humour sense - (May/24/2007 )

I was reading the comments in Ahmad193 post about why men are happier, and it made me laugh ...he, not hard but enough for someone from the lab to notice it. I told her and then other people why I was laughing, while laughing again, but it was only me. They did not understand the jokes.... I felt a little bit silly but then I thought that this country may have a different sense of humour...what is fun for me , may not be for them. (They wanted to know why it was funny, so I had to explain all jokes). I never though about it, though I know it is obvious
It is not just a matter of been men or women or from different countries, western people humour is different from asian people.
Love the differences!!! what do you think about it?

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I have had such time couple of times but I have learnt now that we have different sense of humor. When they tell a joke, they usually have to explain me where the humor was to make me laugh and when I try some fun with phrases or some practical joke, they take it for real and I will have to tell them 'it was a joke' to make them burst into laughter. Maybe I don't have skill in telling joke. . that may be another reason. Have to try a positive control before I run tinto a conclusion.

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OK, lets try my sense of humour. I tell you a joke I made.

What is researchers favourite holiday destination?
CG islands.

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hehehe....
what does CG mean?

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The differences are not just between the 'West' and the 'East'. It seems that different countries throughout Europe, for example, have quite different sense of humour Germans, Russians and Belgians are (in)famous for t heir strange / different sense of humour. The US is really big on slapstick, while the UK and Australia love playing with words, puns and sarcasm.
a question for you, solmanier: if you're in Japan, and they don't quite get your sense of humour, where do you come from?

It could be an interesting thread for people from different places to tell the others a typical joke, and for others to see if they find it a) very funny; slightly funny; c) not really funny; or d) highly offensive (I had to put that in).

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Or,

What is a nuclear scientist's favourite dinner?


Fission chips.

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For me it is not funny at all. In fact it just remembers me our president.

Mine:
Husband says; "When I'm gone you'll never find another man like me".
Wife replied; "What makes you think I'd want another man like you!"

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That's a good one!

Here's a classic:

I once shot a deer in my pagamas. How he got in them I'll never know.

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Alice's husband and wife joke reminds me of the famous exchange (anecdotal) between Winston Churchill and Lady Aston or was it Ashcroft?
Lady A: If you were my husband, I'd put poison in your tea.
Churchill: And if you're my wife madam, I'll gladly drink it.

And yours Cassio.. yeah... that's gotta be yankee joke. Remember Dick Cheney's hunting mishap?

Well, our type of humor is probably a mix of the new and the old worlds (no surprise there). And we really like to joke about our politicians. Here's a typical example:

While gasping for his last breath, a catholic man demands the presence of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin (both ex-prime ministers of Canada) in his deathbed. Baffled, the priest performing the last rites asks him why. "I would like to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and die between two criminals.

Aaah Fridays...

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On this note, I read about that tv show in The Netherlands, where a woman was going to give away her kidney, and how it was all a big hoax. Some Dutch people apparently thought it was "brilliant" and "hilarious". Personally, I think it's disgusting, but then I thought, maybe things are different over there, and it will work well to get more people to become organ donors.. What does everyone else think?

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