Stereotype jokes have got to be probably the least creative and tired kind of humor there is, a constant re-hashing of the same old cliches over and again from now until eternity. Italians eat lots of pasta? Check. Germans lack humor? Gotcha. Brazilians and football? Mhm. Oh, the Irish love potatoes do they? I never knew.
Yet still, they remain popular, we as humans apparently love to have our beliefs and categorizations confirmed and they make us happy. The internet has been experimenting with another angle on the theme lately, with people exploring the 'true meaning' behind national flags, and they do allow an element of creativity into proceedings! Scroll down to check them out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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This is so true. The first pizza, made for queen Margharita, was made with topings resembling the Italian flag. General Knowledge out.
I am German and I can definetely say that there is blue in the flag... Ok, it is covered by black, red and gold. I always wonder they everybody things that German are not funny. And life here is not always about work. ;)
Lol, I am not the same Hans who is commenting after me. :D
Load More Replies...Tell that to the people who wrote an entire metal song in German that sounds terrifying, but in reality is a cookie recipe. Germans have humor. They just sometimes sound intense when they're using it.
We love Songs in English - because we don't have to care about bad lyrics in many of them :D
Load More Replies...I have a German friend and he is HILARIOUS. He really is one of the funniest people I know. He is also one of the kindest and friendliest people too. This is one of the worst stereotypes of any race that the Germans have no sense of humour. I promise you they do.
really. one of the worst stereotypes of ANY race. my family is german and not one of them cares that people think germans are serious.
Load More Replies...As a german: Even if I don´t laugh I do not take other people serious. Except my wife, taking her not serious enough would be serious trouble. But to be serious, blue is the only colour in the german political landscape that makes me laugh hysterically, it stands for the german version of Trumpism. Thats why I can´t take you Americans serious. I´ll stop now and look at some nudity. Seriously, I prefer this to some serious shot injury...
When it comes to "Work", Germans do it smarter. They actually work less, fewer days in the year, fewer hours then people of its peer countries. That leaves a lot of time for holidays, fun and enjoying the humor of others.
Just sent this image to my German girlfriend.... her answer: "as you can imagine I did not get the joke" :)
I actually had to laugh really hard about that :D :,D and I'm German ... ;)
Our humor ist very ambitious, so nobody can understand it. (That was a joke!)
I have met many extremely funny German people, shame this is just not true.
It's a pity many people think Germans are without humor. Please come to our country and meet our people. My family and I have a great sense of humor, a little bit like the English. No day at work without humor. I'm working as a neurologist in hospital - laugh together, with the nurses and with the patients, by example about the little adversities in daily life... and sometimes about Mr. Trumps tweets :D
Re: trump's tweets, how do you get any work done? 😹
Load More Replies...aw i dunno. when doctors at the hospital told my Oma she had low blood pressure and that there isn't much they can do to treat it, she told them to get her children to come visit her XD XD "that will bring the blood pressure straight back up!"
That is incorrect. Even the Blue part of the german flag stands for work. We hate humor that much that we wont even allow it not being in our flag. ;)
Germans have a great sense of humor... ever tried to flirt in German... “Ich denke du bist attraktiv”, just doesn’t seem to roll off the tongue in a romantic manner!)
thats only because people from other countries dont´t understand the jokes of Loriot
Fun facts about Germany...there is no fun in Germany, get back to work!
This reminded me of what Robin Williams said one time.... about Germany and humor...
Jennifer, Robin Williams didn't meet me and my familiy 😆
Load More Replies...I HAVE LIVED AND WORKED IN MANY COUNTRIES BUT I ENJOYED THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY THE MOST, THEY DO WORK HARD BUT THEY ALSO ENJOY THEMSELVES.
Germans spend the time from November 11 til Ash Wednesday with LOTS of humour, the rest of the time we work.
Hey, fellow Germans, let's vote this up to show everyone that we do have humor - hahaha...
Work is work and Schnaps is Schnaps! :-D There is some humor in Germany, not tons, though and never during work hours. And since many foreigners only interact with Germans at work they are a bit out of the loop in that respect.
Katinka, we have lot of fun during work... I think it depends on the type of work. In a bank you have to be reliable, in a diner you can banter with the guests...
Load More Replies...Can't confirm. Maybe only germans understand the german humor? ;) But I know a couple of hilarious people here :D
Sophia: The german humor is a little bit like Britain humor.
Load More Replies...yo the thing is that germans have so many holidays and festivals and s**t compared to where I'm from (canada) and it's strange because they have more parties and stuff than we canadians do! (although the holidays might just be where I live in the rheinland)
The German way of making jokes it to make jokes about the others (the third party not being in the room), whereas e.g. Austrians love to make jokes about themselves. (although they don’t have blue on their flag either).
That´s not correct. We Germans know we are a joke, we could laugh so much till we cry. Still, Austria is an even greater joke...
Load More Replies...At least one of those colours also represents a kick a*s national soccer team....
Well, Germany has one of the highest work productivities in the world, and much holiday-allowance entitled by law. Add all the christian public holidays and this is not so fitting. Keep the blue for humor and replace black with "Merkel", red with "Merkel", and yellow with "Merkel" and you are there!
I killed nobody by myself. I'm 43 years old. Where are you coming from? USA? Where kids kill kids with weapons? Or cops kill black people?
Load More Replies...hm I guess that post is prove some of us have no humor?...
Load More Replies...It’s sad how there all trapped behind a wall and even if they wanted out there not allowed cause they would be killed
This is INCREDIBLY offensive to the memory of the thousands of Northern Italians who fought and lost their lives fighting for the resistance. In my family we lost four brave men who were helping these Italian Partigiani who were hiding and fighting against the Nazis in the Dolomites during WWII. It saddens me greatly that the Northern Italians' struggles during WWII have not been included in the history books here in the west.
UK: *conquers Ireland, forces Irish off their land, profits from near slave labor, starves millions to death* Uk: lol, you irish are soooooo dependent.
Yeah, so, since argentinas flag isnt here, ill do it myself. Inflation and self-hatred... any color.
the gimmick with the missing color got old very quickly or perhaps I'm just pissed there's no Dutch flag (the pink stands for ability to cycle while high)
I agree with you. Having almost everyone have a missing color seemed boring and trite after the first couple.
Load More Replies...Hmm... I don’t know about all of these. Maybe it’s just me, but they seemed just kind of cynical, without to much meaning. Maybe they just weren’t for me, but I wasn’t that big of a fan.
Alia, you probably have a kind and generous heart and you're probably not cynical. We need more people like you. :)
Load More Replies...Canada: Red=Maple Syrup White=Snow I guess everyone already knows what our flag means so that's probably why it's not here...
But where'the hockey, poutine, and saying "Sorry"?
Load More Replies...Wow, when I read the clickbait title (and saw the Germany "teaser", which was actually mildly clever) I actually thought this might be funny. Boy, was I wrong...
Lame. Not a single one is even remotely amusing - and the ones meant to make you think are missing the point or blatantly incorrect. Nil points.
Brietbart- “let’s write about sterotypes to p**s off and offend everyone” Bored panda- “Hold my beer”
Bored panda. Have some class. If you all had a little knowledge of history than you would have taken down this entire article....A flag is a a countries pride.....you don’t get to joke about flags people died to protect or preserve where a new flag they didn’t want take its place. Shame on you....literally no class. Not funny. DM me and I’ll explain why your moral Compass sucks.
The most of jokes are racist, fascist and xenophob. "Congratulations"! :(
What's the best part about living in Switzerland? I'm not sure, but the flag is a big plus.
This is stereotypical and insensitive to so many people, especially the Japanese one
These aren't even low hanging fruit, it's fruit that fell of the tree and rolled down hill.
Way too many of these are "missing colour = bad thing associated with the country". The ones that aren't that are not particularly funny either, but you could at least... I dunno, try?
This started of funny and entertaining, then it deteriorated and became more cruel and nasty. Incorrect too in many cases. Not happy.
Hilarious???? There was f**k all worth a smile here, but shitloads of inaccurate comments from racist/bigots, who can't think further than the end of their nose.
let it be known: anything having to do with flags on bored panda is going to be dumb. the only funny one was italy's oregano, mozzarella, tomato sauce flag.
This is TERRIBLE IT IS ABSOLUTLY STERIOTYPICAL and just sees the WORST in everything. You hear all this stuff like 'heres what it actually is', 'heres how they actually look' BUT SERIOUSLY WTF AUSTRALIA for starters i have never had a bear i have never seen a C*NT AND WE have dangerous animals but they actaully DONT BOTHER US. Im sorry but this is ridiculously inaccurate
that feeling when all the comments beneath the images are people from that country who are offended.
the gimmick with the missing color got old very quickly or perhaps I'm just pissed there's no Dutch flag (the pink stands for ability to cycle while high)
I agree with you. Having almost everyone have a missing color seemed boring and trite after the first couple.
Load More Replies...Hmm... I don’t know about all of these. Maybe it’s just me, but they seemed just kind of cynical, without to much meaning. Maybe they just weren’t for me, but I wasn’t that big of a fan.
Alia, you probably have a kind and generous heart and you're probably not cynical. We need more people like you. :)
Load More Replies...Canada: Red=Maple Syrup White=Snow I guess everyone already knows what our flag means so that's probably why it's not here...
But where'the hockey, poutine, and saying "Sorry"?
Load More Replies...Wow, when I read the clickbait title (and saw the Germany "teaser", which was actually mildly clever) I actually thought this might be funny. Boy, was I wrong...
Lame. Not a single one is even remotely amusing - and the ones meant to make you think are missing the point or blatantly incorrect. Nil points.
Brietbart- “let’s write about sterotypes to p**s off and offend everyone” Bored panda- “Hold my beer”
Bored panda. Have some class. If you all had a little knowledge of history than you would have taken down this entire article....A flag is a a countries pride.....you don’t get to joke about flags people died to protect or preserve where a new flag they didn’t want take its place. Shame on you....literally no class. Not funny. DM me and I’ll explain why your moral Compass sucks.
The most of jokes are racist, fascist and xenophob. "Congratulations"! :(
What's the best part about living in Switzerland? I'm not sure, but the flag is a big plus.
This is stereotypical and insensitive to so many people, especially the Japanese one
These aren't even low hanging fruit, it's fruit that fell of the tree and rolled down hill.
Way too many of these are "missing colour = bad thing associated with the country". The ones that aren't that are not particularly funny either, but you could at least... I dunno, try?
This started of funny and entertaining, then it deteriorated and became more cruel and nasty. Incorrect too in many cases. Not happy.
Hilarious???? There was f**k all worth a smile here, but shitloads of inaccurate comments from racist/bigots, who can't think further than the end of their nose.
let it be known: anything having to do with flags on bored panda is going to be dumb. the only funny one was italy's oregano, mozzarella, tomato sauce flag.
This is TERRIBLE IT IS ABSOLUTLY STERIOTYPICAL and just sees the WORST in everything. You hear all this stuff like 'heres what it actually is', 'heres how they actually look' BUT SERIOUSLY WTF AUSTRALIA for starters i have never had a bear i have never seen a C*NT AND WE have dangerous animals but they actaully DONT BOTHER US. Im sorry but this is ridiculously inaccurate
that feeling when all the comments beneath the images are people from that country who are offended.