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The joke in question is “Zwei Jäger treffen sich. Beide sind tot.”
The word “treffen” can mean meet, as in they spend time together. But it can also mean hit, as in they shoot each other.
Hence, the joke can either be translated as “Two hunters meet. Both are dead.” or “Two hunters shoot each other, both are dead”
It’s like the British joke:
Man walks into a bar, gets concussion.
There is a similar one.
Two pilots meet.
300 dead people.
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How do you get a melon pregnant?
You fuck one
Meet translates to “treffen” in German.
“Treffen” can also mean “Hit” in German.
I guess that explains it
People have already explained the joke itself, but I haven’t seen anyone explain the ‘German humor’ response. See, there’s a stereotype that Germans are very serious and don’t do humor well. The response was insinuating that the most levity a German can produce is by describing two men accidentally killing each other in a deadpan, informational delivery.
This reminds me of a finnish joke: “Two grandmas went picking blueberries, one didnt fit”
A bear walks through the forest and sees car on fire. Then gets into in and burns out.
There are other “two … meet” jokes that translate way better.
For example:
– Two atoms meet. First one: “I’ve lost my electron.” Second one: “Stay positive!”
– Two blondes meet. First one: “I made a pregnancy test.” Second one: “Were the questions difficult to answer?”
– Two neighbours meet after a tornado. First one: “Do you also have a damaged roof?” Second one: “I don’t know, haven’t found it yet.”
And there are more…
This joke is basically a linguistic sniper shot. One word, two meanings, zero survivors.
The equivalent to my country’s:
There once was a boy. He walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked
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It’s an anti-joke. Nothing is lost in translation
Why was the moose hanging from a tree? Because he thought he was the pine cone of the forest
It’s a joke that’s a play on words, but it doesn’t work when it’s translated out of German (the joke is that ‘meet’ in the context of meeting and ‘hit’ in the context of shooting both share the same word in German). Since Germans are often accused of not having a sense of humor, the other person is saying that such a terrible joke is still the funniest joke a German can tell.
Two women meet.
“Hi, I am Stanka”
“Oh, well, I am from ferry.”
(“Stanka” is a feminine name but “s tanka” means “from a tank”, so the other woman thought the first one got there by a tank)
People say that Germans are unfunny, and don’t have a sense of humor, but this here is literally a pun translated of course it wouldn’t make sense in English
It’s not the fart that kills, it’s the smell.
In swedish fart = speed
Smell (smäll) = hit
The joke is: I have a joke, two tits in an envelope.
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Its a pun
German joke: Man 1″my granddad died in a concentration camp” man2 “That’s awful, was he gased?” Man1 “no, he was drunk and fell out the watch tower”
I guess you could turn it into something along the lines of “Two hunters shoot the breeze. But they hit each other.” not a literal translation but keeps the spirit I guess. Second line isn’t quite right.
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The fact that it’s posted here adds another level to the joke
I’m offended, German comedy is no laughing matter.
so it is a badly translated pun
In English, it can be congratulated as a six word story.
It’s that kind of joke which makes sense only in one or several languages…
It could be reversed German to English translation of the Worlds Most Funny Joke…
[https://youtu.be/Qklvh5Cp_Bs?t=197](https://youtu.be/Qklvh5Cp_Bs?t=197)
why rhw old iraqi flag tho
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I think people are missing the point where when explaining the joke itself.
Germans are known for not having a sense of humor and only being super work oriented, I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that what’s the internet says.
So in that print a German is translating the joke and it is not funny at all when translating to english, hence the “behold the peak of german commedy”, because even something that is supposed to be funny for germans wasn’t funny at all.
I’ll do a finnish version: Two grandmas went into a blueberry, but the other one didn’t fit.
From Finnish: What is the opposite of omelet? Eunuch! Explanation: omelet=munakas in Finnish, which can also be interpreted as “bollocksfull” or “ballsfull”. My boss liked to tell this joke also in English and didn’t understand, why only Finnish people got it.
So this is why they needed to build funnybot.
German humor is no laughing matter
Hey what’s your profession? I am a biochemic. I am not asking what you were rather what you are now (Bio = were – as in word – biochemic – were/was(chemic))
Ahhh, a dad pun in Germany.
That joke deserevs a shot of Jaegermeister
A grandma goes to the elevator but there are stairs
“kaksi mummoa meni mustikkaan, toinen ei mahtunut”
“Two grandmas went to gather blueberries, the other one couldn’t fit”
To go do something in Finnish can be said to go into the thing they are doing.
Like, to go fishing, can be said as “To go into a fish”.
It is a pun with a absurdist twist. Meaning that one of them did fit into the berry but the other one didn’t. So its like a double whammy. Not a “fun” joke, more of a shitty “great uncle” type of joke that they think are so funny but others are just like “ha…”.
Huh this also works in finnish if you have a northern dialect