[elros]

Exactly!

> Why do people, invited for a dinner party at 7.30, think > its cool to arrive at 8.30? It’s rude. It’s inconsiderate.

If I invite you to a dinner party in Brazil at 7.30, I'm expecting you around 9. If you show up at the actual time, which has happened to me when I moved to Germany – and didn't realized the expectations were different – the food won't be ready. As a matter of fact, I won't even have started cooking! :-)

I now tell my German friends X and my Brazilian friends (X - 2) hours.