I think you hit on at least two explanations. We aren't teens or pre-teens anymore. Things that are funny change. Swirlies aren't nearly as entertaining when you are 40 vs when you are 13. The other thing to remember is that TV was still *NEW* in the late 60's and early 70's. These guys were experimenting with things they could do in colour as well as a bunch of other new things. We had only had TV for about 10 or 12 years in 1965 in the Texas panhandle and we didn't have PBS. I had to move east for college before I saw them on TV. In the US, comedy was changing over from Joey Bishop and others to newer stuff like the Smothers Brothers and George Carlin. Jonathan Winters was probably a good US equivalent to what Monty Python was doing. A lot is also generational. Can you imagine someone trying to pitch Blazing Saddles to a movie company today? I guess if you fight to understand what they are saying because of their accents, it is hard to find things funny. I never got some of the British drama. The Prisoner and Space 1999 always seemed surreal to me. Maybe that is what they were going for? BTW, to the guy who said "UKers": Ooooh. *NO ONE* says that. Brits is a good common name. Most folks don't know that Great Britain is an island and not a country! There are 3 countries on Great Britain.

Stupid Git!

Isn't it a sad comment on employers that the vast majority of us have 10 times better setups at home than at our desk at work (if you even have a desk)? I hear rumors that our 6x6 cubicles are being replaced with open office once the remodel is done. Glad I am close to retirement. Not sure how I am going to work on 3 or 4 targets with just a 5x3 area with no walls and no place to put a static mat. Yeah, definitely looking forward to sharing an office with 50 of my close personal friends. Now that the kids are grown, I have an actual room with a real desk, Pandora on the surround sound, a truly useful desk chair, and control of the thermostat. Like others, I keep trying to bring my own stuff to the office rather than the other way around. My two monitors have 400% more pixels than what is on my desk at work.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but HR being involved is always a bad thing. If you are lucky, you will be put on a Performance Improvement Plan which is a very serious reprimand. If unlucky, it likely means you will be sacked. In either case, you should immediately be updating your CV/resume and visiting all of the relevant job boards.