Submitted 11 months ago by WillFord27@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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.
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.
Stör ich dich gerade? cringe
Hey Vorsicht, nicht dass noch jemand vor lachen störbt
Okay but the “nett hier” joke only get better the more it is repeated, I enjoy every time it shows up
It also get’s better the less you expect it. I’m expecting a renaissance of exploration by BWlers trying to put their stickers in increasingly strange places
I thought that joke was over with the “Ja, war scheise!” Schleswig-Holstein sticker.
Did they finally get over the "Stör" thing? Because after two straight weeks of that shit, I just blocked whatever "me irl" was in German.
Tbh, das meme hat mich auch ziemlich gestört.
Oh no, it’s not funny to Germans either. Or rather it stopped being funny about three memes in.
I bet they’re pretty efficient at making sure the German Sense Of Humour is properly distributed and every German gets allocated some of it at least some of the time.
I guess there just wasn't much to go around, nationally speaking. (Henning Wehn does crack my shit up sometimes though, to be fair)
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.
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!
Hahahaha I can’t stop laughing. These Germans!
I think the stereotype also comes from Germans often not catching onto sarcasm in English
Why should we? It’s inefficient. ;-)
Which is a pitfall for anyone conversing in a language that isn’t their first, I’d say.
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.
This joke is bananas
I have no idea what’s going on here, but I’m just imagining this is what happens after the 2nd frame:
Ein Ältererkulinarischeberufseinwanderer?
… who should not forget his Mehrlagensichtfensterklotzbodenbeutel full of his stuff (yes, it’s a real word here, it’s a large bag, mostly filled with cookies at the store)
Is it hard to get citizenship? Can’t you just live there with some sort of visa?
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
It would probably get used more if there was some way to set a default for your own posts.
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.
Memes are ein serious matter. There is nothing to laugh about. Sprich Deutsch
thats why I prefer French.
all the mêmes are the same.
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
How do you love something you don’t understand!
Tell us you’ve never been married without telling us you’ve never been married.
I love animals even though I can’t understand them 🤷🏻♂️
So you can’t understand how animals work and what is the point of them?
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.
Let’s hope we’ll soon find the cure for the brain condition that makes people speak German 😔🙏
Bruder muss los
I’m dutch, I just enjoy our neighbors
How do I get these German memes?
Subscribe to ich_iel@feddit.de - it’s the German me_irl.
And now I finally know what ich iel means, thank you
Perfect! Thanks 😄
Is that what it stands for? I love trying to decipher those
Top of past hour all
Hmm not on my instance. I’ll have to join lemmy.world to get the sweet memes apparently.
Nein
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.
I keep clicking on those memes and laughing, and then having no idea why it was funny in the first place.
Hold on. Humor? Or memes? Which of he two is it?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
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.
nomecks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MANY HANS MAKE LIGHT WORK!
AGuyAcrossTheInternet@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thanks to you, I have overdrawn my Tageslachkontingent and will either have to compensate by laughing less tomorrow or filling out a Tageslachkontingenterhöhungsantrag.
don@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I am sad that I must uplike this comment
rynzcycle@kbin.social 11 months ago
You sonovabitch... It's beautiful!
CosmoNova@feddit.de 11 months ago
Just one? You underestimate german bureaucracy, Freundchen.
wgbirne@feddit.de 11 months 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.