Unless nodding your head has come to mean something other than expressing agreement with the person you’re listening to, there was an extraordinary sequence in David Cameron’s reply to the Budget speech on Wednesday in which the Gordon Brown was to be seen to nodding quite cheerfully on being told his government is ‘savage’ and ‘inhuman’:
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Yeah? Oh yeah? Really? You think so? Yeah? Huh?
...well what about that previous sentence? Guess 'yes' doesn't always mean 'yes'.... damned complimicated English Language.
The Sicilians and the Greeks also nod gesture to indicate the negative. Perhaps we nod when Brown speeks because it's all greek to us.
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