A translation of British sayings, what non-British people think they mean, and their actual meaning.
this is basically how i write letters.
These things make me laugh because I remember that if you are American or Australian or whatever you must think we are just being polite all the time but really we hate it and the total underlying rudeness of my culture is brilliant.
I can hear Martin Freeman very clearly reading these in my head.
We are clinically incapable of being verbally direct; all points must be meandered towards gently until you jointly stumble across the matter at hand. If you try to force the issue up front our brains go ‘abort! abort!’ we default to commenting about the weather and then excuse ourselves from the conversation to have a lie down and a nice cup of tea to recover.





















