British sense of humour

[All uphill]

It's the most significant historical event that anybody alive today can remember living through. Pretty odd to regard that as boring.
It would be boring to mention to it at every possible opportunity, but I don't see much evidence of that on this forum.
What I find much odder is the insistence of some to recoil when it is occasionally mentioned.

It's the jokes I find tedious; first heard them 60 years ago. How can they still be even faintly amusing?

 

[Moon bunny]

Does the British sense of humour involve banging on incessantly about the war then? That seems to be the theme.

”For you, Tommy, zer var is never over!”

 

[Cycleops]

I used to work for a German company and when we met for meetings in Germany there was a lot of leg pulling about the war. We Brits used to say we bombed your factories and they would reply well, we bombed your fish and chip shops.
The manager who used to oversee the British sales operations spent a lot of time in the U.K. and his favourite comedy TV program was ‘Allo, Allo’ . So it’s not all one sided.

 

[Andy in Germany]

80 years ago...

So boring.

Yes, but if you focus on that (and one World Cup) you can ignore other things you may not want to remember.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Trust me, you'd be finding it rather more exciting if we'd lost.

I always think that was one of the greatest ironic jokes of history: Losing the war was the best thing that could have happened for Germany, but winning it was the lesser of two evils for the UK.

 

[matticus]

It's the jokes I find tedious; first heard them 60 years ago. How can they still be even faintly amusing?

This is the price we pay for living to ripe old ages, mein freund!

Dunno if it's just a British thing, but old jokes bounce around for decades on every subject; we'd still be hearing jokes about blacks/irish/gypsies if they hadn't been made illegal. Same for the harmless ones (admittedly they are less enduring, but Why Did The Chicken ... jokes will probably outlive even Cyclechat :O )

 

[Pale Rider]

I've been on the outside of, but regularly exposed to, police humour for more than 25 years.

Describing it as 'black' is inadequate, it is far more complex than that.

Police humour is variable and unpredictable, what you might think would amuse them sometimes doesn't, and can even cause offence.

They may also find humour in remarks which most people would say there is none.

As a body of men and women, coppers are a strange bunch all round.

I've done stories which I think will cause ructions, but cause no reaction, yet another story which to me is innocuous can cause chief constable level ructions.

I think it's something to do with an 'us against the world' attitude, but short of doing a doctorate level study of the topic, I can't take it much further.

 

[yello]

I think you mean cod awful puns, surely?

No I most definitely do not .......

 

[Reynard]

I think you mean cod awful puns, surely?

Are you sure this is the right thyme and plaice for this?

 

[yello]

Police humour is variable and unpredictable, what you might think would amuse them sometimes doesn't, and can even cause offence.

Yep, never joke with a copper. They'll decide what's funny and when.

 

[BoldonLad]

I always think that was one of the greatest ironic jokes of history: Losing the war was the best thing that could have happened for Germany, but winning it was the lesser of two evils for the UK.

Don’t want to bang on about the war, so, this will be my one and only comment on it. I recently read that UK also received Marshal Aid (actually, more than Germany did), if true, what the f*** did we do with it?

 

[raleighnut]

Q9, Spike Milligan was truly unique.

What about Q5, 6, 7 and 8


View: https://youtu.be/_hNZAMoBTwA:rain
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[Pale Rider]

Yep, never joke with a copper. They'll decide what's funny and when.

That is the safest policy, but me being me I've tried it several times, with variable results.

Leaving joking aside, I could be standing talking to a copper and communicating quite well.

But when a colleague of his wonders up, they immediately close ranks and I'm shut out of the conversation.

They mean no harm, and probably don't even realise they are doing it.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I think there’s also a difference in the savagery of the humour depending on where you come from, when my daughter was at uni one of her friends she made was from a couple of miles from here, the others were from much further south, the southerners thought that mini DRM and her northern mate were particularly harsh when taking the p*ss out of each other and anyone/anything else

After 25 years of marriage our lass still doesn't get this. She can't grasp that a Northern trait is to take the piss out of loved ones.

 

[matticus]

But when a colleague of his wonders up, they immediately close ranks and I'm shut out of the conversation.

They mean no harm, and probably don't even realise they are doing it.

Ex-forces are like that too (I work with quite a few). It's probably normal human psychology, tribalism, othering, yada yada ...