>I bet you thought this was to start an argument!

>No, as part of my on-going interest in finding out stuff about you strange people across the Atlantic, I was just wondering the following:

>Every time I see someone in bed, in an American film or TV show, he/she/they always seem to have the pillows stacked up high, at a ridiculaously steep angle, such that they seem to be sleeping with their heads up against a cliff.

>I imagibne this would give one a terrible crick in the neck. Personally, I prefer my pillows such that my neck is at right-angles to my shoulders. Is this an American thing or just on shows? If the latter, why do they do it? I find it bizarre.

>Still on the subject of bed-linen, do you guys still use sheets, blankets, and bedspreads, rather than just a duvet? What a pallaver! That Charlene Whats-her-name, who used to be "the Poison Dwarf" in "Dallas", was on a UK reality TV show where she marvelled at sleeping under a duvet for the first time.


I would say that what you see on your Hollywood TV shows aren't anywhere near real reflection on how your average Joe/Sally Americans live. I would even go far as to say that Hollywood is out of touch with the real Americans.

And the pillow thing you talked about, it's just makes the bed look more inviting and comfortable on TV. But I don't know of anyone who sleeps like that.