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Light relief (pisstaking) from Labour's leadership contest

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thatbags Wed 13-Jul-16 10:24:37

Since trades unions were so formative in the development of the Labour Party, I'm thinking about them and wondering what pissification gransnetters can come up with for union acronyms.

Let's kick off with the NUT: nutjobs union (as in you have to be to be a teacher wink) JOKE ALERT!

aquagran Wed 13-Jul-16 11:11:50

NUT - No "U" Time, not piss taking, but true!

Alima Wed 13-Jul-16 11:11:57

As in Unite: uninformed nitwits in total exhibitionism?

rosesarered Wed 13-Jul-16 12:07:41

TUC.....Total Utter Crap

Teetime Wed 13-Jul-16 16:51:04

Unison - Unbent Neurones in Some Other Nobheads

rosesarered Wed 13-Jul-16 19:08:06

ASLEF...Aspiring Socialists Like Exotic Fun

aquagran Wed 13-Jul-16 19:13:23

Joke alert! Not many laughing! I support the unions as they supported me as a worker!

rosesarered Wed 13-Jul-16 19:20:15

This isn't about what the Trades Unions do (valuable work) this is just a joke thread!Cor blimey.

thatbags Wed 13-Jul-16 20:49:31

It's a play on acronyms, aqua. A mere game with no malice aforethought. Taking it seriously is silly.

fiorentina51 Wed 13-Jul-16 21:02:59

ATL Angry Teachers Lamenting.

downtoearth Wed 13-Jul-16 21:07:48

USDAW.....useless sods don't actually work

aquagran Wed 13-Jul-16 21:08:30

Laugh, I thought I'd never start!

Alima Wed 13-Jul-16 22:12:20

Good one downtoearth!

Eloethan Thu 14-Jul-16 00:00:37

It might be a good idea to remember how the vast majority of working people were treated before there were unions.

POGS Thu 14-Jul-16 00:06:40

Ye Gods.

thatbags Thu 14-Jul-16 06:36:35

I'm remembering jings's "stuffed shirt" comments.

Listen, grumpies: I fully support the idea and the good work of trades unions. I was brought up on the history of the Labour movement because of my miner grandad. This does not mean I can't take the piss at acronyms. Taking the piss about acronyms associated with trades unions is not being anti unions or anti working people.

What a bunch of prosaic prudish prats who can't separate one notion from another in their stuffed shirt heads some of you are with your constant wrong assumptions and your constant disapproving! Spot on, pogs, with your "Ye gods!"

Anya Thu 14-Jul-16 06:46:04

There isn't a GSOH union is there?

thatbags Thu 14-Jul-16 07:20:22

They'll just say "it's not funny", anya. Which is fine. No-one is obliged to find it funny. Anyway, there's a difference between amusing and funny (they won't separate those notions either hmm ). The thread title was quite clear. I think some people just lurve disapproving and can't stop themselves, poor things.

Eloethan Thu 14-Jul-16 08:41:01

What a novel way of showing your "support" for trades unions thatbags.

Anya Thu 14-Jul-16 08:42:51

Always a bit of a lateral thinker is our bags smile

Stansgran Thu 14-Jul-16 08:48:37

Oh for a like button.

fiorentina51 Thu 14-Jul-16 08:58:52

GMB.. Gransnetters Minus Brains. (Dons tin helmet and ducks head below parapet.)

Elegran Thu 14-Jul-16 09:01:25

Who dreamed up the notion that you can't support something and laugh at the same time?

Po Faced Abstainers (PFO - Professional Footballers' Association)

Elegran Thu 14-Jul-16 09:12:52

FBU - Funny Bone Unfunctioning (Fire Brigades Union0

thatbags Thu 14-Jul-16 09:22:38

elegran, indeed, and grin

Your first comment is important. It's only people who have confidence in a thing who can also laugh at it. Nothing is perfect.

Not, of course, that anyone was laughing at trades unions. The amusement was afforded by acronyms that happen to be associated with trades unions and trades unions happened into my brain because of current political happenings. I thought I made that clear in the OP but clearly not clearly enough for some.

PDGIB – Pathological Don't Get It Brigade

Hey ho smile