I Had Blamed my Mother, but Apparently these Roots Tap Deeper Down the Ancestral Tree

“dark sense of humor”—check

“pessimistic view of human nature”—check

“dark view of the human condition”–check

“feeling that the world's messed up”—check

“we might as well laugh about it”—check, check, check, check

The BBC News article, How Scandinavian is Scotland?, could easily be retitled, How Scots/Scandinavian is this Kansan?