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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm actually impressed you created that one 2 years ago, I assumed you just did it for this joke.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We Germans have a very good humor actually we wrote the book aboud it. A whole compendium. Thousands of pages. The most comprehensive work you'll find. It's just not a funny book.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can picture this very German explanation of what humour is. A technical manual on it and how to be funny, and yet not a single "lol" was had in the reading

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

German humour is no laughing matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You don’t get a “vroom” from reading a car manual, either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like there is a joke here that I am missing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After you've read the jokes in the book you will miss the feeling of laughing the first time you read them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

book

help me get this joke please?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Im sorry I dont get it either

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hmm, then what book are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

whatever book they are talking about that has a whole compendium of humor, im not sure what exactly it is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The joke is that Germans love bureaucracy and design and don't do humor, as evidenced by some German chocolate my dad got at LAX that described itself as square and practical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ritter Sport? If so, don't forget the part where it described itself as good!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I had to look it up but that's totally it, lol

I also double checked by searching "schokolad quadratisch praktisch" and I can't believe it's a real tagline. Thank you so much Germany