The English and the Americans have a weird expression for “sorry for the foul language”, which is: “pardon my french”. Don’t knock the French language! It’s a beautiful language. More so than English, at least in my book.

Americans impose some weird conditions for collecting prize money from sweepstakes on Canadian citizens. I’ve seen this in the “Sweepstakes Rules” on several American web sites. Canadians must either pass a math-skills test or a full-fledged IQ-test in order to claim the prize. In my opinion that’s really rude.

Still, the English and Americans are, as a people, generally extremely polite and friendly. That’s why these observations are so confusing.

Anyone care to share similar observations?

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