Comment vous appelez une personne qui parle trois langues?Stef wrote:Pardon? ...vous pouvez répéter la question?
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I know you would understand it and not complain...
Country jokes
I know what you guys are saying, but I always get a laugh out of running these things through Babelfish: 
This could get ugly real fast...just keep translating the translation until Babelfish explodes.Babelfish mangled the translations and wrote: Stef: Forgiveness? ... you can repeat the question?
housil: How you call a person who speaks three languages?
kman: Je sais ce que vous des types dites, mais j'obtiens toujours un rire hors de courir ces choses par Babelfish. (I know what you types said, but I always obtain a laughter out running these things by Babelfish)
Oh thanks it's better like this, when you write normally!housil wrote:
Comment vous appelez une personne qui parle trois langues?
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I've once asked a German colleague if they had jokes about the French in Germany.
He looked at me very seriously, knitting his brows and he said in that Germany making fun of the weaker or disabled people is considered as something very inappropriate
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We Germans have the reputation that we aren´t funny, not joking etc...Stef wrote:Oh thanks it's better like this, when you write normally!housil wrote:
Comment vous appelez une personne qui parle trois langues?
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I've once asked a German colleague if they had jokes about the French in Germany.
He looked at me very seriously, knitting his brows and he said in that Germany making fun of the weaker or disabled people is considered as something very inappropriate
I would like to hear more jokes about us, just to see how others see you.
You understand what I mean?!
The older German generation can´t joke about the 3. Reich, like Monty Python did in UK TV.
Very funny for "us" junger generation. We make jokes about Hitler too.
See this:
They synchronized a Hitler-adress with a very famous and funny cabaret artist. This is a running gag all over Germanys internet.
Also this (in english!):
One of my friends in Germany told me that the generation that experienced the Third Reich didn't even like to discuss it. Many of the younger generation that followed (young kids like me ) were kind of ashamed that Germany hosted the Third Reich. It's good to hear that the more recent generations are able to put the experience behind them and not feel burdened with the antics of a madman. While the damage should not be forgotten in history, the future generations should not bear that on their shoulders.
With regards to people thinking that Germans not being funny ... they must drink with the wrong crowd. More beer, more fun!
) were kind of ashamed that Germany hosted the Third Reich. It's good to hear that the more recent generations are able to put the experience behind them and not feel burdened with the antics of a madman. While the damage should not be forgotten in history, the future generations should not bear that on their shoulders.With regards to people thinking that Germans not being funny ... they must drink with the wrong crowd.
More beer, more fun!housil wrote:The older German generation can´t joke about the 3. Reich,
When I was looking around for a nice, safe German joke, I ran across this site:housil wrote:We Germans have the reputation that we aren´t funny, not joking etc...
I would like to hear more jokes about us, just to see how others see you.
http://www.german-jokes.com/
I didn't realize Germans had a reputation for not being very funny so the site didn't make a lot of sense to me at first. But now that I see you make that comment, I thought I'd share the link.
Be sure not to miss the German Joke of the Day here...it's the audio version:The website's front page wrote:Why are we doing this? Because in Britain, everybody thinks that German jokes are not funny. Only because nobody laughs! Only because we have no Monty Python in Germany! No Mr Bean! No Premier League!
Clearly, this is wrong. In Germany, We have ways to make you laugh. So on these pages, our Laughmeisters from Germany, Herr Kunz and Herr Kallenbrecher, organise some really funny laughter for you. And if you don't get the jokes, do not worry. We are here to explain them to you.
http://www.german-jokes.com/gjd.html
And I just ran across this page of theirs:
For Our American Friends
http://www.german-jokes.com/pointe3.html
Read the duck joke and then choose the level of humor you'd like in the punchline. I thought the American version was lame but the "German Grade Humor" version had me laughing.
Hi,
in France when someone tells a joke of that kind, the answer is generaly "Ach, kolossal fun!" so I guess it also refers to a notion of German humor
The jokes about the Germans are quite rare here, the most common joke are about the Belgians (being our ..."Irish"), the Swiss (supposed to be some slow talking fussy skinflints), the Brits are how everybody else on this planet imagine them I guess but particularly posh and phlegmatic. I know no jokes about the Spaniards, very few about the Italians (the classical stereotypes of the macho whose motto could be "make love, flee war"...) a few about the Portugese (generaly based on their shpeshiawl akshent)
Oh, BTW, no jokes about Hitler, the SS or the Nazis here: that's still a very touchy matter
in France when someone tells a joke of that kind, the answer is generaly "Ach, kolossal fun!" so I guess it also refers to a notion of German humor
The jokes about the Germans are quite rare here, the most common joke are about the Belgians (being our ..."Irish"), the Swiss (supposed to be some slow talking fussy skinflints), the Brits are how everybody else on this planet imagine them I guess but particularly posh and phlegmatic. I know no jokes about the Spaniards, very few about the Italians (the classical stereotypes of the macho whose motto could be "make love, flee war"...)
a few about the Portugese (generaly based on their shpeshiawl akshent)Oh, BTW, no jokes about Hitler, the SS or the Nazis here: that's still a very touchy matter
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At summer vacation, we always went with our whole familiy to Saint Tropez (Cot d´Azur, South France). I was in the age of 13 when an "older french lady" start yelling at me that I´m a ****** german ***** Nazi...Stef wrote:Hi,
in France when someone tells a joke of that kind, the answer is generaly "Ach, kolossal fun!" so I guess it also refers to a notion of German humor
Oh, BTW, no jokes about Hitler, the SS or the Nazis here: that's still a very touchy matter
The whole world suffered under the German 3. Reich, but it´s over 60 years ago and when I was born, the WW2 was over for 23 years.
The 3. Reich is part of our (German) history, but not of mine!
By the way, at a cars licens plate letters like "SS", "AH", "SA" are still not avialable
If "my grandfahter" was hating "yours", why should I hating you?!?!
Anyway...
We joke about the Scottish, as they are "penny-pincher"
Do you know scottish tomato soup? Hot water in a red bowl...
Also about east-europeans, as they steal everything here, especially from Poland. They steal our cars and rush them there.
Spend your next holiday in Poland - your car is already here...
Austrian have the repurtation, to be not the smartest...
The Austrian mountain rescue service (Bergwacht) will get a new life flight helicopter with just one rotor blade. So they can fly closer to a mountain
We also make jokes about the switzerland that they are "slow".
What we also prefer are jokes about the other europeans like this:
"Ötzi" was a stone age skeleton (5300 years old), (spectacular) found in the Alp Mountains in 1991.
So the whole researchers try to figured out where he came from.
They found some brain, so he can´t be an Austrain.
He also can´t be from Italy, they found some tools at him.
He could be from switzerland, a glacier overtook him.
But he must be a German, nobody else went into the mountains with sandals
Or about the Netherlands, that they always have a camping trailer at their car.
Netherland bumper sticker: Wenn youw dat leesen kann, hebb ick mijn Caravan verloore (If you can read this, I lost my camping trailer)
to be continued...