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... to think this is a childish sense of humour?

23 replies

Zenana · 01/03/2025 09:32

The song that goes "when you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard" is meant to be "smutty".

Naming two chihuahuas Tommy and Tuppence is "saucy" because Tuppence is a euphemism for "a lady's fanny" which leads on to a street being named Fanny Avenue which is also "cheeky".

Apparently according to someone I know, anyway. I disagree!

Am I unreasonable for not only not finding it funny but none of these even occurring to me in the first place? And for thinking it childish "humour"?

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ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 01/03/2025 09:38

Don't tell this person about Geoffrey's Passage in Guildford.
Or Brown Willy in Cornwall!

Helladelinquent · 01/03/2025 09:40

The only thing that I think of when I hear Tommy and Tuppence is the Agatha Christie characters.

HelenaWaiting · 01/03/2025 09:40

Or St Ann's Passage in Manchester.

InWithThePlums · 01/03/2025 09:42

Helladelinquent · 01/03/2025 09:40

The only thing that I think of when I hear Tommy and Tuppence is the Agatha Christie characters.

Yep, presumably that’s what they’re named after?

InWithThePlums · 01/03/2025 09:43

It is childish, but it’s allowed.

Needmorelego · 01/03/2025 09:44

Yes Tommy and Tuppence are Agatha Christie characters.
Not quite sure what you are on about with the other stuff.

PrincessBing · 01/03/2025 09:44

It's not the most sophisticated humour but I've heard worse in terms of actual humour.

I can imagine it's very wearing if you're exposed to it on repeat though. The smut everywhere brigade are very wearing and contrived, they see smut where there really isn't any, and they also ruin the occasional cheeky pun someone else might make by doing the genre to death.

@ItShouldntHappenToMeYet I used to work in Guildford- used to bloody love a trip up Geoffrey's Passage. Was telling someone about it recently! Sure I've also read a thread on here before where someone mentioned having their first kiss with their now DH in Geoffrey's Passage!

Halloumiheaven · 01/03/2025 09:45

I've got a really daft sense of humour. But no, I don't get this at all!?

A very nasty as it turned out, ex boyfriend in my teenage years used to smoke a lot of weed and this is the sort of thing he'd come out with. Reading things into benign stuff and seeing things that weren't there. The "hard" one in your first example is a real stretch ! (Certainly no pun intended there!)

Pleaseshowmehow · 01/03/2025 09:45

Well if someone called their dogs Tommy and Tuppence I would just assume they were Agatha Christie fans. And I wouldn't be too impressed because I really dislike the Partners in Crime books.

"When you're in love with a beautiful woman" just reminds me of seeing Dr Hook on TOTP and thinking how gorgeous Dennis the singer was.

So any smutty interpretations of your examples has totally passed me by.

KimberleyClark · 01/03/2025 09:45

There’s a Fanny St in my city. Presumably named after the wife or daughter of a Victorian councillor.

DeclutteringJane · 01/03/2025 09:45

Oh I've been meaning to re-read N or M for ages OP. Great shout.
Your friend does sound a bit silly, though.

Zenana · 01/03/2025 09:46

InWithThePlums · 01/03/2025 09:42

Yep, presumably that’s what they’re named after?

Yes they are.

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Mama2many73 · 01/03/2025 09:51

Helladelinquent · 01/03/2025 09:40

The only thing that I think of when I hear Tommy and Tuppence is the Agatha Christie characters.

Thats where my brain went!

Obviously some things pointed out do sound smutty but I don't think they d be my first line of thoughts!

autisticbookworm · 01/03/2025 11:45

Yeah I'd assume Agatha Christie characters not smutty.

ExtraOnions · 01/03/2025 11:51

I laugh at double entendres / childish smut all the time.

I’m in IT, still can’t talk about Penetration Testing without laughing

ginasevern · 01/03/2025 12:58

I once had a bit of a chortle at Lord Hereford's Knob - the mountain in Wales that is.

InWithThePlums · 01/03/2025 13:07

ginasevern · 01/03/2025 12:58

I once had a bit of a chortle at Lord Hereford's Knob - the mountain in Wales that is.

And a Half Man Half Biscuit song (I had no idea it was also a mountain for the first several times I heard it, so my interpretation was less subtle Blush)

Ilovethatbear · 01/03/2025 13:19

Who is the possessor of this childish sense of humour please?

I do hope you haven’t married them? 🤮

MoonWoman69 · 01/03/2025 13:53

Maybe it's not your humour, just theirs? We're all entitled to have different things that amuse us! It's not really my sense of humour as such, but I wouldn't get offended or get into a tizzy about it!
I do occasional livestreams with my friend, who's a lot older than me, he's very much into toilet humour and seaside saucy card type innuendos! When he does that, I say, 'Oh God, he's off again", laugh, roll my eyes and change the subject quickly! He isn't ever offensive, he just has that sort of humour!
Variety is the spice of life and all that, if that's his thing, then I'm not one to deny him a chuckle!

twoshedsjackson · 01/03/2025 14:12

It would seem that they are stuck at the Finbar Saunders stage (As in the comic,Viz: "Finbar Saunders and his Double Entendres"), which most folk, mercifully outgrow. End of Year 5 seems to mark the onset, and it can be trying; the most anodyne remark can trigger suppressed hilarity. As @MoonWoman69 says, everyone is entitled to their own sense of humour, but it can be terminally tiresome when every utterance is a trigger.
You could riposte with "Fnar, fnar", or if you can be bothered, ask them in excruciating detail why they find an innocent phrase so funny.

Zenana · 01/03/2025 14:53

Ilovethatbear · 01/03/2025 13:19

Who is the possessor of this childish sense of humour please?

I do hope you haven’t married them? 🤮

Oh god no. It's a work colleague.

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Dotjones · 01/03/2025 14:57

Yes it's juvenile but a lot of people are. I often used to see men having their photo taken by the road sign on the street "Bell End" in Wollaston when I lived there, was kind of appropriate.

Zenana · 01/03/2025 17:09

Dotjones · 01/03/2025 14:57

Yes it's juvenile but a lot of people are. I often used to see men having their photo taken by the road sign on the street "Bell End" in Wollaston when I lived there, was kind of appropriate.

Oh yes and Twatt on Orkney!

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