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Mickey sums it up nicely. Please don't watch if easily offended.

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Interesting, I watched it. Didn’t understand all the words, but I got the gist. It made me think .. Americans are more evolved, sympathetic, and civilised than the British. And I wonder if that was Mickey’s subversive message here.

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Maybe that's the impression they want you to have, bless your heart. 😆

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Not setting the bar too high! :lol:

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Most of the people I know here get my English humour and some have even perfected it. One of the cops I work with has a brilliantly dry sense of humour which is why we get on so well. The first word out of the general manager of the 2 FBOs on our airport whenever he seems me is wanker. Maybe I’m just lucky, but the sense of humour with the people in my circle isn’t that much different. There is still some shock if I drop a c bomb though LOL.

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I have totally suppressed by dry sense of humor. In the south people just think I'm being an asshole.

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I've given up too, either people think I'm insulting them, or just don't get it. Either way I end up explaining the joke wasting even more time. Plus a great many Americans take whatever you say seriously leading to even more confusion.

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These types of posts fundamentally misunderstand just how huge and diverse the US is. The US is not monolithic. I currently work with people from all over the world: India, Malaysia, Russia, Spain. I have neighbors from the UK, France, Indonesia and New Zealand. I have friends who grew up in Mexico, on the South Side of Chicago, LA, Queens NYC, Lubbock TX, Hawaii and rural Iowa. It's impossible to generalize. Even regionally there are huge differences. I grew up in New England and have lived outside of Chicago for over 20 years now. My parents live in South Florida, my sister in eastern Tennessee, my brother outside of Boston. My kids are in college at Indiana University in Bloomington. I've lived in rural Colorado, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and New York City. All of these places are wildly different.

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Noooooo... really? Places thousands of miles apart are different? Tell us another.

Holy Captain Obvious Batman!...

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OMG! Who knew? Thank god you came along, to contemptuously put the foreigners in their place - yet again!

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Well, almost totally...:lol:

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Here I can be me :D

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Perfect example of a cultural gap causing failed understanding.

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Have you noticed how, when asked where people are from, on social media, most people state their country, while most Americans write the two letters for their state. This is because the USA is actually a continent of its own, surrounded by the North American continent.

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Surely an American would just pull their sidearm, shoot you and then tell you to “have a nice day”…