Classic, I'm sending this to the Slavs in my life.
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Ofc I could tell, that's the Polish flag upside down
You know what, I'm adding that to my repertoire too. No sense in letting a good joke go to waste the next time there's an event with name tags.
I love this. Haven't seen a good Polish joke in years and years. In the old days it was like, "Wanna hear a Polish joke?" "Careful, I'm Polish." "That's okay, I'll tell it slow."
During my childhood, in Germany, during the ninetees and early 2000s, it was manly making fun of the Polish for beeing thiefs or beeing overrun in WWII.
Insanely racist time, looking back now, but it was just completly normalised.
That’s just living in Europe in general though. Everyone makes fun of everyone. Dutch and Belgians and Germans have jokes about each other since we share borders. There’s also stereotypes about the Spanish and Greeks being lazy, the French being rude, that sort of thing.
Eh, I don't know. I mean, sure, there are stereotypes.
But it feels a bit different. I thinks it's the difference between friendly banter, like friends do it sometimes, and blatant bullying.
I've done a little experiment. I went to https://witze.net/ , a website that is German and filled with humour that must be at least 30 years old. Many jokes refer to cultural events from that time (there was one about the explosion of the Challenger, which was in 1986). So that should give a good example of the time period I was reffing to.
You find examples of friendly banter for the French, etc.:
"Whats European heaven like?
The Englishman opens the door for you, the French is cooking, the Italian is the Entertainment and the German takes care of organising everything.
What's European hell like?
The Frenchman opens the door, the Englishman is cooking, the German is the Entertainer and the Italian takes care of organising everything."
Not funny, but also just a play on stereotypes. It's like that.
The polish stereotype is "they are thiefs".
"Whs do Russians always steal two cars? Because they have to drive trough Poland on their way back."
"Why is Viagra not allowed in Poland? Because everything that stands longer than 10 Minute is stolen."
And on and on.
Am I imagining that there is a difference if your stereotype is "bad at humour" (which the German website proves quite well ironically) or "steals everything all the time"?
To be fair, the 90s in Poland were a rough time to own a car.
We made a tourism campaign out of it at least: "Come to Poland! Your car is already here".
Source; Some old German guy….
Why is there a gutter on both sides of the pavement in Fresia? So they can get walk without scraping their knuckles so bad. Why are Fresian’s arms so long? So they can feel the tits on a cow when they’re snogging them!
I don’t know know if it works in your part of the world but I’ve always enjoyed variants on the old classic:
I know someone who’s Polish.
Who’s that?
How is that name pronounced? Chuck?
Just like it's spelled.
Gregorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz would like a word
It's not a real name and it is hard to pronounce even for a Pole.
it might he hard for all you lazy Poles up there in the north, but we have it down pat back here in the balmy south,
Czywinostawcz would be pronounceable, but the j fucks it up.
"cz" marks the same sound as the English "ch". "j" marks the same as "y" in "yes". Otherwise you read it letter by letter, a bit as if it was Spanish.
So... Is Ch'yvinos'tavch legible enough? :) Although, the pronounciation of the j would be so weak that you could perhaps skip it. It does alter the sound a bit, but doesn't really sound as an independent sound in this word. So, also Ch'vinos'tavch could maybe be a valid transcription? And of course real Polish language does not have the combination czj anyway :)
The P is silent
We don’t do silent letters. Life is difficult enough.
Looking at these words and names I really think some silent letters would actually help out
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I can try my best until an actual Pole drops by... I'm guessing something like "Chinostas Chabras" (I apologize I'm advance for how wrong I probably am, I'm just applying what I learned from how to pronounce other polish names but I don't speak the language whatsoever).
Jim
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Polish jokes are a reflection of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through American xenophobia. This is funny, I just also like history
I'm just now realizing that "pole" does not mean a metal cylindrical object and, infact, is a group of people living in Poland
I've always kinda disliked the name Pole for that reason, but it is what it is
We used to say "Polack" but only in a derogatory way because people arw terrible.
what
Polish jokes are a reflection of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through American xenophobia. This is funny, I just also like history
Hey, I'm looking for reflections of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through some specific American folly. Can you think of any comedy subgenres that might fit this description?
Hoo boy do I envy you. So, upon opening up its trade ports to the Dutch, Japan not only ushered in a cultural revolution, but a culinary one. Many new styles of foods and flavors were introduced. Some people didn’t like this though. They thought they should just stick to native fruits and vegetables, not these foreign bananas (ばな literally “wood foot food”) the Dutch typically brought with them. So, preparing for their own future imperialist ambitions, Japan invented coded language using food to refer to their future rivals. When the Americans caught yellow fever during WW2, they imported many of these same racist jokes. They still carry on this tradition today - you can find out more at the historical resource lemonparty.org
I didn't realize how hot history is! Got any stories about goats or oddly-colored waffles???
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You should check out Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It's pretty old by now, but it still works as reflections of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through U.S. troops with names like Derek and Brad.
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Half the polish jokes today are just about the language putting too many consonants together.
I can't speak to the opinions of the Polish people, but I'd imagine that's considered an upgrade from when the jokes were largely about them being bafflingly stupid.
I thought I had a meme about Polish people doing Florida man stuff, but I didn't
The only one I remember is this story
Accept this kurwa as a substitute: KURWA
I mean, this is incredibly tame for imperialist propaganda. You wouldn't believe the shit I see in America. Take Enemy At The Gates for example.
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Looks like Kim Jong Un in his profile pic
Gotta be a fake account for the meme
kurwa cheepka
Joey Joe Joe!
Ah, yes. Beetlejuicing 101.
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