The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33063   Message #441082
Posted By: GUEST,Wavestar
15-Apr-01 - 11:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Transatlantic Idioms
Subject: RE: BS: Transatlantic Idioms
Kat - My father just came home from Colorado and happily told me he'd been able to buy gas at his favorite filling station- you guessed it! I think he was as amused as you.

When I first came to Britain I went into the University stationary shop, and I glanced at the cards - boy was I shocked! The humour here is so casually obscene! The attitudes to sex may be more victorian, but you wouldn't know it.

Besides, they have a town called Twatt.

-J