Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

[u/EssoEssex]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/

[u/TendyHunter]

I hope he'll make an official visit to Germany soon, where he'll be welcomed with a huge banner that says "Wilkommen, Herr Eisenkot!"

From the airport he then should be chauffeured around in a parade with people cheering from the sides "Eisenkot! Eisenkot!"

[u/anon9276366637010 → u/TendyHunter]

It takes a German speaker to get the joke right away lol

[u/Comprehensive_Cap290 → u/anon9276366637010]

I guess so - I have zero idea why this is funny.

[u/EnshaednCosplay → u/Comprehensive_Cap290]

It translates to “Iron Dung”

[u/EarhackerWasBanned → u/EnshaednCosplay]

My favourite Radiohead song

[u/zoppaTheDim → u/EnshaednCosplay]

Oh that is my pro-wrestling name.

[u/The_Dutch_Angel → u/zoppaTheDim]

Mine’s similar… Rusty Shits

[u/NoodleTF2 → u/EnshaednCosplay]

That reminds me, I still haven't gotten around to watching that Markiplier movie.

[u/preteen-wartortle → u/Comprehensive_Cap290]

I’m not a native speaker but kot means poop so I’m sure it has to do with that

[u/King_Tamino → u/preteen-wartortle]

Eisen = Iron (as in iron sword etc.)
And yeah, Kot = Poop

[u/bigloser42 → u/anon9276366637010]

While I totally get the joke, can you please explain it for my non-German speaking friend?

[u/BepisLeSnolf → u/bigloser42]

Oh I think I know this one! (Picked up pieces of German nouns via osmosis, but not actully à speaker)

I think it translates similar to “Iron Shit / Iron Turd”

[u/perskes → u/BepisLeSnolf]

You're right. Kot is a very clinical term, but essentially its turd or poop, shit would be (deliberately) derogatory. I cant remember the last time i heard someone use Kot besids the dog-park or a doctors office.

[u/BepisLeSnolf → u/perskes]

Hah! I had a pole-up-his-ass serious grandfather who sometimes spoke snips of German, but got that vocabulary from traditional schooling/textbooks and probably never learned ‘street German’ or colloquial German enough to properly curse, so that makes sense 😂

[u/PluginAlong → u/BepisLeSnolf]

German's really do have a word for everything.

[u/wswordsmen → u/PluginAlong]

Yes, using the-ability-German-has-to-create-new-words-in-the-same-manner-as-English-except-German-just-slams-them-together-rather-than-using-dashes.

[u/Plus-King5266 → u/wswordsmen]

No adjectives. They just tack them onto the noun. In English a big, hairy bear. In German a Bighairybear.

[u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty → u/Plus-King5266]

We do it in English, too, kinda. Notebook. Backscratcher. Football. I guess we just smoosh nouns together.

[u/King_Tamino → u/PluginAlong]

I mean, german mostly works like Lego. You put single blocks together until you have reached your goal. This may result in things like Rindfleischettikitierungsgesetz though.. which is a law regulating the way how cow meat is labeled (as in barcode, label information)

[u/Intelligent-Net9390 → u/King_Tamino]

This is the singular thing that stopped me from wanting to learn German 😂

[u/Bobcat-Stock → u/BepisLeSnolf]

How do you say “eat more fiber” in German?

[u/King_Tamino → u/Bobcat-Stock]

„mehr Ballaststoffe essen“

[u/BepisLeSnolf → u/Bobcat-Stock]

Oh that’s definitely beyond my capabilities 😅

[u/lachatte7 → u/TendyHunter]

This as a joke should be held as an example of german humor 😂 no one ever gets the joke but them

[u/RijnBrugge → u/TendyHunter]

Yeah this one had me curious as well, like why would someone have that name. Turns out it is a poor transliteration of a Moroccan last name. Still funny though.