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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone -2 points 6 days ago

Eastern Europe is just the bits occupied by the Soviet union post ww2

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Slavic? : ✅
Behind the iron curtain? : ✅

Close enough

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago

The east-west divide by the iron curtain is also more recent being the capital of the not-holy not-roman not-an-empire so

[–] artifex@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Geez, it's like you go and get absorbed into one ostensibly socialist authoritarian eurasian empire and it's all anyone can remember.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do they say about fucking goats again?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Be careful about which end you approach from"? 😛

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR

[–] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Neither was Poland, but both were very much in the "2nd sphere", effectively under the control of the USSR. My family had close friends in Czechoslovakia who flat-out were not allowed to travel to the US to visit their family at the time, for example.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah it was very much under USSR control don't get me wrong

[–] j_overgrens@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

It was part of the empire though.

[–] PaulBunyan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It bothers me that William Fontaine de La Tour Dauterive, bilingual in English and Louisiana French, isn’t France

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boomhauer speaks French too, if memory serves

[–] PaulBunyan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s the Louisiana French I mentioned

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Boomhauer speaks Canadian French, I believe; Bill Dauterive speaks Cajun French.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This scene sets up Cotton's best line. I guess this version would be:

"Hey, Cotton, this is _____, he's from Eastern Europe."

"No he ain't! He's, from Prague, aintcha Mr. ______!"

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Cotton's a horrible racist, but at least he knows what ethnicity the people he hates are.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

As a German speaker, A-plus on the dale gribble characterization

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why isn't Dale Russia? He's clearly fluent in it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You, too, can be fluent in Russian if you eat enough of Putin's personal library.

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something like this happened to me when I went to Spain, I'm from Mexico and I kept trying to explain to spaniards how we're in north america and not south america.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess the US is South America to Canada. Except for Alaska.

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or to people in Detroit, Canada is South America.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

More East America.