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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

"So... are you Polish, or Russian?"

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"So... are you Polish, or Russian?"

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    This scene sets up Cotton’s best line. I guess this version would be:

    “Hey, Cotton, this is _____, he’s from Eastern Europe.”

    “No he ain’t! He’s, from Prague, aintcha Mr. ______!”

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      Cotton’s a horrible racist, but at least he knows what ethnicity the people he hates are.

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    Something like this happened to me when I went to Spain, I’m from Mexico and I kept trying to explain to spaniards how we’re in north america and not south america.

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      I guess the US is South America to Canada. Except for Alaska.

      • jpablo68@infosec.pub
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        Or to people in Detroit, Canada is South America.

        • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
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          More East America.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    Eastern Europe is just the bits occupied by the Soviet union post ww2

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    Slavic? : ✅
    Behind the iron curtain? : ✅

    Close enough

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      The east-west divide by the iron curtain is also more recent being the capital of the not-holy not-roman not-an-empire so

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    Geez, it’s like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it’s all anyone can remember.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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      Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR

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        Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the “2nd sphere”, effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.

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          Oh yeah it was very much under USSR control don’t get me wrong

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        It was part of the empire though.

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      What do they say about fucking goats again?

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        “Be careful about which end you approach from”? 😛

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          Woosh

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            That’s not a whoosh, they were making their own joke. Jesus.

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    It bothers me that William Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive, bilingual in English and Louisiana French, isn’t France

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      Boomhauer speaks French too, if memory serves

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        It’s the Louisiana French I mentioned

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          Boomhauer speaks Canadian French, I believe; Bill Dauterive speaks Cajun French.

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    “Polish… or Russian?”

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      Whole thing is worth watching honestly. The gold standard for YTP (if there is such a thing).

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    Why isn’t Dale Russia? He’s clearly fluent in it.

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      You, too, can be fluent in Russian if you eat enough of Putin’s personal library.

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    As a German speaker, A-plus on the dale gribble characterization

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