"I guess your liver must be taking a bit of a beating here in London?"
"Oh, no, we drink far more in San Francisco. This is actually a bit of a break for me."
"Really? Wow. It's hard to imagine a worse drinking culture than London's."
"It's not worse."
"But you said you drink more?"
"Yeah. Plus like the drinks are cheaper, and they give them to you in bigger servings, and the bars don't close until two."
"So it's worse."
"No. That's better."
"I think we're coming at this from opposite directions. I'm coming at it from a 'worse for your liver' point of view."
"Yeah, I'm looking at it from a 'better for drinking' kind of thing."
"Right. As I say: It's hard to imagine."
This is a 
these cross cultural miscommunications are surely going to get us into trouble at some point.
Yeah, I mean, I ask to be double-fisted and then all of a sudden...