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What’s your best Essex Girl joke? (www.jokebuddha.com)

submitted 10 months ago by RustedSwitch@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I from the US, just learned about these today, and had a chuckle.

an essex girl was driving down the A13 when her car phone rang. it was her boyfriend, urgently warning her "treacle, i just heard on the news that theres a car going the wrong way on the A13. please be careful!" "its not just one car!" said the essex girl "theres hundreds of them!"

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[–] GreyShuck@feddit.uk 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hell, that's going back a way. I don't think that I have heard one of those since the 90s. They really haven't aged well - not that they were exactly the height of PC humour back then.

What's the difference between a shopping trolley and an Essex girl?

A shopping trolley has a mind of its own.

[–] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

they haven’t aged well

This sort of humor in general hasn’t aged well. I think this sort of thing is still funny when it’s a surprise, ie used sparingly.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

One or two seems like the maximum. Otherwise you're getting into dirty old man territory.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

There was an advert in Australia in the early 2000s with that joke too for a car insurance company.