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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She didn't compare to a lettuce. She actually lost to a lettuce.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

And the lettuce didn't try to crash the economy. It was miles ahead of her.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

Yet another thing she's wrong about

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

I thought her being compared to somebody capable of leading the country was a laugh, too.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does she think the lettuce felt?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Less limp and lifeless than she was

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

I sure thought it was funny

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I completely understand that for her it was not funny at all.

For everyone else, it was hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’m laughing right now, and everyone knows that denying something is funny just makes it funnier.

The only non-funny thing about this is that I can’t keep lettuce from spoiling in my fridge for a week, dunno what those people did

[–] jaydev 1 points 2 years ago

Same! I think that was no ordinary lettuce. It probably would have been so qualified to run things over other lettuce. A true leader.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She is only sore because we made her leaf.

[–] gundog48 3 points 2 years ago

"Make like a lettuce and fuck off!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine all of the failures of your administration, and you take exception to the fact that your shelf date was compared to that of a vegetable.

If you weren't so bad at your job, the comparison wouldn't have been made. Work on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think it's a clever form of deflection.

They want you to emphasize more on name and word calling so people don't headline actual things they did.

In the US politicians embrace the name calling, helps you get away with anything else. Trump makes orange jokes at his rallies and supporters love it as a more recent example.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was so fecking unfunny.

Lettuce is tasty, healthy and useful. Liz was none of those things. It's a shame we spoiled the good name of lettuce.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The only thing thing they have in common is that lettuce helps you take a shit and Liz was shit.

[–] rameez 14 points 2 years ago

Crashing the economy was not funny.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Liz Truss being bad at her job hurts real people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

She shouldn’t’ve been so bloody lettucey then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It was hilarious. Liz Truss and her policies were puerile.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Because it was actually very funny.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

No, it was hilarious.

There simply aren't enough bad things that can happen to Tories.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sounds like somebody was... not amused.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Well she is correct. Having a PM that compared unfaverably to a lettuce. Was far from funny and should never have been allowed to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't trust her opinion on what's funny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

lettuce in her head rent free

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Absolutely agree.

No-one ever took the lettuce's feelings into consideration.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No it wasn't funny. It was EXTREMELY FUNNY. Then it was even funnier when the lettuce won.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Lettuce should really not be insulted this way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It wasn't funny. It was fucking hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It was unfair for the lettuce, which still hasn't recovered.

Emotionally anyway. Career wise, it's doing much better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Your honour, I disagree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

What about her "astonishing rise to power" ? a fabulous book

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'll be honest, I thought it was funny as hell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Should have lasted longer than it

[–] thatwill 3 points 2 years ago

The fact that she finds it unfunny makes it even funnier.

It's not surprising she completely lacks a sense of humour, considering she's lacking in many other ways.

[–] dimspace 3 points 2 years ago

There are a bunch of words I would use before funny...

Embarrassing...

Humiliating...

But, Funny too...

[–] AcidOctopus 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the lettuce deserved better.

[–] TVPaulD 3 points 2 years ago

Wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh, wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh Wooo, wooo, wooo-ooh, wooo, wooo, wooo… Barbra Streisand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It was fucking tragic.

[–] gilbert31 1 points 2 years ago

Agree to disagree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

awww, poor baby

[–] the_right_god 1 points 2 years ago

It was funny, she had mo sense of humor

[–] Frikisada 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe not for her

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