Dangerous Waters

@Danishpride
I guess they're putting themselves in...


DenGer

@SchrodySweden Get out

@Vladimir @SchrodySweden There’s *Norway* we’re gonna stop, m8

@DanishPride @Vladimir
What he said. You'll never be able to SWEDEN the pot enough to stop

@SchrodySweden @Vladimir Exactly! We’ll never be Swe-DONE with puns ^-^

@DanishPride I think that last one left a DenMARK

@SchrodySweden I honestly have to applaud you for that one. That was very creative!

@TheLynx012 thank you

@SchrodySweden Yeah! Exactly what I was thinking. Den-MARK my word, they ain’t coming out alive.

(Dangit you should’ve said Dane-ger)

@DanishPride (no the pun was DenGer, as in Denmark x Germany)

@SchrodySweden oml i get it im stupid XD

There’s Norway I’m smart enough for this tho ;^;

@DanishPride eh, you make a great gerMANY good ones yourself

@SchrodySweden WATER you mean... I’m not that good...

@DanishPride oh, don't be so DROWN on yourself

@SchrodySweden I guess your right... I shouldn’t be such a BEACH to myself...

@DanishPride look back on your previous chains. I'm sure you'll SEA plenty of good puns you've made

@SchrodySweden Yeah, we’ve done a lot of water-related ones. Looks like we’ve already OCTUPIed all the space in this comment chain, though.... well, see ya next time!

On Spain every summer a bunch of British die to their natural predator: the balcony

@P4t4t4_fr1t4 Yes, worryingly the balcony has learned over the years to utilise alcohol to further its killing spree. Although found all over Spain, the most lethal varieties seem to be found around Benidorm and Magaluf.

@gandyg

I think we're going back to the last comic and the ingrained stupidity that seems to infest parts of humanity. As you say excessive alcohol intake seems to be the primary factor.

Also, to any Europeans visiting America in the summer (especially California or any desert climate), bring a LOT of water with you. There are so many people who collapse or die because they aren't used to the intense heat that we get here and think that it's fine to bring a single bottle of water with them on a hike. No, bring at least 2L of water with you and wear a hat.

@DamaOscuraDeTodos

Pssst! Half-gallon!

@FrankHarr Face it it's probably going in a coke bottle and we have 2 liter bottles here.

@KimberlyK #9819130

C'mon. Be a mensh!

ok half gallon which is pretty close to 2 liters.

@FrankHarr If you're talking to Europeans, please use real meassurements. None of that made up stuff :P

@Sigart #9819158

Hmmmmmm, last I noticed, white stars in a blue canton, and white and red horizontal stripes indicated and American, wouldn't you think so?

Also, Plank length and time, not made up. Speed of light in a vacuum, not made up. How fast certain quantum systems ossolate: not made up. Everything else is.

@DamaOscuraDeTodos

You speak as if Europe doesn't have any hot places. It doesn't go as far as a desert climate, but the whole Mediterranian coast is very dry in the summer and can get temperatures between 35-50C so having lots of water with you at all times is a very real requirement there too.

Your statement has nothing to do with the continent of origin, ignorant tourists from mild climates will get heatstroke no matter if they are European or American

The most dangerous animals in Spain seem to be...balconies! British tourists keep dying because of our balconies summer after summer. We've warned them, we've posted signs everywhere and yet they keep falling into the trap. Nobody expects the Spanish balcony!

oi! don't forget Iceland, we've been killing tourists now too, bigger numbers each year!

@kupo yeah but there is a difference between accidental and hunting for sport

@kupo i didn't know this was a competition

@kupo I bet you win the race for most dead tourist per capita.

In northern Australia the warning sing for no swimming in the crocodile infested waters are in English and German.....

Every child in Denmark knows the basic swimming rules - learn to swim (duh), never go in the water alone, and never go beyond your navel.
I failed to follow those rules once in my life, and got caught bathing alone in a very strong undercurrent, fearing at one point that I wouldn't make it back to shore.

The sea is beautiful, but it's also as deadly as a predator.

@Violetta Denmark and Germany have comparable rates of death by drowning, though. Close enough that it’s statistically insignificant, though Germany is a tad safer. So I doubt that it‘s all caused by German tourists. Norway and Sweden have actually worse rates.

@PeterBruells The cause of drowning can be vastly different however. Given that Denmark has a lot more coast and have been known to be a seafaring people, it would not surprise me if we had relatively more people working on and around the sea and that would surely lead to more accidents and death by drowning. In a similar vain, it is easier to drunkenly fall in the harbor in Denmark.

When we are talking about German tourist drowning as a problem in Denmark, then we are normally looking at beach guests and recreational swimming in open waters in particular. Germans exhibit notoriously foolish behavior around our coasts. Not taking into account the weather, current or other factors that may endanger you.

I just looked up the statistic for drowning in Denmark in the years 2001-2012. Of confirmed accidents Germans make up 10%. That is a huge number considering the amount of German tourists and local Danish people visiting the beaches.

Old joke:

Two locals walk by the beach in western Jutland, in a place where it's very unsafe to swim due to strong undercurrents. They see a tourist walking into the ocean, and yell at him in German that it's not a good idea. He stops, goes to talk with them, and explains in a thick dialect that he most definitely ain't German, but proud Copenhagener. The two locals look at each other, then at the tourist, and in a casual manner say "Welcome to Jutland. Nice day for a swim, eh?"

@Kvaseren
Would there be "a hint of animosity" towards people from the capital town ? ;-) Thanks for the joke, Kvaseren.

@Daru In the western United States, replace "Copenhagen" with "California"

@Kvaseren I don't get it

Canada's all too familiar with tourists earning the Darwin Award. European tourists in particular can't seem to viscerally grasp how fast, empty and wild much of the country is. We have uninhabited stretches bigger than some countries with plenty of big predators and we still get tourists who wander off into it like it was European woodland. Usually the rescue teams find them in time but yeah, dead tourists are a thing here too.

At least the tourists who figure they can just casually drive between different parts of the country are only at risk of disappointment and looking a little foolish. They'd never plan a week long driving vacation that includes Lisbon to Berlin (let alone Moscow) but they do when they plan trips to Canada because it's all in the same country, right? They see the map that spans a continent but for a small fraction of folks, the size just does not compute.

@Paranoidrodent Actually driving holidays accross Europe have become really popular in the past decade or so since Schengen became a thing.

@Paranoidrodent also don’t forget the tourists who see the wild life, like bears, and think it’s a good idea to feed them.....and sadly after a while we have to destroy the animal because it got too habituated to humans or it attacks the tourist.
Also winters fun.

@Paranoidrodent The classic here in Montreal is all the french people who simply deny the reality of winter and arrive downtown in sneakers and light jacket in January. I mean, in that scenario, death can be calculated in hours, if not minutes.

@Paranoidrodent

It's not to the same scale, but we get a lot of these kinds of people in Northern Finland too, and most likely it's the same in the entire Lapland area spanning Norway and Sweden. Just no sense of scale of how far you could walk and not run into anything else than forest

This kind of thing can be a problem in England too. It was only last year when a Dutch family of five tragically drowned in a cream tea in St Ives. Dreadful business.

@weelydangle
Never underestimate the insidious danger of an English cream tea.

Always opt for cuppa tea with a slice of lemon, at least you'll have something to cling to when you're drowning.

@weelydangle That's nothing. You have the deadliest river in the world. The Strid has a 100% fatality rate. It kills frigging DIVERS.

@Somber Ooh, I've been there. Dangerous, yes, but also very beautiful.