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Yesterday the time was right for another outing to the Stammtisch at the "Prince Charles" where you can put your English into practice with native speakers, or people who speak as good as though they were native speakers, still your insatiable curiosity for new cultures and fire vocabulary questions at the British.

Just yesterday I committed to memory that you say a face is numb if a person has had to many Botox injections and cannot move the face muscles anymore.

Moreover, as the evening progressed, a bunch of us was engaged in an intense discussion about food in the UK. Having the preconceived idea that UK food isn't tasty, I was relieved to learn that this is just another lousy stereoytpe. In fact, the British assembled there were singing the praises of their mashed potato pies.

Talking about British food, I came across a brilliant internet page where the British freelance journalist Graham Holliday, who is living in France, reveals the truth behind the notion that British food is bad.

Here is the link:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/02/in-defence-of-british-food.html