I love the different cultures

At work we are like a little UN sometimes: represented are India, UK, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, China.

My group is headed out and we notice the golf cart of the guy who manages the office complex. I say "Folks, I'm just letting you know now... I put in an application with the offices here. I'm so tired of all the admin headaches... starting next week I'm driving that golf cart around."

Everybody laughs, except our Indian lady, who looks at me wide-eyed and says, "No, you are changing jobs???"

And now I understand why the Brits used to say the 'merkins didn't "get" irony. Yup, it seems to have to be bred into your culture somehow.

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J's brother's wife is Japanese. She absolutely positively refuses to see any horror film. They repulse her. But she loves the "Kill Bill" films. They tweak the violence over into cartoonish, and it makes the whole thing work for her.

I have a friend who moved to the US from China several years ago and his English is pretty good. A group of us went to a comedy club. At the end of the night he said, "I could understand everything he (the comedian) said, but I didn't understand why people were laughing." It's all down to cultural differences.

I love the kill bills but I thought it was because the heroine is female.

NB: All heroines are female.

uh uh. i knew dis one dude, he had ta shoot up all da time or he couldn't function.

BigV;469831 wrote:

NB: All heroines are female.

I realized it was redundant right after I posted and logged off. :p

I did!