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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2008-01-07 06:15 pm
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Dear Americans,

On the whole, I love you. I have long loved many of your countrymen, sometimes from afar as with Frank Capra and Katherine Hepburn, and sometimes from up close as with some very lucky young people in the 1980s and '90s.

I think your land is beautiful, your governments uniformly mad, your religious leaders alternately inspiring and depressing and your jazz miraculous.

But.

I would like to impose a rule on you all. If you cannot say the word penis, you may not handle, draw, write about or otherwise involve yourself with them. Babytalk derivatives do not count. Similarly, the F-bomb and C-bomb may no longer be. "That person used an expletive I am not comfortable with" or "Fuck me! She said cunt!" are your two options.

That is all, please go about your business.

With love,
Brammers

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2008-01-15 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, that was hugely interesting! Sorry for the response delay, I spent the last week sewing constantly, and wishing I had been virtuous so that the sewing elves would appear.

Having the loo in the bathroom never seemed that hygienic, although it is common in Sydney, too. I insist that everyone put the lid down before flushing, p[artly because that is democratic across genders and partly because I used to live with a microbiologist.

The weird thing about American loos is how wide and shallow they are. I always end up drinking litres of water to stay awake after flying in and have been worried I will overfill ... and we're back to TMI ...