Asklemmy @lemmy.ml AgreeableLandscape @lemmy.ml 4 yr. ago

What's an inside joke in your country?

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Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:

Vancouver is the weed capital

Newfoundland's "Newfie" accent/dialect

Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)

Quebec hates everyone

Our airline is terrible

We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units
- I’d also like to add timmies in recent years. There has been a steep decline
  
  Still love me that iced capp.
- We were at the fights and a hockey game broke out
The pool room.
- Straight to the pool room!
- Tell ‘em he’s dreaming!
- Found the fellow Aussie lol
Germany:

the town of Bielefeld does not exist. There’s a huge conspiracy to make people think it’s a real place
- To what end? Just shit and giggles or is there a goal to it?
  
  The German wiki article said that it's often used to illustrate and make fun of the fact that conspiracy theorists can claim the most absurd crap.
  
  The English wiki article mentioned that even Angela Merkel mentioned it in a speech once, so I really gotta track that down now.
  
  It's the same as when people in the states say "Wyoming (or sometimes North dakota) doesn't exist"
  
  I mean, have YOU ever actually met someone from Wyoming?
ed balls
- ed balls
The swedish button

Here in Norway we like to make fun of Swedes as a stupid people. The swedish button originated (at least the first context I knew of) as yanking the power cable from the socket as a way of turning off an applianve such as a Tv or computer, inatead of the intended way

One can also call other extreme/destructive ways of turning something off as the swedish button, such as hitting a tv with a hammer.
La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.
Mexico:

Quesadillas don’t have cheese by default in Mexico City, and everyone else outside of it make fun of them because of it.
Chile:

we are the best country of chile.

Rancagua doesn't exist.

the city of Talca and his wet completos.^[imagine a HotDog but profounfly better, Chad completo virgin gringo hotdog]^
La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.

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