Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Whole dating world is like hideous game of bluff and double bluff with men and women firing at each other from opposite lines of sandbags. Is as if there is a set of rules that you are supposed to be sticking to, but no one knows what they are so everyone just makes up their own. Then you end up getting chucked because you didn't follow the rules correctly, but how could you be expected to, when you didn't know what they were in the first place

relatively

half fat or de-caf

stick-in-the-mud

That would indeed be sick in manner of Oedipus)?

"So, then," said Tom, brightly. "Where is it ... Germany?"
"Europe."
"Yeah, but, like, where in Europe?"
Honestly. In the modern age it is not necessary to know where countries actually are since all that is required is to purchase a plane ticket to one. They do not exactly ask you at the travel agent's which countries you will be flying over before they will give you the ticket, do they?