you ruffians!
you ruffians! We’ll pop you on the noggin!
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Was there a joke here that I missed?
british humour
not so graet akshully
british humour is great. it just goes beyond the average comprehension.
MANY different types of British humour though. I love Bill Bailey (eg Part Troll) and Dylan Moran (eg Monster) and obv Eddie Izzard (his 90s stuff). And Black Books is my favourite ever sitcom. But Ricky Gervais in my opinion - not so great akshully. And any sketch show where they repeat the joke everyweek.
Does it count as repeating the joke if Lab Rats always ends with “Oh, fu-”?
Had to google that! haven’t seen it. Am more of a getting the DVD a year later type person.
Dylan Moran is Irish not British!
Uh, no, British people being portrayed in American humour. You can tell by the way everyone sounds like Dick Van Dyke. Hence British actors in American films having American accent coaches because they “Don’t sound British enough”
Like thingy in friends that went out with Ross - she didn’t sound like that in British TV shows. Embarrassing.
For some reason it made me think of the Bill Hick’s routine when he starts talking about the “hooligans” who had made the news in the UK and comparing their “naughty tomfoolery” to the gang violence in the USA.
British newspaper headline
“Hooligans Knock Over A Dustbin in Shaftsbury”
Not uncommon actually - Films in other countries that portray Americans sometimes use language coaches to accentuate American accents.
Heck, we do it between accent groups within the country sometimes. Most Texans don’t sound anything like what they do in the movies.
In movies, stereotyped accents are useful character tools. They inform the viewer what themes that character may portray.
I´m one of the few Americans that loves british humor, and I can´t wait to get home and watch Izzy videos cause I just discovered him on the cake or death graph.
YOU! Cake or Death?
People think Dane coko is funny, try Demetri Martin, or the deceased Mitch Hedburg.
Um. Cake please.
We’re out of cake, we didn’t expect such a rush.
Just saw him on the Stripped tour… So awesome…. Opened by tearing into our collective idiocy for re-electing Bush, got into software updates and Macs/iPhones, the defense mechanisms of giraffes and tigers with iPhones, God taking bong hits and his other 6 sons, and the general illogic of organized religion. It was brilliant!
Cool! Never seen him live.
Lucky…. *extreme jealousy*
So my choices are, “or death?” I’ll have the chicken please.
Mouthpiece, Steve and Kinson will have the vegetarian option…. (and this thread just went Godwin!)
thank you for flying Church of England!
Little Britain.. ‘nuf said!
Now look here! We’ll have no more of your tomfoolery!
Fair cop, but society is to blame!
Yes, we’re arresting them too!
I say, pip pip, get back old boys.
Scalawags, the lot of you! I’ll give you what-for!
These people are clearly protesting a cut in funding to the Ministry of Funny Walks.
Silly walks!
last year the government spent less on the ministry of silly walks than it did on national defense!
Those commy bastards.
um. maybe you should look up monty python.
Not positive, but I strongly suspect this picture was taken during the recent riots by football fans in Fulham (West London) after penalties levied against Chelsea Football Club ousted the team from the Champions’ League finals before the European Championship. I’m feeling pretty confident that the road in the picture is Fulham Broadway.
Looks more like some kind of Bush protest to me. Just looking at the posters.
I think Phaelin is right, which is too bad because I was really enjoying the level of detail in your explanation; the other explanation is so pedestrian.
Nah, he seems to have too much hair to be Bush.
just felt like sayin that that was phrased very well.
Do Chelsea usually carry placards saying bush out ,I’m feeling pretty confident that your losing your site.A bit more panarama and a little less match of the day me thincks
I can’t actually tell if you’re being serious or not, but;
if you are- you’re just wrong
if you’re not - the ‘penalties’ metaphor has gone way over most people’s heads
I’ve been to see Chelsea a few times and I almost never take my “Bush Out” banner with me.
This looks like a demonstration at Trafalgar Square. Just before the war against Iraq there were over 2,000,000 protesters at Trafalgar Square (out of a population of 60 million) but the banners look newer than that.
There was a major demonstration there in 2003, made famous by the image of the statue of George Bush being toppled in the same way as the statue of Saddam Hussein had been toppled in Iraq earlier. David Rovics wrote a song about that afternoon. The CNN report is here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/11/20/britain.bush/index.html
Beatles new movie causes riot
Dun disrespek da zombie beetles!
So Little Bunny Foo Foo was actually a police officer?
apparently over much dark sarcasm in the classroom
They didn’t eat their meat and now want pudding.
But they can’t have their pudding if they don’t eat their meat!
I wouldn’t want to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight.
I think the caption is an homage to the late, great Bill Hicks.
I was there that day. As usual the met overreacted to a little shouting. They then got even more outrageous (and on the “un-” side of lawful) which is why some people took to throwing burning wood at them.
Billy clubs hurt, no fun to get hit by them, but like a giant wack a mole game for the police!
Personal experience ?
I assumed this was American humour. I like it.
…pop you on the noggin? Sigh, this caption definitely needs more “cor blimey”.
Stone the crows Mary Poppins!
This isn’t British humour at all.
It’s american humour based before the time England allowed them to gain independence
Any of Bill Hicks’ Hooligans?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-3_jyCS9Q
I just watched the Bill Hicks clip, is that what passes for humour stateside?
I never realised that having a high violent crime rate was a badge of honour! and since yanks don’t understand irony or sarcasm I guess the dick means it
Hey we have serious crime in the uk. Teenagers stab eachother a lot in London and occasionally a gangster shoots another gangster or sometimes even a policeman or innocent citizen in bigger cities.
We can only dream of huge gaps between the rich and the poor living in close proximity stimulating the highest violent crime and murder rate in the world tho. one day, one day.
You poms already have that massive gap! A class structure that leads back long time.
Australia is heading that way too unfawchoonitly…
I swear I posted a big comment yesterday about this photo, I’m just out of shot. Maybe it was the anti-Thatcher content, maybe I’m just unlucky.
I’m British and I lol-ed harder at this picture than possibly any other i’ve seen on this website. Not at any of the comments though. They aren’t funny. Including this one. Serious face >:|
stupid smilies ruin everything
im british 2. funny pic but comments bad with few exceptions(sp?)nice serious face
Was this made by an american? Their views on modern day England are pretty backwards, but funny nonetheless!
British Police=douchebags in silly hats
not nice, some r gd, plz in future b nice, thanku:)
Laughed at this as much if not more than at the american politics ones.
Yes, am British.
Definitely a Bill Hicks reference!
He was a prophet ahead of his time.