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Well, I think it's funny ?

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HousePlantQueen Thu 28-Apr-22 19:04:52

My son was wearing a "vote Conservative" t-shirt and an "I love Boris" baseball cap. He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat. God knows what's going to happen to him once he gets out of the house.

Grannybags Thu 28-Apr-22 21:40:44

Made me laugh too! grin

DanniRae Thu 28-Apr-22 21:41:42

I laughed... then read it out to Mr R and he laughed too grin

Callistemon21 Thu 28-Apr-22 22:01:01

I laughed ?

Does that mean I am a nasty, violent person?

BigBertha1 Thu 28-Apr-22 22:01:48

I thought it was amusing if not actually funny

Iam64 Thu 28-Apr-22 22:01:50

I take your point Dickens. You’ve had me reflecting on how I’d feel if “boris” hadn’t been the focus. I decided not to overbthinkbthis. The more Mr Johnson is the butt of jokes that treat him with the contempt he deserves, maybe just maybe he will no longer be sent ax a suitable PM

Callistemon21 Thu 28-Apr-22 22:04:36

BigBertha1

I thought it was amusing if not actually funny

Well, I was shock I must say
Then ?

poshpaws Fri 29-Apr-22 01:31:40

I think it's extremely funny, and rather clever. Gave me a good laugh after a stressful day. Thanks for posting it!

Spice101 Fri 29-Apr-22 03:32:52

No doubt there will be another version of this which mentions the Labour leader or some other politician. Seems we are afraid/unable to see the funny side of anything these days.

Ailidh Fri 29-Apr-22 04:59:27

I thought it was funny. I read the first two lines and thought, "Poor sod, no-one deserves that, even if they do wear a baseball cap", and then laughed at the last line.

DillytheGardener Fri 29-Apr-22 05:19:40

Made me laugh, until the last line it fooled megrin

mumofmadboys Fri 29-Apr-22 05:53:11

Made me laugh!

Esspee Fri 29-Apr-22 07:19:08

We are laughing in this household. Thought it was going to be about bullying in public.

notgran Fri 29-Apr-22 07:46:17

So very, very funny . I'm stealing it to put on Facebook...grin

Kalu Fri 29-Apr-22 07:59:16

My first thought, oh goodness, that’s awful until I got to the punchline. ?

Gingster Fri 29-Apr-22 08:02:08

Brilliant. ???

Curlywhirly Fri 29-Apr-22 08:40:15

Well, it tickled me up! ?

PollyDolly Fri 29-Apr-22 08:45:59

This has brightened my day too!

Granmarderby10 Fri 29-Apr-22 08:47:42

???

Beckett Fri 29-Apr-22 08:52:17

Wonder what the reaction would be if the joke was that he was wearing a "vote Labour" t-shirt and "I love Starmer" cap. Howls of outrage no doubt

Harris27 Fri 29-Apr-22 08:56:37

Sent it to my sons and they thought it hilarious but we are a family who have a great sense of humour!

AGAA4 Fri 29-Apr-22 08:57:59

It's a joke. I found it funny. My parents were labour supporters and when my older brother announced he was a Tory supporter they were not happy with him. No abuse or violence though ?

Smileless2012 Fri 29-Apr-22 09:11:54

Made me laugh grin

Dickens Fri 29-Apr-22 09:15:14

Harris27

Sent it to my sons and they thought it hilarious but we are a family who have a great sense of humour!

"Humour" is not an exact science.

Most people have it - but it's individual. So you cannot logically assume that because you find something amusing which others don't, that yours is the defining one.

henetha Fri 29-Apr-22 09:19:37

It made my chuckle muscles work grin

Grammaretto Fri 29-Apr-22 09:42:19

I smiled but I was sadly reminded of when I went off satire.

Years ago, a group of people, including DH and me, began a community group - primarily to save the old buildings in our town . It wasn't meant to be controversial nor party political but soon individuals in the group, including me, began to be ridiculed on social media.
There was a local forum. People were anonymous but easy to identify and impossible to stop. The administrator mumbled about free speech.
It became so nasty and personal. Members became the but of all sorts of silly and obscene "jokes".
If confronted, the perpetrators accused us of not having a sense of humour.

After legal advice, we learned to ignore the forum and either it was removed or they got bored and the current facebook page is better monitored.

After that I stopped being able to laugh for ages at political satire. Programmes such as Have I got news for you were no longer amusing.