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How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence
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How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence

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Want to know how to piss off people from different European nations with just one sentence? Then you’ve come to the right place. Check out this trusty map to see what we mean. It was recently posted on Facebook by Sigmagfx, and as you can see, it’s full of useful phrases to make your traveling experience more…well…exciting. Try going to Romania and telling them how much you love their “capital” Budapest, or the next time you’re in Switzerland, don’t forget to let them know just how inferior their chocolate is compared to Belgium’s. You’re sure to come home with a hilarious anecdote or two…just as long as you survive…

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Cat Meow
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh. "This video is not available in your country", the sentence that used to make me want to throw my laptop out the window. Now that GEMA and YouTube came to an agreement, here's to hoping I'll never have to see this sentence again for the rest of my life.

.gas.
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha! I'd love to see a North America version of this, or even U.S. by state. I can see it being hilar.

Marty Sunderland
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hawaii - Does everyone speak English? Do you all sleep in grass huts? Personal favorite: Do you ever go to America?

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Steve Keeling
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 'author' of this a**e-rag humour James Gould-Bourn needs to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and then see what one sentence would annoy Polish nationals. You freakin' frat kids think 9-11 is the worst atrocity the world has ever seen, but don't know the half of it. Grow up.

Radek Starosta
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe just relax...? Actually, it really does annoy the Poles ;-) (me too)

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AdaChan
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The case of the "Polish death camps" is not annoying. This is not a joke or a funny situation but disgusting false the history and deeply offensive statement. Camps were GERMAN and Polish People die there.

Alexandru Nan Ernest
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ay, at least this post kind of worked, right? "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence".

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Mikko Salonen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too bad you haven't written anything about Finland, it's the easiest though. Tip for next version - how to irritate a finn: - Hi!

Tiny Dynamine
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the most offensive of those would be the Italian one. I know enough Italians who would practically kill someone for making their food with any adaptations! :D

Nick Gisburne
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can imagine that 'what's the point of speaking Welsh' wouldn't go down too well :oP

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Wojciech Podsada
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Polish death camps"?!..wtf?!..its not annoying..its far from annoying..its just wrong..badly. Do you realise what Germans did to whole Europe?..and you comparing it with "American wines are better"?!?!?!..Its not funny..at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Deyan Atanasov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Macedonians will not be very irritated if you call them "South Serbs". Try "You are Bulgarians, right?" We, Bulgarians, are very angry when someone call our alphabet "russian alphabet", because actually russians toke it from us. It's originally a bulgarian alphabet, created on the base of greek alphabet by the scholars of St.St Cyrilus and Methodius.

Marko Raos
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd say for Belgians it would be "Oh, these French Fries are really good." And similarly for greeks - "You make excellent Turkish coffee". My wife saw Greeks go literally purple with rage on that. :)

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Want to insult Greeks/Turks: tell them Cyprus (and baklava) belong to Turkey/Greece

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Marie
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm french, and I don't feel offended because I know french wines are way better ;)

Aurelia Grey
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marie, obviously you have not met an obnoxious American with tunnel (narrow) vision. I can say this as I'm American and find French wines superior, as I do many, many European contributions to culture.

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Eva Tóthová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i agree with czech and slovak one. it drives me nuts to constantly explain that we(slovakia) have geographical centre of europe in our country and czech rep. is even further to the west.

Eva Tóthová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

http://en.infoglobe.cz/tips-for-trips/svk-kremnicke-bane-geographical-center-of-europe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe i admit, many countries claims it ans it all depends on how it is counted(see begining of that wiki article) but my point stays the same.

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Quant
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Polish death camps is spot on, I think there is a penalty of up to 3 years in prison for that nowadays... I'm all for educating that it was the Nazi Germany, but penalties are not going to discourage the offenders - I think the last time it was ZDF that did this... I don't see any ZDF managers going to prison ;)

Nick Gisburne
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of Turkey is in Asia, but part of it is in Europe, so it's a European country AND an Asian country. Or just simply Eurasian.

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Lemur
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, I'm from the Netherlands and the sentence irritates me a LOT

Sally Lake
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. After all, it's not Sinterklaas who's racist, it's Zwarte Piet! ;-)

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Mihaela Mill
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got annoyed at the sentence about Bulgaria and then I read the title :D

Arnoud Lievers
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Belgians just don't give enough of a f*** to be able to be irretated it seems.

Jorge De Armas
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Are you from Spain? Oh nice I love dancing salsa and eat tacos" (Loading shotgun noise)

Gergana Galabova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I admit it, I was ready to grab a history book (and maybe throw it at someone) when I read "russian alphabet"

Sofia Bastos
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a foreign student in Belgium, the sentence that annoys them the most is probably: "Both chips and Jupiler are disgusting"'

Wim Cossement
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just ask them how many governments they have... And mayors in Brussels... S**t like that pisses me off Sofia! :(

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Flora Polvado
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, yeah!! Kinda like when someone from up north acts as if I'm a stupid southerner, and I feed it right back to'em.

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SomeGirl
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For any foreigner who comes in ExYu countries - DO NOT SAY WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THAT MAP (not even in a joke). I repeat: Do NOT SAY THOSE THINGS. You might ended up in bad condition. We still didn't outgrow this enough to take those words without giving you some serious injuries. Even I need to be cautious about what I'm writing here, If I'm not, I'll start another war in comment section. You'll be forced to remove this. Things are bad... rly, rly bad.

Arbait Arbaits
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For UK: You do not you speak danish, why? Were you not for 300 years a danish colony?

ADHORTATOR
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

England is a french colony which turned bad.... "L' angleterre est une colonie francaise qui a mal tourné" Georges Clemenceau

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Brontosonto
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you know any spanish people annoyed by the frase "So you're latino"?

Dimitar
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a bulgarian i feel irritated for the greek and macedonian sentance too :D

Susanna Vesna
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahahaa! Love the Baltics one! Most of them do look like Russians, so it is ironic to see them hate on Russia so much.

Einar Hansen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this comes from a man who comes from a country where Presidential elections have become reality-shows and then you let the clown win. Please accept my one-hand applause!

Rossen Kulov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lol!!!! Still use the russian alphabet?? What an ignorance!! We discovered the alphabet and gave it to them and many more lol.... Its called cyrillic alphabet because the inventoras are Cyril and Methodius( Кирил и Методи ) , two brothers from Bulgaria... Idiots

Ema Vodenicharova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rudian alphabet is not made from kiriland metodi ots from their student but ure write

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Lyubomir Raykov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idiots. The cyrillic alphabeth was made for Bulgarians long before Russia exist. When we had our golden age of culture people in England, Spain and Germany were considering to speak latin only to their horses.

Zdenek Raichart
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as a Czech absolutely agree - are you eastern Europeans? We are in the middle of Europe.

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Oooh lemme check it out. Bet it doesn't work on the Dut... waitaminute... Sinterklaas is NOT racist!!!"

Tsvetomila Kadieva
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha I like how the one for Bulgaria is so painfully true. Saying that is a sure way to get you some fast history lessons.

Summer spitorswallow
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are actually countless ways to p**s Turks off. Like saying Greek yoghurt or naming any member of our cusine Greek. Also you can try your chances by asking how many wives does my father have and if we ride camels to work. I wouldn't recommend though, because we're a vulgar nation and your attempt at having a little annoying banter might end up in emergency room.

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It would have taken less effort to list things that don't insult Turks 😉

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Erza
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm looking forward to volume 2! (that is what the "v. 1" insinuates right? … right?!)

Godspeed
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Canada: "You guys are really Americans right"? Almost slapped her.

Alex Shkurti
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

u can add up to albania"Kosovo is a part of Serbia ,isnt it?" and to Serbia "Kosovo is in Albania,right?"

Aline Bailly
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As I can see nothing can annoy Belgian people ! Sounds good !!!

Sieglinde Van Der Krieken
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Belgium we het pissed when they say french fries, they are obviously from belgium! They are not french

Gulşen Erkmen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The minute I' ve read, my reaction was " BUDAPESTE İS NOT the capital of Romania!!!!", the. Lol😀🤣

Lynne Colson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup..no such place ad "Southern Ireland", it's.the Republic of Ireland. Also "British Isles" is an out-dated term (pre-Irish Free State) still frequently used by Americans.

Vincenzo La Badessa
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why ah...but...I wouldn't joke much in Serbia and Croatia...neither in Romania or Turkey... Oh and Italian...the best wine

Vincenzo La Badessa
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally agree with you but still...I think that joking about the war and the pain that came with it is not just stupid and un respectful

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Ela Pink
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh please. If you wanna p**s a romanian off tell him the beggers in Paris, London etc are romanians. Those are gipsies and we do not think they are part of our people, although they are borned and raised in romania. It drives me crazy. Fellows romanians tell me i am not right :)

Ela Pink
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So HaHa so the reason why gypsies beg and steal wherever they are is because romanians are being mean racist bastards to them...is that what you meant?

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Lucas Veiga
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason why "Still use the Russian alphabet?" is annoying to Bulgarians: First, because Bulgarian adopted the Cyrillic alphabet even before Russian when Russia did not exist, in fact, it was a Bulgarian invention. It was developed at Preslav Literary School in the medieval Bulgarian Empire. Second, because the alphabet is not a "property" of the ones who "created" it, if we think so, the Italians are the only one who should use the Latin/Roman alphabet, since it was created in Rome, it would be like asking an English speaker "Still use the Italian alphabet"?, or asking a Persian "Still use the Arabic alphabet"? Third, because saying this is like saying that Bulgarians are "wrong" because they use a different alphabet than English, and it might sound like: "you have to abandon your language and culture and embrace our culture, because we are right and you wrong", which could sound like something imperialist.

Tamas Gyory
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm hungarian and I agree...1 of my manager joked with this(Hungary/hungry)...The weird that it happened after 9/11 and he was Iraqi...I didnt want to joke with his nationality...The 2nd annoying is the same like Romanians...Budapest/Bukarest...

Tomasz Balcerzak
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sentence about death camps... If you don't understand, just learn how to read, and read about it... IT isn't annoying, it's just a terrible lie suggesting that poles was responsible for killings in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibór, Majdanek and other GERMAN NAZI death camps in occupied Poland. Please, if You don't understand why it's so important for us in Poland just read, or feel free to visit my country and see it on your own eyes. And remember making fun of holocaust is making fun of 6000000 people who was killed only in Auschwitz.

Eva Duspivová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is true for me, a Czech. I am a Central European, remember! Not an Easterner.

Laurentiu
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah...Romania is a very beautiful country...Yes, i love BUCHAREST... NOT Budapest !!!!

Glynis Lailann
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago I was in Turkey and was offered Turkish Coffee. Not having had it before, I asked "Oh, it is like Greek Coffee?" The waiter replied rather brusquely - "It is Turkish Coffee!!". LOL

Florence Hastings
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Notice, there is no way to insult a Dane! We're just THAT easy-going. :-)

Des
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Get the Americans mad with only 5 letters : Trump !

Chantalvddool
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't know Belgium moved to Austria... but hey I learnd something new today

Paulo Donschak
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can tell this is accurate by how many irate comments there are and some aren't funny that's why it said how to p**s off people in each country. Being british, that would work as well as you mean soccer, that would irritate every guy in england, probably in scotland,wales and N ireland too. Just as with argentina when i went - they would say the Malvinas and I would reply you mean the falklands they speak english there, remember you tried once before and why they aren't the Malvinas. It was good you lost because the military dictatorship fell and now you're a democracy. It irritates argentinians much more saying opposing comments.

Kazmeister
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm from Ireland, and Southern Ireland doesn't bother me or anyone else I know!

Kazmeister
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm more offended by people assuming Ireland (southern) is part of the UK.

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giovanna
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

:D I'm Italian and yes, yes "I like pasta with ketchup" pisses me off :)

Pi...
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why, boredpanda... why make a post on annoyance on this stupid day we all wanna celebrate "love".

julien
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kindergarten intellectual level and middle finger IQ !

Master Markus
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, saying you like pretty much ANYTHING with ketchup outside of the typical fast food / cheap barbecue stuff is FOOD SIN! Obviously this is an exaggeration but... just... keep it in consideration.

Ildiko S.
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well put! Just reading "are you hungry" nearly gave me a rage-attack.

Ieva Cekuolyte
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one in Spain gets ofended by being called latino. Latin America or Hispanoamerica and Spain are all part of the latin world, which is based on a language that crosses frontiers.

PandaLover
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are not the sentences that will make Europeans annoyed, but rather make Americans look stupid for not knowing basic stuff.

Eltir Folda
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you wanna annoy a Hungarian, just ask: Is your capital town Bucharest?

Natalia Keserova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so not true and the humor is offensive! You should read some history about the Cyrillic alphabet - it is definitely not Russian

Blazo Vukmanović
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7 years ago

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Bulgarian, really. I would say it is used by Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian, MAcedonian people and was developed by two south slavs who are certainly not Bulgarian

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Jennie Sapherson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm English and that sentence would probably not annoy but rather make someone look confused?

Mhairi Wade
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's because that statement is over Scotland, and it is a question that really annoys us Scots,lol.

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Maria Grudeva
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For Bulgaria - this is completely WRONG! Russians use Bulgarian alphabet, so please inform yourself before you write stupid things :D ....

Plamen Dimov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across eastern Europe and north and central Asia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_alphabet

Laszlo Eisenburg
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For Central and south America. USA is America what do thay call you guys?

Lyubomir Raykov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idiots. Bulgaria is one of the ancient 6 countries that exist till today. Cyrillic was invented long before there was Russia. Moreover durring our golden age of culture people in England, France, Germany and Spain were just considering talking their langulages only to their horses and dogs

Daria B
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It you're a traveller within the target country saying this, your words of annoyment might actually appear as a joke, depends how you carry them on. The true problem is when you meet an individual of an ethnic minority within your own country and then give them these same annoying questions. Don't do that.

Мариан Димитров
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7 years ago

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Panda, someone had slept in class history. Russians write BULGARIAN alphabet.

Cat Meow
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh. "This video is not available in your country", the sentence that used to make me want to throw my laptop out the window. Now that GEMA and YouTube came to an agreement, here's to hoping I'll never have to see this sentence again for the rest of my life.

.gas.
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha! I'd love to see a North America version of this, or even U.S. by state. I can see it being hilar.

Marty Sunderland
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hawaii - Does everyone speak English? Do you all sleep in grass huts? Personal favorite: Do you ever go to America?

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Steve Keeling
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 'author' of this a**e-rag humour James Gould-Bourn needs to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and then see what one sentence would annoy Polish nationals. You freakin' frat kids think 9-11 is the worst atrocity the world has ever seen, but don't know the half of it. Grow up.

Radek Starosta
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe just relax...? Actually, it really does annoy the Poles ;-) (me too)

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AdaChan
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The case of the "Polish death camps" is not annoying. This is not a joke or a funny situation but disgusting false the history and deeply offensive statement. Camps were GERMAN and Polish People die there.

Alexandru Nan Ernest
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ay, at least this post kind of worked, right? "How To Annoy Europeans With Just One Sentence".

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Mikko Salonen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too bad you haven't written anything about Finland, it's the easiest though. Tip for next version - how to irritate a finn: - Hi!

Tiny Dynamine
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think the most offensive of those would be the Italian one. I know enough Italians who would practically kill someone for making their food with any adaptations! :D

Nick Gisburne
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can imagine that 'what's the point of speaking Welsh' wouldn't go down too well :oP

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Wojciech Podsada
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Polish death camps"?!..wtf?!..its not annoying..its far from annoying..its just wrong..badly. Do you realise what Germans did to whole Europe?..and you comparing it with "American wines are better"?!?!?!..Its not funny..at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Deyan Atanasov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think Macedonians will not be very irritated if you call them "South Serbs". Try "You are Bulgarians, right?" We, Bulgarians, are very angry when someone call our alphabet "russian alphabet", because actually russians toke it from us. It's originally a bulgarian alphabet, created on the base of greek alphabet by the scholars of St.St Cyrilus and Methodius.

Marko Raos
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd say for Belgians it would be "Oh, these French Fries are really good." And similarly for greeks - "You make excellent Turkish coffee". My wife saw Greeks go literally purple with rage on that. :)

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Want to insult Greeks/Turks: tell them Cyprus (and baklava) belong to Turkey/Greece

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Marie
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm french, and I don't feel offended because I know french wines are way better ;)

Aurelia Grey
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Marie, obviously you have not met an obnoxious American with tunnel (narrow) vision. I can say this as I'm American and find French wines superior, as I do many, many European contributions to culture.

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Eva Tóthová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i agree with czech and slovak one. it drives me nuts to constantly explain that we(slovakia) have geographical centre of europe in our country and czech rep. is even further to the west.

Eva Tóthová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

http://en.infoglobe.cz/tips-for-trips/svk-kremnicke-bane-geographical-center-of-europe/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe i admit, many countries claims it ans it all depends on how it is counted(see begining of that wiki article) but my point stays the same.

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Quant
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Polish death camps is spot on, I think there is a penalty of up to 3 years in prison for that nowadays... I'm all for educating that it was the Nazi Germany, but penalties are not going to discourage the offenders - I think the last time it was ZDF that did this... I don't see any ZDF managers going to prison ;)

Nick Gisburne
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of Turkey is in Asia, but part of it is in Europe, so it's a European country AND an Asian country. Or just simply Eurasian.

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Lemur
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, I'm from the Netherlands and the sentence irritates me a LOT

Sally Lake
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. After all, it's not Sinterklaas who's racist, it's Zwarte Piet! ;-)

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Mihaela Mill
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got annoyed at the sentence about Bulgaria and then I read the title :D

Arnoud Lievers
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Belgians just don't give enough of a f*** to be able to be irretated it seems.

Jorge De Armas
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Are you from Spain? Oh nice I love dancing salsa and eat tacos" (Loading shotgun noise)

Gergana Galabova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I admit it, I was ready to grab a history book (and maybe throw it at someone) when I read "russian alphabet"

Sofia Bastos
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a foreign student in Belgium, the sentence that annoys them the most is probably: "Both chips and Jupiler are disgusting"'

Wim Cossement
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just ask them how many governments they have... And mayors in Brussels... S**t like that pisses me off Sofia! :(

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Flora Polvado
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, yeah!! Kinda like when someone from up north acts as if I'm a stupid southerner, and I feed it right back to'em.

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SomeGirl
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For any foreigner who comes in ExYu countries - DO NOT SAY WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THAT MAP (not even in a joke). I repeat: Do NOT SAY THOSE THINGS. You might ended up in bad condition. We still didn't outgrow this enough to take those words without giving you some serious injuries. Even I need to be cautious about what I'm writing here, If I'm not, I'll start another war in comment section. You'll be forced to remove this. Things are bad... rly, rly bad.

Arbait Arbaits
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For UK: You do not you speak danish, why? Were you not for 300 years a danish colony?

ADHORTATOR
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

England is a french colony which turned bad.... "L' angleterre est une colonie francaise qui a mal tourné" Georges Clemenceau

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Brontosonto
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you know any spanish people annoyed by the frase "So you're latino"?

Dimitar
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a bulgarian i feel irritated for the greek and macedonian sentance too :D

Susanna Vesna
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahahaa! Love the Baltics one! Most of them do look like Russians, so it is ironic to see them hate on Russia so much.

Einar Hansen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this comes from a man who comes from a country where Presidential elections have become reality-shows and then you let the clown win. Please accept my one-hand applause!

Rossen Kulov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lol!!!! Still use the russian alphabet?? What an ignorance!! We discovered the alphabet and gave it to them and many more lol.... Its called cyrillic alphabet because the inventoras are Cyril and Methodius( Кирил и Методи ) , two brothers from Bulgaria... Idiots

Ema Vodenicharova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The rudian alphabet is not made from kiriland metodi ots from their student but ure write

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Lyubomir Raykov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idiots. The cyrillic alphabeth was made for Bulgarians long before Russia exist. When we had our golden age of culture people in England, Spain and Germany were considering to speak latin only to their horses.

Zdenek Raichart
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

as a Czech absolutely agree - are you eastern Europeans? We are in the middle of Europe.

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Oooh lemme check it out. Bet it doesn't work on the Dut... waitaminute... Sinterklaas is NOT racist!!!"

Tsvetomila Kadieva
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha I like how the one for Bulgaria is so painfully true. Saying that is a sure way to get you some fast history lessons.

Summer spitorswallow
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are actually countless ways to p**s Turks off. Like saying Greek yoghurt or naming any member of our cusine Greek. Also you can try your chances by asking how many wives does my father have and if we ride camels to work. I wouldn't recommend though, because we're a vulgar nation and your attempt at having a little annoying banter might end up in emergency room.

LizzyM
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It would have taken less effort to list things that don't insult Turks 😉

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Erza
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm looking forward to volume 2! (that is what the "v. 1" insinuates right? … right?!)

Godspeed
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Canada: "You guys are really Americans right"? Almost slapped her.

Alex Shkurti
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

u can add up to albania"Kosovo is a part of Serbia ,isnt it?" and to Serbia "Kosovo is in Albania,right?"

Aline Bailly
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As I can see nothing can annoy Belgian people ! Sounds good !!!

Sieglinde Van Der Krieken
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Belgium we het pissed when they say french fries, they are obviously from belgium! They are not french

Gulşen Erkmen
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The minute I' ve read, my reaction was " BUDAPESTE İS NOT the capital of Romania!!!!", the. Lol😀🤣

Lynne Colson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup..no such place ad "Southern Ireland", it's.the Republic of Ireland. Also "British Isles" is an out-dated term (pre-Irish Free State) still frequently used by Americans.

Vincenzo La Badessa
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why ah...but...I wouldn't joke much in Serbia and Croatia...neither in Romania or Turkey... Oh and Italian...the best wine

Vincenzo La Badessa
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally agree with you but still...I think that joking about the war and the pain that came with it is not just stupid and un respectful

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Ela Pink
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh please. If you wanna p**s a romanian off tell him the beggers in Paris, London etc are romanians. Those are gipsies and we do not think they are part of our people, although they are borned and raised in romania. It drives me crazy. Fellows romanians tell me i am not right :)

Ela Pink
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So HaHa so the reason why gypsies beg and steal wherever they are is because romanians are being mean racist bastards to them...is that what you meant?

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Lucas Veiga
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason why "Still use the Russian alphabet?" is annoying to Bulgarians: First, because Bulgarian adopted the Cyrillic alphabet even before Russian when Russia did not exist, in fact, it was a Bulgarian invention. It was developed at Preslav Literary School in the medieval Bulgarian Empire. Second, because the alphabet is not a "property" of the ones who "created" it, if we think so, the Italians are the only one who should use the Latin/Roman alphabet, since it was created in Rome, it would be like asking an English speaker "Still use the Italian alphabet"?, or asking a Persian "Still use the Arabic alphabet"? Third, because saying this is like saying that Bulgarians are "wrong" because they use a different alphabet than English, and it might sound like: "you have to abandon your language and culture and embrace our culture, because we are right and you wrong", which could sound like something imperialist.

Tamas Gyory
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm hungarian and I agree...1 of my manager joked with this(Hungary/hungry)...The weird that it happened after 9/11 and he was Iraqi...I didnt want to joke with his nationality...The 2nd annoying is the same like Romanians...Budapest/Bukarest...

Tomasz Balcerzak
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The sentence about death camps... If you don't understand, just learn how to read, and read about it... IT isn't annoying, it's just a terrible lie suggesting that poles was responsible for killings in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibór, Majdanek and other GERMAN NAZI death camps in occupied Poland. Please, if You don't understand why it's so important for us in Poland just read, or feel free to visit my country and see it on your own eyes. And remember making fun of holocaust is making fun of 6000000 people who was killed only in Auschwitz.

Eva Duspivová
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is true for me, a Czech. I am a Central European, remember! Not an Easterner.

Laurentiu
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah...Romania is a very beautiful country...Yes, i love BUCHAREST... NOT Budapest !!!!

Glynis Lailann
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago I was in Turkey and was offered Turkish Coffee. Not having had it before, I asked "Oh, it is like Greek Coffee?" The waiter replied rather brusquely - "It is Turkish Coffee!!". LOL

Florence Hastings
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Notice, there is no way to insult a Dane! We're just THAT easy-going. :-)

Des
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Get the Americans mad with only 5 letters : Trump !

Chantalvddool
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't know Belgium moved to Austria... but hey I learnd something new today

Paulo Donschak
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can tell this is accurate by how many irate comments there are and some aren't funny that's why it said how to p**s off people in each country. Being british, that would work as well as you mean soccer, that would irritate every guy in england, probably in scotland,wales and N ireland too. Just as with argentina when i went - they would say the Malvinas and I would reply you mean the falklands they speak english there, remember you tried once before and why they aren't the Malvinas. It was good you lost because the military dictatorship fell and now you're a democracy. It irritates argentinians much more saying opposing comments.

Kazmeister
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm from Ireland, and Southern Ireland doesn't bother me or anyone else I know!

Kazmeister
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm more offended by people assuming Ireland (southern) is part of the UK.

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giovanna
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

:D I'm Italian and yes, yes "I like pasta with ketchup" pisses me off :)

Pi...
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why, boredpanda... why make a post on annoyance on this stupid day we all wanna celebrate "love".

julien
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kindergarten intellectual level and middle finger IQ !

Master Markus
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, saying you like pretty much ANYTHING with ketchup outside of the typical fast food / cheap barbecue stuff is FOOD SIN! Obviously this is an exaggeration but... just... keep it in consideration.

Ildiko S.
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well put! Just reading "are you hungry" nearly gave me a rage-attack.

Ieva Cekuolyte
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one in Spain gets ofended by being called latino. Latin America or Hispanoamerica and Spain are all part of the latin world, which is based on a language that crosses frontiers.

PandaLover
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are not the sentences that will make Europeans annoyed, but rather make Americans look stupid for not knowing basic stuff.

Eltir Folda
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you wanna annoy a Hungarian, just ask: Is your capital town Bucharest?

Natalia Keserova
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so not true and the humor is offensive! You should read some history about the Cyrillic alphabet - it is definitely not Russian

Blazo Vukmanović
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7 years ago

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Bulgarian, really. I would say it is used by Serbian, Russian, Bulgarian, MAcedonian people and was developed by two south slavs who are certainly not Bulgarian

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Jennie Sapherson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm English and that sentence would probably not annoy but rather make someone look confused?

Mhairi Wade
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's because that statement is over Scotland, and it is a question that really annoys us Scots,lol.

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Maria Grudeva
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For Bulgaria - this is completely WRONG! Russians use Bulgarian alphabet, so please inform yourself before you write stupid things :D ....

Plamen Dimov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across eastern Europe and north and central Asia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_alphabet

Laszlo Eisenburg
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For Central and south America. USA is America what do thay call you guys?

Lyubomir Raykov
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idiots. Bulgaria is one of the ancient 6 countries that exist till today. Cyrillic was invented long before there was Russia. Moreover durring our golden age of culture people in England, France, Germany and Spain were just considering talking their langulages only to their horses and dogs

Daria B
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It you're a traveller within the target country saying this, your words of annoyment might actually appear as a joke, depends how you carry them on. The true problem is when you meet an individual of an ethnic minority within your own country and then give them these same annoying questions. Don't do that.

Мариан Димитров
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7 years ago

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Panda, someone had slept in class history. Russians write BULGARIAN alphabet.

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