Neked as a Brit
I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned one of the most interesting differences between America and England. In England they love their people….. neked. (yes, I know how to spell it, but this is a work computer) They are much more open where that’s concerned here. For example: I’m working at a very large plant here for a large British company. In the snack shacks around the plant they sell magazines. With explicit covers. And newspapers. With explicit covers. THEY SELL THEM AT WORK! So naturally, if they’re sold at work, they’re up on the walls at work. I can’t walk into a single office in the entire facility without seeing a neked woman.
About a month ago I picked up Miss AfricanKelli at Heathrow for her short layover. As I was waiting sipping a hot chocolate at Starbucks for her to come out, a very respectable man in a fancy suit asked if he could sit next to me because there were no more seats. He primly sat himself down, pulled the carefully folded newspaper from under his arm, placed it gingerly on the table in front of him, opened it properly to the first page and BAM! A full-paged, full-on neked chick. The newspaper he was reading was called Sport and it is sold everywhere here. And it advertises its contents very clearly on the front page in full color.
Last night I had problems sleeping because my head is so stuffed up, so I turned on Big Brother. They are OBSESSED with their Big Brother here. Anyway, they just brought on a new ‘contestant’ in the last week. Well, last night they showed her getting progressively drunker to the point where she grabbed a bottle of wine and then used it in a way that a wine bottle should never be used. ON NATIONAL TV! NOT CABLE!
I’m not a prude by any stretch, but this was too much. I tend to think that the general de-howardization of the US is getting a little out of hand, but if this is the alternative…
(side note: can you get in trouble at work if one of your coworkers royally pisses you off and you proceed to purposely cough all over their desk in the hopes of passing on your illness?)
