following on from the 'sometimes people don't realise you can speak a foreign language too' ones.
I was once sitting on the DLR with a colleague of mine from South Africa. Two women sitting further down the carriage were chatting away loudly in Afrikaans, falsely believing that no one could understand them.
It was muttered to me just what they were talking about and how one of them had caught a dose of something or other and had been recommended that she put some yogurt on it until she went to the doctor The other said that she too had had a similar ailment at one point and found that yogurt stopped the itching but 'smelt funny'.
As he got up to go to the door, he shouted 'I hope your fanny gets better soon' in an accent far stronger than he normally spoke with.
They both shrunk out of sight before getting off at the next station somehow both ashen and red-faced simultaneously.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 12:52, 2 replies)

Ha ha ha
See here: www.b3ta.com/questions/foodsex/post497064
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 26 Aug 2011, 13:56, closed)

I have had a few people who speak Afrikaans
They have all said that they quickly learned, from other people who made similar mistakes, that in the UK there is nearly always someone nearby who speaks Afrikaans.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 27 Aug 2011, 20:30, closed)