... I forget- you don't really have the same context for British people do you?
-Kitt has gone down to the upstairs hallway to set up a couple of rooms-
-Purr, in the avvie, is making a beeline for the kitchen-
-waving hi just casually to Trudy as she goes by-
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Exactly.
The point was anyway that- well- the British are known culturally for-... how do I explain having a stiff upper lip...
-thinks for a moment-
Its' basically taking anything that could possibly disturb us in some way, whether it's stress, chaos, or generally fear- and repressing it intensely in order to tackle it down and deal with it, carrying on with our polite orderly and calm lives whilst fighting our battles internally if we have them.
The stiff upper lip.
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Always a difficult situation... I'd investigate further.
But I've already got something on my plate, and Kitt would kill me if I did something as foolhardy as investigate something that's likely way beyond my league.
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