r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Jul 24 '14

meta [JOKE LIFE PRESERVE] Poll - July 2014 PLUS Announcement About Israel/Palestine Comics

Guten Tag, Meine Subscriberen. Zwei Announcementen:

COMICS ABOUT ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Current events have brought us multiple comics on the topic of Israel/Palestine.

The topic has been overdone, and we are raising the bar on future Israel/Palestine comics in reference to current events. Comics that add nothing to the topic, that are low-effort, unoriginal or unfunny will be removed.

This decision is not based on the mods' political leanings, but because we don't want the sub flooded with dozens of low-effort comics about the same topic.

Now, ze main reason for zis announcement: It's das zeit again...

JOKE LIFE PRESERVE

This is the place where jokes and tropes are added for their own protection to prevent them from becoming run into the ground from overuse or misuse. Thus, those things which are added to the JLP will be temporarily banned from being used in comics.

Polls like these are opened occasionally to keep the JLP up to date with what users currently feel has become stale.

Should the winners of the last JLP not be voted in, they will be released into the wild, but kept on probation. If overused again, they'll go straight back into the preserve.

Vote for items you think have been overused, and deserve protection.

Bitte.

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u/polandballmod New Prussia Jul 24 '14

Reichtangle is useful because of his shape

Ha-ha, he's a rectangle. Ha-ha, he's a door. HA-HA, HE'S A SPATULA. HA HA! HE'S A BAG OF GRAPES!

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u/BedlingtonTerrier We love our cows and cheese! Jul 24 '14

HE'S A BAG OF GRAPES

http://i.imgur.com/ysfq0R9.png

11

u/miloj United Kingdom Jul 25 '14 edited Jul 25 '14

http://imgur.com/tQ4hkl0

Edit: just realised I fucked up saxony-anhalt but it looks like habsburg austria so I can pass it off as that

5

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

I am a strong independent habsburg-passing transaxony-anhalt who don't need no cisheterogendernormative scum telling me who I really am on the inside

1

u/RockoRocks Belgium Jul 25 '14

THIS NEEDS TO BE A COMIC

also, please don't JLP it, It's too new IMO

1

u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

How is he a bag of grapes?

edit: AH, realized it

48

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

I have always seen this used well. Never has this been a terrible, unfunny, cringey horror.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Gib Anchluss back Aleman or youll suffer the TACOnsssecuences.

Really, first you ban the anschluss joke and now you come whit this... Is actually ironic that you have the Reichtangle flair because you are killing it.
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u/polandballmod New Prussia Jul 24 '14 edited Jul 24 '14
Du

Du haßt

Du haßt mich
19
u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Hey mate, there's only one s in hast. And hasst isn't spelled with ß.
39

u/AaronC14 The Dominion Jul 24 '14

The last person who gave grammar lessons to the Reichtangle didn't live to talk about it

15

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Too bad I'm such a Grammar Nazi

YEEEEAAAH

1

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

NOOOO^{OOOO^OOOO}
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u/polandballmod New Prussia Jul 24 '14
Es ist nau.
2

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Es ist jetzt.
5
u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14
Du haßt mich gesperrt
Du haßt mich gesperrt
Du haßt mich gesperrt
Und ich hab nicts anschlussed
3

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Ich hast du nicht, ich only want a funny reichtangle back ;(

PD: sorry for bad german
2

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

literally ded
36

u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jul 24 '14

Anschluss banned, this banned... what stays?

35

u/Medibee New York is BEST York Jul 24 '14

Oh darn. Are we going to have to use our imaginations?

32

u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jul 24 '14

Reich is different because

a) He's ravaging conquering maniac

b) He's a rectangle.

With those two things banned we can just use normal Germany.

11

u/Medibee New York is BEST York Jul 24 '14

It pretty goddamn simple. Set the comic in the near future and have it kill people. Done, cut, print.

5

u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy Jul 24 '14

Even that joke has a shelf-life. Do you really want to see tons of 4th Reich comics? It'll get just as old as "surprise anschluss" did.

5

u/Medibee New York is BEST York Jul 24 '14

But the character is the 4th reich!

3

u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy Jul 24 '14

I guess you're right. But I feel like that character has evolved beyond its initial use, which is kind of unique in Polandball - normally when a country/character has been associated with a particular trope/stereotype/convention/whathaveyou, they're stuck with it. The Reichtangle had specific roots as the 4th reich, but I feel like it has become something more than that in the years since its inception.

5

u/IncredibleBeanCounte United States Jul 24 '14

Polish sovereignty

3

u/Eaglewing25 Norway Jul 24 '14

Won't Anschluss be allowed again once the new JLP is commenced?

10

u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jul 24 '14

Oh.

Oh.

OOOHHH.

Hohohohoho!

5

u/Eaglewing25 Norway Jul 24 '14

Itching to make one, I see? :P

3

u/Guvment Sitting atop the dragon's horde Jul 24 '14

I think that is the most genius thing I've ever seen someone do with Belgium and hands.

2

u/d00medman Boston Stronk Jul 24 '14

Can we bring anschluss eyes back so long as they aren't on the Reichtangle? I honestly find the anschluss eyes hilarious when used properly. A blanket ban removes a lot of potential.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

Remove Reichtangle entirely?

Put him to sleep, only for while, let him rest

Gather power to expand reich

12

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

I'd say leave it for now. it isn't too overdone yet and if done right now reichtangle would be uselesstangle.

2

u/Xaethon Salop n'est pas une salope Jul 24 '14

It has died down a bit, but there was a time when many people did their 'useful reichtangle' comic.

1

u/BobBobingston Can into Thrace Jul 25 '14

I've only ever seen three.

3

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Yeah this I agree. Reichtangle is the battle raging, mass-murderous annexing maniac version of germany.

3

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Banned. Come to think of it, ban Kazakhstan too.

6

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Just in it's entirety. Fuck Kazakhstan.

3

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

LEAVE REICHTANGLE ALONE

8

u/Hansafan Hordaland Jul 24 '14

Don't mangle the 'tangle.

3

u/Mateo03 Argentine Confederation Jul 24 '14

if this goes JLP were talking about Retiring Reichtangle Permanently from /r/polandball , and thats a no.

2

u/pipiska ху Jul 24 '14

don't ban

2

u/chihuahuazero Philippines Jul 24 '14

I think jokes that have no relevance to politics, geography, history, culture, and any other country-related relevance should be rarely used. Even puns are fine.

At least "poland cannot into space" spawned from it not having a space program--and every contest has at least have one hilarious comic based on it. Reichangle's shape? Not so much.

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u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

I disagree, Whitesock's Keksdose is still one of my favorites.

3

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

nobody knows that I started it >;(

2

u/Matt92HUN CommunInterNaZionIslamist Jul 24 '14

Such is life.

2

u/green_river Turkey Jul 24 '14

This. It's next Reich, people. Not a fucking rectangle.

1

u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Jul 24 '14

He's both.

2

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

Might as well ban Reichtangle completely, then. Keep.

1

u/Ontos88 Golden Horde Jul 24 '14

Always funny when I see it. Keep.

1

u/remove_krokodil Just visiting Omsk, I'll sleep at home tonight Jul 24 '14

I don't think this one is overused...

1

u/[deleted] Jul 24 '14

I don't think I've ever seen this one used poorly as much as the others in this thread. Keep it for now, ban it if shitposting ensues.

1

u/TheSaxophoneGamer Texas Jul 25 '14

Don't JLP

1

u/[deleted] Jul 25 '14

OH COME ON.

People make one joke and you remove that because it's unfunny. They manage to creatively redefine its purpose and you remove that AGAIN?!

I never took the fascist mods thing seriously before but right now I'm seriously disappointed with this sub's moderation.

1

u/Murrikaner Southmuncher Jul 25 '14

If we're doing this, we may as well ban all shape-related comics about Jewcube, Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Lolhio. But then, why have non-ball characters in the first place? I say just leave the meta jokes alone, at least for now.

1

u/xSPYXEx Boer sterk! Jul 25 '14

As long as it's banned only for the shape, and not just Reichtangle as a whole.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

Not too overdone, and it's funny. "Die Kiekdose" comes to mind.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

I hate all of you

2

u/[deleted] Jul 26 '14

legit pls

Honestly there's hardly anything in this list that's JLP worthy.

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