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[metatron]

But.. Clock addicts? Do Germans wear a lot more watches than Italians? Are they punctual? Is it a typo?

It's a stereotype. And it's true.
We are insanely punctual.
But we can't cue. Total barbarians.
Ten Germans board an empty (and early) bus: basically a brawl.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I get that the Swiss make clocks, that Greece was Byzantium and that Belgium is Europe (ha, ha), but I'm not seeing the connection to northern Italy.

it's supposed to be how people from italy views those places

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[Traitorfish]

What's the Quebec flag supposed to be? It looks like somebody has confused the Newfound tricolour with the Hungarian tricolour, and Newfoundland with Quebec.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

It's actually historical.

 

[Kyriakos]

But.. Clock addicts? [...] Is it a typo?

 

[Takhisis]

We are insanely punctual.

I find the most common two types in the Western hemisphere to be either of the ‘five minutes early means on time’ or the ‘on time means on bloody time’ varieties. Under which one would you file the Teutonic clock addicts?

 

[metatron]

I find the most common two types in the Western hemisphere to be either of the ‘five minutes early means on time’ or the ‘on time means on bloody time’ varieties. Under which one would you file the Teutonic clock addicts?

Largely the former. And yes, most people don't get that it's rude when it's rude.

 

[Lohrenswald]

checkmate, atheists

 

[Takhisis]

So plumber is in Western Europe then?

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

So plumber is in Western Europe then?

That's not true! That's impossible!!

 

[Kyriakos]

Poland can into west space

 

[Borachio]

Hey! Where's Southern Europe?

Ah, right. North Africa.

Or was that Poland?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Hey! Where's Southern Europe?

 

[Arakhor]

I'm fairly sure that Slovakia is not in southern Europe.

 

[Lohrenswald]

you're wrong

it clearly says southern europe on the map

 

[Synobun]

I'm fairly sure that Slovakia is not in southern Europe.

Slovakia? Isn't that a vegetable?

 

[Lohrenswald]

That's supposed to be a joke?

or a reference?

 

[W|M]

You've got Poland wrong, it's in North Africa, not North Europe

 

[Arakhor]

it clearly says southern europe on the map

I think that the map have been... altered.