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...
Careful or he might give you a Glasgow kiss (headbutt).
Load More Replies...This one is old as balls, oldest one I found with a quick search was from 1999, that mentioned a radio station from Cork, not Scotland, a trip to Bali, not a world trip, didn't mention where the caller was from but probably from somewhere around Cork and the first word was actually goan, not gaun.
posted before i saw your comment. stop the scots taking our funny stories, like they took the northern plantations.
Load More Replies...Sorry to ruin the party, but this actually happened in Cork in Ireland sadly....
I'm glad you did, anyway! Just imagine we didn’t know this was NOT in Scotland! (There could be a pinch of irony in this one.)
Load More Replies...Armageddon On Thursday. Best Of Luck
Nah, we just stay inside all day with the curtains shut. Reminds me of when Frankie Boyle said about the army going to Scotland to recruit. Can't remember exactly what he said but it was along the lines of just what we need to send to Afghanistan, a load of gingers who can't go out in the sun.
Load More Replies...As an Aussie, I look at a temp like that in summer and go, "Nice, cool break."
I just look at it like meh average everyday weather
Load More Replies...As a ginger of Scottish ancestry and living in California, I can valid this posting
Me. I'm not ginger but anything over 19 degrees and I feel like I'm being boiled from the inside. Us Scottish people just aren't designed for the heat (except my mother but she was born in candid so she's an anomaly)
My last visit to Scotland it snowed heavily but the two times before that it was 30+ degrees. El scorchio!!
we have gingers in Australia too, and it can get up to 42 degrees, can confirm if i go outside i will die.
I’m not Scottish but my sister is a ginger and she has to smother herself in sunscreen. She looks like a snowman with millions of freckles.
Mocha At Starbucks
Thought the customer said she wanted a mocha without milk (with oat milk).
Load More Replies...I have a fair-skinned/red-headed/freckled kid who favours the Scottish side of the family. When it's sunny, going out is a production that involves frisbee-ing suncream at him and making sure there are a selection of hats to choose from. That kid just has to think about the sun and he gets a sunburn!
Haha, nice one :) Weirdest moment I had when ordering chinese over the phone was when I put in an order one night. The person taking my order would repeat everything to make sure it was right. Everything was fine until I ordered a tofu dish and the reply was, "Fish Cocktail?" I then replied, "No, tofu." Their reply, "Fish Cocktail." This went on for about half a minute, me telling them Tofu about six times, they saying fish cocktail six times, before finally they got it. To this day it still confounds me.
This happens to me all the time. If I say 8 in Korean, pal, they think I say 4, sa. I have yet to understand how my pronunciation can be so bad or how clogged their ears must be...
Load More Replies...This one reminds me of when I ordered soy milk latte. In Korean, the word for soy milk is 두유 (dooyoo). The poor barista thought I was asking something with "do you". Then I explained (still in Korean), 'I want caffè latte, but made with soy milk". We all took it lightly and laughed about it.
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?
Well, yes. It actually annoyed me when they ended social distancing along with mask mandates. Keep the social distancing in place.
think anytime i see an anti-masker i am going to go stand 6inches away from them an stare straight into their glassy eyes until they ask me what the f**k i'm doing!
Better to social distance (6 feet apart) than be dead (6 feet under)
Load More Replies...Frog
Now even bags are mutating. We're all doomed Mr Mannering , All doomed!
Rule Number Wan
At first I thought it was implying that it's dangerous to do heavy lifting without wearing the proper beard.
If you hate that word it's because you've never heard a Scottish person say it. Sounds poetic. Some other cLInt.
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
I've barely drank during this whole pandemic, I'm gonna be a super cheap date when the celebrations begin - and likely be that lassis that's asleep in a corner by 10pm
Soon …
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.
You'll hardly find a picture online without the cone 🤣
Load More Replies...They delivered on the promises. I was there a few weeks ago and the cone was back on...
I've seen the traffic cone on the head in photos before, but don't understand it. Who is this statue of, and what's the story of the traffic cone?
It's in Glasgow, the duke of Wellington. Someone once (a long, long, long time ago) put a traffic cone on his head. Authorities removed it, but it was put back. Cue years of cones being removed and new cones being put back, it's bloody hilarious
Load More Replies...ah yes the traffic cone, saw one on another statue on the royal mile when i visited scotland in 2019
why put a cone at all? Sign of protest? Is this guy not liked?
I actually did some research to discover why this is a thing, and I think that it is absolutely brilliant! This is so funny. i would love to see it, in person. And the caption just makes it even better. I have a Scottish girlfriend, and as I read this, I could hear her voice and tone. Bravo!
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
For 2 years he randomly had small black letters (alphabet) on his face and did not know how they got there. Now he knows. He has some product for his beard. The paper packaging on the can is falling apart. Thats how he got it on his hands and then on his face.
Load More Replies...The Dinnae Have Mouths
What did she think the water was for, flowers just like a little swim? LOL
They're like those monkeys who sit in the hot springs. Obviously
Load More Replies...How long did she wait to even look at the water level in the vase? A week? Even a freshly cut bouquet of flowers will not drink an entire vase fill of water in a day, or even two.
That's... horrifying and hilarious all at once. Hillarifying? Horrarious?
Say ''capillary action'' and watch the guy's brain blow sky-high.
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
Notice they have no brain but they have a woman there. You can figure out what I am trying to say for yourselves.
That decapitated men have a tiny woman in their brainless heads? I really don't know!
Load More Replies...Hope Lynda Will Be Wearing Full PPE
Have you not heard I'd rather guide my grandad into my nan, and she's been dead 5 years...
Load More Replies...Yer Day Sells Avon And…
Maybe someone trying to disguise their usual one?
Load More Replies...The Difference Between Cheshire And Scotland
Marketing 101
But this one is showing you Napoleon's sister's boobies! No, really, I'm serious. Pauline Bonaparte was known for having what the early 19th century considered to be the ideal figure, and she loved showing it off, not just in private but to the whole world via this widely produced sculpture. This is the bazzilionth copy of “Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix” by Antonio Canova.
Load More Replies...Dont Want To Piss Off The Scottish
That stupid c**t tries to put his bastard name on anything and everything he gets his gropey hands on. He'd probably find it a f*****g honor.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of pics I saw of urinals that had photos of extremely unpopular (hated) people in them, to prevent men from peeing next to the bowl. Worked like a charm
I am imagining urinals in which sculpted faces of these men are facing the users? So I think, where is the rest of the picture?
It was the land owners that cleared the lands Yes the Scottish wealthy and Clan Chiefs, that is who. The English got blamed because of the above lived/had property in England. (or cleared out of the way while it happened)
Nobody can drink enough tea to produce the quantity of pee these guys deserve. And they exported them, too. Here's one who lived in Canada: Duncan Campbell Scott.
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...
"Bairn" most likely comes from the vikings - "barn" is the Danish word for child.
Load More Replies...Without very basic knowledge in Nordic languages I couldn't have guessed 'bairn' is a kid.
A bairn is a kid. The last sentence is "no I'm not" as in, I'm not going to do that
Load More Replies...That really made me chuckle, as this is exactly what the Scott’s are like . Hilarious !
To Continue The Current Theme...
oh my god! My parents were English but I was born in Australia. My mum always called a poo a “job”. I had never heard someone else call it that in my 50 years of life until just now!
You'll like "Still Game" look out for the "Big Yin" episode.
Load More Replies..."Who doesn't know how to flush a toilet after they taken a shite?" "Well it was f****n' one of yeas..Disgustin'!"
Is she related to F***y Chmelar, the alpine skier (the one that made Bradley Walsh corpse on The Chase)?
Oh dear God, BP. F a n n y is a the woman's first name!
Load More Replies...Sounds like the supervisor has a very specific fetish, and is getting their jollies smelling the bathroom after it’s been used. Creep.
Not doing your work, taking half an hour in a cigarette break eg. Taking the p, goofing off.
Load More Replies...American's And The Scottish Accent
Also not how I say it - "hoar-er" is how I say horror.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...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
Load More Replies...HMS Kerry Newton
I wish I could give you so many more upvotes! The post had me in stitches and then I read this. I'm ded
Load More Replies...HMS, not HRH... Although I do wonder why they specified a height restriction within an area restriction, you already can't fly within 3 nautical miles of the ship, do you get double arrested if you fly below 6000 feet too?
Probably, above 6000 feet you get a sternly worded order to buzz off below 6000 you get shot at, meanwhile I was trying to figure out how a plane would get 6000 feet below a boat.
Load More Replies...The Queen did not go anywhere during lockdown. Whilst I was living in the Highland Prince Edward came to visit the church, no fuss, no ships or aircraft banned, nothing. In fact it was that quiet no really knew if he had actually been, lovely quiet place.
Ok... no planes within 3 miles.. AND no planes under 6k feet within 3 miles... Isn't the second one included in the first one?
In that case, how many men and women does a 65,000 tonne Royal Navy aircraft carrier carry around during the pandemic?
Did Ye, Aye?
Say that you bought that to one of your friends and guarantee they will look at you like you've lost your fu'cking mind
Load More Replies...the caption reminds me of the did ye aye? sketch by kevin bridges claiming that's what he'd call his own talk show lol has me in stitches everytime
What A Man
Not pictured: when you wish you wore shorts and forgot you were going commando
And he didn't bother to take the jeans off, just too much hassle.
In 6 grade my friend I'll call him J,he was a red head...idk why that matters...but anyways he wore his gym shorts under his pants so in the middle of the hallway he would just take off his pants and he like "HAHA I AM SUPERIOR" and everyone would just laugh at this he was like basically the class clown
Pull your f*****g pants up, asshole. You’re not at home. Nobody wants to see your skiddies.
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.
I'm from South Africa and am amazed at how differently people can react to certain temps! Here at 12 degrees we are freezing!
Load More Replies...Visited Scotland in May few years ago. Had to buy me some thermal leggings to wear under my jeans in Edinburgh because it was so cold. Stepped out of the shop - it was a cold but sunny day - and saw several girls in tanktops and mini skirts. I wore jeans, sweatshirt, jacket and a scarf. Easily to be spotted as the tourist.
I need to move to Scotland! I have ALWAYS despised summer North Carolina!!! (southeastern united states) Might as well be sitting right on top of hell! Ugh....!
Not sure why you got downvoted but I fixed it. The older I get the more I love cloudy, cool day so I get it. And I'm also in the Southeast.
Load More Replies...My late Scottish fiance always said "last year, summer was on a Wednesday" or, "Scotland only has two seasons. Winter and July". Fortunately, he lived his last few years with me in sunny South Africa.
Wouldn't Expect Any Less From A Soulless Ginger
Way to plagiarize. The comment was taken almost verbatim from a Katherine Ryan standup special on Netflix, 'Glitter Room'
I heard 'big back garden' and wondered for 30 seconds how a garden could be a big back. then I realized they meant backyard -_-
Suns Oot, Guns Oot
Florida, year-round. Our sirens are constant and right next door. Barbecues and firearms don't mesh well with copious amounts of alcohol and stupidity.
I know. All these white people makin fun of themselves is just makin me sick.
Load More Replies...Good Doggie
Only because the Wnglish support the Scott’s , without us , they’d be knackered . Do we get any thanks, do we hell .
Scotland has to have all it's spending subsidised by then English taxpayer because they can't afford to look after themselves.
Mental
Sturgeon Must Resign
only 4 months? i waited for year and 2 months, but at least mine looks much better :D
A year and 2 months? I haven’t been to a hair place since like 1997.
Load More Replies...Dude, better to just shave it all off at this point. How horrible. You poor guy.
Sturgeon should resign for many reasons, but this haircut isn't her fault unless she did it.
I don't think Tom is blaming her, only asking for a favour
Load More Replies...Once you forget the haircut and just look at the ear there's no going back
Bengal Tiger Epidemic In Scotland
That doesn’t seem that bad. If it was easier they’d do it themselves.
People Make Glasgow
Aaaand THAT’S where they got that bigger heart…. (I’ll go quietly, I promise)…
I Think Its Better If I Give No Context
I thought pisher was an Eastern European term...
Load More Replies...That Will Defo Work
Next He’ll Be Pishing Anywhere He Wants
As far as I know dogs shouldn't be given alcohol? Correct me if I am wrong
Little known fact, alcohol is toxic to humans, hence the side effects of being drunk, mouthy, vomiting, obnoxious, sad, happy and hung over. Elephants and monkeys also eat fermented fruit for fun getting them drunk. As with all animals everything in moderation. However I doubt a scotsman would waste a full pint on a dog as that rule does not apply ;)
Load More Replies...Brilliant Sunset
I still distinctly remember trying to take a picture of a rainbow when I was in Colorado. Didn't really get the rainbow, but at least the picture is pretty cool: IMG_202107...9197cf.jpg
I'm going to live vicariously through that image. That would have been my mum and I dearly miss her.
Rip
Sure Do
Beer Grylls
How many bears could bear grylls grill if bear grylls could grill bears??
He's done some stuff that the production crew helped with, before heading back to the 5* hotel later for lobster
Nae Luck St.George
The Welsh also voted for Bexit so they can piss off, too.
Load More Replies...Can any Scottish people make a coherent arguement for hating the English so much when we've spent decades subsidising everything they do, and surely even the Scottish can accept that Braveheart was as historically accurate as an Australian playing a Scot?
You're English and you need a coherent argument for *any* other nation hating you?
Load More Replies...I’ll Have A Kurger Bing X
Limmy Hits The Nail On The Head
Chanks!
My brain couldn’t decide between “have a good day” and “have a good one” so it settled for “have a goog dun.”
Was trying to decide between “I don’t mind” and “It doesn’t matter”. I said “I don’t matter”.
Load More Replies...He Wants To Spread His Inferior Bieber Fever
Im Going To Heeland Coo Myself
Merida is amazing, and she was so good in Ralph Breaks the Internet XD
The Most Asked Question When It Come To Independence
Interesting Take From A Spirit
Aye
I thought they added a few strings of string cheese, but that's just the plate's pattern 🤦♀️
Uhuh! The chive one esp! And a roll instead of a piece lol
Load More Replies...Never with Walkers though. Surely only Tayto Cheese and Onion will do for this job.
Recently had some Tayto salt and vinegar on a trip to NI. Took the roof of my mouth off, just like salt and vinegar should.
Load More Replies...Joory Jooty
Ever listen to a Philadelphian? Wooder, fiddy cent, hunnerd dollerz, rattyator...
Same with pronouncing book (boook), iron ( we pronounce all the letters it is NOT ION Australia!)
Thanks. I Didn’t Think Of That
Baldy Daddy
BP's bad word blockers can't handle the amount of cussing in these Scottish tweets.
Surprisingly Refreshing
After You
You'll Take The High Road And I'll Take The Low Road
I'd really like to know more about how parts of dance culture spread from Scotland to Australia. I looked Loch Lomond up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXP8LdswXss and that sent me down the rabbit hole because I knew I done something similar as a kid but with a lot more trying to drag the person next to you to the ground then I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTiPoIlefs which is the dance we used to do minus a sufficient number of children to cause appropriate chaos. You've gotta think that some of these traditions must have carried over, and if the Irish Céilidh "Pride of Erin" is a perennial favourite there must be some Scottish influences in the dances to.
Me, not a Schot, not even from the UK, sitting out in my garden singing along to ho ho mo leannan ho mo leannan bhodheah (I probably spelled that wrong, but haven't seen it written more than 2 or 3 times), having my friends ask me if I've gone mad singing some gibberish
Greggs Temperature
Normality Has Returned
There was a photo of some daftie in Glesca sitting oot side having a meal the other day.
I've Got Two If Anyone's Needing One
"C**t" is the Scottish "smurf". They just stick into any sentence anywhere.
Yup! Had an Uncle John, another who gets called Jock, and my grandad was Johnny
Load More Replies...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...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.
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