Alcohol First Distilled So British Could Reproduce

Flirt, but don’t speak: French vs American Culture

The French, says Carroll, will only have conversations with people with whom they are already intimate, while Americans will only touch people with whom they are already intimate. To Americans, conversation does not imply intimacy.

In France, he explained, you always flirt; it means nothing. Americans never flirt and rarely sexualise social encounters.

Americans won’t touch strangers, the French won’t talk to them, but Brits will neither touch nor talk to them. No wonder Britons drink ever-increasing amounts of alcohol. Alcohol was first distilled so that British people could reproduce.

Ek skiem ons Afferkaners is meer soos die Britte as die Franse.