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Dont' confuse sense of humor with being keen on laughing at brown jokes. Humor for a grown-up person, in an abstract situation (like with professional colleagues) is very difficult to attain.

You can perfectly be unpolite trying to be humorous with this kind of joke.

The easy joke is not necessarily polite and is usually unintelligent: so it is a way of telling the other part "look, laugh at this silly thing" when actually one ought to be able to say "look, laugh at this intelligent joke".




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