Denial Rule

Out of all the rules of the English this is by far the most true rule there is, the denial rule. The denial rule is where, when walking on the sidewalk, you refuse to notice or acknowledge anyone around you, and you are pretty much in your own little world. There are however a couple exceptions, first being the politeness exception, where you say sorry if you bump into someone, or asking if there is an open seat next to them. The other exception is the information rule, if needing to find the correct train or bus stop the English are willing to help. What I found strange about the information rule is when I tried asking about the tennis courts and where they were located. I received many different responses, including; ‘I don’t know’, ‘Over there’, or just …show more content…
The private pursuit is for the people who want to go home and close up the drawbridge so they can not be disturbed. They will usually either watch tv, garden, work on the house, or read. These are all the activities that are able to be done in private, and in the comfort of their homes. Then you have the public and social activities which mainly includes watching sports or playing them. One of the examples Fox shares is when at a pub she observed a couple of men playing billiards and they only gave off three different emotions; surprise, anger, and triumph. In watching sports the Englishmen do something very peculiar, they cheer for the underdog even if it’s their nationality or not. Fox gave an example of Wimbledon in 2002 when Hewitt was playing someone from Argentina, who had never played in Wimbledon before. The Englishmen were cheering for the Argentine who you could tell was the underdog, and then all of a sudden they would be cheering for Hewitt who wasn’t the underdog. Why? They wanted to be fair in their cheering so they tried to balance the scale and cheer for both of