Auxiris -what a contrary soul you are! so right in expounding the virtue of straight talking and immediatley wrap a riddle around the occupation of one EC country by another - can't think who you mean so spit it out man! Personally, I have always found we British very straighttalking- we are just selective. Ask a Scotsman and he will have no diffuculty in telling you how much he hates the english, a welshman too for that matter. An englishman who's team is knocked out of a sporting competition (and let's face it this happens a lot) will happily support both scotland and wales -we don't really hate anyone because quite frankly we don't really care about anyone either.Its why we come over as cold and arrogant because we are- but we do like an underdog.