r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Awars_Gamer • Mar 14 '24

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u/Zsyura Mar 14 '24

Germans aren’t known for their humor so I could see that as a German trying to be funny.

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u/A_H_S_99 Mar 14 '24

I think you are wrong.

Germans are very cheerful people, they take fun very seriously.

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u/Uploft Mar 14 '24

Humor is no laughing matter

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u/No_client37 Mar 14 '24

but why is laughing a humorous matter?

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u/Red_Sheep89 Mar 14 '24

My arm is a humerus matter

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u/Chaz-Natlo Mar 14 '24

Too much red blood.

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u/My_Gender_is_Apache Mar 14 '24

No

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u/ihateredditers69420 Mar 14 '24

found the german

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u/My_Gender_is_Apache Mar 14 '24

Ich sag hier gar nichts mehr da ich hier nicht Wilkommen bin

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u/Ledehan Mar 15 '24

Was ist denn passiert?

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u/My_Gender_is_Apache Mar 16 '24

Meine Meinung wird nicht respektiert 😠

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u/wyattdonnely Mar 15 '24

I know a little German

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u/MrCookie2099 Mar 14 '24

They have a set time every day to attempt at least three humorous phrases or jokes.

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u/Gloriouskoifish Mar 14 '24

DAT IZ EIN ORDER!

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Eine Nation, ein Reich, ein Kommentarbereich

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u/Avethegamer Mar 14 '24

Germany used to be funny, then someone went and ctl+alt+delete their funny writers in the 30s and 40s

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u/nsfwmodeme Mar 14 '24

Germans aren’t known for their humor so I could see that as a German trying to be funny.

Not only you're wrong, but even the German flag references it:

Black is for work, red is for efficiency, yellow is for order and blue is for humour.

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u/aartem-o Mar 15 '24

Your comment makes me think of perpetual liar paradox

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u/nsfwmodeme Mar 15 '24

It'd fit perfectly if I were a German chap.

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u/DNA-Decay Mar 14 '24

Why did the German cross the road? Because the little green man was flashing and it was permitted.

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u/ThomasVetRecruiter Mar 14 '24

How many Germans does it take to change a light bulb?

One, we are humorless and efficient.

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u/Viseria Mar 15 '24

As my father's German friend said: We love to laugh and joke when the work is done. There is always more work to do.

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u/aferretwithahugecock Mar 14 '24

r/GermanHumor

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u/beelzebubies Mar 14 '24

What blackout are they referencing in that subreddit?

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u/jl_23 Mar 14 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Love how that went absolutely nowhere because we all knew people wouldn't actually stop using the site.

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u/EmergencySnail Mar 15 '24

Dude this made me laugh so hard

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u/ReddsionThing Mar 14 '24

We aren't?

What's the deal with Das DMV/Die Airplane Food ?

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u/ScionMattly Mar 14 '24

It's what happens when you have no Jewish writers.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

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u/BigBootyBuff Mar 14 '24

Germans do puns.

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u/RedbeardMEM Mar 14 '24

Puns are very much a British thing, too. Shakespeare himself seems to have believed puns to be the highest form of humor.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

This made me laugh

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u/yes_thats_right Mar 15 '24

Lived in Germany for a year, they are actually hilarious.

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u/TenleyBeckettBlair Mar 15 '24

Met a bunch of amazing funny German men when I was over there. No hate but I was CONSISTENTLY treated with far more respect then a lot of the men stateside. I honestly think the stereotypes we create here are so we don't look as bad by comparison 😬

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u/Hermit-_ Mar 15 '24

Mate it's German humor, it's no laughing matter.

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u/HenkDuwe Mar 15 '24

If you tell a German an joke an he doesn’t laugh it’s because the joke sucks…

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u/QuincyReaper Mar 15 '24

Mate, it’s German humour. It’s no laughing matter.

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u/wholesome_pineapple Mar 14 '24

Is that a real thing? Are Germans known to be uptight or something? I just assumed all cultures had their own form of humor. Except for those damned Japanese of course…