19 British Tweets From August That Cracked Us Up This Month

    "one vegan sausage roll left in Greggs and the person in front of me has neon pink hair please pray for me"

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    My friend just admitted to me that when he was a kid he had a crush on Zoe Ball so when his mum was out the room he used to get his bum out and ‘show it to her’ when she was on TV. He was ‘four or five’ at the time. Tears streaming down my face.

    Twitter: @MissAHaddow

    2.

    You have to beat this to watch Arctic Monkeys at Reading

    Twitter: @PilotLightYeah

    3.

    me: i’m just gonna switch the big light on for 1 minu- british gas:

    Twitter: @averageIyjoe

    4.

    has it occurred to thomas that he might be the problem

    Twitter: @_janna_g

    5.

    Twitter: @elainebabey

    6.

    [Rishi Sunak at a Woolworths] "a pick and some mix, please"

    Twitter: @FrizFrizzle

    7.

    one vegan sausage roll left in Greggs and the person in front of me has neon pink hair please pray for me

    Twitter: @jck_shp

    8.

    For a split second I thought something had gone terribly, biblically wrong with my cat

    Twitter: @EliArieh

    9.

    I’m obsessed with the ending of this episode of corrie

    Twitter: @RussellHayward

    10.

    People who are 22 https://t.co/OfKFbqjOWd

    Twitter: @mbnotagain97

    11.

    Twitter: @MoTheComedian

    12.

    Twitter: @LilyOrgill

    13.

    Every now and then I just remember Mel Brooks’ reaction to the One Show.

    Twitter: @GraceP0WER

    14.

    Twitter: @appehmichael

    15.

    supermarket self scanners are an interesting cultural phenomenon where everyone seems to have just universally decided that it’s polite to steal about 20% of your groceries but no more.

    Twitter: @gbrl_dick

    16.

    when i go into aldi middle aisle i feel like a medieval king planning which scarce but precious items i should buy from a travelling merchant who’s come to court

    Twitter: @sellottie

    17.

    "You know we were talking earlier about Dostoevsky? Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Born 1821, died 1881…" https://t.co/GjwLgfODD3

    Twitter: @BeardedGenius

    18.

    🚨 WE HAVE REACHED PEAK GUARDIAN 🚨

    Twitter: @acailler

    19.

    If any non-Brits are wondering who Martin Lewis is, he started out as a dude looking for good deals on a consumer affairs program & now he's the last bastion of British civilisation.

    Twitter: @SeraphineDrake