7 Biggest Understatements in Recorded History

You might start to love the British after seeing this list! We have many accounts of people losing themselves in the face of death or other dramatic events, but at the same time there are brilliant examples of understatements recorded at similar dramatic situations.

“Houston, We’ve Had a Problem”

“It was rather a serious evening, you know”

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress”

“Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction.”

“This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest.”

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.”

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

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