50 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of May 30, 2025
In a devastating blow to all 68.29 million of its citizens, ’s storied national pastime of being able to smoke wherever and whenever you goddamn please is finally coming to an end. According to BBC News, French Health Minister Catherine Vautrin announced a new law this week aimed at limiting children’s exposure to secondhand smoke, prohibiting folks from sparking up in outdoor areas like parks, bus stops, sports arenas and more.
“The freedom to smoke must end where the freedom of children to breathe fresh air begins,” Vautrin said of the ban, set to take effect July 1st.
Weeks ahead of the impending crackdown, the French and their American allies are voicing their displeasure with the ruling through a series of hilarious Twitter roasts. “Then what is the point of the French?” one captioned a report detailing the law, while another credited the ban with prompting the now-viral physical altercation between French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron. “This is why she slapped Macron,” they wrote, citing the video of the French First Lady allegedly smacking her husband moments after landing in Vietnam last weekend.
Fortunately, the French still have their fancy cheeses and notorious air of pretension, and we still have this week’s most scathing digital burns, the wildest of which roast 60-year-old situationship drama, night showerers and Timothée Chalamet.
