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An explanation for the French one:
It's the id of a law that allow the president to bypass one of the chamber. This is of course one of those "it's just in case of emergency, bro. I swear we will not use it to force the passage of unpopular laws, bro..."
It has been used 420 times by the current government.
Ah good ol' Germany 1930s style
420!
Same with Italian. 104 is the number of the law for handicapped people
420 is definitely not a funny number in the Netherlands. Except maybe with the permanently online or stoner crowd. Iโve never heard or seen a joke with 420 in the Netherlands. Most people wouldnโt even get what it means and more people would recognize 69 as a funny number than 420.
I definitely see it a lot. More than 69? That really depends on the context and crowd.
Wondering why Poland and Turkey aren't in the "Other" category when as far as I can see they're the only ones with that number
On a separate topic, I am thinking about creating a more laid-back, relaxed community for Europeans, without news (as they seem to be the central focus of this community). I'm still investigating which server would be the best to host it, lemm.ee seems to be a good candidate.
I really liked YUROP on the spezSite, they had good silly memes about Europe and were eager to post pro-Europe stuff.
I joined a similarly named community when I switched to Lemmy, but it died off pretty quickly !yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
Maybe we could revive it, speak with their mod, or create a new one that's active?
Interesting, thanks for the pointer! http://lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz/ seems down indeed, so I guess this one is lost.
I'll probably post a dedicated post today or tomorrow about this, I can ping you if you want
Me too please
And my axe
i'd love that, thanks!
It would be awesome to have a laid-back Europe community on lemm.ee, let me know if I can support you in any way with that!
Great to hear from you, I'll keep you posted indeed!
Come over to Kbin.social!
That's for the offer, but isn't the kbin.social hosted in the US? https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
I thought kbin.social was hosted in Poland?
Those news are from 7 months ago, I guess they changed hosting since then? The link mentioned always says US: https://the-federation.info/platform/184
Yeah I check that link, and wonder where it's getting its info.
Also, that link you sent claims MEDIA.kbin.social is hosted in ...france?
Yes, I was surprised by this too
What about 1312, 1337, 161 or 42?
It's missing 8008135.
Can someone from Poland explain?
The number refers to the reported time of death of pope John Paul II, 9:37 PM or 21:37, as Poland uses a 24 hour system. The use of the number is connected with memes about the late pope, as there was almost a cult folllowing for JP2, noone was allowed to even criticize him, after his death, with time popped out evidence of the pope not being such a great person, so people started meme'ing on him.
Thanks!
And France? And Spain?
For France, 49.3 is an article of the Constitution used by the government to bypass the Parliament approval: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/world/europe/france-constitution-article-49-3.html
So that's basically the presidential french version of Ron Swanson's permit.
Ah ok, makes sense.
The Spanish thing with 5 is a lewd rhyme as well. A pretty tortured one, too. It refers to anal sex, but the word they're rhyming isn't butt. Or sex. It's just a less common word for sticking a thing into a thing.
I don't know what the 33 thing is about, though.
I looked it up, apparently there's a saying where people say "my balls 33" to mean that something is false or not gonna happen? Even people who know the expression seem confused about where it came from. I don't know, your guess is as good as mine here.
Cinco cinco ... por el culo te la hinco
31 in Turkey is another name for male masturbation
I've no idea why Croatia and Bosnia have 69 while Serbia and Montenegro have 8, when surely both "funny numbers" are well-known in the area equally. 420 is also known just about everywhere, not just Netherlands.
What's funny about 8?
When someone says "osam" (eight), you reply with one of the rhyming insults
"Nos ti posran" = Your nose is covered in shit
or
"Na kurcu te nosam" = I carry you on my cock
They're rather silly insults, I think nobody actually uses them beyond the age of 12, but everyone knows them.
No 80085?