Americans and their lack of a sense of humour

[gavintc]

I'm surprised the US/UK governments didn't use it as an excuse to invade a country, kill a shedload of locals and a few of their own military personnel and then claim it a "success"

give them time - early days.

 

[vernon]

Yes. I know someone who renamed his home hub SPAM_Central. In the hope that nobody would attempt to log on to it.

I would on the off chance of a fritter or two being on offer.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I ahem, a friend used the name of the local police force as the bluetooth connection for a while.

Picking out the bluetooth name of the dodgy types and trying to connect passed a bit of time away.

 

[ColinJ]

Elderly aunt had to be told repeatedly not to joke about carrying a bomb in her bag at the Heathrow check-in, she still did.

I told a friend that there is a suspicion that all phonecalls are monitored by GCHQ/NSA for keywords like 'bomb'. She declared that in future she would insert references to bomb-making into her telephone conversations ...

I asked if she is a real fan of having her front door kicked down at 6 am by groups of men carrying guns!

 

[pplpilot]

my home WiFi name is - TV_detector_van

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I ahem, a friend used the name of the local police force as the bluetooth connection for a while.

Picking out the bluetooth name of the dodgy types and trying to connect passed a bit of time away.

I suspected my neighbours were using my broadband so I changed the name to PoliceScot_Surv022. Funnily enough my broadband speeds have improved

 

[Fnaar]

Call it a "beumb", Clouseau-style

 

[Fnaar]

I occasionally change the name of the wifi to something that amuses me... I've had things like X-virus, PoisonConekt, etc.

 

[Archie_tect]

Distributed by curbs doing their burb-a-jurb.

 

[byegad]

I would on the off chance of a fritter or two being on offer.

You are showing your age! Two Spam Fritters? Do you want chips with that?

 

[ayceejay]

I only live ten miles from the US border but they won't let me in because I was arrested in the UK in 1982 I was not charged or fined just arrested.
As for the sense of humour - it's in the delivery, if you tell a joke straight (British style) nobody gets it but if you are are rolling on the floor laffing they know it is a joke so they laugh whether they get it or not.

 

[Trickedem]

I only live ten miles from the US border but they won't let me in because I was arrested in the UK in 1982 I was not charged or fined just arrested.

I probably should have said that 'the authorities' don't have a sense of humour as I am sure the same would have happened in the UK. I work with lots of Americans and of course they have a sense of humour, it's just different.
As has been talked about elsewhere, if you get de-arrested does this cancel the arrest out for problems like yours?

 

[TVC]

I suspected my neighbours were using my broadband so I changed the name to PoliceScot_Surv022. Funnily enough my broadband speeds have improved

One day I will get round to calling mine "Theblokeat42isatw*t"

No I don't live at 42.

 

[User269]

Americans are thick STOP

Well, like you said, your bad.

 

[stephec]

I only live ten miles from the US border but they won't let me in because I was arrested in the UK in 1982 I was not charged or fined just arrested.
As for the sense of humour - it's in the delivery, if you tell a joke straight (British style) nobody gets it but if you are are rolling on the floor laffing they know it is a joke so they laugh whether they get it or not.

That's the thing that puts me off American sit coms, Friends and Big Bang Theory especially.

There seems to be bit of dialogue that leads up to a, 'joke,' followed by a pause.

Then just to hammer it home in case you missed it, there's a blast of canned laughter.

This is then repeated for the rest of the show.

I don't need to be told when to laugh, if something's funny I'll work it out for myself.