Keep Calm and Carry On. We’ve all heard this WW2 motivational phrase, right? Well, it seems that the British have never truly forgotten it and it shows, especially with the global coronavirus pandemic continuing to spread and the quarantine in full effect.
It looks like nothing, not even Covid-19, can dampen Brits’ sense of humor. Bored Panda has collected some of the most hilarious tweets to show you that Brits are hilarious no matter how bad the situation really is. So enjoy and remember to upvote your faves, dear Pandas!
The UK is currently in its fourth week of quarantine and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from intensive care on Sunday. There might be some good news this Thursday, too because the government will review whether the situation is sufficiently under control to relax social distancing measures a bit.
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It might seem peculiar that people are laughing and having fun while the coronavirus has killed more than 10,000 people in the UK. However, it’s incredibly important to maintain your sense of humor during a crisis. For example, British comedian and writer David Baddiel told The Atlantic’s Tom McTague that people always turn to comedy during difficult times. Even if that means poking fun at the coronavirus which some people can find offensive or insensitive.
“People want jokes,” Baddiel explained. “Partly because jokes are a relief, and they take the edge off danger; partly because they are a way of processing the experience; and yes, partly because this is a massive shared experience. We can't really do much about these things, but we can laugh in the face of them. In a godless society, it's the one eternal victory we have.”
Meanwhile, British Australian comedian Tim Minchin told McTague that he agrees with Baddiel’s conclusions. “We don’t laugh at scary things because we don’t understand their seriousness. We laugh because they’re serious. Making jokes gives us a sense of power over the threat.”
Both comedians think that joking about serious things is not inappropriate. In their opinion, the people who talk about jokes being inappropriate are dealing with the situation by trying to control things in a different way.
“Their weapon is signaling their moral purity,” Minchin said before adding, “Both the clowns and the virtuous can at times be bores or boors or bullies.” In other words, both comedians and “serious” individuals have their pros and cons and neither is better than the other. But one thing’s for certain—not even 2020 will make Brits lose their sense of humor.
I like the sheep in the playgrounds and on the children's roundabouts.
Trying to keep your distance in a busy park like that is just pointillist.
am i the only one that has seen this at least 70 times in different posts?
In New Zealand, our Prime Minister announced that both the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are classified as Essential Workers providing Essential Services. Go Jacinda Arden!
Is the bar okay? Does the entrance still work? Was any alcohol damaged?
I am with her 100%. The children missing school seem so odd to me, bless them. School must be a thousand times better than it was when I went. I lived on a farm in the a**e end of nowhere and didn't see friends during holidays so social isolation was natural. I had to play with my siblings!!! Yikes.
My Tesco delivery guy told me... groceries and up to date news bulletins. What service!
Me too! Though my painkillers are doctor prescribed.
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We are now living in a apartment, since we just sold our house with the great garden with a heated pool on February the 29th... Pre Corona that was a good switch for us, now... maybe not so much...
I do! A husband, two cats, a big garden, hens, and I live in the country. Oh and paracetamol too!
A husband two kids a cat 3 brand new kittens and benadryl because sometimes I'm allergic to the cats.
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Lord, the whole point of this tweet is lost when you blur it. It says "You are hores"
In order to put it in the tub, I had to wash it, thereby contaminating my hands, but it was okay, because I washed my hands. Unfortunately, when I touched the taps to turn them on, I contaminated them, and after washing my hands, I contaminated my hands again when I touched the taps to turn them off. Oh, and everything in my house is contaminated and I've been unknowingly infected for weeks, because COVID-19 is like GLITTER!
This is what happens when you are an elitist snob who assumes you can't catch what the plebs get. I wish the nurses who cared for him had been the ones wearing the bin bags (but safe) instead of proper protective clothing but he will have had the best of everything and not seen the doctors, nurses and other hospital staff who are struggling.
Did anyone do the clap for kids? Even the parents in my close WITH little kids didn't.
The British sense of humor is unique and inimitable. People from other countries and cultures have tried to imitate it, to no avail. The best they can do is "close but no cigar." You have to grow up in that culture.
If people would realise that in WWII people had to live like this for 5 years, with the constant fear of either being bombed or being shot by the Nazis for some trivial reason, they'd perhaps stop acting like they have been robbed from fundamental rights. Perhaps the police should start shooting instead of fining people.
We got there a while back you wanker, keep up.
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The British sense of humor is unique and inimitable. People from other countries and cultures have tried to imitate it, to no avail. The best they can do is "close but no cigar." You have to grow up in that culture.
If people would realise that in WWII people had to live like this for 5 years, with the constant fear of either being bombed or being shot by the Nazis for some trivial reason, they'd perhaps stop acting like they have been robbed from fundamental rights. Perhaps the police should start shooting instead of fining people.
We got there a while back you wanker, keep up.
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