China was without doubt the rudest place I've been, but this felt more because people were miserable and had very different mores than I was used to rather than any deliberate ill will.

"It is no favor to bring them to our rude place."

The reason the world is such a discontented, rude place, the writer Theodore Dalrymple said, is the hat.

If he could go off to a fresh rude place, then he could sleep.

'Let it be so then, my kinsman, for in truth, my sleep hath been unquiet in this rude place.'

The other garage stood retired in the lee of a clump of pines--a rude, old-fashioned place, which generally housed the station lorry.

Prithee, fair youth, Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds By this rude place we live in.

Prythee (faire youth) Thinke vs no Churles: nor measure our good mindes By this rude place we liue in.

I've always thought the pristine unisex bathroom was one of the show's more resonant absurdities, another metaphor for that rude and ridiculous place where men and women eventually meet and things happen that nobody can control.

"Why do we stay at this rude place?"