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Try as we might to be incredibly sophisticated and cool, it seems that as human beings we are wired to do ridiculous and humiliating things. Usually on a daily basis. They’ve been swapping war stories of utter idiocy on the AskUK subreddit after user sniffing_dog made admitted to this mortifying mistake… What’s your biggest ‘Oops!’ […] The post ‘What’s your biggest ‘Oops!’ moment? – 21 people who did something exceptionally and embarrassingly silly appeared first on The Poke.

To the studios of talk station LBC now, where James O’Brien was delighted to find this clip of Donald Trump in which he sounds uncannily like Scooby Doo. No, seriously. And O’Brien liked it so much he thinks it might be his new all-time favourite LBC clip. And it really is a proper humdinger. 'That's […] The post Turns out Donald Trump sounds just like Scooby Doo in this clip and we enjoyed it even more than James O’Brien did appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump and his sycophantic cabinet members have put the bill on the war with Iran at $2 billion a day. The main objective of all that cash: get the Strait of Hormuz back open again. That’s when US senator Chris Murphy gently raised a hand. Here’s how Murphy succinctly summarized how incredibly wasteful and […] The post This US Senator just perfectly nailed the calamity of Trump’s war on Iran and the hole we’re in now in just 43 seconds flat appeared first on The Poke.

Now, let us bow our heads and pray. Pete Hegseth, at today’s Christian Prayer & Worship Service at the Pentagon, prays for Almighty God to “pour out your wrath” and “break the teeth of the ungodly.” He begs the Almighty to sanction “overwhelming violence” against “those who deserve no mercy” pic.twitter.com/eJyDeTANot — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) […] The post This devilish sermon just spewed up by Pete Hegseth shows America’s secretary of war is the last person on earth who should lead a prayer service appeared first on The Poke.

It all started with Ed Davey – not a phrase you read on these pages too often – with Ed Davey talking North Sea Oil in the House of Commons. "The prime minister is actually right, and the leader of the opposition is wrong." Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, attacks Badenoch over North […] The post James May had a few well chosen words for the grim troll who abused Deborah Meaden on Twitter and it was simply perfect appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump does a lot of incredibly stupid things in public, but perhaps the most entertaining is when he starts saying things out loud that his advisors confided with him in private. The latest such incident finds the President getting behind a microphone and meticulously laying out the legal implications of how he describes the […] The post Donald Trump just explained why he tries to call his Iran war a ‘military operation’ and these 17 replies had him bang to rights appeared first on The Poke.

Usually when Karoline Leavitt is stomping her feet and raising her voice, she’s directing her ire at the US media. This time, she’s mad at an entire nation. Iran just won’t stop fighting back and Leavitt has had enough. Don’t they know they lost already? Both Leavitt and Donald Trump have declared multiple times that […] The post Karoline Leavitt is mad at Iran because they refuse to admit they’ve lost the war but the only person losing it is Leavitt – 15 A++ reality checks appeared first on The Poke.

Credit where it’s due, we take our hats off to Zia Yusuf for managing to knock the tag team of Stephen Miller and Kash Patel off the top spot in the ‘Biggest Arse-kissing Cult Members’ competition, despite them setting a high bar. Miller: What President Trump is doing is a national miracle that will be […] The post Zia Yusuf raved about Farage’s level of aura, and they’re never beating the ‘cult’ allegations – 15 votes of no confidence appeared first on The Poke.

Unless you’ve spent the last few years living in a cupboard under the stairs, you’ll know that HBO has been busy working away on a television adaptation of the Harry Potter books which is due to be released this Christmas. You’ll probably also know that lots of people have been asking one question in unison: […] The post The first trailer for HBO’s Harry Potter series has just dropped and people are finding it less than magical – 21 wand-erful reactions appeared first on The Poke.

There was much to enjoy – well, that might be overdoing it just a little bit – at PMQs on Wednesday. There was the Reform UK flounce out after Keir Starmer’s especially welcome takedown of Nigel Farage, which we’ve already written about over here. But there was also this moment – also featuring Farage – […] The post Nigel Farage ended up the butt of this hilariously timed exchange at PMQs and it will surely never be bettered appeared first on The Poke.