That reminds me of the 'Great Travel Hack' by SHELL. It is an awful thing, don't bother looking it up, but they challenge people to travel with cars, in the most 'green' way and in the end, they have polluted the earth só fucking bad in comparison to the train that it is worth shedding a tear over. Anyway, they also visit the Netherlands and everyone rides a bike...clean, fast, nice. And the presenter behind the wheel has to wait, ofcourse, to pass, because there are many bicycles and he keeps repeating how crazy it is that there are bicycles. He says; 'WhaAT IS HAppUHNiHhng?' and shakes his head in disbelief at the realisation that people can also travel healthy, for free and fast.
That laugh he does is so fake. He used to laugh normally when he started out but somewhere along the line he started doing it and I find it really annoying.
People who "just got back from" somewhere and are bigger experts and a stronger authority than those who actually live there full time. I went to Washington DC, saw the usual monuments, went on a bus tour, saw the Iwo Jima memorial which was off piste and required a taxi ride etc. I was told by British people "but that's not the real DC mate you wasted your trip". Apparently I was supposed to have gone to Frank's Dive Bar in UpperSouthSide and spent hours chatting to random locals. That's not what I do. And "the real DC" has the same hoods and gang stuff you'd see anywhere else in the US.
So many people say in the comments that it's a great impression... It's not an impression, it's parody. As an impression, it would be terrible, as parody, it's... less terrible.
The students are always the ones who are hopeless and never graduating, then the teacher gets fired, and gets rehired because they all pass with top marks
For me, it's the story about the girl who was going to kill herself and then changed her mind because she watched videos of him. I just thought, fucking hell. It really says something when someone has to be suicidal in order to find you funny.
My privately educated friend kept asking me why state school kids hate private school kids so much and I couldn’t seem to get it through to him that no one in state schools gives a shit or is even talking about private school kids
Tha yoof of today, I dunno. For your generation, nice people have to say nice things. For my generation (gen x), there is no shock at the idea that nice people might say horrid things for a laugh. A good person saying bad things in jest is our way of saying, I know you're good enough to know that I'm good enough to not actually mean what I say. It's called listening in good faith. To your, literal-minded puritan instincts it must seem incomprehensible. Such a shame.
