Things that are NEVER funny.

[Spiteface]

I mean that's partly why the triangle trope joke is so unfunny, it demeans the role of percussionists through lazy ignorance.

A variant of the drummer jokes, then.

Apparently drummer jokes had roots in musician's union stuff, supposedly drummers were merely "affiliated" but not actually musicians hence "What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians? A drummer!"

[Blue Jam]

What about viola jokes?

https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/viola.html

Seems like the violist is essentially the drummer of a string quartet.

Some of these sound a lot like lawyer jokes too, but lawyers are acceptable targets.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Thanks to the Babelfish I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I may be wrong though.

The closest you get is Ford & Zaphod singing the Betelgeusian death anthem.

Similarly when, on twitter, someone will insert [name] into bit of observational comedy or something, along the lines of 'like, no, Becky/Jessica/Stacey/Arbuthnot, that's not how this works'

Can't find a specific example at the moment.

Surely 'Karen' is the biggest example of this?

[Gulftastic]

'I see what you did there/did you see what I did there?'

[Cuellar]

Surely 'Karen' is the biggest example of this?

It is, but that's sort of its own thing. I'm thinking of random names, Bethany, Chloe, etc. I wish I could find a good example, it seems like it's all over twitter but now I look for it I can't find one tweet. I'll keep my eyes open.

[Blue Jam]

It is, but that's sort of its own thing. I'm thinking of random names, Bethany, Chloe, etc. I wish I could find a good example, it seems like it's all over twitter but now I look for it I can't find one tweet. I'll keep my eyes open.

I know what you mean by this. "No, vaccines don't cause autism, Linda", "No, being a Scorpio does not make you deep and mysterious, it just makes you stupid, Carol". Always women's names as well, which is a bit rich when it comes to antivaxx stuff, given that the whole antivaxx movement was kicked off by a man.

[millwall32]

Jo Brand.

[Blue Jam]

Jo Brand.

Awwwww, Getting On was great.

[gilbertharding]

Mentioning the war (to be precise, 'mentioning the war').

Actually, that was funny precisely once, on 24 October 1975 so shouldn't be in this thread.

[gilbertharding]

'I see what you did there/did you see what I did there?'

It's the 'Boom-boom' of the 21st century.

[jofo]

Alice levine

[Cuellar]

I know what you mean by this. "No, vaccines don't cause autism, Linda", "No, being a Scorpio does not make you deep and mysterious, it just makes you stupid, Carol". Always women's names as well, which is a bit rich when it comes to antivaxx stuff, given that the whole antivaxx movement was kicked off by a man.

Yeah that's the stuff. 'Linda' is a good example, sure I've seen that in the wild.

Really gets on my arse for some reason.

[Blue Jam]

It always seems to be names common among middle-aged women too, and for things like antivaxx, multi-level marketing, astrology- all things more popular with women. It's never "No, aliens didn't put an anal probe in you, Chuck" or "No, chemtrails aren't real, Brad" or "No, Antifa are not the real fascists, Steve".

I used to see this on Reddit a lot, unsurprisingly.

[Cuellar]

Yeah I was trying to find an example on r/whitepeopletwitter as I felt it was exactly the sort of shit that would be all over that, but came up empty handed

[Magnum Valentino]

Did anyone say the appropriation of hip hop culture by people who sit comfortably outside its expected parameters?

'down with the kids' seems to be phrase they ALWAYS use. Crossing arms in there for good measure.

That's the worst one. Never funny.

[easytarget]

\taking it in turns to imagine what Samuel Johnson would make of life in the mid-2000s

Misread that as Samuel (L) Jackson and imagined almost the same thing (replace 'ye' with 'motherfucker' and you're there).

[easytarget]

It is, but that's sort of its own thing.

That's gone in it's own direction now, for about 20 minutes 2  years ago it was a neat way to refer to a specific type of entitled "I'd like to speak to the manager and the police and the police's manager", now it's just used by blokes when they disagree with any woman.
Ah well.

[jamiefairlie]

Did anyone say the appropriation of hip hop culture by people who sit comfortably outside its expected parameters?

'down with the kids' seems to be phrase they ALWAYS use. Crossing arms in there for good measure.

That's the worst one. Never funny.

Or the closely related "old person does something only young people normally do e.g. dance, swear, wear young people's clothes, et-fucking-cetera"

Also see "CGI characters dancing during the closing credits"

[H-O-W-L]

Similarly when, on twitter, someone will insert [name] into bit of observational comedy or something, along the lines of 'like, no, Becky/Jessica/Stacey/Arbuthnot, that's not how this works'

Can't find a specific example at the moment.

Anyone who puts your fucking name in their mouth in a statement like that is a completely dirtfilth shitcunt. Just the worst fucking shame behavior. Fucking despise cunts that do that fucking tripe. Gaslighting wankers.

[H-O-W-L]

Anyone who fucking uses your name as punctuation/a punchline is a dick and I hope their fucking arse falls out and they fall into their own fallen arse going "argh nooo my aaaarse!" like the arsehole they are.

[thenoise]

Did anyone say the appropriation of hip hop culture by people who sit comfortably outside its expected parameters?

'down with the kids' seems to be phrase they ALWAYS use. Crossing arms in there for good measure.

That's the worst one. Never funny.

Yeah - despite there being a generation of middle aged (plus) people who grew up with hip hop now. Can you imagine comedians in the 80s using rock and roll as a shorthand for impenetrable young people's subculture?

[JarrowMonkey]

Saying 'the inter web' or 'I'm not edumacted', a cunts trick

[Sebastian Cobb]

Did anyone say the appropriation of hip hop culture by people who sit comfortably outside its expected parameters?

I imagine everyone's seen 'The Stutter Rap' by now mate, and yes it definitely wasn't funny.

[Kankurette]

Anyone who fucking uses your name as punctuation/a punchline is a dick and I hope their fucking arse falls out and they fall into their own fallen arse going "argh nooo my aaaarse!" like the arsehole they are.

It makes me glad my name is a fairly rare one (in the UK anyway).

[SpiderChrist]

The crying with laughter emoji makes me irrationally angry. Bit like this, I suppose 😡

[Magnum Valentino]

Not really meant to be funny though is it.

If anything, emojis are invaluable for helping colour language that's too easy to misinterpret in texts and I welcome them unreservedly.

[SpiderChrist]

I guess not. Their use, however, always seems to be in the context of something that isn't that funny and I really don't know where I'm going with this fuck it post

[Chedney Honks]

I really enjoy using it insincerely or to mock the people who would laugh at the previous statement, but I especially enjoy using it fatalistically. On some level it's a reclamation, on another it's a shortcut to exasperation.

😂😂😂

[phantom_power]

The laugh cry emoji is very big among the right wingers and boot lickers on Twitter etc. He who should not be named used it a lot

[Sebastian Cobb]

emoji's are too cutesy and infantile, this is a FACT.