If you've ever known a Brit, you've probably been jealous of their sense of humor.
British humor is full of sarcasm, insults, self-deprecation, taboo subjects, puns, innuendo, and wit. And there's a Twitter account that perfectly captures all of it.
With 245K followers, No Context Brits is a fun online project that -- just like the Brits themselves -- mocks just about everything.
But it's not meant to shock or offend anyone. On the contrary. It offers laughter as a form of medicine for those moments when life knocks you down and tries to keep you down.
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The creator of No Context Brits told Bored Panda they have run "a few successful Twitter accounts specializing in British humor and thought one that encapsulated a combination of all of them would go down well, especially considering the current mood of the country, which isn’t particularly great at the best of times."
So far, the account has gained 245K followers in just under 2 months, attracting attention from countless well-known names and companies as well.
The person running this operation describes the content on the account as "British humor at its best."
"[It's] ironic, witty, sarcastic, and self-deprecating with lots of puns and innuendos thrown in for good measure," they said.
"The ability to laugh at ourselves is what sets us apart from the rest of the world and this account celebrates that fact."
Don't mess with the icon, the red phone box is a symbol of the country.
Ricky Gervais, the legendary English actor, comedian, director, producer, and writer, who is best known for co-creating the British television mockumentary sitcom The Office, says that Americans are more "down the line" than their friends across the ocean. "They don't hide their hopes and fears," Gervais wrote. "They applaud ambition and openly reward success."
He believes Brits are more comfortable with life's losers. "We embrace the underdog until it's no longer the underdog. We like to bring authority down a peg or two. Just for the hell of it."
"Americans say, 'have a nice day' whether they mean it or not. Brits are terrified to say this. We tell ourselves it’s because we don’t want to sound insincere but I think it might be for the opposite reason. We don’t want to celebrate anything too soon. 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.'"
And it's really visible on No Context Brits. If you pay attention, the account will show you the cultural background of an entire country through humor. And that's quite something.
I thought it was the other way around. English have a mowing fetish and Scots are wild and free. 😂😂😂
'Tectonic plates try to cheat at Coin Pusher games. But to no avail'
It is definitely 'Eddie Stobart'. This is photoshopped; the left side is poorly filled in. How can I tell? Because this is my level of photoshop competency.
work from home means more sleep in the morning, who would complain but covid? :D
"Temporary" as in "we didn't need proper planning permission to install these"
At secondary school in the 80s we would meet at the “End Hut” for a lunchtime smoke. Someone drew a circle on it with a “Stub out your f**s here” inside it.
School next to mine had a modern languages portakabin block of four classrooms. Painted/decorated in flag colours. So the french classroom had blue carpet, white walls, red curtains. I'll let you imagine how horrifying the Spanish one was.
My local community college started off in four 'temporary' steel buildings in 1968, and one of them is still up and being used for classroom space.
Germany as well. We had such a construction at uni when I started studying, still there when I graduated.
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"F-Block" - portacabins at Thomas, Lord Audley School. Fairly new when I started there in '77. Still there when I left in '85. (Not the photo above)
It's was "E" block for me, right outside "A" block, because of course it was! We had maths in there. (Also not photo above, but I had to double check!)
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lol American schools have them too. They make them wait to require an entirely new building.
every school in my city and they are only temporary in that they get replaced with newer ones every 10 years or so and I do not live in Britain.
'Temporay' as in there you go little children - freeze in winter and boil in summer.
At my highschool we had a "temporary" building,that was 100 years old!
Have a primary school near me that has 35 of these buildings. Five primary schools have been built to help relive the problem but the area is growing too fast.
Used to call these Mobile Classrooms when I was a kid in the late 70's - 80's. We had a lot of them in the UK back then.
The ones in the school I went to Worthing West Sussex were put up in the early 1950s and were still there when I moved to Ireland with parents in 1987.
I went to first elementary and then middle school on a campus that ONLY had these 😬 (SoCal, USA)
Oh Lord, the prefabs we had in my primary school. Had a pot belly in the corner which was smoky and the teacher would not let us open the windows. They were there for years.
The prefabs put up as temporary after the war in our town are still occupied, and are now listed buildings
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Haha, we had temporary transportables at my school as well and they are still there. So not just a British thing.
Rode on a lot of buses. Bus drivers always acknowledge other bus drivers, even drivers of other municipal vehicles. When travelling a bus, I think how would I salute another bus driver. I would probably use a variety of hand salutes, probably depending on the individual I was saluting to. Obviously, certain hand salutes are inappropriate.
The longer i look at it, I feel like Jensen Ackles {Dean Winchester to be exact} was morphed into Dwayne Johnson......
Woah that took me way too long to realize none of them are even in the picture!
I read this to my son on a car trip and he started crying because he was a bit tired.
That's how I straighten my hair. Well not exactly, my hubby does it, not Sharon Osbourne.
judging by he decor in the rest of the room, Greggs is exactly what they were looking for
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As a brit who has not lived in his homeland for some years this has made me miss that miserable place more than I can tell you.
"If you've ever known a Brit, you've probably been jealous of their sense of humor." I don't understand how hard it is for BO to recognize and censor offensive stereotyping against some populations but not against others.
Best one had to be the "longest interview", absolute gold right there!
As a brit who has not lived in his homeland for some years this has made me miss that miserable place more than I can tell you.
"If you've ever known a Brit, you've probably been jealous of their sense of humor." I don't understand how hard it is for BO to recognize and censor offensive stereotyping against some populations but not against others.
Best one had to be the "longest interview", absolute gold right there!
