It's all in inerpretation. Being funny here in text is not so easy, meet me in person and I will tell you something and you will not know if I am being serious or not. Mostly I am joking, guess you can see it in my eyes. The thing is because we as Brits have a very dry sense of humour, it takes time to understand, interpret the use of the language and the way it is said. We are complex, and I can see why we offen offend, like Ricky Gervias in the States yesterday, he was great, but mis-understood by the 'yanks'
Oh well,