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Microplastics posted:It does seem awfully common (and uniquely British?) for men to end up married to women they hate. They just keep moaning about them down the pub. Like why did you bother getting married Yeah but they don't mean it. They like pretending they're under the thumb. A former bf got mad at me because a couple of former female colleagues (he was a nurse) had come back from a round the world trip & sent him a postcard, so I said 'go for a night out with them get all the news!' (I didn't know them at all so no point me going). He then proceeded to give me (with pride) chapter & verse on how his former girlfriend would have been mad at him for getting a postcard from them let alone suggesting he go on an evening out with them. He was upset that I wasn't mad at him. I guess he was one of those who could really only enjoy a night out if he thought he was being a naughty boy showing the Missus Who Is Boss. 28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:34
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Hating your wife, and by proxy , her mother is an absolute cornerstone of Boomer Humour
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Dec 7, 2023 20:46
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I get that if I point out to someone that my mother in law is dead. They rush to say how lucky I am. Usually I have to clarify that she died young, of cancer, it was ugly, it was drawn out and she was a really nice person. But yeah, some people are weird.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:51
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smellmycheese posted:Hating your wife, and by proxy , her mother is an absolute cornerstone of Boomer Humour One day there will come about the ultimate joke about the dog that walks into a pub, farts, and says "my wife sure lives in a society with a code of law" then waggles his canid eyebrow muscles and says "I guess that makes her ma a mother in law" and then everyone claps and cheers and stops using any of it as an excuse to be reactionary about sex and gender roles. And on that day, that dog will truly be Albert Einstein.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:56
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smellmycheese posted:Hating your wife, and by proxy , her mother is an absolute cornerstone of Boomer Humour  Apparently he had other jokes.
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Dec 7, 2023 20:59
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah it's not just British, it's almost everywhere in at least the Anglosphere and Hispanosphere and back to the ancient Levant, somewhere up there with fart jokes, dog jokes, and jokes about people walking into a pub. I mean there is that old joke about a dog walking into a bar that nobody quite understands any more. Perhaps they already found The Ideal Joke and it just doesn't make sense to us.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:02
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HopperUK posted:He's the husband of a typical middle-England complainer who probably writes to the Daily Mail Just think of Hyacinth Bucket (that's pronounced Bouquet btw) talking to her poor husband.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:03
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Just Another Lurker posted:Just think of Hyacinth Bucket (that's pronounced Bouquet btw) talking to her poor husband. They Norman jokes are exactly what everyone is complaining about then?
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Dec 7, 2023 21:06
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OwlFancier posted:I mean there is that old joke about a dog walking into a bar that nobody quite understands any more. Perhaps they already found The Ideal Joke and it just doesn't make sense to us. A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'. (c. 4500–1900 BC) Sumer
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Dec 7, 2023 21:08
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Brendan Rodgers posted:A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'. (c. 4500–1900 BC) Sumer At least the dog wasn't selling substandard copper.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir
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Dec 7, 2023 21:11
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Brendan Rodgers posted:A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'. (c. 4500–1900 BC) Sumer The ancient Sumerian people on hearing that joke: 
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Dec 7, 2023 21:11
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"And on that pedestal, these words appear: Coptic peoples drive like this, And Semitic people drive like this, And what is the deal with peanuts on the Abydos sailboats?"
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Dec 7, 2023 21:12
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Just Another Lurker posted:At least the dog wasn't selling substandard copper. 
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Dec 7, 2023 21:13
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Typical that the thing that finally gets Brits wanting to blow poo poo up is traffic calming measures.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:15
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https://twitter.com/5Pillarsuk/status/1732820383638626497 https://twitter.com/AFrazzledScot/status/1732821431975637311 https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1732830241536549037  Well done Glasgow!  [edit] https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1732728577672564928 I didn't know about the Infosys link. LOL if this is down to Rishi throwing his toys out the pram. fuctifino fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Dec 7, 2023 21:49
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fuctifino posted:Well done Glasgow! doesn't he know there was a perfectly good branch of subway round the corner he could hide in
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Dec 7, 2023 22:05
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Ok sumer
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Dec 7, 2023 22:09
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Did he get them confused for cyclists
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Dec 7, 2023 22:09
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Was Starmer driving, heard he has previous for running people over.
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Dec 7, 2023 22:10
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Noxville posted:Did he get them confused for cyclists From the 29er to the D-lock, road tax will be free I refuse to put more effort into this joke.
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Dec 7, 2023 22:13
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I get that if I point out to someone that my mother in law is dead. They rush to say how lucky I am. that's loving mental. My mother-in-law died a few years ago and if someone pulled that on me they'd be getting a "the gently caress is your problem?" at the very least. (Because I'm a hard man, ouuuu )
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Dec 7, 2023 22:16
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Pretty much anyone that relentlessly moans about their partner annoys me. Its particularly funny when you meet the partner and they're absolutely sound.
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Dec 7, 2023 22:28
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https://twitter.com/aliciakearns/status/1732812798327923169 e: Keith got accosted on the train. https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1732847589307932829 And the protesters are at the hotel. I hope Keith faces this wherever he goes https://twitter.com/AFrazzledScot/status/1732848567386046576 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Dec 7, 2023 22:44
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A few years back I was going over to the US to see my then wife and stay with her and my mother in law over Christmas. I quite liked my mother in law. I mentioned this in a group meeting of my team and my boss, who made a fairly standard mother-in-law joke. My response was to poker-face it and ask him to explain the joke. There was quite a lot of silence. gently caress casual misogyny.
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Dec 7, 2023 22:47
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it's honestly fascinating how unpopular starmer manages to make himself while in opposition to such a poo poo government lol
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Dec 7, 2023 22:51
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https://twitter.com/JasonGroves1/status/1732879076338131099Jeherrin posted:My response was to poker-face it and ask him to explain the joke. There was quite a lot of silence. This is my favourite goto response for bigoted jokes.The more innocent and naive you can be, the more painful and embarrassing it is for them while becoming more entertaining for everyone else in the room. Kudos for challenging your boss like that.
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Dec 7, 2023 23:31
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mother in laws getting a weird get out of jail free card from the usual boomer rhetoric
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Dec 7, 2023 23:40
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OwlFancier posted:I mean there is that old joke about a dog walking into a bar that nobody quite understands any more. Perhaps they already found The Ideal Joke and it just doesn't make sense to us. Someone offered a new translation and it was like "A dog walks into a bar. His eyes cannot see anything, I guess he needs to crack one open!"
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Dec 8, 2023 00:24
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Ms Adequate posted:Someone offered a new translation and it was like "A dog walks into a bar. His eyes cannot see anything, I guess he needs to crack one open!" That just makes me wonder if the sumerians had bottled beer in bars.
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Dec 8, 2023 00:27
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I'm always interested in translations that preserve the spirit of the original rather than the literal wording. Like the guy who discovered that most of the jokes in Aristophanes plays still work if you use a Scottish accent for Sparta and a Somerset accent for Boetia, and replace the Sparrow with a Cock.
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Dec 8, 2023 00:31
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Not sure in the thread who recommended Small Saga on steam but it's absolutely fantastic! 8-10 hour, laser-focused JRPG about rodent society living underneath modern day London. It is super left and queer and fun, and a lot of the dialogue feels like someone in UKMT wrote it! I can't recommend it enough!
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Dec 8, 2023 00:45
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Ms Adequate posted:Someone offered a new translation and it was like "A dog walks into a bar. His eyes cannot see anything, I guess he needs to crack one open!" That's not funny enough either, I reckon best case scenario it's a wordplay or pun thing that doesn't translate, and worst case scenario, the Sumerian equivalent of Ricky Gervais is the one who became immortal, which has dark implications for our own time.
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Dec 8, 2023 01:10
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/aliciakearns/status/1732812798327923169 Glasgow is good 
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Dec 8, 2023 01:20
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Jeherrin posted:A few years back I was going over to the US to see my then wife and stay with her and my mother in law over Christmas. I quite liked my mother in law. I mentioned this in a group meeting of my team and my boss, who made a fairly standard mother-in-law joke. My response was to poker-face it and ask him to explain the joke. There was quite a lot of silence.
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Dec 8, 2023 01:27
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Brendan Rodgers posted:A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'. (c. 4500–1900 BC) Sumer there's also that one about how often young wives fart on their husbands' laps. like, it's close enough to a modern fart joke you can kinda see where it's going, but not really?
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Dec 8, 2023 03:11
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Brendan Rodgers posted:That's not funny enough either, I reckon best case scenario it's a wordplay or pun thing that doesn't translate, and worst case scenario, the Sumerian equivalent of Ricky Gervais is the one who became immortal, which has dark implications for our own time. Historians think the Sumerian joke was about brothels as they were usually in pubs.
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Dec 8, 2023 06:06
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forkboy84 posted:Glasgow is good The fact Kier looks so bewildered that people are holding him to account in that train video is really loving funny.
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Dec 8, 2023 08:41
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His default response to any unplanned interaction with a member of the public is to look politely baffled until either he or they get hustled away.
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Dec 8, 2023 09:06
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Strong "Jeeves, what's going on?" vibes from the man who won't shut up about his working class roots
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Dec 8, 2023 09:45
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Skeletome posted:Not sure in the thread who recommended Small Saga on steam but it's absolutely fantastic! 8-10 hour, laser-focused JRPG about rodent society living underneath modern day London. It is super left and queer and fun, and a lot of the dialogue feels like someone in UKMT wrote it! Nice, glad to hear it since I'm definitely getting it for Christmas
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