Erik Uden 🚩

Dancing, making jokes or satire publicly, is illegal next week Friday in Germany.

This is not a joke. Whenever I talk about this publicly people think it's a joke. This concept is so foreign to some people.

My favorite TV shows can't air because it's illegal to make jokes that day.

What kinda Footlose sh*t is this??

Mar 24, 2024 at 9:10pmWeb
Show threadQuadRadicalMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden why, because its Easter?
Show threadJulianMar 25, 2024
@QuadRadical @ErikUden yeah, it's a so-called "Stiller Feiertag" (silent holiday), there are multiple of them, not just Easter Friday, but it's the most known example
Show threadScary Pumpkin Lantern 🎃 Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden I mean, this is pretty much what everyone expects from Germany all the time.
Show threadVeeMar 25, 2024
@orangelantern 🤣 🤣 🤣 @ErikUden
Show threadDuncan BluesMar 25, 2024
@orangelantern
Touché! 😝
@ErikUden
Show threadhonk if you want to honk Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden Ich öffne einmal jährlich meinen illegalen Partykeller und dann tanzen all meine satanistischen Freund*innen zur Techno-Remixes vom Life of Brian Soundtrack
Show threadWord of Mouth 🍄  Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden For "Good" Friday? LOL super creepy!

Seems like would definitely be a law worth breaking with utter impunity
Show threadSherlock SchafMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden ah yes my Person are illegal next friday... -.-
Show threadYaoi Box BalloonMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden People in Germany dont believe me when I tell them Ireland banned the sale of alcohol on Good Friday. Not sure if it's still the case but was definitely until 2010 at least.
Show threadSlaíneMar 24, 2024
@monsoonrains @ErikUden that was reversed only a couple of years ago.
Show threadDentaku (Thomas Renger)Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden Hab gerade nachgesehen: Footlose ist nicht auf der Liste der verbotenen Filme (aber z.B. Die Feuerzangenbowle oder Didi der Doppelgänger).
Show threadFlominatorMar 25, 2024
@dentaku @ErikUden Es ging vermutlich eher darum, dass es in Footlose ein Tanzverbot gibt.
Show threadIchdochnichMar 24, 2024

@ErikUden

Yes, Erik is telling the truth.
*sighs*

It's not easy to live under religiots.

Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden Wow. The only thing we do is not open shops and there are no TV or radio commercials.
Show threadBig Kumera EnergyMar 24, 2024
@jackyan @ErikUden we also ban alcohol sales on good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas day
Show threadJack Yan (甄爵恩)Mar 24, 2024
@depereo @ErikUden To be fair, no sales at all for anything …
Show threadJanet GrootebroederMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden This one again. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/067/501/453/651/604/original/9dc2f98c538bdd76.jpg
Show threadUrwumpeMar 24, 2024

@ErikUden See it like that: the "carfreitag" events are also illegal because of it (a car tuning and illegal street racing event). 😁

Managed once to step off the train and right into the police busting the Limburg event for the first time in history, after it was tolerated for a few years.

Show threadRicardo WilckeMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden ist mir egal. Habe die Lügen schon als Kind durchschaut und hab keine Gehirnwäsche an mich gelassen. Auch als mein Vater für kurze Zeit in mein Leben trat und mich brechen wollte. So machen das die Nazis immer noch.
Show threadBear Jew 2.0 Mar 24, 2024
@ErikUden It is actually illegal to watch Life of Bryan...
Show threadWilfried KlaebeMar 25, 2024

@carsten To publicly show it, not to watch it at home without bothering anyone else.

@ErikUden

Show threadGinevraCatMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden Is it a public holiday? Here in the Netherlands I find it so weird that it's NOT a holiday but other religious days are.
Show threadMinaMar 24, 2024

@ErikUden

Fuck the church!

I will be shitposting all day (in German) on Good Friday!

Show threadkami_kadseMar 24, 2024

@ErikUden

yes. could I see that separation of church and state again?

Show threadAhimsaMar 24, 2024

@ErikUden

Wow. First of all, how the hell do people remember that it is Good Friday? Especially when Easter changes dates every year?

I would end up arrested because I'm clueless even when it comes to secular holidays. So I'm never going to remember any religious ones!

I might happen to read about it in the news but then an hour later it would be completely forgotten.

Show threadJulianMar 25, 2024
@ahimsa_pdx @ErikUden Easter is a pretty big holiday in Germany, so it's not that hard to be reminded of Good Friday
Show threadAssimilateborg has movedMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden as a protest, people are watching Life of Brian.
Show threadOktavía JónsMar 24, 2024
@ErikUden same in Iceland. No boardgames, dancing or singing iirc
Show threadJayMar 25, 2024
@oktavia @ErikUden Can you at least play Tic Tac Toe, or as it’s otherwise known, Halos and Crucifixes?
Show threadOktavía JónsMar 25, 2024
@WhiteCatTamer @ErikUden nei! 🥁💥😂
Show threadBebef 🦦🇪🇺🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚙🐼🥦🚩🏴Mar 25, 2024
@ErikUden "Separation of church and state" my ass.
Show threadCyMar 25, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany
About half [of Christians in Germany] belong to the Protestant Church a federation of twenty Lutheran
Ohh.
Religion in Germany - Wikipedia

Show threadVeeMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden ...No wonder everyone wants to live in France. There's no way on gawd's green earth that anything like that would even dawn on anyone...! 🤣
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 25, 2024

@ErikUden you can.thank #Christofacists for that and yes I'll violate that shit as hard as I can and noone can and will be able to stop me from doing that.

And I'll continue that until we get that shit abolished.and the childfucker cult banned as the criminal organization it is...

Show threadNick's worldMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden What day is it in Germany that this is a thing? because that's very different to me here in the US.
Show threadMarkusMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden ich bin ja jetzt offiziell raus aus dem ganzen Religionsquatsch, vielleicht sollte ich eine Sondergenehmigung zum Feiern beantragen!?
Ist schon krass dass wir uns im 21. Jahrhundert von einem Haufen (hier kommt nichts hin, will nicht ausfallend werden) noch unterdrücken lassen!
Show threadDaveMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden Not the case in #Berlin
Show threadJenniferMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden that is so weird! So what happens to you if you engage in any public fun?
Show threadErik Uden 🚩Mar 25, 2024
@Jennifer the police shows up and stops you.
Show threadodefeyMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden I think this is an overly simplified description of the actual situation. There are restrictions, yes, but IMHO they serve as mere guidelines. Do they honestly have a major impact on personal freedom or even repress joy, fun, and frolicking?
Show threadAlexandra LanesMar 25, 2024
@ErikUden @Lazarou Under which law?
Show threadAnn EffesMar 25, 2024

@ErikUden

Och diese olle Kamelle wieder.

Show threadMartin RocketMar 26, 2024
@ErikUden our favorite tv shows don't air on Good Friday, All Saint's Day, and the Friday of the carnival weekend. On these days, one just doesn't laugh. No time for fun.