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are you ready to laugh at the craziness yet?

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whydidhesaythat · 27/06/2016 20:46

I thought I was too upset but this on facebook by someone called Pete Irving has cheered me right up. Anything else funny please send it this way.



"How did you vote?", asked Pooh
"Leave", said Piglet
"Oh, for fuck's sake", said Pooh, "Why the fuck did you do that?"

"Because if we leave, then we'll fix the NHS"
"We're not going to fix the NHS, Piglet, that was all bollocks. All the people who told you to vote Leave are the very same people who want to privatise the fucking thing"
"Oh. But anyway there's also those bloody Heffalumps"
"Heffalumps?"
"Yes, the bloody Heffalumps who keep coming to live in the wood, there are too many"
"But they do things for us, Piglet, and voting Leave won't actually stop them coming anyway"
"Oh. But I just want to get back control of the wood"
"You fucktard. You never had control of the wood, you're a fucking piglet. You're just going to get even more fucked over by different people"
"Oh. But why did you want to Remain?", asked Piglet
"I liked that everyone worked together, I felt safe"
"Is that all? You're probably still safe"
"I also fancied going to live in a different wood one day, and maybe if I had kids they would too, but now maybe we can't."
"Oh. But we'll have more honey to go around now...?"
"I'm afraid not, Piglet. We won't have to give away any honey, but there'll almost certainly be less to begin with"
"Oh. Well at least we've got rid of the pig-fucker, I didn't like him"
"I can understand that, Piglet, but have you seen the next guy!? I have a feeling he'll be doing more than just oral"
"Oh my. But they were going to build a huge scary super-wood"
"They never actually said that, and even if there were going to be a huge super-wood, would you rather be part of it, playing with all your new friends, or just outside it with nobody paying you any attention?"
"Oh, I see what you mean. But ours used to be the most important wood of all the woods"
"That's true, Piglet, but that was well over a hundred fucking years ago now, and none of us were alive. You really need to get your head out of your arse"
"But our grandparents won the big war to protect our wood, we need to make sure we keep it safe"
"Actually, that's a load of horse-shit. We won the big war to protect other people in other woods and to stop nationalist fuckers killing people because they were different. It showed that we're safer if we all work together and stop thinking of each other as different"
"But the Heffalumps, I don't like them, they're not like us"
"Fuck my luck. Piglet, you're a fucking Piglet and I'm a stuffed Bear. We're all different, that's what makes the wood a fun place to live. You like Kanga don't you? She's different"
"But Kanga's been here for ages and I like her food"
"Christ on a bike, Piglet, you are a fucking cockwomble"
"Beer?" asked Piglet
"You're buying" said Pooh, "and I want pork scratchings"
"Oh my"

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freetrampolineforall · 29/06/2016 16:58

Whydid- thank you for the link. I was brought up by the wartime generation so this was the stuff I was allowed to watch in the 70s. We'd better get some fecking fantastic escapist popular culture out of this fecking mess. Until then, David Tennant reading anti trump tweets will do.

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freetrampolineforall · 29/06/2016 16:45

Samantha Bee and John Oliver (both ex The Daily Show) are the only people making me smile at the moment. The Time Lord David Tennant sketch is brilliant. Can't find any other non-dc related reason to smile.

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DeskOfMyOwn · 29/06/2016 13:57

SomethingOnce: Vacancy – National Unity Statesperson – £145k + £7k housing assistance access to usual gravy train.

Got the ideal candidate for you, already presides over a once-divided nation. Moreover, she's been patiently explaining to the Charlies trying not to be in charge of our country what they need to do. We need a mutti at times like these: Angela Merkel for PM.

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whydidhesaythat · 29/06/2016 13:35

:)

are you ready for a "meanwhile in Boris Johnson's bunker" vid?

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SomethingOnce · 29/06/2016 12:59

Good analysis.

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Fleurdelise · 29/06/2016 12:42

Going around on Facebook

"So, let me get this straight... the leader of the opposition campaigned to stay but secretly wanted to leave, so his party held a non-binding vote to shame him into resigning so someone else could lead the campaign to ignore the result of the non-binding referendum which many people now think was just angry people trying to shame politicians into seeing they'd all done nothing to help them.

Meanwhile, the man who campaigned to leave because he hoped losing would help him win the leadership of his party, accidentally won and ruined any chance of leading because the man who thought he couldn't lose, did - but resigned before actually doing the thing the vote had been about. The man who'd always thought he'd lead next, campaigned so badly that everyone thought he was lying when he said the economy would crash - and he was, but it did, but he's not resigned, but, like the man who lost and the man who won, also now can't become leader. Which means the woman who quietly campaigned to stay but always said she wanted to leave is likely to become leader instead.

Which means she holds the same view as the leader of the opposition but for opposite reasons, but her party's view of this view is the opposite of the opposition's. And the opposition aren't yet opposing anything because the leader isn't listening to his party, who aren't listening to the country, who aren't listening to experts or possibly paying that much attention at all. However, none of their opponents actually want to be the one to do the thing that the vote was about, so there's not yet anything actually on the table to oppose anyway. And if no one ever does do the thing that most people asked them to do, it will be undemocratic and if any one ever does do it, it will be awful.

Clear?"

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SomethingOnce · 29/06/2016 12:38

Vacancy – National Unity Statesperson – £145k + £7k housing assistance access to usual gravy train.

An exciting opportunity has opened up for an untainted experienced Statesperson to motivate a divided nation bringing together some real bat shit crazy personalities comprising of current and former work force, 52% and the future work force and enlightened others, 48%.

You will be required to steer an impossible course through detailed negotiations while being heckled from both sides.

Your reward is career disgrace. Good luck.

From the comments here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/28/brexit-disaster-crisis-changes-left

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FellOutOfBed2wice · 29/06/2016 08:30

Love the Pooh and Piglet meme. Place marking for some cheer.

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toriap2 · 29/06/2016 08:18

The EU telling the members not to behave like they were on a UKIP meeting Grin

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MorrisZapp · 29/06/2016 08:17

Samantha Bee's Full Frontal is absolutely brilliant on brexit and includes David Tennant saying cocksplat.

I'd never heard of her before. It's the most miniscule of silver linings but I'll take it just now.

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throwingpebbles · 29/06/2016 08:10

Yes, I have finally found a very black sense of humour about it thanks to John Oliver!

but i have a feeling we are going to need to dig deep for dark humour a lot over the coming years

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whydidhesaythat · 29/06/2016 08:09

Reached!

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whydidhesaythat · 29/06/2016 08:06

It's day six and piglet has teacher the edge of the 23 acre wood....

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Room101isWhereIUsedToLive · 28/06/2016 22:17

Nope found it. Enjoy!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=nh0ac5HUpDU

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Room101isWhereIUsedToLive · 28/06/2016 22:11

They took it offline, not fair. Classic quote was something along the lounges of 'nigel Farage who has made the cover of most punchable face three times.

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whydidhesaythat · 28/06/2016 10:17

For those of you not ready to laugh again, this not funny, but it is beautiful, prescient, apropos and from 1936.

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iPost · 28/06/2016 09:55

Arcadia

Grin

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whydidhesaythat · 28/06/2016 09:51

Awesome

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DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease · 28/06/2016 02:43

Room101

Did you mean this vid: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ikd7A2VuHs

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SenecaFalls · 28/06/2016 00:12

'For once the Americans aren't the dumbest people on the planet'

We have an expression here in the US that originated in a famous comic strip: "We have met the enemy and he is us." I think perhaps folks in the UK might want to borrow it for a while.

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whydidhesaythat · 27/06/2016 22:27

I tell you what,. I'll make up a limerick and publish it by the time the petition gets to 4m

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WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 27/06/2016 22:13

It's still hard to laugh

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whydidhesaythat · 27/06/2016 22:09

Hey guess what?
The status of Iceland's application to join the EU is " frozen". Tee hee :)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Iceland_to_the_European_Union

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expatinscotland · 27/06/2016 22:04

Pound has tanked. Market is not looking good. Credit rating downgraded. I'm afraid I don't find anything to laugh about here.

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Arcadia · 27/06/2016 22:04

I'm running out now! ...

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