A guy in a boat is sinking, and he contacts the German coast guard:

‟Help me, I am sinking!”

The coast guard replies in a heavy German accent after a brief pause...

‟What are you sinking about?”

The tragedy of Canada is they could’ve had French cuisine, American technology and British culture.

Instead they ended up with British cuisine, French technology and American culture.

This joke is so old racism has been completely reinvented since it was composed. Italians have had better railways and hospitals than any wealthier areas for decades now. And the swiss have had academic frauds and Credit Suisse's endorsement of Lex Greensill etc. "British policemen" are apparently rarely men and rarely competent, rarely in uniform, and likelier to be taught to categorically hate civil society than German ones.

And the Yellow Vests can be seen as a colossal endorsement of French mechanics.

And the improvement of British food by their excursions has been going on for 11 centuries. It's the main point of doing most of them.

It's not really racist. I think you meant nationalist.

This was a commercial about learning English.

Well, Mussolini did make the trains run on time.

Don’t know much about everything else you said, but your British observations are spot on. The police are cunts and our food is great.

Italian cope

It’s a joke, man. Take it in that spirit.

I think you meant "funny"

Luckily they avoided American cuisine!

As much as that sounds feasible, have you ever watched "man vs food"? American cuisine is awesome. It's just the greediness part that sometimes spoils it.

Too soon...

I lived in the US (Florida). It was very poor quality as a rule. Even the better restaurants were nothing special.

The Publix chain of supermarkets weren’t good. Bread was, well, not worth buying for instance.

I guess good food isn't universal to all States.

I think the best food (and bars) I’ve seen was in Chicago. SF wasn’t up to much. NYC was “ok”. Boston wasn’t so good though fish and chips in Maine was not bad. I can’t recall food in Seattle.

I guess people just didn't see the joke there.

Man vs food seems to show that barbecue country is best.

I’ve seen the gluttony show before. How he’s not died from a heart attack, I don’t know.

I expect he’s diabetic nowadays.

Before you go into the bathroom you're American, when you come out of the bathroom you're American, but when you're in the bathroom European.

He went vegan and trained for soccer aid after getting the doctor's warning

The British tried policing in Ireland, wasn't appreciated.

Astute

And, lest we forget, God created the Irish so that the Germans couldn't take over the world, then he created whiskey so the Irish couldn't take over the world.

Edit: corrected Otto Kerr-Reckt's fuck up.

Italians are pretty organized I've heard. World largest producers of organized crime gangs.

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They lost that title to the Russians in the 90s.

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Belgium.

Roughly the 20°E meridian and the 45°N latitude.

Sorry, that was mean. I like Finland, Estonia and Greece.

Actually he didn't.

America has amazing cuisine all over. A foodie could live the rest of their life in Savannah Georgia alone and never get bored.

In your experience.

Did you disparage Publix!?! Don't say that out loud in Florida!😂🤣😂

Too clever

Very clever

Yeah. It's the internet. Nobody stopped doing that at any point. It's written words. We're using an international infrastructure. Either we need it out of society, or the kind of thing we're using isn't too antisocial. Welcome to awareness that there is space. IDK what you want from me. Best guess is the protocols of not having the internet - but on the internet or something.

Nationalism is obstetrics and the benefits to be realized indirectly thereby, and the prerequisites there-of, and the guesswork pertaining to these things, hence the same root-word as "natal", and it's also the history of lying about this stuff. IDK what the true meaning of Christmas has to do with any of this. Also this is why "racist" does indeed mean the same thing. Racists have lied about doing the guesswork. Dictionaries don't own weapons, people own weapons and dictionaries.

"Rest of their life" like you've got the rest of your life to deal with a failed parachute

I have a French friend and he can't understand the concept of American bread. I showed him a picture of a loaf of bread and he said "WTF is that?" basically. He was horrified when I informed him that we keep it for more than a week sometimes. (The French often go buy bread in the morning every day).

Obviously not seen our news about English police lately…

And it’s all funded by the Greeks

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You’re a peein

Yes, I know the real truth of the matter. But saying he made the trains run on time is an old, old joke.

Maybe too old.

You are a pee-in

I mean it's American culture minus the inherent selfishness. That's a win in my books

man that is so out of date. british police are corrupt, incompetent scumbags for one thing. mechanics? just about all the F1 teams are based in the uk for a reason , and it's not the tax breaks. the french are too busy rioting to be fucking, the swiss are only interested in filling their banks with ill gotten gains and Italian food is overrated ,,,

I first misread cooks as crooks, the joke still worked.

Sorry you had a bad experience but the facts are America has amazing cuisine, to say otherwise is ignorant.

I mean, I know it's super edgy and all here on Reddit to shit on America but it doesn't change the facts. I don't even live in America.

Everywhere seemed like BBQ country in that show!

Either you have much higher standards than me, you just happened to never eat somewhere that wasn't sub-par, or you're only counting food that's distinctly and entirely "American food", and given you've listed so many densely populated locations with relatively high tourism I'd be surprised if it's not the second or third of those.

If you have to pee bad you’re Russian to get there.

That's why the Britishers left India

I don’t think the British being the police is good considering the news lately

british culture?

American technology 😂 as if that is a sign of quality. I'd rather buy anything made in China over made in 'merica.

America itself doesn't have amazing cuisine. America has amazing examples of cuisine from all over the world. That is the same with Britain, Europe etc.

What?

Heard something similar years ago in Hetalia

Heaven and Hell

Well, stuff in " 'merica" are usually made by precision robots and factories while the stuff in China are from sweatshops. Morals aside, the quality of the final product is superior in America. I'm not an American eager to defend the country, I'm in Europe and I can objectively say this.

The current tragedy of Canada is we still have the French.

Aww who’s an edgy little self-loathing European?

What's going on?

Where is this fact? Americans have a horrible palate and cuisine, like all other English speaking countries. We can add Quebec because their food isn't real french and neither are they.

I have to disagree, the quality of American goods is generally poor, look at their cars, the cost is way higher than it should be because people think they are buying quality but what they are actually getting is something designed in America built in China then assembled in America. As a European I would buy European then if not available it's Chinese all the way. Never ever American.

The British have No culture. All they do is copy other other Europeans & Americans.

The best food across the major cities of Canada and US in my experience are the ones within those immigrant communities that speak little to no english. The restaurants that use napkins for dinning clothes and possibly look like they should have been closed down for ungodly reasons. It's the ones that come for a new life without a diploma or degree but a family recipe in their back pocket is what I love.

Ya, I lived in Florida too. You are right about Florida. NY and California, even Texas are better for food.

Cheeseburgers and fries are goddamn delicious and you know it.

German mechanics eh? So why do modern German cars break down after 50k miles and are crazy expensive to repair? There's a reason the used car market for them is garbage compared to Japanese vehicles.

Depends on the industry. American tools? Probably in line with the finest stuff from Europe or Japan. American cars? No thanks.

America doesn't suffer from cuisine nationalism as much as Europe does. American cuisine is burgers and fries sure, but you can get authentic anything in any major city across the entire country.

Also America gets to share claim of TexMex food and I'm pretty sure the world agrees that shits the bomb.

I understand not liking American manufacturing, but Chinese manufacturing is worse

Personal opinions, Gastronationalism is the most important thing in gastronomy. Where I said English speaking countries I mean Caucasian, English spoken people. We tend to adopt traditional dishes and "Americanize" them into crappy versions of the originals to sooth our indelicate palate. Hence TexMex even though it's delicious.

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Username checks out.

I find it funny that it’s deleted now

Right? I mean... Apple products are such fucking garbage.

Oh lol

Basically there’s this huge scandal around the Met (London) Police in which officers have been accused of SA and harassment against multiple women. Also one officer murdered a young woman back in 2021

Sorry, Otto Kerr-Reckt was drunk last night. He slipped that in when I wasn't looking.

r/frogs

Judging the entire industry of a federation just because you bought a shitty car is not good. Most of the factories there are owned by different corporations and private industries. The quality of a single car can not speak for all the cars, or everything else there

Edit: and the houses are like cardboard boxes because they need to be as cheap as they can to be rebuilt as fast as possible, because of the environmental conditions there. And they can't just make concrete houses as that would have a minimal effect of protection. Just look at Florida.

Well fries aren't American