Why are Americans so mealy-mouthed?
oh dear this is too much to figure out on such a hot day for moi 
Jul 31st 2007, 4:56 am
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Re: Why are Americans so mealy-mouthed?
She's got a kitchen sink but then a toilet without one for the staff to use...actually it's going back a bit as I haven't seen her for years but it didn't seem like an arrangement that was up to "code".
Jul 31st 2007, 5:00 am
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Jul 31st 2007, 5:06 am
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Jul 31st 2007, 5:27 am
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Jul 31st 2007, 6:38 am
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Jul 31st 2007, 6:53 am
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Jul 31st 2007, 8:31 am
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Re: Why are Americans so mealy-mouthed?
Straight-talking Brits and mealy-mouthed Americans - surely it's always been the other way around?
UK: "I'm so frightfully sorry to bother you about this, but I'm feeling slightly peeved about the little throb in my toe, and wondered whether you might not move your car forward just a tad, if it wasn't too much trouble"
US: "Goddamn it, you asshole, move your rustbucket off my foot before I destroy you!"
UK: "I'm so frightfully sorry to bother you about this, but I'm feeling slightly peeved about the little throb in my toe, and wondered whether you might not move your car forward just a tad, if it wasn't too much trouble"
US: "Goddamn it, you asshole, move your rustbucket off my foot before I destroy you!"
Jul 31st 2007, 9:11 am
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Re: Why are Americans so mealy-mouthed?
Straight-talking Brits and mealy-mouthed Americans - surely it's always been the other way around?
UK: "I'm so frightfully sorry to bother you about this, but I'm feeling slightly peeved about the little throb in my toe, and wondered whether you might not move your car forward just a tad, if it wasn't too much trouble"
US: "Goddamn it, you asshole, move your rustbucket off my foot before I destroy you!"
UK: "I'm so frightfully sorry to bother you about this, but I'm feeling slightly peeved about the little throb in my toe, and wondered whether you might not move your car forward just a tad, if it wasn't too much trouble"
US: "Goddamn it, you asshole, move your rustbucket off my foot before I destroy you!"
