Rose, I take I might be off topic and reversed in thought. I can tell you what doesn't fly in translation. Britscot can perhaps verify this.

I wrote a piece for dieters and walking. I said to put such and such in your fanny pack. A fanny pack is a waist pack walkers gear.

A woman from Britain read my post and demanded I remove it. She said it was a filthy description (leaving it to your discretion) of a female's anatomy. So much for international saavy for me.

ed! this is exactly the kind of thing i mean!

In America, people root for a sporting team. In Australia, that's what couples do between the sheets. Australians simply do not understand why Americans would have sex for, or as, a team.

TonyA, I rely on your worldwide experience.

Have Americans discovered what sex is yet?

brit! what the hell!? (now there's an americanism for you!)

Very good question, Brit. In both Australia and Britain, sex is an equivalent experience to eating in a fine five star restaurant, flying international First Class, shopping in Harrods, etc. Sex is a good thing in both countries.

Unfortunately, our Yankee cousins somehow learned that sex is a very bad thing. Of course, that attracted them to sex immediately. In the very best American tradition, it's basically evolved as being the same as dining at McDonalds. Fast food.

very unlovely generalizations, boys.

why do you so enjoy taking potshots at us?

and yet, you still come here to play?