The Australian threads that I've been following here on Multiply have a peculiar sense of humour that is luminous. Once I met one here in Portugal too who was just writing in an internet café to his friends. He immediately engaged me with his fine humour and jokes. I wonder if all that heat some of them are complaining about is not actually what shapes their moods also, and so their laughing spirits, even if they don't laugh but internally (Victorian traumas, most likely hahahaha!)