Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Humour: British Gentleman Tells Us What He Thinks about America, Americans | #shorts

Listen to this elderly, humorous, English gentleman tell us what he thinks of Americans here. It’s a hoot!

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Thursday, August 18, 2022

It’s So Funny!

C'est trop drôle ! / Es ist so lustig!

Many thanks to Searchinh Hearts on Pinterest for this humorous, but often very truthful, image.

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Well, I Do Declare! It's a Queer Grapefruit!

Proud and colourful.

Many thanks to Woman Shops World on Pinterest for this unusual image. It’s a hoot!

Tuesday, June 07, 2022

Platinum Jubilee: Richard Griffin on the Queen's Sense of Humour

Mr Griffin reminisces about a picnic he went on with the monarch at Balmoral and an encounter they had with two American tourists who did not realise they were in the company of the royal.

Watch the humorous clip here.

Friday, September 03, 2021

It’s Lunchtime !

What do you want for lunch? Some eye candy, please!

With thanks to Pinterest and Tumblr for this photo.

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Breakfast Won’t Be Long Now!

Gin by Tanqueray

With thanks to Tanqueray and Pinterest for this colourful and attractive image.

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Dry Humour!


With many thanks to whisper.sh for this great image and pithy quip.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Britain Is Cruel

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Britain is a nation of cruel humour and angry people, according to Dame Helen Mirren, who believes life is far better in France.

The actress told a French magazine that the tradition of British decency is in decline.

"I'm under the impression that this notion is disappearing from our society, where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the internet and where, in general terms, everybody seems to me to be very angry.

"This causes me a lot of pain," she said.

She singled out British comedy as an example. "I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is harsher, more scathing, more cruel and more surreal too, as illustrated by Monty Python and the TV series Little Britain, where situations are far-fetched and over-the-top." Helen Mirren: British humour is cruel >>> | Sunday, November 14, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Who Said Margaret Thatcher Didn’t Have a Sense of Humour? : Margaret Thatcher on Neil Kinnock

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Delicious or What, George? Who Says the West Doesn’t Love the East?

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Photo of President Bush kissing King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia courtesy of Live Leak

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Modern Britain: No Laughing Matter

BRUSSELS JOURNAL: Earlier generations of Britons believed that certain things simply could not happen in Britain. Even in the country’s darkest moments of war or depression, this conviction differentiated the then proud nation from the U.S.S.R., third world countries, and unstable regimes that might fall to dictatorship any moment. News blackouts, and the banning of a book or film of course occurred here or there, but these never seemed very serious events.

When the Thatcher government banned the sale of the novel, Spycatcher, in Britain, it was smuggled into the country from abroad, and reported in the press despite legal challenges. Humor was the public’s usual way of dealing with such things, and the banning of a book that most people could get a hold of, turned politics into a laughing stock. And not for the first or last time either. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, when Oswald Moseley’s “black shirt” fascists were parading through London, Lady Astor commented that if they should ever gain power the British people would die laughing. How prophetic this was. A few years later Charlie Chaplin denounced and mocked the Nazis in his film, The Great Dictator, even as prime minister Neville Chamberlain sort [sic] to win “peace for our time” by appeasing Hitler. Modern Britain: No Laughing Matter >>> By A Millar | May 1, 2008

The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)