First the entire world went crazy about the British sense of humor. Then, there was good ol’ American comedy with brilliant stand-uppers. Russians are also notorious joke crackers that, let’s just say, may not be for everyone’s taste.
And here comes Scottish humor, which may in fact be one of the country’s finest exports. And no, we’re not talking comedy cellars—the perfect place for the Scots to crack their jokes is apparently, Twitter.
Yep, Scottish tweets are gloriously hilarious, like “maw bought aldi shower gel that smells like fairy liquid so I've been cutting about all day smelling like a f**ing plate” and they seem to be a perfect blend of practicality, wisdom and notoriousness.
So no wonder there are 750k members and counting on the Scottish People Twitter subreddit, which offers the best selection of wisdom bites posted from the land of Scots. Check out what’s on the plate today right below, as well as our part 1.
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Smee Again...
Armageddon On Thursday. Best Of Luck
Mocha At Starbucks
In an earlier interview, Bored Panda spoke with one of the moderators, Reddit user Veloglasgow from r/ScottishPeopleTwitter, to get to know the content on their subreddit better. "Scots generally have a dark, dry, and direct sense of humor," they said. "Observational comedy where someone points out something that everyone accepts as day-to-day reality but which would be absurd to an outside observer also goes down well."
"Most posts that make it through the mod queue are representative, any posts that use 'fooken' or 'fecking' for fu*ken/fu*king are generally removed as no Scot hears how we say those words as that way phonetically," the moderator explained.
Amirite?
Rule Number Wan
Larry Dean, a Scottish stand-up comedian, believes that defining “Scottish” comedy is a really tough question. “First off, there’s the assumption that a nationally shared sense of humor exists at all,” he said and added “Is it really possible for five million people to make the same kind of jokes and find the same things funny?”
Larry continued: “if there’s one thing we Scottish like to laugh at, it’s ourselves. Which is useful when facing internationally reinforced caricatures every time we turn on the telly. (Think of Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons.)”
This Is The Way
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It's a statue of the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow in front of the gallery of modern art. People continuously put a traffic cone or cones on the statue's head and it has become a tradition, though not encouraged by the authorities.
Is Ur Brother Still A Vegetable?
Just lettuce assume he turniped from a human bean into a total spud muffin. But I carrot produce any rock salad evidence for that.
Moreover, “Being from the nation that’s credited with the invention of the deep-fried whatever, the man-skirt, and bad weather, I’d say we’re pretty good at taking a joke.”
Having said that, the comedian argues that the English have quite a similar sense of humor. “Many of my English friends are able to join me in a silly natter and I can’t recall ever withholding a joke because it was 'too Scottish,' or not getting one because it was 'too English.' There are hundreds of English comics and non-comics I adore for their own, inimitable styles of humor,” he explained.
New Literacy Program In Glasgow
The Dinnae Have Mouths
What did she think the water was for, flowers just like a little swim? LOL
Making The Taxi Wait
Plus, Larry believes that the “Scottish accent always seems to add a certain special something when placed amidst an otherwise English cast. Perhaps it’s a question of contrast: the ability of a distinctive voice to cut through the noise, to the chase, and tell it like it is,” he wondered.
Found The Culprit
Hope Lynda Will Be Wearing Full PPE
Yer Day Sells Avon And…
The Difference Between Cheshire And Scotland
Marketing 101
Dont Want To Piss Off The Scottish
Defnitly Gonna Steal Ur Willy
I was trying to understand how a bird could yell something to anyone, let alone to a bairn (i thought who wrote the thing mispelled 'barn') and then I got it... Sorry, Italian here...
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American's And The Scottish Accent
Also not how I say it - "hoar-er" is how I say horror.
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Would be funny if true, but there are dozens of "American" accents (we are a big country - Scotland is about the size of South Carolina, one of the smaller of our 50 states) so all 334 million of us don't all pronounce things the same way. I say "mir-or" and "hor-or" because I am from a mid-Atlantic state, not raised in a big city. If I were from Alabama or New Mexico or other areas of the country, or from some of the major cities, I would likely pronounce things differently.
There are 30 recognised English accents in the USA, less than one per state. There are 4 in just Scotland, 40 in all of Britain, so I'm sure the writer is familiar with dialect diversity.
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I thought the word actually was meer when I was a little kid. Then I learned to read.
Philadelphians pronounce it this way... "Go lookin tha meer...:
because it's french and we pronounce our stolen words PROPERLY
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It depends where in the US you're from . Shoot it can depend what part of a state you're from. IN Texas we say mirror .
I have difficulties understanding either of you, lol, but I love to listen to a ranting scotttsman.
There’s enough “r” rolling in the Scottish pronunciation to make a gymnastics routine.
Oh my god I need to post this to my grammar nazi mother who made me say those words that way. Give her a little come uppance.
where do they pronounce it like that? I say meeror. My dad was from the bronx and called it a mirra. I wasn't until I learned to read that I realized they were mirror and drawer and not mirra and draw.
I don't understand why Americans pronounce "roof" like they do. They end up sounding like barking dogs.
As an immigrant to the U.S. it took me at least a decade to figure out how to "correctly" pronounce that word here. I just had to think "Space station" to remind myself. It's the R's that are the hardest. I'd put them where they didn't belong in my attempts to over-emphasize them (example: "Ameri -CUR" vs "Ameri-CAH")
As a fellow non-native English speaker, it took me decades to figure that stuff out. Having friends and family from England, Ireland, Schotland, the USA and Australia (also from many other countries, all having their own accents) didn't help at all. I'm 36 now and my conclusion is that there is no one single right way to pronounce everything. As long as you don't try to pronounce the word "oranges" to make it sound like "gullible" you're good!
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I found this explanation helpful as to why we have different words for this element. https://www.quora.com/Who-says-aluminum-outside-of-the-U-S-A-and-who-says-aluminium-outside-of-the-UK-and-Australia-Which-word-is-the-original-and-which-is-the-derivative-form-Are-they-both-derivatives-of-an-older-word
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American here, and this isn't true. Even though there are a lot of different American accents, I have never heard mirror pronounced that way.
There are at least three Americans who have commented on this post who claim to say it this way. You can ask where they are from if you like, and discover an extra accent or two.
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Did Ye, Aye?
What A Man
If It’s Any Higher Than 12 Degrees, It’s Taps Aff
Absolutely. This is the truth, we take off our cardigans if it went past 12 degrees.
Wouldn't Expect Any Less From A Soulless Ginger
Suns Oot, Guns Oot
Good Doggie
Sturgeon Must Resign
only 4 months? i waited for year and 2 months, but at least mine looks much better :D
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Who else read these out loud in their best Scottish brogue given that many of them are pretty well written phonetically?
Laughed my head off with some of them given I am a Scot. As we say, "HERE'S TAE US; WHA'S LIKE US? GEY FEW, AND THEY'RE A' DEID".
I love these. My Grandmother was Scottish, I used to believe that everyone got a Scottish accent when they got old.
I wouldn't mind visiting again someday. I went there once several years back, in fact.
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I really would love to see Scotland one day but I know I am going to feel embarrassed for not understanding anyone.
Don't worry, most of them speak understandable English. The people are lovely.
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Scotland itself would scare the s**t outta you then =) To be fair, the English aren't opposed to using all available words either...the Scots just seem to do it better than we do.
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Who else read these out loud in their best Scottish brogue given that many of them are pretty well written phonetically?
Laughed my head off with some of them given I am a Scot. As we say, "HERE'S TAE US; WHA'S LIKE US? GEY FEW, AND THEY'RE A' DEID".
I love these. My Grandmother was Scottish, I used to believe that everyone got a Scottish accent when they got old.
I wouldn't mind visiting again someday. I went there once several years back, in fact.
Load More Replies... I really would love to see Scotland one day but I know I am going to feel embarrassed for not understanding anyone.
Don't worry, most of them speak understandable English. The people are lovely.
Load More Replies... Scotland itself would scare the s**t outta you then =) To be fair, the English aren't opposed to using all available words either...the Scots just seem to do it better than we do.
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