The constant 'don't bother trying to have a joke with Australians, they won't get your English sense of humour' (paraphrasing obviously). Complete bollox.

It's a tricky one innit. Going to things and having a crap time and coming away feeling like shit is awful. What I find even worse is meeting people that you don't like / have nothing in common with but they seem to like you and then you can't shake them off and it turns into some protracted texting nightmare spinning huge lies about why you can't meet up with them again. Or is that just me...

Yep

I do recall one such group of people we decided not to meet again ....it's no big deal. There are people who I don't get 100pc on with but I still get something from the meet - or there are others I do get on with there...

I suppose the lesson is: when people say that you shouldn't say no to an invite they mean that you have to exercise a bit of the common dog. I mean - if you get invited to the local chapter of the Jehovah - Mormon - Born Again sect - you might decide not to go - or like me - (have a bit of fun at your own or their expense)..If you get invited to the local branch of the Commerce association - go. There might be one person there that you click with - or call back in n months when there is a reason to.


There seems to be people with such a parochial sense of humour that it does not survive a move from a region of the UK - much less across borders...

..you hear of people saying that noone gets their sarcasm...well that might just be because it sounds just bloody negative - and if you add a local accent in - perhaps unintelligible. What's wrong with a dry sense of humour? To be honest, the humour that opened doors for me in the UK opens doors here...

Oh yes, this is true.

Oh I agree with this so much! The Aussies I've met might not get all the cultural references I chuck in (although they get most of them) but they certainly get my humour.

Which is decidedly weird

No, it's not just you. I've got one of those now. Someone I agreed to have a coffee with (against my better judgement) and now I'm getting texts about 3 times a week saying we really must get together when I really have absolutely nothing in common with this person and no desire at all to ever see them again.
I think humour is humour. Some people will "get it" and others won't.

Try it with an american. See how you get on

Pretty much all the Americans I know are the same. Perhaps I'm just good at having acquaintances and friends who are on the same wavelength as me?

(Obviously I don't live there so my exposure to them is quite limited )

Ditto for me too. Any 'merican pals I've had are just fab. I've had no problems at all.

Used to work with a couple of hundred of them, had no problem with most but then there's a few English who don't get me. Some of them even post on here.

Can you send them back over here please?

But you live in LA, they're all freaking weird there regardless of nationality!

This is true

to be fair some of em have a problem with mine