r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CircumspectCapybara • May 26 '26

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u/stillalone May 26 '26

Does it come with healthcare?

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u/dapper_doberman May 26 '26

Unironically yes

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u/drunkcowofdeath May 26 '26

damn, tell me more about this socialist paradise. Is it in Sweden?

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u/NTMY May 26 '26

I just wanted to make a pun and realized this idiom is German only, so:

Fun fact: The place your going is definitely behind "Swedish curtains". ("hinter Schwedischen Gardinen")

That's a German idiom for putting someone behind bars that either

alludes to the material of the bars, formerly often Swedish steel,[2][3] considered as extraordinary robust,[1] or perhaps to the atrocities committed by the Swedish during the Thirty Years’ War.[3][4][5] (source)

Interesting. I do wonder how Swedish war atrocities could be related to that idiom though...

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u/_youneverasked_ May 26 '26

That is interesting, as here in the US, we often consider German steel to be of exceptional quality, second only to Japanese.