#BritishThreatLevels: Brits confront terrorism with laughter

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The hashtag #BritishThreatLevels has taken off as people in the UK respond with humor to warnings of an imminent terrorist attack.

Following the announcement that the official terrorist threat rating would be raised to the highest level, Twitter celebrity Nick Motown decided not to take it too seriously.

โ€œWe’re British. You can’t scare us until you raise the threat level to โ€˜I’m sorry, but there’s only continental breakfast left,โ€™โ€ Motown posted to his 23,500 Twitter followers.

The gag was quickly picked up by other punters, including the head of money transfer service World First, Jeremy Cook.

โ€œWe’re British. I don’t get scared until the threat level hits โ€˜Replacement Bus Service,โ€™โ€ Cook wrote.

In under two hours the hashtag #BritishThreatLevels was trending, with Brits jesting about the kinds of things that would actually scare them.

โ€œWe’ve run out of teabags,โ€ wrote the hashtagโ€™s creator, Andrea Mann, joking about the nationโ€™s favorite beverage.

โ€œThe temperature goes below 5ยฐC or above 20ยฐC,โ€ said Ross Lawson, mocking the well-known British obsession with the weather.

โ€œI love the #britishthreatlevels hashtag. it’s laughing in the face of danger, and it’s making me strangely proud,โ€ said California-based British journalist Nicky Woolf.

โ€œIf you want to understand how Brits respond to terror, #BritishThreatLevels is how,โ€ wrote Canadian commentator Lauren Dobson-Hughes.

Harsher police measures were introduced as a precaution after Mondayโ€™s bombing at the Manchester Arena concert venue, which took the lives of 22 people, including several minors.

People across the internet loved the comic relief, with many praising stoic Brits for confronting terrorism with laughter.

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