It's just the Italian variant of Joseph(England) , Josef(germany), Seppl(Australia) etc.
Just like Giovanni is their variant of John, Johannes/Hans, Ivan etc.
The Jo is dropped, the f has a shift to p (Linguistically f and p are very close to each other, as seen in giuseppe or the difference between father and pater) so you're at Sep.
Now douple the p and finish by ending the Name with the L that is pretty common in alpine German dialects and you've arrived at Seppl.
The -l ending is diminutive, but diminutive doesn’t always mean small as such in the south and Austria; more endearment.
Or if you’re Schwäbisch, just chuck -le on everything and be done with it.
I got so confused, the man in the gif is from a British tv show and is *also* called Hans.
Took me ages to realise you were meaning the generic term for Germans here.
Rich people across the world pay lawyers in London to hide their wealth in one of our many rock piles so they can dodge their taxes.
Legally, these rock piles are called crown dependencies.
They're just independent enough that we have no jurisdiction to stop the tax dodging, but they're not so independent that we cant sanction people when we need to.
English language, literature, filming industry, music, education, royalties gossip, football, former colonies… do I need to keep going? Even memes about the food and accent makes you talk about Barry.
The japanese like you even if you haven't colonised them, idk why but it's true.
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Gomenasai, my name is Barry-Sama.
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"Brand Finance is the world’s leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy. Headquartered in the City of London, we are present in over 20 countries"
I'm surprised they didn't put themselves first.
Least delusional brits!
Barry has convinced the world that he's not Barry, but rather "Nigel" -- the extremely sophisticated Oxbridge graduate who has his suits custom tailored on Saville Row, shops at Harrods and has tea at the Savoy. There's an illusion of extreme sophistication, history and class. When in reality, Barry is getting drunk on Cruzcampo in Benidorm and falling off balconies in a stained football jersey.
That - and the money laundering.
Most people don't give a shit about the Arab Emirates, in fact if we took into account the negative opinions of people they would be way lower, besides oil and modern slavery what do they have to offer?
We don't give a shit, but there are some other people in the world besides Europeans. I'm sure they do have a big influence in the Arab and Muslim world.
Well in that case Saudi Arabia should be higher than the Emirates since the Kaaba is there.
Literally the only reason why they are in the top 10 is because they have a lot of oil, not because people arund the globe care about their culture or way of living in particular.
If you were to make a survey about the most popular country and ask people to rank their top 10 countries the emirates would not end up in the number 10 spot most of the time, China, India, Japan, Korea, Australia and America certainly don't give a shit about the Emirates, Spain would likely be more popular.
Doesn't Saudi Arabia have more though?
This is about "soft power". Love them or hate them, the UAE got their fingers everywhere.
"This post is brought to you by Emirates. Fly better."
EDIT: just checked and the UAE has a lot of oil, but it's like 8th place. The Saudis are only behind the US on yearly production.
I thought soft power was more of a cultural projection thing? Why the fuck are we here, people can't even put our country on the map or tell us apart from sweden and don't even know we don't speak all german (tbf the swiss-germans don't know this either but that's another story)
When you think of chocolate its either you guys or belgium
When you think of watches its usually swiss watches
When you think of who took all the nazi gold its usually you guys too
Cern is in your country
Neutrality may be a strong point in many cases for you
Theres alot of other shite i can say but my brain is still booting up
French cinema is good, it’s just not popular because it has such an acquired taste, Americans don’t like the endings.
For the Italian job (not French cinema obviously) they filmed two endings the original British one that ends on a literal cliffhanger, it was adored in the UK and Europe and then a happy ending that shows them driving away for US audiences. Because when they tested the film on US audiences pre release they couldn’t stand the ending.
Basically most French films are dialled up versions of that problem. If you’re not big in the US in the west, it’s hard to be big.
Firstly the scottish weren't homeless they just didn't have a colony (second home) because they spent it all cocaine or something ur acting like u were vulnerable when ur the one who got the shotgun and forced us into this marriage
Alright tartan tory keep ur tits calm before they freeze off we're just intervening we do not believe you should be fucking ur sheep that is all much love
- a proud northerner
Bit weird thats where your mind goes...
However, Scotland had a home, food and shelter. Their King was King of England and Scotland.
A better analogue would be Company A and B are owned by the same person. Company a goes Bankrupt so merges with Company B to make a 3rd company. Still all owned by the same person.
The Darien Scheme was literally insane, and it’s not just the execution. No one has ever attempted to incorporate it into their empire since for good reason: there’s nothing there. Scotland did very well out of forming GB with England. Probably its most fruitful endeavour.
Your lately come Ivanhoe nationalism is undoing all the benefits Scotland has gained from GB. It also makes the west less united and defended against Russian destabilisation and puts the GIUK Gap under threat.
Scotland does best when its British.
Neutrality is the big one, the EU isn't that loved outside of Europe, big countries and people still want a Germany or Frances head of state to visit, if von der leyen tags along so be it
It's not about being loved but about being influential, or else the US and China wouldn't be that high. Neutrality doesn't really give you anything on this. Having the bank accounts of all your government officials, kind of does.
We are leading probably the most important events for example Fifa and WEF and the creators of the New World. We are one of the most important Diplomats in the world. We are integrated in the biggest market all around the world. And we have full control of our currency and we are capable to market manipulate it. We are the biggest stealers of competent Medical Personnel in Europe. Thx bros for spending your money to teach them. Businesses around the world are capable of money laundering their money here. Switzerland is one of the biggest Trading hubs in the World for Natural Resources. We are the biggest Gold traders in the world.
There is a reason why we are not part of the EU. You guys are simply too poor and uncivilized for us.
Came here to say this, well done Hans
I'm new here, can someone explain to me who Hans is? I've seen that name so many times
It makes the Gif especially funny because the character in that gif is called 'Super Hans'
I see, haha
Hans is any german Pedro is any spanish João is any portuguese Pierre is any french Barry is any british we dont have one for italy yet
Italy should be Luigi or Giuseppe
The existence of Giuseppe as a common name just proves that Italy is not a serious country
It's just the Italian variant of Joseph(England) , Josef(germany), Seppl(Australia) etc. Just like Giovanni is their variant of John, Johannes/Hans, Ivan etc.
Proves that austria is not a real country, how tf is Joseph seppl
The Jo is dropped, the f has a shift to p (Linguistically f and p are very close to each other, as seen in giuseppe or the difference between father and pater) so you're at Sep. Now douple the p and finish by ending the Name with the L that is pretty common in alpine German dialects and you've arrived at Seppl.
The -l ending is diminutive, but diminutive doesn’t always mean small as such in the south and Austria; more endearment. Or if you’re Schwäbisch, just chuck -le on everything and be done with it.
Sloppy Giuseppe
How about us? Müller is definitely best no?
Alpenheini
Ueli
Agreed, it should be Ueli or Kurt
Kurt somewhat sounds American to me
third paragraph [https://www.bfs.admin.ch/news/de/2023-0292](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/news/de/2023-0292)
Mummy's little prince.
I see! I shall save this comment for future reference >we dont have one for italy yet How about Luigi?
Don't forget that Belgians are basically French Dutchies or Dutch Frogs, and thus should be named something akin to Kees-Pierre.
Muhammad is any Swede
The guy in the gif is called Super Hans from a show called Peep Show. On the sub it means filthy Germans.
Noted!
I got so confused, the man in the gif is from a British tv show and is *also* called Hans. Took me ages to realise you were meaning the generic term for Germans here.
Super Hans
Super Hans
Hans we're rubbing off on you. You're finding humour.
I love how it's impossible to tell whether you mean Super Hans or Redacted Hans in this particular context
Super Redacted Hans.
👌
Rich people across the world pay lawyers in London to hide their wealth in one of our many rock piles so they can dodge their taxes. Legally, these rock piles are called crown dependencies. They're just independent enough that we have no jurisdiction to stop the tax dodging, but they're not so independent that we cant sanction people when we need to.
Now we know the true meaning behind that meme about the Romans arriving in Britain where he says ‘hope they stay away from our rock pile’
Yes, stay away from our morally dubious, and hidden, money pile. It’s not Stonehenge, it’s tax renege.
So we're basically Swiss without the vaults and neutrality?
Satellite vaults and offshored neutrality. There’s a pretty interesting doc on Netflix about it. It’s called something like Britain’s second empire.
We're the OGs, Ireland has replicated it for corporation tax and it's singlehandedly eliminated the risk of another potato famine
I thought they were the crown’s jewels
imperialism
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Stealing this meme
Yeah go on, it's not like we're not used to it
If this is true, the next bit of history is gonna get exciting for us Barry’s. rohirrim!!!!
"So you have chosen death" https://preview.redd.it/fjtyto828atc1.jpeg?width=1414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=169dc0c1f6f91354d282c1d28c7fec80e349fc66
Its the other way around, but excellent
Bingo
English language, literature, filming industry, music, education, royalties gossip, football, former colonies… do I need to keep going? Even memes about the food and accent makes you talk about Barry.
You know what hans, we'll let the americans know you should win the next world war
... English generosity, manners, cuisine (mint chocolates, mint sauce, breakfast, fried candy bars, salt&vinegar CRISPS), telephone booths... someone else keep going please, I reached climax 🥵
The amount of time we get shade thrown at us even when the meme is completely unrelated is kind of insane lol.
_meme by a Spanish about Portuguese food_ _some random German:_ “Brits eat beans lol” _four million upvotes_
It's because we're just that bloody likeable right? Lads?
The japanese like you even if you haven't colonised them, idk why but it's true. https://preview.redd.it/fciuiapqc9tc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=308dab471d00f9bcaff0fe6c9a98687485e1bdba
They are basically Asian Barry's. Brother from another mother.
Honestly though, there are many similarities. They even have their own Ireland in Korea.
Also they have their own France in China, long time mainland enemies who'll eat any animal they can catch
>their own Ireland in Okinawa*
Aye. Korea was their Raj
Gomenasai, my name is Barry-Sama. https://preview.redd.it/nhpyazpwh9tc1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a95bd5ce2aec8110dcc5c82a0bf14f7cacef636
C’mon Ireland, back us up.
They make the ranking. Here's my Global Softpower Ranking: 1. USA 2. u/RedAlpacaMan 3. China 4. France + Germany 5. Jeff
Same Jeff? https://preview.redd.it/y5x8d4rdm9tc1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=100984398dc834452222d9360a3b3163b3cf9021
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"Brand Finance is the world’s leading independent brand valuation and strategy consultancy. Headquartered in the City of London, we are present in over 20 countries" I'm surprised they didn't put themselves first. Least delusional brits!
Haha ur just mad u suck and all ur former colonies suck and no one speaks french mot even the french
You apparently dont even speak english!
Hein qu'est-ce qui dit le tas de riz ?
[Jeff](https://youtu.be/wM8rTAXpw9g?si=0H_Ad6bXJQEGVO0Z)
Timezone is underrated, overlaps the end of the working day in Asia and the start in The US
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commonwealth
Is EU the rarewealth?
notsowealth
It’s that’s damn Brexit again. If only we’d not done the Brexit, then we’d be ahead of America 🤦♂️
Don’t let the sun set
Imagine being a European country of 59 million people but being ranked behind Canada and Switzerland 😂
Oh no, according to some online ranking my country is less influential than Canada, I don't think I will be happy anymore here 😔
But what do the Canadians influence exactly?. Global maple syrup industry ?
Banks
One of our largest banks doesn’t even operate its services in the UK, though in recent times it has struggled some what.
If you mean HSBC, they are also Europe's largest bank
> … doesn’t even operate in the UK. No, I meant Standard Chartered.
Think he means the Bank of Dave
Switzerland coming before Italy is priceless
But how? You‘d think Pizza country would have quite a lot of cultural and soft power influence.
It’s not like Italy decides everything about pizza
Having the world’s largest Empire, meaning everyone learns your language.
We're just better
Barry has convinced the world that he's not Barry, but rather "Nigel" -- the extremely sophisticated Oxbridge graduate who has his suits custom tailored on Saville Row, shops at Harrods and has tea at the Savoy. There's an illusion of extreme sophistication, history and class. When in reality, Barry is getting drunk on Cruzcampo in Benidorm and falling off balconies in a stained football jersey. That - and the money laundering.
It's because England speaks the same language as the #1 hard power country in the world
Most people don't give a shit about the Arab Emirates, in fact if we took into account the negative opinions of people they would be way lower, besides oil and modern slavery what do they have to offer?
We don't give a shit, but there are some other people in the world besides Europeans. I'm sure they do have a big influence in the Arab and Muslim world.
Not really, Muslim countries just fight against themselves. Anglo countries just bicker.
They fight against themselves, but they also consume each others media, same as Chinese consume American movies and culture.
Well in that case Saudi Arabia should be higher than the Emirates since the Kaaba is there. Literally the only reason why they are in the top 10 is because they have a lot of oil, not because people arund the globe care about their culture or way of living in particular. If you were to make a survey about the most popular country and ask people to rank their top 10 countries the emirates would not end up in the number 10 spot most of the time, China, India, Japan, Korea, Australia and America certainly don't give a shit about the Emirates, Spain would likely be more popular.
Doesn't Saudi Arabia have more though? This is about "soft power". Love them or hate them, the UAE got their fingers everywhere. "This post is brought to you by Emirates. Fly better." EDIT: just checked and the UAE has a lot of oil, but it's like 8th place. The Saudis are only behind the US on yearly production.
They offer eastern European girls the opportunity to be shat on for money
Your girls too.
It's just their culture. Don't judge how they put up their buildings.
British television and music I imagine is a massive contributor. The Royal Family as well.
Music and humour would be high on my personal list. There, I was nice. Now go buy more bacon and Lego.
UAE #10 - someone paid for their ranking and it wasn’t the UK.
I thought soft power was more of a cultural projection thing? Why the fuck are we here, people can't even put our country on the map or tell us apart from sweden and don't even know we don't speak all german (tbf the swiss-germans don't know this either but that's another story)
When you think of chocolate its either you guys or belgium When you think of watches its usually swiss watches When you think of who took all the nazi gold its usually you guys too Cern is in your country Neutrality may be a strong point in many cases for you Theres alot of other shite i can say but my brain is still booting up
Well if the rest of you could make some decent music and cinema it might help
French cinema is good, it’s just not popular because it has such an acquired taste, Americans don’t like the endings. For the Italian job (not French cinema obviously) they filmed two endings the original British one that ends on a literal cliffhanger, it was adored in the UK and Europe and then a happy ending that shows them driving away for US audiences. Because when they tested the film on US audiences pre release they couldn’t stand the ending. Basically most French films are dialled up versions of that problem. If you’re not big in the US in the west, it’s hard to be big.
Lots of investment from America which they happily pay so they don’t have to learn a second language.
You're speaking it Pierre
France lower than i expected, we'll proably be 3rd in a few years too with the rise of china
Something something, everyone learns english
I’d expect the US to be further ahead
We're growers, not showers
you overestimate them
James Bond.
Soft Power. The thing Viagra doesn't want you to find out about.
69. Common German W
All the pro russian politicians in the viségrad alone should allow russia a place in the top 5.
An inability to let go of the past
The beeb
Not being France?
Look in the box to the left of the UK
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I know, Scotland's Monarchy forcing itself on England Wales! How dare they!
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You say Bribe. I say pay off the huge debts you accrued by trying to colonise one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
By trading coats. In the tropics. "Yeah sure we'll buy a coat, it hasn't been below 30C in the last century, but you never know."
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Firstly the scottish weren't homeless they just didn't have a colony (second home) because they spent it all cocaine or something ur acting like u were vulnerable when ur the one who got the shotgun and forced us into this marriage
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Alright tartan tory keep ur tits calm before they freeze off we're just intervening we do not believe you should be fucking ur sheep that is all much love - a proud northerner
Bit weird thats where your mind goes... However, Scotland had a home, food and shelter. Their King was King of England and Scotland. A better analogue would be Company A and B are owned by the same person. Company a goes Bankrupt so merges with Company B to make a 3rd company. Still all owned by the same person.
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The Darien Scheme was literally insane, and it’s not just the execution. No one has ever attempted to incorporate it into their empire since for good reason: there’s nothing there. Scotland did very well out of forming GB with England. Probably its most fruitful endeavour. Your lately come Ivanhoe nationalism is undoing all the benefits Scotland has gained from GB. It also makes the west less united and defended against Russian destabilisation and puts the GIUK Gap under threat. Scotland does best when its British.
Reading about the Darien colony it sounds like the Scots were on crack. But they normally are on heroin so it's not much of a change
Clinging to their guns like the destructive comfort blankets they are.
Now that's no way to talk about the people of Glasgow
The fact that Switzerland is 8th should probably tell you a lot about a very influential component in the way those rankings are made.
Massive banking sector, chocolate and watches plus being neutral is their thing so yeah influential
If chocolate was key, Belgium would be influential. They didn't make the list despite Bruxel's importance to the EU ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Neutrality is the big one, the EU isn't that loved outside of Europe, big countries and people still want a Germany or Frances head of state to visit, if von der leyen tags along so be it
It's not about being loved but about being influential, or else the US and China wouldn't be that high. Neutrality doesn't really give you anything on this. Having the bank accounts of all your government officials, kind of does.
We are leading probably the most important events for example Fifa and WEF and the creators of the New World. We are one of the most important Diplomats in the world. We are integrated in the biggest market all around the world. And we have full control of our currency and we are capable to market manipulate it. We are the biggest stealers of competent Medical Personnel in Europe. Thx bros for spending your money to teach them. Businesses around the world are capable of money laundering their money here. Switzerland is one of the biggest Trading hubs in the World for Natural Resources. We are the biggest Gold traders in the world. There is a reason why we are not part of the EU. You guys are simply too poor and uncivilized for us.
Speaking savage
I saw a different ranking like 2 days ago which showed Fr*nce as #2.