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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Wind-up and serious stupidity.A fellow traveller when I was in South America told me that the obese American woman he was sitting with on his plane to Santiago managed to come up with the wonderful question "So what language do you speak in England?"... he said he replied "French".
Spent a lovely evening in a bar in Norway winding up two young American ladies. My mate managed to keep a completely straight face explaining that there weren't really paved roads north of Watford Gap in the UK. Most people still used horses and carts and collected their water from the village well... they lapped it up.
But then we had to run away as terrifying huge Russian woman kept trying to chat me up and I only knew one word in Russian which was "Yes", not a good situation...
(, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 13:38, Reply)
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