The Poke is a UK humor site posting funny lists, translation guides, viral stories, and comic takes on British life.
HN links it for humor, such as the Anglo-EU translation guide and the English pronunciation poem, usually as comparisons in lighthearted threads.
Should just be a link to the tweet from Big Jet TV rather than travelweekly
https://twitter.com/BigJetTVLIVE/status/1680966378524758017
Big Jet TV is kindof famous in the UK because on 18 February 2022 when Storm Eunice was passing through, the channel trended on twitter and everyone ended up watching it and talking about it
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/02/18/big-jet-tv-planes-landing-heathrow-viral/
This feels like someone has taken the classic "Anglo EU translation guide (2011)"[1] and tried to do the same thing for American sayings. It works a little better for British sayings because, frankly, we Brits are incredibly repressed and never say what we mean if we can put our true meaning in the subtext.
[1] https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/05/17/anglo-eu-translation-guide/
Amazon employees what it calls "FC Ambassadors". These people have openly admitted that they are paid by the hour to tweet about the company[0].
Full thread in a nicely readable format at https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/08/15/amazon-ambassadors-takedown-hilarious-terrifying-equal/
[0] https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161758672973811712
The same thing happens in Ireland with those newspapers.
For example, when Martin McGuinness died a few weeks ago, the newspapers had radically different front pages: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/C7gsyt4XQAA-efu.jpg
https://1k95i3bqziq3bboq03r87f8x-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sunmail-960x718.jpg
There's some similar fun to be found by following the World Bollard Assocation on the platform formerly known as Twitter
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2023/01/06/the-world-bollard-association-on-twitter-is-anything-but-a-load-of-bollards-13-favourites/
Dammit. SannaMarin's Peace Plan is now difficult to execute. Rats cannot remove themselves rightaway, except by swimming.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2022/10/07/finnish-pm-sanna-marin-went-viral-with-her-no-nonsense-solution-ending-war-ukraine/