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Originally Posted by Kloster
Thanks for the explanation.
I knew the rule but I didn't understood your sentence came from hockey. You know, there are also hockey clubs (not as good, I concur) in France, Switzerland or Italy.
Runequestement votre,
Kloster
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I knew there were clubs there, but just thought that it was a marginal enough game that lots of people wouldn't necessarily get the joke. If I made a soccer (football) joke, then I'd expect all of you to get it and half the Americans to look at me cross-eyed, though it's pretty well known here now...just not executed so well.
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Originally Posted by frogspawner
A common joke/slur is that Germans have no sense of humour, but I heroically restrained myself from mentioning that - nearly. At least you were spared any political side-swipe about us all being part of Germany soon...
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We actually have that stereotype too. It may not be about humor so much as just being very rigid, extremely literal, etc.
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Originally Posted by soltakss
Not hotbeds of hockey? Every secondary school in the UK used to have teenage girls in short skirts wielding sticks and playing hockey in Games Lessons being watched by teenage boys and men of a certain age.
Oh, you mean Ice Hockey. Well, that's different, then ........
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Hockey = Ice Hockey
However, the thought of teenage girls in short skirts playing field hockey, has a certain appeal, or at least would have 20 years ago. Next, let's debate "football" or "football". (I'm one of those weird individuals who really likes both, a lot. I cut out of work on select Tuesdays and Wednesdays to catch Champions League games live.)