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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TouristsI go to uni in Canterbury so if I'm in town hardly a day goes by without having to fight my way through hordes of French schoolkids here to see the cathedral and so on. They have a habit of insulting people loudly in French (or at least the ones I've come into contact with do). And so, as my degree is meant to be in French, I figure there's no better opportunity to inform them some English do actually understand them. Aside from that they have been known to go into the gift shops round about and go "Oh, they have marbles here too..." and suchlike. They normally have questionnaires to fill in too, so my friends and I take great pride in giving them completely wrong answers like "When was the cathedral built? - 1972" and so on.
Then again if I'm short of money next term I could make a few quid from it...
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Maladicta, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 22:48,
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