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Montenegro earthquake masturbation joke

joke · Slovenian/Yugoslav · retold in 8 talks

A Montenegrin man digs a hole in the earth, inserts his penis, and waits for an earthquake to do the work, because Montenegrins are stereotyped as too lazy even to masturbate.

2006: 1 talk 2009: 2 talks 2010: 1 talk 2014: 1 talk 2015: 1 talk 2017: 1 talk
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026

As told 6

“how do a montenegrin guy in their lazy masturbate? he digs a hole in the earth, put his penis in and wait for the earthquake.”
“he digs a small hole in the earth, puts the penis in and waits for the earthquake because he is even too lazy.”
“He digs a hole in the earth and puts the penis in, he's even too lazy to move, he waits for the earthquake.”

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one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

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Every retelling 7

A Montenegrin man digs a hole in the earth, inserts his penis, and waits for an earthquake to do the work, because Montenegrins are stereotyped as too lazy even to masturbate., illustrating progressive racism,Yugoslav humor as solidarity,obscenity as social bonding
A Montenegrin man, stereotyped as extremely lazy, digs a hole, inserts his penis, and waits for the earthquake to masturbate for him., illustrating ethnic jokes as social bonding,Yugoslav inter-republican solidarity through ribald humor
A Montenegrin man masturbates by digging a hole and waiting for an earthquake, too lazy to move. Illustrates the Montenegrin national stereotype of laziness, deployed as an example of self-deprecating inter-Yugoslav obscene solidarity., illustrating obscene exchange of solidarity
How does a Montenegrin masturbate? He digs a hole in the earth, puts his penis in it, and waits for the earthquake, because he is too lazy to do anything himself. Told as an example of self-deprecating Yugoslav humor that functions as solidarity., illustrating obscene supplement of power,Yugoslav solidarity through humor
A Montenegro man masturbates by digging a hole, inserting his penis, and waiting for an earthquake because he is too lazy even to move, illustrating Montenegro's stereotype of extreme laziness told as a self-deprecating in-group joke., illustrating progressive racism,Yugoslav fraternity through dirty jokes
How does a Montenegro man masturbate? He digs a hole in the earth, puts his penis in, and waits for the earthquake, illustrating the cliché of Montenegrin laziness., illustrating emancipatory obscenity,ethnic self-irony,bratstvo i jedinstvo through shared transgression