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Welcome to YUROP
The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence

A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.

Here we toast:
🇪🇺 The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
🧀 The freest of health care
🍷 The finest of foods
🏳️‍🌈 The liberalest of liberties
🌍 The proud non-members and honorary cousins 💶 And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.

Post memes, news, satire, linguistic wars, train maps, cursed food photos, Eurovision fever, propaganda and whatever makes you scream “only in YUROP.”

Leave your stereotypes at the border control and enjoy the ride.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Har sjömän större chans att vara bögar eller? Är jag i fel yrke, månne?

It was (is?) a long standing joke or inference that the US Navy attracts gay dudes. I've never looked to see where this came from because I never really cared, but it's there. The joke seems to be dying, thankfully.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] unknowablenight@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

Don't mind if I do

Sweden: Gay since 1945!

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's less about attracting gay dudes and more about not having much choice (hence the saying, "it's not gay if you're underway")