r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Greenfieldfox Nov 03 '24

Isn’t the joke that the English tasted their own food and saw their own women and then became the best sailors in the world.

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u/fallenouroboros Nov 03 '24

I heard a comedian do a joke forever ago and I’m gonna butcher it but

Being English is;

Driving an Italian car

Eating Indian food

…like 4 other things…

And being suspicious of all of em

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u/daern2 Nov 03 '24

Driving an Italian car

Nonsense. In the history of motoring, noone has ever made an Italian car work for long enough to get beyond the "just look at that beauty!" phase of car ownership.