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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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 20 hours ago

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

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 points 21 hours 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 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jpablo68@infosec.pub 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Or to people in Detroit, Canada is South America.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

More East America.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Slavic? : ✅
Behind the iron curtain? : ✅

Close enough

[–] huppakee@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day 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 day 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.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Czechoslovakia was never part of the USSR

[–] artifex@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours 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 20 hours ago

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

[–] j_overgrens@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

It was part of the empire though.

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

What do they say about fucking goats again?

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

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

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

Boomhauer speaks French too, if memory serves

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

It’s the Louisiana French I mentioned

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

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

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone -2 points 20 hours ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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