Poll: Which country currently is the biggest laughing stock?

[Twilight Hue]

For "laughingstock," it is hard to compare with US politics.

"It's all a bloody circus, and the clowns are in control," - Kris Kristofferson.

Good ole' Kris.

Tells it like it is.

 

[Watchmen]

My first reaction was to vote Russia, but upon meaningful consideration it becomes clear that what’s happening in and/or because of Russia is no laughing matter. So, even in a joking way, I cannot label Russia a laughing stock.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm betting you're not thinking of Purcell. Gotta love Dido and Aeneas.

As I was referencing contemporary music and how the Brits co-invented it, no I wasn't.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I feel Russia right now because it totally failed to steamroll a much smaller nation.
I'm personally laughing at England because they (and black people) invented modern music, gave us Sabbath and Judas Priest and Zepplin and the Stones and the Clash and Sex Pistols but they can't win Eurovision.

Well we have done in the past, and without the Ukraine war we might have won this time - came second after all.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Perhaps I shouldn't have used the term 'laughing stock' in the title, given that none of us would see any humour as to what is going on in the Ukraine, or perhaps in many of the countries which we might have chosen, but given that Russia is currently leader, I suspect that many haven't taken the title literally but just see the said nations(s) as sticking out like a sore thumb as to inappropriateness.

 

[Secret Chief]

England should want to reclaim their musical glory.

Simon Cowell has it sorted.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Well we have done in the past, and without the Ukraine war we might have won this time - came second after all.

Is your English pride going to settle for being first loser?

 

[sayak83]

Given that so many countries that have much less impact on world affairs might be so.

Some info that might or might not be relevant:

Top 10 Most Hated Countries in the World | TopTeny.com
Ranked: most corrupt countries in the world

Three choices available - as feeling generous.

PS Perhaps give reasons as to why, and of course add any that you think should be here. Also, this is of course more about any regimes in charge rather than the inhabitants in general.

Mine were Russia, North Korea, and Afghanistan, and all three mostly displaying the arrogance in some sort of belief, and where such tends to cut them off from most other nations of the world.

Countries no. The nation and its people are usually victims of bad leadership.
Putin and the Russian millitary is facing disgrace. So them I guess.

 

[Heyo]

Is your English pride going to settle for being first loser?

I'm proud my country (Germany) didn't take away any points from the winning Ukraine. That is true solidarity.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Is your English pride going to settle for being first loser?

Never have been interested in the contest anyway.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm proud my country (Germany) didn't take away any points from the winning Ukraine. That is true solidarity.

Your country is still too scared to take anything from another country.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Never have been interested in the contest anyway.

England gave us Ozzy and Sharon who gave us Ozzfest. It's only not interesting because with that, the British Invasion and heavy metal and punk rock you don't need to win and you're probably not allowed to win because you've won enough.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I also find myself laughing at Germans now and then because their language is super blunt and literal. And I laughed when I learned they have legal beer standards, because damn that's how you know they take their beer seriously.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Oh, you've not owned British motorcycles or cars.
Lucas Electric is known as the Prince Of Darkness.
Know why Limeys drink warm beer? Lucas makes the fridges.
Lucas invented the 3 position switch....on, off, & flicker.

And about British teeth, again....

I don't know if Lucas made the electric components of my ancient Jaguar XJ6, but it certainly had some idiosyncracies. These included ceramic fuses which didn't quite fit in their brackets. Sometimes flicking the indicators could result in changing the radio station.

It was a beautiful car though, in every way, including the way the battery shelf kept filling up with water when it rained, causing my feet to get a soaking when reversing out of the drive after a rainy night.

 

[Revoltingest]

I don't know if Lucas made the electric components of my ancient Jaguar XJ6, but it certainly had some idiosyncracies. These included ceramic fuses which didn't quite fit in their brackets. Sometimes flicking the indicators could result in changing the radio station.

It was a beautiful car though, in every way, including the way the battery shelf kept filling up with water when it rained, causing my feet to get a soaking when reversing out of the drive after a rainy night.

I've owned & ridden some British bikes.
They had their weirdness.

 

[Mock Turtle]

England gave us Ozzy and Sharon who gave us Ozzfest. It's only not interesting because with that, the British Invasion and heavy metal and punk rock you don't need to win and you're probably not allowed to win because you've won enough.

But mostly because the Eurovision Song Contest enables lots to shine in their favoured languages and/or culture and which might be less meaningful to so many others - including the Brits. Now, if they all sung in English ...

 

[RestlessSoul]

I've owned & ridden some British bikes.
They had their weirdness.

Replacement parts could generally be cobbled together using a can opener and an old baked bean tin though, I bet. And jeans legs covered in oil was considered a good look in the 1970s, when I were a lad.

 

[RestlessSoul]

Is your English pride going to settle for being first loser?

First loser is every Englishman and woman’s true ambition

 

[Revoltingest]

Replacement parts could generally be cobbled together using a can opener and an old baked bean tin though, I bet. And jeans legs covered in oil was considered a good look in the 1970s, when I were a lad.

With British bikes, if there's oil dripping from
the crankcase, you know you still have oil.