The former British PM thinks the obsession with a lettuce that outlasted her was ‘puerile.’
  • pbjamm@beehaw.org
    17·
    2 years ago

    “I don’t think it was particularly funny, I think it’s puerile,” Truss told Irish broadcaster RTÉ

    It can be both.

    • zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      The world’s oldest recorded joke, from 1900 BC, was a fart joke.

      It’s been 4000 years, it’s probably time to just admit that we as a species are never going to mature past this.

  • Floppy@beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years ago

    In the long list of “thing Liz Truss is wrong about”, this is one of the biggest.

  • magnetosphere @beehaw.org
    10·
    2 years ago

    “I think the level of understanding of economic ideas in the media and the ability to explain them is very poor indeed,” she added.

    That can be true, but no amount of honest “explaining” would help objectively bad economic policy seem better. I think she was looking for the word “spin”.

    • david@feddit.uk
      3·
      2 years ago
      • “Let’s go full on right wing, don’t hold back, it’ll be great for the economy!”
      • Economy crashes hard, fast.
      • “Stupid media didn’t understand how great our policy was for the long term,” (for the uber rich, in the short term) “and never gave us the chance to see it work” (transfer more, for longer, from poor to rich).
      • Millions and millions of people have their costs spiral even more out of control and have even more desperate hardship than they already had
      • “It’s so desperately unfair, they’re so mean to me for making me feel bad.”
  • 0x815@feddit.de
    9·
    2 years ago

    Many Britons say that they can’t afford lettuce is not funny. And it’s not ‘puerile.’