If they’d had just done this in the first place…
If they’d had just done this in the first place… … we could have avoided two World Wars
(Angela Merkel and Dmirty Medvedev)
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But how?
Because getting sloshed is a solution to everything!
Just fooling around. This caption is okay on humor and I think they’re trying to say if Europe and Russia had communicated, WWI and II wouldn’t have happened, which is pretty non offensive.
well, germany and russia maybe communicated a bit too much efore WW2
I’m related to Angela Merkel!
And yes, i DID reply to the top comment so it would nest higher.
That’s so cool!
Germany and Russia actually were allied at the beginning of WW2, see Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
To try to be nice to the caption, I think you could argue that WWII wouldn’t have happened without WWI…
(I am trying to be nice. One should try new things now and then.)
It wasn’t even the Germans fault in the first place WWI took place.
they just said it was their fault. it was just some prince that got killed somewhere and they all started to for sides, in the end the side of the Germans lost and they shuved all the problems up their asses. that’s why Hitler took revenge… and also because he wanted to make all of Europe one big great country.
God History pays of finaly
Good spelling does, too.
And Hitler wasn’t even German anyway. He was Austrian, so even if it /was/ Hitler’s fault, it wasn’t exactly Germany’s fault. If Hitler would’ve stayed in Austria, then we could have blamed WWI and WWII on Austria.
or he could of been a crappy artist and avoided the whole thing, died in the sewers like a filthy starveing rat
Grammar FAIL
Well, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand did start the war, but almost every major European country wanted to get in the action. New weapon technologies were coming out, and the countries wanted to test them out. The British created the Dreadnought, the plans were leaked, and Germany began making them. The tensions in the Balkans didn’t help either, which was the reason the Black Hand killed Ferdinand.
Hear hear! “Official” history is written by the winners, therefore there is no way how they would want to let wider public know that Soviets and Nazis were the best pals in the beginning of WWII. Of course, both trying to double-cross each other, that didn’t end well.
In a way, you could say the Russians and Germans did that, then the Germans decided to smash the glass on the Russians when they were taking their drink
yes. they did it, AND SO WWII took place.
I consider this caption a massive fail!
The cause for the first WW was an assasination of the austrian-hungarian prince Franz Ferdinand.
The cause of second was hitlers strike on poland.
Russia was not inflicted with the cause of both!
They just defended!
Franz Ferdinand! Thats a band dumbass! LOL
You’re right of course but Wolfpack is also right. Please stop posting and study.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Someone didn’t study in their Modern History class!
I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich ’cause he was hungry.
*loves blackadder*
That ostrich was a terrorist and a foreigner. He had it coming.
Yes, and they are named after the real Franz Ferdinand, who caused WW1 by getting killed.
Stupid Ferdinand. Getting killed and causing a war. Dumbass should’ve gotten NOT killed and saved us all the trouble.
Yeah, why wasn’t he wearing his Royal Armor of Fortitude, which gives +20 armor against assassins. And why didn’t one of his clerics try to resurrect him after?
*pushes up glasses*
n00b princes. Can’t even form a decent party.
WOW geek?
No, even more geeky…seems like an old Dungeons and Dragons player. Although in essence WoW was based on DnD.
In one.
*must maintain
status at PK by not revealing fangirl tendency*
Im one too…Mok’Nathal
bitter troll always has to play cleric, someone has to keep party alive
This made me ROFL.
Thank you!
Buuahahaha! Nice.
True, but the reason that killing one man, even a man that was important in his country, set off a pan-Europe war and not just something between Serbia and Austria-Hungry was because Europe was already divided into factions and strings of alliances.
For that matter, the reason that Hitler came to power was because of the German loss in WWI that both imposed some strict reparation payments and pretty much blamed them entirely. A hyper-nationalist that talked about how great Germany was and how they should stick it to everyone else would look good right about then, even if he was a crazy dictator who wanted to kill anyone who didn’t fit with his vision of a perfect Germany.
Who knows — maybe having the European leaders willing to sit down with beers would have kept things civil.
…and that people were really looking forward to having a war.
Germany probably more than everyone else since they’d joined to imperialism game late and wanted to catch up (and I’m admitting that as a German), but yeah, there was an almost universal lack of hesitancy and restraint to start a war, both among the ruling class (where this is normal) and the general populace (where it’s not).
It was Bush’s fault
And Palin’s….
She shot the archduke from a helicopter.
Now, now Eric. She didn’t shoot him, she just strongly supported legislation making it legal to shoot him.
Bush and Palin were having a beer and they hatched a plot to kill Franz Ferdinand, so they could start WWI & II and get the all the oil for themselves. It’s just that there isn’t much oil in Europe… So they planted WMD’s in the middle east. So you see all the problems that beer can cause?
Pfft. Was not. Bush only starts wars with people who try to kill his dad.
Some things in life — like blindly repeating DNC talking points — you just have to make time for, I guess.
I already did what I had to do. Loading the dishwasher and changing the laundry doesn’t take long. What’s the matter, feeling butthurt that I blew you off? Is there are a reason you’re following me around PK today? Someone needs a hobby. You know, playing Halo would help get out that extra aggression you feel towards me today.
See this, what you’re doing right here? It doesn’t count as blowing off. Slavishly responding is more like it.
Dance, my little flyover puppet, dance…
I was just STUNNED that you actually bothered to follow me from one thread to another just to continue trolling me. Now, I just feel special that I’m that important to you. You know, it’s not the friends online that make you realize how special you are. It’s the trolls that love harassing you that really let you know that you’re unforgettable. Thanks, Dhoti. I love you too, man. *sniffle*
(And I’m a terrible dancer, you DON’T want to see that.)
Now you’re starting to catch on! Granted, you still need some practice, but suppressing your self-important rage enough to be convincing is difficult for you, I’m sure.
It’s only because I *am* that important. It’s not just self-importance. I can’t even imagine a world without me. *tears up just thinking about it*
And as for rage, you haven’t seen rage. The best you’ve gotten out of me has been mildly annoyed. I know what real misery is, and you couldn’t hurt me if you tried.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re just doing your usual self-important blustering, not actually trying to use your personal tragedy, which I can hardly fathom, to win some pointless Internet argument.
Jesus Dhoti you’re an ass.
Maybe that’s why he’s so intent upon trolling Eric. With Eric constantly making ass jokes and insults, Dhoti’s bound to think he’s talking about him.
So what Eric was trying to do was totally awesome and acceptable, right? Geez, what planet do you live on?
Dhoti you started the whole argument. Eric didn’t do anything to you until you provoked him. :\
Squiggly, stay out of it. Seriously.
It’s a long-term discussion that bites both ways. Leave it alone.
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So what? I didn’t make him respond. I certainly did nothing to take the conversation in this direction.
Comfort Eric, fine. Agree with Dhoti, fine.
Interjecting sh!t or playing the blame game adds nothing.
Manliest. Dance. Video. Ever.
Just because it’s Friday, people. You’re welcome.
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OMFG LOL he keeps ripping off one ugly shirt to put another ugly shirt on and the prancing oh, I LOL’d. Yep it’s Friday.
Is he having a seizure?
Thanks DT for setting my memory straight…I used to love this song. He gives Perez Hilton a run for his money
It’s the land of mullets!
He’s doing an OK imitation of Al Yankovich. But Weird Al does it so much better!
Baby blue pants + baby pink shirt + mincing prance = 80s GEH!!
Wow, you had to go there, didn’t you? Okay, you’ve officially gotten under my skin, you win. I quit.
*warm hugs*
Group hug!
*group hugs*
And one more thing, just so nobody else thinks I’m using my personal tragedy to win Internet arguments, the only reason I said that was to make the point that this silly argument isn’t important, and neither is Dhoti. If I tried to use it as my personal trump card in arguments like Dhoti suggested, then I really would be an ass. But the whole “this doesn’t hurt me anymore” thing is something my wife and I have actually talked about several times. It applies to a lot of things in life these days. :-\
You didn’t say “this isn’t important”. You said “I won”.
That makes all the difference.
I meant you win at getting under my skin. You proved me wrong. What you say can hurt me. Just fvcking leave it alone, asshole.
I’m sorry, honestly and sincerely, than I even responded. I should have been better than to take that bait, known that there’s no way anything good could have come out of it.
You know that I’m not exactly your biggest fan on here, but there’s no reason we can’t both use the board to blow off a little steam without it getting anywhere near our personal lives. I shouldn’t have gotten dragged anywhere near the line, and again, I’m sorry for that.
And I likely shouldn’t have gone there. I was trying to make another point, and somehow it came out looking like I was trying to use my personal tragedy to my advantage and I would NEVER do that. So I apologize for even bringing it up when we should’ve just kept it stupid and childish.
I recommended yoga, but he wouldn’t listen.
I’ve seen your logic — I figured you had to train to get that flexible.
Ba dum tish!
Excuse me, I have some stonewalling to do.
Well, the way he’s following me around this morning tells me that something must really be up his butt. So if trolling me all morning makes whatever has fvcked up his life so bad a little better, then God bless ‘im.
Nice to see PK’ers Dhoting on each other with such affection.
It won’t last. Pitty soon someone will get Anniee in the groin.
Right now I’m just trying Tessie what the big problem is.
I know we fight sometimes, but Ivan us all to get along.
Yeah, sometimes a real mother goose reminds us to behave…
There are times to take one on the Jane, but then there are times when it cuts too Deep.
Eric-n we should all sit back and think Deep Thoughts for a bit.
*crys*
Nesting fail!
Not bad, I didn’t think anyone was gonna get a decent pun out of “Eric.” LOL
I had to use your name somehow. You are one of my favorite people on here.
:blushes:
Thanks, DT. LOL
Eric’en not.
Eric-n ball would come in handy to take down some of the nasty shit said here today.
I could really use eric’shaw right now to get away from it all!
Keep that up you might get Eric-roll link.
Or worse, E-rico-Suave!
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Oh please, like I haven’t made THAT joke before.
e-rico!!
E’ricky Ricardo would be pleased.
Ranger E-rick likes it too.
No? I’d suggest you to check out the afore-mentioned Molotov-Ribbentrop pact for the WWII. Or a movie called “The Soviet Story” which is so good that Russians started burning dolls of the film maker in front of the embassy in Moscow.
You moron – Russia attacked Poland 16 days after Germany did!
Woah! I didn’t know the prime minister of russia and germany were both a hundred years old!
Sure they ‘aint much to look at but you gotta admit they’re doin’ pretty good for their age.
Medvedev is President, Merkel is Chancellor….
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Am I wrong?
yes but chancellor doesn’t have the same comic timing.
There is no “prime minister of Germany”
…and while Russia has one, he’s very much not present in this photo. (Unless he is, in a KGB ninja way.)
That’s why Medvedev is holding his beer up like that, so the camera in the beer glass can see Merkel.
Must be something in that German beer!!
But which one will have the “Beer Goggles” on at the end of the night??!!
From the expressions on their faces, I’d say both of them.
Those’d be some weird looking offspring…
Yeah – if Russia and Germany wouldn’t have been friends, A Serbian radical wouldn’t have shot the crown prince of Austria/Hungary.
Soo very false.
It was alliances that caused WW1: one declaration of war on a small country forcing a response from the small country’s large ally, forcing a responce from the war declaring country’s ally, etc.
As for WW2: Stalin and Hitler had a mutual respect. Neither originally wanted war with each other. The main reason why Russia was involved was because Russia feared the Germans, not because they hated them, and it wasn’t the Russians that pulled the Americans into the war.
Caption = fail.
Nah, you don’t know what you’re on about. Get sloshed and THERE WILL BE NO WAR. Not many people know that.
Just lots and lots of fist fights.
Based on my own, uh, research, I would say that marijuana would go further than alcohol in securing world peace. You never see marijuana-induced fistfights, not even when some bastard eats all the Chips Ahoy.
I’m with you SB. The worst you would get is “Dude…yer a jerk. Let’s settle this once and for all, fire up Super Smash Brothers. Yer goin’ down man…”
*Puffs, puffs, passes…to the left hand side.*
*secures position on the left hand side*
Yeah….man.
Have you ever noticed that no matter how stoned you are, you can still roll a decent doob?
So true! But don’t try to balance your checkbook.
I don’t know about Stalin, but Hitler certainly had no respect for Russia and most certainly was planning to go to attack it right from the beginning – where else would he get his Lebensraum?
In fact, Hitler probably wouldn’t have come to power at all (or wouldn’t have kept it) if not for his violent anti-communist rhetoric, which even earned him a lot of support in the UK and America at first.
Oh. No.
*whips out the crystal ball*
I foresee …
1: A multitude of practically identical posts explaining how WWI and II actually started, posted due to the simple fact that no one can be arsed to see if their oh-so-unique knowledge might already have been spread by others.
2: …
3: THE END OF THE WORLD
Damn. :/
(Any feelings of deja vu that anyone might experience are all just a glitch in your head.)
Glitch? In the Matrix?
That depends on which pill you chose.
what do i get if i chose the vicodin?
(my apologies if this ends up a double post… PK seems to have eaten the first)
I can’t tell you, but if you chose the Vicodin I expect you to not really care anyway.
i’ve been on vicodin before and it just made me sleepy. not loopy or anything like that. just sleepy. best 14 hours of sleep EVER.
Does PK automatically eat posts with pill names in them? It ate mine too.
If so, Demerol some pretty strict filters dey got here on PK.
Well that went through – there’s no Methadone to the madness!
It just doesn’t adderrall up to me.
But what is the long-term Effexor?
*grammar fail*
*are*
I need to Percocet up… I’m so tired I can’t be grammar rules the following…
Sounds like you need to Celexa your medication with more care.
If ya’ll Stadol’d up all night, you will be sleepy.
There’s no need to meth around with sleep deprivation.
There’s not a Singulair intelligent post in this whole thread.
I think snot a problem, just ’cause it’s Benadryl long time since anyone made sense.
Now, if you’d just Cialis these posts for what they’re worth, you wouldn’t say that.
Of this punnery I see no en-nzyte…
In my opinion, all this punnery is Augmentin this thread nicely.
It’s like everyone is talking in Codeine.
Well I for one am aspirin to amuse.
Good Nyquil!! This place is full of puns today.
Well, it’s because we’ve already had some Tussin, and now we just wanna Alleve some tension…
Word. It’s not like Ibuprofen you wrong on that one bro.
There’s a small hole in the floor, must have Benadryl that did it…
I’ll take the one that makes you larger, please.
Ok, but I hope you’re wearing your stretchy pants.
what’s step 2?
I’m working on it. It involves tigers, strawberry youghurt and three volumes of À la recherche du temps perdu in paperback.
4. PROFIT!
If my ex and I had not just done that in the first place, we could have avoided an unplanned pregnancy
They’d had?
WTF.
“They’d” would be the contraction of “They had” where do they think the ‘d comes from? The extra “had” is redundant.
How do all these LoLs make it to the front page when the poster can’t even spell?
/end grammatical rantings
Or would maybe? “They would had”? Ack, that didn’t make things better.
I agree with you!
They would had a been done that thing if they didn’t not do the other thing that hadn’t not been not done.
That’s going to make a grammarnazi somewhere explode.
i am not a grammar nazi and that just made my head hurt. i honestly tried to translate it to english to see what you said and it just hurts.
I don’t even know what I said there. Don’t bother trying to translate.
You’re right, Squiggly, I exploded a little when I read the caption. They’d (they would) HAVE would have been correct. Or even They’d (they had) without the additional had would have been acceptable, I think.
Somehow when you do it, rather than feeling rage, I find it just a little bit cute. I think the adorable kissing critters in your avatar helps…
Aw you’re too sweet Steve. I made the avatar myself in MS Paint, it’s kitties kissing.
Hmm. I could have sworn its was mice cannibalizing each other’s faces. Sure looks that way to me.
DT you have a sick mind.
But in a good way… I guess.
That’s not blood and brain matter on the left?
No… it’s a heart.
They ripped out each others hearts? And I have a sick mind. Sheesh
LOL!!
DT has sick mind yesh, but for totally different reasons
At the risk of hurting your feelings, I kinda thought they looked like kissing mice….but it is a very small icon and it’s hard to see.
*comforts Squiggly*
Dude, you’re the BFF a lot rather than the BF, right?
On right, coming from Dr. Rodent Cardiectomy over here, LOL.
Psssst, it’s a perfectly perfect and perfunctory use of the past perfect!
Conclusion: Everything about this picture is a fail. Stop commenting. Next!
Occlusion: Everything about this commenter bites!
Reclusion: I’m going to go sit in my “Happy Corner”.
Incision: I can’t seem to stop commenting so I’ll chop off my fingers.
Decision: I’m off to the vote page to vote down on LOLful LOLs. Apparently, my hitting “Skip” isn’t keeping the unfunny off of the front page.
Precision: Something my typing/sentence-making lacks. I’m going to vote down non-LOLful LOLs.
Cell Division: our great minds think so much alike we must be twins.
(Confusion: at first I thought you meant to be punny, rhyming with “awful LOL,” LOL).
Admission: I was going to do that at first, but thought it would be better not to.
Recession: Must dole those words out with great care, given the shortage and all
Confession: I masterminded the recession. Bob Dole.
Bob Dole: Bob Dole says Bob Dole. Bob Dole. Bob Dole. Bob…zzzzzz…
Bob Loblaw: A grocery store chain in Canada (when you go shopping you say, “want anything from boblahblah’s?
Depression: We’re still in that hand-basket and hell-bound.
Concession: Going to the concession stand and getting myself a Pepsi and a hot dog. Anyone want anything?
Transgression: I wonder which one got me in this hand-basket…
Repression: Wanting a hotdog but having an agent of the SS overseeing your food intake.
*sips stone sour*
Secession: I hear that drink is reeeel popular with the good ‘ol boys in Texas.
Precision: How is voting down LOLful LOLs going to help get us more funnies?
Fission: I’m blowing this LOL to kingdom come.
Mission: We have to take out the unfunny/inaccurate LOLs at the source. The unfunny/inaccurate people!
A Pot To Piss In: Especially the idiots who think they can actually get away with bossing people around on a humor web site.
I try to do that all the time! How do you define “get away with”?
Everyone can get away with anything on the internet unless you invoke a banhammer…
So if you didn’t get banned you got away with it, I suppose…
Clarification: By “getting away with,” I meant somehow avoiding ceaseless ridicule and other responses that for an ordinary person might be somewhat humiliating.
I think Dmitri here is operating on a ‘drink until she’s cute’ attitude. He’s got a long night ahead of him. (Good thing he’s not with Hilary; there’s not enough beer on Bourbon St. to make THAT cute.)
Which one will implement the coyote escape clause in the a.m., do you suppose?
I’m betting him. Any takers
No, I think it’s her, she’s not much into PDA’s from what we know about her already… She probably won’t even wait until the a.m.
I’d say he’s nearing the end of that long night, look at the expression on his face. I bet his hand is already up her skirt.
He would have to have a pretty long arm! Or something…
Two opposing views and booze.
Yeah I can see that ending a war
ROFLMAO!!! YOU WIN ONE INTERNET!
mmm…Spaten….
Everyone… just no
but they get mighty drunk and sleep togther, mutant offspring brings countries togther under the hand of Von Doom.
that would of averted many wars
This is Spaten!!!!
(Badgerjohn uses snooty artist voice)
What I was trying to convey here was the universal brotherhood (and sisterhood) that exists over a simple drink, shown here between the current Chancellor of Germany and President of Russia, both of whom were key adversaries in World War II.
While neither Ms. Merkel nor Mr. Medvedev were alive during the conflicts nor were their nations the only cause of them (or, in the case of World War II, even opposed at the outbreak of hostilities), it seemed like the best point of reference in this case to promote the cause of personal friendship and shared experiences in preventing armed conflict, which I have done in the past. see: http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=4254060
“both of whom were key adversaries in World War II.”
Actually they were allies at the start of ww2
YOU ARE STUPID AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT SIMPLE HISTORY
Did you read the line just before that? The one that said “or, in the case of World War II, [not] even opposed at the outbreak of hostilities”
Please read everything before you make incorrect accusations. It’ll save you a lot of problems
but badgerjohn, that a awful lot to read..why not skip to the good parts then make a politikal choice
Or read a history book !
Germany started WW2 by invading Poland.
Russia was allied with Germany at the start
YOU ARE STUPID DO NOT TALK IN PUBLIC.
I do have a master’s degree in history, and have taught the subject for six years.
I’m aware that Germany and the Soviet Union began the war with a non-agression pact (not exactly allies, but that’s fine), but it was always a key intention of the Nazi regime to invade the Soviet Union, which they later did, at the cost of millions of lives.
Like I said, I wasn’t trying to give a detailed breakdown of international politics or 20th century history. You’re not going to find that on a website that features funny captions for random pictures.
If I offended you, which I obviously did, I’m sorry. But my cental point, like I said, was that one-on-one friendship can help prevent bigger conflicts. If you appreciate that point, great, but if you don’t, then that’s cool too.
pffft just cause you got masters degree and taught the subject for 6 year, you really think you know more about the subject? well i watched the history channel one day!
I’d like to think that education and experience did count for something, yes. Sorry if it doesn’t work for some people.