Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

It was offensive slang used by Allied soldiers to describe German Soldiers. Compare with slang for other people from other nations and consider if they'd be interchangeable terms here.

can't for the life of me know why this is funny, , but it's the simple juxtaposition the world needs more of

At last, someone who is prepared to speak up for the Wehrmacht.

wait, so we aren’t able to be offensive about nazi’s now? joke

we aren’t able to be offensive about nazi’s now?

You can be as offensive as you like to Nazis, but don't let's be beastly to the Germans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsT1uoVi_qE

Of course we can, it's hitlerious

so good

Oh God, every time! Walk into a room and stand and stare into the abyss...

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdMLSeCW/

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It was offensive slang

It was slang. Most people think it was just a shortened form of "German", which would have made it about as offensive as "Brit" or "Tommy". Even if the alternative theory that it was a joke on German army helmets looking like chamber pots (for which Jerry was once a slang term) were true, it'd reallty have been just a bit puerile (and if it was true, it was true in WW1 and by WWII most people just throught it was just short for German). The combatants in the world wars all had much more offensive terms for each other.

Calling Germans "Jerry" now is dodgy because it's usually "Daily Mail reader still fighting World War Two" xenophobia, and if you think that was the spirit in which @kimmo evoked the image, your objection should be to the whole paragraph, because taking "Jerry" out doesn't change it.

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Scrubs.
ER.
House.

Very good.

I went past the restaurant on the bus last week at about 1pm, every table was full.

I'll be sure not to post it in the "Sort of memes that are exhaustively complete descriptions of the world" thread.

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"Who's the CEO of Ticketmaster?"

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Is that legit the jacket? 4200 going as the same fancy dress for the Christmas party.

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Fair enough I read it and in my head it aligned with other terms for other nationalities that are deemed inappropriate now.

Apologies to @Kimmo. I certainly wasn't intending to defend the actions of Nazi's.

I put it in the News thread. Life imitating art. https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17605406/

Plus there was a lookalike contest the other day https://x.com/taliaotg/status/1865462468954161214

Henceforth he must be referred to as "The Adjuster"

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