#edinburgh

drnoam@diasp.org

Top 10 #jokes of the 2023 #Edinburgh #Fringe Festival. Number 4 gave me a good laugh.

  1. I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah - Lorna Rose Treen
  2. The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said 'Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise.' - Liz Guterbock
  3. Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now - Amos Gill
  4. When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast - Sikisa
  5. I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham
  6. How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag - Frank Lavender
  7. My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He's Costa-phobic - Roger Swift
  8. I entered the 'How not to surrender' competition and I won hands down - Bennett Arron
  9. Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch - William Stone
  10. My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films - Daniel Foxx

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66569215

#humour #funny

yew@diasp.eu

hm... received mail from my friend in Scotland. She wrote,

"This intimate little sharing by Karine Polwart illustrates the great contrast between the Scottish outlook of welcome, compared to the present English/British attitude towards ‘outsiders’ and refugees. This is the reason I am at home in Scotland. One can recognize it historically also: where the Kings of England ruled the lands with an eye to ‘pushing the boundaries’ – in this land, the ‘King of the Scots’ was invested with the leadership of the free People.Love ...

and she attached:

Karine Polwart for Edinburgh Greens Big Burns Night In

#KarinePolwart #Edinburgh #Scotland #music #RobertBurns