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Opinion – When you make a Brexit gag at the Fringe, the audience no longer laughs – what has happened to our sense of humour? | The Independent

August 20, 2017 By in Brexit, Far Left, Humor, Humour, People, Politics Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

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This is an interesting article from the Independent and the comments are worth a view too. The author reports that since his return after two weeks performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, he’s come to the realisation that you can divide comedy audiences into two groups: there’s the Remoaners and then there’s the Brexiteers.

Source: When you make a Brexit gag at the Fringe, the audience no longer laughs – what has happened to our sense of humour? | The Independent

As one commentator argued, humour about politics isn’t funny because some people have different political views. Humour can be deeply divisive and hurtful for minorities too.

I’m taking a break from blogging about Brexit during the Summer months – the news is stale and beginning to smell. Let’s face it, whether you’re a Remoaner or Brexiteer, there’s not much to laugh about at the moment.

Of course, the article hints that it’s ownly educated liberal elites who understand satire anyway – it’s no wonder that Steve Bannon‘s found a soap box big enough to hold his bulk!

 

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Opinion – The Tyranny of the School Gates – SR Cloud

January 24, 2015 By in Business Administration, Humor, Humour, People, Society, Unemployment Leave a comment

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I would thoroughly recommend this book by SR Cloud, published by Amazon.

I really enjoyed this short book. I found it amusing and insightful. I loved the descriptions of suburban life. It’s a family story that could well happen in your family.

Here’s the description:

A man loses a job. A man thinks good, I hated corporate life, now I’ll get to spend some time with my son, and I’ll start a business, I’ll be positive, I’ll make something of this situation. But he is naive. He doesn’t realise that he can’t just drop his son off at school and pick him up without drawing the nervous attention of the mums who don’t really know how to deal with having him at the school gates. And consciously or not the mums decide never to speak to him, or to make eye contact with him, or to acknowledge he even exists. Maybe they behave like this because the man is a bit shy and a bit awkward and they are suspicious of where he’s come from, what his story is and maybe it’s just because he is a man in a woman’s world.