Stupid TouristsWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever heard a tourist say? Ever heard an American talking about visiting "Scotchland, England", or (and this one is actually real) a Japanese couple talking about the correct way to say Clapham is actually Clatham, as "ph" sounds are pronounced "th". Which has a certain logic really. UPDATE: Please, no more Loogabarooga stories. It's getting like, "and I opened my eyes and my mum had left me a cup of tea!"
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:31)
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A guy I 'worked' with for a summerHe was a wonderfully clueless ivy-league graduate wanting to do something "arty", and so had ended up at an English country house helping out with the tours.
I was showing him around the gardens when he walked straight through some nettles... Now I've walked innocently into poison ivy in the states - that's not a reason to laugh at him.
No, no, no. The reason to point and laugh at him was that, when I gave him some dock leaves to rub on the swellings, he asked me in all seriousness if "I'd learnt that from the Indians."
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chthonic, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 16:56,
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