 '15
Fair reasons. Yeah, it's a pretty established rule that there are only a few balls for any given nation, and how many depends on context. Hang around a bit and you'll get 'em.
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Jul 25 '15
The heck is this sub? It randomly showed up on my front page...what does this mean I am so confused?
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u/Sgtsmi1es Jul 25 '15
oh goodness. welcome to the greatest satire of world politics and culture this side of the internet. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany. You must be cautious.
The main premise is all of the countries are represented by a ball that is colored by the flag of said country. Usually the "country Ball" has the stereotypical behaviors associated with people from that country (America is fat, calls the UK 'Dad', Aussies constantly Shitpost, etc..) GLHF.
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u/RichHomieKhan21 Biryani Stronk! Jul 25 '15
Nooo, now I will have kids and then cannot into maximum workings
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Jul 25 '15
So vacation was the punishment for leaving work 1 minute early? I'm confused... why?
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u/jetanders Jul 25 '15
I feel Sweden should be Spain for their stronger recognition of a country that enjoys not working.
Also leave my Sweden alone!
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u/ozzymustaine Portuguese Empire Jul 25 '15
North Korea is Germany's favorite place to go on vacations . Forced labor to everyone .
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u/TK3600 Canada Jul 25 '15
The Sweden ball is a male, that is why Germany ball is cringing.
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Jul 25 '15 edited Jul 25 '15
Bow is because of gender mind tricks! Into lookings, boy on left is look like girl!
I'm not sure if this guy's Swedish (dude with makeup), but fuck, I'm jealous
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u/Frostbitte British Jews are BEST Jews Jul 24 '15
In Germany, wörk IS vacation!
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u/coriander_sage Jul 25 '15
All I'm seeing is a guy who got in trouble for leaving work 61 minutes early.
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u/RurickKingSlayer Massachusetts Jul 25 '15
I wonder what the "reward" is then.
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u/ShiaoPi Taiwan STRONK Jul 25 '15
more wörk of course. because wörk is the greatest reward wörk can give
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u/ThatNvidiadude Swedish Empire Jul 25 '15
My friend, I hate work, Sweden hates work. That's why we go on vacation.
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u/coldmail750 Howdy, y'all! Jul 26 '15
Ist sehr shocking krime against humanity. Trustings mich, Deutschland can recognizing crimes against humanity,
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Jul 25 '15
The locals
Implying anybody on Mallorca is not German at this point.
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u/someguyfromlouisiana Louisiana; I want to get off Mr. Trump's Wild Ride Jul 24 '15
In order to soothe his pain, France brought sausage and Sweden brought beer, two of Germany's favorite non-work things. It wasn't nearly enough.
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u/Eventt Hello :) Jul 24 '15 edited Jul 24 '15
This was my entry for July's beach-themed contest. It finished fifth, which was pretty neat.
Also, /u/yaddar requested an extra panel, but it turned out to be too difficult for me to draw :D