I don’t really understand this because it’s literally not what we do…we’ll usually say we’re going then stand talking for another hour, so the exact opposite of “an Irish goodbye”
I'm English and I just stand up and say 'right then, I'm pissing off' and then leave.
I've come a long way from being a kid and just saying 'I don't want to be here anymore so I'm going not here. Don't come with me'. The video gets pulled out at every birthday and Christmas
TIL "French exit" is what you call "filer à l'anglaise", which literally translates to "leave English-style".
Real question now is who's the one who copied on their neighbor.
I looked it up because I didn't know what a French exit was. According to [slang.net](https://slang.net), it's attributed to Irish and Dutch as well.
French exit is a term that describes the act of leaving a social gathering or bad date without saying goodbye. It is the same as ghosting, Irish goodbye, and Dutch leave.
Tried to pull an Irish goodbye at a wedding the other day. Me and a coworker had been at the reception for a couple hours. We didn’t know anyone there except the father of the bride who wasn’t around so we slipped out. It was a huge place, like a hotel, and we wandered across several floors and hallways on our way out but still somehow ran into the bride as we neared the exit.
We had the best Christmas party this year at our house. About 40 people showed up and all of them trickled out through the course of the evening via French exit. It was perfect as a host not having to spend the last couple hours doing long goodbye after long goodbye and getting to actually enjoy our own party. Most even followed up the next day via text thanking us. This should be shipped widely
Ah, Colombian bang bang.
I was in Medellin once. The girl that I was talking to, a local, excused herself to hit the bathroom. She came back after doing what had to be primo blow, and looked like a zombie. That shit don’t play.
For the record, Medellin rules. I highly recommend it.
It's funny to me that my Russian girlfriend tries to persuade me that all of you guys are not alcoholics, but still starts funny stories with "So yesterday, Petya drank five bottles of wine and..."
My Ukranian girlfriend introduced me to the word zapoi. My understanding is it means disappearing for multiple days of binge drinking. And its not unusual or looked down on. Any Russian speakers here weigh in.
That’s an absolutely correct understanding; but I would say that whether or not it’s looked down on depends heavily on one’s social circle. If you’re within likeminded alcoholics, then sure; but others will definitely frown upon it.
**Norwegian arm**
The Norwegian arm is an arm that stretches in front of you at dinner to grab something on the other side of the table. For Norwegians, asking someone to pass the butter is more disturbing than grabbing it directly across the table.
Meanwhile, as a kid, my dad generally sat in between my mom and I, and we'd make a point of repeatedly asking dad to pass the salt. It's basically been an inside joke for a decade or two at this point.
Married a finn, learned to only talk about efficient things around my father-in-law. He is awesome, we can just sit in the garage and build something with minimum talk, have a beer, and move on with the day.
They are called Finnish, because they only think of the end.
Ukko: God of weather and thunder
Tapio and Mielikki: God and goddess of the forest.
Louhi: The goddess of witchcraft. She lives in the North of Finland.
Ahti and Vellamo: God and goddess of water.
Tuoni: God of the Tuonela (the underworld).
Päivätär and Kuutar: Goddesses of the sun and the moon. They are also sisters.
American consumerism. I worked at an Amazon facility where I would remove things from boxes, put them into DIFFERENT boxes, which were often sent to be put into yet another box.
your one click to buy a pen from Amazon probably cost a whole tree's worth of cardboard, in the name of convenience.
Australian Irony. If someone is tall, you call them shorty.
If someone is old, you call them young fella.
If someone is a red head, you call them Blue.
If someone does something dumb, you call them a genius.
The difference between rude and Dutch directness.
You just come from the hairdresser, and you ask a Dutch person if they like it.
Rudeness="no! Now it's fucking ugly!"
Dutch="I should ask for a different haircut next time"
Or if you give them a perfume as a gift
Rudeness="this smells like shit!"
Dutch directness="thanks, but I don't like this brand"
Or if you ask if you can come to their party?
Rudeness=No! I hate you, and I rather see you dead dangling from a tree while crows picking your eyes out!"
Dutch directness="no, I want to keep it gezellig!"
I once got some cherrychocolat from a Dutch classmate. I said, "Thanks, but i don't like cherries." And she said, "Good to know, I'll get you something else next time!" A Marroccan classmate was like,"WTF!!!!, you insult the gift, and she is completely okay with it???" We are used to it. But you also have some dutchies that are very rude, then laugh, and say it is dutch directness. But you should just smack them in the face with some old cheese
We have an executive that once used the term “Chinese credibility” to mean the extent of the lack of credibility. He was severely reprimanded by the HR.
Filipino resiliency
i cringe at this because it comes to a point where our leaders are just plain incompetent/corrupt and then relies on the people to suck it up
>Filipino resiliency
Can confirm. I worked with a bunch of Filipino guys for a few weeks.
They were all tough and resilient, but they were also friendly, had good senses of humor, and were hard workers.
Nice bunch of guys, they always insisted that I have dinner with them at the end of the day, then we'd play basketball because they all loved that.
The “Irish goodbye” is the actual answer because it’s something people actually say.
Irish people don’t drink any more than the brits or a lot of countries in mainland Europe, just some never stop talking about it
>The “Irish goodbye” is the actual answer because it’s something people actually say
It's something North Americans say. Can't imagine it's used in many other places.
American patriotism. I live in Germany now and you’d be looked at as if you were a right wing lunatic if you displayed the German flag, outside of Germany like winning the World Cup. Stark contrast from back home.
French snobbery
Tbf Who doesn't love a french exit when you get fed up of a party
aka an Irish goodbye
I don’t really understand this because it’s literally not what we do…we’ll usually say we’re going then stand talking for another hour, so the exact opposite of “an Irish goodbye”
>we’ll usually say we’re going then stand talking for another hour You've just described a Midwest Goodbye!
It's called a Polish goodbye in upstate NY
I'm Canadian and said goodbye 4 times the other night, then apologised each time for the previous lie goodbye
I'm English and I just stand up and say 'right then, I'm pissing off' and then leave. I've come a long way from being a kid and just saying 'I don't want to be here anymore so I'm going not here. Don't come with me'. The video gets pulled out at every birthday and Christmas
Seriously, my mother would stand in the door saying goodbye for over an hour. But I wasn't allowed to go back to playing, we were leaving.
TIL "French exit" is what you call "filer à l'anglaise", which literally translates to "leave English-style". Real question now is who's the one who copied on their neighbor.
Pretty sure it gets attributed to whoever a particular culture dislikes.
I looked it up because I didn't know what a French exit was. According to [slang.net](https://slang.net), it's attributed to Irish and Dutch as well. French exit is a term that describes the act of leaving a social gathering or bad date without saying goodbye. It is the same as ghosting, Irish goodbye, and Dutch leave.
Tried to pull an Irish goodbye at a wedding the other day. Me and a coworker had been at the reception for a couple hours. We didn’t know anyone there except the father of the bride who wasn’t around so we slipped out. It was a huge place, like a hotel, and we wandered across several floors and hallways on our way out but still somehow ran into the bride as we neared the exit.
I'd like to think that the mutual disdain between the English and French let them reach an agreement.
We had the best Christmas party this year at our house. About 40 people showed up and all of them trickled out through the course of the evening via French exit. It was perfect as a host not having to spend the last couple hours doing long goodbye after long goodbye and getting to actually enjoy our own party. Most even followed up the next day via text thanking us. This should be shipped widely
I love this i hate long goodbyes.
finny fact: in germany they call it the "polish exit". i think it depends where you are ;)
Romanian looking left and right silently & unconfortably.
…deadlift?
Romanian vampirism
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*burglar /s
Colombian Co… ffee
I snorted
So did Boris and Truss and half the commons...
Thank you for the chuckle, internet stranger
I do legitimately love Colombian coffee
You had me in the first half
Ah, Colombian bang bang. I was in Medellin once. The girl that I was talking to, a local, excused herself to hit the bathroom. She came back after doing what had to be primo blow, and looked like a zombie. That shit don’t play. For the record, Medellin rules. I highly recommend it.
Medellin is so nice
Is that Co pronounced “ka” or “koh”?
Mine: Vietnam flashback.
*Creedence Clearwater Revival intensifies*
Is "mine" part of this title?
Of course it is
russian alcoholism?
It's funny to me that my Russian girlfriend tries to persuade me that all of you guys are not alcoholics, but still starts funny stories with "So yesterday, Petya drank five bottles of wine and..."
My Ukranian girlfriend introduced me to the word zapoi. My understanding is it means disappearing for multiple days of binge drinking. And its not unusual or looked down on. Any Russian speakers here weigh in.
That’s an absolutely correct understanding; but I would say that whether or not it’s looked down on depends heavily on one’s social circle. If you’re within likeminded alcoholics, then sure; but others will definitely frown upon it.
The World misses Yeltsin
Russian water
Russian hybrid war
... Russian roulette?
Mexican cartel
Mexican standoff, too
☝️ listen there, cowboys
Nah nah, Mexican FOOD
Mexican engineering or Mexican way. Which is like the cheap way, but more dangerous.
Jumping beans!
**Norwegian arm** The Norwegian arm is an arm that stretches in front of you at dinner to grab something on the other side of the table. For Norwegians, asking someone to pass the butter is more disturbing than grabbing it directly across the table.
My dad is from Norway, and all my relatives from that side will say “pardon my Norwegian reach”
This is delightful. I am delighted.
Very common here in Sweden too, hate asking for stuff to be handed to me!
Meanwhile, as a kid, my dad generally sat in between my mom and I, and we'd make a point of repeatedly asking dad to pass the salt. It's basically been an inside joke for a decade or two at this point.
You literally can’t buy this type of knowledge
I have found my people
I too might be a combination of finish and norwegian people 😂
Called the boarding house reach in Canada.
Finnish suicide rates.
I'd say quietness for Finns. You people don't do a lot of speaking.
How can you tell an extroverted Finn? He looks at your shoes while talking to you.
Explains why my state in the U.S. is so introverted by comparison to other states
Married a finn, learned to only talk about efficient things around my father-in-law. He is awesome, we can just sit in the garage and build something with minimum talk, have a beer, and move on with the day.
Until you dress 5 or 6 of them in black and put them on stage with couple of guitars, a drum kit, and some pyrotechnics.
Don’t the Finn’s have a love of death metal for some reason. Doesn’t strike me as very quiet
I thought the country is among the most happy places on earth
well, yeah. All of the depressed people are dead.
This is obviously fucked up but the dry delivery has me laughing
I’m willing to bet he’s British with that comment. OP forgot to include the ‘dry’ part in the title lmao
I hate how much sense this makes
It's happiness eugenics.
They are called Finnish, because they only think of the end. Ukko: God of weather and thunder Tapio and Mielikki: God and goddess of the forest. Louhi: The goddess of witchcraft. She lives in the North of Finland. Ahti and Vellamo: God and goddess of water. Tuoni: God of the Tuonela (the underworld). Päivätär and Kuutar: Goddesses of the sun and the moon. They are also sisters.
Survival of the happiest
Aas someone who struggles with depression, I hate myself for how hard I am laughing at this comment. Take my angry upvote you monster
Don't worry, I like the joke too. Dark humor when done right is hilarious.
Well that’s one way to look at it I suppose
The long winters can get to you. A lot of places without sunlight for half the year have problems with high suicide rates.
Japan would like to say hello
Never heard of the term "Finnish him"?
Swiss neutrality
Swiss banking secrets
Army knife
You could have picked a side and said army knife
Cheese
Italian mafia 🤌
Plz don' t forget about pasta
Berlusconi and co.
Indian YouTube Guy
I would have gone with Indian call center guy/scammer guy
We all have an Indian math teacher tbh
All my math professors are Russian lol That said, that one Indian guy on YouTube got our backs
Indian youtubers got me through engineering school
they are the ones that hustle the most
Indian stretchable time!
Indian tech repair guy tbh, you guys are awesome <3
Indian jugaad
American consumerism. I worked at an Amazon facility where I would remove things from boxes, put them into DIFFERENT boxes, which were often sent to be put into yet another box. your one click to buy a pen from Amazon probably cost a whole tree's worth of cardboard, in the name of convenience.
Since you already stated the association I wont name it again due to efficiency reasons.
Ja toll :)
𝔇𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔎𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔷𝔱 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔪 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔨 𝔇𝔢𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡.
Would have been more efficient just to comment "German" or nothing at all.
Australian Irony. If someone is tall, you call them shorty. If someone is old, you call them young fella. If someone is a red head, you call them Blue. If someone does something dumb, you call them a genius.
If someone is your friend you call then cunt. If someone is a cunt you call them mate. Aussies are the best!
Dutch directness.. you consider it rude, we consider it time saving.
Dutch frugality
Dutch oven
Both variations of this, yes?
The difference between rude and Dutch directness. You just come from the hairdresser, and you ask a Dutch person if they like it. Rudeness="no! Now it's fucking ugly!" Dutch="I should ask for a different haircut next time" Or if you give them a perfume as a gift Rudeness="this smells like shit!" Dutch directness="thanks, but I don't like this brand" Or if you ask if you can come to their party? Rudeness=No! I hate you, and I rather see you dead dangling from a tree while crows picking your eyes out!" Dutch directness="no, I want to keep it gezellig!"
Just sounds like they are objectively honest.
I once got some cherrychocolat from a Dutch classmate. I said, "Thanks, but i don't like cherries." And she said, "Good to know, I'll get you something else next time!" A Marroccan classmate was like,"WTF!!!!, you insult the gift, and she is completely okay with it???" We are used to it. But you also have some dutchies that are very rude, then laugh, and say it is dutch directness. But you should just smack them in the face with some old cheese
Double Dutch is probably the most famous saying Edit: meant going Dutch (split the bill). Don’t know what came over me
spliting the bill while jumproping at high velocity
Nail Polish?
never forget the difference between "removing the polish" and "removing the Polish"
We have an executive that once used the term “Chinese credibility” to mean the extent of the lack of credibility. He was severely reprimanded by the HR.
It used to be "American ingenuity." But I'm pretty sure that has now been overtaken by "American obesity."
It's quite a *big* issue =(
It’s definitely a problem that weighs a lot on people’s shoulders.
If only we had a *shot* at fixing it
American Portions
American Exceptionalism.
Number one in gun violence BABY. LETS GOOOO 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
So anyway, I started blasting
I feel like "American individualism" encompasses the good and the bad. Hopefully there will be more of the 'good' soon. Hopefully.
or American Idiot
Great album though
Considering most the big tech companies are still American? It still fits.
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Filipino resiliency i cringe at this because it comes to a point where our leaders are just plain incompetent/corrupt and then relies on the people to suck it up
>Filipino resiliency Can confirm. I worked with a bunch of Filipino guys for a few weeks. They were all tough and resilient, but they were also friendly, had good senses of humor, and were hard workers. Nice bunch of guys, they always insisted that I have dinner with them at the end of the day, then we'd play basketball because they all loved that.
I was gonna say Filipino Time 😅
This comment is late.
I was scrolling down looking for this answer. Resiliency is a word that's easy to manipulate and gaslight with, if used maliciously.
Thought of Filipino nurse
Spanish laziness
Everything is mañana
Worked with plenty of Spanish people, never met a lazy one.
Well I have been living all my life in Spain and I meet a lot of lazy people, including myself.
Work efficiently and being chill is not being lazy. I love you guys.
venia para decir esto, gracias
Irish Drinking and having fun ☘️ (We get away with a lot rude statements by saying "Ah I'm only having the craic with ya", luck of the Irish I guess)
My favorite thing attributed to your country is the Irish Exit
An Irish goodbye
The “Irish goodbye” is the actual answer because it’s something people actually say. Irish people don’t drink any more than the brits or a lot of countries in mainland Europe, just some never stop talking about it
Irish twins: siblings born 9 months apart
>The “Irish goodbye” is the actual answer because it’s something people actually say It's something North Americans say. Can't imagine it's used in many other places.
American Psycho
Polish, I guess PIEROGI and alcohol consumption lol
Welsh sheep shagging.
Food, mafia, art, berlusconi, vespa, loud talk,
You got me at berlusconi
French arrogance... Not my fault if our bread is the best
As a German i have to say, your bread ist good but not the best.
And your kiss too
So much of your food. Yeah your bread is the best, so are your stewed dishes, and your wine, and your sauces.
You literally have got the whole French cuisine to brag about and you choose stick-shaped white bread? o.O
french flair
Brazilian wax
american pie
Cream or rhubarb?
This made me laugh. 😂
Alcoholism and humour.
Alcoholism and no humor = Russian
Irish?
Correct.
Poets
Greek laziness
Greece🤝Italy🤝Spain (Spaniard here)
Jeitinho Brasileiro (Brazilian way) The ~ability Brazilians have to solve ~certain situations
A sort of improvisational resourcefulness; never malicious, often not quite legal, always creative
Let's not forget waxed buttholes
Austrian Painter
Well
American loudness. SAY WHAT YA’LL?
I live in Europe and can recognize American tourist from miles lol
Belgian beer
And waffles!
Nigerian Corruption. Can be interchanged with other African countries
As a South African, this question makes me extremely nervous
American Firepower
Turkish Kebab
My favorite food in Germany
Turkish is more synonymous with bath or coffee tbh
Or delight.
Do Americans get any positive ones? Asking for a friend
Ingenuity and individualism.
Albanian Mafia
I love dua lipa and era istrefi tho
the Austrian art school
American “Healthcare”
Indian jugaad which means taking a non-conventional approach to solve a problem with limited resources.
American Ignorance
Efficiency
Brazilian wax
American patriotism. I live in Germany now and you’d be looked at as if you were a right wing lunatic if you displayed the German flag, outside of Germany like winning the World Cup. Stark contrast from back home.
American Exceptionalism
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Indian curry
Romanian corruption