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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Not strictly a tourist, still....I was on a french work exchange trip in 6th form, and the family I stayed with were.....really rather strange. Every day, before they packed me off to work at a hairdressers for the day, the mother would do me a packed lunch. One day, she handed me a tupperware container full of what I thought was a lamb stew. At the end of the day, when she came to pick me up, she asked me wether I enjoyed my lunch. I did, and asked her if it was indeed lamb.
"No," she replied, "it was duck."
Lovely, I thought. Then she went on to say "I raised it myself, from when it was very young."
One lunch, ruined. I heard it's entire life story.
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SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 17:06,
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