Light relief (pisstaking) from Labour's leadership contest

Not exactly a union but - OFSTED = Overpaid F*****s Shafting Teachers Every Day.

MU = Moaners Uncovered (Musicians Union)

See what I meant? This thread had now dried up. A victory for the heavy hand of the thou-shalt-not-laugh-this-is-serious brigade.

Explaining a joke instantly removes the fun, but if we really need to explain what shouldn't need explaining - humour releases the tensions produced by a difficult situation and provides a spot of relief.

Of course, there are always those who promote continually increasing the tension to breaking point, because they prefer it that way. The first move in brainwashing and re-education is to break down before building up the required dogma.

Long live the joke! Laughter will make us free!

RMT: Real Militant ....... . I leave the last word to your imagination. My thoughts are with those poor commuters whose lives are being made much more difficult by a particular train company.

DEFFRA - in the good old days of Gransnet

Did Everyone Find Funny Remarks Amusing?

elegran, indeed, and

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

FBU - Funny Bone Unfunctioning (Fire Brigades Union0

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

Po Faced Abstainers (PFO - Professional Footballers' Association)

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

Oh for a like button.

Always a bit of a lateral thinker is our bags

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

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 ). The thread title was quite clear. I think some people just lurve disapproving and can't stop themselves, poor things.

There isn't a GSOH union is there?

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!"

Ye Gods.

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

Good one downtoearth!

Laugh, I thought I'd never start!

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

ATL Angry Teachers Lamenting.

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

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

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