For good or ill, anyone with some basic literacy (even the slightest amount will suffice, unfortunately) and an internet connection can reach everyone else who meets these two conditions. The result is an ocean of absolutely horrible “content” that no one really cares about, but, like the million monkeys typing away for a million years, sometimes something interesting shows up.
We’ve gathered some of the funniest tweets from X this August and humbly brought them before you today to enjoy. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, debate if you should still even call it X and add your own thoughts to the comments section down below.
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My Daughters find me..quaint. "Why don't you get a laptop?".."Yeah, no" my desk top is just fine, thanks.
And what would I do on laptop? Watch movies? I have a TV for that. Play games? On laptop..? Browse internet? I have phone for that. Work? God, no. I am a game developer. You need a proper machine for that. Some are taking their laptops on vacation, but that's vacation. I want to be free from pc on vacation.
We have four adults in this house, all of whom are either IT professionals or very comfortable with IT. We converted an upstairs room into a server room with six Windows servers, a few Linux machines, three NAS appliances, and other accoutrements. So they all live in their own room, which is nice. But we also have five desktop workstations, three laptops, three or four tablets, four cell phones, smart TVs, etc. I understand this person's sentiments. There are times when it is very, very nice to head for the dog park.
LR is for TV, Ofc is for computer, etc, and BR is for reading and sleeping (and that fun stuff too, hehe)
I'm a male, and even I know if a man asks about "positions" in a household whatever theyre gonna say next is gonna be blatantly incorrect.
Sit at home, tell cook what to make for dinner, and receive guests between 2 and 4 in the afternoon.
Not sure if we mean the same thing, but I have always had a sadness come over me about that late summer, late afternoon sunlight. Even as a kid.
An excellent summary of August. I felt that way but did not have the words. I agree with wuchi51 about having a birthday in late August. I quit celebrating them long ago. I shared a birthday with my mother. I used to celebrate more for her than anything else. I guess that makes it decipherable for me.
I’m always glad when summer is over…but just a little wistful, too.
One of the oddest and most charming byproducts of the social media age is how websites such as Twitter, now simply called X, have been breeding grounds for rapid, witty humor. Though it's simple enough to imagine such websites as cacophonous environments rife with yelling and hot takes, they've also become spaces where humans hone their sarcasm in real time.
The format itself actually demands it: limited character lengths, fast-moving dialogue, and a gigantic audience willing to fire back at lightning speed. That blend of limitations and exposure has turned into a type of comedy lab where the most talented comedic ideas often emerge.
That's the profile of any dog that was drawn by James Thurber. His 'toons were just as engaging as his writing.
Load More Replies...*rings a gong* The Shirt has been fed the sacrifice! The socks shall be safe from the dryer! (Distant drums)
Load More Replies...Stopped wearing white a long time ago! Last time was in Budapest when I ended up wearing a goulash stain! Was worth it though, was delicious. I also own two dark-furred dogs now, so that doesn't help!
At 60 I occasionally look back at that point in college when I was fearless enough to wear white pants when we went out partying. I don't know what happened, but by the time I hit 40 my wardrobe had changed to multicolor shirts and dark pants because I seem to wear everything I eat at some point during the day.
White shirt in a ramen restaurant really wasn't the smartest choice. A mistake I've only made once
Just gave up and wear a dish towel bib. Doesn't matter what color the shirt is.
The limited length of a tweet makes people cut humor to its finest essence. It doesn't leave room for fancy setups or meandering descriptions. The joke has to fit in a few words. That restriction gives birth to wordplay, bizarre juxtapositions, and clever observations that might fail on other media. One excellent line buried deep in a long piece of writing becomes nugget gold when distilled into a few words on a timeline where brevity is everything. Out of this comes a comedy genre that's lean, fast, and instantaneously shareable.
Especially if it's coupled with headphones/earbuds.
Load More Replies...On its own, that's an interesting idea, but riddle me this: Why this person didn't used the table that's underneath??
Mobile phones don't have foldable stands like tablets do.
Load More Replies...Yes, because typing in “refer to my CV as it’s all in there” doesn’t work.
Indeed: “Thanks for attaching your cv. Now please enter everything again manually as if you hadn’t just uploaded your cv”
Load More Replies...Yeah, right around the time they started asking me to state my sock size, who my barber is, whether I know how to jump start a car with a dead battery, the last time I ate pickled eels... o.k., that's all exaggerating a bit but I did run across a personality profile once as part of applying for a job and it just went on and on and on with inane questions so I stopped answering and said to myself "This is *definitely* not a place I want to work."
"If you had to give up a body part for the CEO which part would you choose?"
No, but I've quit an application half way through because they were offering too little.
Education department jobs were a pain to apply for, because of their KPIs, but Catholic or Independent schools all wanted paragraphs about your faith and community involvement.
What also drives the humor is how interactive the site is. A trending subject or internet meme template is akin to an enormous improv stage, as thousands of people riff from one another's concept. Someone will put up a joke template about, say, the struggles of being an adult or a cringe-worthy relationship situation, and within the course of hours, there are thousands of versions of it.
My thoughts exactly 😆 Best I can do is like two and half
Load More Replies...Most of my friends are guys. We ride motorcycles, lean on trucks and talk about random things like Model T transmissions, big steam trains, weird trivia, and whatever else interests us. The occasional personal thing comes up but it's not the focus, just one more side road. When I do a girls weekend we talk about family, relationships, beliefs, occasionally travel, and sometimes cooking and gardening. Different not better or worse, just different.
If they wanted me to know about their marriages, kids, families, and jobs, they would've told me.
Men. omg With two heads that don't talk to each other I'm not surprised. hehe
I stayed at my mum's place last week and their 'lodger's' cat came to sit with my on the couch in the morning, when my parents were still in bed. The cat started licking me and I thought 'why?', then it bit me! When they finally woke up I told my parents 'the cat tried to eat me' and all they said was 'yeah, she's a weirdo'.
Dunno the quarantine regulations to and from Jamaica, but in many places the quarantine is too long to to take a pet with you on a holiday
Load More Replies...Everyone tries to one-up the last, not just in retweets and likes, but in the thrill of contributing something fresh to a collective joke. It's crowd-sourced comedy as spectacle, and the competition often draws out the best (and most bizarre) of people. And then there is the live aspect. X humor thrives on velocity, with jokes that are paired with breaking news, sports highlights, or contemporary culture traveling almost in real time.
Watching a snake shed it's skin is akin to to watching a s******r in super duper slo mo, fascinating but boring
Really? S******r is a dirty word, woodworkers must have a hard time on here
Load More Replies...There is at least one red bellied black snake on my mum's property and they have one of it's shed skins almost as long as this.
Wow! Second Thurber cartoon I've seen hear recently. I hope he is becoming trendy!
Thank you BP for fixing all of the world's problems and saving the children by putting a gray box on the word "kill"
Sounds like the lyrics from 'Dare to be Stupid', by Weird Al Yankovic.
Make my bed and lie in it. Or at least the lie in it part. As if I ever got out of it.
I strongly recommend throwing pearls before swine, while we're at it
Being humorous on the internet isn't really about wit, it's timing. The ability to grab a communal moment of pop culture and hijack it as a laugh within a heartbeat is what imbues the humor with such an immediacy, such a sense of living. That is why the very best humor on Twitter is more like vibrant flashes of observation, conveying the mood of the collective in ways that resonate long after the trend has faded.
Mince pies have already appeared in Morrisons here in the UK.
Load More Replies...Summer is ALWAYS over for me. Hate the season. BUT...I will say this summer has been not terrible. We normally have 1-5 days under 110 between July and September. This year, we've barely gotten any over 105. Please don't let Mango Mussolini know ir he'll take credit for it.
Certainly, he DESERVES credit for it! The Mangy P**o Racist B*****d is directly responsible for environmental degradation and accelerating climate change.
Load More Replies...*Sigh* Preparing to close the pool in Michigan. Open on Memorial, close on Labor. 38 degrees this a.m.swimming is officially over for the year.
Aren't you the lucky one? We got down to 43° but it won't be long...
Load More Replies...Summer is over for me when the day temp hits below 60! I was born and raised in a colder state!
Everybody gets paid for their work. Are therapists supposed to be volunteers?
In the idea world, therapists would be paid from taxes since mental healthcare should also be free, like all healthcare
Load More Replies...My parents sent me to a child psychologist. Heck, that kid was useless!
I was thinking that's crazy expensive. But every country has it's own problems.
Load More Replies...I told a trauma psychologist how I didn't react when father almost did sth extreme to mother. I wanted to explain I'm so used to violence I saw that and thought it was an understandable escalation. The psychologist interrupted me to ask what I could do if it happened again, then interrupted me twice more until I said 'nothing'. He repeated 'nothing' with satisfaction, as if it were a great breakthrough. What a f-ing idiot. The real issue is I was not allowed to have feelings and clearly still I'm banned from having them.
I think you're supposed to think of special agent Dale Cooper though.
Load More Replies...I let my kids have leftover homemade peach pi and whipped cream for breakfast. There are more calories in an IHOP pancake breakfast and at least I knew what the ingredients were.
With Rutabaga(?) Looks like "I'm NOT the one you're looking for". . .
Of course, not every try works. The rush to be funny can come across as jokes that fall flat or read as forced. But that's the best part: the platform is forgiving, and the minimal risk of one post allows people to experiment with ideas without worrying too much. Some of the best humor comes from those raw-around-the-edges, off-the-top observations that are real-sounding, not rehearsed.
You never know when you might get into a jam, meet a honey
Load More Replies...I've read that raccoons have escaped captivity and established a feral population in central Europe. They are coming. They have clever hands and adaptable minds. Be careful what you wish for.
Load More Replies...In most of England we don't put food waste with other rubbish, so not much to interest raccoons, not at residential properties anyway.
Had a cat who once ate a whole cucumber through the plastic 'cucumber c****m'.
Mine live in the fridge because a) I don’t eat them fast enough and b) I DO have a cat who adores baked goods. His 2 favorites are fresh (not stale) sourdough and brioche.
In the end, platforms such as Twitter/X demonstrated just how much creativity thrives under restrictions. The alchemy of tight restraint, live feedback, and public riffing has created a new kind of comedy, speedy, quick-witted, and infinitely adaptable. It's a testament to the idea that even in the midst of social media chaos, humans can make cacophony into joy, one aptly timed post at a time.
It looks like the two figures are having a virus projectile vomiting contest
HAHAHAHAHA, I have to show this to my conspiracy theorist friend!
Load More Replies...Non-vaccinators and non-maskers! My husband and I got ALL the shots during the height of the pandemic. We NEVER got sick. But again, we kept our distance from others, wore our masks, and NEVER did group things except the grocery store & doctor offices when we had appointments. We were SMART and never believed anyone other than the CDC and Dr. Fauci! GOD BLESS HIM!
I tried singing that to the beat of Katy Perry's The One That Got Away
I have one of those toilet lights. When I go pee at night, it starts out as red then it’s yellow then blue then purple then green, etc. Just makes it all worth being roused from my slumber by my bladder.
Do you find yourself breaking out some dance moves before going back to bed?
Load More Replies...Oh. At first I didn't understand . . . I love shrimp and use to eat it all the time. As I've gotten older, I've become allegeric - could be bad processing or bad shrimp.
The average human body is way more radioactive than the shrimp which is only ~68 bequerels per kilogram. That means that there’s ~68 decays going on per second in 1kg of the thing. The FDA itself says that food should not have greater than 1200 bequerals per kg
I used to like them until I found out that figs are pollinated by wasps. They crawl in through tiny openings, pollinating the fig in the process. It then lays eggs and the little baby waspies eat there way out. The adult wasps die inside the fig and there body is broken down by enzymes and absorbed into the fruit. Nahh I'm good.
And? By that same logic we shouldn't eat any food fertlised by manure, which is a lot of food.
Load More Replies...Been living my entire 2025 with this mentality. I’m the dumbest person I know so at times if I’m given sweets or my favourite foods then I feel extrememly guilty as I haven’t done anything to warrant having them
Maybe you haven't done anything to warrant them. Probably neither has anyone else. And people are like puppers - all deserve treats.
Load More Replies...Aww, have a bit of Geeta's mango chutney on that and everything will be fine
TBF, mango chutney on a shoe tongue would be a treat!
Load More Replies...I'm the opposite, I deserve everything good. I'm going to spoil myself. While people my age had fun, I was getting one trauma after another and no one ever wanted to help me.
If you haven't seen Weapons yet, go see it. In the theater. Best picture in a loooong time.
I know, it makes it not worth the effort to work out the passage of time.
Load More Replies...I got engaged to my husband on our third date, just two weeks after we met. Twenty-six years and four kids later, we're still blissfully in love!
Or one of the corners of a room and nothing else so you can’t actually see what the room looks like.
Or they take photos that stretch things to make them look huge. When the sofa is 15 feet long in one photo and 7 feet long in the next photo, dead giveaway.
Load More Replies...Is that worse? Some dry pellets you can wash off, instead of an asymmetric or much shorter hairdo for a few years?
Load More Replies...Goats will eat plastic bags, your afro was the equivalent of patisserie from Demel's.
These days there is only one state in America and it's the state of decline...
And you don't? Personally, I don't want anyone I didn't invite prancing around my place.
Load More Replies...If I did not personally know someone who stays calm and works through the emergency, I would not believe such people really exist.
I'm one of them. Unless the emergency has to do with one of my pets.
Load More Replies...Well just last night I stabbed my thumb with one, between the nail and skin (for you to visualize). Also yes it hurts
Ah I feel the opposite. Computer screen time is work time (eww), but phone screen time is meeee time (yay?).
Punctuation is important! Just trying to read that is making my left eye twitch.
I just found out tapping your card at the gas station prevents fake card readers from getting your info.
Oddly enough, if I insert my card and run it as credit at the gas pumps it asks for my zip code. If I tap instead it doesn't ask for anything.
Load More Replies...In Australia, you have to enter your pin if you are tapping over $100. It's trying to safeguard against stolen/skimmed cards being used for large purchases. Unfortunately, my stolen card had many $99 purchases before I managed to put a stop on it.
Here you can tap a total of 100 in as many taps as you want before you have to enter your PIN again. So, you can tap a total of 100, then you have to enter your PIN again.
Load More Replies...That's a "we have to call the bank for authorization" amount of money
This is why we have polymer bank notes in Australia :) Practically indestructible.
So if the dog threw up $120 and you now have recovered all $220, did you have to follow him around with a shovel and rubber gloves?
Only if it's a) venomous, or b) can reach out and knock 2 years off your life. 😂
Load More Replies...Prove it. What is The Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?
"How many traffic lights did I see in this CAPTCHA, Emmett?"
Yeah, still not buying it. The reiteration of "how may I assist you" instead of rephrasing it a bit is always a cue there's only one human involved in the conversation.
Sure, Emmett is a human, but trained to speak like AI is all. You would expect something else from a railroad run by the U.S. government?
I worked in a company that was doing customer service online. The amount of times the agents get asked this is actually crazy and they can't say anything specific because they have a script to follow and even though they can confirm they're human,they might lose marks in assessments if they answer any weirder confirmation questions.
Lol, I've had this happen on more than one occasion. Once on the phone
It's because Emmett used full words, complete sentences, capitalization and punctuation.
The girl who hated me in 8th grade came to my mom's wake thirty-four years later and still hated me.
Easy solution - just get normal protein from actual foods that have natural protein in them. Not some gross, processed dessert-tasting bar that is far worse for you.
So many of those protein shakes & bars have a LOT of calories that far outweighs the benefits of the workout most people do. Just have an extra piece of chicken!
Enough. Enough w/ the protein hype. If you ain't moving like we did back in the day, you're just gonna get fatter. They're trying to trick us, and yes, the chemicals far outweigh (pun intended) any possible "health benefit."
I hate it that in Poland, hazel eyes are called beer-coloured. It's so ugly and stupid. I say my eyes are brown, I prefer the colour of poop than the beer.
Hah. I hate beer, but I always liked that as an eye colour description.
Load More Replies...I mean, I feel it needs to be said: m**********n is free, fun and it´s good for you
You can spread your hobby also to the neighbours' yards. Either you'll get money or you'll get arrested, it's a fun guessing game!
I got a fortune cookie without that little slip of paper in it. I thought, that's unfortunate.
I got one that said, "You like Chinese food." How did they know?! 🤣
My favorite one is on the fridge "your uniqueness is more than an outward experience"
It’s concerning that the love they put into it is bold and underlined
Isn't this from that same comedian that had the "bathe in my milk" flyers a while back?
Yes, his name is Alan Wagner. https://www.instagram.com/truewagner/related_profiles/?hl=en
Load More Replies...I don't care about the Bond movies, but I think Tom Hiddleston would make a great James Bond.
well in all fairness the size of states is comparable to countries in other places...you drive 3 hours in england and you are likely to end up in france...you drive for 3 hours in texas and you've only made it half way thru Texas
Something I noticed while overseas: most people tell you what country they're from. USians tell you which city their from.
When Americans visit, say, a European country, and when a local finds out they are from the US, invariably they will ask "Do you live in Hollywood?" Or "Do you live in New York?" As if there are no other places to live
Load More Replies...If my manager doesn't know what I am working on, what kind of manager are they? I would delay assembling that list "until after the meeting since I'm sure I'll have a better idea of what I will be working on following it." Tee hee
Why? It comes together in the stomach anyway. Meal design is just extra steps.
Load More Replies...What? You’ve never had hard-boiled egg and uncooked apple oatmeal? You’re really missing out.
Load More Replies...I asked the wood spirits and they said stop listening to fūcking ai
ChatGPT is better for some things, but Google is still the better choice (at least for now)
Actually, it is quite boysonous. It may be the most boysonous thing you can purchase.
Load More Replies...Seattle area grocery stores always have boysenberry jam on shelves. Also pie. What is a boysenberry? Its a hybrid blackberry and raspberry.
When I was 7 (back in 1963) we visited my great-aunt and great-uncle. She made boysenberry pie. I told them I didn't want any... I was sure they said poisonberry.
Too late; she has a very close collaboration with Travis Kelce
A Quieter Place. This one takes place in a library. The 4th one will be shown only in that freaky soundproof room that no one has been able to stay more than 45 minutes in. Part 5 will be an actual silent movie screened at the Helen Keller School.
My laundromat in New Orleans made you buy something from the attached restaurant in order to use the ATM for free. The restaurant sold daiquiris in gallon or half-gallon jugs. I always got banana.
After a gallon of banana daiquiris did you even remember your PIN? 😂
Load More Replies...In-unit laundry is an essential item for any home I have going forwards. I will not go back on that luxury.
My apartment laundry (*very* nice, well maintained, clean) went to card system (no more coins) about three years ago. Prices have not changed in those three years. But then, we're just mountain hicks where I live. Whadda we know about how the Big City works?
Not that high yet where I live but inching closer. Went from .50 wash load and .75 dry load. Machines were changed from quarters to card system at $1.00 per load and within a weeks now $1.60 per load. Am considering switching to laundry mat. They have bigger machines and wont be limited to using only one machine at a time
Last place I lived had a broken coin slot in the coin-operated dryer. That machine got alot of use, even people who lived in other buildings came over to use the dryer, until a month later when the landlord fixed it. He said those machines have a counter inside for how many loads of wash/dry are done, and the coins had better match that number
minding my own d**n business, you should try it sometime
Enjoying their 20's not being married and not having kids. My 20's were the best time of my life. Marriage is great too, but more work, less drunken debauchery. And then kids are a ton of work. Enjoy your 20's folks. No rush!
I've literally never seen anyone with a more punchable face.
Load More Replies...I'm undecided if his methods are ethical. I think about it more than I care to admit.
It’s definitely an Iowa State University flag but the Kansas one is definitely the actual state flag. K State’s colors include purple and they are the “Wildcats,” so it’s 100% not the flag of Kansas State University.
Load More Replies...Probably Dr. Trump who got his medical degree from Trump U.
Load More Replies...They're not friends if they do it in a nasty, hostile way. The same with therapists, if they have a negative attitude towards you, it's not going to work. How hard is it to treat people well and give them what they need? I do it all the time and see great results. People's "negative" emotions disappear in an instant, just bc I treat them right. It's so easy and frustrating others refuse to be like me.
People that allow themselves to be “influenced” by anyone that calls themselves an “influencer” are the real problem.
I wonder why BP keeps posting these posts of Twitter screenshots - some of them are good, but there's a clear difference between BP's humor and Twitter's humor, given that there are tweets here with hundreds of thousands of likes in Twitter but only a few upvotes on BP (and some with negative votes here but tens of thousands of likes on Twitter)
I wonder why BP keeps posting these posts of Twitter screenshots - some of them are good, but there's a clear difference between BP's humor and Twitter's humor, given that there are tweets here with hundreds of thousands of likes in Twitter but only a few upvotes on BP (and some with negative votes here but tens of thousands of likes on Twitter)
