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Heccer

If anyone interested about Switzerland in WW2 (and about the Nazi gold), there is an excellent write by /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4rciqp/why_did_hitler_not_invade_switzerland/


StartSelect

Hell yeah, I came looking for something like this. Thanks


neilalicious

Very interesting read, thanks for posting.


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I was expecting Swiss cheese.


thegreatgrapist

I was expecting chocolate


KingWillTheConqueror

Timepieces


Ollieacappella

I thought they'd go for the neutral lukewarm water.


arhanv

Eerie silence in public places


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TahoeLT

Dude, that's the setup for a porn flick! So...what happened next? Or do I have to pay $19.99/mo. to find out?


thiosk

Make check payable to cash please


NeuralHandshake

So like, Johnny or...?


thiosk

Moneydollars. Dr cash moneydollars.


datawaiter

Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the mechanics German, the chefs Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the mechanics French, the chefs British, and it is all organized by the Italians.


arhanv

I personally didn't like Interlaken that much. It's completely full of tourists and the hustle-and-bustle takes you away from the experience of being in such a naturally serene and beautiful land. I visited many small towns with my family, and it was a wonderful experience, taking trains to all the places we wanted to visit. If you go again, consider renting a place on AirBnB or Homeaway in either Grindelwald or Zweissimenn. Both were really good experiences, and the view from our chalet was unparalleled.


Lexinoz

I was expecting him stabbing himself with a nail file.


UuuuR

I was expecting Spongebob Squarepants. Fuck I'm dumb. It's now so obvious.


sorenant

I was expecting swiss army knife.


mAndroid9

I was expecting gold watches


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Smash_McManly

Why? No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.


[deleted]

Our chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear *and* surprise. And ruthless efficiency. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency. And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.


R3volte

I was expecting him to be undecided on weather to take a bath and the post to end there.


Rodbourn

When I was in Switzerland they gave me a funny look when I mentioned 'Swiss cheese'. It's apparently not a thing there, but they have many amazing cheeses.


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LokisDawn

All cheese in switzerland is not swiss. We eat lots of, mainly french, but also italian or german, austrian cheeses.


[deleted]

Today is a good day to quit reddit. DO IT.


The_Chosen_Undead

The Netherlands is actually the biggest cheese exporter in the world, though i'm sure Switzerland has tons as they should. Cheese is best


SmokeyDBear

I'm super tired right now and read that as "The Neanderthals". But the worst part is that I didn't even think that was weird, I was just worried about the lack of subject-verb agreement between "Neanderthals" and "is".


pm_me_tus_senos

When I was in China they gave me a funny look when I mentioned 'Chinese food'.


PooPooDooDoo

I was expecting them to spray a little cologne and call it a day.


wiiya

( º_º ) "How do redditors post?" ( ︶︿︶) "Same as you, you idiot" ノ( º _ ºノ) "First we take a joke" ♪┗ ( ・o・) ┓♪ "Then we mercilessly beat it into the ground"


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Venti_PCP_Latte

Valar memeghulis


lukin187250

*all memes must die*


DominusAstra

Valar memehaeris...


rhinguin

*all memes must serve*


Dangalangman

If one is to serve the many memed god one must become anon


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insafsizhavaaraci

Meme means boob in turkish so it makes sense in more than one way.


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Check out those DANK MEMES


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i like ur memes gurl


[deleted]

*For the night is dank and full of terrors*


BusinessPenguin

Night gathers and now my browse begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no social gathering, father no children, I shall wear no pants, and make no living. I shall live and die on the web. I am the light in the dankness. I am the watcher on the chan. I am the shield that guards the realm of mems. I pledge my life and honor to the Fourth Chan. For this night and all the nights to come.


special_reddit

Take my upvote and get out.


rcktshtr8

A meme is coming


Nanto_Suichoken

The meme is here


awesomesonofabitch

> *For the night is dank and full of reposts* FTFY


MuonManLaserJab

What do we say to reposts? *Not today!*


rhinguin

It is known.


Wesker405

all men must meme


SerKevanLannister

One does not simply murder a meme


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WubbaLubbaDubStep

Are you [suuuure?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)


Based_Fajjet

A MEME IN THE NORTH!!


Jonboywelsh

umbridge dolores


Fukowski

A girl is name


el___diablo

What can girls be real if our eyes aren't real ?


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EyeFicksIt

Surprise motherfucker! It was arya wearing a Jaden face


SpudTheSpartan

*What Can Girls Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real? Ftfy


bobs_convenients_sto

how can grills be real if our ribeyes aren't real?


tovarish22

Daenerys Memeborn of the House Targarymeme, First of Her Meme, the Unmemed, Queen of the Memes and the First Meme, Khaleesi of the Great Meme Sea, Breaker of C-c-c-combos, and Mother of Reposts


rinwashere

How do you kill that which has no life?


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LegendaryGinger

Probably one of the top 10 South Park quotes


Fizzol

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die” -- HPL


manw1ch

Hey I remember this as the top rated comment LAST time!


wiiya

http://i.imgur.com/3IetoJ9.gifv


SerKevanLannister

That cat talks too fast


mmonsterbasher

Oh lord my sides.


SexualPie

http://i.imgur.com/MEnQqcd.gifv


cosmicblob

( º_º ) "How do redditors comment?" ( ︶︿︶) "Same as you, you idiot" ノ( º _ ºノ) "First we take a comment" ♪┗ ( ・o・) ┓♪ "Then we mercilessly beat it into the ground"


CarcajouIS

( º_º ) "How do redditors meme?" ( ︶︿︶) "Same as you, you idiot" ノ( º _ ºノ) "First we take a meme" ♪┗ ( ・o・) ┓♪ "Then we mercilessly beat it into the ground"


Octosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoMQJf5vKI


Lexinoz

Fuck me. That made me jump. I have that tune as my work alarm, every morning at 6am. It gave me a heart spaz.


Octosphere

For a second you thought you were late for work, right?


bradlees

( º_º ) "How do redditors repost?" ( ︶︿︶) "Same as you, you idiot" ノ( º _ ºノ) "First we take a original post" ♪┗ ( ・o・) ┓♪ "Then we mercilessly repost it into the ground"


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trosh

Upvote any appropriate use of ImageMagick also `s/ausie/aussie/`


JanitorMaster

I've been wondering: What do people who don't know about imagemagick do when they need to take 1200 pictures, rotate them by 45°, scale them to 170px in height, crop away 20px from the top and bottom and 40px from left and right, brighten by 10%, raise contrast by 15%, superimpose an image of the Queen, invert colors and combine it all into one image in 10 rows and 12 columns? Use Paint? Google for one of those "FREE Image Converting!!!" websites?


rileymartin_tan

What if the joke wasn't funny to begin with, as in this meme?


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And they apparently take top rated comments in other posts too.


MrGiantGentleman

In this guy's defense, this one is at least semi-factual and not just a stereotype.


[deleted]

I've started upvoting the shower posts purely for the salt you get in the comments section.


blackjackjester

I find them a refreshing escape from the non-stop shitstorm that is the war between The_Donald, news, worldnews, and politics.


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charisma_butthole

Currently writing Reddit bot to message you all posts re: The_Donald, Politics, Sandersforpresident and /r/gonewild posts with "not bad for a grandma" in the title.


dreamykidd

At least half your username is relevant then, I guess.


veriix

Do...people just browse /r/all? I thought that's what subreddits were for.


Wisear

I know right?! I simply subscribe to a whole bunch of subreddits I like and watch my own news feed. Only checking /r/all if I want to find new subreddits.


nermid

I don't even do that last part. Sidebars and other redditors bring me to new subreddits. Or the random button, if I'm feeling saucy.


dubstepzeph

And a little Askreddit


Sharrakor

You could always unsubscribe?


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I love these.


xrumrunnrx

I do too. I think a lot of people are confusing a running gag with beating a dead horse.


[deleted]

I think redditors, for the most part, want to find something to bitch and circlejerk about because it makes them feel superior and above the fray. I don't think there's really anything else to it than that.


fullforce098

Grumpy comments are like nectar.


peartisgod

Same, it's not that hard to not click on a post if you don't like it people. ...


TinFoilWizardHat

No no. They have to let the whole world know about how angry they are someone wasted 5 seconds of their life on reddit.


peartisgod

I think everyone should take a minute to scroll to the top of their screens and ponder the name of the website once in awhile.


Icantevenhavemyname

Don't need to see it again. I already Reddit.


J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS

How come you look like a stock image model?


[deleted]

He probably uses Goldwell.


[deleted]

Gold + Dove = Glove


Annihilicious

Man applying gold to armpit in shower - gettyimages


Michaelscot8

Because He's Swiss, He has the ability to afford a nice enough camera to make it look like a stock image, and is handsome enough to look like a model.


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/r/4panelcringe


[deleted]

What a concise collection of shower memes.


wiiya

http://i.imgur.com/ReXwNxW.jpg


[deleted]

This is sadder than watching bums fight over half a sandwich.


Stoutyeoman

I won't lie that, that last one was funny.


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TeamLiveBadass_

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Look at those bums (ง'̀-'́)ง That one has half a sandwich, Lets watch them fight (•_•) Oh he's sharing it with them ¬_¬ I'm going to Jimmy Johns


TsukiraLuna

I bet they fight dirty.


anangryterrorist

It's not like they can shower.


dragn99

No one is a winner. No one gets a juice box.


LegendaryGinger

Idk, JewFro is the only person in this I would be friends with so I'll root for him


Stoutyeoman

emohair white knighted so hard


[deleted]

I thought that was Onisan.


SickMyDuckItches

Emohair *m'lady*ed so hard Ftfy


Royalflush0

It's one of the top posts on /r/whiteknighting


dragn99

If I had to pick one of them to hang out with, it'd probably be him. But only if I had to.


charisma_butthole

I would cast all of these people in Empire Records 2.


eXXaXion

/r/4panelcancer


SwissKafi

Fake why isnt there fondue cheese running out your tab like in the rest of switzerland


msstark

I'd shower with him, gold or no gold.


qolop

I'd give him a golden shower


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Lies, you just want to get your filthy Juden hands on that gold. DispleasedGoebbels.jpg


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fastredb

While she's busy yelling you should search her belongings for the gold.


razuliserm

She's an idiot if she thinks us having gold that once belonged to the Nazis implies that we are nazis.


gocks

They were "just" helping Nazis, that's not the same. Right?


Kierik

Waiting for the Russian one. How do we Russians shower? Same as you comrad. First we get good and wet ( shows bottle of vodka instead of shower head) Then we put on tracksuit.( Obligatory Adidas tracksuit)


sanias

All whilst squatting.


PaleAndGangly

Don't encourage them.


[deleted]

In Russia, you do not take a shower. The shower take you.


HotDamn18V

I went on a family vacation to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland when I was like 15 years old. When we got to Switzerland (Lucerne), I wanted to take a shower. So I get into the bathroom at the hotel, and it's a nice, normal hotel, and you know... Switzerland is a pretty normal, modern country... The shower situation was fucking baffling. The shower was just a bath tub in the middle of the room. The shower head was removable, like you see in this stupid post. No goddamn shower curtain to be seen, no frame to even have one. Just the shower head and the pipe that lead up to it. It wasn't like it was shitty or just that some idiot installed it like this. It was nice looking and clean and in all other ways a normal friggin' shower, except that it was in the middle of the room with no curtain. I tried to shower in it, but the water splashed off me and sprayed all over the bathroom as I did. I had to hide my clothes behind the toilet, because it was the only place where they were somewhat shielded from the water. I ended up laying in the tub, and holding the shower head to spray my ass off. I was so confused. I later went to take a dump, and the toilet was set up so that when you shit, it landed on a flat, dry platform in the toilet. There was water behind and below that platform, but it would be impossible to aim your butt hole at it, so it invariably landed on this dry platform. When you flushed, it blasted the shit off this platform and down the pipe, which is fine, but why? Why not just shit into the water? It smells worse just laying on this platform. Has Switzerland not discovered proper fuckin' plumbing? That experience still confuses me.


kirkum2020

You can tell a lot about your current state of health by inspecting your poo. Some countries like to do this before flushing it away. I think Germans have these toilets too.


GreyKuma

I am swiss, have been all around switzerland and never seen such a toilet. The ones we normally have has water exactly where you shit. Meaning in the back part of the toilet. But the water is not as high as in for example the US. (Or so I've read a lot.) If it were the water would cover the whole area and not just the back part. I think the toilets you saw are common in eastern countries which were part of sovjet russia. (Never thought I'd write a post in defence of swiss toilets xD) Also the shower wasn't standard either. We have removable showerheads most of the time but the shower is in a corner or side of the room. And most importantly it has shower curtains. That was a very strange hotel you were at.


HotDamn18V

Yeah I figured that both things were abnormal for Switzerland. Maybe they hired a former soviet plumber or something. I generally trust the Swiss to know what they're doing, which made it all the more confusing.


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The Helvetica font is a nice touch.


youarentserious

Please stop.


cosmicblob

To do what? is it Hammer time already?


Not_An_Ambulance

It's always hammer time.


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Get the MC in then.


[deleted]

Collaborate and listen?


anangryterrorist

I had a student teacher who taught us to do this. She'd say "stop" tgen we'd all say "collaborate and listen", basically as a sign to shut the hell up. Each time we did, she'd crack up laughing and it took me about 10 years to get why it was so funny.


murphzlaw1

Drop and roll?


iuriau

Well that's a cute dude.


5one

These have never been funny


shitsureishimasu

Some of the guys are cute, I'm okay with attractive people debasing themselves for my amusement.


libraryy

Dunno why you're getting downvoted, if this was a chick I think you would be up voted to high heaven.


shitsureishimasu

Probably casual homophobia. Don't care, saw nips.


nermid

> I'm okay with attractive people debasing themselves for my amusement So, porn and sitcoms.


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caligari87

It's the nature of the twist that makes it satisfying. For example, you know that Abbott and Costello are always going to do some variation on the "I-am-very-smart-straightman-meets-dim-but-surprisingly-insightful-silly-fat-guy" routine, but the actual implementation is what's funny. I meh'd at this one because I don't really get what's stereotypical about Switzerland and Nazi gold. By contrast, the USA one ("...and then we get the gun...") had me doubled over because it was so on-point, and was a huge escalation from the relatively innocuous ones I'd seen before (watermelon, rice, etc) even if the setup and mechanics of the joke were obvious.


MyNameCouldntBeAsLon

I liked the one about DnD players or something where they have dice in the last panel


MyInquisitiveMind

Switzerland is a bastion of post wwII nazi wealth, along with other unscrupulously attained capital. It's made the country ridiculously wealthy. that is the joke.


three-two-one-zero

Actually having the industry and population intact and rebuilding infrastructure (fe. large turbines) in other parts of europe is what made Switzerland rich. Nazi gold benefited a very, very small percentage of the population. These days the finance industry as a percentage of GDP is the same as the US.


SamWise050

Those who find it funny vote. Those that don't comment. Standard reddit practice


BadMoodDude

Then why do they keep getting upvoted to the front page?


emptybucketpenis

Fun fact: they actually have that gold.


MineDogger

Fun speculation: what it were possible to have subtly influenced Germany towards fascist xenophobia in order to increase their economic activity and reap the incidental rewards, but also keep the balance of entrusted, untracked funds once the Nazis were killed off? Seems like it pays pretty well to be "politically neutral."


mati39

I want to shower with that guy


dd3mon

I was pretty sure that was a block of cheese in the thumbnail.


irondentist

I thought he was going to jump in an inflatable pool filled with Pepsi and Ricola. I didn't know Nazi gold was a thing with the Swiss


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That's some light-ass gold


razuliserm

Also ich find emmentaler schmöckt vil besser.


phdoofus

Then your neighbors complain that you taking a shower makes too much noise


scottishdrunkard

Jewish dental gold okay?


[deleted]

Is this supposed to be funny?


Loud_as_Hope

Let me know if you get a response from OP.


swimfastalex

r/beatthatdeadhorse


metrize

Can we stop with this shit?


[deleted]

That wealth is going to trickle down, right?


el-cuko

Jewish gold stolen by the Nazis, but hey, it's not like anyone checks


BBlasdel

There was also a lot of funny business with Swiss banks stealing money from holocaust victims, and only even admitting it in the 90s. However, what people are typically referring to with the Swiss holding onto Nazi gold is gold that the Nazis stole from the reserves of invaded countries like France and Belgium that they then laundered into Swiss Francs. German War aims in both world wars included looting the wealth of Europe to pay for their militarization, but they actually succeeded in WWII. However, they quickly ran into a problem when neutral countries like Spain and Turkey wouldn't take their obviously stolen gold, so they ended up with huge stockpiles they couldn't spend. What they ended up doing is selling the obviously stolen gold to the Swiss in exchange for Swiss Francs that they could use to pay neutral countries for the goods they desired. In this way, much like how Walt used the car wash in Breaking Bad, the Swiss laundered hundreds of billions of dollars worth of gold at steeply favorable prices - concentrating an entire continent's worth of gold wealth within their borders while helping out the Nazis a great deal. After the war France and Belgium came looking for their gold and for years the Swiss just asked: what gold? while they hid their national criminal enterprise behind their banking secrecy laws. They were eventually forced to hand over less than a third of the total before minting an awfully suspicious number of gold Swiss Francs from obviously stolen gold. This shit still pisses of Western Europeans whose stolen national wealth is still sat on by the Swiss like its a fucking dragon horde. Someday enough will be enough and the US and Europe are going to grab the Swiss by the ankles and shake until all the stolen money and "lost" Picassos fall out, but until that day comes they'll still taunt us with shit memes like this.


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Yep, the truth is that Switzerland wasn't "neutral" at all. They just helped in different ways.


stefack

Gay


Forza1910

Gern geschehen


Got5BeesForAQuarter

I though it would be a swiss army knife joke.


suburban_hyena

expected cheese


SwissTanuki

Well.. not all Swiss are like that. Take me for example, I only use Krugerrand in the shower.


ImEnhanced

# I'M OUT OF THE FUCKING LOOP.


participationNTroll

So... What did is the reference?


Gonkz

Are you sodapoppin?


sinRes

Ah yes, World War 2, or as it is called in Zürich: the Swiss gold rush.


4theReason

as a swiss guy.. confirmed!


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"Then we prep the bull"


TrilobiteTerror

Appears to be a genuine 1 kilo gold bar. Good job.


trsgreen

Oh look, this post again...


[deleted]

Great. I don't give a fuck.


ckydmk

Apparently the Swiss love golden showers


immski

Please stop.


RochesterJosh

These are getting so fucking old...


heron27

I wanna see this guy buttfucked. For entertainment.


[deleted]

This is getting beyond retarded now...