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Posted - 2011.05.27 21:19:00 -
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 Originally by: Astenion
Originally by: somebadgergotherpes
British Humor Best Humor
*Is British*
I believe the rest of the world has failed to adapt to our sense of humor, even after our empire spired the world 
That's because you are unable to tell where something stops being humorous and starts being rude and passive aggressive. Monty Python is over.
The fact is your sense of humor is dead. You don't have a true sense of humor because what you consider humorous these days, other people would consider arrogant and rude. We're not talking about Little Britain, The Office, or The IT Crowd; we're talking about how the English interact with other people...you insult them in what you consider a joking way. Then, just like you said, you think "the rest of the world has failed to adapt to your sense of humor". What you don't realize is that it is YOU who have failed to adapt to the rest of the world.
A little light joking or prodding never hurt anyone, but that's not what this is about. You often cross the line by having fun at others' expense, but in a crass way as of late.
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I find offense at this remark sir.
I honestly and thoroughly enjoy british humor. So much in fact that the way they behave and their small talk is to me an endless source of sheer amusement. I find for that matter French humor a bit misguided and American humor kinda simple and childish.
Monty Python might be over for you Sir, not for others.
Also I'm Latinamerican, humor here can be quite rude, aggressive at other's expenses and downright insulting if not plain homophobic/sexual orientation geared and for some reason dealing with all kinds of sexuality or weird innuendos and human body orifices. Common jokes in here involve phrases that no matter the context will always involve sexual intercourse when spoken out loud or the famous rebuttals when you counter a joke made on your expense with an even more demeaning counter joke involving sexuality or lack of it. See, first rule of thumb I learned when dealing with gringos for example Is I can't simply treat them the way I treat my friends with open greetings of what they will consider insults and is simply a form of jokingly implying that if you can say such insults to someone it means you a friend. That's culture for you, Western Venezuela one anyway, Panamanians here are a bit touchy too (har har) and their humor tends to ridicule others as they criticize them to death, whereas common bonds in joking are established by criticizing the same things.
Where I come from it's pretty usual to not understand if two very close friends meet in the street if they are about to draw guns and fists and kill each other or simply acknowledging by the ammount of insults they truly friends. When written like that sounds odd, but in action is more natural.
On the other side you can see, the British humor is so overtly different to what Im used to hear regarding which orifice you enjoy poking at, that Brit humor is practically the same with a musical overtone. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the crass latinamerican sexual innuendo humor I'm used to, but I truly enjoy it when it's being used in a "polite" setting. It's hysterical!!!
Now, German humor, hmmm, never heard any of their jokes tho.
The fact you dislike the brits and their humor is just an obvious bias of you regarding what you find in them not tolerable, which seems to be making jokes at other's expense. That's a core of our humor too, simply more crass and demeaning.
But I know that deep down if you were my rl friend we could insult each other no problem 
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