Yesterday wasn’t really much of a laughing matter, students and police clashing around the country as violent scenes spread like wildfire around Twitter and various news channels.

Sometimes though you just have to doff your caps to those who manage to retain their sense of humour in the face of adversity, some protesters showing that the message for change can still make you laugh.

Below are our top five banners that brought a smile to our faces from yesterday’s protests.

For a point of reference here’s a close-up of the man in question…

You know we like to throw a little bonus in at the end just for good measure so here’s a peach of a tweet from Jerm, a play on the famed ‘Let them eat cake’ line supposedly uttered by Queen Marie Antoinette:

Sometimes all you can do is laugh right, something we tend to say pretty regularly around these offices.

[source:iol]