@amp_global wrote:I simply refuse to use Michaels, I asked the manager of my local branch to move the main entrance 3 feet to the left (my personal feng shui reasons) he flat out refused my reasonable request, I reported him and I have never heard back from them.
@city*satins wrote:
Humor in a class of its own. For a fun but somewhat shocking read, I recommend the erotic humor that was recorded for posterity in the Victorian era magazine The Pearl and follow up with massive book that's worth the effort of lifting it and turning the kajillion pages The Rationale of the Dirty Joke (1968) which is not exclusively English humor by any means but which provides examples that highlight what I used to call the "a bridge too far" characteristic of English (or British, depending on the period you look at) humor that eventually gained better appreciation in the USA through Monty Python.
Funny you should mention Monty Python. I have Season 2, Episode 5 paused on Netflix in the other room while I came in here to check email. I can't believe I'm seeing the same episodes I first saw too many decades ago, and they're still funny.
I confess to being quite addicted to the humor of the British Isles, bawdy and otherwise. I blame my parents, who as Canadians, thought the most wicked fun they could indulge in, entertainment-wise, was to attend any of the Carry On Gang movies. My parents dragged me and my brother to at least 20 of them from 1958 onward. My brother and I hated them at first, but like with the Borg, we eventually accepted that resistance is futile.
Funny you should mention that too. I inherited a stack of Carry On DVDs from a relative, along with a region-free player to play them on, sat stone-faced through a couple of them, and haven't seen any of the others. I just didn't find them anywhere near as funny as the Python episodes, I think partly because they couldn't quite bring themselves to actually be as... bawdy, or something, as they clearly wanted to be, whereas the Python gang had no problem with putting into their shows whatever they wanted to do in the name of humor.
I should mention here that I am British myself, so I definitely appreciate British humor when I see it. 
It's just not as funny when you start to sense that the performers are holding back for whatever reason: Broadcast Standards, censorship, fear of an R rating or broadcast ban, who knows. But Monty Python as is entertaining as ever, where the Carry On films just don't seem to have aged as well.
