The British Sense of Humour

Having read the first few pages of this website you will probably be sufficiently depressed to consider emigrating. However, there must be a positive side to any website and this is it. The British ability to laugh at themselves as well as others is a definate boon and something that probably helps to keep us sane.

Our Forum Message Board gives you the chance to add your favourite Brit Jokes or amusing comments about the British or its people and habits.

You can upload a variety of different images or add web page links to websites that you think are amusing that compliment the theme of this website or just browse the content and have a laugh.




No Sex Please Were British

It is often said that when it comes to sex and the British there is a strange undercover relationship between the two that would suggest we are shy about our sexual habits and find humour in everything of a sexual nature. Is this actually true? Do people in modern day Britain still have these repressive thoughts or have things changed?

The British and flashing in public, Catholic priests, obsession with farting, perverts and judges with whips all lead to a very mixed bag of zany British humour that some outsiders could find worrying.

Once extremely popular and thankfully on the wane, numerous British seaside resorts used to sell funny postcards with quite often ridiculous jokes that hinted on or directly illustrated strange sexual behaviour or repressed sexual feelings that could only be openly expressed on postcards.

Ask 10 British men to walk into a chemist and ask the pretty girl at the counter for a packet of condoms. Blushes all round in most cases. Why is this? Why do we still feel it necessary to tie the groom naked to a lampost on the eve of his wedding?




Laughing at others expense

Trip over in most countries and someone will rush to your aid. In Britain it is more likely that the folk around you will erupt in laughter or smile at your misfortune. Why do we British find it so comforting and humorous to fall around in stitches when something unfortunate happens to someone else?

This kind of warped humour extends to the foreign visitor trying to express himself. A few words in any language abroad will inspire a keen interest to assist you and thoughtful and helpful assistance is guaranteed. Over here smiles at the funny accent are only superceded by the equally if not more disconcerting insistance on speaking English in an equally funny accent by normally intelligent Brits.



Fashion and image

Your street cred in Britain is in serious danger unless you dress slovenly in track suit bottoms or jeans or take the extreme and be very conventional with a suit and tie approach. This of course only applies to normal every day Brits as pop stars and famous people can be as radical as they wish.

In Britain you are a rich daddy's boy if you drive a brand new luxury car and often the subect of ridicule and humour. Please feel free to leave your comments on the Forums and let us know of any interesting and humorous observations that you would like to share with us.





Funny Foreigners

The Brits find many foreigners funny. We even find our own countrymen funny. Jokes about foreigners or indeed anyone that is different can be found in all aspects of British humour. This of course is not a purely British trait and quite often the same jokes can be found on the internet that relate to Americans, Irish, Polish and the Brits alike.

Please be careful when placing jokes about other cultures and peoples on this website unless they are of French origin. Thank You.


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