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Congratulations if you’ve won the work lottery that means you get paid time off over the double bank holiday weekend. Commiserations if you work in the hospitality industry or for one of the emergency services, because you’re about to get even more slammed than usual. The 25 funny tweets we’ve rounded up work equally well […] The post 25 Favourite Funny Tweets of the Week appeared first on The Poke.

If you’ve ever made the leap from a value supermarket brand of baked beans to a tin of, say, Heinz, you’ll know there is a definite difference between own-brand and real brand, and you’ll never want to return to the bad old days. We say this after Redditor BackwardThoughtPaper asked this over on – guess […] The post ‘What’s one product you bought that turned you into a total snob?’ – 21 people who got a taste of the good stuff and could never go back appeared first on The Poke.

In the interests of full disclosure and all that we hadn’t come across Nic Carter before but by all accounts he’s an internet entrepreneur, investor, Bitcoin proponent, and journalist (it says here). He’s also a big fan of Articifical Intelligence, it turns out. People on the left of centre, politically speaking? Not so much. And […] The post A Bitcoiner trolled ‘leftoids’ for being wary of AI and got all the responses they deserved – 17 not computer generated takedowns appeared first on The Poke.

There was a bit of a weird coincidence in this Countdown numbers round from April 2023, and we have no idea why it happened – but watch for yourselves. @laurensullivan19 “Are you two alright?” 🤣 #countdown #fail #funnyuktvmoments #britishtv #funny ♬ original sound – Lauren Sullivan Was there a glare on the screen? Did Rachel […] The post Countdown numbers round cock-up or glitch in the Matrix? You decide appeared first on The Poke.

If you’re British, you’ll be well aware of and (whisper it) a bit bored by the centuries old beef that exists between Yorkshire and Lancashire. So much so, in fact, that you might want to get in on the act yourself and slag off a different county, whether that’s the one you reside in, or […] The post ‘What’s the worst county in the UK?’ – 23 opinions that will fill you with territorial rage appeared first on The Poke.

There are many things that people from other countries find strange about Britain, from our obsessive love of tea to the fact we made a celebrity of Gemma Collins. But something that non-Brits find particularly hard to get a handle on is our humour, and especially the fact that a lot of it involves insulting […] The post Someone asked about Brits insulting each other as random objects and ended up feeling like a complete spoon appeared first on The Poke.

There are lots of things that make most people cry – breakups, onions, Toy Story 3 – but then there are peculiar reasons people start to tear up. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. After all, crying can be a complex emotional reaction. So, to try and understand why we well up, Reddit user […] The post ‘What’s the most absurd thing you’ve cried over?’ – 17 especially eye-opening reasons for the waterworks appeared first on The Poke.

It’s become something of a tradition at this time of year to complain about Easter Eggs not displaying anything about Easter on them. So much so, in fact, that many people who used to specialise in this sort of thing have given up (or maybe they are just not appearing on our timeline). So hats […] The post This proud Englishman ranted at Easter Eggs gone woke and was owned into next week and beyond appeared first on The Poke.

A Canadian TikToker named Brianna – @wh0l3h3art3dly – shared this potential design fail she spotted in Walmart. @wh0l3h3art3dly Frickin Walmart… strikes again… @Walmart Canada ♬ This Is How We Do It – Montell Jordan In case Brianna’s ‘See you next Tuesday’ hint went over your head – look at the first letters of the words […] The post There might just be a NSFW element to this t-shirt – if you like acrostics appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump’s White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made quite the name for herself in the first few months of the president’s second coming. But people detected a sign in the last day or so that maybe – just maybe – she was running out of answers. Like this moment, for instance, highlighted by […] The post The White House has a new way of dealing with the questions they don’t like and it’s a proper eye-opener appeared first on The Poke.