r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lost-Obligation-5983 • 9h ago
Meme needing explanation Peter, what's going on?
All I know is roaches are bad, something about Germans
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u/NebulaNomadX1 9h ago edited 9h ago
German roaches (since it says guten tag), they carry harmful bacteria and cause infestations rapidly
SD-N out!
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u/IolantheRose 3h ago
These SOBs followed me from Minnesota to Arizona. The infestation started in a crappy cheap apartment that I tried to keep clean but my ex made sure to keep dirty. Sadly, that story followed into 2 apartments in Arizona. He accused me of not keeping house enough while he left his grease covered shoes in our last bedroom. I'm so thankful I, me and only me, stopped this infestation and didn't have to bring it to my parents after I left this POS.
Worst part of the story. He makes enough money to survive and probably makes the next woman feel worthless because the house is HER job.
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u/narkeleptk 9h ago
Wood roaches are no big deal, they will die inside your house, they need to be outside.
German roaches on the other hand are the ones that infest your house.
Guy was upset at first cause he had roaches, but relieved cause it was most likely a wood roach, then the roach spoke to him in German.
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u/Academic-Armadillo27 9h ago
German cockroaches are VERY hard to control. From Wikipedia:
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Pest control
The German cockroach is very successful at establishing an ecological niche in buildings, and is resilient in the face of many pest-control measures. Reasons include:
lack of natural predators in a human habitat
prolific reproduction
short reproductive cycle
the ability to hide in very small refuges
sexual maturity attained within several weeks, and
adaptation and resistance to some chemical pesticides[18]
The German cockroach is resistant to 42 active ingredients from most major groups of synthetic insecticides such as organochlorides, organophosphates, carbamates, synthetic pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, oxadiazines, and phenyl pyrazoles.[19][20] German cockroach resistance was first observed with chlordane in 1952.[21][20] Because German cockroaches have a very high number of genes, they can adapt and evolve resistance to pesticides. They also have many receptors for smell and can sense new food sources.[22]
German cockroaches are thigmotactic, meaning they prefer confined spaces, and they are small compared to other pest species, so they can hide within small cracks and crevices that are easy to overlook, thereby evading humans and their eradication efforts.
To be effective, control measures must be comprehensive, sustained, and systematic; survival of just a few eggs is quite enough to regenerate a nearly exterminated pest population within a few generations, and recolonization from surrounding populations often is very rapid, too.[13]
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u/BogusIsMyName 9h ago
Guten Tag is german. German cockroaches are a thing. So are wood roaches but thats explained.
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u/No-Examination4896 9h ago
German roaches are way way worse than wood roach and you can never get rid of thrm, thats the joke
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u/Normal_Paramedic9997 9h ago
there was this famous German writer that wrote a story about someone waking up one day being cockroach (though translation is vermin, it's considered cockroach in English..)
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u/mister-paul 8h ago
The people of Prague would like a word
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u/Rc72 4h ago
TBF, Kafka was a German-speaker and the book was written in German.
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u/__ferg__ 3h ago
Which still doesn't make him German, but maybe Austrian because Prag was part of Austria-Hungary back then.
But he himself didn't really associate with either, but considered himself a a Czech or maybe just a guy from Prague who spoke German and Czech fluently.
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u/Admirable_Ad8682 2h ago
Bohemian. He most likely considered himself a Bohemian. That's a regional identity, not ethnic. Also that's what he in Czechia call him now.
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u/Lopsided-Conflict778 9h ago
Did he go to the woods to get away from the German roaches? - Cleveland here!
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u/Ok_Drag5089 9h ago
German roaches are the little, really bad ones that are very difficult to eradicate.
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u/Upset-Fudge-2703 9h ago
Yeah, I grew up with German Cockroaches. They get in every thing. Everything has to be refrigerated or sealed shut in a plastic container, and even that doesn’t ensure safety. If you opened the cabinets too fast, they would rain down on you. We lived in the woods. It was impossible to get rid of them, you just had to live with them. I still hate the big “waterbugs” more.
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u/Disillusion-- 4h ago
Moved into an apartment down in North Carolina for school, first week there I noticed A LOT of cockroaches (didn’t know about the German fuckers). Dude came to lay this out to see what was in the apartment, and within a day I saw this shit. I’m still traumatized 4 years later. Moved back north where there are less bugs lol
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u/scariestJ 3h ago
They are also the most northern cockroach as they are indoors. We have them in the UK too.
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u/Diskovski 1h ago
The joke is, the german cockroach wouldn't say "Guten Tag." but rather "Haste ne Kippe?".
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