Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

It's this jovial attitude to murder that lead to the slaughtering of children, and the torture of prisoners by bored, crazed british and american troops.

Nope, it's dumb politicians sending soldiers into those places that leads to all that stuff. I doubt whether a soldier's propensity for using humour correlates positively with his propensity to rape, murder and torture.