Losing control
Outside the USA, it’s an almost universally held notion that Americans are rude. It’s probably a belief prompted by people’s experiences of relatively elderly US tourists who plod their way around cities and landmarks weighed down by impossibly large cameras and an equally sizeable belief that the world would shudder to a halt without Americans [...]
Tears of a town
Whenever I get on the subway these days, all I seem to see is crying women. From full on floods of tears to carefully disguised dabbing at the eyes, rarely does a week go by where I fail to witness a visibly upset commuter. And it can’t just be the grim realiszation that ticket prices [...]
A heated debate
One thing that we British can’t exactly say we’re experts at is expressing emotion. Anybody who saw me celebrating Cristiano Ronaldo’s last-minute winner for Manchester United against Fulham last season would probably beg to differ, but on the whole, we’re not a race that’s particularly comfortable with expressing ourselves in public.
The same can’t be said [...]
