Liz Truss says being compared to a lettuce was not funny

3 years ago by Patch to c/uk_politics

The former British PM thinks the obsession with a lettuce that outlasted her was ‘puerile.’
noodle 90 points 3 years ago

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

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Digestive_Biscuit 6 points 3 years ago

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

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scrchngwsl 62 points 3 years ago

Yet another thing she's wrong about

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ckempo 48 points 3 years ago

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

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Free_Radical 40 points 3 years ago

How does she think the lettuce felt?

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FlanFlinger 1 point 3 years ago

Less limp and lifeless than she was

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mustyOrange 24 points 3 years ago

I sure thought it was funny

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Griffith 22 points 3 years ago

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

For everyone else, it was hilarious.

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lolpostslol 8 points 3 years ago

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

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jaydev 1 point 3 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.

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Syldon 21 points 3 years ago

She is only sore because we made her leaf.

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gundog48 3 points 3 years ago

"Make like a lettuce and fuck off!"

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Calcharger 18 points 3 years ago

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.

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Kerred 1 point 3 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.

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fyrd 15 points 3 years ago

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.

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PelicanPersuader 3 points 3 years ago

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

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rameez 14 points 3 years ago

Crashing the economy was not funny.

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jerome 13 points 3 years ago

Liz Truss being bad at her job hurts real people.

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FlyLikeAMouse 10 points 3 years ago

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

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DeathWearsANecktie 9 points 3 years ago

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

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pasci_lei 9 points 3 years ago

Because it was actually very funny.

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Jaysyn 8 points 3 years ago

No, it was hilarious.

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

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Timwi 6 points 3 years ago

Sounds like somebody was... not amused.

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HumanPenguin 6 points 3 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.

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atypicaloddity 6 points 3 years ago

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

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ten4 6 points 3 years ago

lettuce in her head rent free

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KarsicKarl 6 points 3 years ago

Absolutely agree.

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

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TheUnicornOfPerfidy 5 points 3 years ago

It was though

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StarkillerX42 1 point 3 years ago

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

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Bloonface 5 points 3 years ago

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

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

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Datas_Cat_Spot 5 points 3 years ago

It was though

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z500 3 points 3 years ago

It wasn't funny. It was fucking hilarious.

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Wigglehard 5 points 3 years ago

Lettuce should really not be insulted this way

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yopyop 4 points 3 years ago path: 0 358600, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
Solaris1789 4 points 3 years ago

Should have lasted longer than it

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Beardedsausag3 4 points 3 years ago

Your honour, I disagree.

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TheLazurus 4 points 3 years ago

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

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Naich 3 points 3 years ago

It was fucking tragic.

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dimspace 3 points 3 years ago

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

Embarrassing...

Humiliating...

But, Funny too...

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AcidOctopus 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, the lettuce deserved better.

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thatwill 3 points 3 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.

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TVPaulD 3 points 3 years ago

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

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the_right_god 1 point 3 years ago

It was funny, she had mo sense of humor

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digdilem 1 point 3 years ago

Just another thing she was wrong about.

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gilbert31 1 point 3 years ago

Agree to disagree.

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ElectronSoup 1 point 3 years ago

awww, poor baby

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Frikisada 1 point 3 years ago

Maybe not for her

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doublejay3000 1 point 3 years ago

she's a beaut aint she ?

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christophski 2 points 3 years ago

That's what happens when you make someone prime minister jsut because they're fit!

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lolpostslol 2 points 3 years ago

The lettuce is fit too

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spamfajitas -1 points 3 years ago

puerile

Strong words for a person who thought running through a grain field was the naughtiest thing she'd ever done.

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kybernetikos 12 points 3 years ago

I think you're thinking of Theresa May. It's easy to mix UK prime minsters up, since they seem to change at a phenomenal rate.

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mannycalavera 4 points 3 years ago

Wrong PM.

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