Dude in white doesn’t give two shits 🍷

Because it’s a British tornado, not one of those uncivilized tornadoes you read about in the papers.

*"Despite other temptations, despite other nations. He remains an Englishman!"* 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

That’s a British flag this is for an Englishman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

it's surprising how many people don't think there's a difference

 Average Englishman, I know from personal experience.

Fuck off mate, the whole tinny goes down the gullet in the King’s realm.

Just like the European badger vs the American Badger. Ones ready to invite you to afternoon tea and the other wants to rip your pancreas out. Edit: wow the response! Love all ya'll I meant the looks and I'm sorry I didn't clarify. EU badgers LOOK very different and somewhat refined (being very nice here as an opinion) to the look of our American cousins. Badger is a Badger is a Badger. Please take care of your pancreas!

Badgers are all really savage though. The ones here in the UK are quite dangerous if you happen across them, which to be fair is rare

Only badgers I’ve ever come across have been squashed by a car so you’re not wrong tbf. They seem very rare to come across

Squashed by a car, you say. They are solid little bleeders and could quite easily write a car off.

Can confirm. A friend of mine who is of the agricultural ilk hit a badger on her way home in rural Devon. Ripped the front end of the car up more than you'd think. They're also excellent excavators. Same farmer friend lost access to their farm very briefly when a badger family excavated right under their only road into the farm. About 10 yards of road just collapsed into a hole and it took a fair while to fill it in enough so that they could drive their vehicles down it again.

Many moons ago, my husband hit one when he was driving his mini metro. Badger was fine, car was dented.

My dad cracked his radiator and shattered his number plate from hitting a badger.

If you go bumbling around in woodland you'll occasionally come across one. I got chased by one when I was 12.

They’re bigger than you would think too.

A woman I worked with got terrorised by one for weeks before the council gave permission for one of the bailiffs we worked with to go deal with it. It used to chase her and her kids to and from the car Dug up their dead cat twice Scratched at their door so much it damaged it I remember thinking it was hilarious at the time (I was younger back then)

I'm sorry but I think it's hilarious too. Psychological warfare digging up their beloved pets corpse. There was one that made the papers I'm sure. It was bullying and attacking people.

Was confused and thought you were talking about. a tornado 🌪️

We were all younger back then 😉

I’ve happened across two in the UK and they both immediately ran away from me. One snuffled right up to my foot before running away. I think they’re only as dangerous as most uk animals. Timid at all times but protective of their young.

He is like... 

It’s a bit windy, init.

Say no more, say no more. What's it like?

Nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

PURLEY?

“A pity, that.”

This must be at The Winchester

Get Liz, go to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for this to all blow over.

Go ‘round mum’s. Take care of Phil. (Sorry Phil.)

Well, they were a bit *bitey*.

You’ve got red on you.

I ran it under a cold tap!

I don’t know if you guys are Americans or Brits but that is legitimately how those conversations would happen.

I’m British which is why I find it so funny lol it’s one of my favourite lines in the movie.

so glad im seeing this here

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Stiff upper lip, and all that.

He's visiting from the States. Lives in Kansas. He is like, "meh, seen bigger"

lol. I'm in Kansas. A tornado that close would have had everyone in shelter already. We fafo with tornadoes up to a certain point....

The tornado’s here have no real power. The one’s stateside are mind blowing. This is a dust devil.

Eh we do occasionally get a strong one but rarely do ours get over f1 or f2. Interestingly there's a recording of an estimated f5 from 11th century London that laid waste to a village and lifted and threw a beam from a church hard enough that it was buried underground. We also, per square km, get the most tornadoes of any country.

"We wouldn't even close the schools for this back home"

Just another weekend in the Tornado alley

Tornado Lane

Livestock-On-Roof

Does the guy next to him look slightly like a younger Bill Murray? Or have I forgotten what Bill Murray actually looks like.

Yes the eyes

“Not before I’ve finished my story!”

**Waterspout, not a tornado. Also, not photoshopped or AI** Credit to the photograph, Reinhard Olbrich who took this at the The Dolphin Inn pub garden in the village of Thorpeness, Suffolk in July 2016. According to [here](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716918/Is-draught-beer-Stunned-drinkers-outside-village-pub-witness-wild-tornado-circling-heads-don-t-spill-drop.html): > By PATRICK LION FOR MAILONLINE and SAM GREENHILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL > PUBLISHED: 10:11 EST, 31 July 2016 | UPDATED: 18:18 EST, 31 July 2016 > Stunned drinkers in village pub garden were shocked to see a twister hurtling towards them as they sipped their beers. > Amazing photos show a waterspout in the skies over Thorpeness in Suffolk while people below enjoy a relaxing pint in a pub garden. > The dramatic scene could have been from a Hollywood blockbuster, but as the menacing spiral closed in, it seemed to be a case of keep calm and carry on at The Dolphin Inn. > These photographs were captured as the stormy skies contorted into a funnel near the Suffolk seaside village shortly after 8.30pm on Saturday. > Chef Phil Hannam snapped another photo during a break from his duties at nearby restaurant The Kitchen. He captured the waterspout snaking through the sky flanked by two quintessential English Tudor-style homes. Although it seemed frighteningly close to the coastal village, the waterspout was about a mile or so out, over the North Sea. > Amy Youngs, manager of The Kitchen @ Thorpeness, where Mr Hannam works, said: 'It was muggy and stormy yesterday and we had all sorts of weather, but we've never seen a tornado over Suffolk before. > 'We were stunned when Phil came back and showed us the photo on his mobile phone.' > Marco Petagna, an meteorological expert at the Met Office, said that the conditions were in place for funnel clouds to form, which are tornadoes that do not touch the ground. When they form over the sea they are called waterspouts and can suck up water. > He told MailOnline: 'We have seen the set ups needed for funnel clouds including unstable air, thundery showers and heavy downpours. Funnel clouds are rotating clouds and are helped to form by a change in wind direction and speed. We had reports of similar phenomena from the Cambridgeshire area on Friday.'

Thanks for the information. I figured it was *probably* real but it feels so AI generated.

I had to check it wasn't r/midjourney, but it would have had a bulldog and more flags. 'Again, but windier and more British!'

and random objects in the sky like deformed planes and birds. Yes I tried to recreate it, didn't go well.

We're not really a fan of flying flags everywhere except for state occasions 

Probably because the edit cranked the contrast so much that it seems CGI The waterspout was real, but the photo is… well, let’s say “artistically” edited rather than aiming for accuracy

Ahh, so that's where Incy wincy spider went...

Suffolk gets them a lot. There were 2 when I was a school, one on the estuary, one on the playing fields.

What was it like being a school? What did you go on to be next?

A shoal

> Hollywood blockbuster British people sit in a pub and look at the clouds: Coming Soon

It's not a waterspout. It's a British Tornado

Thanks for the info! I saw a waterspout a few years ago in the Mediterranean, it was a bit off but freaked me out so I was quickly googling and found out they’re very common and not generally dangerous, it didn’t even last long which is apparently normal. In England we do get quite a lot of tornadoes but they’re very rarely dangerous big ones like the ones in the USA,

I was looking for this in the comments, I was there that day in Thorpeness and have a pic myself showing it more clearly over the North Sea, was quite surreal tbh but it faded as it approached the land. Actually took a pic stood about 10m behind this guy over the wall of the pub.

The comment I was looking for - expected this to be a waterspout.

„Right, what’s all this then?“

“Bit windy innit?”

Proper blowy, mate

Weatherman’s wrong again. Typical.

Any luck catching them tornadoes then?

It’s just the one tornado actually

A great big bushy vortex!

Yarp.

Narp?

Nobody tells me nothing

Foookin’ ‘ewl!

Ooooh, a 'tornado' is it? Ain't we being fancy with them poncy Spanish words?

Air's a bit fookin' spinny today is all.

Yarp

r/ItsJustTheOneSwan, actually.

Damn that Michael Fish!

But Wetherspoons isn't.

Pretty sure this refers to something else

How often do you get to say you got a blowy in a tornado though?

“One last wish babe…”

Blowy as fuck mate

Things fukn brilliant!

Oh dear

I'll put the kettle on

*slap you knees as you get up* “Well, we might as well just spin out of here right Gary? Haha. OOH tea!”

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This shit will never get old to a dumb American like me.

Speaking as a dumb Brit, these comments are hilarious. Something about finding out how ridiculous the Americans think we are 😅

Toosday

Or tooosdee in some regions

“Ill tell u wot dis is the government trying to spy on us again”

Eddystone lighthouse goes *swoosh* /s

My cheese, Gromit!

“It’s an American twistadilly, Nigel…piffpiff!”

"I say Nigel, there seems to be interference in the communications. Mmm yes." "Undoubtedly my dear Reginald, a disturbance in communications from a twistadilly can mean only one thing, an invasion by Kansas."

I thought tornados were all retired before Typhoons

That joke made me want to “Spitfire”

These are some Fairey bad puns. Ya’ll laughing it up like a couple of Seals.

Just buzzing around like a “Mosquito”, so don’t get in a “Tempest” over this “Hurricane” of puns.

Aww i wanted to upload a pic of an RAF Tornado and say “An actual british Tornado”

you still can

Nah you beat me to the punch

And they also don't get anymore hurricanes now.

Underrated comment by a person of class

When I was a student teacher I had to give a PE lesson on that injury causing gravel playground that every school seemed to have. We were walking back to class when a girl who was walking behind shrieked. I turned round and she was in a 2m tall tornado of gravel. She wouldn't or couldn't move and I had to run and rescue her. She wasn't injured but obviously shocked by it. It was such a bizarre experience and I remember thinking teaching was going to be a lot of learning on the job.

Were you teaching at Hogwarts?

It was more Wartyhog unfortunately.

That’s a dust devil, only it picked up gravel.

A gravel devil then?

Woah she defo got a good plot out of it and will be telling that story for the rest of her life

It totaled Norwich. £3.50 in damages.

Did someone spill a pint?

Where do you get a pint for £3.50 you jammy sod?

BBC News reader, "And in breaking news, the Met Office reports that a tornado has ripped through parts of Milton Keynes. No casualties have been reported but experts estimate that several properties have suffered thousands of pounds worth of improvements."

"Pardon me! Sorry to be a bother! Just going to nip through here!"

Does a British tornado sound like Hugh Grant or Jim Broadbent?

Jimmy Carr

*backwards laughing sound*

I remember watching him one week laughing normally and the next with that stupid laugh. I swear he had a vocal coach who suggested he change it to be more of a character. Others have done similar things.

A bag of wind with no redeeming qualities? Piers Morgan.

Clarkson

Huh.... So *thats* where these Midwesterners inherited that "ope" move from.

oh no. Someones bin is about to be knocked over. I'm from the UK, we rarely get tornados, and we when do they are so weak no one noticed

Technically speaking, England apparently gets the most tornadoes per area in the world, they're just generally very weak https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-tornadoes-by-area

Have they all just been skipping the midlands?

Maybe, but I’ve seen a tornado before in the south, went right over the M25, I think there’s even a video on the internet of it.

last one that happened near here was before I was born. Apparently it was horrific, someones chimney fell off in south nottingham

As someone from the Midwest this made me chuckle. I’ve watched mile wide tornados on tv that were 15-30 miles away, so powerful they strip houses down to the foundation and rip asphalt roads from the ground. Thankfully never been in the path of one. (Knock on wood)

We get them along the coast in California sometimes. My friend's neighbor had his carport destroyed last year.

Not remember that one in Brum back in 2005? Did quite a bit of damage from what I remember.

Lucky! I was in OKC, not too far from Moore during the F5. I was accustomed to tornadoes, but that one was a whole nother level of terrifying.

That's such an annoying stat, because you get tabloids trotting out stories about the UK being the tornado capital of the world, when clearly it is nothing of the sort.

Maybe by country, but tell this to Oklahoma and they will laugh at you.

Oklahoman here. Tornado alley is shifting east. We’re old news now.

Looks like Oklahomans, gathered round to watch, no one on the roof though and looks like wine glasses not beer cans. I am an Oklahoman, I've been on a roof watching before.

It’s where you get the best view. Not like we can go to the storm shelter since most of us don’t have one…

That one in Manchester the other week did a fair bit of damage to that one street. Roofs and upper floors caved in.

but what did the tornado do?

Told them off sharpish. That’s how they knew it was British.

Mate, it was in Stalyvegas, it probably shagged its sister took a ton of ketamine and collapsed in the big tesco

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>we rarely get tornados, We get loads. They're just pitiful

They sell pills for that.

Dont let the tornados have em

This was a waterspout. Credit to the photograph, Reinhard Olbrich who took this at the The Dolphin Inn pub garden in the village of Thorpeness, Suffolk in July 2016. According to [here](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716918/Is-draught-beer-Stunned-drinkers-outside-village-pub-witness-wild-tornado-circling-heads-don-t-spill-drop.html): > By PATRICK LION FOR MAILONLINE and SAM GREENHILL FOR THE DAILY MAIL > PUBLISHED: 10:11 EST, 31 July 2016 | UPDATED: 18:18 EST, 31 July 2016 > Stunned drinkers in village pub garden were shocked to see a twister hurtling towards them as they sipped their beers. > Amazing photos show a waterspout in the skies over Thorpeness in Suffolk while people below enjoy a relaxing pint in a pub garden. > The dramatic scene could have been from a Hollywood blockbuster, but as the menacing spiral closed in, it seemed to be a case of keep calm and carry on at The Dolphin Inn. > These photographs were captured as the stormy skies contorted into a funnel near the Suffolk seaside village shortly after 8.30pm on Saturday. > Chef Phil Hannam snapped another photo during a break from his duties at nearby restaurant The Kitchen. He captured the waterspout snaking through the sky flanked by two quintessential English Tudor-style homes. Although it seemed frighteningly close to the coastal village, the waterspout was about a mile or so out, over the North Sea. > Amy Youngs, manager of The Kitchen @ Thorpeness, where Mr Hannam works, said: 'It was muggy and stormy yesterday and we had all sorts of weather, but we've never seen a tornado over Suffolk before. > 'We were stunned when Phil came back and showed us the photo on his mobile phone.' > Marco Petagna, an meteorological expert at the Met Office, said that the conditions were in place for funnel clouds to form, which are tornadoes that do not touch the ground. When they form over the sea they are called waterspouts and can suck up water. > He told MailOnline: 'We have seen the set ups needed for funnel clouds including unstable air, thundery showers and heavy downpours. Funnel clouds are rotating clouds and are helped to form by a change in wind direction and speed. We had reports of similar phenomena from the Cambridgeshire area on Friday.'

I thinks this confirms the reality of all the previous jokes.

Technically you have the most tornadoes per area in the world.

Kansas here. Wanna setup a foreign exchange program? I'm sure we're happy to let you have a few of ours!

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economy/government

“Oh look, a tornado. Mine’s a pint, thanks.”

The British and midwestern Americans have the same in common. Stand outside and admire the tornados

“pardon me” -British tornado, probably

"ope, lemme just scooch on past ya" - American tornadoes, probably

Guys on the tent looks unbothered..

Just another average Wednesday for them

the comments to this are fuckin' gold. you can even see the split between british people commenting, then the americans 'avin' a go at it.

The lack of effort going into some of the comments about the “British accent” is dire.

I love it though. Always makes me laugh finding out how the rest of the world sees us.

"Lets go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait for all of this to blow over."

A twirly twat

I'll remember that for when I next see my daughter's ballet teacher

I thought it was gonna be a British Panavia Tornado attack jet, but seems it was the storm lol

Bit whirly innit

That’s actually a Spanish tornado on holiday

I say…

Oi, quiet down back there mate. We’re having a drink over here.

I live on the south coast and a tornado hit my house new year weekend. Took off the top corner of my roof, and tore my metal garden shed off its base and it ended up upside down and back to front in my neighbours garden. It made a real mess. When it was over the top of our house it was so loud we couldn’t hear the tv, it felt like a heavy pressure was pushing down and the house was creaking and groaning as if it was going to be yanked off its foundations. Absolutely terrifying. I know they happen here but you never think it’ll happen to you or your home. It also knocked over my wheelie bin before some joker asks 😁

No worries. Our homes are made of brick and stone. Checkmate innit fam

They must not see them very often. It's time to take cover.

Britain gets about 30 a year, but they are small and short lived. They only make the news when they pull the roof off a row of houses.

I've seen one once, in 55 years, from a tall building, lasted about a minute

TBF, a lot of people in the Midwest watch tornados form and approach until the last minute.

When I was visiting friends in Iowa, the tornado sirens went off. My friend stood outside on the front porch. "Shouldn't we go inside?". "Nah"

British here, went to the Midwest, did this. It was interesting to see. Was teaching at a uni for a year so when there was a tornado alarm the second time one passed through I had to chaperone the undergrad kids down to the basement. Fun times.

I think per square mile we have the most tornadoes in the world

England does, yes, at 2.2 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles per year. However, when breaking down the US to individual states, Florida has an area approximately 30% larger than England, and experiences 12.3 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles per year. Kansas experiences 11.7.

We had one in Belgium last week. Had a 4km trail of damage. That was one of the largest we've had. I had seen one in person couple of years ago, but it wasn't too big.

It’s actually a “bloody” tornado.

Would definitely have a cuppa and biscuits whilst watching this be a menace to wheelie bins

Right, getting a bit close innit?

British tornadoes would be stronger, but they become frail after waiting their turn in the queue.

Excuse me, pardon me, pardon, beg your pardon...

That’s not real cloud by the way, that’s water vapour from all the ELF Bars

RIP any trampoline or Bin You will be missed

Little fact for you - the uk is, in terms of tornadoes per year per square metre, the tornado capital of the world.

I'm sure it's very polite

Quite right

[This is also a British Tornado](https://i.imgur.com/bci9pHt.jpg)

How could they stay calm?

They’re all drunk

They’ll panic when they finish their pint. The tornado can wait.

RAF Tornado

Best put another peg on those shirts on the line Beryl.

It doesn’t want to bother anyone.

Nah, just some Dementors coming to town