Comments on: you ruffians!

By: Chundermutton

Chundermutton — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:59:58 +0000

That doesn’t stop him using British humour.

By: Fountain of Filth

Fountain of Filth — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:49:53 +0000

Definitely a Bill Hicks reference!
He was a prophet ahead of his time.

By: Caed

Caed — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:43:08 +0000

Laughed at this as much if not more than at the american politics ones.

Yes, am British.

By: heny

heny — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:30:17 +0000

just felt like sayin that that was phrased very well.

By: heny

heny — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:27:17 +0000

im british 2. funny pic but comments bad with few exceptions(sp?)nice serious face

By: heny

heny — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:25:23 +0000

not nice, some r gd, plz in future b nice, thanku:)

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:00:04 +0000

Little Britain.. ‘nuf said!

By: um7764

um7764 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:23 +0000

British Police=douchebags in silly hats

By: Irish girl

Irish girl — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:48:01 +0000

Dylan Moran is Irish not British!

By: Woody

Woody — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:11:58 +0000

You poms already have that massive gap! A class structure that leads back long time.
Australia is heading that way too unfawchoonitly…

By: Woody

Woody — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:09:04 +0000

British newspaper headline
“Hooligans Knock Over A Dustbin in Shaftsbury”

By: LOLa

LOLa — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:30:40 +0000

Was this made by an american? Their views on modern day England are pretty backwards, but funny nonetheless!

By: Scott A

Scott A — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:49:03 +0000

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.

By: Cancel

Cancel — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:01:38 +0000

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

By: ben

ben — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:02:20 +0000

stupid smilies ruin everything

By: ben

ben — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:01:49 +0000

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 >:|

By: Éowyn

Éowyn — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:14:58 +0000

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.

By: hueydoc

hueydoc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:58:52 +0000

Personal experience ?

By: hueydoc

hueydoc — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:58:10 +0000

But they can’t have their pudding if they don’t eat their meat!

By: smackymcgee

smackymcgee — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:20:08 +0000

thank you for flying Church of England!

By: miaowmiaow

miaowmiaow — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:54:03 +0000

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.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:48:37 +0000

Any of Bill Hicks’ Hooligans?

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:49:42 +0000

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.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:47:28 +0000

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

By: Darwa

Darwa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:34:45 +0000

This isn’t British humour at all.

It’s american humour based before the time England allowed them to gain independence

By: durr

durr — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:49:06 +0000

um. maybe you should look up monty python.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:07:08 +0000

Lucky…. *extreme jealousy*

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:38:42 +0000

Mouthpiece, Steve and Kinson will have the vegetarian option…. (and this thread just went Godwin!)

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:23:28 +0000

Stone the crows Mary Poppins!

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:22:21 +0000

Cool! Never seen him live.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:02:02 +0000

So my choices are, “or death?” I’ll have the chicken please.

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35:18 +0000

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!

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:33:36 +0000

Had to google that! haven’t seen it. Am more of a getting the DVD a year later type person.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:15:53 +0000

We’re out of cake, we didn’t expect such a rush.

By: lowly grunt

lowly grunt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:33:49 +0000

They didn’t eat their meat and now want pudding.

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:25:45 +0000

Does it count as repeating the joke if Lab Rats always ends with “Oh, fu-”?

By: Gre

Gre — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:59:56 +0000

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

By: telboy007

telboy007 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:22:57 +0000

…pop you on the noggin? Sigh, this caption definitely needs more “cor blimey”.

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:55:56 +0000

Um. Cake please.

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:55:31 +0000

Like thingy in friends that went out with Ross – she didn’t sound like that in British TV shows. Embarrassing.

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:53:55 +0000

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.

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:49:20 +0000

I assumed this was American humour. I like it.

By: Trainwreck Chaser

Trainwreck Chaser — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:41:55 +0000

Billy clubs hurt, no fun to get hit by them, but like a giant wack a mole game for the police!

By: Trainwreck Chaser

Trainwreck Chaser — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:40:15 +0000

Those commy bastards.

By: Trainwreck Chaser

Trainwreck Chaser — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:39:19 +0000

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.

By: Redstar Chimera

Redstar Chimera — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:35:38 +0000

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.

By: gillian

gillian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:26:53 +0000

I wouldn’t want to be a dustbin in Shaftesbury tonight.

I think the caption is an homage to the late, great Bill Hicks.

By: darren

darren — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:05:27 +0000

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

By: Ceefax

Ceefax — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:26:12 +0000

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”

By: durr

durr — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:20:53 +0000

last year the government spent less on the ministry of silly walks than it did on national defense!