Categories: just-life
Date: 18 August 2006 16:00:55
From The Times, Chinese officials have suggested tips for Chinese visitors to these sunny shores. Such suggestions for visitors include;
- do not call Welsh, Scotish or Irish people "English",
- suggested topics for small talk: Pets, eg, "What a lovely dog. What is his name?" (British people love cats and dogs),
- when you wish to use the toilet, excuse yourself and leave quietly. Do not ask people where they are going if they excuse themselves,
- few things are more likely to provoke an outbusrt of "tutting" - about as publicly cross as most British people get - than "pushing in" at a queue,
- foreigners may notice that whilst striking up a conversation with a stranger is unusual, many locals are quite happy to talk to another person's dog.
You have been warned......