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Like a well that reaches all the way to the other side of the world, the transatlantic cultural divide between the UK and the US is the gift that will forever keep on giving. In today’s episode it’s the turn of plugs. Well, sockets to be strictly accurate, and we’re all about accuracy on this […] The post A visitor from New York was left unutterably befuddled by a British plug socket – and these (mostly) polite Brits were only too happy to help appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump is certainly making an impression on the world’s most powerful leaders at the G7 Summit. This is not a good thing. The US President has already been caught wandering around lost, completely zoning out during photo opps, and, now, using NSFW language to describe a former President. Trump was teasing out some of […] The post Donald Trump claimed the Iranians called Obama a ‘stupid SOB’ and the projection could be seen all the way from the Middle East appeared first on The Poke.

The world’s most powerful leaders assembled at the G7 summit in France this week to discuss important global affairs, of which there is obviously no shortage right now. Apart from everything else it was also an opportunity to capture the moment for posterity, what with Donald Trump apparently having finally concluded a peace deal with […] The post Donald Trump zoned out through an entire photo opp at the G7 summit and people had theories – 17 responses worth capturing appeared first on The Poke.

There’s a lot of USA vs. Europe content on Twitter right now, no doubt sparked by the World Cup tournament and the influx of European fans into the USA at the moment. It’s an entertaining rivalry and one which often results in the Americans coming of second best. In the latest attempt to wind up […] The post An American claimed Europeans can’t ‘comprehend’ the choice of beers they sell in the US and was roasted under the table in the replies appeared first on The Poke.

Nostalgia is not a new phenomenon but it has been increasingly weaponised on social media in recent years, as anyone who has seen a picture of a charming ye olde English village with a caption suggesting it was all much better in them days (conveniently forgetting things like tuberculosis, child labour and world wars). But […] The post ‘What’s something that was never that good that British people get incredibly nostalgic about’ – 21 rose-tinted memories we need to forget about appeared first on The Poke.

As far as we know, Donald Trump isn’t much of a football (soccer) fan. But it’s certainly true that Donald Trump is a huge Donald Trump fan. So it must be pretty galling for him to see so much international attention on the World Cup tournament at the moment, co-hosted by the USA, and not […] The post Donald Trump will get to lift the World Cup trophy with the winning team – 13 A++ responses that all deserve a medal appeared first on The Poke.

To the G7 – again! – where Donald Trump was naturally making all the headlines, if not for the reasons he’d have wanted. And this moment might be our favourite of the lot, when the leader(ish) of the free world appeared to wander off for no apparent reason only to be brought back into the […] The post Donald Trump appeared to get lost at this gathering of world leaders at the G7 and was mocked to the moon and back appeared first on The Poke.

In a world where the job market feels increasingly precarious, having work is a good thing. But have you ever been given something to do which felt so utterly futile that you begin to question why you’re being paid for this nonsense, and also what is the point of life? Plenty of people have on […] The post ‘What’s the strangest or most pointless task you’ve been given at work ?’ – 21 people wondering why the heck they’re bothering appeared first on The Poke.

It’s no secret that Fox News is largely packed with Maga cultists, so it came as no surprise to anybody that this reporter from the channel buried the lede in hs piece to camera on the state of the newly renovated Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. FOX: I'm here at the newly […] The post This Fox News reporter’s spin on the president ordering a clean-up of the algae in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool shows the real Trump Derangement Syndrome appeared first on The Poke.

To the studios of ABC’s The View, where JD Vance was basically shredded by the all-female line-up including, for the purposes of this post, the estimable Whoopi Goldberg. It went so badly in fact that the VP resorted to pretending Trump said things he didn’t, and misrepresenting the views of the panellists putting questions to […] The post JD Vance made up what Whoopi Goldberg asked him and she was having absolutely none of his BS and you love to see it appeared first on The Poke.