Yes, I knew that but was subtly mocking the prudish North American habit of talking around sex with coy insinuations.
However, probing further in the "didn't translate well" vein, it struck me as exceedingly odd when Musk blurted out that Unsworth "
suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub."
The observation that "
you can go stick it up your arse" is an innocent but wilfully rude statement of fact traditionally used as the ultimate dismissal in (not only) the English language, denoting that the object/person concerned is more than useless and a complete waste of time under the circumstances.
Honestly, who, having even a rudimentary grasp of the lingo, can think it otherwise? So was this a genuine thought process or a calculated fake to yank the chains of the paedo-hunting mob and evade consequences of libel in the hysteria?