Yeah the americans certainly have a different sense of humour to us. My sweeping generalisation about them, is that they are far more proud than us. We have that british sense of self-depricating humour. And, i can easily see why they would get offended from how we act. For instance, a bloke living over here who had 'big teeth' would be affectionately known as beaver his whole life. In short, we take the piss. Ive been with some yob footy supporters who were bogans through and through, who had the sharpest wit imagineable. Some of these guys might not know how spell, but they could make one quip on the sideline and 50 people would be pissing thier pants.
I think pommy humour is even more cut-throat than ours. They come up with the worst, most biting insults. Growing up in the school yard over there could be torturous. But brits are also the first to put themselves down, for other's amusement- so i guess it cuts both ways.
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