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‘Visit North Yorkshire’ asked its followers to share a ‘more British scene’ than this and it’s one of our favourite days on Twitter

Jay Rayner’s ultimate takedown of this especially unfortunate scammer was a proper hall of famer

This author’s clapback to an anti-LGBTQ bigot sits proudly in the library of all-time great responses

A flat earther challenged Nasa to prove her wrong and this A++ reply went into orbit

‘Cat versus indoor pool’ made for the most cat-coded outcome in the history of cats and pools

An American trolled Brits for their concept of a ‘pizza’ and it was a delicious self own for the ages

Stephen Fry was asked why he left Twitter and his A++ takedown of Elon Musk is even truer today than it was then

This funny anecdote about a form-filling mishap may still be the best we’ve ever heard

People shared the strangest things about America that Americans have no idea is weird – 23 stateside jaw-droppers

Kevin Eldon’s ‘Amish Sex Pistols’ sketch from back in the day will never fail to make our day better

This lasagne-stealing bear has to be one of the internet’s all-time animal legends

People shared the most inventive British way to call someone ‘useless’ – 23 especially imaginative homegrown insults

People shared the ‘basic knowledge that a scary amount of people don’t know’ – 27 worryingly fundamental fails

People were asked for the ‘nastiest read’ they’d ever seen and the brilliant Philomena Cunk on American history was the hands-down winner

This American chef took a virtual battering from across the Atlantic for the sin of renaming Yorkshire puddings

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