Well, I think it's funny ?

Nearly peeed myself laughing!????

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

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

I thought it was hilarious, so did DH ??

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

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

DanniRae

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

Same here DanniRae

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 ?

Love it. Thanks HousePlantQueen

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

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. ?

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

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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.

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.
.

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?

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?

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

He laughed and it cheered him up no end!

Is your son Michael Gove?

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.