Life's a laugh and death's a joke

Having lived in England for about two years I must have been accused hundreds of times of not understanding the famous English sense of humour. It's true to some extent, however, it's mostly caused by cultural differences between England and Poland. The English sense of humour is not considered to be a positive sense of humour as it involves mockery, sarcasm and cynicism. Don't be offended, they will say worse things to you the longer have known you for and the more comfortable they feel in your company, so just accept it. Whereas, in other cultures there are certain situations in which jokes are out of place, the humour in England is constant. "Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true". Although I can't see much fun in insulting each other for laughs there is a part of English humour that I do find highly amusing. I love watching the English talk and how they try so hard to avoiding sounding enthuisiastic. This is based on constant under-statement. A beautiful half-naked model in your bedroom is "not bad" and a serial killer is "not a very nice person". Ok, that's enough for now, I must watch Mr Bean on TV.

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