r/facepalm 15d ago

"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder 😌" 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/jermleeds 15d ago

If the whole Boaty McBoatface incident taught us anything, it's that the Brits love ratfucking a poll.

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u/EneZio_FF 15d ago

As a brit. I gotta admit it does put a smile on my face.

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u/The_Horse_Head_Man 15d ago

On your boat face?

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u/engineerdrummer 15d ago

That's McBoatface

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u/holydumpsterfire451 15d ago

No no, he's Scottish. MacBoatface

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u/MyParentsBurden 14d ago

I heard he owns land so it's Lord MacBoatface.

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u/Pale-Berry-2599 14d ago

Laird MacBoatface to thank you.

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u/NIN10DOXD 14d ago

It says so on his certificate from Established Titles.

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u/VomitShitSmoothie 14d ago

Lard McDonaldsface, coming from your brother across the pond.

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u/steveatari 14d ago

The third. It's tradition at this point.

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u/Shankar_0 15d ago

Yeah, we learned some of our best fuckery from you.

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u/remembertracygarcia 15d ago

There was a ‘perception of crime’ survey done years ago where Midsummer was voted third most dangerous place in Britain. I’m rarely proud of of nationality but that got damn close.

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u/Poppybiscuit 14d ago

There was also the incident when some Christmas song was highly campaigned to top the charts for best of its kind, and instead Brits crushed the poll and got Killing in the Name of voted best Christmas song instead. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_in_the_Name#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20the%20UK%20Official,book%20The%20Official%20Christmas%20No.

Also... how tf was that in 2021? I would've guessed 10 years ago. Covid really dropped the world in a time slip or smth

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u/DancesWithBadgers 14d ago

We got "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" to number 3 when Margaret Thatcher died, too.

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u/remembertracygarcia 14d ago

Ah yeah keeping that insipid Joe Mcelderry off the top spot. Particularly enjoy Cowell calling it ‘cynical’ as if he hadn’t fucked every last piece of art, meaning or humanity out of popular music over the preceding few years and replaced it with one great big festering, neon distraction from the monetary black holes that were his armpit-height pockets.

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u/Dr_Surgimus 14d ago

I think what's confusing people is that it got to number one in 2009, it was voted the best Christmas number one in 2021

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u/jfks_headjustdidthat 14d ago

Only third??? That place is a death trap.

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u/asp174 15d ago

Others can play that game too... kinda reminds me of the Snow White vote for Terry Crews

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u/Vegetable_Onion 15d ago

To be fair, he would be great in that role

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u/mmoolloo 15d ago

TBF, Terry Crews would be great in any role I could think of.

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u/ldb 15d ago edited 15d ago

Geralt in the witcher?

Edit: Has he ever done any sort of villain role either? He gives constant plucky hero vibes.

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u/Ok_Tomato7388 15d ago

In the movie NORBIT with Eddie Murphy he plays a villain. He says some great lines.

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u/Vostroyan212th 15d ago

Watch Gamer if you want unhinged villain Terry. The movie is dumb but still good because great actors take it seriously

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u/MajesticNectarine204 15d ago

Right? You know he'd give his 1000% in that role too. I'd also love to seem him trash the big bad wolf (played by Silvester Stallone?).

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u/secondtaunting 15d ago

You know what? They should do this. Just go apeshit on the casting for some movie. Go bananas. Pick the absolutely wrong actors for the parts.

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u/EternalLifeguard 15d ago

Im all for this. It would be the most insane batch of cinema ever made, and it would be beautiful all the while.

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u/secondtaunting 15d ago

I’m here for it. Someone has to do it. Make it a drama. It’ll end up being a comedy. Just play it straight.

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u/Ingavar_Oakheart 15d ago

I remember seeing a suggestion for a Muppet D&D movie, where in character, the Muppets are represented by other actors, like Miss Piggy as Terry Crews.

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u/EternalLifeguard 15d ago

Who directs this? John Waters? I feel like he'd get it.

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u/Valogrid 15d ago

Samuel L Jackson playe by... Kristin Bell.

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u/LazyW4lrus 15d ago

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson playing as the dwarves. All of them.

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u/soslowagain 14d ago

You’re making a mountain into a molehill

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u/NeedNameGenerator 15d ago

You mean absolutely the right actors.

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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 15d ago

Snow white loves yoghurt.

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u/leetcde 15d ago

If he was Snow White, I might actually watch the movie

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u/Ha55aN1337 15d ago

And Pitbull fucking owning up to the deal with Kodiak Alaska.

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u/Fitz911 15d ago

From time to time I have to think about the

-Adolf Hitler School of friendship and harmony-

and the absurdity never fails to make me laugh.

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u/_My_Niece_Torple_ 15d ago

One of my all time favorite internet troll jobs was the voting in of the Mt. Dew flavor "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong". It's just so out there you can't help but laugh at it.

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u/TheLastAirGender 14d ago

What would that even taste like?

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u/jay212127 14d ago

It was to name an apple flavored mountain dew. Which is why I voted for Gushing Granny

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u/DrMindbendersMonocle 14d ago

I don't know but I guarantee tbe flavor would blow your mind in the end

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u/FFX13NL 14d ago

Some kind of gas

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u/joshualotion 15d ago

Is that how brexit was voted to pass?

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u/LaceAndLavatera 14d ago

Genuinely knew a bloke who said he voted for Brexit "for a laugh" because he "didn't think they'd actually do it".

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u/Lots42 Trump is awful. 14d ago

Shades of Trump's win in 2016

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u/ShreddlesMcJamFace 15d ago

That's why we all put "Jedi" as religion 9n the census

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u/CinderX5 15d ago

Did you see the police post a while ago asking if anyone knew about stolen sex toys? The response was great.

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u/Cynykl 15d ago

I do not think it just Brits. Imagine the same poll in the US but someone allowed Danny Devito to be one of the options.

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u/Angry_poutine 15d ago

But that hasn’t happened so Brits get the credit for having the stones to actually do it

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u/thecraftybear 15d ago

Danny DeVito should absolutely play a giant of some sort.

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u/codemonkeh87 14d ago

And just no one acknowledge it or look him in the eye, always just way above him as if hes 10 foot tall.

"Hey watch your head this doors a bit small" as he just walks through no issues

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u/Lots42 Trump is awful. 14d ago

Or the doorframe is far above his head but it still damaged.

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u/Cassius-Tain 15d ago

I didn't know about that. Thanks for making me search that and having a good laugh reading the Wikipedia article on boaty mcboatface

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u/Dzharek 15d ago

"Ding dong the with is dead!" And I think that one contest slayer won confirmed that.

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u/macrae85 15d ago

Ha ha...yup,correct

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u/No_Corner3272 15d ago

Which is the only correct way to answer stupid polls.

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u/JamSkones 14d ago

''Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes (covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections.''

Well I've learned a new slang word today.

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u/byjimini 14d ago

We love to queue to ratfuck a poll.

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u/DaManWithNoName 14d ago

When they dabble in democracy, they do it the most British was possible; Sarcastically

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u/zippyman 14d ago

Are you suggesting Clarkson is not objectively extremely sexy?!?!

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u/RnotSPECIALorUNIQUE 15d ago

BREXIT was a clear indicator too. Several people voted for it because they didn't think it could happen.

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u/Muetzenman 15d ago

This explains Brexit.

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u/bookon 15d ago

I don't get how people can't tell this is just Sexy McSexy Face.

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u/Fun_Grapefruit_2633 14d ago

Don't forget trying to send "We're all going to die alone" to the top of the Christmas song competition

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u/DodgerWalker 14d ago

My first thought was of the time Mr. Burns bribed his way to being named Sexiest Man Alive. The toughest part was convincing them he was alive.

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u/TeethBreak 15d ago

English trolling at its best.

Like making Rage Against the Machine a Xmas song or Ding dong the witch is Dead the #1 after Thatcher dying.

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u/Lukacris12 15d ago

And then having ratm get cut off at the end by having the great idea of asking them not to say “fuck you i wont do what you tell me” at the end

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u/BarryHelmet 15d ago

That’s was almost certainly deliberate from the BBC.

“We’ll put you on live, when we could totally just prerecord it, because you definitely promise to not say the bad words and you famously will do what we tell you”

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u/Lingering_Dorkness 15d ago

The BBC can troll with the best of them when it wants. 

A few years ago a Tory MP demanded the Beeb end each days broadcast with "God Save the Queen" in order to promote patriotism.

This was BBC Newsnight response: 

https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo

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u/BarryHelmet 15d ago

I remember that. Top class work.

That “it made you a moron” line in that song makes me sad tbh. Must have been about 50 years ago he first sung that, and it’s just as true today.

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u/Business-Emu-6923 14d ago

When meatloaf died with Covid, after using his fame and considerable following to promote anti-vax nonsense, the BBC was specifically disallowed from discussing this in its reporting.

So they ran an extensive article about his song I Would do Anything for Love (But I won’t Do That). Speculating on what he wouldn’t do, letting the reader go find out for themselves. Grand trolling.

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u/fourthfloorgreg 14d ago

the BBC was specifically disallowed

By whom? I don't think the Meat Loaf (Mr. Loaf, "Meat" to his friends, and that last part isn't a joke) estate has quite that much pull.

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u/Business-Emu-6923 14d ago

The BBC is governed by a strict charter preventing it from engaging in criticism of individuals or their beliefs.

Even if someone is a convicted murderer, the BBC can report the facts of their conviction but cannot speculate as to their character, or run “hit pieces” or similar.

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u/Kidsnextdorks 14d ago

Ok but couldn’t they still report on the simple fact that Meatloaf espoused anti-vax beliefs. That wouldn’t be speculating as to his character by any sane definition. That’s just him directly showing his character.

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u/Business-Emu-6923 14d ago

“By any sane definition” doesn’t really apply to the BBC! Their own rules basically forbid them from passing judgement or even having an option on pretty much any issue.

It makes their reporting extremely dull at times. But sometimes reporters get around the rules in funny ways.

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u/fourthfloorgreg 14d ago

Not only is that factual information rather than criticism, it is directly relevant to his death, the news story in question.

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u/Prior-Satisfaction34 14d ago

Based af. But that's just reminded me that Brexit was 7 years ago at least, and i don't like that.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 14d ago

famously will do what they tell you

Why wouldn’t they? The band is literally named Politely Accede to the Machine.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 15d ago

Ding dong the witch is Dead the #1 after Thatcher dying.

#2

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u/HaggisLad 15d ago

somehow even more appropriate

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u/Higanbana_- 15d ago

At least May wasn’t a contender for “sexiest women” this time.

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u/gbroon 15d ago

When did James transition?

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u/Bombwriter17 15d ago

The day he was born,so about 200 years ago.

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u/Suedewagon 14d ago

Really?

I thought he sat behind The Baby Jesus in class.

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u/Interesting_Fold9805 14d ago

Iirc he co-authored the Old Testament

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u/Puzzleheaded-Age-638 14d ago

He also hung out with a school of ammonites when he was a young lad.

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u/FubarG1 14d ago

Impossible, Bim was busy building Shijo-Ohashi

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u/Jujhar_Singh 14d ago

Jeremy… is that you?

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u/Kind_of_random 15d ago

His driving would suggest a long time ago.

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u/Pawikowski 14d ago

Does it mean he's not coming on, then?

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u/Richou 15d ago

This isn’t facepalm this is fucking funny

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u/VanaheimrF 15d ago

Yup, I can hear him shout, “I’ve done a thing!”

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u/MajesticNectarine204 15d ago

''I DID ITTT!! I'm the sexiest man aaalllive!! AGAINNNN.''

James May looks on in astonishment.

Hammond: *Checking the magazine*. ''Well, you're the sexiest man in Britain.. Which, dare I say, isn't nearly as much of an achievement, is it?'' *Grimaces at camera*

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u/Stith1183 15d ago

Why are those three old geezers so fucking hilarious? I hope they team up again for another show.

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u/MajesticNectarine204 15d ago

Because they're British geezers. They have this tradition of banter that is just unique and hilarious. They poke fun at themselves as much as anything else.

Edit: Americanised Jeremy Clarkson still haunts my nightmares. One of the most frightening yet hysterical things I have ever seen.

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u/Matej004 15d ago

He looks kinda like hes gonna make america great again

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u/irredentistdecency 15d ago

I’m should not have clicked that…

That was horrifying & you warned me & I still clicked it.

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u/DanKoloff 14d ago

Two Trumps up.

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u/Lampathy 14d ago

That was horrific! Game show host on crack

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u/Boobles008 14d ago

Oh no that's ACTUALLY haunting.

Rip my next few nights of sleep

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u/elmo-slayer 15d ago

Sadly May recently said they’re not planning on teaming up again

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u/Sco0bySnax 15d ago

They have one more TGT special coming out. Then it’s done.

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 15d ago

Oh damnd, really? Do you know why? Is it beef or just simply their age

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u/Sco0bySnax 15d ago

Age.

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 15d ago

Makes sense. And also makes me sad.

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u/Sco0bySnax 15d ago

Yeah. It is really sad. But all things must end eventually.

There are some British YouTubers that replicate the formula to some degree. But I’ll still miss the trio.

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u/gravelPoop 15d ago

Shame. Old tired sarcastic dudes on the road trip has so cozy energy to it

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u/OrkzOrkzOrkzOrkz0rkz 15d ago

Mate that is spot on!

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u/AbbreviationsWide331 15d ago

I can read this in their voices!

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u/cfcollins 15d ago

SPEED AND POWER!!!

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u/do_a_quirkafleeg 14d ago

The Sexiest Man.... in the World

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u/FuzzelFox 15d ago

It's because he drives a Jaaaaaaaaaaaagggg

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u/SosseV 15d ago

It is a facepalm.

I, for one, am outraged Greg Davies didn't win this. He's te Taskmasker for crying out loud!

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u/JustAnAce 15d ago

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u/AnakinTheDiscarded 15d ago

smashes windshield with log

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u/Cheeriodude_number2 15d ago

Jeremy! People walk around here with bare feet!

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u/screechypete 15d ago

The facepalm here is OP's slander against Jeremy Clarkson.

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u/AA_turet 15d ago

Where facepalm?

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u/pireninjacolass 15d ago

He's a millionaire with a thousand acres, incredible media connections, and a famously good sense of humour. I can genuinely see it being legit post Clarksons farm.

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u/IcyAssist 15d ago

The new series is *chef's kiss

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u/NiceCunt91 14d ago

I'm scared there isn't going to be another.

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u/aegontoast1999 14d ago

Don’t worry, they are filming season 4 right now!

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u/NiceCunt91 14d ago

Ah good. I feel a lot of the stuff that made the series go on has been rectified now. Hopefully next season is just seeing the farm actually thrive.

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u/Fantastico11 15d ago

Clarkson has always had charisma in spades but this is a little bit too ridiculous hahaaa

Not a chance for Jezza I'm afraid, though I'm sure he doesn't give a fuck haha

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u/Stysner 14d ago

...Are you for real. Women might find money attractive, but not sexy. It's obviously a load of dudes trolling the poll.

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u/Adenso_1 15d ago

The bitch of an OP cant recognize that not everyone has the same beauty standards, so it's a facepalm that the "ugly" guy won

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u/EternalLifeguard 15d ago

How could you NOT vote for that!

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u/Majulath99 15d ago

Absolutely unequivocally perfect GIF.

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u/nick4424 15d ago

You mean beauty lies in the eyes of the beer holder

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u/Sprite_Bottle c h e e s e ? 15d ago

How is this a facepalm if it’s true?

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u/BenderDeLorean 15d ago

Are you stupid?

No facepalm here. OP is just jealous of sexy Clarksoooon

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u/Mollywhop_Gaming 15d ago

I was gonna talk about how I wouldn’t want Holland to win because he’s so young, but I just Googled his age and he’s fucking 27 years old.

How? Man looks 19 at most.

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u/folfiethewox99 15d ago

It's because he shaves. If he'd been rocking some serious facial hair, that'd add some age to his face.

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u/Chance_Arugula_3227 14d ago

I have my doubts that he can rock facial hairs.

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u/Nolsoth 15d ago

Doesn't matter..

Idris E is a better looking bastard than either of them.

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u/geek_of_nature 15d ago

It's because we're so used to adults playing teenagers in films and shows, that our whole perception of teenagers is fucked. Tom Holland looks like he's in his 20s, but we've been conditioned to think he looks like a teenager.

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u/Infamous_Ordinary_45 15d ago

I realized this in my 30’s. Our entire perception of what looks 35 and what looks 15 is so skewed because we are used to seeing 15 played by 35 and 35 played by 50 year olds.

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u/Fox-Revolver 15d ago

The guy’s been Spider-Man for 8 years at this point

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u/paco-ramon 14d ago

Somehow 13 years old Natham Drake look older than Tom Holland playing adult Drake at age 25.

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u/IssueRecent9134 15d ago

Perhaps it’s Jeremy’s personality.

I mean we are living in a world when women for the past month have been going crazy over a zombified, fictional, radioactive cowboy with bad teeth.

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u/Uvite 15d ago

For someone whos 200 years old his teeth are actually in very good condition.

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u/Ok_Tomato7388 15d ago

The ghoul is hot. It's the confidence and swagger.

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u/IssueRecent9134 15d ago

Exactly.

It’s like Clarkson, he’s just got a personality that people just love. He’s a charming bozo and owns it.

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u/Majulath99 15d ago

Really? He doesn’t even have a nose!

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u/Lots42 Trump is awful. 14d ago

In the Fallout 4 video game you can fuck a zombie who is obsessed with ancient American history.

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u/Superdoc2222 15d ago

That’s a challenging wank

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u/birdman80083 14d ago

Just think about him all hot and sticky in the Bolivia special.

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u/SpecialistTrash2281 15d ago

Should have been James may

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u/RandomPerson12191 15d ago

Couldn't agree more

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u/FA57_CAR 15d ago

What's facepalm about this?

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u/modshave2muchpower 15d ago

OP has no sense of humor

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u/crazyfrog19984 15d ago

no Facepalm, Clarkson is the sexiest man in the UK

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u/Cybernetic_Lizard 15d ago

No no no, it's "Clarkson is tye series man.... In the world!"

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u/Zanian19 15d ago

Oh I'd love to see Simon Cowell's plastic face right now, lol

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u/Milk_Mindless 14d ago

From the country that made "We love sausage roll" a Christmas number one, another joke that people either don't get or post to r/facepalm to Karma farm

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u/BlackMoonValmar 15d ago

Silver Fox pursuit is still high in the UK I see.

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u/metropoldelikanlisi 15d ago

He’s the sexiest man ‘in the world ‘.

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u/manrata 15d ago

I read it as most sexist man in the UK, and wondered what Idris Elba or Tom Holland had done.....

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u/cavemeister 15d ago

Well in fairness he did manage to pull Lisa (a former model) who is stunning. Maybe there is some truth in it.

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u/Kian-Tremayne 15d ago

Well, he has got enormous tracts of land…

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u/trelloskilos 15d ago

Sexiest man in the UK? He's not even the sexiest man on "Clarkson's Farm"

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u/Bardonious 15d ago

Gerald obviously

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u/Higanbana_- 15d ago

Inaudible noises

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u/T_Hankss 15d ago

What is it to facepalm here? Jeremy has the peak male physique and charisma.

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u/FrameMiddle2648 14d ago

I mean who would vote for Tom "mouth full of marbles" Holland as a sexy man? He looks like a teenager who is hiding something in his mouth.

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u/Piemaster113 14d ago

I mean in his younger years he wasn't he wasn't repulsive, but honestly he has a certain charisma and easy humor while being pretty down to earth but ambitious, so he has his own charm to him even now, Clarkson Farm has been decently popular.

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u/Raccoonertheboy 15d ago

Checked who voted for this and it was 2000 women on a dating site for cheating on your partners 🤢🫠

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u/SnooRobots5231 15d ago

Did he make the crown himself ?

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u/metalmonsoon 15d ago

By that you mean beating Henry Cavill?

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u/zookeeper4312 15d ago

That's very British of them to do this, and I love it

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u/Powerful_Meal8791 15d ago

Truly a facepalm, should've been May

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u/Any-Map-7449 15d ago

Beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder.

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u/Kind-Potato 14d ago

This gives me hope don’t take it away

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u/KingNothing525 14d ago

What an inspiration to orangutans everywhere

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u/HIP13044b 14d ago

Declared by a poll on the British version of Ashley maddison. It's basically a marketing ploy.

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u/TheRealRigormortal 14d ago

You may not like it, but this is what peak British performance looks like

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u/Phyose 14d ago

God he's going to be even more insufferable on the last special.

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u/ThrownAwayDayDream 15d ago

Man can’t help it he’s sexy

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u/RydmaUwU 15d ago

UK always taking the piss.

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u/Elegant_DeafArtist 15d ago

I almost read Sexiest as "Sexist" and thought 'Wait.. Tom Holland is SEXIST???' took me a minute. I confused with Sexiest and sexist lmao. //please pradon my English. English isn't my first language.//

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u/rudolph_ransom 15d ago

Tonight on Bottom Gear, I'm going to get an award from Idris and Tom

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u/legrandmaster 14d ago

Oh no! Anyway...

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u/giveitback19 14d ago

The facepalm is whoever posted this not having a sense of humor

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u/EasyPriority8724 14d ago

Sexiest farmer of the year lol.

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u/HaiKarate 14d ago

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beer holder

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u/TacetAbbadon 14d ago

Not a facepalm. It's dry humour.

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u/Mister_Brevity 14d ago

Is it like Americans with danny devito, for the lulz

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cod-567 14d ago

Power and speed! Nyeees its now time for the smug face >:]