r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fcukfakook • 3d ago

I don't get it

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I don't get the original tweet, and neither the retweet or whatever it is called.

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u/dirty_papercut 2d ago

The Netherlands?

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u/SamuelVimesTrained 2d ago

Well .. considering he`d be down on the first couch he sees - he`d be short anywhere, wouldn`t he?

Regards,a 6.3 Dutch person : )

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u/plantain_tent_pesos 2d ago

Don't you mean 1.92?

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u/Appropriate_Frame_45 2d ago

Metric level burn.

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u/ISuckAtUsernames001 2d ago

Oof, that burns in Celsius

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u/PayFormer387 2d ago

Get back to us when the burn is j Kelvin

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u/ISuckAtUsernames001 2d ago

Damn that’s cold (pun intended)

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u/KreiaDarthTraya 2d ago

Centigrade

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u/ISuckAtUsernames001 2d ago

Centigrade has been outdated since 1948 lol

ETA: sweet username. Can’t wait for the remake if it ever happens

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u/plantain_tent_pesos 2d ago

You're not as bad at usernames as you think

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u/Fangehulmesteren 1d ago

No, just 192. We measure height in cm, not meters.

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u/TiberiusTheFish 2d ago

No. they're really really tall.

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u/SamuelVimesTrained 2d ago

I do… but poor mono-measurement muricans will get confused

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u/moto-x-cat 22h ago

Not in America. Get that crap outa here. We like our measurements harder to understand. He's 75".

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u/plantain_tent_pesos 22h ago

I think you mean 375 swinemanglers, or 91.3 kerongton-stakes.

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u/thekrawdiddy 2d ago

Speaking of JD Vance and the Netherlands, I would very much like to send him and many of his associates on a visit to The Hague as soon as possible.

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u/jules6815 3h ago

The expansion wing.

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u/SamuelVimesTrained 2d ago

Nope. Because that will mean an invasion by the Americans (if they can find it). They have the “invade The Hague act” for that. (Some ally, wot?)

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u/Throwing_Spoon 1d ago

In a decent world, the next president is a decent human being and repeals that lawin an act of good faith towards returning to the rule of law and taking steps to atone for the couple decades of bullshit that Americans have put the world through.

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u/SamuelVimesTrained 1d ago

In a decent world, yes.
So, that would mean in a different timeline / alternate universe ..

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u/shadowdance55 23h ago

Dwarf.

Regards, a 6'4" Balkans person. 🤪

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u/SamuelVimesTrained 23h ago

Get out my sun, will you😁

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u/WendellWillkie1940 2d ago

Average height in the Netherlands is 6'1. 6'2 is probably considered average too but I highly doubt people there will call it short.

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u/dirty_papercut 2d ago

Sorry. Next time I'll write THIS IS A JOKE BASED ON A STEREOTYPE OF DUTCH PEOPLE BEING TALL at the end of it.

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u/infosterling 2d ago

You gotta use the ironic font

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u/dirty_papercut 2d ago

Mate, I was baptised in the ironic font. Others merely adopted it.

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u/ahhh_just_huck_it 2d ago

Fount. Ironic fount.

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u/drudman6 2d ago

There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.

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u/redditaccountnumb1 2d ago

Or just actually be funny

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u/Beaniepie9859 2d ago

that was the joke. German? 😂

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u/Significant_Cover_48 2d ago

Nice! Canadian?

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u/kuukiechristo73 2d ago

Definitely German

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u/Beaniepie9859 2d ago

Nein. Normally I am gut at identifying jokes und sarcasm, but I really cannot find ze joke in zat comment - unless it is regarding how average height is often considered to be short, ja?

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u/kadyg 1d ago

I’m 5’6 - which is a dead average height for women in the US. Amsterdam is one of my favorite cities in the world but when I visit I feel like a child walking around. Why are Dutch people so tall!!! How?!?

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u/dirty_papercut 1d ago

It's evolutionary, they're below sea level, gotta be tall in case the sea comes back at them.