Germany Wants to See Your Papers for That Unicorn

[Comrade_Beric]

Be fair. If a customs guy, who isn't "in" on the joke, sees a listing for canned meat of course he's going to flag it for further inspection until they know what the hell it is. "Unicorn" could just as easily be part of the brand name.

It does make for some funny though.

 

[HK_01]

I am ashamed...

This is just so mind-numbingly stupid.

Edit: Actually, I guess it's okay. I mean, they might not even know what a "Unicorn" is or they might think it's part of the brand name and just some unknown, unlabeled meat that needs to be checked or it's a devious cover-up for smuggling meat of actually rare animals, like tigers. Just saying they might actually have a good reason. But in all honesty they should've just opened it, looked inside and then forget about it and stop holding it up.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

But unicorns aren't even real!

 

[Dana22]

Yes, lets put plush grenades and label them as Holy Hand Grenade, we will see what happens.

 

[Arawn.Chernobog]

This is why I recommend you purchase local unicorn meat, why pay so much money and waste so much time on a foreign product?

Buy local people, from your local Spellbutcher, a sub-spec of Spellswords. If you happen to live in an area without Spellbutchers, well time to start your own enterprise, head to the nearest forest and place your overly ambitious baby sister that believes in fairies as bait, capture a male and a female and begin your own... Al-right this joke dragged on too long, bottom line: UNICORNS DON'T EXIST, GERMANY!

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Well if you worked in Customs and saw a box labelled "Unicorn Meat" are you telling me you would just go "Ok, next". You'd damn well look in the box.

True. I mean, this might as well have been completely unlabeled for all the good calling it "Unicorn Meat" is going to do to identify its contents.

On the other hand, if all it would take to smuggle illegal stuff past Customs is putting a false but plausible label on the can, what good is Customs at all?

 

[Mechsoap]

They dident even open the can to check it?

 

[Chrinik]

Yes, we strictly prohibit the import of meat from mystical creatures, since they are so rare.
Fuck that...the 10 commandments has 279 words, the US Bill of independence has 300 and the EU law for the import of caramel drops has exactly 25.911....

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

But unicorns aren't even real!

You know, German customs agents aren't required to be 100% fluent in English.

I mean, if you were working in customs and got a package labelled "Einhorn Meat", you'd want to hold that while you checked what the hell that is.

Then, of course, you have to hold it while you figure out why a purely fictitious substance has been declared on a customs form, which is a dumb move on the part of the company. I'm actually with Germany on this one.

Pretty much all students learn English in Europe.

 

[Dogstile]

Also, who in their right mind would buy this anyway?

I would. Yeah sure there might be a debate if i'm in my right mind or not, but that's for you to decide.

 

[Zakarath]

The customs officials be trollin'

 

[PurpleSkull]

Ha, German bureaucracy is at it again! I'm sure we would be the only nation to shoot down Santa Claus for illegally invading our Airspace without proper papers.

 

[ShadesOfGrey84]

Well, our neighbor Germany.. isn't well know over here for having bureaucrats with creative thinking :\
and that is considering my country practically invented the 'obstructive bureaucracy'

 

[Dioxide45]

But unicorns aren't even real!

You know, German customs agents aren't required to be 100% fluent in English.

I mean, if you were working in customs and got a package labelled "Einhorn Meat", you'd want to hold that while you checked what the hell that is.

Then, of course, you have to hold it while you figure out why a purely fictitious substance has been declared on a customs form, which is a dumb move on the part of the company. I'm actually with Germany on this one.

Pretty much all students learn English in Europe.

Well. If you think about it, if the Germans call Unicorns "Einhorns" then they'd expect a direct translation to be "Onehorn". Not "Unicorn".

 

[TheAmazingHobo]

You people are all getting this wrong.
Illegal Unicron hunting and by extension the selling of Unicorn meat, is one of the top concerns of Germany´s wildlife agencies at the moment.
It is part of a goverment policy designed to counteract the recent problems creatures from fairy tales have experienced.
Have you BEEN to the Black Forest lately ?
The 7 dwarfes, evicted, Hansel and Gretel, connected to gang violence, Unicorns, hunted down and shot because of greed.
For you yanks this might be a joking matter.
But this is Germany.
And, as you should all have learned in school, we take our mythical creatures very seriously!
Also, we are batshit, fucking insane.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

But unicorns aren't even real!

You know, German customs agents aren't required to be 100% fluent in English.

I mean, if you were working in customs and got a package labelled "Einhorn Meat", you'd want to hold that while you checked what the hell that is.

Then, of course, you have to hold it while you figure out why a purely fictitious substance has been declared on a customs form, which is a dumb move on the part of the company. I'm actually with Germany on this one.

Pretty much all students learn English in Europe.

Well. If you think about it, if the Germans call Unicorns "Einhorns" then they'd expect a direct translation to be "Onehorn". Not "Unicorn".

That would make sense if they didn't have teachers who were qualified to properly teach English, but they do, so it doesn't.

 

[Eatbrainz]

I could make a joke about Germans having no sense of humor but that's too easy, I'm a sportsman!

 

[Max_imus]

But unicorns aren't even real!

You know, German customs agents aren't required to be 100% fluent in English.

I mean, if you were working in customs and got a package labelled "Einhorn Meat", you'd want to hold that while you checked what the hell that is.

Then, of course, you have to hold it while you figure out why a purely fictitious substance has been declared on a customs form, which is a dumb move on the part of the company. I'm actually with Germany on this one.

Pretty much all students learn English in Europe.

Well. If you think about it, if the Germans call Unicorns "Einhorns" then they'd expect a direct translation to be "Onehorn". Not "Unicorn".

That would make sense if they didn't have teachers who were qualified to properly teach English, but they do, so it doesn't.

And how much of what they learned as a student is going to stick with them over the years?

OT: That's what custom officers get paid for, you know, checking suspicious things people want to bring into their countries. It's kinda funny in retrospect, though, and I suppose the people who finally opened the can got a good laugh out of it as well.

 

[Omgsarge]

But unicorns aren't even real!

You know, German customs agents aren't required to be 100% fluent in English.

I mean, if you were working in customs and got a package labelled "Einhorn Meat", you'd want to hold that while you checked what the hell that is.

Then, of course, you have to hold it while you figure out why a purely fictitious substance has been declared on a customs form, which is a dumb move on the part of the company. I'm actually with Germany on this one.

Pretty much all students learn English in Europe.

Well. If you think about it, if the Germans call Unicorns "Einhorns" then they'd expect a direct translation to be "Onehorn". Not "Unicorn".

That would make sense if they didn't have teachers who were qualified to properly teach English, but they do, so it doesn't.

And those teachers teach them all vocabulary concerning mythical creatures...right. I can't remember learning about Unicorns in my English classes.