Wingeing Poms and Gushing Yanks

[Amy Z]

David wrote:

> This is about expressing appreciation.  We Brits find it very hard 
to 
> express anything positive to anyone to their face, and find it very 
> difficult to deal with if somebody does it to us.  So, for example, 
I 
> have had someone I worked for come and tell me in clipped tones, 
> while avoiding my gaze, that what I have done has helped enormously, 
> because he knows it is important for feedback to be given and 
> appreciation to be expressed.  I have muttered `thank you', squirmed 
> and changed the subject.

"Do you embarrass easily?  I do.  It's all part of growing up and 
being British."  --Monty Python

Amy Z, gushing Yank
grinning apologetically at Doreen, Conscience of the List