The polls have closed on Britain‘s Brexit vote, and clearly the inhabitants have nothing better to do than make jokes on Twitter. We, for one, are very here for it.
Voting to either remain in the European Union or leave it – exit, if you will – has brought with it strong feelings one way or the other, which could explain the response to one man’s tweet about taking his 93-year-old mother to vote.
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, “Which box for out?” A cheer went up from waiting voters
— Keith Adams (@keitheadams) June 23, 2016
Oh, Keith. Sweet, innocent Keith.
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a v loud voice she said, “Chat shit, get banged” A cheer went up from waiting voters
— bone vivant (@TravisDuCote) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, “Re-e-wind”
The waiting crowd cheered “Bo Selecta”— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s blind. In a very loud voice she said, “I actually like the new Top Gear” A cheer went up from Chris Evans
— Simon Ricketts (@simon_ricketts9) June 23, 2016
Took my blind 93 year old mother to vote. She said “existence is a bleak meaningless hell. I crave death”. Everybody in the queue cheered.
— Nihilists4Brexit (@NihilistBrexit) June 23, 2016
Took my 93yr Mum to vote, registered blind, she said “I’m a master of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black” pic.twitter.com/DAxgHJqOvi
— Richard Hancock (@CanaryWorf) June 23, 2016
Just took my 93yr mum to vote. She’s registered blind. She calmly whispered “Valar morghulis” Queuing voters all replied “Valar dohaeris”
— big lez (@EddyDaly) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s registered blind
lady: “name?”
93yr mum: “A girl has no name”
A cheer went up from waiting voters— Ayy (@TakeroldAV) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr old Mum to vote. She’s registered blind and a massive racist, so I gave her some notepaper and led her into a cupboard
— Dan Maher (@MrPointyHead) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr Mum to vote.She played the opening rift from ‘Should I stay or should I go’ by The Clash. A cheer went up from waiting voters
— red wazza (@redwazza1) June 23, 2016
Naturally, things started to get pretty meta.
Just took my 93yr Mum to vote. I couldn’t think of a joke that Twitter hasn’t done already. A cheer went up from waiting users.
— Ben Wills (@_BenWills) June 23, 2016
Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she’s registered blind. In a loud voice she said, “jet fuel cant melt steel beams.” A cheer went up from voters.
— Ryan Barrell (@RyanBarrell) June 23, 2016
Everything really came to a head when Tony Blair tweeted a picture of himself holding a white piece of card, which to internet trolls is the equivalent of waving a red flag at the bull and then pointing him in the right direction.
Well, Twitter. Tony Blair has tweeted a picture of himself holding a white piece of card. I’m sure you’ll behave. pic.twitter.com/77dOcpnGeF
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) June 23, 2016
And a personal fave:
— #INcrediblyRich (@IncrediblyRich) June 23, 2016
The experience appears to have crippled Keith, who spent far too much time replying to people, set-up and posted a blog about his experience, and threatened to quit the platform entirely.
I’ve finished replying to those calling me a liar. Mum has macular degeneration, I asked if I could assist her and was told yes. End of
— Keith Adams (@keitheadams) June 23, 2016
Having been trolled over a tweet about my Mum to vote, I wrote a blog about it. https://t.co/cL7XhOOqc7
— Keith Adams (@keitheadams) June 23, 2016
@SgtArthurWilson it was completely unintentional. Some is fun, some is despicable, most in the middle. I’ll probably quit twitter
— Keith Adams (@keitheadams) June 23, 2016
His final tweet, before possibly logging off for life, was to remind us all that whatever will be, will be.
Final tweet, whatever the eu result, we must accept it. I’ve only ever wanted politicians to ask us what we want and finally they have done
— Keith Adams (@keitheadams) June 23, 2016
That’s it for now, but if the story of Chewbacca mum has shown us anything, you’ll probably be able to get a pic of Keith and his 93-year-old blind mum at next year’s ComicCon.
Source: Twitter.
