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weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

We used to have comedians that told jokes, then Ben Elton introduced political satire and it was never the same again! But humour, of most kinds, keeps things lighter!

Taipan wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:11 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

We used to have comedians that told jokes, then Ben Elton introduced political satire and it was never the same again! But humour, of most kinds, keeps things lighter!

I'm pretty sure Ben Elton didn't invent political satire.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/edu ... n-britain/

Saga Lout wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:58 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

Sometimes (often?) our politicians are jokes and this is the jokes thread. Could that be the reason?

But they're rarely actually even amusing, not even slightly. They're mostly someone being a bit fucking bitchy to someone else.

Taipan wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:11 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

We used to have comedians that told jokes, then Ben Elton introduced political satire and it was never the same again! But humour, of most kinds, keeps things lighter!

Elton and his like are sort of indignant instead of funny.

On a related note, this old pub staff note is sort of funny but I won’t be offended if nobody laughs out loud.

Saga Lout wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:18 am

Taipan wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:11 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

We used to have comedians that told jokes, then Ben Elton introduced political satire and it was never the same again! But humour, of most kinds, keeps things lighter!

I'm pretty sure Ben Elton didn't invent political satire.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/edu ... n-britain/

Perhaps I should have said he stuffed it down our throats whilst also disrespecting every other comedian out there!

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:24 am

Taipan wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:11 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

We used to have comedians that told jokes, then Ben Elton introduced political satire and it was never the same again! But humour, of most kinds, keeps things lighter!

Elton and his like are sort of indignant instead of funny.

On a related note, this old pub staff note is sort of funny but I won’t be offended if nobody laughs out loud.

In the motor trade everyone had names like that! My old mate was known as baldy two shoes!

Dealing room culture is the same.

We still have 'Pointless Pete' (never gets to the point of a conversation), 'Shaky' (he has epilepsy, but loves the name), 'Porkchop' (Muslim, ditto), 'Quavers' (he has microtia of the ear and thus it resembles a Quaver crisp)... I could go on.

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:22 am

Saga Lout wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:58 am

weeksy wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 10:20 am baffles me why people drag politics into everything here..

Sometimes (often?) our politicians are jokes and this is the jokes thread. Could that be the reason?

But they're rarely actually even amusing, not even slightly. They're mostly someone being a bit fucking bitchy to someone else.

For some people, that's humour.

Is it bitchy or just piss taking? For me being in the pub was always ripping the piss out of each other and laughing at complete bollocks, cos the drink made unfunny things funny!

Thats the trouble with forums I suppose, you can only read what is written and not how its said...

Ooh- bit o’ politics!

I could not stand Ben Elton. Did he not force himself on us with appearances in The Young Ones or was he on something before that. Saturday Night Live? Alexei Sayle was another annoying twat from around thew same time.

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 4:54 pm Ooh- bit o’ politics!

Journalism standards are slipping. Shouldn’t it be “dwarves?”

JackyJoll wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 8:57 am

JackyJoll wrote: Fri Sep 26, 2025 4:54 pm Ooh- bit o’ politics!

Journalism standards are slipping. Shouldn’t it be “dwarves?”

I thought so too but Dictionary sez 'not really'

dwarf /dwörf/
noun (pl dwarfs or (rare) dwarves)

Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:13 am
I thought so too but Dictionary sez 'not really'

dwarf /dwörf/
noun (pl dwarfs or (rare) dwarves)

Anyway he’s got rubbish camouflage for hiding in a swan.

JackyJoll wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:16 am

Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:13 am
I thought so too but Dictionary sez 'not really'

dwarf /dwörf/
noun (pl dwarfs or (rare) dwarves)

Anyway he’s got rubbish camouflage for hiding in a swan.

Dwarfs (or dwarves), plural. The other dwarves'' camouflage is excellent.

Saga Lout wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 11:10 am

JackyJoll wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:16 am

Count Steer wrote: Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:13 am
I thought so too but Dictionary sez 'not really'

dwarf /dwörf/
noun (pl dwarfs or (rare) dwarves)

Anyway he’s got rubbish camouflage for hiding in a swan.

Dwarfs (or dwarves), plural. The other dwarves'' camouflage is excellent.

That was a very small Marine.

We were fine until she told me she was Christian.

"Do you have a problem with religion?"

No, that was her name before the operations.