How a UK company handled an offensive private joke

Re:How a UK company handled an offensive private joke by Svip on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:18AM (#5422282)

I never realised how offended I should be when Swedes and Norwegians tell me that Danish (my native tongue) sounds like speaking with a potato in your mouth.

Hey, Dutch people, your language sounds like mouth cancer! And German shouldn't be spoken, it should be yelled!

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Re:How a UK company handled an offensive private joke by hmottestad on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:38AM (#5422338)

Hahaha. I have on many occasions told people I speak danish by putting a potato down my throat.

I will try to not say that anymore.

However, we hold grudges against those that invaded us. That goes for swedes, danes and sometimes germans.

But we love going to your countries to enjoy your culture, your landscape and your refreshing alcohol prices.

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Re:How a UK company handled an offensive private joke by xyzzy123 on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:51AM (#5422576)

> However, we hold grudges against those that invaded us.

Oddly enough, "list of ethnic slurs" on wikipedia has to defer to a whole separate page for Germans. So you're not alone.

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