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To: Neocon who wrote (4756)	2/27/2003 2:30:46 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

If a friend suggests going to a pricey restaurant, and you want to save your money, and say so, then you can go to a cheaper restaurant, and be happy together. But if you give an excuse, and beg off, then you both will be eating alone. If a largish group is set on going to the fancy restaurant, it may be more tactful to say that you have other plans, but then it may not, if they are close friends. There are tactful ways of bringing up money without saying "money." You can say, "I was really in the mood for something more casual," and everybody knows you mean money.

To: Neocon who wrote (4756)	2/28/2003 4:38:51 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Most American buildings are air- conditioned between about 20C to 24C degrees My experience in several summer visits to New York was a bit different. It was very hot and so I would normally go out with no sweater, but I took one anyway so as not to freeze solid the minute I stepped indoors. Everyone I know did likewise. By the way, I would very much doubt if any building were air-conditioned to 24 C, as that would be quite uncomfortably hot. I don't remember being so cold in the west coast, though... I am not the only one to notice this, by the way. Whenever somebody goes to the US for the first time, this is the first thing they say - the second being "My God! Did you SEE how BIG those portions were? I could eat that for a WEEK!" :-) practically no one, then, wears shorts and a t- shirt in winter I know that. I was not trying to say "Americans always wear shorts in winter", but that our "winter" must have appeared warm to them, at least in autumn or first days of spring, when we would still shiver under heavy clothes. Who knows which part of the US they were from, or where they had been before, so that 18 C or so would be t-shirt time for them? But apparently it was... Or perhaps, you guys really have a higher tolerance for temperature fluctuations... Americans have a more casual attitude about money, and are more willing to be "clinical" in talking about it Yes, that is my impression as well. ... much as is true about the way we treat sex....... In that, Americans are not so singular. In northern Europe, sex is no taboo, and in fact on its way to becoming just another friendly sport. If you have ever been to the Amsterdam, you know that sex is just another need whose fulfilment is pleasurable, like gastronomy. Prostitutes pay their taxes, and are just as respected as secretaries or other professionals. And I will not even go into what the scene is like in a place like Monaco where too much money has pushed people out of monogamy and East European & Russian beauties flock in to find rich husbands :-)