The cliff

Once upon a time the Devil had captured four men – Arthur Kirkland, Francis Bonafoy, Ludwig Beilschmidt and Feliks Łukasiewicz – and grabbed them on the edge of the bottomless pit. Devil smiled and then he came to Arthur and said:

"Jump!"

"What the fuck?! No! It's bloody bottomless pit!" The Englishman protested.

"Gentleman would jump." Devil answered, looking at England with disappointment.

Arthur looked down. Hell, nobody will say that Arthur Kirkland isn't gentleman! And he jumped from the cliff.

Devil came to Francis.

"Jump!"

"No way, mesieur. This pit seems to be pretty dangerous."

"Gentleman would jump."

"I won't jump, just because you said me to do it."

"But that's in fashion right now."

Francis looked at the pit. If it's in fashion to jump from the cliff, he should jump. When he will do it, he will be able to tell about it others and they will be jealous. So Francis also jumped.

Then Devil came to Ludwig.

"Jump!"

"No way!"

"Gentleman would jump."

"I won't do it."

"But that's in fashion right now!"

"I won't jump."

"That's an order."

Suddenly Ludwig's eyes widened. What kind of German man don't obey the orders? So he also jumped down.

Finally Devil came to Feliks.

"Jump!"

"No way!"

"Gentleman would jump."

"But I'm not gentleman, so fuck off."

"But that's in fashion right now!"

"I don't care."

"That's an order."

"Listen up, Devil: If you think, the arguments, you used to convince them to jump, will work on me, you're, like, totally wrong."

"Ok, forget it. Don't jump."

And Feliks jumped.

Generally, in Polish jokes about the Pole, Russian and German, said men are captured by Devil, who says that he will release them, if they will do something ridiculous, barely possible or just nasty. It turns up that Pole generally will be clumsy or tricky.

This joke, of course, reveales some aspects of Englishmen, Frenchmen, German and Pole's stereothypes. Englishman jump, because he's gentleman, Franch - because that's in fashion, German - because it's an order and Pole - because Devil gave up and Pole received it as a suggestion that he (Pole) can't do it.