The idea that Americans don't appreciate sarcasm or irony came to me from American writers. I didn't know enough Americans to know any different.
Then I came here and realised that there is a real cultural difference between Britain and America, but humour has never been in question. I don't expect everyone to share my sense of humour. Even my nearest and dearest only overlap in what we find funny, and I love my father very much but it is rare we laugh at the same things. Finding the same things funny - laughing until you can barely speak - is rare and precious.
I just think the more people you get together, the lower the common denominator is. I don't know if that works mathematically
I just seems that stupidity multiplies better than intelligence.
So the bigger the population, the more it has to cater for the masses, and the less the masses expect.
Individual Americans are super-smart, or can be.
The American great unwashed is the same as the great unwashed everywhere, it's just more of them have tv sets than elsewhere.
Anyway.
So.
Where are the photos again.