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Brezhnev wakes up and looks out at the rising sun. He says, "Good morning, Comrade Sun!" The sun replies, "Good morning, Comrade Brezhnev!" At noon, Brezhnev
by sverige 10y ago
Brezhnev wakes up and looks out at the rising sun. He says, "Good morning, Comrade Sun!" The sun replies, "Good morning, Comrade Brezhnev!"
At noon, Brezhnev stands on a balcony at the Kremlin and looks up. "Hello, Comrade Sun! It's a fine day!" The sun replies, "Hello, Comrade Brezhnev! Yes, it's a fine day!"
Just before sunset, Brezhnev looks out and says, "Good evening, Comrade Sun!" The sun replies, "Screw you! I'm in the West now!"
- andrei_says_ 10y agoNice :)
- sverige 10y agoRemembered another I learned from a Russian. A man and his wife live in Siberia. Every day she nags him about his drinking and his terrible friends and how he never helps her around the house. It always ends with her yelling at him to go out and bring in some wood for the stove. One day after the usual fight, the man gets to the woodpile and just keeps walking. Twenty years later, he returns. He walks into the kitchen, sees his wife, and says, "I'm home!" "Where's the wood?" she yells.
- andrei_says_ 10y agoIf you've seen Russian wives you now this is not a joke (ducks).
- Noseshine 10y agoUnless you refer to old(er) working class women with a hard life I don't see how any reasonable person can think that's even remotely a basis for a joke, given how much more beautiful Russian women look on average. Just walk around Russian cities. Having lived in the US for a decade and having been to Russia and Ukraine several times, sometimes for months living in a rented apartment, I know which country I'd choose if "women" were the decision-driving factor.
- grkvlt 10y agoIt always intrigues me how people manage to persuade themselves, or get the impression, that country X or city Y has more attractive women than anywhere else. I guess it's a 'Grass is always greener...' effect?
- waqf 10y agoIt's nontrivial to measure definitively, due not only to subjectivity but to various selection bias problems; but why do you think it could not be true?
- RogtamBar 10y agoPeople with a limited pool of ancestors are often very ugly. Especially noticeable in alpine valleys or remote island communities. Same if inbreeding is practiced. So, the claim that for example, mid-easterners with their penchant for marrying cousins, or the Swiss with their insular village communities ..
- dkersten 10y agoSounds like bias to me. We're genetically hard-wired to be attracted to those different to us. For example, I don't think that (on average) the locals where I live are particularly beautiful in comparison to other countries, but a lot of foreigners seem to disagree with me.
- jimmyk 10y ago>We're genetically hard-wired to be attracted to those different to us. Source?
- dkersten 10y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/24/genes-human-attraction https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/may/24/genes-human-... I'll look for better (primary) sources when I'm not on my phone if I remember. I vaguely remember seeing a bunch of stuff about how humans naturally gravitate towards genetic diversity, unless there's some roadblock preventing it. I don't have a source offhand though so until or unless I find one, remember to add your salt :)
- everybodyknows 10y agoAn East German version of this, with Erich Honecker in place of Brezhnev, is told by a young Stasi recruit in the 2006 film "Das Leben der Anderen". Spoiler alert: The attempt at humor proves severely career-limiting.
- camperman 10y agoI thought it was the hang up and try again joke: What's the difference between Honecker and a telephone? Nothing! Just hang up and try again! (aufhängen, neuwählen means both "hang up and try again" and "hang him and vote again")