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How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence
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Want to know how to piss off people from different European nations with just one sentence? Then you’ve come to the right place. Check out this trusty map to see what we mean. It was recently posted on Facebook by Sigmagfx, and as you can see, it’s full of useful phrases to make your traveling experience more…well…exciting. Try going to Romania and telling them how much you love their “capital” Budapest, or the next time you’re in Switzerland, don’t forget to let them know just how inferior their chocolate is compared to Belgium’s. You’re sure to come home with a hilarious anecdote or two…just as long as you survive…
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Ugh. "This video is not available in your country", the sentence that used to make me want to throw my laptop out the window. Now that GEMA and YouTube came to an agreement, here's to hoping I'll never have to see this sentence again for the rest of my life.
I just permanently switched to a vpn... f*** 'em all
I was really curious on how to enrage a German since we are used to a lot of stuff... BUT THIS DID IT!!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!
I was wondering the same... until I saw it. It brought back to many painful memories. Rage
It is spot on, though. I don't think there was/is any sentence that can make EVERYBODY in Germany mad as fire instantly :-D
Just use Google Chrome and ProxFlow extension. It's working perfect for me :)
vpn proxy solves this
My live savior back then. Too bad, they didn't always work for me.
Ha! I'd love to see a North America version of this, or even U.S. by state. I can see it being hilar.
Hawaii - Does everyone speak English? Do you all sleep in grass huts? Personal favorite: Do you ever go to America?
Arizona: "Are you guys a bunch of cowboys? Do you have cars or just horses?"
Massachusetts: "You all must have the Boston accent? You all must be smart because you got so many well-known universities around. Everyone must eat Boston Creme Pie. Everyone must eat lobster." <--- Neither of these applies to me even though I do live in Mass for 90% of my life. :P
For half an hour I've been trying to figure our why Russia is annoyed by "V.1" then realized it's part of the post's title :|
LOL!
Do you guys live in igloos, eat only maple syrup and beaver tails and ride on moose? Eh!
You would fill Canada in entirely with irritating one liners.
The 'author' of this arse-rag humour James Gould-Bourn needs to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and then see what one sentence would annoy Polish nationals. You freakin' frat kids think 9-11 is the worst atrocity the world has ever seen, but don't know the half of it. Grow up.
Maybe just relax...? Actually, it really does annoy the Poles ;-) (me too)
Maybe so, but comparing "Polish dead camp" problem to "I like pasta with ketchup" is even more annoying. Anyway this post really did its job :D
You can't relax while death is a word to consider humours for anybody
The author of this "arse-rag humour" didn't make the map.
The case of the "Polish death camps" is not annoying. This is not a joke or a funny situation but disgusting false the history and deeply offensive statement. Camps were GERMAN and Polish People die there.
Ay, at least this post kind of worked, right? "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence".
This attitude eerily reminds me of Trump supporters talking about liberals being "triggered" about the muslim ban, or climate change or whatever cause they're "precious snowflakes". It's not about being annoyed, it's a bit larger than that. You don't joke about the holocaust - period. And I'm not German, Polish, or Jewish btw.
Yeah, but that's the whole point: That the camps were set up by Germans and that this sentence annoys the hell out of Polish people. (Well, quite a few poles did work in them, but that's a different discussion) Admittedly, it's not the joke ever written.
i prefer "nazi death camps"
You have offended belgians without even a word :))
*Trump voice* Belgium, not even a real country.
I believe he said that. Or regarding some European country. I'm pretty sure he said that.
Ikr ! But it's quite easy to offend us in one sentence, like just tell us that were French and we will lose it
Too bad you haven't written anything about Finland, it's the easiest though. Tip for next version - how to irritate a finn: - Hi!
The way to irritate a Finn is to pretend Finland isn't part of Europe.
Was only 1 week in Finland, but thid seems very correct!
I think the most offensive of those would be the Italian one. I know enough Italians who would practically kill someone for making their food with any adaptations! :D
lot of them are in my backyard now
=))
I am half Italian and I tell you that one is indeed an insult. And it's not because of conformism, I don't care how anyone decides to make their pasta sauce, it's because since I moved to Korea, for a very long time it was hard to find a restaurant where they served ketchupless tomato pasta. Later the standards have changed (thanks God!), so now it depends from place to place, but when you experience that being a standard, it makes you wanna meet leave a recepe instead of a tip.
I am not Italian but every time I see people taking liberties with the tiramisu recipe, I feel like Hitler. Or Americans pretending that shit they eat is pizza.
To be honest, I don't mind American style pizza (although I never ate real American pizza, since I've never been there), but the annoying part is when, for example, Buzzfeed will bombraie you with politically correct articles, including the ones condemning cultural appropriations, and then it will not only treat pizza as an American thing, but they will criticise the notion of eating it with a knife and fork. Pffff.... Barbarians. (Disclaimer → I know those articles are mostly jokes, in fact, my exaggerated reactions are a joke too, but what I just mentioned really is kinda annoying).
Exactly.
Can i have some ketchup with that pizza?
You've insulted Wales by ignoring it completely :D
I can imagine that 'what's the point of speaking Welsh' wouldn't go down too well :oP
Is it annoying to be fangirling over the Manics with a Welsh person? ♥ *blinks innocently*
It always amuses me that if you cross the Severn you have to pay to get into Wales, but it's free to get out again!
Nick Gisburne, Wales has a really, really cool flag. Love, An American. ****I'm American so I can be sarcastic.....******* :)
"Polish death camps"?!..wtf?!..its not annoying..its far from annoying..its just wrong..badly. Do you realise what Germans did to whole Europe?..and you comparing it with "American wines are better"?!?!?!..Its not funny..at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
You just proved the point of the article
No. He only said that it is wrong to make fun of the death of 6 million polish people.
Lizz do you think that saying that yor country muredred million innocent peoeple woudn't offend you? Accualy I feels really bad when peeople make fun ot it at all
I think Macedonians will not be very irritated if you call them "South Serbs". Try "You are Bulgarians, right?" We, Bulgarians, are very angry when someone call our alphabet "russian alphabet", because actually russians toke it from us. It's originally a bulgarian alphabet, created on the base of greek alphabet by the scholars of St.St Cyrilus and Methodius.
Bulgaria is such a small country but makes suvh big things.
i'll be visiting bulgaria next month! i promise not to make any comments about the alphabet. 😉
"You speak Brazilian right?"
I am Portuguese and I complete agree with that one.
I'm Portuguese too and that doesn't bother me, worst is "Are you Spanish?!"
As a proud Lithuanian - yes, this is accurate. We are no Russians.
I'd say for Belgians it would be "Oh, these French Fries are really good." And similarly for greeks - "You make excellent Turkish coffee". My wife saw Greeks go literally purple with rage on that. :)
Want to insult Greeks/Turks: tell them Cyprus (and baklava) belong to Turkey/Greece
I'm french, and I don't feel offended because I know french wines are way better ;)
Marie, obviously you have not met an obnoxious American with tunnel (narrow) vision. I can say this as I'm American and find French wines superior, as I do many, many European contributions to culture.
i agree with czech and slovak one. it drives me nuts to constantly explain that we(slovakia) have geographical centre of europe in our country and czech rep. is even further to the west.
http://en.infoglobe.cz/tips-for-trips/svk-kremnicke-bane-geographical-center-of-europe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe i admit, many countries claims it ans it all depends on how it is counted(see begining of that wiki article) but my point stays the same.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records it is in Lithuania.
... yeah, what I find amazing is that absolutely nobody cares. Although I've heard that the centre of Europe is in fact in Poland ;P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe
Eww. Who eats pasta with Ketchup?
Polish death camps is spot on, I think there is a penalty of up to 3 years in prison for that nowadays... I'm all for educating that it was the Nazi Germany, but penalties are not going to discourage the offenders - I think the last time it was ZDF that did this... I don't see any ZDF managers going to prison ;)
For Turkey! Yes exactly this is what i hate haha :D Because we are not ARABIC!
Learn English
neyini beğenmedin bok?
I guess Denmark can not be annoyed! Good to be a Dane
Denmark has Lego. Nobody wants to insult Denmark.
Since when Turkey is a European country?
Most of Turkey is in Asia, but part of it is in Europe, so it's a European country AND an Asian country. Or just simply Eurasian.
Did you know that the EU flag was directly derived from European Commission flag? And 12 stars are actually founder nations of the commission and one is Turkey. Surpise Nazi, your life is a lie.
Why the f*ck call someone a Nazi? You ignorant, racist moron
Ugh, I'm from the Netherlands and the sentence irritates me a LOT
Yeah. After all, it's not Sinterklaas who's racist, it's Zwarte Piet! ;-)
please, PLEASE don't let Trump see this map!
I got annoyed at the sentence about Bulgaria and then I read the title :D
The Belgians just don't give enough of a f*** to be able to be irretated it seems.
"Are you from Spain? Oh nice I love dancing salsa and eat tacos" (Loading shotgun noise)
Okay, I admit it, I was ready to grab a history book (and maybe throw it at someone) when I read "russian alphabet"
As a foreign student in Belgium, the sentence that annoys them the most is probably: "Both chips and Jupiler are disgusting"'
Just ask them how many governments they have... And mayors in Brussels... Shit like that pisses me off Sofia! :(
So, to annoy people, you pretend you are ignorant?
Well, yeah!! Kinda like when someone from up north acts as if I'm a stupid southerner, and I feed it right back to'em.
I don't think people do those purposely
For any foreigner who comes in ExYu countries - DO NOT SAY WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THAT MAP (not even in a joke). I repeat: Do NOT SAY THOSE THINGS. You might ended up in bad condition. We still didn't outgrow this enough to take those words without giving you some serious injuries. Even I need to be cautious about what I'm writing here, If I'm not, I'll start another war in comment section. You'll be forced to remove this. Things are bad... rly, rly bad.
For UK: You do not you speak danish, why? Were you not for 300 years a danish colony?
England is a french colony which turned bad.... "L' angleterre est une colonie francaise qui a mal tourné" Georges Clemenceau
Oww snap! 👍🏼
There's no way to irritate people in Finland. Buhahahaha.
There is. Disrespect their personal space and there you go.
Do you know any spanish people annoyed by the frase "So you're latino"?
so, nothing to say about Belgium or Denmark?
For Belgium: Jupiler (beer) is disgusting.
That's not an insult, that's an actual fact
thatsevenworsehihi
As a bulgarian i feel irritated for the greek and macedonian sentance too :D
Hahahaa! Love the Baltics one! Most of them do look like Russians, so it is ironic to see them hate on Russia so much.
The one about Stockholm made me sad...
And this comes from a man who comes from a country where Presidential elections have become reality-shows and then you let the clown win. Please accept my one-hand applause!
lol!!!! Still use the russian alphabet?? What an ignorance!! We discovered the alphabet and gave it to them and many more lol.... Its called cyrillic alphabet because the inventoras are Cyril and Methodius( Кирил и Методи ) , two brothers from Bulgaria... Idiots
The rudian alphabet is not made from kiriland metodi ots from their student but ure write
wow....did you read the title "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence" :))))))))))
Idiots. The cyrillic alphabeth was made for Bulgarians long before Russia exist. When we had our golden age of culture people in England, Spain and Germany were considering to speak latin only to their horses.
People confusing Austria and Germany......so true. Infuriating.
as a Czech absolutely agree - are you eastern Europeans? We are in the middle of Europe.
"Oooh lemme check it out. Bet it doesn't work on the Dut... waitaminute... Sinterklaas is NOT racist!!!"
Haha I like how the one for Bulgaria is so painfully true. Saying that is a sure way to get you some fast history lessons.
There are actually countless ways to piss Turks off. Like saying Greek yoghurt or naming any member of our cusine Greek. Also you can try your chances by asking how many wives does my father have and if we ride camels to work. I wouldn't recommend though, because we're a vulgar nation and your attempt at having a little annoying banter might end up in emergency room.
It would have taken less effort to list things that don't insult Turks 😉
I'm looking forward to volume 2! (that is what the "v. 1" insinuates right? … right?!)
Canada: "You guys are really Americans right"? Almost slapped her.
u can add up to albania"Kosovo is a part of Serbia ,isnt it?" and to Serbia "Kosovo is in Albania,right?"
As I can see nothing can annoy Belgian people ! Sounds good !!!
In Belgium we het pissed when they say french fries, they are obviously from belgium! They are not french
The minute I' ve read, my reaction was " BUDAPESTE İS NOT the capital of Romania!!!!", the. Lol😀🤣
Yup..no such place ad "Southern Ireland", it's.the Republic of Ireland. Also "British Isles" is an out-dated term (pre-Irish Free State) still frequently used by Americans.
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How to properly and easily annoy the Hungarians: simply say "Trianon".
IT'S NOT IN ENGLAND! Oh aye. I see your point :) :p
the Romanian one is spot on !! We really hate that confusion
I don't know why ah...but...I wouldn't joke much in Serbia and Croatia...neither in Romania or Turkey... Oh and Italian...the best wine
Totally agree with you but still...I think that joking about the war and the pain that came with it is not just stupid and un respectful
That's true.
As a Croatian I can tell you that joking about Serbia and Croatia to football hoolihans might get you to the hospital. But it can actually be considered as a light hearted joke too, depends on the group you run into. But basically, acting stupid about the country you're within isn't as annoying as when you act stupid with someone from the country in question within your own place. Interestingly, though, I never heard that phrase from the map. I did hear theories that the 1990's war was really a religious war, but people don't seem to have that perception of Serbia as reigning over all those Ex-Yu countries. Having said that, I just wanna make sure I'm annoyed by the hate towards Serbians (or any other neighbour), war is gone a couple decades ago and I don't wanna carry it on. We're all brothers and sisters.
Making jokes is never a good idea when you are in front fo footbal hooligans from wherever they are....
Oh please. If you wanna piss a romanian off tell him the beggers in Paris, London etc are romanians. Those are gipsies and we do not think they are part of our people, although they are borned and raised in romania. It drives me crazy. Fellows romanians tell me i am not right :)
So HaHa so the reason why gypsies beg and steal wherever they are is because romanians are being mean racist bastards to them...is that what you meant?
Yeees, of course, because romanians are some of the most racist people in Europe. And so, the roma people end up begging in Paris, London etc.(I am also born and raised in Romania)
Gypsies are Romani... The Romanian denial of an entire people is nothing short of racism in the heart of Europe.
Sorry for the mistake, yes, i meant Romani
Gypsies are, well, Gypsies. What's your point?
free zwarte piet!!
Malta: your language sounds like arabic, right?
Is around 80 % Arabic and 20 % Italian, yes is sounds Arabic as fu*c
I love how Belgium doesn't have "a sentence"
Perhaps they have "two".
The reason why "Still use the Russian alphabet?" is annoying to Bulgarians: First, because Bulgarian adopted the Cyrillic alphabet even before Russian when Russia did not exist, in fact, it was a Bulgarian invention. It was developed at Preslav Literary School in the medieval Bulgarian Empire. Second, because the alphabet is not a "property" of the ones who "created" it, if we think so, the Italians are the only one who should use the Latin/Roman alphabet, since it was created in Rome, it would be like asking an English speaker "Still use the Italian alphabet"?, or asking a Persian "Still use the Arabic alphabet"? Third, because saying this is like saying that Bulgarians are "wrong" because they use a different alphabet than English, and it might sound like: "you have to abandon your language and culture and embrace our culture, because we are right and you wrong", which could sound like something imperialist.
I'm hungarian and I agree...1 of my manager joked with this(Hungary/hungry)...The weird that it happened after 9/11 and he was Iraqi...I didnt want to joke with his nationality...The 2nd annoying is the same like Romanians...Budapest/Bukarest...
This is childish
The sentence about death camps... If you don't understand, just learn how to read, and read about it... IT isn't annoying, it's just a terrible lie suggesting that poles was responsible for killings in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibór, Majdanek and other GERMAN NAZI death camps in occupied Poland. Please, if You don't understand why it's so important for us in Poland just read, or feel free to visit my country and see it on your own eyes. And remember making fun of holocaust is making fun of 6000000 people who was killed only in Auschwitz.
Retards, Rusia using Bulgarian alfabet
It is true for me, a Czech. I am a Central European, remember! Not an Easterner.
Portugal is Latino too
Italia, Spain, Romania, France are Latin countries
Yeah...Romania is a very beautiful country...Yes, i love BUCHAREST... NOT Budapest !!!!
Years ago I was in Turkey and was offered Turkish Coffee. Not having had it before, I asked "Oh, it is like Greek Coffee?" The waiter replied rather brusquely - "It is Turkish Coffee!!". LOL
It's so mean, so freaking mean... but I can't stop laughing :D
This is not funny at all - offending people, and joking about holocaust
Notice, there is no way to insult a Dane! We're just THAT easy-going. :-)
Get the Americans mad with only 5 letters : Trump !
Didn't know Belgium moved to Austria... but hey I learnd something new today
Didn't know Belgium was there.... where did Austria go?
Only if you have a death wish.
WHERES UKRAINE???
Can you traslate this Araboc sentence ? that kill me
You can tell this is accurate by how many irate comments there are and some aren't funny that's why it said how to piss off people in each country. Being british, that would work as well as you mean soccer, that would irritate every guy in england, probably in scotland,wales and N ireland too. Just as with argentina when i went - they would say the Malvinas and I would reply you mean the falklands they speak english there, remember you tried once before and why they aren't the Malvinas. It was good you lost because the military dictatorship fell and now you're a democracy. It irritates argentinians much more saying opposing comments.
I'm Baltic and I actually really am Russian ahhahah
I'm from Baltics and I actually am Russian hahaha
POLISH DEATH CAMPS, HAHAHA. HITLER WAS ALSO POLISH. YEAH! POLAND STARTED WW2 BY BOMBING PEARL HARBOR IN GERMANY.
You could maybe add something about being Scandinavians to Finland.
I'm Portuguese, and yes, that shit makes me go nuts.
This is idiotic
Hahahah Russian alphabet you say xD
I'm from Ireland, and Southern Ireland doesn't bother me or anyone else I know!
I'm more offended by people assuming Ireland (southern) is part of the UK.
True
:D I'm Italian and yes, yes "I like pasta with ketchup" pisses me off :)
Why, boredpanda... why make a post on annoyance on this stupid day we all wanna celebrate "love".
Kindergarten intellectual level and middle finger IQ !
TURKS NOT TALK ARABIC, TURKS TALK TURKISH
THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING THE ARTICLE IS RIGHT
Okay, saying you like pretty much ANYTHING with ketchup outside of the typical fast food / cheap barbecue stuff is FOOD SIN! Obviously this is an exaggeration but... just... keep it in consideration.
Well put! Just reading "are you hungry" nearly gave me a rage-attack.
So true for Turkey!
No one in Spain gets ofended by being called latino. Latin America or Hispanoamerica and Spain are all part of the latin world, which is based on a language that crosses frontiers.
Brits won't be pissed off because they've won that war.
Macedonia for Southern Serbs! :D
Those are not the sentences that will make Europeans annoyed, but rather make Americans look stupid for not knowing basic stuff.
Make Europe great again.
Are you guys belgian?
If you wanna annoy a Hungarian, just ask: Is your capital town Bucharest?
This is so not true and the humor is offensive! You should read some history about the Cyrillic alphabet - it is definitely not Russian
Oh my this is so accurate
As a Turkish, I can relate this.
I don't understand the England one and I'm from there.
Malvinas is the Argentinian word for Falklands. Something like Malvinas of Argentina.
Well the Falklands are definitely Argenitian, NOT British
GEARMAN (NAZI) DEATH CAMPS.
Its Lose-Lose no matter what you say,.....in France.
the truth is that Russians use the Bulgarian alphabet
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Bulgarian, really. I would say it is used by Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian, MAcedonian people and was developed by two south slavs who are certainly not Bulgarian
Bruh i dont think you know bulgaria well then. And im 12 and i live in yhe other side of the world knowing most of bulgatian hisyory
Yeah, I know you are not Bulgarian, but you're from Balkan and that is why you hate on this person's comment. The truth in fact is it doesn't matter by WHO the Cyrillic alphabet was developed, but WHERE it was developed and that is definitely in the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire, which technically means Bulgarians were the first ones to use it.
Open real historical books not the brainwashing you are reading. Try digging in independent historical annals- you wills see that everything you got brainwashed at your "Macedonian" school is lies. Cyril and Methodius were Bulgarians sent to educate the Slav nations.
The americans speak english, right?!
Finland is totally left outside this even if it is in the map!
Norway: that is so irritating !!!
F**k you m8 Lithuania is not russia
Feel the burn...
Malta: your language sounds like arabic, right?
But it is a Semitic language, closely related to Arabic just with lots of loan words...
yea,come to baltics,and ask that question again.
It's hard to annoy a British person in a foreign language given how few of us speak a second language. But I find that the Falklands are a larger bone of contention for the Argentinians. Por cierto, son británicas ;)
I'm English and that sentence would probably not annoy but rather make someone look confused?
It's because that statement is over Scotland, and it is a question that really annoys us Scots,lol.
For Bulgaria - this is completely WRONG! Russians use Bulgarian alphabet, so please inform yourself before you write stupid things :D ....
The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across eastern Europe and north and central Asia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_alphabet
For Central and south America. USA is America what do thay call you guys?
Idiots. Bulgaria is one of the ancient 6 countries that exist till today. Cyrillic was invented long before there was Russia. Moreover durring our golden age of culture people in England, France, Germany and Spain were just considering talking their langulages only to their horses and dogs
It you're a traveller within the target country saying this, your words of annoyment might actually appear as a joke, depends how you carry them on. The true problem is when you meet an individual of an ethnic minority within your own country and then give them these same annoying questions. Don't do that.
An intellectualy challenged author placed Belgian chocolate on the map of Switzerland...
Yeah so, why intellectualy challenged?
that's because it's supposed to annoy swiss people!
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Panda, someone had slept in class history. Russians write BULGARIAN alphabet.
Wrong bulgarian wrote the russian alphabet
i think he means that russians write using the bulgarian alphabet.
As a Bulgarian who knows that you are "irritated"and that's the idea :D
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to be fair, american beers ARE better.
Ugh. "This video is not available in your country", the sentence that used to make me want to throw my laptop out the window. Now that GEMA and YouTube came to an agreement, here's to hoping I'll never have to see this sentence again for the rest of my life.
I just permanently switched to a vpn... f*** 'em all
I was really curious on how to enrage a German since we are used to a lot of stuff... BUT THIS DID IT!!!! AAAAAARGH!!!!
I was wondering the same... until I saw it. It brought back to many painful memories. Rage
It is spot on, though. I don't think there was/is any sentence that can make EVERYBODY in Germany mad as fire instantly :-D
Just use Google Chrome and ProxFlow extension. It's working perfect for me :)
vpn proxy solves this
My live savior back then. Too bad, they didn't always work for me.
Ha! I'd love to see a North America version of this, or even U.S. by state. I can see it being hilar.
Hawaii - Does everyone speak English? Do you all sleep in grass huts? Personal favorite: Do you ever go to America?
Arizona: "Are you guys a bunch of cowboys? Do you have cars or just horses?"
Massachusetts: "You all must have the Boston accent? You all must be smart because you got so many well-known universities around. Everyone must eat Boston Creme Pie. Everyone must eat lobster." <--- Neither of these applies to me even though I do live in Mass for 90% of my life. :P
For half an hour I've been trying to figure our why Russia is annoyed by "V.1" then realized it's part of the post's title :|
LOL!
Do you guys live in igloos, eat only maple syrup and beaver tails and ride on moose? Eh!
You would fill Canada in entirely with irritating one liners.
The 'author' of this arse-rag humour James Gould-Bourn needs to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and then see what one sentence would annoy Polish nationals. You freakin' frat kids think 9-11 is the worst atrocity the world has ever seen, but don't know the half of it. Grow up.
Maybe just relax...? Actually, it really does annoy the Poles ;-) (me too)
Maybe so, but comparing "Polish dead camp" problem to "I like pasta with ketchup" is even more annoying. Anyway this post really did its job :D
You can't relax while death is a word to consider humours for anybody
The author of this "arse-rag humour" didn't make the map.
The case of the "Polish death camps" is not annoying. This is not a joke or a funny situation but disgusting false the history and deeply offensive statement. Camps were GERMAN and Polish People die there.
Ay, at least this post kind of worked, right? "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence".
This attitude eerily reminds me of Trump supporters talking about liberals being "triggered" about the muslim ban, or climate change or whatever cause they're "precious snowflakes". It's not about being annoyed, it's a bit larger than that. You don't joke about the holocaust - period. And I'm not German, Polish, or Jewish btw.
Yeah, but that's the whole point: That the camps were set up by Germans and that this sentence annoys the hell out of Polish people. (Well, quite a few poles did work in them, but that's a different discussion) Admittedly, it's not the joke ever written.
i prefer "nazi death camps"
You have offended belgians without even a word :))
*Trump voice* Belgium, not even a real country.
I believe he said that. Or regarding some European country. I'm pretty sure he said that.
Ikr ! But it's quite easy to offend us in one sentence, like just tell us that were French and we will lose it
Too bad you haven't written anything about Finland, it's the easiest though. Tip for next version - how to irritate a finn: - Hi!
The way to irritate a Finn is to pretend Finland isn't part of Europe.
Was only 1 week in Finland, but thid seems very correct!
I think the most offensive of those would be the Italian one. I know enough Italians who would practically kill someone for making their food with any adaptations! :D
lot of them are in my backyard now
=))
I am half Italian and I tell you that one is indeed an insult. And it's not because of conformism, I don't care how anyone decides to make their pasta sauce, it's because since I moved to Korea, for a very long time it was hard to find a restaurant where they served ketchupless tomato pasta. Later the standards have changed (thanks God!), so now it depends from place to place, but when you experience that being a standard, it makes you wanna meet leave a recepe instead of a tip.
I am not Italian but every time I see people taking liberties with the tiramisu recipe, I feel like Hitler. Or Americans pretending that shit they eat is pizza.
To be honest, I don't mind American style pizza (although I never ate real American pizza, since I've never been there), but the annoying part is when, for example, Buzzfeed will bombraie you with politically correct articles, including the ones condemning cultural appropriations, and then it will not only treat pizza as an American thing, but they will criticise the notion of eating it with a knife and fork. Pffff.... Barbarians. (Disclaimer → I know those articles are mostly jokes, in fact, my exaggerated reactions are a joke too, but what I just mentioned really is kinda annoying).
Exactly.
Can i have some ketchup with that pizza?
You've insulted Wales by ignoring it completely :D
I can imagine that 'what's the point of speaking Welsh' wouldn't go down too well :oP
Is it annoying to be fangirling over the Manics with a Welsh person? ♥ *blinks innocently*
It always amuses me that if you cross the Severn you have to pay to get into Wales, but it's free to get out again!
Nick Gisburne, Wales has a really, really cool flag. Love, An American. ****I'm American so I can be sarcastic.....******* :)
"Polish death camps"?!..wtf?!..its not annoying..its far from annoying..its just wrong..badly. Do you realise what Germans did to whole Europe?..and you comparing it with "American wines are better"?!?!?!..Its not funny..at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
You just proved the point of the article
No. He only said that it is wrong to make fun of the death of 6 million polish people.
Lizz do you think that saying that yor country muredred million innocent peoeple woudn't offend you? Accualy I feels really bad when peeople make fun ot it at all
I think Macedonians will not be very irritated if you call them "South Serbs". Try "You are Bulgarians, right?" We, Bulgarians, are very angry when someone call our alphabet "russian alphabet", because actually russians toke it from us. It's originally a bulgarian alphabet, created on the base of greek alphabet by the scholars of St.St Cyrilus and Methodius.
Bulgaria is such a small country but makes suvh big things.
i'll be visiting bulgaria next month! i promise not to make any comments about the alphabet. 😉
"You speak Brazilian right?"
I am Portuguese and I complete agree with that one.
I'm Portuguese too and that doesn't bother me, worst is "Are you Spanish?!"
As a proud Lithuanian - yes, this is accurate. We are no Russians.
I'd say for Belgians it would be "Oh, these French Fries are really good." And similarly for greeks - "You make excellent Turkish coffee". My wife saw Greeks go literally purple with rage on that. :)
Want to insult Greeks/Turks: tell them Cyprus (and baklava) belong to Turkey/Greece
I'm french, and I don't feel offended because I know french wines are way better ;)
Marie, obviously you have not met an obnoxious American with tunnel (narrow) vision. I can say this as I'm American and find French wines superior, as I do many, many European contributions to culture.
i agree with czech and slovak one. it drives me nuts to constantly explain that we(slovakia) have geographical centre of europe in our country and czech rep. is even further to the west.
http://en.infoglobe.cz/tips-for-trips/svk-kremnicke-bane-geographical-center-of-europe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe i admit, many countries claims it ans it all depends on how it is counted(see begining of that wiki article) but my point stays the same.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records it is in Lithuania.
... yeah, what I find amazing is that absolutely nobody cares. Although I've heard that the centre of Europe is in fact in Poland ;P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe
Eww. Who eats pasta with Ketchup?
Polish death camps is spot on, I think there is a penalty of up to 3 years in prison for that nowadays... I'm all for educating that it was the Nazi Germany, but penalties are not going to discourage the offenders - I think the last time it was ZDF that did this... I don't see any ZDF managers going to prison ;)
For Turkey! Yes exactly this is what i hate haha :D Because we are not ARABIC!
Learn English
neyini beğenmedin bok?
I guess Denmark can not be annoyed! Good to be a Dane
Denmark has Lego. Nobody wants to insult Denmark.
Since when Turkey is a European country?
Most of Turkey is in Asia, but part of it is in Europe, so it's a European country AND an Asian country. Or just simply Eurasian.
Did you know that the EU flag was directly derived from European Commission flag? And 12 stars are actually founder nations of the commission and one is Turkey. Surpise Nazi, your life is a lie.
Why the f*ck call someone a Nazi? You ignorant, racist moron
Ugh, I'm from the Netherlands and the sentence irritates me a LOT
Yeah. After all, it's not Sinterklaas who's racist, it's Zwarte Piet! ;-)
please, PLEASE don't let Trump see this map!
I got annoyed at the sentence about Bulgaria and then I read the title :D
The Belgians just don't give enough of a f*** to be able to be irretated it seems.
"Are you from Spain? Oh nice I love dancing salsa and eat tacos" (Loading shotgun noise)
Okay, I admit it, I was ready to grab a history book (and maybe throw it at someone) when I read "russian alphabet"
As a foreign student in Belgium, the sentence that annoys them the most is probably: "Both chips and Jupiler are disgusting"'
Just ask them how many governments they have... And mayors in Brussels... Shit like that pisses me off Sofia! :(
So, to annoy people, you pretend you are ignorant?
Well, yeah!! Kinda like when someone from up north acts as if I'm a stupid southerner, and I feed it right back to'em.
I don't think people do those purposely
For any foreigner who comes in ExYu countries - DO NOT SAY WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THAT MAP (not even in a joke). I repeat: Do NOT SAY THOSE THINGS. You might ended up in bad condition. We still didn't outgrow this enough to take those words without giving you some serious injuries. Even I need to be cautious about what I'm writing here, If I'm not, I'll start another war in comment section. You'll be forced to remove this. Things are bad... rly, rly bad.
For UK: You do not you speak danish, why? Were you not for 300 years a danish colony?
England is a french colony which turned bad.... "L' angleterre est une colonie francaise qui a mal tourné" Georges Clemenceau
Oww snap! 👍🏼
There's no way to irritate people in Finland. Buhahahaha.
There is. Disrespect their personal space and there you go.
Do you know any spanish people annoyed by the frase "So you're latino"?
so, nothing to say about Belgium or Denmark?
For Belgium: Jupiler (beer) is disgusting.
That's not an insult, that's an actual fact
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As a bulgarian i feel irritated for the greek and macedonian sentance too :D
Hahahaa! Love the Baltics one! Most of them do look like Russians, so it is ironic to see them hate on Russia so much.
The one about Stockholm made me sad...
And this comes from a man who comes from a country where Presidential elections have become reality-shows and then you let the clown win. Please accept my one-hand applause!
lol!!!! Still use the russian alphabet?? What an ignorance!! We discovered the alphabet and gave it to them and many more lol.... Its called cyrillic alphabet because the inventoras are Cyril and Methodius( Кирил и Методи ) , two brothers from Bulgaria... Idiots
The rudian alphabet is not made from kiriland metodi ots from their student but ure write
wow....did you read the title "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence" :))))))))))
Idiots. The cyrillic alphabeth was made for Bulgarians long before Russia exist. When we had our golden age of culture people in England, Spain and Germany were considering to speak latin only to their horses.
People confusing Austria and Germany......so true. Infuriating.
as a Czech absolutely agree - are you eastern Europeans? We are in the middle of Europe.
"Oooh lemme check it out. Bet it doesn't work on the Dut... waitaminute... Sinterklaas is NOT racist!!!"
Haha I like how the one for Bulgaria is so painfully true. Saying that is a sure way to get you some fast history lessons.
There are actually countless ways to piss Turks off. Like saying Greek yoghurt or naming any member of our cusine Greek. Also you can try your chances by asking how many wives does my father have and if we ride camels to work. I wouldn't recommend though, because we're a vulgar nation and your attempt at having a little annoying banter might end up in emergency room.
It would have taken less effort to list things that don't insult Turks 😉