Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!
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@remi said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@boomzilla Makes me think of something along the line of:
The year is -2017 BC. Europe is entirely occupied by the EU. Well, not entirely... One small island of indomitable Brits still holds out against the invaders.
Your Frenchball is showing strongly.
Ah, yes, it's pretty unknown in the US I guess.
It used to be quite popular in Germany, too. As a kid I owned like 20 of the first 27 or 28 that came out until the 90s. Thinking of it, I'm pretty sad I don't have them any more.Also, only fairly recently I found out that Idefix in English is called Dogmatix. That's one of the rare occasions that a translation made for a better pun.
Even-more-OT-bonus-aside: After a series of our internal tools all happened to (unintentionally) sound like puppy names when abbreviated, I christened the newest one "Idefix".
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@topspin said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
Ah, yes, it's pretty unknown in the US I guess.
Probably because they can't visit the amusement park ... Forget EuroDisney and stop north of Paris in this place instead
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@topspin I read Asterix as a kid. I usually thought it was much better than Tintin and similar.
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@pie_flavor said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
I usually thought it was much
betterfunnier than Tintin and similar.Tintin also didn't age well
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@topspin said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
Also, only fairly recently I found out that Idefix in English is called Dogmatix. That's one of the rare occasions that a translation made for a better pun.
Polish translators were pretty good at it in Mission Cleopatra. The royal architect is named Marnypopis. That spy who "can fit in everywhere" is Karimatrix. That huge brute she gets to fight with later is Zestawsuperplus. Caius Ceplus misremembers Panoramix's name as "Surroundix". And a few more that aren't easy to translate.
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@Luhmann Destination Moon isn't that bad. I mean, it's obviously out-dated, like e.g. all anticipation literature of the past is (see H. G. Wells or J. Verne), but ignoring that, the story itself is not too bad and has some funny bits. Tintin in the Congo... yeah, not so much.
But the thing is, Tintin was definitely written for kids whereas while Asterix was ostensibly for kids (because "comics are for kids") but was actually published in a periodical aimed at youngsters-but-not-kids and that clearly shows in the topics and puns. Also, Tintin has a single author who both wrote the story and drew it, whereas Asterix had a separate writer (Goscinny) who was an extremely good one (almost all comics he wrote are good, some Iznogoud stories are absolutely hilarious for example, despite (or because?) being totally bonkers). Funniness took a plunge (like this thread...) after he died and the artist thought (wrongly IMO) that he could do the writing by himself.
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@Gąska said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@topspin Arbeit macht langweilig!
Not that you Poles would know anything about work.
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@Rhywden
Did you ask your local plumber if that joke was appropriate?
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@Luhmann "local".
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@Gąska
We know you don't work.You slack off reading internet fora
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@Gąska
I'm using my communist wellfare priviliges to have a Wednesdays off and take care of my daughter.
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: Where go friend clays?
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Go fuck yourself, NodeBB.
https://i.imgur.com/1qGlEx1.jpg
e: Ah,width
, what a useful property. I'll leave it like this for posterity.e2: No I won't, but you can click this to see it.
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Go fuck yourself, @pie_flavor.
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@Gąska WOMM
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@pie_flavor I think you do not quite understand the purpose of a forum
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@kazitor I was attempting to convey not that my machine was the special one, but that @Gąska's was the special kind of special one.
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@pie_flavor right, mobile is different after all.
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@boomzilla I like how they made Czechia speak Polish.
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@Gąska I like how they made the UK Brexit-ing about how it did'nt want to be of Europium anyway.
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@brie I appreciate “my lifewörk”, too.
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@topspin Wait. Are those words supposed to be strange?
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@cvi said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@topspin Wait. Are those words supposed to be strange?
Edit: the German Wikipedia article about it is 3 short paragraphs, and requires a degree in linguistics to understand.
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@topspin Yeah, the Wikipedia article overcomplicates things a bit. In reality it's quite simple. If it were pronounced "guggigäschtli", it'd be spelled "guggigäschtli." However, it's pronounced "chuchichäschtli", and hence spelled "chuchichästli". Simple, no?
If you have trouble figuring out the "ch" sound, ask one of the other upstanding groups of germanic language speakers, the Dutch. In particular, ask for the pronounciation of "Scheveningen", and look for the sound just after the initial "sch".
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@pie_flavor Wow, a 1920's Polandball!
: Cologne was in fact under British control, not French (cue some more jokes about smelly Frenchmen).
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@pie_flavor Somehow (probably because it's spelled Köln in German and Keulen in Dutch) I always take a while to associate the word Cologne as the name of the city.
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@PleegWat said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
it's spelled Köln in German
Must be an abbreviation
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Near moar Polandball!
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@PleegWat said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
@pie_flavor Somehow (probably because it's spelled Köln in German and Keulen in Dutch) I always take a while to associate the word Cologne as the name of the city.
TRWTF is that English speakers use (and mispronounce) the French name for a German city that hasn't been controlled by the French for over 200 years.
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@HardwareGeek They probably saw the röckdöts in the German name and noped out.
Filed under: Should have called the company "sur" or something too.
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@cvi said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
röckdöts
They're just Kölöns…
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@dkf Would you use Kölögne on your kölön, though?
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@Zecc Lies. Finns are never that talkative.
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@cartman82 said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
You thought this thread died? It will NEVER die.
Nothing is unforgivable to the final mercy.
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@Rhywden What is that in the foreground, which is presumably the thing that has united them?
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@HardwareGeek TV / Football (Euro 2021). Finals were England against Italy. Italy won in the end. From my random sampling of colleagues from a handful of European countries, the Polandball is pretty accurate.
There was this floating around a bit earlier too:
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@cvi said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
Football (Euro 2021).
Ah, I thought it was probably something like that, but I couldn't remember the name Euro 2021 to look it up and check that it was England vs whoever.
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@HardwareGeek said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
but I couldn't remember the name Euro 2021
Probably because it's called Euro 2020.
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@cvi said in Polandball appreciation of thread - now with added burgers!:
Euro 2021
Shouldn't that still be 2020, despite being postponed a year?
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@PleegWat 2021 has officially been renamed "2020: electric boogaloo."
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In my defense, that's an error of less than 0.1%.
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Not many countries can claim to have been the Euro champion for 5 years.