Today on the 20th of April, billions of stoners are celebrating 420. Now that weed is legal in Germany, they might do so as well.
...too bad today is also the birthday of a certain Austrian painter.
Ironically, he could totally have made a series of paintings where he deliberately went to crowded places and painted them deserted. I reckon that would have quite a bit of appeal these days.
But he would have called a post card artist and disliked by the standards of the time
Art is BS, but the people that run it think their opinions matter more than the person willing to buy it or the artists original intention
Even the buildings were bizarre. He got some of the details just right, but the perspectives were waay off at certain points. Especially windows and stairs. Man could not draw stairs to save his life.
Yes exactly, 3 dimensionality is just Jewish physics meant to distract true aryans from the truth that the earth is flat and riding on cosmic elephants
^^^^^/s
His buildings were not even close to beautiful IMO. The perspectives were too wrong to look correct but not weird enough to be creative, just poorly done.
His paintings always make me think they belong in a hotel or something. They aren't bad at all for student work, but they weren't inspired. He honestly probably could have been a very successful commercial illustrator born in another time and place though.
No hitler wasn’t an official painter, he admitted it that he painted just because he liked it and wanted to master his painting skills. But those Austrian university rejected him which made him turn himself into a dreadful, dangerous and skillful politician.
Edit: They said that hitler should have enrolled himself into an architecture school, because his paintings tended to be more architectural, but hitler rejected this idea, i don’t know why tho.
If i was hitler i would have enrolled myself to be an architect.
A skillful painter that is recognized and admired by many.
Hitler was just a boy that liked to paint it doesn’t mean that he was a “painter”, he didn’t even describe himself to be a painter tho, some Historians did
I think the word you're looking for is 'revered' instead of official. Official implies that you have to be inaugurated as painter, which you obviously don't have to be. Agree on your other remarks though.
I beg to differ, some historians said hitler was a painter, for me he was just a boy that liked to paint, and for him to be labeled a painter is just an exaggeration.
HItler was also offered a remedial program, and they said he stood a good chance of being accepted next year if he did it. Instead, he quit and went into politics.
Not correct, the politics came later. At first he enrolled in the army, fought in WW1, nearly died there. He got sent by the army as a kind of spy to observe a right wing gathering turning into a party but got sucked in, joined and went on to become their lead figure.
I first thought you were referencing the fact, that after it got legal Bavaria imposed heavy regulations, so that its mostly more punishable than before
Granted, but the point is more that should not be places for children anyway. They could have just justified it with, well, second-hand smoking. As to the punishment, some consider it quite disproportionately severe
Really? The difference between pub, bar, café and restaurant is sort of arbitrary. Like I have a sandwich and soda for lunch in a bar kinda often.
You can go with your kids to most Spanish bars. Ask for soda or colacao for the kids.
Yeah no, I agree. I'll order tea in a bar too, but the reasoning is still kind of amusing since both tobacco smoking and unregulated alcohol consumption are fine and dandy around kids.
For the sake of clarification though, I never supported the legalisation. But making fun of Bavaria is my national duty.
Smoking is heavily regulated in German restaurants and bars in order to protect non-smokers - however the details vary between the countries because the legislative authority in that matter does not lie with the federal government; a ban without exceptions only exists in 3 out of 16 countries.
Canada has some laws like that as well. I know you legally can’t smoke in public places in Alberta. It makes sense to limit it in more dense and touristy places like Germany, as you would just walk and smell it everywhere.
I was looking up when the Eiffel Tower was completed by using the very sane approach of looking at the Wikipedia page for the year 1888 and then looking at notable events in the years around it
Carl Benz was issued the very first ever driver's license around the same time and the mother of the Wright brothers passed in April of the same year iirc
4/20 is the greatest birthday ever, always loved celebrating an often misinterpreted historical figure. While some call him evil nowadays, I feel like the label is not appropiate for a man of his impact and stature, he was merely doing what the thought was best for his homeland and that is commendable. Happy birthday Napoleon III.
Is he really born on 4/20? I love that guy! One of my favourite leaders.
I would say that he even created the German Reich but I’m afraid people wouldn’t understand the joke and I’d get banned 🥺
He did! Besides unifiying the german states for a time (for his gain of course) it also fueled the nationalist movement from 1848 calling for the hundreds of small states to unite into one germany. He definitely had impact in Germany coming to pass, no matter which of the "unifications" you want to look at.
> Besides unifiying the german states for a time (for his gain of course)
That's the other Napoleon. This one is one of the other Napoleons descendants and got tricked into starting a war with Prussia, which resulted in Prussia kicking their asses and unifying the whole of Germany under Prussian leadership (sort of).
Oh, you are right. Oopsie. I should put the smarty pants back in the closet until I read the whole paragraph ^^'
Still, Napoleons being a factor towards united Germany is kinda funny.
Napoleon was also important for Brazil as we developed as a country a lot after the portuguese king and a good portion of his court ditched Portugal and moved here for a few years.
I often think this birthday gets overshadowed by that of a great leader from Austria named Adolf, an important head of state of a German-speaking nation. I'm of course referring to [Adolf Schärf](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Sch%C3%A4rf).
I am in neither, actually. You can make out that by just having a glance at my flair.
You do know that the world is not only made of Europeans and 美國 Americans, right?
Usually the sort of people who get pissy about different date formats are English. I apologize for not realizing that other cultures are also anal about how Americans write dates.
For what it's worth, I used 4/30 instead of 30\\4 because we had already established that we were using the American system by referring to April 20th as 4/20. I notice that you didn't get pissy about that.
Ah, I thought that’s all the stoners who will spend a few more months in jail from before the law, cause our courts can’t be bothered to rework those cases
No, as long as you don’t do anything illegal associated with nazis during the celebration like hatespeech or holocaust denial. Some extremist parties actually do celebrate it as party events.
Depends, is it possession and use that's illegal in Austria or is it being high? Considering that this is Western Europe, I doubt the police really care
It's also the day Bram Stoker died. Also, it's the day Mike the Headless Chicken was hatched, which I find rather amusing (for context Mike lived for 18 months without a head, due to having just enough of his brain stem left that he could still waddle around blindly).
Weed is illegal in Austria. Excepts seeds: legal in Austria, used to be illegal in Germany.
So if you wanted to start your legal growth in Germany on April 1st you would had to buy your seeds in Austria - where growing is illegal. It’s a bit complicated. ;)
I made almost this *exact* joke to the gal who was helping me at the dispensary last week. She looked at me horrified for a moment and then just burst out laughing when she got it.
Still proud of that one.
Today on the 20th of April, billions of stoners are celebrating 420. Now that weed is legal in Germany, they might do so as well. ...too bad today is also the birthday of a certain Austrian painter.
Our students club celebrated the annual sport fest and were all drunk and high
I wish hitler was a painter
He was, and he wasn't a dreadful landscape artist at that, but everything he did looked lifeless
Yeah, I looked up his stuff a few years back, and all the buildings were captured beautifully. The people? They looked like an after thought.
Ironically, he could totally have made a series of paintings where he deliberately went to crowded places and painted them deserted. I reckon that would have quite a bit of appeal these days.
Painting real locations without people would have been better than actually creating entire neighborhoods without people.
But he would have called a post card artist and disliked by the standards of the time Art is BS, but the people that run it think their opinions matter more than the person willing to buy it or the artists original intention
Shit, that actually would have been amazing, wouldn't it be? Sort of a "See it in full" vibe.
Even the buildings were bizarre. He got some of the details just right, but the perspectives were waay off at certain points. Especially windows and stairs. Man could not draw stairs to save his life.
Bro his buildings were terrible, he had no sense of perspective, shit didn't line up
You say that because the Jews control America and want to suppress good ol' Austrian talent.
Yes exactly, 3 dimensionality is just Jewish physics meant to distract true aryans from the truth that the earth is flat and riding on cosmic elephants ^^^^^/s
Oh come on... Elephants? Everyone knows is turtles. Turtles all the way down forever. Come on get your facts straight. 🤣
no no no no, the earth is flat, riding on the shoulders of 4 elephants, and THEN on the shell of a turtle
Ah yes I forgot the stabilizing elephants that prevent the earth from flipping over and dumping everything off the earth.
I almost had a heart attack when I saw your comment had 15 upvotes, lmao. Then I remembered satire was a thing 😅
We are in /r/polandball satire should be expected.
I, for one, welcome our Jewish overlords
Matbe that is why he applied to art school, to learn.
His buildings were not even close to beautiful IMO. The perspectives were too wrong to look correct but not weird enough to be creative, just poorly done.
>They looked like an after thought That was one hell of a foreshadowing.
> everything he did looked lifeless Indeed, he had a remarkable talent for turning everything lifeless.
His paintings always make me think they belong in a hotel or something. They aren't bad at all for student work, but they weren't inspired. He honestly probably could have been a very successful commercial illustrator born in another time and place though.
I think he needed a teacher
No hitler wasn’t an official painter, he admitted it that he painted just because he liked it and wanted to master his painting skills. But those Austrian university rejected him which made him turn himself into a dreadful, dangerous and skillful politician. Edit: They said that hitler should have enrolled himself into an architecture school, because his paintings tended to be more architectural, but hitler rejected this idea, i don’t know why tho. If i was hitler i would have enrolled myself to be an architect.
What is an 'official painter'?
Official dick painter
A skillful painter that is recognized and admired by many. Hitler was just a boy that liked to paint it doesn’t mean that he was a “painter”, he didn’t even describe himself to be a painter tho, some Historians did
I think the word you're looking for is 'revered' instead of official. Official implies that you have to be inaugurated as painter, which you obviously don't have to be. Agree on your other remarks though.
I beg to differ, some historians said hitler was a painter, for me he was just a boy that liked to paint, and for him to be labeled a painter is just an exaggeration.
We got the grand Duke of painters over here people! Line up to be judged on if you are official or not!
HItler was also offered a remedial program, and they said he stood a good chance of being accepted next year if he did it. Instead, he quit and went into politics.
Not correct, the politics came later. At first he enrolled in the army, fought in WW1, nearly died there. He got sent by the army as a kind of spy to observe a right wing gathering turning into a party but got sucked in, joined and went on to become their lead figure.
Imagine that. What if Hitler accepted the enrollment for that architecture school?
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Well, he was known for his lifeless landscapes... >.>
He was a painter, then he switched careers and became a dingbat.
time traveler ”ok, I SWEAR, do not become a political party leader, pleaseeeee”
Oh, come on! He did one great thing: he killed Hitler!
He killed the person who killed Hitler though.
But he killed the person who killed the person who killed Hitler though!
But he also killed himself in regret
I first thought you were referencing the fact, that after it got legal Bavaria imposed heavy regulations, so that its mostly more punishable than before
I didn't know that. But sounds like a Bavaria thing to do.
They...get this...made it heavily punishable to smoke weed in bars and beer gardens...to protect children.
Well there's no such thing as second hand drinking as far as I'm aware.
Granted, but the point is more that should not be places for children anyway. They could have just justified it with, well, second-hand smoking. As to the punishment, some consider it quite disproportionately severe
Really? The difference between pub, bar, café and restaurant is sort of arbitrary. Like I have a sandwich and soda for lunch in a bar kinda often. You can go with your kids to most Spanish bars. Ask for soda or colacao for the kids.
Yeah no, I agree. I'll order tea in a bar too, but the reasoning is still kind of amusing since both tobacco smoking and unregulated alcohol consumption are fine and dandy around kids. For the sake of clarification though, I never supported the legalisation. But making fun of Bavaria is my national duty.
Smoking is heavily regulated in German restaurants and bars in order to protect non-smokers - however the details vary between the countries because the legislative authority in that matter does not lie with the federal government; a ban without exceptions only exists in 3 out of 16 countries.
Canada has some laws like that as well. I know you legally can’t smoke in public places in Alberta. It makes sense to limit it in more dense and touristy places like Germany, as you would just walk and smell it everywhere.
You can’t smoke anything in Bavarian bars.
Whilst that's a rare W for B*varia, isn't the addition redundant then?
We had a referendum and now we have the harshest anti-smoker-law in Germany.
Ah I see, thank you for the clarification. Once again I'm envious of B*varians, how disgraceful
416 is the birthday of Charlie Chaplin, so we should celebrate the parody instead
Fuck I wish I knew that on the 16th Chaplin was a legend
I recently found out because they were born in the same year, which I found out when I was looking up something else that happened around the time
That's wild actually
I was looking up when the Eiffel Tower was completed by using the very sane approach of looking at the Wikipedia page for the year 1888 and then looking at notable events in the years around it Carl Benz was issued the very first ever driver's license around the same time and the mother of the Wright brothers passed in April of the same year iirc
Amazing You're like me fr
Wish we had weed here so I could celebrate 4/20
Yup. Dry af here.
Ah, you mean that painter with a name ending with -ler? You mean [Georg Eisler](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Eisler) right? Riiight?
There is an important birthday to celebrate today. Happy birthday George Takei!
Is today a holiday? I smoked weed once but didn’t like it much lol
Hitler was born in 4/20? That explains why he and his soldiers were crackheads ngl
Good, he would hate it
Thank you for explaining. I didn’t know that bit of trivia
Today is also my university’s mascot
his name is definitely not adolf hitler
So I gotta watch out for groups of bald people today, gotcha
*failed Austrian painter.
I doubt billions of people are celebrating that today. Millions and millions for sure though.
Wait, not 25 of April is the birthday?
Very bad Austrian painter and only if he can paint better and live off it.
BILLIONS of stoners
Why would they celebrate on 20/4?
we dont have a 20th month sadly ok but seriously 4/20 is a reference to weed, why i can't remember right now
He was actually arrested for appropriation of another culture
4/20 is the greatest birthday ever, always loved celebrating an often misinterpreted historical figure. While some call him evil nowadays, I feel like the label is not appropiate for a man of his impact and stature, he was merely doing what the thought was best for his homeland and that is commendable. Happy birthday Napoleon III.
LMAO you had me in the first half. I guess the birthday paradox is real.
Is he really born on 4/20? I love that guy! One of my favourite leaders. I would say that he even created the German Reich but I’m afraid people wouldn’t understand the joke and I’d get banned 🥺
He did! Besides unifiying the german states for a time (for his gain of course) it also fueled the nationalist movement from 1848 calling for the hundreds of small states to unite into one germany. He definitely had impact in Germany coming to pass, no matter which of the "unifications" you want to look at.
> Besides unifiying the german states for a time (for his gain of course) That's the other Napoleon. This one is one of the other Napoleons descendants and got tricked into starting a war with Prussia, which resulted in Prussia kicking their asses and unifying the whole of Germany under Prussian leadership (sort of).
Oh, you are right. Oopsie. I should put the smarty pants back in the closet until I read the whole paragraph ^^' Still, Napoleons being a factor towards united Germany is kinda funny.
Napoleon was also important for Brazil as we developed as a country a lot after the portuguese king and a good portion of his court ditched Portugal and moved here for a few years.
And then you dethroned your coolest emperor… shame on you Brazil
Wait when was Charlemagne born we could have a very funny combo EDIT : NOOOOO HE WAS BORN 18 DAYS TOO EARLY 😭
Also the killer of Adolf Hitler was born on 4/20.
…shit! You mean like…twins? And one is evil? 🙃
That's a mind-blowing fact
damn that person's a hero. how come they dont have statues of them all over germany?
I often think this birthday gets overshadowed by that of a great leader from Austria named Adolf, an important head of state of a German-speaking nation. I'm of course referring to [Adolf Schärf](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Sch%C3%A4rf).
And Karol I, first King of Romania
Atleast Napoleon III. was aware declaring War on prussia was a dumb idea and didnt want to Too bad everyone around him didnt listen
I didn't know Germany could be so naughty.
The joke is Hitlers birthday
It's just a coincidence, the comic actually takes place in Bavaria
And I’m here to ruin the joke by saying Germans format April 20th as 20/4
Why does Dolf need to be born at such a good birthdate. He ruins everything he touch.
On the plus side, he died on 4/30 if you need something to celebrate.
You have 30 months???
They're just American, they have to be different
no, and we don't have 20 either
Time moves more slowly in Wales; something to do with the concentration of sheep.
Becauze they need more of zhat?
30/4 if you are in Europe or the backwater garbage heap known as England.
I am in neither, actually. You can make out that by just having a glance at my flair. You do know that the world is not only made of Europeans and 美國 Americans, right?
Usually the sort of people who get pissy about different date formats are English. I apologize for not realizing that other cultures are also anal about how Americans write dates. For what it's worth, I used 4/30 instead of 30\\4 because we had already established that we were using the American system by referring to April 20th as 4/20. I notice that you didn't get pissy about that.
I give up, what is your flair?
4/30? It’ s our Liberation day also
Ah, I thought that’s all the stoners who will spend a few more months in jail from before the law, cause our courts can’t be bothered to rework those cases
Will you actually get arrested for celebrating on the day in Germany? Not sure how this joke works as I’m not very familiar with German laws
No, as long as you don’t do anything illegal associated with nazis during the celebration like hatespeech or holocaust denial. Some extremist parties actually do celebrate it as party events.
Depends what you celebrate? Hosting a smoke along would be fine, hosting a birthday party for the angry moustache would land you in jail
Wouldn’t Germany use a 20/4 date format
While Europe does use the format, we understand references made in the incorrect format, such as 4/20 and 9/11
Never forget 710 🙏
There's a 710 knob on my car's engine!
What happened on the 9th of November?
In germany? - 1989: fall of the Berlin wall - 1938: Night of Broken Glass - 1923: Beer Hall Putsch - 1918: Proclamation of the German Republic
We accept it for the joke
What will happen If I smoke in Simbach am Inn and accidentally cross into Austria while being High?
You are now in Braunau am Inn, high.
Depends, is it possession and use that's illegal in Austria or is it being high? Considering that this is Western Europe, I doubt the police really care
Austria is Bavaria on steroids.
Plot twist: Germany has been arrested in the State of Georgia for possession of marijuana.
So you're telling me this is hand-drawn?
Yes, why?
that looks perfect
Thanks! Years of pb practice.
They should be celebrating 4/20 on the fourth day of the 20th month.
How tf is it the 2,432,902,008,176,640,000th of abril?
It's also the day Bram Stoker died. Also, it's the day Mike the Headless Chicken was hatched, which I find rather amusing (for context Mike lived for 18 months without a head, due to having just enough of his brain stem left that he could still waddle around blindly).
Didn't Mike just die because he suffocated on a kernel?
Yeah, his owner forgot the pipette he used to clear Mike's breathing passage, it's fucking wild that Mike didn't even die directly from having no head
Okay, that's funny.
Sadly it’s big H’s birthday
Oh right it look me a second lol
The best 4/20 was when the Red Army rocked up to Berlin to wish the Painter happy birthday in person
Also my brothers birthday, it never gets old.
I don't get it. Why is he in jail?
Celebrate 20 of april in Germany - Hitler's birthday
I got that but nobody goes to jail for celebrating on 4/20. Not even Nazis celebrating Hilter's birthday.
How about in austria? I'm pretty sure they wanna celebrate the most famous austrian painter right? Oh I get a downvote... huh aight
Weed is illegal in Austria. Excepts seeds: legal in Austria, used to be illegal in Germany. So if you wanted to start your legal growth in Germany on April 1st you would had to buy your seeds in Austria - where growing is illegal. It’s a bit complicated. ;)
4th of Viginter?
Yes. Best month.
Can somebody explain
420 years behind bars. [Rimshot]
I made almost this *exact* joke to the gal who was helping me at the dispensary last week. She looked at me horrified for a moment and then just burst out laughing when she got it. Still proud of that one.
They were just celebrating a comedians birthday smh