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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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Jiří Schindler 7 years ago
This is so true. The first pizza, made for queen Margharita, was made with topings resembling the Italian flag. General Knowledge out.
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Florian Zwiestein 7 years ago
Missing freedom and liberty. The U.S. got the highest incarceration rate of the world.
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Alicia Hawkins 7 years ago
Tbh this is pretty fair...I wish we wouldn't mess around in other people's business so much. There's helping, and then there's being a nosy meddler.
Mm Hmm 7 years ago
It should read white male republicans' freedom and white male republicans' liberty. They're doing their best to crush everyone outside those parameters.
Viki Banaszak 7 years ago
' You mean interfering with other countries. There has never been a time we haven't
Bert Bachstra 7 years ago
I thought the stars stand for weeks with a school shooting this year.
Rachel Rosky 7 years ago
Yeah, part of not interfering is not giving monitory/resources aid to any of them either and I couldn't agree more.
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Hans 7 years ago
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. ;)
Hans 7 years ago
Lol, I am not the same Hans who is commenting after me. :D
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Alicia Hawkins 7 years ago
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.
Mona 7 years ago
We love Songs in English - because we don't have to care about bad lyrics in many of them :D
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Nicky OldfieldDesciple 7 years ago
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.
Jurgen Shantz 7 years ago
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.
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Uwe Ehrenhöfer 7 years ago
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...
rudiger kintzel 7 years ago
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.
Constantin Cramaroc 7 years ago
Just sent this image to my German girlfriend.... her answer: "as you can imagine I did not get the joke" :)
Lia Bau 7 years ago
I actually had to laugh really hard about that :D :,D and I'm German ... ;)
Daniela Klatt 7 years ago
Our humor ist very ambitious, so nobody can understand it. (That was a joke!)
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Rebekah 7 years ago
DAMN!!! "The Emu War, also known as the Great Emu War,[1] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the latter part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be running amok..." Amok Emus. Who knew.
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Leah Curtis 7 years ago
I must not be Australian. I have never had beer, nor met a c#nt, and don't have a war against emus or other animals. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bella Smith 7 years ago
OMG IM AUSTRALIAN AND THIS IS ABSOLUTLY OFFENSIVE LOL. why does the rest of the world think of us as bogans pls I want replies tell me WHY
Braineating Spleen 7 years ago
**EMU WAR UPDATE FROM AN ACTUAL AUSTRALIAN** all the mad c***s (awsome Australians) and f****d c***s (d******d Australians) have joined forces with the emus and their allies the crocs, roos, spiders, snakes, gonannas, ect to fight the cane toad. We all hate the cane toads! The ruin everything and are spreading like the damm plague. Us and the emus are cool, DEATH TO ALL CANE TOADS!!!
Hamlets twin 7 years ago
The Emu's really deserve a medal for their valiant efforts during the war. If anyone doesn't know about said Emu War, the Dollop had a lot of fun explaining it :) http://thedollop.libsyn.com/111-the-emu-war-live
Charlotte Brine 7 years ago
My Australian ex boyfriends dad got kicked in the face by an Emu. Proving this point!
LittleMissPerfect 7 years ago
Why does everyone think we lie in the outback and have boxing matches with kangaroos? *Most* of us are normal.
FiaFizzPop 7 years ago
i know! except for the real housewives of melbourne. and casey donovan . and me lol
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Penguin 7 years ago
Visiting family in Greece, told a cousin the US of A isn't too gracious with vacation time..tells me "just move to Greece where all you will have is vacation time"....At least their humoris still going strong
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Nik Balanis 7 years ago
Red could also represent the money Germans returned to Greeks from “forced” WW II loans. Yes people... Greeks loaned the Germans to support the invading troops from 1940 to 1944. And still waiting payback... Read some history
Lia Bau 7 years ago
Are you German ? We are giving the Greek a lot of money for years now.. only if you don't live here or are quite young you don't know about this fact. Ppl are getting pissed off about that. But thx to you I know know that we are supposed to pay that. Yes we had WW2 in school yet not all details are told..
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Florian Zwiestein 7 years ago
Red stands for high taxes for the rich. There are the most important ship companies of the world. There is plenty of money.
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Andycat >_< 7 years ago
It’s sad how there all trapped behind a wall and even if they wanted out there not allowed cause they would be killed
Romi Elnagar 7 years ago
Too bad people in this country don't understand how we bombed the sh-t out of North Korea. We leveled every one of their major cities, and killed a quarter of the population. Look it up. No wonder the people there feel they have to follow some crazy ruler who promises to protect them from the US!
Hannes Hirschfänger 7 years ago
This can only come from an American, reducing a whole nation to its human rights deficiencies and completely neglecting that there's 26 million people living there with their families, jobs and everyday struggles just like anywhere else. Guess what, there's doctors, architects, men of religion, students, veterans and artists in North Korea too, but you wouldn't know, because you got brainwashed yourself, just by the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Marion Friedl 7 years ago
Blue and red stand for the live skinning and boiling/bbq-ing of cats and dogs in Korea and in many other Asian countries, unfortunately it´s so, Kim Yong-un declared dog meat as super food a year or two ago!!!
Johann Linzinmeir 7 years ago
THE ENTIRE FLAG SHOULD BE VIOLET AND WITH A FOOTNOTE OF HOW THE STAR STANDS FOR THEIR LEADER, THE PILLSBURY DOUGH BOY HIMSELF.
Karla Thompson 7 years ago
People take advantage of how great the US is, you talk smack about politics in North Korea you disappear
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Edgar Fahrenheit 7 years ago
The meaning of is: Green -> Our flora, biomes, nature Gold -> gold, iron and ores Blue -> Our rivers, river basins White Stars -> each of the capitals And our slogan Order and Progress.
Anita Spieker 7 years ago
Never forget germany losing not ONE, but TWO world wars either :)
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Thegreatcountryofverden 7 years ago
In black: Respecting people who have built cities out of almost nothing and not building Olympic venues on top of them that will be abandoned after the games are over.
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Olivia W 7 years ago
We hope this truths to be self evident that all men are created equal
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Indre Vareikyte 7 years ago
Or maybe: it stands for crimes and cruel regime instead of “revolution”. Would be more clear.
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Kjorn 7 years ago
funny to see that everyone forget this is because of the french soldiers who hold the german army at dunkirk that the English was able to flee the country
Jason Salmonds 7 years ago
Funny, I remember the french soldiers surrendering before we could escape, therefore leaving our flank open
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Randy Inbred 7 years ago
The French government may have surrendered but many French men, women and children fought bravely in the resistance to save Allied airmen and other prisoners of war. It's doubtful the war against the Nazis would have been won without them.
Eliška Hůlková 7 years ago
I'm NOT French but I find this very insulting. I hate how Americans speak about WWII as if they were the only one that were doing something during it. You were never occupied, you never lived in the totality and you have no idea about it. "Our soldiers were dying" - in occupied countries, literally everyone, including women or children, was in danger to be arrested and sent to working camp or tortured to death. And you are not heros - you were just stronger and this is not virtue. And you stepped in after Germany had been weakened by the UK and USSR. In USSR, the situation was so horrible that teenage girls had to join army. Please, get some knowledge of history and stop be so ignorant.
Eliška Hůlková 7 years ago
I hate when people say this about French. It makes no sense to base it just on the WWII experience.
Jason Salmonds 7 years ago
it's not though, they have been surrendering to the English in so many wars up until WWI and WWII
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Leah Forgy 7 years ago
The French saved my uncle when his plane was shot down by the Germans, vive la France!
Katinka Min 7 years ago
Again, what's up with the distorted view of WWII?? Yes, Germany had officially occupied France but not all of it.
bob 7 years ago
Blague plutôt marrante... jusqu'à la lecture des commentaires. Soit je n'ai aucun sens de l'humour, soit les commentateurs sont aussi bêtes que leurs blagues foireuses...
Laëtitia Favre 7 years ago
Ils s'arrêtent à 1 défaite, alors qu'historiquement, on en a mis des branlées (Napoléon a vaincu l'Allemagne et l'Autriche en 19 jours). Juste regarder les commentaires d'ignares, c'est bien marrant.
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Mar1a 7 years ago
Say that there's no intelligence to their face and let's see who's the dumb one I guess. I mean, you do know that a lot of the technology was developed by Russians when they fled Soviet Union... Right? Well if you didn't then you know now so unless you've changed your opinion go and lock yourself in a room to think about your life choices :)
Lisa Beatty 7 years ago
Wrong should have the answers as: White - Trump Blue - Trump Red - Trump
Sergey Tolokin 7 years ago
well, origin of our banner is rather simple - Aquafresh's lobbist paid for it.
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E Robson 7 years ago
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.
WeWillJustSeeAboutThat 7 years ago
Don't get your knickers in a twist over one persons generalization of what history shows. You may have had resistance fighters but WHY did you have them??? Oh yeah, because your leaders stood with the wrong side. THAT is what history books show, not just the "good" side but ALL sides.
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criminalgirl 7 years ago
Christ, lot's of people here too young to be involved having much too much to say about this. Things are not as clear cut as you might want them to be.
Eunseo Lim 7 years ago
This is stupid. The Italians were clever to have went out of World War 2. They knew which battles weren't worth fighting for. That saved loads and loads of their people. Lack of loyalty? More like being clever.
Katinka Min 7 years ago
Puh. This one is really not ok. Besides, loyalty for whom? Italy was officially an ally of Nazi Germany and in that respect it was loayl. But there were thousands in the resistance.
Alexandru Bucur 7 years ago
Whoever made this was an utter idiot, because Italy didn't change sides during WW1. They went in on the side of the Allies in 1915 and fought the Central Powers until 1918, by which time they were weeell on their way into Austria Hungary, despite the reverses of Caporetto and Piave the previous year... And I should know about it, my great-grandfather fought on the Italian Front in the Austro-Hungarian army. Besides, in WW2, Italy had been divided on wherever to joint he Germans in the first place, and after the Allies got to the Italian mainland in 1943 the whole thing kind of turned into a nasty little civil war between the "Esercito Cobelligerante Italiano" fighting with the Allies against the "Repubblica Sociale Italiana" a Nazi Puppet under Mussolini, with plenty of partisan activity in the latter from the "Resistenza italiana", the Italian Resistance.
Jennifer Loxley 7 years ago
I'm confused didn't they already do the Italian flag it was the 1st 1 & the meaning was different
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#13
Phillip Rice 7 years ago
UK: *conquers Ireland, forces Irish off their land, profits from near slave labor, starves millions to death* Uk: lol, you irish are soooooo dependent.
Eleanor Ragsdale 7 years ago
Who else do we know who would use similar logic? It'd be nice if he wasn't in any sort of office.
Load More Replies... lee 7 years ago
Hold the phone. There was a famine crisis because of the lack of potatoes and over a million people died and you're expecting people to laugh about this? You got this massively wrong, WTF Bored Panda?
Isabelle Bishop 7 years ago
We haven't been dependent on the uk since a while now. Go read a book.
Peta Hurley-Hill 7 years ago
The English invaded the country,ban people from speaking their own language,stole land and evicted people from their homes,Deported 50,000 "convicts" to work as slave labour in the"colonies",Starved over 1,000,000 people to death and desperation,Murdered hundreds for the slightest misdemeanor....The Republic of Ireland is in no way beholden to the U.K.The North is still occupied by the oppressors/Invaders.
GlassOfWater 7 years ago
Different people find different things funny. Humour is a curious thing.
GlassOfWater 7 years ago
Bugger this was supposed to be a reply to 'lee'...curse my sausage fingers on this small screen! I guess I pressed the wrong button XD
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Karla Thompson 7 years ago
That’s EXACTLY what I was going to say, well done
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Jan Post 7 years ago
People are still born with genetic defects from those bombs. I guess since they aren't American it doesn't count
bob 7 years ago
He means that it's okay to joke about some things and not others. Hundred of thousands dead in Japan = joke. Some Americans soldiers dead in the sun = heroes and utter respect. Conclusion: respect is a very subjective concept.
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Bríd Gallagher 7 years ago
Religious differences are no longer a big deal as of 20 years. Who came up with this someone stuck in the 1970s.
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Lucrecia Tettamanti 7 years ago
Yeah, so, since argentinas flag isnt here, ill do it myself. Inflation and self-hatred... any color.
Bea Albe 7 years ago
Celeste el cielo, blanco las nubes, y rojo los gobiernos no peronistas que terminaron mandato.
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Thies Schaper 7 years ago
Flat joke. Germany didn't participate with this flag in neither of the WWs. It derived from the 1848 revolution and was disliked by both the Emperor and the Dictator.
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Alondra Muñoz Paz 7 years ago
A piece of french bread with "longaniza" (a sort of naturally procesed and yummy meat) you can add "pebre" (another yummy something) some mayoneise, ketchup or mustard, if you come un september you'll eat lots of it for sure
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Bored Fox 7 years ago
No. It does not have blue color and the brown bear is also missing from this flag.
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Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
How on earth do you work the black out? It is a hell of a long time since we had a terror attack. Yes England is my city from the US ignorantly formed point of view
Rach Howard 7 years ago
Anyone like me who voted to remain in the EU does not feel England is their city. Too busy going "how will I work or go on holiday to the EU in the future?!"
Adam Hart-Dyke 7 years ago
Red = Making poor political choices. Blue = Curry. White = Love Island.
Bríd Gallagher 7 years ago
Jesus how could you leave out about their horrific colonialism?! Did a British person write this?
Osmund Bullock 7 years ago
No, if a Brit had done it might (a) be better written, and (b) actually be imaginative and funny. As for the horrific colonialism, I assume you've put the same comment on the Italian Flag (Rome), the Greek (Alexander), the Mongolian (Ghengis Khan), the German (Attila & the Huns), the French (Norman & Napoleon) the Danish, Nowegian, Swedish (Vikings and much later for the Swedes). And then there's Iran (Persia), Russia, China, the Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey (Ottoman), Mughal & earlier Muslim invaders of India ...even the Irish (Scoti), who moved into Scotland after the Romans left, subjugating and displacing the native Picti and destroying their culture. And all the rest, including the Zulus, the Matebele, and 100 other African warrior nations. The thing is, for thousands of years *everyone* used to try and conquer other people if they could. We don't do that now, but you're looking at the past through modern eyes - a pretty pointless exercise. Learn some history and move on.
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Prot Pap 7 years ago
The propaganda is used to make the people in north korea think he is “wonderful and compassionate”
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Josefine Andersen 7 years ago
So no danish flag . Well it would . 🇩🇰 Red . Lego White . Beer Green . Censoring
Andycat >_< 7 years ago
Like I said, they are basically all inprisoned and half of them don’t know what we do or what things look like out here
Claudia Kahana 7 years ago
waait. a "wonderful, compassionate leader"? you have got to be joking.
arjelio mas 7 years ago
This needs an update on that functioning weapon. He's set, that's why he said he's willing to talk, not Trump's "tough" name-calling.
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What do you think ?
Sophster 7 years ago
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)
Polleekin 7 years ago
I agree with you. Having almost everyone have a missing color seemed boring and trite after the first couple.
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Alia G. 7 years ago
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.
Mm Hmm 7 years ago
Alia, you probably have a kind and generous heart and you're probably not cynical. We need more people like you. :)
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Just a Purpler 7 years ago
Canada: Red=Maple Syrup White=Snow I guess everyone already knows what our flag means so that's probably why it's not here...
Lizard Queen 7 years ago
But where'the hockey, poutine, and saying "Sorry"?
Load More Replies... Just Curious 7 years ago
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...
CultOfBambi 7 years ago
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.
Sophster 7 years ago
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)
Polleekin 7 years ago
I agree with you. Having almost everyone have a missing color seemed boring and trite after the first couple.
Load More Replies... Alia G. 7 years ago
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.
Mm Hmm 7 years ago
Alia, you probably have a kind and generous heart and you're probably not cynical. We need more people like you. :)
Load More Replies... Just a Purpler 7 years ago
Canada: Red=Maple Syrup White=Snow I guess everyone already knows what our flag means so that's probably why it's not here...
Lizard Queen 7 years ago
But where'the hockey, poutine, and saying "Sorry"?
Load More Replies... Just Curious 7 years ago
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...
CultOfBambi 7 years ago
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.
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