unfortunate plot bunny

or, more of a cat, but a plot cat wouldn't so much tell you a story as stalk away with tail up and kind of sit there grooming and give you disdainful looks and... er, yes, overextended metaphor there, just a tiny bit...

You ever read a 'no story should ever contain' and then immediately get an idea for how it could in fact work?

'No story should ever contain catperson!Xander porn.'

*headdesk*

So now I've thought of exactly why Xander would end up being catperson!Xander (Ethan) and how this would lead to porn (the idea was that if he was tomcatting around he wouldn't bother Giles, so sex cures the spell cause by then it has achieved its goal. Only of course Xander's love for Giles is True and Pure, so instead he ends up sitting outside on the fence singing to him. But Giles has double glazing. So Xander gets arrested before Giles hears him. And then Giles has to go get him when Xander phones, and sees the catperson thing, and naturally this leads to porn). The trouble is it now leads to G/X porn, and G dumping E, though I can kind of fix that a bit, but then the ending is really depressing.

And, also, catperson. Should not be in porn.

Hopefully now I have written it all down the bunny will leave me alone.
Because that works sometimes.
I've heard.

unexpected cultural differences

you know when a Brit says 'pancake' they are not in fact referring to the same foodstuff as when an American says it?

http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/articles/pancake.htm
'When is a pancake not a pancake?'
All American children know that a pancake is thick round and dry, and that you add a topping to it. British children will tell you it is thin, slightly oiled and tastes best rolled up with lemon juice and sugar in the middle.

different foods, same name.

I wondered why the ones on tv were so little.

things that come up in conversation when lamenting the lack of lemons (cause the Americans couldn't understand how that could possibly connect with pancakes)

World - big
English - tricky