• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
    7·
    8 months ago

    420 is definitely not a funny number in the Netherlands. Except maybe with the permanently online or stoner crowd. I’ve never heard or seen a joke with 420 in the Netherlands. Most people wouldn’t even get what it means and more people would recognize 69 as a funny number than 420.

  • raoul@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    8 months ago

    An explanation for the French one:

    It’s the id of a law that allow the president to bypass one of the chamber. This is of course one of those “it’s just in case of emergency, bro. I swear we will not use it to force the passage of unpopular laws, bro…”

    It has been used 420 times by the current government.

  • airbussy@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Wondering why Poland and Turkey aren’t in the “Other” category when as far as I can see they’re the only ones with that number

  • Blaze@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    On a separate topic, I am thinking about creating a more laid-back, relaxed community for Europeans, without news (as they seem to be the central focus of this community). I’m still investigating which server would be the best to host it, lemm.ee seems to be a good candidate.

    • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I really liked YUROP on the spezSite, they had good silly memes about Europe and were eager to post pro-Europe stuff.

      I joined a similarly named community when I switched to Lemmy, but it died off pretty quickly !yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz

      Maybe we could revive it, speak with their mod, or create a new one that’s active?

  • ggwithgg@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    I feel dump, I think I only get the 420 here. Does 300 refer to sparta?

    • tetris3d@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      No, it doesn’t refer to Spartans. It is a rhyme that doesn’t translate well into English and is on the same level as ligma or joe mama jokes.

      Whenever someone ends their sentence with 300 a quick-witted individual may reply with “suck a tractor drivers cock!”. 300 and “tractor driver” rhyme in this case in Russian, bringing the desired comedic effect. As you can imagine teenagers love it and even try baiting their friends into saying 300.

      You can find many words that rhyme with any word for a dick in English and make this joke free of charge. I will start:

      — “Have you seen my sock?”

      • crispy_kilt@feddit.deEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        But триста and тракторист don’t really rhyme. They sound a bit similiar at best. Could you explain?

        • tetris3d@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Sure. There’s a thing in a lot of languages called grammatical cases. In basic terms cases make a word “adhere” to the rest of the sentence. Different languages have different amounts of cases. For example, German has four, Ukrainian – seven and Russian – six cases for nouns.

          In this case the word тракторист would change to тракториста and it rhymes with триста.

          The whole joke looks like this:

          — Триста.

          — Отсоси у тракториста!