While famously being very, very polite, it’s no secret that Brits also love the occasional witty, tongue-in-cheek comment. And not only that. They take the gold medal for the ability to laugh at themselves like there’s no tomorrow, mocking both little and serious things. I mean, should I even remind you of the notorious English comedian Ricky Gervais?!
And for the fans of the British lifestyle, we have a real treat! The Twitter page “No Context Brits” is an online destination which offers “a celebration of all things British,” meaning it’s both things we understand and things that leave us flabbergasted. Created pretty recently, in April 2021, the account has amassed 780K devoted followers and its audience seems to be growing still.
Below we selected some of the most entertaining, bizarre, and wholesome posts from “No Context Brits” for you to enjoy with your cuppa, so scroll down and upvote your favorite posts! After you’re done, be sure to check out our previous feature on the same page, as well as a similar post on another popular Twitter account, “No Context UK.”
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This is teh best comment I have ever seen, because there is an actual priest next to her
Load More Replies...As a American I have the most respect and am in just aww of this WOMEN!! It the picture of power and knowledge
Not anymore she can't! Poor old Queen! Might not be at many of her own jubilee celebrations due to mobility issues.
No she can't. He's not far enough forward. A knight move would only work if he was on the white tile. Hence the comment.
Load More Replies...🏳️🌈 (I wish there were more flags on emojis besides this and the trans one)
Load More Replies...I live in Florida, where our hateful gov. Ron Death Sentence just passed the "don't say gay" bill. Pray for us.
It's a bloody mess isn't it? Everything seems to be going backwards! I'm not in the US, I'm UK but we're not watching our 'leaders' with any joy either.
Load More Replies...These are from a few years ago. There were bill boards and newspaper adverts everywhere.
Says stonewall so reminds me of the riots, but that was NY wasn’t it?
🎵oh they ain't no other way..baby I was born this way 🎵
Load More Replies...This isn't 'No Context' though! Just a laugh putting that on the replacement bus. For those who might not know this happens mostly when engineering works are being undertaken and the bus will pretty much follow the stops the train would make so you don't need the destination displayed - it's not being caught by anyone bar train ticket holders. They should all do this!
As a commuter, nothing strikes as much fear in me as the words "Rail Replacement Service".
My kettle expired this morning, so I am lacking coffee, but this really cheered me up! :D
This is almost as good as the one I read the other day about the bus that runs on poo... they call it the #2 bus. 😂😂😂💩💩💩
In Britain, embarrassing moments, awkward encounters and clumsiness are all considered funny, contrary to many other places in the world. But the real challenging part of British humor, especially for foreigners, is to actually tell whether they are joking or being serious.
In this piece for TIME, the legendary English comedian Ricky Gervais tried to distinguish the key differences between American and British humor. According to Gervais, Americans do not hide their hopes and fears and they applaud ambition and openly reward success. The British, on the contrary, embrace the underdog, Gervais argues.
I did... Rick rolled by a poster
Load More Replies...Better than BoJo. To save confusion(sorry SCP 504) I mean Boris Johnson.
We have these in the U. S. May be different brands but same packaging and size.
Did you know, thats a form of manipulatin, with the bad cop scaring you, and then the good cop saves you, making you more willing to talk somehow
Load More Replies...The first one is me being nice. The second one is when they didn't listen lol
What mom says when friends are over VS what mom says when you're alone.
Gervais explained: “Americans say, ‘have a nice day’ whether they mean it or not. Brits are terrified to say this.” It’s because Brits don’t want to celebrate anything too soon, Gervais writes. “Failure and disappointment lurk around every corner. This is due to our upbringing. Americans are brought up to believe they can be the next president of the United States. Brits are told, ‘It won’t happen for you.’”
No! No no no no no no! Marmite is basically demon sh*t
Load More Replies...Absolutely perfectly toasted, and just the proper amount of butter... 10/10
Orange or lime sir? I'm rather partial to lime if I'm in the mood for marmalade. Usually happy with just butter. Or marmite. Oh, *dribbles* toast 😋
Load More Replies...And that is not his wife!!!!!!! Caught in the quack!
Load More Replies...I like the other duck just taking it all in. Probably thinking something like "Dwayne is such a show off!"
I'm sorry but i thought those two ducks in the middle were some kind of paranormal humanoid creature
At least this one is more clever and original than the “Look. I are holding up the leaning tower hurr durr” pic pose that everyone else does XD
We don't steal these items for our museums - we simply borrow them and forget to give them back (like a Blockbuster video).
Although any generalization should be taken carefully, an Anglo-American writer, Paul Goodman, argues similarly to Gervais. “The American philosophy and approach to life tend to be optimistic: life is an opportunity and we should enjoy it.” Meanwhile, “Brits are more likely to see life as a bit of an ordeal, tinged with absurdity, and sometimes you just have to just grin and bear it,” he explains.
Guy two and you get an EXTRA Holy Hand Grenade!
Load More Replies...Years from now, this sort of thing will be the novelty pictures shown on all the documentaries about the pandemic... like the cats wearing masks in the Spanish Flu epidemic photos...
all it's missing is one of the dude's hair being on fire
Load More Replies...US here, I am going with the second photo... I've never seen a room that full of gray suits before though... Brits don't wear blue?
We do, and black. Also other colours (just usually dark and/or restrained!). Isn't this photoshopped and the same couple of people? I ask as I can't find my reading glasses and so things are a titchy bit blurry!!! Ahem...🥸
Load More Replies...As the deluded American I am missing the port cigars and old photos of kings
I'm in Spain. Trust me when I say the Brits come here to let loose without anyone watching (they think). They get drunk and stay drunk. They do ridiculously stupid things (like try jumping from one balcony to another). Think the term "snotty Brit" is much more appropriate than "sophisticated Brit"
There are only two things when you think about British men. They're either a refined gentlemen, or savage hooligans
so 1 or 2. My experience is you only see 1 in short range distance from the queen. The rest of the place is 2.
Load More Replies...There's a HUGE pallet shortage in Germany. I suspected cause all the Hipster using them as couches, but it's about a nail shortage. ~.~ (special nails used for pallets).
The quintessential part of British humor is irony and sarcasm, which are commonly used by Brits who rarely say anything literally. In fact, very often, they say one thing and mean completely different, and this is especially prominent in humor. This can cause great confusion to visitors, as Brits ironically mock their enemies, playfight with friends or point out the absurdities of daily life.
For those of us that can't do the Chester run in less than 12 parsecs. Edit: I genuinely had no idea it was 4th May when I posted this. 😂
You need to get out of Chester before dark. During the day it is a beautiful city, at night it is filled with country trolls and orks. Can get very stabby.
Then come, merry crew and let is slay these vermin by night
Load More Replies...Why have you got slippers on in the nightclub? I only thought I was going out. Not out out.
Load More Replies...No lads you got it all wrong, the cones go onto the head of the horse and the rider
Goodman argues that the confusion may also arise due to the fact that Brits often say ironic jokes with a straight face. “To avoid being misunderstood, most Americans will either deliver irony with a smile on their face, or 'signpost' it, adding a phrase such as 'only joking' afterward. Brits don’t usually do that.”
Puns and wordplay are also very prominent in British humor. “There’s a more intense and playful relationship with the language,” according to Goodman. “It’s seen in other ways, too, not just with humor, examples being cryptic crosswords and word-orientated game shows,” he adds.
I'm American and forgot y'all format dates the better way and was very confused for a second
It's like you know exactly what that kid is going to look like in middle age.
It’s important to highlight that essentially humor relies on culture and its people. What’s normal in one culture can seem very bizarre or even offensive to another. For this reason, we cannot ever fully translate humor. Some of the British comedy may be found very weird and not funny by Americans, while some mainstream American comedy can feel too obvious for Brits’ liking.
When I was a referee, I used to remind the parents that there were no scouts in the crowd watching their kids.
4 years old - my son was soccer "goalie" hanging/playing on the net, got tangled, fell over with the net on top of him- but, no goal was scored. So there's was that at least.
Load More Replies...I think this sign is needed in the United States. After I moved to the United States from the United Kingdom I never saw so much fanaticism in children's sports.
Well the sheep only smashed 1 in 10 of the Welsh
Load More Replies...most of south wales would decimate a massive sheep if they could :)
"Peel here" means get the knife out the drawer and hack away at the sodding plastic.
Well... you see here, they reinforced the packaging with invisible steel and stitched it up so good that your hand accidentally slips into the drawer, accidentally pulls out the scissors and cuts the damn packaging.
🤔How much adhesive should we use on the area where they're suppose to pull? 😠All of it! 😳 ah...okay.
There’s a law in the food industry. Every “open here” tab or cutout in a box will be the absolute last thing to open. The entire container will fall apart first.
Imagine there's no Howarts, Harry just a normal guy, No one named Dumbledore Or Peter Petigrew. . . . .
I got whiplash from my double take. Now that you've mentioned it, I do see the similarities.
I remember this so well. This was done on every single one of these posters in my city. Everywhere. Every bus stop. It made me so bloody happy. It's the simple things really isn't it.
Every one? That's fabulous! I'm so proud of my country men
Load More Replies...Hah hah, I just noticed the little picture of the sausage.
I've seen this and my nephew pointed to it and i laughed so hard my ribs started hurting.
Same thing thing happened to me yesterday found a unopened Mountain Dew bottle in the dog food section fur baby parent before your own needs I guess
someone dropped off their kid and picked up beers and said "beers are better because they dont need affection."
Also the phrase "to bum a f*g" has two completely different meanings between US and UK English
US doesn't really use that one, though. You'd be more likely to get a snarky comment like "what do you think you're british?" if you say "bum a f*g" here. They're spot on about "smoke a f*g" though. We're weird here (US)
Load More Replies...Dated a guy from the UK many yrs ago. Told me right after he arrived in the US he was hungry & wanted a cigarette. As his friend rolled around to the pick up window he yelled, "I'm gasping for a f*g, man!" Guy at drive thru window looked bug- eyed at him but said nothing.
I have never heard anyone in the US say "smoke a f*g." Where are you from?!
Load More Replies...that one american friend *lowers glasses* "yo WAT"
Load More Replies...As a lesbian and an american the only conclusion I can come to is *clears throat* WTF america
That’s all? Honestly, I have seen only snippets of Mr. Bean, but i had assumed that there were many years worth of Mr. Bean episodes.
Do yourself a favour, watch them all. I’ve never laughed so hard as watching Mr Bean in church (and I laugh hard heaps). Or going to the beach.
Load More Replies...Was sat watching an episode of Blackadder goes Forth, daughter wanders through the room and asks what Mr Bean and House are doing together in a show….. the horror. I’m ashamed of her education!
I remember him stuffing salad into his socks and spinng them around to dry the salad when making a sandwich from scratch in a park.
Like Faulty Towers. Only 12 episodes, but when I was younger it seemed there were heaps more!
Probably get a load of people mistakenly now saying 'but these are for paramedics' NO they are not. They always check the WHOLE car EVERY single time. For good reason - some people don't use these, what if it fell off or was forgotten in a rental car etc, etc. Michael Lerner created them because he was scared by the aggressiveness of other drivers when driving his 18 month old nephew and wanted people to be more considerate. Google it before arguing.
I always assume they put that on their car because they have to drive eratically because they just spent 20 minutes calming their toddler down because they freaked out that their hands are attached to their arm or something like that and couldn't get them to put their GD coat on and now they're running late and can't miss their doctor's appointment again, for the 4th time, and to just give them a break.
Load More Replies...if I can't get a cok-a-cola, I'll settle for a nice and subtle car wreck
I'm pretty good at figuring these things out, and I'm not sure, but I think they are being passive aggressive.
Maybe they needed them? I'm not saying stealing is good, I'm just hoping they were stolen out of need, instead of greed.
I've got a feeling this is in the US, don't think parcels get left outside in the UK
In the US they don't call them parcels, so, quite unlikely. Also, yes, in some places in the UK packages get left outside too, that's not just a US thing.
Load More Replies...What did you say to me sign? That is offensive in dog language
My dog reliably tells me that it says 'and make sure they do' about their humans. Though mine is often too busy off on another sniff session while I'm dealing with his offering!
Load More Replies...My dog, Bertie, reliably tells me this reminds him when humans get Chinese character tattoos that mean something ridiculous.
You mean when it's supposed to be "Determination" but it's really "Egg Drop Soup 1 Pint?"
Load More Replies...This is a spoof. The Tories expect homeless people to take responsibility and cut THEMSELVES in half.
Judging by how they cut child poverty levels, watch out for the all new definition of homelessness which doesn't include anyone sleeping in a shelter, tube station, on a park bench, or who owns a tent.
And then we'll privatise the cutting in half service for a song, send the remains to rawanda and claim we were at a work event when we getting pissed and shagging pig heads while watching replays of the operation
Here have another sip of this special mushroom tea and will will be in Hogwarts soon.
Load More Replies...OMG! It's the guy who plays violin in Kansas! We ARE just dust in the wind....
Who hasn't seen a Dalek being transported? Those things are slow and can't do stairs well. The TARDIS is a different matter...
Not until they learnt how to fly, now they're a real nightmare!
Load More Replies...my husband is watching Dr Who while i scroll through Bored Panda... worlds collide.
When the hole has to be bigger on the inside, call D.R. Hugh Construction. ESCAVATE!! ESCAVATE!!
What are you complaining about? This *IS* a normal day in the UK. (Possibly Newcastle, I can't see enough geographic identifiers)
Just the Sparta display escaping from the British Museum. Nothing to see here.
Boudica is just out of shot on the right. She's had enough of Boris' shite.
Damn, these stag parties are getting increasingly elaborate.
300 (the film) was launched in London with these gents visiting various places around the capital….. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/army-of-angry-spartans-startle-commuters-on-the-tube-in-central-london-9765485.html
Considering that the average age of men in my town is 101, I would love to see this.
Beside the crying the broken arm surely count as emergency. Doesn't it? DOESN'T IT?!??
Load More Replies...Not a Disney park. Someone just appropriated the Goofy art.
Load More Replies...I was nine years old on a carnival ride with my friend. Never had been on a double ferris wheel. Wound up terrified, shaking and ultimately fighting the need to throw up. Every time we went by the ride operator my friend, lord love her, was yelling "Stop the Sky Wheel, she's sick, she's sick!". Operator never stopped the ride and when it finally ended my good friend said, "Why didn't you stop? She's sick". Never forget the guy said "Yah, she looks sick". Still don't care much for rides.
At the side of a major road, what do you expect the Scottish worker to do? Keep cutting for a couple of miles along the side of the road into England? No, they are paid to cut up to the border, that’s what they’ve done. Nothing to do with refusing to cut England’s grass, just doing their job.
Quite - it's not like the grass on the English side has been allowed to grow rampantly wild either.
Load More Replies...Scots love everyone... except Boris but noone loves him!!
Load More Replies...I love this sign, every Scottish person breathes a sigh of relief at crossing this sign on the motorway - home sweet home. Nothing against any other country, but home is home and it’s always good to be back
I may have been born in the US, but from the moment I took my first step into Scotland, I felt like it was home. Living there proved that. Now I just have to get back.
Load More Replies...They spelt it wrong though. it's ane. As in "coot yeer ane fookin gruss."
excuse me sir do you have time to discuss why you should eat more chicken instead of beef
The picutre is from a Hungarian Soap called Among friends, and that is "uncle Willie" :D
Reminds me of the British Brexit politicians who talked about 'British fish'. Apparently fish need passports.
I told a lady I know that there was only a finite amount of water in the world, and we’re drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank, she didn’t believe me and said she would have to ask her daughter who works for the water board!! So I imagine her buying a product like this!
Omg don’t them started on it, Aparently it’s mineral contents, you can get their beer and Guinness from Australia brewery and import the uK and Irish ones and pour them both annnnd 100% they (the UK or Irish person) can tell the difference between the two by taste. I like to do fun pointless stuff at work 😆 most say it’s mineral content of the water etc but yeah
May we praise the lord for the failure of the censor algorithm
Load More Replies...It's still Italian pizza, but you've got to share with the sheep.
Load More Replies...i know what he says Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding
Load More Replies...Paperclip: "Hey, can I help you with anything". Me: "yes, I've just run out of loo roll. can you get some please". Paperclip: "Sorry I don't understand the question". Me "useful as ever"
New homes for young families. Reserve now! Starting at £360k. A sad reality these days.
You’re having a laugh right? A small flat in Lambeth costs double that. Houses (semi detached and detached) don’t go for under a million.
Load More Replies...I live in a very small town in North Sweden and there aren't enough rented apartments, especially smaller ones for those who live outside the town in big houses but want to sell and move into town to a small apartment. So the local county housing said OK, well we'll build smaller apartments and make sure there is a lift and larger doorways etc for those who are disabled. Brilliant stuff. Built the apartments and put them online for people to see and book them. Nope. The elderly people who had asked for the apartments couldn't afford to rent them. Such high standard that the apartments had huge rents. Even now they are struggling to keep them rented because they are so expensive. People complain there isn't enough houses around for young families but if there aren't any smaller places for the elderly to move into they can't sell their houses to young families. It's just wrong
i think there should be few of those creepy smile faces whit white theet
Remember...Noel spelled backwards is Leon and Liam spelled backwards is Mail. It's not important. Just noticed it.
Looks like it was done by a blind person though!!
Load More Replies...Oh dear! Somebody didn't like the deceased. Should the police perhaps investigate their manner of death?
Not necessarily, could easily be a nickname or long running joke knowing folks humour over here
Load More Replies...Nothing But Good Should Be Said of the Dead — He’s Dead. Good.
Not until the train conductor comes round and says you "Have not Paid" Whilst you are holding a bought that day ticket in your hand and threatening to call the police - never caught a train since
Load More Replies...Charlie Chaplin once came 40-somethingth in a charlie-chaplin-lookalike competition
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest, too!
Load More Replies...I love the way it looks but please tell me that's not due to pollution or something
I'm forced to comment on this. I don't have anything to add I just feel required
C3PO tried to help his friend, but the Dark Side of drugs got the better of him.
Remember them grey crossover days when you would have a VCR and a DVD player and a console and some box for all your scart leads etc etc?
Lucky you with your SCART, all we ever got in the USA was s-video.
Load More Replies...And it attracts dust like mad - could clean it twice a day and it’s still be dusty the next morning
A tempered glass stand for a TV, DVD player and your DVDs. This design and similar were (and still are) very popular in the UK.
Load More Replies...This is true. Just went to a wedding reception, and the dancing crowd goes nuts over this song.
The bag looks similar to tesco supermarket bags. I think. tesco-red-...aa3555.jpg
Working from home, I'm shirt and tie above waist, and tie fighter pyjamas below.
Pretty sure being completely gutted by fire is the reason for that.
Load More Replies...Only the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish care about the difference. The Scottish are the most upset about and likely to point it out. The Irish republicans will probable mumble about it. The Welsh are usually too easy going to bother caring. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and ask, are you Scottish by any chance?
Load More Replies...Nah- he'd have thrown the umbrella to the side like trash. He can't be bothered with such things lol
Load More Replies...It's a driving school car. Somebody won't be passing their driving test. They may also have been going too fast!
Load More Replies...It's OK, provided that you don't leave the designated area.
Load More Replies...You don't need the security box for the "Lighter" 30% Less fat one! It's basically hard milk!
This comment helped choose my movie for tonight😁 Now I need to watch The People Under the Stairs
Load More Replies...That’s not me, I’d try staying awake for 24 hours just in case. I end up losing lots of me time worrying about whether or not they’d reply
I know that junction. Also, Frome rhymes with broom, for those that care to know. It doesn't matter but it bothers me that it gets mispronounced. Lol
Bell end? You censored bell end? Nobody outside the UK even knows what it means...
Correct. Asking from Australia what does bell end mean?
Load More Replies...Barbarian! He forgot the bread bun and raw onion rings to make it a decent German meal! Mett! I love METTbrötchen! ♡
I sent Tate Modern a £30.000 bill for my funeral after having bored me to death.
London Eye? Honestly, go at night around autumn/winter. The lights on the cityscape on a clear night are actually really cool.
Look at that: centuries of history. And clouds. You got your money's worth, Tourist! Now let's go to the pub and get a pie and pint.
I remember the day when England had won the Rugby world championship. I was many times in the UK, but I have never seen the people party as hard as on this day...
That's nothing! I was there in the '70s in a quiet cafe when a local concert ended. A concert by The Bay City Rollers. I survived that onslaught of screaming plaid-laden girls, I can survive anything, lol!
Load More Replies...Why are you being downvoted. I've equalised both your pro Scot comments.
Load More Replies...I remember the day when England had won the Rugby world championship. I was many times in the UK, but I have never seen the people party as hard as on this day...
That's nothing! I was there in the '70s in a quiet cafe when a local concert ended. A concert by The Bay City Rollers. I survived that onslaught of screaming plaid-laden girls, I can survive anything, lol!
Load More Replies...Why are you being downvoted. I've equalised both your pro Scot comments.
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