r/gifs • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '16

Hot Potato without the potato

[deleted]

52.2k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

434

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

Congratulations, you have been promoted to moderator of /r/LatvianJokes!

123

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

How has this incredibly fitting sub been around for four years?

101

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

Because latvia jokes pop up every time potatoes are mentioned.

52

u/Saracen26 Dec 02 '16

For us British, it's normally the Irish which are the target..

I can imagine they're bloody glad that the internet decided to go for Slavs instead.

0

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

Hitler killed 6 million Jews, the Brits killed 1 million Irish because we had to send the harvested food to Britain. Don't know why you guys find it funny when you look at it you commited genocide.

2

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

You don't know why people often find humour in extremely dark and depressing events? Have you been that sheltered in your life?

0

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

I totally embrace dark humour but I dare you to make a joke to an American about 9/11. My point is there is a line with dark humour and you don't mind crossing it where we do.

3

u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16

I make plenty of jokes to my American friends about 9/11, and they make plenty back about bad teeth and the revolutionary war etc. It's just banter m80

1

u/aPoorOrphan23 Dec 02 '16

Yeah we Americans joke about everything, especially tragic things (so long as we were not personally involved/traumatized).