A solid 30% of posts in my feed are German memes. I don't understand the language, but I love the memes that I can't read.
Lemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humor
3 years ago by WillFord27 to c/showerthoughts
AGuyAcrossTheInternet 25 points 3 years ago
Thanks to you, I have overdrawn my Tageslachkontingent and will either have to compensate by laughing less tomorrow or filling out a Tageslachkontingenterhöhungsantrag.
Killing_Spark 12 points 3 years ago
Bevor sie ihren Tageslachkontingenterhöhungsantrag abgeben können müssen sie mit dem Formular 36A erstmal zu Frau Maier gehen und sich die Sondertageslachkontingentbewerbungsunterlagen ausstellen lassen. Damit kommen sie dann bitte wieder zu mir und wir schauen dann mal.
wgbirne 19 points 3 years ago
Yeah, funny story:
I work for the government and once during an inspection they noticed that a light on the roof our building needed to be replaced.
What should be a 5 minute task took many months. Why? Safety rules state that only roofers are allowed to enter the roof, but only electricians are allowed to work on anything that has to do with electricity which includes changing a light bulb. So we had to wait a couple of months for one of the electricians to get certified as a person that can enter the roof.
Jesus_666 7 points 3 years ago
Last winter, in order to protect the dwindling completely full strategic gas reserves, the government issued an order for all govenment-owned office buildings to limit the central heating to no more than 19° C because that seemed to be the most pointlessly bureaucratic solution at the time.
This included buildings that don't even use gas for heating. Remote heat? Geothermal heat? Free waste heat that you have to actively vent to the atmosphere in order to lower the room temperature? Yep, all required to not exceed 19° C. The building I worked in at the time (for a company that rented some excess floor space) actually wasted energy adhering to this well thought-out rule.
So yeah, I'd say that in order to change a lightbulb you need at least 1000 Germans. You need both chambers of parliament to create and pass a new ordinance that applies specifically to this lightbulb (and several other contexts it has no business applying to but does because it's too vaguely worded). Then you need at least three different expert panels to advise the government, regulatory agencies to make sure the ordinance is adhered to, licensed trainers to make sure the people executing the job are formally certified to do so... Actually, we might have to get the European Parliament involved; the new ordinance might benefit from being propoted to a European standard.
I'll get back to you about this in about three to five years; we need to get this figured out.
SpaceNoodle 78 points 3 years ago
If you could read them, you'd realize they're all just the same banal pun.
The Germans have one sense of humor, spread across the entire nation.
Schmeckinger 26 points 3 years ago
Stör ich dich gerade? cringe
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Killing_Spark 3 points 3 years ago
Hey Vorsicht, nicht dass noch jemand vor lachen störbt
Treczoks 52 points 3 years ago
In all seriousness, the notion that Germans lack humor stems from the times when English and American people last got in contact with Germans in larger numbers: In and after WW2. Allied propaganda did paint the Germans as humorless (because they can't be totally evil if they still have humor), and after the war, living in Germany was not exactly fun.
In reality, Germans have a lot of humor, its style being similar to the British, but a lot of it is hard to translate or is based on experiences that non-Germans don't share, like old German TV shows.
Thorry84 20 points 3 years ago
Ha ha ja just the other day Hanz made a funny joke he was going to arrive at 13:00 for his 13:00 meeting. We all laughed so hard. Naturlich he was perfectly on time arriving at 12:45, but we still laugh about it. When the meeting started he mentioned it and everyone was laughing and laughing for a good 30 sekunden or even a minute.
That Hanz, such a jokester. And people say the German have no humor, ha that is a joke!
tony 10 points 3 years ago
Happens with americans too.. they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn't).
hedgehogging_the_bed 15 points 3 years ago
Thanks for reminding me I could use Google Lens to translate the German Memes.
According to that this joke goes: My Dad asked me if I have a favorite fruit. I told him "Papa, ja!" Literally "dad, yes!" But also pun for "papaya," a tropical fruit.
A+, good joke and not too bad to translate.
bitwaba 3 points 3 years ago
I have no idea what's going on here, but I'm just imagining this is what happens after the 2nd frame:
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Meowoem 22 points 3 years ago
It does annoy me that the Devs built in a system to let you set languages but everyone just sets it to 'duhhhhh I don't know what language I'm speaking?!'
But yeah I do like looking at the silly German words on pictures
megane_kun 4 points 3 years ago
A handful of months ago, I tried to actively use that post/comment language selector. However I ended up giving up because for some reason, only English is accepted. The other choices just resulted in the loading ring spinning forever and ever and my comment/post never being coming through.
meekah 4 points 3 years ago
maybe the community you were trying to post to has some kind of restriction regarding that setting? I'm not sure why someone would do that and whether it's even possible in the first place but I know the UI is not reporting errors to the users in a lot of places. I also remember playing with that setting a bit and realizing it's more of a nuisance than actually useful.
megane_kun 4 points 3 years ago
My guess at that time is that it was an instance setting or something. That instances have a list of languages it supports. It makes sense given the admins have to be able to read and understand the posts in order to do their job responding to reports and whatnot.
But then again this was mid-June, there's a lot of things happening, and I didn't really explore the issue further, hoping that it'd be fixed eventually (once the more urgent issues got addressed).
I actually set-up my account to have a shortlist of languages to use (English, my native language, and a few languages I dabble on).
Come to think of it, I only see the language setting in the desktop/web interface. The mobile app that I am using doesn't have it.
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ScrotusMaximus 15 points 3 years ago
Ein Ältererkulinarischeberufseinwanderer?
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Anonymouse 1 point 3 years ago
Is it hard to get citizenship? Can't you just live there with some sort of visa?
IWantToFuckSpez 17 points 3 years ago
Memes are ein serious matter. There is nothing to laugh about. Sprich Deutsch
funkless_eck 13 points 3 years ago
thats why I prefer French.
all the mêmes are the same.
lazylion_ca 24 points 3 years ago
Tell us you've never been married without telling us you've never been married.
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SpaceNoodle 4 points 3 years ago
But you're also an animal
WhyAUsername_1 17 points 3 years ago
Every morning as I type my login ID and password in my office laptop.
SpaceNoodle 3 points 3 years ago
I've never not.
Chetzemoka 10 points 3 years ago
We have a frequent flyer patient at our hospital who has aphasia, a brain condition which causes nonsense words to come out instead of what the person was intending to say.
We have a NO idea what this person is saying, but his tone of voice and delivery are completely normal even though the content of the words are meaningless. So I can confirm, this guy cracks jokes and is hilarious (he laughs at his own jokes and you can't help but laugh with him.)
The German memes feel similar. I don't understand the words, but the intent is clear enough for me to enjoy seeing them.
lichtmetzger 21 points 3 years ago
Subscribe to ich_iel@feddit.de - it's the German me_irl.
Feathercrown 3 points 3 years ago
Is that what it means? I love trying to decipher those memes
Killing_Spark 11 points 3 years ago
Ich = me
iel = im echten Leben = in real life
greywolf0x1 2 points 3 years ago
Doesn't im means 'in the'?
zepheriths 7 points 3 years ago
Top of past hour all
Killing_Spark 5 points 3 years ago
Nah just subscribe to ich_iel on feddit.de (how do you link communities here?
Dave 4 points 3 years ago
Yeah thanks, after posting that I noticed someone else had linked the community.
BTW you link communities starting with a ! then starting to write the name, and lemmy should start autocompleting. It ends up like this: !ich_iel@feddit.de
moonburster 9 points 3 years ago
I'm dutch, I just enjoy our neighbors
just_another_person 8 points 3 years ago
Nein
Mr_Dr_Oink 7 points 3 years ago
When i was in university, a now fairly famous german comedian did a set. He comes on stage looking stern and unamused and tells us the comedy is starting now as he begins a timer on a stopwatch.
His first joke proper was "some people say we getmans dont have a sense of humour.... well i dont think that's very funny. "
I knew i was going to love that set immediately.
FollyDolly 6 points 3 years ago
I keep clicking on those memes and laughing, and then having no idea why it was funny in the first place.
captainlezbian 10 points 3 years ago
Ok, but I feel like the Jewishness cancels out some of the German humorlessness
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showerthoughts
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
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one of my fav light bulb jokes..
how many germans does it take to change a lightbulb?
one because they are efficient and without humor.
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