b3ta 9/11 image challenge

[gumboot]

It's just the British sense of humour....

b3ta.com is a British site with mostly British contributors - many of the images on that challenge feature characters from British TV shows.

Our sense of humour is irreverent/iconoclastic/inappropriate <delete as appropriate>.

If you look at their other image challenges, they take the mickey out of absolutely everything - there are no 'sacred cows'.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that they've done one for the London bombings that happened in 2005 - there were certainly jokes about them in circulation a matter of a few days after the events.

This tendency among Brits is just one of the many ways in which we show our disdain for authority/orthodoxy.

Furthermore, we Brits are a sick and twisted bunch, and b3ta.com attracts some of the most twisted of us.
If you are not British yourself (or even if you are), then you'll probably find much of its content puerile or offensive.

Juvenile and offensive humour is an ineradicable part of our culture - it can be found in all our 'high culture' such as Shakespeare (a filthy rapscallion if you read all of his stuff), Chaucer, et al.

Don't forget a big part of it is the Brits, especially Londoners, have been exposed to some very serious threats throughout their recent history. Humour is a very common way by which ALL people deal with hardship. I've been reading a lot of books lately by Americans recounting their experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're full of the precise same black humour.

-Gumboot

 

[DarkMagician]

I found that hilarious.

Of course, it will no longer be dark humor on December 30, 2023.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I found that hilarious.

Of course, it will no longer be dark humor on December 30, 2023.

I'm not sure of the significance of that date, but your point makes me think of such British comedy as Blackadder Goes Forth. That sort of humour would have been unthinkable to many a few years after WW1, but it's seen as comedy gold after the passage of time.

There's one thing I love about b3ta. It makes fun of things in the news almost immediately. Pictures are posted there that then are disseminated around the globe and much later I'm shown them by someone who's been sent them in an email via a circuitous route.

 

[chillzero]

I'm British, and I grew up in Northern Ireland, so I think I know something about dark humour, and getting through trying times. I still find most of this offensive.

It's not the same as Blackadder, at all.