50 Photos That Contain Sarcasm And Irony As They Celebrate The Greatness Of Britain (New Pics)
Anyone who’s lived in the United Kingdom for a longer period knows that the people there can find ways to surprise you when you least expect it. Just when you think that you’ve got a grip on the culture, you’re pleasantly reminded why British humor has a legendary status around the world.
The ‘No Context Brits’ social media project is a celebration of “all things great about Britain,” and the content it shares is a wild ride. We’ve collected some of the most witty, amusing, and confusing pics and memes their team has recently featured online to give you a glimpse into what Britishness is all about. Grab a hot beverage, and scroll down to check them out. Oh, and remember to upvote your faves!
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My phone's always in my front jeans-pocket. It goes, where, -and uhm.... when... I go. -And, for curious Pandas, it gets a Lysol wipe-down, afterward.
Load More Replies...Well, someone brought their phone to the toilet so they could take a picture of this text...
Also our Islamic brothers are happily speaking to family and driving so no awkward coversations whilst we burp christmas pudding, Happy Drunk intravert Xmas.
Can a woman in Afghanistan can get a taxi on any day of the year?
Load More Replies...A Muslim family in my town open their cafe on Christmas day, to give free dinners to the homeless and people on their own. Every year. They give gifts to their "customers" as well.
Well said, Eunice - that is typical Muslim behaviour.
Load More Replies...Math…. Astronomy……..kebab shops……. Those little pastry things known as tulumba all covered in syrup ❤️ and many other things.
I'm pretty sure most of those Greeks running the kebab shops when I was a teenager weren't Muslim. 😉
Load More Replies...Because people are people and people are good, not even for what they provide but for who they are. Stop dehumanising people who look different to you
You can get a taxi from anywhere to anywhere at any time on every day of the year, at least where we live in the West Midlands.
We have one of the best NHS hospitals, and NHS dentists available, I'm starting to think we are blessed. Seriously!
Load More Replies...Of course someone who is probably "Christian" thinks religion should be transactional.
lots of great restaraunts, many of which let you take your own alcohol in rather than having a license, which saves plenty of money. and many of those resaraunts will open on Christmas day to give food, shelter and company to homeless and lonely people
Thank you Giku T. Some people here have an idealized vision on Islam, some hate it, but most here don't have the experience on how it works when you live there.
Load More Replies...wait - the hindu immigrants from india don't work on christmas? who knew?
Both these guys are smashed and fox is saying 'let's get a kebab '
Foxes plural, fox the individual animal. Is that what you were asking?
Load More Replies...I was shocked seeing a fox in downtown Dublin at 3am. Was having a smoke during jet lag recovery. I live in a second ring US suburb. Fox are plentiful but not downtown. Magical.
That's like the few times a decade you can see a kangaroo in Melbourne outer suburbs!
Load More Replies...Humor, comedy, and laughter aren’t just enjoyable, they also hold immense benefits for our physical and mental health, as well as our social lives. If you feel better after a night of roaring great laughs with your pals, a good stand-up show, or watching your fave go-to comedy TV show, it’s not just the placebo effect at work. Laughing has measurable positive impacts on your body.
Verywell Mind explains that laughter strengthens your immune system, making you more resilient to getting ill and developing serious diseases. This happens by increasing antibody-producing cells and enhancing the effectiveness of T-cells. Meanwhile, your heart also benefits, as daily laughter reduces the chance of developing cardiovascular disease.
Double fold, push to wall, find can of cream of tomato soup as stopper.
Yes, must have something holding it against the wall.
Load More Replies...My thoughts exactly. Just like a loaf of bread.
Load More Replies...I use clothes pegs (clothes pins for our American friends) for everything. The bottom of my freezer is littered with them, along with the peas,string beans, chips (fries) etc.that have burst out of the bags.
Of better quality ... and just a few cm-s deeper you'll find a roman road.
I read that the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in NYC was originally paved with bricks because it was easier to repair the roadbed after accidents, It also sounded nice on the tyres of my 1970 Triumph Spitfire. Apparently it is now paved with asphalt because no one remembers how to lay brick in roadbeds anymore, and the potholes go on forever,
Maybe use the road tax for road maintenance like the Netherlands does. We don't know what a pothole is
Who needs time team when council will wait out the pothole until its a massive number of trenches and holes that find roman and bronze age tat
It's a cheesecake. ..... .......... okay, sorry 😂
Load More Replies...When combined with physical activity (for example, laughter yoga, where you simulate laughter), you also decrease stress and reduce your body weight, which is good for overall health and fitness.
It’s exactly by reducing the risk of various diseases that laughter is speculated to increase overall longevity.
And what's worse, they did it twice - once between 1962 and 1966 and a second time between 1967 to 1970.
I live in Aberystwyth where this happened. This was hilarious! Eventually the "ons" were removed, and now it's been fixed. Funny thing, "moron" is Welsh for carrot.
I was just going to say the same thing, only about carrot not morrison, Ammanford only has a Tesco
Load More Replies...a storm that is named darragh...is by far the most english thing on this post
Laughter also improves a person’s pain tolerance and gives your abdominal (core) muscles, shoulders, and diaphragm a workout.
That said, being even a superfan of comedy shouldn’t be an excuse to avoid working out: you need around 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week to stay healthy, according to the CDC.
Read the room and use good judgment when it comes to this. Is someone obviously speaking and/or acting in a threatening manner? Is anyone obviously being targeted and (potentially) hurt by someone else’s behavior? In that case, speak up/step up. Otherwise mind your own business.
The ads are from after the World Trade Center bombings; In the US, it was "If you see something, say something." Some took this as an invitation to racism: there was a Pakistani grad student who was fingered for "writing in strange symbols" that turned out to be math symbols. OTOH, sometimes the outrage was purely manufactured: there was a Muslim kid who was thought to have brought a bomb into school but it turned out to be a "clock" he made for a science project... The media didn't mention that the clock was ticking DOWN and there was no science project assignment.
Load More Replies...Not to throw a wet blanket, but refers to someone leaving a package that could be a bomb.
What did the buses do to YOU? Also I see a car in the side of the building, so what the heck
It’s not just your body that benefits from consistent laughter and living surrounded by good humor. Laughing a lot lowers the amount of the stress hormone cortisol in your body, alters levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, and releases endorphins. This can improve the situation of people suffering from depression.
What's more, laughter is a great way to connect with others, and those positive, deep relationships make you more resilient to stress in the long run.
Given that every damn TV I have had has had a different remote that is incompatible with every other remote, he must have had a box full in his car
I petsit for folks, and some have 3 remotes. I just take my laptop to watch whatever I want. I'm a simple person. I only have one remote.No streaming or any kind of newfangled $hit.
Load More Replies...It's very softcore porn where women answer phone calls from sad, desperate, horny men. Those men can pay to have an explicit conversation with those women (which is muted from the viewers). Later at night, the women are generally topless and simulate sexual activity. We're more liberal with TV than you guys, but not as liberal as many of our European brothers.
Load More Replies...Oh dear... a long long time ago when I was still a child and having a tv with a remote was a fairly new thing, we used to do this too. To me this is still funny...
HAte your hood? Good substitute to drive by shooting, I guess.
If they are in Wales, they soon learn to speak three languages. Welsh is compulsory until GCSE.
Monarchs are the same as religion. Unnecessary ancient nonsense ironically kept alive by peasants.
Throw in the one-percenters for good measure and redistribute their wealth where it’ll actually do some good— for example, do NOT use it to build any more d**k rockets—-then even more of the world’s problems will magically be resolved.
Load More Replies...I saw this somewhere else but I think this would be hilarious. "I'm behind you"
The ‘No Context Brits’ project has grown by leaps and bounds over the years. On X (formerly Twitter), it has a whopping 1.8 million followers from all over the world, from Brits who love a good laugh about their own culture to people living abroad and hoping to learn a bit more about life in the United Kingdom.
Well, considering what I have read about Tesco's prices, practices, and policies on this side of "the pond" (Kentucky), I say "Strong Work Chubby Cat. Strong Work indeed."
Yes, and owned by a Brexit-supporting odious wanker, to boot.
Load More Replies...I didn't mind wetherspoons when I was in the UK. Had some good breakfast there.
Meanwhile, the project’s Instagram account has 127k followers at the time of writing.
The team curating all of the content has also published two books: Everything is Great: The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Modern Britain and How to Really be a Brit: The Unofficial Citizenship Test. They also have a website where you can get merch related to the project if you’re a die-hard fan.
My friend and I were on a group tour of Mexico a few years back, when Ted Lasso was really big, and one of the Americans on the tour questioned if English football fans would actually sing "Jamie Tartt, do do do-do do-do" to the tune of Baby Shark during a real match. We were like "of course!"
American sports fans are the most boring and least imaginative in the world. All they ever chant is U-S-A! U-S-A! over and over and over.
So when one American team is playing another American team, people just cheer for the country in general…? Uhhh…
Load More Replies...1780/90s court dress- the hair suggests the late 18th century, but Queen Charlotte was apparently very conservative in her fashion tastes, so women had to wear wide mid 18th century style panniers to court, they even continued this into the early 19th century, when waistlines rose, making the whole look even more unhinged.
She used a bourdaloue! https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/what-was-a-bourdaloue/
Load More Replies...Bill called his hairstyle a 'skullet' which is a very Bill thing to say. He has had it cut short now though.
Our society needs someone who looks like clown too. To many willing are too act like one, but wont wear anything buut a suit.
Load More Replies...During a previous interview with Bored Panda, the creator of No Context Brits told a colleague of ours that they run a few successful Twitter accounts “specializing in British humor.”
They then thought that “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.” This was back in 2021 when many countries, the UK included, faced seemingly endless lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fist time in history. That the 21 gun salute was fired at the coffin.. Just to make sure..
Even if the band wasn't playing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead", the tune was running through a lot of people's heads.
For our American visitors I must explain. We didn't only walk round whistling and humming the tune when the news broke. Loads of us downloaded the song and used it as our phone's ring tone
Load More Replies...I was spending one night in Grantham because on the way. Found out it was where she was born, but was disappointed there was no shrine. Would have pissed on it 100%
Imagine Britain if this happened BEFORE she took power and started destroying everything.
Works 7-11? Can he get me a beer, a dog, a Slim Jim, and a lottery ticket
Load More Replies...See, the problem is the pictures of naked humans. Try enticing them with alluring vermin.
I used to build castle towns from Lego for my mice. Lemme just say, it wasn't easy to clean....
Probably seen so many bankys in alleys and carparks its just boring
According to the creator of ‘No Context Brits,’ they consider the content they share online as “British humor at its best.” They told Bored Panda that this humor is “ironic, witty, sarcastic, and self-deprecating with lots of puns and innuendos thrown in for good measure.”
They added that “the ability to laugh at ourselves is what sets us apart from the rest of the world and this account celebrates that fact.”
My BIL said Oh I love the Smiths, so at Christmas we got him a Smiths greatest hits CD and also a Morrisey greatest hits. When he opened it he said why did you give me a Morrisey CD, I can't stand him! 😣
I was just listening to How Soon is Now and telling my son how insufferably cringe Morrissey is, lol. Love that song, tho.
Not quite. They had difficulty in finding a house in Nottingham and eventually moved back to Ukraine: it was a financial decision.
They just couldn't hack it. It's a good place to live a decent ordinary life. I don't live there but know people who do
Load More Replies...I'm from York, which floods almost every year. There's a pub near the river where you can order a pint as long as the water doesn't come over the top of the bar (for hygiene reasons). You can literally row up in a dinghy and get a pint of bitter.
'ear all, see all and say nowt. Eat all, sup all and pay nowt. And if tha ever does owt for nowt, allus do it fer thysen.
Load More Replies...Which of these no-context pics about British life did you find the most amusing? Which ones were so good that you couldn’t help but send them to your family or friends?
Have you ever been to the UK on vacation or lived there for a longer time? Do we have any Pandas reading this right now who currently reside in the UK?
What do you love most about British culture and comedy? What makes it unique for you? We can’t wait to hear your thoughts, so feel free to share them in the comments while we get ourselves a big mug of tea.
We in the house...1992 TLC is rocking to yall m****r beeps...if you know you know.
The young picture must be around when he starting lying about playing for Rangers.
90's pop band singing, "This is s**t , slam, slam in the garbage can oooh oooh!"
My husband brought one home 2 days ago, I'm sure we already have one at the back of the cupboard 🤦
Erm, no it’s not, someone explained it in another comment.
Load More Replies...Sports Direct mugs are comically ginormous, and you don’t ever really drink out of them because they are so big. They are a novelty and end up in offices and used as pen pots and other things instead. So the joke here is the puddle or stream of brown water (which looks vaguely like tea) could have been spilled from a sports direct mug due to how much water there is on the ground
Load More Replies...You can get them for £2 if you look about 🤷🏻♀️
Load More Replies...It's esp. sweet if your're a man over 35 and currently in active service in the Middle East 🙂
Like the Simpsons' "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly. Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?
omg it IS him. I KNEW that "conspiracy" was true! He's living with Elvis, right?
But then we wouldn't know how it turned out!
Load More Replies...If you read the dates correctly, the second lock comes from the future. The right way to write dates is yyyy-mm-dd. That means the second lock comes from next December.
The Steak Bake, a staple of the food outlet Greggs... https://www.greggs.co.uk/menu/product/steak-bake-1000514
Load More Replies...I had to Google steak bakes. They look absolutely addictive! Ummmmm!
wtf is a bake steak ???, christians being burnt alive ???, if so,im on the next plane
You mustn’t know who he is to offer any sympathy.
Load More Replies...Do you think he's like he his because of his posh sounding real name?
Stephen Yaxley-Wank-Bank-Hitler-Lennon?
Load More Replies...Who says crime doesn't pay? You could never have enough money to buy that shot. Had to be in prison. Priceless
The population of London is 8.866 million, and there are 86400 seconds in a day, which means you'd need to meet 103 people per second to do this, or about 10 milliseconds per person. Assuming everyone was in a straight line with half a metre of space each, you'd need to travel the line at 115mph, presumably with your hand outstretched to high five everyone at high speed.
Is she that chick that f#$ks a line of guys? Its possible she has met all the guys in a day. Except one whose mum made him go home
Maybe if you bought I Can't Believe It's Not Butter instead, you'd be able to afford to buy a £500k house.
Norpak from Aldi is like £2. Lurpack is 5.99. Sometimes I goto Aldi just for this one product.
I used to work in an office in Manchester. All the conference rooms were named after Manchester muscians. But of all the rooms they chose to double up as the prayer room, it was the Noel Gallagher room.
It was like a little oasis on a busy day?
Load More Replies...I dropped into uncontrolled laughter at "Girlfriend in a Korma" there. I know it's really serious.
There was once an Indian restaurant in Sydney called the " Birdie Num Num " ..... for all you Peter Sellers fans.
A see there are a lot of commenters here who are much better than Princess Diana. I look forward to hearing about what positive impacts they have on the world some day!
... unless your husband is the crown prince and your heart tells you to go f**k an Egyptian billionaire. In that case, at least invest in some body doubles and figure out what to say about why one kid looks like your husband and one kid is way more handsome and bears a striking resemblance to your *cough* *cough* riding instructor.
Do you know my name? Oh, don't say you don't, please say you do, I am the last of the famous international playboys.
Used to know his little brother, Charlie, heard him talking about shooting someone's legs before we were introduced, I was on best behaviour then.
He looks disturbingly like my grandfather. Who died. This is the second article BP has posted that has someone who looks like a dead family member. I actually texted my mom the about the first one.
Please google Kray brothers. If you then have any remaining questions, report back to us.
Load More Replies...The plural "islands" confuses me. Elba is in the Mediterranean, but St. Helena's definitely is not.
be proud of your general certificate of secondary education. you worked hard for it.
everybody was kungfu fighting...those kids kicked grandpa's like lightning
For those wondering: "brown bread" = cockney rhyming slang for "dead".
I though it was the “hand-finished” we were laughing at, but this is even better!
Load More Replies...I guess it's true, it's spoken by over 500,000 people in Wales and that is above 5. Hear it every day, this town is around 45% Welsh speaking.
I hear it here in Chester too, being just down the road from Wales. I love the sound of it, it makes me smile.
Load More Replies...True. Some friends of mine went to Spain and caught the tail end of a storm, whereas back in England we enjoyed a heatwave.
Load More Replies...No one talks about this enough, it was miraculously warm and dry from the start of April to the end of September during 2020 in the UK, which was outstanding timing
A while back I stopped into a local place under new management and, from the menu, asked for the fish and chips. I knew it was going to be bad when the waitress asked " you want potato chips with that?" When the order came I swear they'd peeled the fish and fried up the skin, really. There was this thin black "filet" in between the breading. Even the dog looked askance when we opened up the go-box.
Could you Brits at least update to a Henry IX? This VIII-th business has gone on long enough.
Hmm... We're a very long way of that - unless a lot of people get killed first. You'd have to see off Charles, William, George, Charlotte and Louis before we got to Henry (Harry). If we still have a monarchy by the time George staggers up to the throne - maybe he'll have a son and call him Henry!
Load More Replies...Think that is the sausage, bean & cheese melt. Looks tasty.
Load More Replies...Pillsbury crescent rolls or some s**t? I'd rather eat tuna KD with tomatoes
This just made me hungry! I don’t even like eggs Benedict but I love this puffed pastries reminds me of my grandmas steak pie! Yum! :))
The study "found" (debatable methodology but at these scales it's academic) that while infinity is, well, infinity, it would take orders of magnitude longer than the heat death of the universe.
Load More Replies...Lazy monkeys is the problem. Or is it "Lazy Monkeys are the problem". English english can be so confusing.
Liar. The cloak wasn't invisible until someone put it on. It was clearly visible when Harry pulled it out of the wrapping paper.
Yeah it's stretch for sure. Gary Coleman, for example.
Load More Replies...Excellent series. Suspect the next one might be the last.
Load More Replies...He asks Liam Gallagher if he is a feminist. Liam confirms he is and asks Ben if he is also. Ben asks Liam to guess. Liam responds that he hasn't got all day to guess some random persons views.
Load More Replies...Because all our pigs actually look like the medieval paintings you see on the art history memes page.
"Everywhere Else" is America. Just America. Bacon in the UK is the normal version.
In Austria our bacon looks like American bacon. A few weeks ago my father asked me to make a full English breakfast, so I bought everything. When he saw the English bacon he asked me what the hell that is.
Load More Replies...Can keep the streak bacon. Don't know why but every time I've had it, it's more like it's been dried? Like solid and you can snap it in half. Have I always just been given weird streak bacon?
Americans eat bacon like its Shake'n'Bake Jerky. They burn it to within an inch of its unlife, then pour honey on it to cover their mistake.
Load More Replies...I buy it once a year, at Christmas, make pigs in blankets, then use back bacon the rest of the year.
Load More Replies...I cried softly at UK bacon. It has no crispy potential unless it gets cremated. Sausage and bacon were not cool. Beef and chicken dishes, chef's kiss.
Then you had a badly cooked breakfast. UK bacon includes streaky - it's a personal choice. As are the sausages.
Load More Replies...Or locked back in—-to the basement, where they belong.
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