Well, I think it's funny ?

Is your son Michael Gove?

I just read it to DH in suitable dramatic fashion with a pause in between.

He laughed and it cheered him up no end!

GagaJo I think it's hilarious. I'd be that mum too!

So you would accord this treatment to your grandson if he dared to have political allegiances different from yours?

It’s a joke geddit?! I didn’t find it especially funny as I have seen so many similar ones trawling joke pages for ones to go in a football programme I help write, but I appreciate it’s quite clever. Can’t we make fun of our politicians and politics anymore?

Can’t we make fun of our politicians and politics anymore?

Ofcourse we can and we should. What I don't like is the unfunny stirring of violence towards anyone.

It's the: He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat
which I can't laugh at or with.
.

Grammaretto

*Can’t we make fun of our politicians and politics anymore?*

Ofcourse we can and we should. What I don't like is the unfunny stirring of violence towards anyone.

It's the: He's been spat at, abused, slapped around the head and told he's a brainless twat
which I can't laugh at or with.
.

... this!

It's the 'normalisation' of violence that some people don't find amusing. Especially if they've been a victim of it.

I have a sense of humour - I 'get' the punchline, it's witty (it's also an old joke, this is just another variation of it) - but part of me shrinks at the mainstreaming of violence. Towards anyone - and that includes the much-disliked (by me), Boris Johnson, or those who champion him.

Yes it was quite funny. I think if I was a man though I might object to being called a ‘twat’, which is the same as’c**t .

so it's ok to call a woman that then ?

It's an imaginary person in a joke.
Rather different from striding up to a stranger or family member and saying it.
The "son" in the joke isnt real.

No , of course not. I just wondered, as the OP used it so casually, if she knew the actual meaning

I think it means some sort of baby fish, too.

MissAdventure

It's an imaginary person in a joke.
Rather different from striding up to a stranger or family member and saying it.
The "son" in the joke isnt real.

he is real, it is Dominic Raab and he was still wearing his PE kit from the 80s

BBbevan

No , of course not. I just wondered, as the OP used it so casually, if she knew the actual meaning

Erm yes. Bit patronising there. ?

I think it varies from place to place.
It's quite a mild insult here, regardless of what it originally meant.

Love it. Thanks HousePlantQueen

Love it too ? really funny.
Let’s face it, with the bunch we have in No10 there’s so much material there for comedians ..... Fraggle Rock springs to mind ?

DanniRae

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

Same here DanniRae

It’s most certainly a mild comment where I’m from and wouldn’t be taken seriously at all.

So funny, it brought a smile amid serious letters today.

I thought it was hilarious, so did DH ??

?? I found it funny.
Too many people nowadays cannot take a joke, hence the saying the world’s gone mad!

Very good, that made me laugh on a dreary morning of rain. I thank you

Nearly peeed myself laughing!????

Beckett

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

It wouldn't be funny because Labour & Starmer haven't shown themselves to be (quite so) worthy of contempt as BJ & the Tories.