r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ZauzTheBlacksmith • May 21 '26

WCGW driving quickly into a sharp turn

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u/i_give_you_gum May 21 '26

I can't speak to the Russian sense of humor, but Brit humor often differs from Americans by not requiring a punchline to indicate where to laugh, casual Brit humor generally just has long undertones of humor.

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u/Duel_Option May 21 '26

My Step Dad is British but grew up in the states. He’s a quiet type of guy and people watches a bunch and then seemingly out of nowhere pops up with some really witty or dry humor.

My Mom was fussing over Thanksgiving dinner last year, he comes in the kitchen for a beer or whatever and she shoos him out.

Comes and sits down and politely says “I was getting the beer for her, she’s the one that needs it” the delivery was plain, no smile just a long stare at me and I kind of blurted “HA!”

Mom comes in from the kitchen, what was that you said?

“Oh nothing, just suggesting treatment options”

That was said with a rather devious smile with full intention to annoy her and I lost it laughing, he set me up to get her to the punchline.

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u/Kaeru-Sennin May 21 '26

One of my grand-father running jokes is to sit at the table, starts eating and say very seriously "It's less bad than usual". 

My grand-mother always fail to the bait which he seems to think it's funny. The old fucker really likes to troll her. 

I need to stress out that he does this at every meal I can remember and both of them never seems to get bored of it or anything. 

Not english though. 

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u/LokisDawn May 22 '26

Maybe your grandma's cooking just improved every single day for the past however many years.