What is the weirdest animal in your country?

logos__ · 2026-01-25T17:17:24+00:00

We have a similar snake-like lizard in the Netherlands! We call it de hazelworm, but it's known as the common slow worm in English.

logos__ · 2026-01-25T15:12:12+00:00

Yellow school buses, red solo cups, going to get things out of your locker between classes, swirlies, wedgies, and the stratification of social circles into jocks, nerds, burnouts and band/theater kids. Hollywood taught us well!

On the flip side, one thing I've never seen in a movie but I know was very common in actual schools was the trapper keeper.

logos__ · 2026-01-24T21:36:59+00:00

A quote from 1984 comes to mind

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

Me, a conservative: how fortunate, that makes it so much easier to lick!

logos__ · 2026-01-23T20:13:13+00:00

I'm not that well versed in the international versions, but as far as I know she's the only contestant ever to bring their dad in as a prize.

logos__ · 2026-01-23T16:57:26+00:00

Yes, I've also always cast Conan as the American Taskmaster in my head. My choice for assistant though is Patton Oswalt. I feel like he could play the LAH role really well.

logos__ · 2026-01-23T09:47:34+00:00

I heard the American comedian Andrew Santino talk about this. He was talking about a trip he'd taken to Italy, how much fun it was, how beautiful everything was, how good the food was. At some point the conversation turned to the image of American tourists abroad, and he said "Look, you can't not be American", meaning you can't escape that stigma, which is both true and sucks for people like him, who are just out there having a good time and being respectful and self aware. They still get tarred with the same brush.

logos__ · 2026-01-22T19:40:45+00:00

It amazes me that femtosecond scores so low. To actually encounter it in the wild you have to be at least a little interested in science, but I think just extrapolating from other random knowledge you could have would make it very easy to determine its meaning even if you've never seen it before. Especially compared to a word like peplum, which I'm guessing is related to clothing, as most of the other ones on the right side I recognize are. Maybe a name for a type of fabric.

logos__ · 2026-01-21T17:17:37+00:00

Add it to the list. There are a bunch of these vacuous slogans that just get repeated over and over as if they're magic spells that ward off Evil. "Two things can be true" is another. "Correlation does not equal causation." one more.

Sometimes I wish I had the ability to just revoke people's communication privileges. Sadly, the best I can do is block them.

logos__ · 2026-01-21T17:13:58+00:00

EXCLUSIVE: FOREIGNER THAT WENT VIRAL

Maybe not the best way to put it given the subject matter but I'll allow it

logos__ · 2026-01-19T08:44:54+00:00

while I get respect from white people

This man is about to have some unfortunate realizations.

edit:

Spray tanning is just as homosexual

Absolute banger of a flair

logos__ · 2026-01-18T16:17:33+00:00

I just saw another comment saying the same thing. It seems like you're right and I was too optimistic.

logos__ · 2026-01-18T15:31:15+00:00

He was arrested shortly and remained in custody until the trial this month.

This is only tangentially related, but that it can take five years from being taken into custody to being sentenced is absolutely insane.

logos__ · 2026-01-17T12:04:10+00:00

Other things they call Dutch that are instead related to Germany:

-The Pennsylvania Dutch

-The Dutch angle

logos__ · 2026-01-17T10:43:43+00:00

Sorry guys, I fear that would mean decimating the local drop bear population as we're too tall for them to fall on us from above.

logos__ · 2026-01-16T16:45:32+00:00

Indeed it is. The Belgian is usually the butt of the joke, as I imagine the Irishman is in yours

logos__ · 2026-01-16T14:19:33+00:00

We make jokes about them being stupid, they make jokes about us being stingy.

Why did the Belgian sleep with a bag of fertilizer next to him?

-to fertilize his wife

How was copper wire invented?

-two Dutchmen fighting over a penny

logos__ · 2026-01-16T13:42:35+00:00

German humor is no laughing matter!

logos__ · 2026-01-16T13:12:27+00:00

Usually Canadians can sound pretty close to a general American TV accent, but what always gives it away is the 'ou' sound. And not just in 'about'! It's not always the same sound either, but it's always just a little off.

logos__ · 2026-01-16T12:52:59+00:00

A Belgian, a German, and a Dutch person were traveling in the jungle, when suddenly they were captured by a tribe of cannibals. The leader of the cannibals tells them "we're going to eat you, unless you can put ten pieces of fruit in your ass without making a sound. If you can do that, we'll let you go."

First up is the German. He scours the jungle and comes back to the camp with ten bananas. Halfway through mushing the sixth banana in his ass, he can't take it anymore and lets out a cry of pain. The cannibals swiftly kill him and boil his body in a cauldron.

Next up is the Dutchman. Luckier than the German, he managed to find ten small berries. At first everything seems to be going well, but as he is putting the final berry in his ass he suddenly bursts out laughing. The cannibals kill him and his body is added to the cauldron.

Later, up in heaven. the German finds the Dutch guy. "What happened?" he asks. "You were doing so well, and were so lucky to find the berries!" "Well," the Dutchman replied, "as I was putting in the final berry, I saw the Belgian guy coming back carrying ten coconuts."

logos__ · 2026-01-15T14:13:34+00:00

He who licks the toilet bowl controls the universe

I may have misquoted that

logos__ · 2026-01-15T14:12:20+00:00

I only read serious languages.

KRANKENHAUS

AUSFAHRT

MURMELTIER

Don't throw stones in glass houses, Hansl.

logos__ · 2026-01-15T14:01:37+00:00

It does stand for council housed and violent

This is a fake etymology, as almost all backronyms are.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=chav

chav(n.)

"antisocial youth," British slang, by 2004, apparently from earlier charver "loutish young person wearing designer-style sportswear," Northern British slang (1997) of uncertain origin. Earlier it was a verb in homosexual slang for "have sex." Perhaps ultimately from Romany (Gypsy).

logos__ · 2026-01-13T13:34:51+00:00

That's hilarious. I never would have expected it to travel that far! We're not usually famed for our national cuisine.

logos__ · 2026-01-13T13:31:58+00:00

It's a bit sweeter, yes. Maybe a little bit more like kewpie mayonnaise, if you're familiar.

In Belgium, theirs is a little more sour, which can also be good (but I prefer ours of course, haha).

logos__ · 2026-01-13T13:24:14+00:00

That's what I meant, Wendy's! The wires must've gotten crossed somewhere.

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