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| posted by Gum Tree 1163 days ago |
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I find it interesting that there are different takes on humour.
As an Aussie, the self-deprecating humour is up there as normal. I think we get it from both the Irish and the English. For example, while it is perfectly normal for an Aussie to insult a friend: "you old wrinkly/drunk bastard" or "you're nothing but an old tart" - they would rarely do that to a stranger (unless p**sed or provoked).
In fact, if you ARE insulted by an Aussie, it usually means they are totally comfortable with you and regard you as someone they would defend to the death - eg "you might be a f*cking Yankee bast*rd, but you're OK really". Substitute "Pommie bast*rd" "Dutch bast*rd" "Kraut bast*rd" etc etc etc.
But ... along with that is a reliance on sarcasm and a familiarity with the nuances and intricacies of the English idiom. In the colonies, the idiom is more developed than the home countries.
Somehow, however, despite the common English and Irish heritage, the US citizens seem to be devoid of this "make fun of ourselves" humour. Not casting aspersions at anyone, please don't take offence.
I am just wondering. How many of you, from non Aussie, NZ, English or Irish backgrounds find this type of humour strange and/or offensive.
Have to say, though, I find the Chinese to be similar. They seem to know when to laugh at themselves and not be worried.
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| posted by God de Vader 1163 days ago |
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Dutch do the same GT.....i call my friends back home "old f**kers" "braambes" "kippeneuker" etc....depoending on the person and occasion
and yes i love it.....a bit of provoking while meaning good!
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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I thought so, gdv, just from your posts. Though the Dutch have a reputation as being "serious" and "exact". You saying that is not the case?
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| posted by God de Vader 1163 days ago |
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oh yes we are, very much indeed.....unless wer taking the p**s of a GT ;)
damn your fast i feel im in a fitness center now
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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Fast? When I was unemployed for a while, I learnt how to touch type. It makes this stuff easier. Except for all the :)) and the numbers. I quit after I learnt the letters.
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i see.....i thought of you like being someone like that! ;) ehehehe i wished i learned to type well....still on my 3 finger system, and way over using my mouse....last week had to replace the clutch in my mouse again :(
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by Gum Tree 1163 days ago |
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The clutch in your mouse????? ROTFLM etc. Reminds me of hubby's car when I met him - before marriage. It was a Renault. Orange. Must have changed the clutch plate about 3 times. Every single time, the whole engine had to be hoisted out of the car. My dad, who is a mechanical engineer, said: "if the French could put the engines in the roof, they would do it just to bugger the rest of us up".
But hubby still wants a Peugeot. I learnt to drive in a Peugoet 306. I don't know if you guys had to do a "three-point-turn" for your licence. When you have to do a reverse, front, reverse and off thing in a small street. But the Peugeot 306 could to a 360 degrees turn, no matter how narrow the street. My license instructor just didn't know what to do!!!!
I did get my licence, despite going through a stop sign, lol.
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| posted by God de Vader 1163 days ago |
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peugeot...nice car for young people yes....however very deadly.......
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by Gum Tree 1163 days ago |
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Hubby's dream was to meet a beautiful young woman driving a citroen in France. I think I spoiled it for him, coz when we were hitching from France to Spain, we got picked up by a gorgeous young woman, in a citroen, and taken to the border. I sat in the front with her!!!!!! No way would I trust him to live out his dream... lol.
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and no way would i sit in a "iron" again....a Citroen is really looking like an iron, it just doesnt come with an ironing table
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by Gum Tree 1163 days ago |
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Yes, but the way they "lift" off the ground is sorta ... pleasurable.
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| posted by God de Vader 1163 days ago |
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oh la la as they say in french.....;)
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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