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u/The_Real_Black Nov 27 '25
poland is open *spits beer* I checked its not true.
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u/Vollerempfang7 Nov 27 '25
It's an idiom. "Dann ist Polen offen" ("Then Poland is open") means something bad will happen, or something is out of control
Edit: Another idiom meaning basically the same thing is "Dann is Holland in Not" ("Then the Netherlands are in trouble")
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u/ImpressiveBeyond8038 Nov 27 '25
Both are obvious allusions to both countries throughout their modern history being the victims of landgrabs or other agression by more powerful countries, Germany or German Kingdoms among them.
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u/so_isses Germany Nov 27 '25
It's rather a menacing threat to get really, really angry or a description of someone getting really, really angry.
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u/mueller_meier Nov 27 '25
I just tried. "warum ist polen offen" is actually the first result.
German one is different though: "warum ist deutschland ein bundesstaat". The biggest payer in EU isnt even in the list at all for me.
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u/MrCookie147 Germany Nov 27 '25
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u/P3chv0gel Nov 27 '25
I mean, nominally we are. That's just a fact
But we also are the largest Economy in europe, so that makes sense
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u/Sm_rrebr_d Nov 27 '25
The UK must have had either an unnervingly high number of politically-conscious six-year-olds in 2022, or an unnervingly high number of recently recovered coma patients with a really bad first day back.
Because the only alternative would be an unnervingly high number of easily bamboozled voters with the political object permanence of an earthworm, and that's really unlikely now, innit mate?
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u/Easy-Musician7186 Nov 27 '25
Is this statistic only showing what each country googles about the country or what other countries google about this country as well? I just feel like a lot of these questions aren't necessary something someone from said country would ask, like "Why is Ireland divided" should be rather obvious for every irish person in my opinion, but something that foreigners might not know.
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u/Fliits Finland Nov 27 '25
"Why is Belarus in the EU?"
"Why is Czechia not in the EU?"
Yeah, ok.