English prudery

A joke as told by OSHO:
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A Frenchman was staying in England, and a friend asked him how he was getting on. He said he was doing very well, except for one thing. "When I go to a party, the hostess, she does not tell me where is the pissoir."

"Ah, Georges, that's just our English prudery. Actually, she will say, 'Do you want to wash your hands?' And that means the same thing."

The Frenchman made a mental note of this, and the next time he went to a party, sure enough the hostess asked him, "Good evening, Mr. Du Pont, do you want to wash your hands?"

"No thank you, Madame, said Georges. "I have just washed them up against the tree in the front garden."