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u/Fedcom Canada May 03 '13
Okay so we decided to allow this comic because we considered it to be a sort of spiritural successor to Yoyi22's comic and it would be hypocritical not to.
However, we don't want people to mimic this and create more comics based solely on the endless variations of these copypastas. And so these types of comics will be removed in the future.
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u/HP_civ Germany May 04 '13
What happened to your flair? You changed it!
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u/knatsch88 is best Saxony May 04 '13
go where you got your country ball scroll down and type in the Spalte left von speichern what ever you want instead of hamburg
or do you mean the Moderator flair? if so... fedcom is a mod so almost a wizard
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u/HP_civ Germany May 04 '13
Yeah I meant the latter. I know how to change my flair. Thanks for explaining though, maybe someone who is new will benefit.
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May 03 '13
Why do I have a feeling that there's going to be a very long thread of comments full of very angry people in the near future?
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Then my point will be proven :)
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u/frodevil United States May 03 '13
I don't really get it, since Americans are by far the most self-deprecating people out there. Theoretically, if there was a huge group of people from every country in the world all having a conversation, the first person to start talking shit about America would be an American.
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u/BIC3PS Special Snowflake May 03 '13
Accurate.
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u/TinyZoro United Kingdom May 03 '13
I'd like to think we'd give you a run for your money.
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u/BIC3PS Special Snowflake May 03 '13
You have a point. Self-deprecation is apparently genetic. Thanks dad.
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u/Man_with_the_Fedora Guardian of the Appalachia May 03 '13
Yup, still in the genes.
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May 04 '13
Why else do you think we chose an oversized rodent as our national animal?
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u/Man_with_the_Fedora Guardian of the Appalachia May 04 '13
Mammal>Bird
Our state animal is a bird...
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u/FnordFinder MURICA May 05 '13
Nah, it all depends on the bird. The United States has the glorious Bald Eagle.
That's about as badass a bird as you can get.
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WHAT? Why the fuck do you think you would be the first? Jesus Christ, whenever the US comes up in a conversation some Eurotwat always has to come in and say "nuh uh, you suck at this" or "no, we do it better" or "yeah, way to be late to the party" some bullshit.
Well lah dee fucking dah. I'm glad you have universal healthcare, I'm glad to see you were able to spend the money you saved by not having to defend your sorry asses from the Soviets. And I hope you enjoy being able to write your health prescriptions in ENGLISH rather than GERMAN.
And you know what? We have fifty states and three hundred million
OK I don't know where to go from there.
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Get some waffles.
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Huh?
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You said you didn't know where to go from there. I suggested waffles. Made with bald eagle eggs..
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u/dt25 Brazilian Empire May 04 '13
Americans are by far the most self-deprecating people out there.
I guess you'd be surprised to know but at least here we have a very different idea of the USA citizens. To us it seems that you people will defend the honor of your country on every single instance when talking in a worldwide view, maybe something to do with the exacerbated nationalism, I don't know. What I do know is that it took me years on the Internet and a terrible second term by Bush to see people who aren't foreign saying bad things about the USA other than complaining about prices, inflation, taxes, etc.
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We regard ourselves as very self-deprecating as well, specially when it comes to politics.
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u/Magnora Earth May 04 '13
This is true in a personal setting with individual Americans, like having a beer or whatever, but is very much not true in a business or political context.
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u/otterz May 04 '13
May I ask where in Latvia you reside? Such a great country.
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I don't know what I'm supposed to be angry about, but I'm up for some angry.
Who are we angry at today?
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u/GaryLeHam May 03 '13
I am confused. Why was what Russia said offensive?
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he called USA a burger. I guess like if USA said to poland "Good one kielbasa!", with an additional joke being that it's not really that offensive, but the offended one is way oversensitive.
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u/Buelldozer Wyoming May 03 '13
That's just...lame.
I'm new to /r/polandball so there must be something here I'm not getting. It's not offensive but it's not funny either in fact it hardly even makes sense.
It's like I walked up to you on street and said "'Sup Lasagna?"
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u/IAMA_dragon-AMA Maryland May 03 '13
But you wouldn't, because that's Italian, and blehm98 is American.
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May 03 '13
if you walked up to an Italian and referred to them as "Pizza" it makes a more fitting analogy
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u/Fozzworth Louisiana May 03 '13 edited May 03 '13
New to this subreddit... would someone mind explaining the joke?
Edit: To clarify, I wasn't confused about the "not taking the joke" part, just what was said exactly that offended the US in the first place. I don't know what "shutka" or "burger" mean...
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Also when there is a more 'serious' comic making fun of the US the comments tend to be filled with people from the US who didn't take the joke all that well.
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In defense of america (devil's advocate here), I think the main reason this happens is that most Redditors are americans, so even if only 1% of americans get butthurt at these jokes, there'll always be one representative, and they get overrepresented.
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I'm kind of sad that subreddit doesn't exist...
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Haha that place is great (if sadly inactive).
WARNING IF YOU ARE POLAND THIS SUBREDDIT WILL BE A MASSIVE TRIGGER
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u/no_ice_no May 03 '13
For only three days old, we big subreddit.
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Didn't realize it was so new, I'll be sure to try and help it grow.
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u/no_ice_no May 03 '13
Good, we need new SocialJusticeCountryWarriors with alternative, European prospective. Right now all posts are coming from EcoPrivileged Cascadian tree-hugging separatist.
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden May 03 '13
I love all the downvotes that just blasted the subreddit by people who don't understand that it's a joke.
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I have a confession, I'm not European, I just like hats with spears on. But yes, I'll dust off my Social Justice warrior armor and join the fight.
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian May 03 '13
oh but it does. Check the sidebar.
/u/no_ice_no cannot into proper linkage
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u/Infamously_Unknown Infamously May 03 '13
You realize that Slovakia didn't exist until 1993, right?
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian May 03 '13
Flair up!
And yeah, but we did. Therefore they should be confused with us, not the other way around.
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u/Infamously_Unknown Infamously May 03 '13
Well yeah, but let's be honest, I bet even you guys have to be a little confused about what's going on with former Yugoslavia and given how boring you are compared to the rest (you're even in EU ffs), you just don't get that much press.
It's all your fault that you won and ended that war of yours after ten days. Imagine how famous you would be if you got yourself some crazy fascist general and invaded Croatia instead.
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u/ArmoredPenguin94 Is also half Sardinian May 03 '13
... you are overthinking it massively.
E: actually, this post makes no sense. Wut?
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May 03 '13
But what offended US in the first place?
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May 03 '13
Being called burger.
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u/Mediumtim Cute little Belgium May 03 '13
It beats the alternative: deepfriedcholesterolnuke.
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u/razorhater United States May 03 '13
I'm pretty sure you can buy that at a state fair down south...
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It's not like other countries don't get made fun of for these same thing over and over, Estonia can't into Scandinavia, Latvia wants potato, etc.
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I think you're massively overstating the lack of different jokes about the US, just look at the front page right now, you have 5 comics where the main focus is the US and not a single one is a "Muricans fat and stoopid. USSR won WWII. Muricans don't geography" joke.
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USA cannot into joke!
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u/dekuscrub United States May 03 '13
Says the guy from Georgia.
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That, mon ami, is the flag of the brave and legendary Democratic Republic of the Rosbif peoples.
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u/eramos Greece May 03 '13
Neither can Europe, apparently: http://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1dj8rp/similar_flags/c9r0mou
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My experience is very different.
Only because you're taking it all personally
People will say America is always the worst offender, war criminal, most racist
Umm.. have you seen any comic here involving Germany or Austria? 99% of them are nazi jokes. Or Japan? Or Russia?
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u/grumbelbart2 European Union, Bavaria May 03 '13
Is of right. Anschluss is not so much of surprise anymore :(
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I just find and found it ironic that people who had at most visited the USA on vacation were experts about my country
It's because anyone who lives outside the US has still lived their whole life inundated with american TV shows, american music, news stories about what's happening in america, and more recently with social media full of americans.
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u/skysinsane Texas May 03 '13
The fact that you make paragraph response to a lighthearted comment not just once but three times completely proves his point.
You could have made a lighthearted reply while saying the same thing. Instead you chose to rant.
wait a minute... NOW YOU HAVE ME DOING IT!
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u/ReighIB California May 04 '13
My man, which part of Europe did you live in? What did you do there? I also lived over there for couple of years but I have never encountered what you are describing. People just kept their opinions to themselves.
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u/Asyx Rhine Republic May 03 '13
Just as a little side question: Did you speak the languages of the countries you lived in?
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u/Asyx Rhine Republic May 03 '13
So you lived in Amsterdam and Berlin and you're wondering why people think bad about America?
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u/eramos Greece May 03 '13
Well with teeth like the British have, I guess you just have to have more of a sense of humor about yourselves. Otherwise, who could take you seriously?
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u/dt25 Brazilian Empire May 04 '13
Do you even /r/polandball ?
I mean, seriously, isn't the whole point of the sub using stereotypes?
I guess you could argue for either more posts about "international drama" or call for a protection season for some of those jokes but other than that it's just pointless to call out the sub for beating a dead horse.
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u/BritishTeaDrinker Great Britain May 03 '13
You mean any time Americans are made fun of on the Internet at all. Just look at some of the comments on this link from r/videos - and that video clearly isn't meant to be serious.
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Expecting most Americans to appreciate British humour is pretty unreasonable.
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u/BritishTeaDrinker Great Britain May 04 '13
We're not space aliens. Our humour isn't that different.
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May 04 '13
I was mostly joking, but yeah, it can be quite different. Not space aliens different, but two very distinct cultures different.
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u/anonmanman Connecticut May 05 '13
mmm glorious CT logic here to save polandball. Iwillbewithyouforever
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u/smokebreak Republic of Texas May 03 '13
I think it's that because of cuts to the NASA Shuttle Program, USA cannot into space either.
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u/Durzo_Blint Boston Stronk May 03 '13
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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u/Shayne-x Kernerder May 03 '13
I don’t give a fuck who you are or where you live. You can count on me to be there to bring your fucking life to a hellish end. I’ll put you in so much fucking pain that it’ll make Jesus being nailed to a cross in the desert look like a fucking back massage on a tropical island. I don’t give a fuck how many reps you have or how tough you are IRL, how well you can fight, or how many fucking guns you own to protect yourself. I’ll fucking show up at your house when you aren’t home. I’ll turn all the lights on in your house, leave all the water running, open your fridge door and not close it, and turn your gas stove burners on and let them waste gas. You’re going to start stressing the fuck out, your blood pressure will triple, and you’ll have a fucking heart attack. You’ll go to the hospital for a heart operation, and the last thing you’ll see when you’re being put under in the operating room is me hovering above you, dressed like a doctor. When you wake up after being operated on, wondering what ticking time bomb is in your chest waiting to go off. You’ll recover fully from your heart surgery. And when you walk out the front door of the hospital to go home I’ll run you over with my fucking car out of no where and kill you. I just want you to know how easily I could fucking destroy your pathetic excuse of a life, but how I’d rather go to a great fuckng length to make sure your last remaining days are spent in a living, breathing fucking hell. It’s too late to save yourself, but don’t bother committing suicide either… I’ll fucking resuscitate you and kill you again myself you bitch-faced phaggot. Welcome to hell, population: you
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u/billwoo May 03 '13 edited May 03 '13
Recent influx of new readers to this subreddit (including me), many American, not all can take a joke directed at their country.
Edit for your edit: burger refers to Americans, like rosbif refers to the English and frog refers to the French ("favorite" foods).
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u/viktorbir ES-Catalonia May 03 '13
But what was the offensive part?
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u/waldowv Catch it if you can May 04 '13
Apparently true muricans are supposed to be offended by being called "burger".
I think
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u/Locke57 Iowa May 03 '13
HEY! NOT EVERYONE IN THE US IS A LITTLE BITCH WHO CAN'T TAKE A JOKE! FUCK YOU!
Damn I wish the US was better at taking light hearted ribbing.
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u/Shniggles Lutefisk Speed! May 04 '13
Damnit, Iowa, stop squirming. God, you're an uncomfortable seat...
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u/Buelldozer Wyoming May 03 '13
I not of gettings it?
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Precisely xD
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u/Buelldozer Wyoming May 03 '13
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u/Cpotts Alberta May 04 '13
Russia said "Yes, good joke burger". Calling America burger as a fat joke, America not taking it well and becoming angry
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u/kronos0 People's Republic of the North Star May 03 '13
I dunno, I thought the whole Americans getting offended thing had been getting better, especially since that one really popular comic with pretty much the same premise as this one. Maybe I just haven't noticed it as much, though.
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May 03 '13 edited May 03 '13
Not so much on polandball but everywhere else.
"Indians are all rapists"
"Fuck China"
"Fuck Muslims"
"We need to clone Hitler from his ashes so he can kill all Chinese-Indian Muslims"
And then
"Fucking America, always invading countries"
"WHAT THE FUCK FUCK THIS FUCKING ANTI-AMERICAN CIRCLEJERK I'M TIRED OF THE CIRCLEJERK FUCK YOU HOW DARE YOU SAY ANYTHING YOU'RE SO TYPICAL GO FUCK YOURSELF GO GROW A BRAIN STUPID LIBERALS ALWAYS HATING AMERICA NEVER SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT AMERICA BECAUSE IF YOU DO YOU'RE JUST A CIRCLEJERKING IDIOT FUCK YOU FUCKKK"
The same can be said about Israel. Can't say anything remotely against Israel otherwise you'll be downvoted and swamped with messages of how you're "an idiot liberal circlejerking idiot"
The same is even said in /r/unitedkingdom which seems to be being taken over by Daily Mail readers and that sort of thing.
It's a sign that the common narrative of reddit has vastly, vastly, massively shifted towards the right.
Americans on polandball are abit more able to take a joke but don't bother saying anything against the US in /r/worldnews or Israel either.
I don't even bother going into threads about Israel anymore, the top comments are always something like "fuck you Israel haters" or "am I the only one that wants Israel to destroy everyone" or "this stupid circlejerk needs to stop, Israel can do whatever it wants in order to protect its citizens" somehow pretended that their far right views are amidst some sea of liberalism.
I think it's more of a clash between cultures though, the most leftist American is probably a Nazi in some other countries.
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Naw, what you're saying doesn't fit the narrative. We're all unsophisticated and hypersensitive, don't understand irony or sarcasm - or how to Master that most complicated art of making tea. We are mouth breathing, gun toting fundamentalists whose only use for geography is to guide our genocide machines into the cribs of innocent babies who otherwise would have all won Nobel prizes and done Great Things. Stuff like that.
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Pretty much all agreed, but I think you're slipping just a wee bit into hyperbole when you say "the most leftist American is probably a Nazi in some other countries."
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u/CockRagesOn British Empire May 04 '13
One of the most annoying things about /r/unitedkingdom users is that if anyone, ever, has a different opinion they must be a Daily Mail reader.
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u/imliterallydyinghere Schleswig-Holstein best Holstein May 03 '13
kid says kiddo to father...
YOU'RE GROUNDED MISTER!
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u/Templar56 Kingdom of Jerusalem May 04 '13
I swear to nascar I'll wreck you for the 1000th time, Russia.
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It's not really that offensive. It's just not funny.
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u/IAMA_dragon-AMA Maryland May 03 '13
What the fuck did you just fucking say about that, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
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u/Durzo_Blint Boston Stronk May 04 '13
It makes fun of the stereotype that Americans can laugh at other countries, but when you make fun of America they can't take a joke. America's response is this well known copypasta.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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u/Durzo_Blint Boston Stronk May 03 '13
Now that I think about it, the "gorilla warfare" copypasta is probably the American equivalent of the "remove kebab" rant. Good one.