Why can't Brits take a joke?

lol i find it fairly amusing but there are two sides to it. my friend from england just told me today how pissed off he was that they are calling it "british petroleum again" when it is a "global company" and i have to agree with him on that.

so... you have to "know your players." it's a bit touchy for some...

in general, i wouldn't joke about the revolution with brits. lol just so you know, they sort of hate americans.

properly, i think of a few can and a few will not be able to. I even have are available in the time of a pair and the two reacted completely in yet differently. With one I responded a query of his become sarcasm and he have been given completely indignant and despatched me an digital mail. some emails returned and forth and he realised i become Australian so he pronounced "oh, you're Australian...that explains the experience of humour. i'm from the united kingdom" and that i spoke back with "Oh, so which you're British...that explains why you're overly comfortable!". we don't talk anymore. yet at present I responded a query from somebody else whom is British and besides the undeniable fact that i ought to admit i become impolite in my answer (definite, yet yet returned), he definitely took no offense from it and we've stored in touch. So, i do no longer think of that each physique British human beings take issues to heart, only like no longer all human beings are the comparable or all Australians are the comparable.

The problem is it's become a political issue.

The president "bloody idiot Obama" keeps calling it british petroleum...

But that's not the name of the company any more, It's "bp" that's literally the name. It's a globally owned and traded company.

However, if it was before 1998 it would have been funny :)

unfortunately the rig is american (supplied by Transocean ) the men were american, the inspectors were american and the support and supply staff were all american, some from halliburton (dick cheney's bunch) I don't think the brits will be using our crappy equipment again any time soon, BP America is an american conglomerate of standard oil of ohio(sohio) , arco, amoco and couple of other smaller companies , it turns out this was all our fault- whoops

Of coarse they do that's why they have the british comedy channel.

erm it just wasn't that funny

I'm Scottish not British

you tell him Harley big thumbs up for you

it never stops raining there so their misrable sons of eli

I can take a joke :)