You've probably heard of the notoriously funny British sense of humor, or American comedy that cracks everyone up laughing, from visitors of the famous comedy cellars to viewers of legendary sitcoms like Seinfield and Friends.
But many may not be familiar with the Scottish sense of humor, something an entire corner of Reddit with 766k members has dedicated itself to. Named Scottish People Twitter, the subreddit is a place for some of the hilarious things Scots have posted online, and it's pure comedy gold we didn’t know we needed.
“Scots generally have a dark, dry, and direct sense of humor," Veloglasgow, the moderator of the community, told Bored Panda sometime ago. So it’s virtually impossible not to like it! More Scottish People Twitter gems can be found in our previous features here and here.
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I Also Want A Latte With Oat Milk
Chaotic Good
International Decorators In Glasgow!
"Scots generally have a dark, dry, and direct sense of humor," Veloglasgow, the Reddit user and moderator of the ScottishPeopleTwitter subreddit, told us a while ago. He added that "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." However, not all posts make it to the sub’s feed. "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.
Something Something Blitz Spirit
oh how the turntables. reminds me of the american version, like how the people making fake vaccine cards hate undocumented immigrants
Some Festive Cheer From This Auld Yin
That's beautiful. I'm going to do that once the little freeloaders I gave birth to start making their own five dollar bills.
Fair Dos
wow and they must be well-versed in their culture to know his name was stephen and not phteven!!!!!
Meanwhile, 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?”
Dean 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.)"
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20% Struggle With The Question
Thing is, it's great to poll people, but it doesn't matter what people "believe" on matters of fact. There are tons of studies and trials of this and consistently, this is true. It would be better to cite those studies than to ask what people "think" which a) just keeps making people think that opinions are all that matter (they're not!) and b) lets other opinion-havers just dismiss it with "well of course they would say that". THIS WORKS. IT HAS BEEN TRIED IN PLACES AS DISPARATE AS JAPAN AND ICELAND AND PLACES IN BETWEEN. IT WORKS AND EVERYONE SHOULD DO IT.
The other 20% thought the survey was faked by their boss to trick them into telling how they really feel!
The other 20% have home lives that they need to escape from as much as possible!
Because those 20% fully understand that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that the work that was not done on the extra day off dosnt magically go away...
How many days a week off is enough? 7... How would that affect police, fire, Amazon ?
I want to live in a Utopia too... But, as the head of the Scottish chamber of commerce pointed out, enacting such a law would be a boon for jobs in the borders of Northern England...
The other 20% will be the same ones that shop in Waitrose once but use the carrier bag forever. Or the good old Harrods bag that's older than me.
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It is mindboggling that so many people would rather believe a Whatsapp post than actual scientists.
The novelist Jenny Colgan argues that there are two views of Scottish humor. “The first, to quote PG Wodehouse, is that it is seldom difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman and a ray of sunshine. Think Gordon Brown's overhanging manse brow, and Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. The Presbyterian suspicion about things that are comical, musical, or in any way distract you from 12 hours a day of back-breaking toil runs deep in the national psyche - what Irvine Welsh calls the 'you'll have had your tea' school of grumpy inhospitableness,” she explained in a piece for The Guardian.
You Absolute Prawn
Amateur! You don't even need the appendix....let's us know when you kill a kidney or a liver...lol
Dalek In The Windae Too
"In Ye Get, Carol. Get Yersel Up The Road Safe Now. Mind And Give Me Two Rings When You And Billy Are Back Home
Fair Enough
Colgan continued that there is the other side too: the belief that Scots actually have a great sense of humor “(because it is free - yes, yes, ho ho ho).” She wrote: “And this view is probably the more accurate. Without a doubt the free-ranging Glaswegian barrowlands native wit is alive and well - at a recent concert by the Blue Nile, the famously beautiful and gloomy Glaswegian bedsit band, the heckle went up, ‘Could youse no' play something a bit mair wistful?’”
Here Fishy Fishy
A Wee Thing That Floats In The Sea
Angus Getting Straight To The Point
Good Rationing There
Pure Inspirational
"...and two deaths..." -make that three. I'm going to throw a clot if I don't stop laughing unreasonably hard at this.
Big Nicola Laying Down The Law For Eid
Canny Believe This Hasny Been Posted
"Who's the cat stuck in the door now Linda? Huh? Who's the cat now?"
Do I Sense A Netflix Original In The Works?
Scrapping With Peter Pan
Service Please!
The Rare, Understandable Scottish Men
While Having A Pish
Sorry Pal
It’s Dracula
Great way to try to lead us off your trail Dracula....we know he was right!
She Has A Point
Ma Teefs
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I wish I could spend a summer in Scotland. If anyone wants me, they can join me for a season of their choice with my 8 cats in the Mojave Desert.
Summer in Scotland is a handful of days in July/August...that's your lot.
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How difficult is it for them to actually type this out? Can they install a Scottish dictionary that autocorrects certain words, or at least accepts the Scottish spelling with voice texting?
Probably not any more difficult than it is for us to substitute slang for standard English, like "gonna" for "going to."
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I wish I could spend a summer in Scotland. If anyone wants me, they can join me for a season of their choice with my 8 cats in the Mojave Desert.
Summer in Scotland is a handful of days in July/August...that's your lot.
Load More Replies... How difficult is it for them to actually type this out? Can they install a Scottish dictionary that autocorrects certain words, or at least accepts the Scottish spelling with voice texting?
Probably not any more difficult than it is for us to substitute slang for standard English, like "gonna" for "going to."
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