dodgy humour
Nov. 18th, 2006 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaCleaning out my hard-drive last night I found this little, politically incorrect and ever-so-slightly defamatory joke that I must have picked up at one point during my lurking on the soc.culture.irish newsgroup years and years back...
Sometime, Someplace on the Irish Sea...
IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to avoid a collision.
IRISH: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: This is the Captain of a British navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
IRISH: Negative. I say again, you will have to divert YOUR course.
BRITISH: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
IRISH: We are a lighthouse. Your call.
Sometime, Someplace on the Irish Sea...
IRISH: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South, to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North, to avoid a collision.
IRISH: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
BRITISH: This is the Captain of a British navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.
IRISH: Negative. I say again, you will have to divert YOUR course.
BRITISH: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER HMS BRITANNIA! THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS, AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT IS 15 DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
IRISH: We are a lighthouse. Your call.
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Date: 2006-11-18 08:07 pm (UTC)Just love it.....
Date: 2006-11-18 07:58 pm (UTC)Re: Just love it.....
Date: 2006-11-18 08:03 pm (UTC)Bush was way after when I picked it up, although yes, the tone is pretty similar :).
Re: Just love it.....
Date: 2006-11-26 09:48 pm (UTC)Borrow it....
Date: 2006-11-18 08:01 pm (UTC)Re: Borrow it....
Date: 2006-11-18 08:04 pm (UTC)Re: Borrow it....
Date: 2006-11-18 08:08 pm (UTC)*hugs*
Re: Borrow it....
Date: 2006-11-18 08:39 pm (UTC)So, if you don't want to read the next blog (Kara's) -- it's okay you know it already.
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Date: 2006-11-19 11:39 pm (UTC)It's the 'your call' that gets me, I think. Such a perfect deflation of pomposity.
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Date: 2006-11-19 08:48 pm (UTC)I hadn't seen it for a while too - incredible, the amount of weird old stuff I keep finding in various old cryptic folders... But I still like it immensely for some reason :).
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