As Sean grew increasingly frustrated, Chemmy finally plucked up the courage to ask the unaskable. The penny dropped as she finally realized that in Canadian, fanny refers to the 'bottom' -- not the lady bits as it does in England.
"Since then," Chemmy quipped, "I have been teaching him English."
Have you ever experienced any funny miscommunications or semantical misunderstandings?
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. It's not so fantastic for little Poppy whose mom Sarah Burge not only got her a £6,000 birthday certificate for a (future) boob job. The 51-year-old plastic surgery junkie has now gifted her 7-year-old daughter with another voucher. This time: £7,000 worth in liposuction for Christmas, together with make-up, hair extensions and a spray tan.
"[Poppy] asks for surgery all the time," said Burge known as the 'human Barbie' for having spent around £500,000 on her own surgical enhancements. "She wants to look good and lipo's one of those procedures that will always come in handy."
Business is obviously booming for Burge who runs a London-based swinging club called Madame Pink, and regularly gives her daughter pole dancing lessons in the hopes that Poppy will one day take over the family trade.
"I see these vouchers as investing in her future — like saving money for her education," Burge told Closer magazine, insisting that "it's good kids worry about their looks." Mom of three girls, Burge is adamant that women who criticize her parenting skills are simply jealous.
"[Poppy] is just like any other little girl. She wants to look pretty, wear nice clothes and behave like her idols. I don't understand why it would outrage so many people. It's just a bit of fun."
But what's a girl to do when her number one 'idol' happens to be Sarah Burge?
It sounds like a script straight out of Hollywood, but for Oklahoma mom Sarah McKinley real life imitated the most harrowing art when an intruder broke into her home on New Year's Eve. The 18-year-old mom, who was home alone at the time, shot and killed a man in order to protect her 3-month-old baby.
Fueling her state of mind was the fact that her son's father had only died of cancer less than a week earlier.
A 24-year-old man named Justin Martin claimed to be a neighbour when he initially appeared on the day of her partner's funeral. He returned later with Dustin Stewart, armed with a 12-inch hunting knife which the men used to break into McKinley’s home.
While on the phone to 911, McKinley, who had armed herself with a 12-gauge shotgun, as well as a pistol, reportedly asked the dispatcher: “I’ve got to guns in my hand – is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door? I’m here by myself with my infant baby.”
The dispatcher wouldn't tell her what to do, only that “you do what you have to do to protect your baby.”
When Martin eventually broke down the door and came at McKinley with the knife, she shot and killed him. “It’s not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son," McKinley told KOCO. "And it wasn’t going to be my son. There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child.”
Stewart, 29, later turned himself into police, while police justified McKinley's actions and sanctioned "the use of deadly force.”
It's hard to imagine what McKinley went through that night, but at least she had the means to defend herself and her son at her fingertips.
Only in America? Do you feel adequately equipped to defend yourself, or do you have no such safety concerns as a Canadian?
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